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Paul Simon — Love & Blessings
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funkyalfonso
(Vancouver Island)
Posted: Dec 22, 2012 - 18:18
 
 aspicer wrote:
This is truly a wonderful album!  It really grew on me with several listens - as is often the case with innovative and provocative music!.  I suggest to any RP listener (given you are already cream of the crop) that you give it a chance.
 

Bravo!

Poacher
(Brighton, UK)
Posted: Nov 21, 2012 - 09:06
 
 seven7 wrote:
Always interesting and good music from Paul. A national treasure.
 
Yep, stick him in a airtight glass soundproofed box in a museum somewhere.

Ferox
(Kernow)
Posted: Nov 21, 2012 - 09:03
 
This album is a grower.{#Daisy}

hayduke2
(Southampton, NY)
Posted: Sep 19, 2012 - 12:12
 
I'm on the fence with this piece, loving then critical along the way...Thank you all for voicing the many ways it affects you, it is an enrichment reading through them

aspicer
(Chicago, IL)
Posted: Apr 26, 2012 - 15:17
 
This is truly a wonderful album!  It really grew on me with several listens - as is often the case with innovative and provocative music!.  I suggest to any RP listener (given you are already cream of the crop) that you give it a chance.

Blastcat900
Posted: Mar 28, 2012 - 16:31
 
Sorry Paul, you were great. This annoying.

vandal
(arriving somewhere, but not here. . .)
Posted: Mar 13, 2012 - 20:31
 
the epitome of boring and pointless

seven7
(Glass City Ohio)
Posted: Jan 25, 2012 - 07:18
 
Always interesting and good music from Paul. A national treasure.

fatcatjb
(Sunny Sacramento)
Posted: Nov 22, 2011 - 19:43
 
crazy excellent bass: guitar intro...and those sneaky, quiet drums...just what I'd expect of Paul Simon in 2011
 

PeteyGreens
(Frederick, MD)
Posted: Oct 07, 2011 - 07:44
 
Deluxe Limited Boredom

HazzeSwede
(Vinyl Land)
Posted: Oct 07, 2011 - 07:43
 
   What ? # 3

maxgruv
(Vancouver, Canada)
Posted: Sep 27, 2011 - 20:33
 
 sonofsun wrote:
I really despise this song, it sounds like a 5 year old wrote it. The lyrics are absolutely dreadful.

If you can't do better than this please retire Paul.


 


Funny, a month ago you wrote it sounded like a 3-year old. Perhaps in a few more months you'll grow up enough to realize it's a song for grown-ups.

Shimmer
(Bethesda, MD)
Posted: Sep 27, 2011 - 20:28
 
At this point, the only thing that Paul Simon has to compete with is his younger self. And this doesn't really match up.

sonofsun
Posted: Sep 20, 2011 - 13:23
 
I really despise this song, it sounds like a 5 year old wrote it. The lyrics are absolutely dreadful.

If you can't do better than this please retire Paul.



patrick30
(Austria)
Posted: Sep 15, 2011 - 02:41
 
I like it!

sirdroseph
(Yes)
Posted: Aug 27, 2011 - 10:51
 
 fredriley wrote:
That has to be the most insipid and tired "ba-bap-ba-woo" I've ever heard. If I ever suffer from insomnia I'll put this album on loop in my bedroom and I'll soon be claimed by the arms of Morpheus {#Sleep}
 

Yea, it's a shame too because other than that irritating chorus, I kinda like this song.

sieversfam
Posted: Aug 05, 2011 - 12:17
 
So What, indeed!


Byronape
(Snorkeling in the River Styx)
Posted: Jul 23, 2011 - 22:20
 
This is a flat on the face failure for me.

Proclivities
(Carrboro, NC)
Posted: Jul 22, 2011 - 11:08
 
 fredriley wrote:
That has to be the most insipid and tired "ba-bap-ba-woo" I've ever heard. If I ever suffer from insomnia I'll put this album on loop in my bedroom and I'll soon be claimed by the arms of Morpheus {#Sleep}
 
I think this is too annoying to put me to sleep; it's more like a mosquito buzzing around your ear when you're trying to go to sleep.  He's written so many great songs that I guess there have to be some clunkers now and then.


martinc
(Ottawa Canada)
Posted: Jul 14, 2011 - 09:00
 
or so what for me

cohifi
(Denver)
Posted: Jul 12, 2011 - 19:40
 
 idavido wrote:
Paul Simon has written many of my favorite songs - this is not one of them.
 
  there are better album covers out there - and this isn't one of them.


idavido
(Fairfax, Northern California, USA)
Posted: Jul 08, 2011 - 15:03
 
Paul Simon has written many of my favorite songs - this is not one of them.

vandal
(arriving somewhere, but not here. . .)
Posted: Jul 08, 2011 - 14:59
 
I think I'm in the "so what" group. . . 

(former member)
(hotel in Las Vegas)
Posted: Jul 03, 2011 - 21:31
 
 DaveInVA wrote:
This song gets more annoying the more I hear it. Hopefully some of the other songs on this album are better as I generally like Paul Simon's music a lot.
 
I have not heard the whole album yet, but I am not optimistic, if this is one of his singles...  it's just disappointing because this is one of the best American musicians of all time...



DaveInVA
(In a hovel in effluent Damnville, VA)
Posted: Jun 15, 2011 - 09:45
 
This song gets more annoying the more I hear it. Hopefully some of the other songs on this album are better as I generally like Paul Simon's music a lot.

manonfortini
(Québec, Canada)
Posted: Jun 15, 2011 - 09:43
 
 unclelonghair wrote:
I have always found it somewhat incongruous and funny that ones of the whitest white dudes in music tries to draw from African, African-American, and roots music.
 

I have always foung wonderful the fact that music goes behond frontiers or skin color

funkyalfonso
(Canada)
Posted: May 29, 2011 - 00:32
 
 unclelonghair wrote:
I have always found it somewhat incongruous and funny that ones of the whitest white dudes in music tries to draw from African, African-American, and roots music.
 
Tries?????????????????

Businessgypsy
(Deepest, Darkest Florida)
Posted: May 28, 2011 - 07:34
 
 unclelonghair wrote:
I have always found it somewhat incongruous and funny that ones of the whitest white dudes in music tries to draw from African, African-American, and roots music.
The successful pairing of Judaic and African creative backgrounds has a long, productive history. Jazz owes as much to Klezmer as it does African tribal tradition. A good study on the early days of soul music here, and an interesting radio piece on the same subject here.


linden
(Santa Cruz, CA)
Posted: May 26, 2011 - 12:26
 
 unclelonghair wrote:
I have always found it somewhat incongruous and funny that ones of the whitest white dudes in music tries to draw from African, African-American, and roots music.
 

Just read in the paper today that Paul Simon advocated against the Grammy Awards' deletion of many of its ethnic and world music categories. So he walks his talk.

Sloggydog
(UK)
Posted: May 24, 2011 - 22:18
 
Not his best song but still a very good song and the sound of his voice just makes me happy.

black321
(Apogee)
Posted: May 17, 2011 - 13:29
 
A "Ho-Hum" song if there ever was one.

DaveInVA
(In a hovel in effluent Damnville, VA)
Posted: May 17, 2011 - 13:26
 
Lowering this by yet another point. I like the way it starts off with some promise of a good song but when that faux do wap whatever kicks in, yuck...Sounds like a car battery going dead while turning the starter...


fredriley
(Nottingham, UK)
Posted: May 12, 2011 - 02:24
 
That has to be the most insipid and tired "ba-bap-ba-woo" I've ever heard. If I ever suffer from insomnia I'll put this album on loop in my bedroom and I'll soon be claimed by the arms of Morpheus {#Sleep}

dookie
(Dallas)
Posted: May 10, 2011 - 13:18
 
He doesn’t try he does.
He is a musician who has always had clear influences from percussionists around the world.
So is David Byrne and others.
Their compositions are the richer for it.
And we are fortunate to have them in our world.

unclelonghair wrote:
I have always found it somewhat incongruous and funny that ones of the whitest white dudes in music tries to draw from African, African-American, and roots music.
 



run4more
(The cave)
Posted: May 10, 2011 - 13:18
 
 romeotuma wrote:


I have reached my conclusion... yuck... this song sux...

 
 
Who are you and what have you done with romeotuma?


(former member)
(hotel in Las Vegas)
Posted: May 10, 2011 - 13:16
 
 xtalman wrote:

The music on this album is pretty bland at best and mostly recycled from his older albums but don't disparage recording in his living room.  One of Todd Rundgrens better albums was recorded in a hotel room.  It is not were it was recorded but what was recorded.
 


It sounds like it was recorded in a crappy studio... that is the point...  in other words, it is not the historical fact that matters—  it is how the songs sounds...  crappy...

 

Huey
(Netherlands)
Posted: May 10, 2011 - 13:14
 
 romeotuma wrote:


The lyrics make for an interesting poem— some profundity and some beautiful concrete images...  but the music is tepid, and yes, it sounds like it was recorded in the studio in his living room...

I am not going to rate it yet...  but I am not passing any absolute judgement yet...  it is interesting... 
 
Wow.. I'm really impressed Romeo. I'll await judgement as well. But the title song is definitly a winner!!.



xtalman
(What dimension?)
Posted: May 10, 2011 - 13:12
 
 romeotuma wrote:


 but the music is tepid, and yes, it sounds like it was recorded in the studio in his living room...


 
The music on this album is pretty bland at best and mostly recycled from his older albums but don't disparage recording in his living room.  One of Todd Rundgrens better albums was recorded in a hotel room.  It is not were it was recorded but what was recorded.



unclelonghair
Posted: May 10, 2011 - 13:10
 
I have always found it somewhat incongruous and funny that ones of the whitest white dudes in music tries to draw from African, African-American, and roots music.

(former member)
(hotel in Las Vegas)
Posted: May 10, 2011 - 13:10
 


I have reached my conclusion... yuck... this song sux...

 



(former member)
(hotel in Las Vegas)
Posted: May 06, 2011 - 09:32
 


The lyrics make for an interesting poem— some profundity and some beautiful concrete images...  but the music is tepid, and yes, it sounds like it was recorded in the studio in his living room...

I am not going to rate it yet...  but I am not passing any absolute judgement yet...  it is interesting... 

jmsmy
(Music Town, Klein, Texas)
Posted: May 06, 2011 - 09:29
 
This album and Adele 21 are the best albums of 2011 so far.

dalebryan
(Melbourne, Florida)
Posted: May 01, 2011 - 16:57
 
Just got this album and love it.  Paul Simon is truly an American treasure and one of the greatest song writers of all time.  Treat yourself to this musical gem. ;o)

ch83575
Posted: May 01, 2011 - 16:44
 
I haven't heard the typewriter played that well since Cheap Thrills!

DJac
(Seattle)
Posted: Apr 20, 2011 - 14:26
 
Just picked this CD up - great variety of guitar plucking... sweet!

Thanks for being, Paul...

{#Cowboy}

derekd
(Mudball called Earth)
Posted: Apr 18, 2011 - 14:27
 
Me, too. Music man-crush.

ch83575
Posted: Apr 18, 2011 - 14:24
 
Paul, I love you man.