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Music CD - Simon & Garfunkel: The Columbia Studio Recordings: 1964-1970
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Music CD: The Columbia Studio Recordings: 1964-1970
Artist: Simon & Garfunkel
List Price: $49.98
Our Price: $25.00
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Manufacturer: Sony
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Tracks:
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1. You Can Tell The World
2. Last Night I Had the Strangest Dream
3. Bleecker Street
4. Sparrow
5. Benedictus
6. The Sound Of Silence
7. He Was My Brother
8. Peggy-O
9. Go Tell It On The Mountain
10. The Sun Is Burning
11. The Times They Are A-Changin'
12. Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M.
13. Bleecker Street
14. He Was My Brother
15. The Sun Is Burning
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0074646381526
Format: Box set
Label: Sony
Manufacturer: Sony
Number Of Discs: 5
Publisher: Sony
Release Date: 2001-08-21
Studio: Sony
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Customer Rating:
Summary: If there is only one box set you want to buy, this is it.
Comment: Simon and Garfunkel never fail to please. All five full length remastered studio albums (plus bonus tracks) are here. You can play it straight through and like every song. In my opinion, there are no bad songs in this set.
Paul Simon is a poet as well as a skilled musician. Art Garfunkel has an amazing smooth voice. Together, the two make magic that's often imitated, but not duplicated.
As I write this (10/2/2008), the fall season recently began. Around this time, I'm usually in the mood for their music. It goes well with brisk sweater weather, autumn leaves with multiple colors, and the smell of fresh coffee with a shot of Bailey's for good measure.
If you are this type of person (as I am), I'm fairly confident the music will affect you the same way. It's a feast for the senses, because the music is both smart and fun, a rare combination.
Enjoy!!
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Summary: Simon & Garfunkel
Comment: Love it! Had been wanting to listen to "Book Ends" for ages and the boxed set was such a deal I couldn't pass it up
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Summary: great box set
Comment: Great music and great price
This box set is 5 original album included
and miniature paper sleeve original art work
Fantastic !!!
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Summary: A nice collection
Comment: This is a nice collection of Simon and Garfunkle songs. I bought a second copy because of accidental damage to my original copy. So it must be good. :-)
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Summary: What a dream I had, pressed in organdy ...
Comment: "... Clothed in crinoline of smoky burgundy, softer than the rain."
Def: Organdy (noun): Organdy or organdie is the sheerest cotton cloth made. Combed yarns contribute to its appearance and it is very prone to wrinkling.
God only knows what Paul Simon was thinking when he penned the bulk of his lyrics, but his perversion of the usage of fabric oriented terms, archaic language and obtuse symbolism is enough to make one wonder.
Having searched far and wide for the ultimate Simon & Garfunkel collection to own and having purchased all of these albums that are contained herein before, I'm pleased to say that this is the way to go without any doubt.
Simply boxed with miniature album covers that double as CD cases and individually shrink wrapped, a booklet with the original album liner notes are included as well as a small essay on each album by Bud Scoppa.
The photographs are the only questionable material within this package. Several of the photos have a very homo-male-bonded look to them that in several shots look more than unsettling and have a very 'Olan Mills' wedding quality.
The albums are as follows:
1. Wednesday Morning, 3 AM - c. 1964
2. Sounds of Silence - c. 1966
3. Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme - c. 1966
4. Bookends - c. 1968
5. Bridge Over Troubled Water - c. 1970
These albums are what was originally known as "concept albums" back when Rock and Roll was young and ideas were shaping the music industry rather than what we have today, the industry shaping the albums and the artists themselves.
Strangely for that reason, young people will continually drift towards music like this as it is often seen and understood as unassuming, unpretentious and pure. It may sound over the top, but when you consider the vacuum that exists in modern music today, it's no wonder that Simon & Garfunkel albums continue to sell surprising numbers worldwide.
Most are probably experiencing these albums for the first time, but I feel I should tell you that the best way to hear these albums is to play them from start to finish and without impatience and with an impartial ear. Simon & Garfunkel were writing these songs much in the same way that Bob Dylan was writing albums like Blood on the Tracks & The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan. They are a response to the social constrictions, the poverty, the hopelessness, the freedom, the infrastructure that was place for some but not for others and the political landscape. It may not be heard like that today, but in its day it was all too obvious and was a vanguard of the counter-culture and the subversive underclass of America. These albums were the soundtrack of the youth in the middle of their struggle. But one should not feel alienated by this when listening, as it's just as much your music as it was any one else's for that matter. If you're hearing `For Emily, whenever I may find her' for the first time, then the effect it has on you, is just as genuine as it was back then, but probably moreso. Things must first `wear tear' in the mind to seat into its proper place, to paraphrase a great American author and poet.
Some people have only experienced Simon & Garfunkel through Greatest Hits collections, and while that's fine, in and of itself, it's actually a disservice to the mood and message that's surgically removed when listening to collections rather than the core. Some songs may come across like juvenile playground anthems, and some as just a Beckettian whisper over a trash-pile, but each has their rightful place within the consciousness of the sound of the album and shouldn't be missed at all.
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Editorial Reviews:
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Though the American folk movement of the early '60s would influence bands like the Byrds and Buffalo Springfield and a score of oh-so-sensitive '70s singer-songwriters, its two most looming successes during the decade--Bob Dylan and Simon and Garfunkel--couldn't have seemed more disparate. While Dylan turned hard-left, outraging many a folk purist by zealously embracing rootsy blues-rock and its electrified cacophony, S&G veered toward the center, equally infuriating snooty pundits by embracing a Top 40 pop sense whose ostensible shallowness often belied its rich musical diversity. In retrospect, Simon and Garfunkel's career as a duo was remarkably brief (five albums in six years), if no less commercially potent (a slew of Top 40 singles, two Number One albums, and the requisite handful of Grammy Awards). This box set compiles digitally remastered versions of the original S&G albums, each expanded to include bonus tracks (mostly previously unissued demos with a few scattered outtakes, the quartet on Sounds of Silence the best of the lot) and a booklet featuring new notes for each album and song lyrics. It's a rewarding journey, wending from the almost slavish folk devotion of Wednesday Morning 3 AM through the greeting-card iconoclasm of Sounds of Silence, the madrigal-pop of Parsley, Sage, Rosemary, and Thyme to the increasingly impressionistic lyrical landscape of Bookends. It also covers the rich musical tapestry of Bridge over Troubled Waters, which foreshadowed Simon's own diverse solo career by embracing everything from the Everlys and Jan & Dean to Andean folk and R&B. --Jerry McCulley
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