...and doesn't care for it.
So for my birthday I got an Amazon voucher, and because I have a hardon for CD box sets (I have the Springsteen one, and the one with all of Pink Floyd's studio albums in it, I even have a fucking Randy Newman one) I decided to get all of Simon and Garfunkel's albums in one convenient box.
I am... not impressed.
First of all, and this is a genuine question, how could they released so little? Back in those days it wasn't unheard of to crank out two records a year, and they did a total of five albums between 1964 and 1970 - and mostly pretty short ones at that.
I know it's about quality rather than quantity generally speaking, I'm genuinely surprised that they released such little music. They're like an example of what I would say about The Beatles that if they released records at the modern rate, their career would consist of Please Please Me, Help!, Sergeant Pepper and Abbey Road. A hell of a catalogue, but missing the interesting, searching middle albums where they bridged the gaps between styles and experimented.
Secondly, after admittedly only one listen... I'm not hugely impressed. Their work seems very samey (until Bridge) generally speaking and there doesn't seem to be much to it.
Also, 'Voices Of Old People' is actually fucking recordings of old people talking? You serious?
My favourite song so far - and I hate myself because this is like saying I like REM and my favourite song is 'Everybody Hurts' - is 'Bridge Over Troubled Water,' partly because it's the exact song I needed right now given my personal circumstances.
But at the same time, it's so insanely unlike anything in the rest of their discography that it makes no sense whatsoever 1. after Bookends 2. in the context of their career 3. even in the context of the album it's damn well named after.
...So, yeah. I'm obviously not writing them off yet, at all. But so far I'm not hugely impressed.
ARGUE WITH ME BITCHES