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Listening to Paul Simon's 'Greatest Hits, Etc.'...
Posted by Patrick Crowther on 11 November 2011 - 8:36pm.
and it's struck me that this was probably the first time that an artist released a best of with two new songs on it (Slip Slidin' Away and Stranded in a Limousine) and the only time that they were as good as the rest of the record.
Just saying...
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it's a shame this title has been deleted, for although there have been many retrospectives since, in my humble opinion, this is the finest of the lot ..
Quite so...
and it's got a really flattering photo of him on the cover. Just think, if he'd released it a year earlier in 1976 it could have looked like this:
I had a beard once.
But only once. You have to know. I suspect this is the case here.
I love
Los Incas on the live version of Duncan on that album.
And...
... I prefer the live version of American Tune on it to the studio version too. Mind you, are these from Live Rhymin' ? Not heard... if so, is the rest of the live album as good ?
Yes
both songs are from Live Rhymin', although American Tune has overdubbed strings which are not on the live album. The live album just came out on CD for the first time, with a couple of bonus tracks, and is a fantastic thing.
His vocals
on the live tracks on Etc. are just great so may have to check out the full live album.
Ta muchly
I may just have to look into this.
Missing - presumed having a good time?
Lord Lucan appeared on Duncan you say? I wondered what had happened to him!
was just listening to ...
And fair play to him for showing up. He could have got strung up at a willie nelson gig ..
Really?
I genuinely don't know what you mean by your last comment.
chill out
.
I'm great, thanks.
I wasn't trying to start anything, I'm just genuinely puzzled by what you meant but if you don't want to expand on your comment that's fine.
just a flippant comment
honestly nothing meant by it doug.
Im a willie nelson fan. the joke being Paul's a new york jew, wilies crowd are good ol boys .. ;)
change of heart
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Do you really think so?
I thought good ol' boys would want to kick the shit out of hippie longhairs like Nelson. Did they not, for a while?
IIRC, when Nelson moved to Austin, Texas, he was able to bring both sides together to listen in harmony...so to speak.
willie represents
the old south. Good and bad,the guy is a genius and one of the most significant musicians of the last 50 years bar none, black or white.
Austin isn't in the deep south btw.
Agreed about
the genius (within this context - let's not get into the tiresome 'he wasn't Einstein' thing) and significance of Nelson, and thanks for explaining your comment. If true, which I'd like to think might not be the case any more, it's sad but I prefer to take a more optimistic view (not often I say that!)
Nor me
Is it English as a foreign language?