Low: The Great Destroyer (3)
Deutsche Wertarbeit: s/t (4)
Embryo: Opal
Rene Hell: The Terminal Symphony
The Beatles: Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Iron & Wine: Kiss Each Other Clean
Earthstar: French Skyline
Tim Hecker: Ravedeath, 1972
Simon & Garfunkel: Sounds of Silence and Bridge Over Troubled Waters
Reading yesterday's Pitchfork review on the Bridge Over Troubled Waters reissue made me pull out my Simon & Garfunkel records (to be fair, it doesn't take much to encourage me to take out my Simon & Garfunkel records). It's the first Pitchfork review in a long time that had me getting all nitpicky—"a 9.4? It's a 10! It's a 10!!!" I mean, really: the title track, "The Boxer," "Cecilia," "Baby Driver," "Keep the Customer Satisfied," El Condor Pasa." That's half a greatest hits collection right there! (I'll grant that "So Long Frank Lloyd Wright" and "Why Don't You Write Me" are a little dippy, but even then they're still fun.)
And of course I haven't even mentioned "The Only Living Boy in New York," the best song Simon & Garfunkel ever wrote and one of the greatest songs by anyone of the last fifty years. I mean come on!
- Simon & Garfunkel: The Only Living Boy in New York
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