Top 3 Simon & Garfunkel ?

[riffraff]

There are so many brilliant lyrics in their songs. Not easy to narrow it down to a top three, the list keeps changing every time I think about it, but the lines I think are the most evocative and wonderful are from ‘Mrs Robinson’:

‘Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio?
Our nation turns its lonely eyes to you’

He puts a lot of effort into his lyrics which sometimes isn’t acknowledged as it seems so effortless. Mind you it’s acknowledged in sales n money. Every S&G album sold more than the Stones biggest selling album and Mick n Keef live well on spliting the songwriting royalties plus there were five in the Stones whereas.......

Jonathan King it was! Perry twat.

Pervy ffs.

 

[Latka Gravas]

Only living boy in New York
Homeward bound
Hazy shade of winter

 

[Kid Galahad]

The Boxer
Late in the Evening
The Only Living Boy in New York

At first I put Me and Julio instead of TOLBINY then realised it was Paul Simon solo. Tough to choose though, so many brilliant songs. Probably be a different set tomorrow!

Late in the evening is also a Paul solo song.
Bridge over troubled water
Cecilia
Sound of silence

I know it will go down like a lead balloon but Elvis' version of BOTW is class, he loved it and gives it proper welly!

 

[Daffy]

I can’t do 3. I have to do 4.
The order is irrelevant because it will change all the time for me.

Only Living Boy
The Boxer
America
Kathy

Rules are rules

 

[shadowplay]

1. The Boxer
2. Sound of Silence
3. Scarborough Fair

Anyone who doesn’t have bridge over troubled water as their top choice is merely being pedantic or awkward for the sake of it.

Not really. Good song but not their best lyrics.

 

[PNEFC111]

I heard that Homeward Bound was written on Widnes railway station.

 

[Kid Galahad]

Elvis Sings 'Bridge Over Troubled Water'

Elvis Presley's career was in a pretty remarkable place when he hit the road for an American arena tour in April of 1972: Four years earlier, his tele

www.google.com

 

[PNEFC111]

I heard that Homeward Bound was written on Widnes railway station.

Homeward Bound: Widnes station tribute marks Paul Simon's unlikely inspiration

It was while he was sitting on a platform at Widnes railway station on Merseyside, waiting for a train to take him back to London to his girlfriend, that Paul Simon began scribbling the lyrics of his haunting song Homeward Bound.

www.google.co.uk

 

[Kid Galahad]

I heard that Homeward Bound was written on Widnes railway station.

It was, Widnes would always make you want to be home, unless you live in Widnes....

 

[Conyers falchion]

Jonathan King it was! Perry twat.

I didn’t want to draw attention to that. (The Jonathan King bit, not the typo).

 

[Daydream Believer]

I love the song but I thought The Bangles did it better. That killer riff needs electricity not acousticility.

I agree but I was an adult by that time & had liked the original my whole childhood before they covered it.

 

[Norton]

Wonderful music.
1 Bridge over troubled water
2 Sound of silence
3 The boxer
though I could have chosen almost any.

 

[Pseudonym Number 1]

1 The Sound of Silence
2 Bridge over Trouble Water
3 The Boxer

Thread should have been locked after this post tbf. Op has it spot on.

 

[Mak70]

Sound of Silence
Bridge Over Troubled Water
Mrs Robinson

Absolutely love Simon and Garfunkel. Timeless. Just on another level.

 

[Millfielder]

1. Keep the customer satisfied
2. America
3. So long, Frank Lloyd Wright

It could change tomorrow mind, love their stuff.

 

[daventry cat]

the boxer
hazy shade of winter
then perm any 1 from about a dozen others

 

[Boinger]

Silence
Scarboro
Homeward & Boxer joint 3rd

 

[Daydream Believer]

Anyone who doesn’t have bridge over troubled water as their top choice is merely being pedantic or awkward for the sake of it.

Cackbabble. I honestly find it pretty dull.

 

[viccarlton]

Cackbabble. I honestly find it pretty dull.

You pedantic, awkward man/woman.

 

[chriswallace85]

1. Homeward bound
2. Me and Julio
3. the Boxer

Not a Simon & Garfunkel song.