jagdriver wrote:

Yeah as if the Indigo Girls, Peter Gabriel (In your Eyes for chrissake?!?) and Glen Hansard played previously didn't do it already. This song actually brought me back.

 Pilgrim301 wrote: 
Check out the remake by Tommy Shaw and Jack Blades. It's got a more heavy, rock sound.

Mute

Ahhh....my theme song. Words to live by......

Help, I'm a ROCK!

AC, DC, they had a SWIM-ming pool!

(with a nod and a wink to the departed Frank Zappa)

Ditto.   -     9.

romeotuma wrote:

 

Poetic lyrics... great harmony...  virtuoso music...  Paul Simon is at the top, tied with Bob Dylan as the American greatest...

 dvalfre wrote: 

Ditto that!

From 7 to 9, just because it is part of the soundtrack of my life.

 weirsh wrote:

 
LOLo

I only like it b/c I've heard it so often.  I'd love to hear a remake by someone with today's sensibilities.  And tuned bass.

Great song. I never noticed, though, just how badly out of tune the bass is. I wonder who it is who probably shudders at every playing of this song.

I so needed this right now.

93vx800 wrote:Ahhh... Life. Ain't it grand. Most times.

Oh no! "I Am a Rock."

You have no idea how much trouble this song caused me back in the day. Decided to fool around in spite of having a great girlfriend - "Don't talk of love." etc.

Well the great girlfriend obviously figured it all out. Suffered much pain. What happened to the rock?

But forty years later the great girlfriend and I are still together - with four great adult kids sprinkled around the world - so it all worked out!

I'm grumpy, angry at humankind, and it's a bleak, gray winter day.

This song really hits the spot today.

fingerpin wrote:

Me too. This song takes me back!
But why on earth do you give that get a sad face?

Zep wrote:

TFFT! No doubt brill in its day, but I'm not sure it's lasted the passage of time. Still, it is Monday and I'm still feeling grumpy ;-|

daveesh wrote:
you hum it. I'll play it
badum tisch

had to write a 3 page essay on this at school

forever tainted

does anybody know, is that al kooper on keys?

They.

Don't.

Make.

Them.

Like.

This.

Any.

More.

One of those songs, man...
Sister (I mean Sergeant) Ruth Ann laying down the needle on the vinyl in the classroom...and THIS rolling out...It's like 1st or 2nd grade...my buddy Jeff Hoover saying, "But Sister, I ALREADY KNOW this -- my mom and dad have this record and I hear it ALL THE TIME. Do I have to hear it AGAIN?"
"YES!"
"Aww...but I'd rather hear that other one, Lemon Tree, very pretty, and the lemon flower sweet...or that one, Cecilia, up in my bedroom--"
"Young man, you have said enough. Let us listen to THIS SONG. Do we HAVE AN UNDERSTANDING, Mister?!"
"Yes, Sister Ruth Ann..."
and so it went, and so we got turned on to S & G -- and next up, The Sounds of Silence.
GOD was with them dudes, man, and He visits me every time I hear 'em, God bless 'em, and anyone who plays 'em...
Thanks, Bill!

Wow - really enjoying these great Friday morning songs.
Simon and Garfunkel - I Am A Rock
Tom McRae - Got a Suitcase, Got Regrets
Modest Mouse - Missed the Boat
Travis - Eyes Wide Open

I am 14 years old again.

kalkin84 wrote:
I rated it a little higher.

very good band, very good song, 9.

Walrus_Gumbo wrote:

What about Britney Spears? lol!

One idea, perfectly executed. A 10.