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Sounds Of Silence (Remaster) (CD)

By: Simon & Garfunkel (Artist)

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Simon & Garfunkel Artist Snapshot:

New Yorkers Paul Simon & Art Garfunkel began as a late-1950s doo-wop group called Tom & Jerry. In the '60s, they turned to folk, with an extended stay in London bringing a heavy British folk influence into Simon's work. When a rock band was overdubbed onto the original acoustic version of their single "The Sounds of Silence," a hit resulted and helped further the then-nascent folk-rock movement. The pair's subsequent albums produced a long stream of catchy-but-brainy hit singles and also explored various musical styles, foreshadowing the eclecticism of Simon's solo career. Although the duo split after 1970's BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATER, they have reunited for performances on a few occasions, including a tour in 2003.

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DISC 1 for Sounds Of Silence (Remaster) (CD) Album By Simon & Garfunkel (Artist)
1   Sound Of Silence, The
2   Leaves That Are Green
3   Blessed
4   Kathy's Song
5   Somewhere They Can't Find Me
6   Anji
7   Richard Cory
8   Most Peculiar Man, A
9   April Come She Will
10   We've Got A Groovey Thing Goin'
11   I Am A Rock
12   Blues Run The Game - (previously unreleased, demo version)
13   Barbriallen - (previously unreleased, demo version)
14   Rose Of Aberdeen - (previously unreleased, demo version)
15   Roving Gambler, The - (demo version)
 

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Review

Q (Summer/01, p.126) - 3 stars out of 5 - "...All winsome and alienated...this was their album for teenagers..."
Uncut (8/01, p.92) - 4 stars out of 5 - "...A worthy record..."

Title Note

Personnel includes: Paul Simon (vocals, guitar); Art Garfunkel (vocals).

Producers include: Bob Johnston, Tom Wilson, Paul Simon, Art Garfunkel,

Roy Halee.

Reissue producer: Bob Irwin.

Recorded between March 10, 1964 and July 8, 1970.

Originally released on Columbia Records (9269).

Includes liner notes by Bud Scoppa.

Though it was their second album, SOUNDS OF SILENCE was the record that introduced Simon & Garfunkel to the world at large. When the original, acoustic version of the title tune (included on the debut album) was given a rock sheen here, courtesy of a hastily added electric backing track, folk-rock was invented, and Paul and Art were catapulted to superstardom. The songs here follow in that electrified direction for the most part, with the widescreen irony of "Blessed" buoyed by plangent guitar and drums, and the paranoid "Somewhere They Can't Find Me" pushed to neurotic extremes by an insistent rhythm section.

SOUNDS OF SILENCE marked the introduction proper of Simon as sensitive song poet: intellectual, well-read, politely iconoclastic, self-consciously poetic--the perfect '60s folk-pop idol. Fortunately, Simon's melodic and lyrical prowess and the duo's beautiful post-Everly Brothers harmonies were enough to counteract any intrinsic tendencies toward pretension. From the romantic melodrama of "Kathy's Song" to the anthem of alienation "I Am a Rock," SOUNDS OF SILENCE was the ultimate sonic portrait of the artist as a young man. Somewhere, a young Morrissey was taking notes.

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