Zep
(Third base) | | Posted: Jun 17, 2009 - 08:33 | |
Makes me want to hit the road for a few months. Or the Appalachian Trail.
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LowPhreak
(Earth (for now)) | | Posted: Apr 25, 2009 - 07:55 | |
Sgpepr wrote:My favorite S & G tune, one of the best tunes for mental imagery. A sidenote regarding this tune from the "misheard lyrics" category: the line "Michigan seems like a dream to me now"...one time I thought he was saying, "This chicken seems like a dream to me now:.  Duh! ;^ ) |
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KurtfromLaQuinta
(Yep. I'm still here in La Quinta.) | | Posted: Jan 20, 2009 - 12:42 | |
Montyontherun wrote:This song is so full of young wonder at the world.. I had it.. where's it gone?
It's still there. You've gotten older. What a shame. "As for me and my house"... I'm never growing up! |
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anotherlistener
| | Posted: Jan 20, 2009 - 12:40 | |
My absolute favorite S&G tune. I still wonder if my Kathy ever found what she was looking for. 10
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bwcyclist
(Everywhere....) | | Posted: Jan 20, 2009 - 12:39 | |
Congratulations to everyone in the US our new president!!  |
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Sgpepr
(Raleigh) | | Posted: Sep 26, 2008 - 08:48 | |
My favorite S & G tune, one of the best tunes for mental imagery. A sidenote regarding this tune from the "misheard lyrics" category: the line "Michigan seems like a dream to me now"...one time I thought he was saying, "This chicken seems like a dream to me now:. |
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medoras
(Anastasia Island) | | Posted: Sep 26, 2008 - 06:33 | |
While Bridge Over Troubled Water garners most of the Simon & Garfunkel praise, I always thought Bookends to be one of their finest albums.
What more can you say when you listen to America? Paul Simon's songwriting skills at their finest.
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nate917
(2,815 miles from home) | | Posted: Aug 27, 2008 - 09:37 | |
Deadwing wrote:As much as we disagree on certain unnamed bands I must say you have coined some of the wittiest quotes on this site. I really enjoy reading your comments (except where certain unmentioned bands are discussed... ahem...)  It was very nice of you to say that, and I'm surprised at how many of your comments I heartily agree with. We'll just have to leave those other unmentioned bands unmentioned. Even there, my objection is not so much to the bands' music as the tenor of some of the commentary. |
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westslope
(BC coast) | | Posted: Aug 25, 2008 - 17:11 | |
nate917 wrote:Four days to get from Saginaw, Michigan, to Pittsburgh?? Worst. hitchhiker. ever.
Funny, I always did really well hitching across the USA. Florida to London, Ontario in 1975. British Columbia to Mexico 1976. Vermont to Arizona in 1981. But just north of Michigan on the north shore of Lake Superior is a town where folks would take so long to get a lift, they would get married! Wawa if memory serves. |
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purplespider
(Portland, OR) | | Posted: Aug 25, 2008 - 17:08 | |
My favorite version of this is from their concert in Central Park in the 80's. It's absolutely impassioned, and the crowd goes nuts. Gives me the chills.
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Deadwing
(Cincinnati OH) | | Posted: Jul 03, 2008 - 19:54 | |
Four days to get from Saginaw, Michigan, to Pittsburgh??
Worst. hitchhiker. ever.
As much as we disagree on certain unnamed bands I must say you have coined some of the wittiest quotes on this site. I really enjoy reading your comments (except where certain unmentioned bands are discussed... ahem...) |
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lmic
(Sacramento, CA) | | Posted: Jun 23, 2008 - 13:03 | |
Montyontherun wrote:This song is so full of young wonder at the world.. I had it.. where's it gone?
Well, Paul Simon was himself just 27 when this album was released. It strikes me as someone looking back fondly at the most innocent parts of their already fading(?) earliest adulthood.
So we bought a pack of cigarettes and Mrs. Wagner pies
And we walked off to look for America
Just great, great stuff from towering American talents ... 10 unquestionably
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nate917
(2,815 miles from home) | | Posted: Jun 23, 2008 - 12:30 | |
Four days to get from Saginaw, Michigan, to Pittsburgh??
Worst. hitchhiker. ever.
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Antigone
(A house, in a valley, Virginia) | | Posted: Jun 23, 2008 - 12:29 | |
I adore this song!
What a great story. As well as a many layered song. Poignant, funny, sweet, sad. TRUE.
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Montyontherun
(Stratford Upon Avon, UK) | | Posted: Jun 23, 2008 - 12:29 | |
This song is so full of young wonder at the world.. I had it.. where's it gone?
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jim1964
(british columbia by way of bklyn) | | Posted: Apr 21, 2008 - 14:30 | |
when I was in the service I was stationed in Philadelphia and every couple weeks I'd get the weekend off and catch a ride home, up to NY, hearing this reminds of how I did a lot of "counting the cars on the New Jersey Turnpike"
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wferrier
(Johnson City, New York; Home of the Factory) | | Posted: Apr 21, 2008 - 14:24 | |
Can someone tell me who Kathy is? She shows up in several of their songs.
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thewiseking
(New York, New York) | | Posted: Apr 21, 2008 - 14:22 | |
Deadwing wrote:seriously... Paul Simon during the 60s... what planet was he from? No one in modern history has ever nailed us in such a no holds barred, but affectionate way. For a hobbit the man is a genius in my book. The poetry and the mirror he used to hold up in his lyrics still resound.
His work in the last 20 years is just "meh" though.
Nothing good ever lasts forever...
i agree. his later work was all about his "discovery" of world music which was then spit back up to us predigested. |
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steeler
(Staring, blankly, into the abyss) | | Posted: Apr 21, 2008 - 14:21 | |
Great segue from Grant Lee Phillips' See America.
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Deadwing
(Cincinnati OH) | | Posted: Mar 21, 2008 - 02:39 | |
seriously... Paul Simon during the 60s... what planet was he from? No one in modern history has ever nailed us in such a no holds barred, but affectionate way. For a hobbit the man is a genius in my book. The poetry and the mirror he used to hold up in his lyrics still resound.
His work in the last 20 years is just "meh" though.
Nothing good ever lasts forever...
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raga
(Italy - Como) | | Posted: Mar 21, 2008 - 02:31 | |
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rickhoran
(Eastern PA) | | Posted: Mar 21, 2008 - 02:28 | |
spudboy wrote:YES does an amazing version of this song. One of the few covers I prefer to the original.
agreed. |
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spudboy
| | Posted: Feb 18, 2008 - 14:51 | |
YES does an amazing version of this song. One of the few covers I prefer to the original.
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michaelgmitchell
(Belleville, ON Canada) | | Posted: Feb 18, 2008 - 14:49 | |
Bill, your mix this p.m. was terrific. I have to grab some supper. Eating, that silly habit humans do.
Nice way to sign off for now ('til later this eve) with S $ G. Perfect.
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jamm
(little canada,mn) | | Posted: Nov 16, 2007 - 08:04 | |
rconway wrote:This whole song is just a brilliantly captured moment of life. I just love that aspect of it! I hear this song, and I can see them in my mind. It's a voyeuristic experience... like we're there on that bus, two rows back, watching the narrator and Cathy, two young lovers embarking on an adventure.
well put!!
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Hannio
(Austin, TX) | | Posted: Nov 16, 2007 - 08:02 | |
siandbeth wrote:I thought for a split second that the photo of "Kruder" below was Kevin Federline. Hey! Why no KFed on RP? ha ha
I believe he goes by Fed-Ex now. |
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philbertr
(Hurricane Target Florida) | | Posted: Nov 16, 2007 - 08:02 | |
WonderLizard wrote:
Sure their...
Ow, ouch! |
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steeler
(Teetering on the precipice) | | Posted: Nov 16, 2007 - 08:02 | |
hobbitt wrote:One of the intense songs from my youth. It always evokes a heavy sense of unnamed longing.
Exactly. Unnamed longing. Perfect description. |
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chfLarry
(Reading,PA) | | Posted: Nov 16, 2007 - 08:00 | |
absolutely timeless. a perfect song
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kindermanltd
| | Posted: Nov 16, 2007 - 08:00 | |
Excellent start for TGIF. Thanks RP!
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