Description
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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Product Details
- Artist
- Simon & Garfunkel
- Year of release
- 2001
- Label / Studio
- COLUMBIA
- Media Content Format
- Album
- CD 30days Sales Rank
- #13675
- Media Format
- Audio CD
- Recording Environment
- Studio
- Number of Discs
- 1
- CD WOW! Sales Rank
- #19272
- Original year of release
- 1966
- SPARS Code
- AAD
- Cast & Crew
- Simon & Garfunkel (Music Performer)
Press Reviews
3 stars out of 5 - "...All winsome and alienated...this was their album for teenagers... Q (Summer/01, p.126)
4 stars out of 5 - "...A worthy record... Uncut (8/01, p.92)
Tracklisting
Disc 1:
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Sound of Silence
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Leaves That Are Green
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Blessed
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Kathy's Song
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Somewhere They Can't Find Me
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Anji
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Richard Cory
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Most Peculiar Man
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April Come She Will
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We've Got a Groovy Thing Goin'
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I Am a Rock
