I fear I'll do some damage. I think Still Crazy After All These Years is among his top-five solo efforts, and it is an album that everyone needs to hear. 2 (Summer 1991): 301-323; and Barbara Bradby and Brian Torode, "'Maybellene' meaning and the listening subject, " Popular Music 4 (1984): 183-206. Words & music By Paul Simon 1974. Note the distinction between narrative songs—i. When he finally got his songwriting groove back, the result was 1972's Paul Simon. He and Time-Warner (HBO's parent company) will cough up what a Simon spokesman says will be $400, 000--at least $150, 000 contributed to New York's parks system, the rest for city services at the concert, including police. Musically, I was beginning to put together a kind of New York rock, jazz influenced, with a certain kind of lyrical sophistication.... " Playboy 31, no.
First, we may distinguish between a replicated pattern vs. an emergent pattern to be completed. 5 The record number is Columbia, PC33540, © 1975; it was released on compact disk by Warner Records, 25591-2. 23 Verse 1 reads: We were married on a rainy day / The sky was yellow / And the grass was gray / We signed the papers / And we drove away / I do it for your love // Final verse: The sting of reason / The splash of tears / The northern and the southern / Hemispheres / Love emerges / And it disappears / I do it for your love / I do it for your love // From "I Do It For Your Love, " Copyright 1975 Paul Simon. Thursday's extravaganza is a moment of musical good cheer in New York, a once-vibrant hamlet battered by crime, red ink, rising taxes and constantly lowering expectations. I have been listening back to Still Crazy After All These Years a lot on its forty-fifth anniversary and seeing where Paul Simon headed after that album. See White, Rock Lives, 372-3. That was when he hung out with Art Garfunkel, with whom he became the Jerry of a duo called Tom & Jerry, later to become the somewhat better-known team of Simon & Garfunkel. 9 See, for example, Schumann's Carnaval and the Heine, Liederkreis, Op. The wait made him a student again, not only of theory and harmony, but of voice, classical guitar and Brazilian music, particularly "a lot of Jobim music. " The musical setting matches the narrative dialogue: the verses feature a chaconne-like descending tetrachord in E minor and flowing melodic line, underpinned by the famous snare-drum ostinato; the chorus by contrast shifts to G major and cut time, substituting for the legato melody and snare-drum part a driving rock groove underpinned by the simple three-chord progression I--IV-I.
Once again assisted by top session cats, from Cornell Dupree, David Spinozza, Barry Beckett, Paul Griffin and Roger Hawkins to Airto Moreira and gospel vocal group The Dixie Hummingbirds, There Goes Rhymin' Simon is carefree and upbeat, track by track, each song a joy. 13 The album also coincided with the breakup of Simon's first marriage. Those changes distinguish it from almost all his other songs, which are all rooted in one key center. Formally, the song is an expanded 32-bar song form, modified by the gospel chorus following section B1, the transposed and transformed return of the B material, and the return of the gospel chorus immediately following.
Two examples, one from Schumann's Dichterliebe, the other from Mahler's Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen, will demonstrate similar means of large-scale closure. You are reading the older HTML site. 19 There are three non-narrative songs which may be categorized as fable ("Night Game"), meditation on the protagonist's psychological state ("Some Folks' Lives"), and epilogue ("Silent Eyes"). I'm not the kind of man.
I do hope we have not heard the last of Paul Simon regarding recorded material, but I think he is pretty keen to retire and he has definitely given us more than we deserve! But the music for the bridge was a whole other thing, as it was built on all the notes of the twelve-tone scale he hadn't yet used, so as to give it a musical freshness. Originally two songs were intended for the soundtrack ("Have A Good Time" and "Silent Eyes"); 14 in the end, however, only one was used, representing a kind of sketch for "Silent Eyes" which, as we shall see, has interesting ramifications for large-scale closure on the album. 6 And yet one could also make similar assertions about a number of 19th-century works which are readily accepted as cycles. The fourth song from Dichterliebe, "Wenn ich in deine Augen seh, " beautifully exemplifies Heine's scathing irony and Schumann's subtle but effective musical realization. The music dissolves into what sounds like the end, concluding in F major. 6, 8 and 9 comprise a stepwise descent from C major through and A major and on to minor at the beginning of "Silent Eyes. " Although disguised at first, the music transposes the opening progression of B1 up a semitone. "I just saw him yesterday with his baby. "I felt comfortable in listening to some piece of music that was not from my neighborhood. 7 We shall assume that certain works generally considered to be cycles—e. Retaining the musical feel of Paul Simon, but attaining a more produced, glossier yet still soulful production sheen, Simon reveled in songs where every genre he touched, each stylistic shift, hit paydirt gold both financially and creatively. And I wasn't very happy that that was my assessment, but I soon turned it into a song.
In Simon's album, the most important of the above strategies are pattern completion and association, since they subsume most of the other properties. You can hear Simon stretching in the Paul McCartney worthy "Run That Body Down, " the song's gentle pulse, falsetto vocals and longing melody a ringer for the ex-Beatles debut, McCartney. See Timothy White, Rock Lives: Profiles and Interviews (New York: Henry Holt, 1990), 373. I probably wouldn't describe myself that way. Longing my life a--way. Scorings: Piano/Vocal/Chords. He even commented on the state of the country in "American Tune, " singing of feeling "weary to my bones" and offering the kicker anti-war line "you can't expect to be bright and bon vivant so far away from home.
RELEASED forty-five years ago…. 30 Note that this is analogous to the semitone transposition of the opening material at section A3. 25 Lyrically, the song is dialogue-like: in the verses the protagonist broods over how to leave his lover ("The problem is all inside your head / She said to me... "); while in the chorus his confidante tells him to just leave and forget about it ("Just slip out the back, Jack... "). On Thursday, Simon and a 17-piece band drawn from five nations will step on stage in Central Park for a free concert of almost three hours.
No matter how often you hear about them, you never see one. A1: Put a mirror at the bottom of the pool. Q: Why don't blondes call 911 in an emergency? Q: Why don't Spice Girls eat bananas? Q: Why do blondes have little holes all over their faces? She threw it off a cliff. A: The Panama Canal is a busy ditch.
A: Because they can understand them. Fella to your right is 6'5" pushing 300 and he's a wrestler. One blonde said, "Those look like deer tracks", and the other said, "No, they look like Moose tracks". Why do blondes put their hair in ponytails? Q: How do you know when a Spice Girl has been making chocolate chip cookies? It used to be, he said, that women comedians were ugly -- Phyllis Diller, Martha Raye types -- and told self-deprecating jokes about their looks. Q: How do you plant dope? Are tossed off a building, who hits the ground first? How can you tell a blonde has been using your computer? It might have helped. A: You always hear about them but you never see them. A: From crawling across the street when the sign said "don't walk". They don't get more sensitive. A: "Thanks for the refill!
A blonde, brunette, and redhead are in the ninth grade; which one is the sexiest? They know how many men went down on the Titanic. Why do blondes wear their bangs combed upward? Q: What can strike a blonde without her even knowing it? The minute you start that, you wind up with Andrew Dice Clay. Q: What do you call a blonde with ESP and PMS? But I must say, in the face of the real erosion of women's rights -- by the Bush administration, by the Supreme Court, by the state judges, by the mass media -- I don't think this new spate of jokes about women is very funny. Blond #2: "No, who wrote it? In an institution of higher learning? A: The blonde has the higher sperm count. Q: Why are frogs so happy? They felt Grove had "reduced this woman's valid political philosophy to her personal grooming. Why did the Blonde cross the road?
Q: Why is a washing machine better than a blonde? A: Blow in her her another beer. Billy Budd is a blond. A: A golden retriever.
"Don Rickles could stand there and say horrible things to the crowd, but a woman couldn't be accepted as hostile, " said Desberg, who teaches at Cal State University. A: They don't know the route. Q: Why did the blonde stare at frozen orange juice? Q: Why is England the wettest country? A: At the BP station! Q: Why did the blonde try and steal a. police car? They both squirm when you eat them. Q: What does a blonde think an innuendo is? Q: What is the most hardworking part of the eye? A6: I mean, who really cares? Our bartender IS blonde, the bouncer. Artificial Intelligence.