gypsyman
(just passing through....) | | Posted: Jan 19, 2013 - 11:28 | |
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xkolibuul
(Chuckanut sandstone) | | Posted: Jan 19, 2013 - 11:28 | |
joelbb wrote:Paul Simon went all the way back to J. S. Bach to steal this tune. In the end, for all his ability, he's a whiny, musical klepto. And exactly which music is sui generis? |
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shellbella
(so california) | | Posted: Oct 17, 2012 - 09:31 | |
this song makes me cry....
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joelbb
| | Posted: Sep 15, 2012 - 20:09 | |
Paul Simon went all the way back to J. S. Bach to steal this tune. In the end, for all his ability, he's a whiny, musical klepto.
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TimeWaster
| | Posted: Feb 07, 2012 - 10:17 | |
Queue wrote:I love S&G, and appreciate the significance of this concert, but I can't stand that "piano" that pervades throughout.
Give me the original recordings any day over this Central Park stuff.
That's a Fender Rhodes electric piano through a phaser effect. |
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(former member)
(hotel in Las Vegas) | | Posted: Feb 07, 2012 - 10:14 | |
Everybody in my hotel room loves this song...
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coding_to_music
(Beantown) | | Posted: Jan 06, 2012 - 15:09 | |
CMax wrote:One on my favorite concerts. 18 in new york, with new university friends.. getting cozy with the girls on the next blanket over. great memories.. an american moment. Yep — that was me there too, age 18... |
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ScottN
(Vacationing in Gaza) | | Posted: Nov 04, 2011 - 04:56 | |
I'm generally not a fan of live shows, especially these huge ones. Good tune, but I prefer the studio version.
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MiracleDrug
(Earth) | | Posted: Oct 03, 2011 - 15:16 | |
Simon - Garfunkel = listenable
Simon + Garfunkel = The Folksmen (minus one)
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vandal
(arriving somewhere, but not here. . .) | | Posted: Oct 03, 2011 - 15:15 | |
eswiley2 wrote:Second only to Bridge Over Troubled Water. American Tune isn't even within the same realm of existence as Bridge Over Troubled Water. . . |
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bitterdave
(Orinda, CA) | | Posted: Oct 03, 2011 - 15:14 | |
Queue wrote:I love S&G, and appreciate the significance of this concert, but I can't stand that "piano" that pervades throughout.
Give me the original recordings any day over this Central Park stuff.
With the electric piano, think of the concert in central park as the largest Bar Mitzvah ever . . . |
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Queue
(ROKville, MD) | | Posted: Sep 28, 2011 - 13:59 | |
I love S&G, and appreciate the significance of this concert, but I can't stand that "piano" that pervades throughout.
Give me the original recordings any day over this Central Park stuff.
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CMax
(Copenhagen) | | Posted: Sep 02, 2011 - 05:26 | |
One on my favorite concerts. 18 in new york, with new university friends.. getting cozy with the girls on the next blanket over. great memories.. an american moment.
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Cynaera
(Kenneth's Frequency) | | Posted: Aug 01, 2011 - 19:33 | |
catnip wrote:I'm not a great one for live versions, but this one does it for me. My sister (hello Fishtank Lady!) and I used to have a cassette version of the Concert in Central Park which we took on holiday with us aged twelve or so, and forced our parents (classical music lovers mostly) to listen to it almost constantly over the course of a two-week car tour of south-western France. I am surprised that they still talk to us, and I'm also surprised that I can still listen to it, but the first thing my sister and I did before going on a road trip in southern Spain more than twenty-five years later was stop by the record shop and pick up a CD copy. Worth every centimo (even if I still have the cassettes).
Still sends shivers down the spine...
Thanks for sharing this lovely memory! It made me grin, and also gave me a new appreciation for Simon and Garfunkel, because some of their music can still give me shivers, too - in the best possible way...  to a "kindred spirit." |
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(former member)
(hotel in Las Vegas) | | Posted: Aug 01, 2011 - 19:29 | |
daisymaybee wrote:One of my very, very favorites!
Yes, this song is a contender... from one of America's greatest musical poets... and this concert was poignant...
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daisymaybee
| | Posted: Jul 01, 2011 - 10:23 | |
One of my very, very favorites!
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eswiley2
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Second only to Bridge Over Troubled Water.
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Ahnyer_Keester
(Chicago Il) | | Posted: Apr 29, 2011 - 05:59 | |
"Words by Paul Simon music by JS Bach" I thought I recognized that tune. O Sacred Head Now Wounded. "Passion Chorale, Hans L. Hassler, Lustgarten neuer teutscher Gesäng, 1601; harmony by Johann S. Bach, 1729."
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Alexandra
(The Gem City, Ohio) | | Posted: Apr 29, 2011 - 05:58 | |
TanteJensen wrote:Ok, this is being very smartassy, BUT the church song (by Paul Gerhardt) is a cover as well. The original melody and text were written bei Hans Leo Haßler around 1600, and it was a love song: "Mein G'müt ist mir verwirret, das macht ein Jungfrau zart" ("Dazed and confused, and the reason is a girl" roughly).
Cool! Many hymns are borrowed from an older traditional melody.  |
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ploba
(the other coast and hang a left) | | Posted: Feb 25, 2011 - 04:27 | |
beautiful melody, beautiful song
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GuiltyFeat
(Ra'anana) | | Posted: Feb 20, 2011 - 03:36 | |
The Concert at Central Park was such an important album for those of us coming into musical maturity in the early 80s. I believe it was also given away as a free cassette when you bought a Betamax video player so that it was the only pre-recorded video in a lot of households around then.
I too had it on double cassette and fell in love with those live versions of classic songs. Thanks for playing this.
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Blaggart
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seiferth wrote:The anthem of those under 50 despite when it was released. Yeah there are oblique references to WWII and it ignores the recent more imperialist America but basically, it's what it's like nowdays. What a beautiful song.
Hardly, but it did capture the malaise of the Carter Administration perfectly. We've moved on. |
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Sloggydog
(UK) | | Posted: Jan 24, 2011 - 22:03 | |
I'm surprised they didn't have the decency to look back and realise they had been treated to potentially the best ever live album by way of Concert in Central Park
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catnip
(just about... there.) | | Posted: Dec 19, 2010 - 12:27 | |
I'm not a great one for live versions, but this one does it for me. My sister (hello Fishtank Lady!) and I used to have a cassette version of the Concert in Central Park which we took on holiday with us aged twelve or so, and forced our parents (classical music lovers mostly) to listen to it almost constantly over the course of a two-week car tour of south-western France. I am surprised that they still talk to us, and I'm also surprised that I can still listen to it, but the first thing my sister and I did before going on a road trip in southern Spain more than twenty-five years later was stop by the record shop and pick up a CD copy. Worth every centimo (even if I still have the cassettes).
Still sends shivers down the spine...
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myasma
(Elk Grove CA) | | Posted: Nov 22, 2010 - 20:22 | |
I remember listening to this song a few years back, in my car just coming off the freeway, and how it hit me so hard. It was one of those moments that comes along every once in a while.
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Rooney
(Near Paradise) | | Posted: Sep 20, 2010 - 14:38 | |
bhudevi wrote:Eva Cassidy does an amazing cover of this song
Yes she does. Eva has some gems in her collection. This song American Tune kept me going when I lived overseas. |
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DaveInVA
(In a hovel in effluent Damnville, VA) | | Posted: Sep 20, 2010 - 11:21 | |
Still a great tune  |
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seiferth
(MA) | | Posted: Aug 14, 2010 - 07:15 | |
The anthem of those under 50 despite when it was released. Yeah there are oblique references to WWII and it ignores the recent more imperialist America but basically, it's what it's like nowdays. What a beautiful song.
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lmic
(Harmless Little Bunny) | | Posted: Apr 14, 2010 - 11:08 | |
On_The_Beach wrote:I usually like Art's vocals but in this case I prefer Paul's version on There Goes Rymin' Simon.
I would love to hear the studio version on RP. TGRS is such a great album. |
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colt4x5
(scrambling.) | | Posted: Jan 09, 2010 - 11:41 | |
a great song, performed with all the musical excitement you'd expect in the lounge of the holiday inn on the highway just outside of town.
snore.
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