By this stage in his career, it was almost inconceivable that
Simon could possibly deliver even a mediocre record. During the 1990s he
served up The Rhythm of the Saints, Songs from the Capeman and You're
the One. Some of the tracks, however, aren't half as known as they
should be. It's a pleasure to introduce you to some of the best Paul
Simon songs that my money says weren't even on your radar screen.
1 The obvious child
In an interview Simon once described how each album begins with the unfinished threads leftover from the previous one. In this case he finished "Graceland" and ended up studying Latin American drums/percussion.
Simon explained to Mojo magazine in 2011 how they chanced upon a live performance of Grupo Cultural Olodum: "One day we were driving through the old part of Salvador in Bahia when we heard this incredible drumming coming from Pelouinho Square. It was the group Olodum practising outside and (Simon's percussionist) Mazzola asked if we could record them. We did it in their back yard, just rented a couple of 8-tracks, and that was our backing-track for 'The Obvious Child.'" Sample lyric: "Some people say a lie's a lie's a lie. But I say why, why deny the obvious child?"
2 The Vampires
You're never going to hear this song on the radio because of the in-your-face salty language... which is a shame because it's a fabulously constructed song. Built around a deadly infectious piano riff played by Oscar Hernandez the song captures part of the story of the Capeman Salvador Agran, a boy who fell in with a New York gang and ending up stabbing two innocent teenagers one night in 1959. The song is sung in multiple parts with members of the Vampires singing in the background. Sample Lyric: "Now here comes her son. He looks like a ton of corned beef floating in beer."
3 Wolves, Pigs and Sheep.
Talk about a fractured fairy tale! It sounds like a cross between Latin American music and cool jazz. But it's Simon's sly humor at its dry, drawling best. The delivery is hilariously clever, as if he were telling his young child this total burlesque of a bedtime story about how a pig framed a wolf for the murder of a sheep. Yet, part of the joke is clearly aimed at the rest of us adults as Simon simultaneously pokes fun at the police, the courts and the media. You absolutely must hear this inside joke of a song at least once in your life. Sample lyric: "This is hilarious. What a great time. I'm the pig who committed the perfect crime."
1 The obvious child
In an interview Simon once described how each album begins with the unfinished threads leftover from the previous one. In this case he finished "Graceland" and ended up studying Latin American drums/percussion.
Simon explained to Mojo magazine in 2011 how they chanced upon a live performance of Grupo Cultural Olodum: "One day we were driving through the old part of Salvador in Bahia when we heard this incredible drumming coming from Pelouinho Square. It was the group Olodum practising outside and (Simon's percussionist) Mazzola asked if we could record them. We did it in their back yard, just rented a couple of 8-tracks, and that was our backing-track for 'The Obvious Child.'" Sample lyric: "Some people say a lie's a lie's a lie. But I say why, why deny the obvious child?"
2 The Vampires
You're never going to hear this song on the radio because of the in-your-face salty language... which is a shame because it's a fabulously constructed song. Built around a deadly infectious piano riff played by Oscar Hernandez the song captures part of the story of the Capeman Salvador Agran, a boy who fell in with a New York gang and ending up stabbing two innocent teenagers one night in 1959. The song is sung in multiple parts with members of the Vampires singing in the background. Sample Lyric: "Now here comes her son. He looks like a ton of corned beef floating in beer."
3 Wolves, Pigs and Sheep.
Talk about a fractured fairy tale! It sounds like a cross between Latin American music and cool jazz. But it's Simon's sly humor at its dry, drawling best. The delivery is hilariously clever, as if he were telling his young child this total burlesque of a bedtime story about how a pig framed a wolf for the murder of a sheep. Yet, part of the joke is clearly aimed at the rest of us adults as Simon simultaneously pokes fun at the police, the courts and the media. You absolutely must hear this inside joke of a song at least once in your life. Sample lyric: "This is hilarious. What a great time. I'm the pig who committed the perfect crime."
So many times I've had the disappointment of hearing a great
song, seeking out the album from which it came and then finding out that
I was listening to a single chart hit and a dozen examples of just
plain filler. You never had that problem with a Paul Simon album because
when Simon released an album the worst Simon song was sometimes better
than another artist's or band's best song.
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