Artist-designed box-set retrospectives tend to be idiosyncratic, and this one is no exception. Take the title, which describes a 52-track, 200+-minute, three-disc set, the...
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Featuring a musical cast including members of Stuff, Chic, and funkmeister Philip Glass, this LP bore a revealing sticker reading "Featuring the hit single 'Allergies.'" Er,...
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Hearts and Bones was a commercial disaster, the lowest-charting new studio album of Paul Simon's career. It is also his most personal collection of songs, one of his most...
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A cross-cultural phenomenon, this may be Simon's best-known album--but, years after the fact, the artificial "hybrid" nature of the material now seems slightly forced....
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Paul Simon replaced his earlier compilation, Greatest Hits, Etc. (1977), with this one, allowing Hits to go out of print. Fans may well wish that he had simply put together...
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Though released to coincide with the film One Trick Pony, which Paul Simon wrote and starred in, the One Trick Pony album is not a soundtrack -- at least, not exactly. If it...
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To most people's ears, this might as well have been the follow-up to Bridge Over Troubled Water. Contains "Mother And Child Reunion" and "Me And Julio Down By The...
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If any musical justification were needed for the breakup of Simon & Garfunkel, it could be found on this striking collection, Paul Simon's post-split debut. From the opening...
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Ten years after playing a free concert in New York's Central Park with Art Garfunkel, Paul Simon returned, backed by the New York session musicians and the native musicians...
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Song for song Simon's best album, this features the radio hits "My Little Town," "Fifty Ways To Leave Your Lover," "Gone At Last," and the warmly intimate title track. In...
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The third new studio album of Paul Simon's post-Simon & Garfunkel career was a musical and lyrical change of pace from his first two, Paul Simon and There Goes Rhymin'...
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The messy "artistic" album featuring a cast of thousands and a lot of percussion. Had it been a hit, the Ravi Shankar collaboration album was undoubtedly up...
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Though he recorded the album's prominent percussion tracks in Brazil, Paul Simon fashioned The Rhythm of the Saints as a deliberate follow-up to the artistic breakthrough...
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With the release of this album, the calls for a Simon & Garfunkel reunion lessened; such songs as "Kodachrome" established Simon as a very viable solo...
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Retaining the buoyant musical feel of Paul Simon, but employing a more produced sound, There Goes Rhymin' Simon found Paul Simon writing and performing with assurance and...
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One thing Simon & Garfunkel never did much of was tour, so a Paul Simon solo tour, following two commercially successful solo albums, was one more way for Simon to distance...
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Paul Simon has been veering away from the landscape of purely American pop songsmithing for a decade now, between the South African colorations of Graceland and the...
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The disaster of The Capeman hit Paul Simon particularly hard, so he decided to quickly record a new album, his first proper collection of songs since 1990's The Rhythm of...
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Most of Paul Simon's great songs and singles of the '70s and '80s are on The Paul Simon Collection: On My Way, Don't Know Where I'm Goin', keeping this collection humming...
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It seems Paul Simon was always looking to give Art Garfunkel the slip. Once it seemed their debut album Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M. wasn’t going to break them in the music...
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The first album to use this title is one of the most mysterious in Paul Simon's output and almost belongs more with Simon & Garfunkel's discography, given its 1965 recording...
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Originally issued in 1986, Graceland was the first of Paul Simon's albums to show up on CD, and so in a sense it's needed an upgrade longer than any of the other releases in...
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With Graceland, Paul Simon hit on the idea of combining his always perceptive songwriting with the little-heard mbaqanga music of South Africa, creating a fascinating hybrid...
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The first album to use this title is one of the most mysterious in Paul Simon's output and almost belongs more with Simon & Garfunkel's discography, given its 1965 recording...
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The various compilations of Paul Simon's work that have been released with his input over the years have been an unsatisfying bunch, leaving out key tracks in favor of the...
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