Our family listens to this song frequently and has for years, so it's kind of a soundtrack to my life. I hear it now in the background coming from my son's cell phone now at dawn while I'm on the PC. Decided to look it up.
@omgicanollie - Hello. Please be aware that I'm not . . . not trying to argue with you. However, the reason some of us baby boomers are pleased that young people like this music (which used to stream from our transistor radios) is because we find so much (not all) of recent music lacking in warmth & positive values. We're the parents of two high schoolers & some . . . only some of the lyrics which promote very negative, self-destructive behavior are quite unsettling. That's all. Peace.
There was a docu on TV some time ago, think it was a South Bank show on S & G. Paul was driving around his old neighbourhood where he lived as a teenager with the reporter who was doing the interview. At a certain point, he indicated a place where he said he remembered he and Art were sat in a car listening to a DJ announce "the latest release by the great Simon & Garfunkel....". Paul told the reporter he remembered Art saying..."Gee, I bet those guys are having soooo much fun...." Irony, huh?
Hello, All. Just learned that Paul S. wrote this as a tribute to his long time friend & music partner. Art G. who was "Tom" when they were "Tom & Jerry" was flying away ("Tom, get your plane right on time") to make his movie debut (Catch-22): "I know your part will go fine" & had been forthcoming with Paul S. "Let your honesty shine" about his ambitions beyond the music field. Despite the usual clashes talented folks always have, THEY CARED about each other. LOVELY SONG - PEACE, ALL.
@DeformedMelonFilms - Hello. Don't know your age, but, clearly, if you listen to S&G, you've got excellent taste in music. Our teens recognize the talent & also listen frequently. Best Wishes & Peace to you from a middle aged flower child.
@mjcamck71 Just seen the documentary Harmony and was very impressed by the story after only hearing rumors about them for so very long. Loved them since their debut
@Pixiel711 don't worry, I'm sure this Administration will find some way to have thought removed from this medium fast enough. Then you can go back to pretending you don't want to hear anything about your world by listening to one of the great talents who can and has discussed topics personal and political with depth and sensitivity.
@TheBlindPig1 A Genius told us: "Living is easy with eyes closed Misunderstanding all you see." Sorry to be making your ability to navel-gaze Without thought more difficult. But if you continue to vote without thought Ignore cogent commentary, and decide To spend your days is the land of sweet alliteration, It will hardly be the most egregious inconvenience you are likely to experience over the next decade or so.... So....
We had professional performers, and surfers, but England was sending us Artists in the early '60s. Artists who were playing music and writing lyrics we needed to hear. We countered with poetsi, but it was hard enough to get artist in America to get serious about music--they were busy not being serious about ART. Pack a baseball stadium with Artists, and you could likely count the number of Geniuses on one hand, Maybe two. John was a genius, and unfortunately for us, Yoko saw it first.
@huston3 I would only add that you guys, (I'm Canadian,) gave England and the rest of the world the Artist to end all Artists, Bob Dylan by chosen name, who had an enormous influence on Lennon as well as Brian Jones, George and Eric, and The Byrds and on and on. By changing the tone and the tenor of our dialogue I readily concede that you display more wisdom than I. I am "learning" from our exchanges. Must listen yet again to Jackson Browne's song 'For Everyman" as there is much wisdom within.
@hugosalarm It was a testimony to Dylan's genius that he could put out an album that might sell a fraction of the albums of even new artists, but that 50,000 albums would have more effect on the circle of his influence and the millions they reached than anyone, so that Columbia would keep him without making a profit off of him. In a capitalist country, there IS no higher compliment.
@hugosalarm My sympathetic chord on that same theme (I gave up Jackson Browne on reports of domestic violence when Darryl Hannah was living with him), is Todd Rundgren's "Change Myself": "Both of us want to win this fight/both of us think the other is mistaken, so mistaken/Meanwhile, everyone wants to take up sides so/everyone helps us to fall apart....Americans have become so focused on the "win," that they don't care enough about the rules of the game. In one sense, we've \ been this way but
@hugosalarm ...there's a large number of Americans that DON'T feel that way, who are embarrassed by our transgressions and horrors over the years. What has made the American dream so tantalizing to so many is what we've been able to overcome DESPITE our horrors. Some worry, because in appealing to compassion to those who feel guilt can lead to sacrificial movements. Only a balance of compassion and equal justice before the law can save America, and I truly hope for all our sakes that we can.
@huston3 I grew up in the U.S., formative years, school years "Pledge of Allegiance", "God Bless America" I feel a strong spiritual connection with the country, cheer for the S.F Giants, Cincinnati Bengals, West Virginia football, Syracuse basketball, the smaller towns and their people, the musical history, the literary history, (excluding Faulkner), the history, period. I can only hope your future is guided by, what are they called? Your better angels? Settlers saw a future there.
@hugosalarm It's pretty much a function of when you left the US. Kennedy mobilized a generation to believe we could achieve anything. Nixon and Reagan taught the youth of America that there was a pool of corruption in Washington, whatever the face put forward. By putting himself before the office, Clinton divided the nation into the sanctimonious and the licentious. Now we are being run by the generation who came of age during Nixon and it's not enough to not want to vote for Palin....
@hugosalarm ...she MUST be an IDIOT! A majority of Weiner's constituents want him to stay; it took his pregnant wife, with her position with Hillary, to come back and tell him HELL no. Hippies have put on suits and mock the Man to run the world, and don't understand why acting like a schmuck doesn't inspire, or why abject failure and wrongheaded policies aren't at least questioned by the media, which used to earn its appellation as the Fourth Estate, but now exists to kiss the Left's bottom.
@huston3 Notice that you've had to fend off the unsolicited yelpings of the current breed of lout, those who won't hesitate to pronounce that the mind, which begets thought, which begets opinion, is all the stuff of cursedness. Frightening to think how easily the "yo shut up" people make their way in the world, a smirk and salacious one-liner for Weiner, praising this politician, pilloring that one, and groovin with the rapper driving a million dollar sports car, shoutin' "where dem girls at?"
@hugosalarm I hardly ever give these guys a thought, but every so often, if they're on a page like this, I remember how formative artist like Simon when I was a kid. And I figure, I'll offer what i'd offer my own kid: the right to ignore me and walk off a cliff, but not without the last thing is his ears being my voice still trying to give him solutions to his problem. Irony and satire are lost on some of this generation, so they fall to this level:.youtube.com/watch?v=J5Sn-A7D76o
@huston3 A cynic asks,"Any hope for another generation that believes we can do anything?" The FEELING was there in the last presidential election. The Nobel Peace Prize? The feeling's enhanced and since then? A return to the 2007 (and before) reality. Sanctimony and licentiousness, when they worked together, provided the US with a sense of innocence and fun that was the envy of the world. "She'll have fun,fun,fun, til her daddy takes the T-bird away." Schism really Clinton's doing? Cheers.
@hugosalarm pretty much started in the middle of the Reagan years. The far right wing ran much more of the party than ever, much in the way the far left has seized the Crats. They went nuts when Reagan's Justice Dept put up the name of Robert Bork for Supreme Court Justice. Until then, both parties would give consent as long as the nominee had an ABA :"well qualified." With a few exceptions, each party gave consent when they were out of power so as not to receive grief then it was their turn.
@huston3 They had a collective belief and a will and a vision of what they and their descendants could accomplish. And look at the accomplishments! It seems to me you've got to rediscover that "old time feeling" once again, make it apply, (once again) to all Americans. . . and frankly I don't see how this could work because people don't pull together anymore, ony in Joplin and Tuscaloosa and places enveloped in tragedy and as George said,"Isn't It A Pity" that it takes a tragedy to. . . . . .
@hugosalarm Not so much that it's a tragedy that brings people together, as much as we've become two nations: the Cities, and Flyover Country. I remember floods in Alton when I was a teenager. We would jump in our cars and go to the site to fill and fit sandbags. Despite race, social classes--helping people is just the Missouri way. But New York/Hollywood. It's a zero-sum game. If I give to you, somehow, I lose something. "If nobody wants to share the blame, then everyone gets more of the same."
@huston3 i wouldn't be too hard on Yoko. It couldn't have been easy being her. Harrison said there was trouble brewing long before she appeared but then again, in a 70's interview, he promptly rose from his chair and feigned moving to another when Dick Cavett told him Yoko had sat in that chair. Who knows the truth, huh? Will try to hook up with your song. Good health and happiness to you. . . .
@hugosalarm John met an artist he wanted to work with (and live with and love). Bands have kept tension and worked, but when you can do something bigger than rock and roll band, as John saw Hair Peace and Bed Peace, his genius was piqued, and he went that way (that, of course, and his mother issues...). Some of Yoko's stuff was pretty hip for the room at the time. I think if Klein hadn't come along, and they'd have been open to the idea, they could have done like many later bands, solo projects.
@huston3 So why did "one nation. . . .(ellipses out of respect for our agnostic and atheist friends) indivisible, with liberty and justice for all" disappear from the collective consciousness? Or was that just the beginnings of the bumper sticker/sound bite/twitter/ shrinking attention span that dominates and corrodes the current social landscape? If Epstein hadn't died? You don't hear much about the tornado victims anymore, (it's news no longer) but I wish them and all Missourians well.
Exposed, first definition, Miriam Websters Dictionary. Exposed=open to view. Anything more you read into that choice of a word comes from your own paranoia, particularly after I explained I meant nothing more than that by the word choice. I won't fake fight with you.. You intend to find some sort of racial animosity in me that isn't there. Look away, friend. I recall a white city employee being fired by his boss for the offence taken by black council members when he used the word niggardly.
Would you then be "exposed to" or "put on display for" Arabs, Japanese, etc,etc. Your cultural, ethnic, racial elitism is revealed through the the use of these "loaded" words. An entire ethos developed out of such language that sanctified European, then American cultural, racial, intellectual superiority over "the darker regions of the world." Imperialism, colonization followed. I find you boorish, and I find myself becoming boorish as well. Where's my map of Israel disappeared to?
@hugosalarm I am sure that for some people, when they are first exposed to me, I am the first American black they have met. I don't think that word means what you are trying to make it mean. At least, not coming from me.
@hugosalarm Don't know what time zone you're in, but I'm sure you can come up with some insightfully ugly name for me again before you lull yourself to sleep knowing you've warned everyone of what a hater I am. What race do you think I believe to be elite? What ethnicity? Continue to argue against things I didn't say and ignore my requests for what it is that I have indicated to be a fact that you find untrue. I live well, could live better. I would say many in the world could say the same....
@huston3 On and on you do go, like the Duracell bunny. It's a mystery to me why idlers and reprobates like yourself aren't stricken with acute arthritis of the fingers while actually worthy people: pianists, guitarists, painters, hairdressers, computer analysts, cat burglars, safecrackers, seamstresses, and others whose livelihoods depend on digital dexterity, are stricken with same, cut down in the prime of life. And now, with obsessively itchy fingers, you bill yourself as EVERYMAN. Nausea.
@hugosalarm You a fiunny man. You say to yourself out loud that you should shut me up by refusing to further respond to my crazinews, and yet, here you are again, inviting a response. I'm glad you find artists worthy, ask I have written songs for years. Some personal, others more universal. Todd Rundgren and the Beatles are my core musicmen. The reason you can't draw me into battle is I believe Lennon. Peace is ours if you want it. But I also believe Clausewitz: you have to make war horrible....
@hugosalarm There's nothing you can do that can't be done. Nothing you can sing that can't be sung.. Nothing you can make that can't be made; no one you can save that isn't saved.... nothing you can know that isn't known; nothing you can see that isn't shown. All you need is love, love. Love is all you need.. Living is easy with eyes closed--misunderstanding all you see. you're giving me the same old line, I'm wond'ring why, Imagine all the people, living life in peace....
@huston3 Why didn't you say you loved Lennon? I idolize him to this day. Cried like a child the night he died. Thanks for the snippet of lyric, the reminder. Like almost everything John created musically, so simple, so true. Please accept my apologies for the personal attacks I leveled against you. They were, in hindsight, unnecessary and sometimes malicious. Keep writing music, making music. It's a positive contribution. I now IMAGINE you a very soulful person. Peace to you and your family.
@hugosalarm There's usually someone human, sometimes drowning, at the bottom of every pool of invective. One of my many lessons taught to me by having children. Of course apologies accepted; the relative anonymity of the Internet, mixed with the direct contact with another human soul is like giving alcohol to toddlers, then watch them climb the monkeybars, or whatever young whippersnappers call today's climbing dome.(write to hsiii at earth link dot net if you want to hear it.) I wrote a song.
There was an comic strip artist. who took an art form, the daily and Sunday strips, and not only excelled in his field in terms of the standard, he pushed the envelope, almost always in a excellent direction, and quit, at the TOP of his popularity, when he said he felt he had presented in that form. He refused many offers to utilize his characters for money (mugs, t-shirts, and others) and refused them all for the same reason Paul Simon gave for HIS reasons earlier. So his change of heart hurts.
Actually, I showed up here after hearing this song in a Honda commercial and was shocked that it was a Simon & Garfunkel and it was weird because I love Simon and Garfunkel and was talking about them to somebody yesterday about how I must have every song by them and didn't even realize it was them on this commercial.
Finally, go to that map of the entire Middle East and tell us why, with the size of all the countries aligned against Israel, that not a single one could find themselves hospitable enough to offer them land to settle on. Look at how little Palestine would have taken out of nearly ANY of the enemies of Israel. The answer is obvious: they're enemies of Israel. (Sorry, son, I'm no Jew-hater; I'm old enough to remember who were the rrist to join the freedom riders.:)
@huston3 Pardon me, too, if I find you more than a little uncouth and condescending by throwing "jew-hater" and "son" into the mix. I do not need an "elder statesman" to school me on the invaluable contributions, both practical and intellectual, that the Jewish people have bestowed on society. The present-day reality of Palestine suggests that it is very difficult to make "concessions" with a jackboot on your throat. Read Edward Said to provide yourself with a more balanced pespective. Peace.
@hugosalarm I would never promote my couthiness, saving it for fine dining; in an online exchange of ideas, I find that directness and clarity are worth more than a pretend respect for someone who seems to have contempt for oneself.
@hugosalarm The "son," far from being condescending, was pointing out how different history seems to some who reads books about it versus someone who actually lived through the times, and how easily that first person not only misrepresents what is being spoken of, but misunderstands what the reference is to.
@hugosalarm At your age, you don’t remember the time when no Arab spokesman would appear in a segment with a Jew that wasn’t separated with a commercial, and would not appear on a show after a Jew had spoken. “reasoned objectivity,” indeed!
I didn't "throw" the words "Jew-hater;" if you'll move past your OWN paranoia and reread the actual sentence, I said, "I'M no Jew-hater," (emphasis mine), not to suggest you ARE one, but…
@hugosalarm ...to point at the long effort made to divide the black and Jewish communities, from the time when Freedom Riders, a large percentage of them Jews, risked their lives, and lost them, fighting for the right of blacks to use public accommodations. many American blacks today, trying to identify with a lost African heritage are considering Islam, while others, mistakenly believing there is some correlation between Muslims and the Honorable Elijah Muhammad’s brand of "Black Muslims,"...
@hugosalarm have over the years, ignorant of their own people's history in this country, adopted Jew-ha tred.
I think we could call the presiding judge over the Freedom Riders murder case a Jew-hater, as none of the people guilty of the crime was even charged with murder. The judge said, "They killed one nigger, one Jew, and a white man. I gave them all what I though they deserved." (may I presume you don’t include HIM filled with “the brotherhood of man”?)
@hugosalarm Old enough to have been denied service at a Woolworth's lunch counter in downtown St. Louis, all I was pointing out is the view from the cheap seats make things look a bit different, if you don't think 20 years makes a significant difference in the validity of impressions, you're kidding yourself. Mebbe if you published your criteria of couth, I might avoid seeming to fall into your trap.
As far as it being “difficult to make “concessions” with a jackboot on your throat,...
@hugosalarm As far as it being “difficult to make “concessions” with a jackboot on your throat, the only “concession,” I have heard the Israelis making is a request that the Palestinians come to the table to talk. It’s the Palestinians who are requiring “preconditions” for the talks…..why?
@hugosalarm Because when they refuse to sit down, Obama makes an ignorant statement like publically discussing the ’67 borders “with land swaps” as a STARTING negotiation session, rather than something to be gained through negotiation, so they continue to stay away from the bargaining table to see what else Obama will get them without their having to do anything.
@huston3 The tone of your diatribe, shot through with bitterness, impresses and saddens, while the substance, those "events" you recount and upon which you easily hang your biases and contempt, is "old news". I think that the good heart you once had turned to stone at that Woolworth's lunch counter. You cannot say of yourself,"with age comes wisdom" when you have gone from civil rights activist to what I perceive to be a detester of Arabs and African-Americans who choose the Muslim faith.
@hugosalarm I am fascinated that the expression of a fully formed series of thoughts passes in this clipped-thought word as a "diatribe." I hold no contempt for anyone, the few Arabs I have been exposed to have impressed me with their devotion. And while I realize that since the election of our first African-American president, it has become liberal sport to call anyone "a detester of African-Americans," but I can assure you nothing could be further from the truth.
@hugosalarm It's also funny how in America, where interracial marriage was nationally forbidden until 1970, you'd consider THAT "old news", yet 1967 borders don't count. Check your perrceptions; trust me, they're off. You completely misunderstand that I believe the greatness of America has come from not the problems that we have, but from the issues that we have OVERCOME as a nation. But we didn't move toward solutions until the TRUTH was on the table.
@huston3 "America" was and is fashioned largely out of myth. That's been great in many ways but too often seems to make TRUTH an unwanted guest. Either I'm quickly lapsing into stupidity or opacity runs wild in your statements. Do problems have to turn into "issues" before they can be overcome? Or are problems irrelevant and issues paramount? Solutions? Truth? For the average American, these words may as well be the stuff of alchemy.
@hugosalarm So the average American is too stupid to know what's going on, unlike "enlightened" ones, (like yourself, I assume). And America is a myth. Don't know what part of America you have been exposed to, but I would suggest you travel a bit before you make your assumptions on what you have seen to this point..
@huston3 You want "positions of fantasy"? Mr. Netanyahu has recently said that, thanks to him, Palestine is currently experiencing an economic boom. Yes, he's removed several border checkpoints, allowing people to move a little more freely, thus providing greater business opportunity. Yes, he says, he can envision a two state solution, autonomy as defined by Isreal with the necessary "proscriptions." But, a burgeoning economy!! At the end of the roadmap to peace?. . . .a ritzy ghetto!
@hugosalarm The people keeping Palestine poor are the people who insist they read books that reach them the rights they have over their women, but nothing about history except hate the jews/hate america. Keeping the native Palestiniahn population's anger aimed at Israel has long been obvious in all surrounding Arab states.We are very near a time where a whole lot of people better wake up soon or a whole LOT of people are going to be put into permanent sleep. With many more to follow.
@huston3 It dawns on me that most everything you spew is either specious or absurd. You are shamelessly prejudicial, incapable or unable to consider what I'm saying, suffering a maniacal compulsion to hurl your torpid verbal garbage my way, excruciatingly vague, and in dire need of finding a hobby that will free you from the tedium of thinking and writing. We're ALL going into permanent sleep, Mr. Philosopher. Uh, how do many more sleeps follow a permanent sleep?? I do not suffer fools gladly.
@hugosalarm Everything seems prejudicial when you have only a prejudiced view of history. Far from being "incapable, or unable to consider what you are writing, I have specifically addressed your points, using a larger, historical view of the talking points you raise; by putting them into context, one can see how misdirected your anger is. You call that "vague;" it's only because you made up your mind when you found a comfortable answer instead of continuing to see truth. Now you've lost so,..
@huston3 Your particular brand of ignorance would deny you membership to your local sophistry club and probably has. You have not, nor are you capable of, "specifically addressing" or glorying in anything but your own "illogic." . Continue to pacify yourself with monologues of hatred, denial of other points of view and a talent for inarticulation that makes Ozzy Osborne sound like James Joyce. You should get enough mileage out of all that to make it to your last, inconsequential breath.
@hugosalarm And yet, you offer no specific point I have failed to address. You have yet to offer the example of "illogic" you find so strange. And I continue to wonder where in the world you find hatred of ANYONE in my posts. I can only suggest you ask your shrink to explain "transference" to you. I've helped raise a child of whom am as proud of as any other accomplishment of my life. I married well, and have done my best to assist and protect the people I love. I'm fine with my life, hope ur2.
@huston3 "The few Arabs I've been (EXPOSED??) to have impress me with their devotion?" Gee, thanks for "EXPOSING the rest of us to what is as near as you can come to a "some of my best friends are Negroes" moment. Orgasmic for you maybe, but not for anyone with a shred of sense, (or humanity.)
@hugosalarm What's your problem, dude? The jobs I have, where I've lived and the friends I have had haven't included many Muslims, but of those to whom I have been exposed, the vast majority of them had not been exposed to many American blacks, either. If you want to feign some outrage at my choice of word "expose," you can, but it looks pretty silly from here. I've had positive interactions with most "real" Muslims. So, sue me.
@huston3 Funny that this type of dialogue takes place in the aural shadow of such a beautiful song, very nearly powerful enough to make you believe that a more peaceful world is not an unrealistic notion. Rather than continuing to cultivate a passion for railling against "others", our intellects and our souls would be better served in seeking solutions to these profound problems and with the same zeal that we apply ourselves to technological advancement.
@hugosalarm Nothing prevents peace except sides who want it enough to stop killing/dying for it. But no one can negotiate from a position of fantasy. When you call Israeli policies "expansionist, when anyone with a map and an accurate history book knows that's bunk, you don't tell the truth, and there is no peace in that direction.The Israelis have been at the negotiating table; it's the Palestinians who have been holding out and refusing to sit, since Obama was doing fine without them.
@huston3 Sorry, that should read "Islamic" faith at the end of paragraph 1. Also, when you brought renewed attention to the phrase"I'M no jew-hater" I'm hopeful that in retrospect you realize that what you MEANT could only be understood by the the inflectionof your VOICE, the degree of emphasis which you placed on the word "I'M. "It is impossible to decipher meaning in written form. And wasn't it a crusty, decidedly unjust "Jewish"judge who presided over the trial (fiasco) of the Chicago 8?
@hugosalarm I brought renewed attention to the phrase because you misunderstood the words. It is not "impossible" to decipher meaning in written form; if it were, the novel would not be an art form. All it takes is an effort on the part of the reader to open his mind enough to someone's point of view other than his own, and in a media such as this, where we can interact, to ask question when unaware,
@huston3 Did I say "decipher meaning in written form" bonehead, or are you omitting another more salient part of my statement, as you do repeatedly, to fashion rebuttals that would cause delayed embarrassment and whipered confusion in the 50-70 IQ crowd. I appreciate that for you the time is 1951. In 2011, "exposed" is commonly used to reference living things' proximity to dangerous things:"exposed" to anthrax, the Japanese people "exposed" to radiation.
@hugosalarm I could suggest you purchase a dictionary, but it would address your hostility, which is the cost for most of your statement. "Bonehead?" Why yes, you did say, in only the paragraph above "It is impossible to decipher meaning in written form." Of course, that was 8 days ago....You were using it to say that it was justified to take the words at their most outlandish or deliberately misunderstood meaning in order to say they weren't clear. Clarity is YOUR problem. IF you misunderstood
Also, you might ask yourself why there was no talk of "Palestine" when Jordan owned the West Bank. Just as al-Qaeda uses the poor as weapons against the West, Arab leaders have kept the Palestinians poor and disenfranchised with the countries in which they were living in order to use them against Israel. I hope you all have hand generators, because the first country to drop an atomic bomb on Israel will make all the oil in the Gulf radioactive for some time to come.
Another generation; not that you can't feel this--the fact that you're here shows you can--but it's different. It's a different world, and we don't fight over that--it just is. But Half of the time we're gone, but we don't know where...and we don't know where. The current times are stirring up a different plan than the forces then, and we wax nostalgic for what for you guys is just beautiful music by a poet and true artist.
@huston3 And there's always Jeff Beck. Thoughtful people from coast to coast know that being an ex-Yardbird as opposed to having Palin's advanced degree in cosmetology from Mazzola (SD) Community College easily puts him in the driver's seat in a head-to-head competition for the Presidency, yes?
It is one of, if not, his best, song. The times were different. Popular music was saying things music hadn't said before, both personal and political. Back then, there wasn't much thought about politics, other than, "I'm Democrat" and "I'm Republican." Scoop Jackson Democrats were to the right of Newt Gingrich, and the Republicans were almost as liberal as Obama, which is how we got into this mess.
@huston3 I am 39, actually, and any mention of Palin immediately leaves a sour miasma that befouls anything and everything nearby, distracting from my enjoyment... back to the music.
@Pixiel711 if the words Sarah Palin affect you more than the beauty of this song, you truly need to seek something balance your soul. Casey Anthony, maybe, but what did Sarah Palin ever do to YOU? JEEZ.
@huston3 I am trying to mellow out to this song, but your comments keep distracting me- go talk about Palin on her Paul Revere vid or something and let me get back to making my walls vibrate with sublime bass.
@Pixiel711 Do yourself a favor; listen to the song with your eyes closed. If you can't do yourself that favor, simply skip anything that has my name attached to it. There are places to listen to this song that don't have comments. Feel free to enjoy them. And if you can't help but read me during this song and infuriate yourself, well, folks gotta do what folks gotta do.
@LeZorgh a lot of artists will do stuff with their music out of the country, but usually an artist of Simon's stature wouldn't allow it. It's one thing to write a song for a commercial purpose, but this poignant piece has so much more meaning than the background for more automobiles. It was the first public sign of the schism that lay ahead.If Artie had caught fire on the big screen, what would that have done to Simon and Garfunkel?
I don't know why, but for some reason this song makes me think of James Dean. Every time I hear it I see those pictures of him during his days in New York City as a struggling actor. There is one picture in particular of him walking with a long trench coat on in the rain. That picture for some reason stands out in my head when I hear this song. The words are brooding and mysterious yet beautiful. Just like James Dean.
thumbs up if you just watched garden state but also think simon and garfunkel are awesome and those plus a number of other reasons and events in your life brought you here :)
@ohnoaperson543 I love the "here I am" part too, as well as the ahhhh ahhhh!! I just learned that the background was done by the two of them in an echo chamber and was layered like eight times to create the sound of a choir. It is so beautiful and nostalgic. I think Enya uses that method in her music a lot. I'm new to Simon and Garfunkel's music so I'm just getting started with them. Thanks to this song I'm now a fan.
I think it's fantastic that even through an ad that bueatiful music can still shine...Now for a hip-hop Wayne head such as myself I may have not been exposed...#Honda ads
@jrod4592 More people go to the freakshow when the carnival comes to town than attend opera. (Sorry Rebecca; I actually think your song is fun and cute and it's a shame that all of America seemed to find the deed to piss all over your dream (I'm hoping it sold enough on iTunes to make it all worthwhile for you).
@jrod4592 you gotta remember, EVERYBODY gets a Friday; How many people are from New York? Five hundre-to-one are some pretty good odds. One's an artist who's had a lifetime of dreams come true, and one's a little girl who had her dream come true. Cut her some slack; she's not competing with him.
Who cares how they found the music, as long as they found it? It's music, people. Only the worst kind of self righteous jerk cares about how people stumble into soulful songs. Just knock off the ego-inflation and enjoy the music and allow other people to do it, too, without sending them on a guilt trip. I don't care if this gets a thumbs up or not.
@itsjustlikewhoa Wouldn't have the slightest problem with it, except Simon has be visually critical on people who are serious songwriters selling their music to sell goods. It was bad enough with the Beatles, but they didn't own publishing rights. Simon is the smartest performer ever; he maintained all rights to his songs, and used Charing Cross as the distributor only. Certainly the huge volume of greaat stuff he's done outweighs that one transgression, but the hypocricy is still there.
What an amazing duo these two were, nobody can ever match them. A sad day when they preformed their last show together, even the come back concert couldn't make up for this loss..
Call me old all you want. How I pitty those of you who weren't around listening to songs like this! This kind of music made youth so much more enriching than the rap, r&b and hip hop of today. I saw the 60's and you didn't. HA!
Great song about Simon resenting Garfunkel for going to Mexico to film "Catch-22" when he should have been in NYC working on the album. "Tom" is, of course, the name Garfunkel used in the 50's when they were known as "Tom & Jerry". Garfunkel's harmonies were filled in later. Beautiful song. Almost as good as "Bridge Over Troubled Water".
@RatBastardCulhane I absolutely agree with you!!! It's a crime when art in ANY form is prostituted into an ad just sell something. I am sure Paul and Art do not approve.
Wow, I heard this for the first time on the Honda commercial - I thought it was some new hipster band. Totally surprised to find it's Simon and Garfunkel. Great tune!
I love the movie Titanic so much, I searched to see if there was a Titanic 2. I stumbled upon a fan-made mashup trailer for "titanic 2" and this song was in the trailer. I heard it and was like "this is actually a pretty good song" then finally, almost a year later, I hear this song on the Honda commercial! I'm like hell to the yeah I am buying this song on iTunes! Love this song:) thanks Honda for reminding myself to search this song!
Great song. Great pictures. Very enjoyable. Kudos.
skygh 2 weeks ago
The best video on youtube. sers
blackcroa 3 weeks ago
Fantastic!
ornithopod1 3 weeks ago
Our family listens to this song frequently and has for years, so it's kind of a soundtrack to my life. I hear it now in the background coming from my son's cell phone now at dawn while I'm on the PC. Decided to look it up.
IndifferentSky 1 month ago
Paul and Art both turned 70 this year - Art just a few days ago. Happy birthday, and thanks to both of them.
leon723 2 months ago
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May I recommend the book 'An Essential Guide To Music In The 1970s' by Johnny Zero. The author is a big fan of this track.
garyw930 2 months ago
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i don't believe in wind,
gravity seems like an apple, juicy and sweet
no direction is that way,
going through now
scorseseboy 3 months ago
thanks, this is one of the most underrated songs ever, great old photos, nostalgia PLUS +++ ... great job on your video!
pt1gard 3 months ago
I wish people would stop talking about how they like this... " And I'm only 18/19" YeahYeah, Doesn't matter how old you are, you like what you like.
omgicanollie 4 months ago
@omgicanollie - Hello. Please be aware that I'm not . . . not trying to argue with you. However, the reason some of us baby boomers are pleased that young people like this music (which used to stream from our transistor radios) is because we find so much (not all) of recent music lacking in warmth & positive values. We're the parents of two high schoolers & some . . . only some of the lyrics which promote very negative, self-destructive behavior are quite unsettling. That's all. Peace.
mjcamck 4 months ago
@omgicanollie don't be such a grouch.... let people say what they wanna say....
munchy14 4 months ago
Just found this song, so lovely, wish the charts had this kind of class in it, and that's coming from a 19 year old.
lufferz91 5 months ago 8
Beautiful video. So touching.
luvart2607 5 months ago
Thanks for the great video! I love the photo at 2:21! :D
RUTKN2ME92 5 months ago
Thanks for the info-really enjoyed learning that-having loved S&G since age of 11!
13ajmickey 5 months ago in playlist Soft Rock
There was a docu on TV some time ago, think it was a South Bank show on S & G. Paul was driving around his old neighbourhood where he lived as a teenager with the reporter who was doing the interview. At a certain point, he indicated a place where he said he remembered he and Art were sat in a car listening to a DJ announce "the latest release by the great Simon & Garfunkel....". Paul told the reporter he remembered Art saying..."Gee, I bet those guys are having soooo much fun...." Irony, huh?
AbeGrimes 6 months ago
Hello, All. Just learned that Paul S. wrote this as a tribute to his long time friend & music partner. Art G. who was "Tom" when they were "Tom & Jerry" was flying away ("Tom, get your plane right on time") to make his movie debut (Catch-22): "I know your part will go fine" & had been forthcoming with Paul S. "Let your honesty shine" about his ambitions beyond the music field. Despite the usual clashes talented folks always have, THEY CARED about each other. LOVELY SONG - PEACE, ALL.
mjcamck71 6 months ago 14
@mjcamck71 My dad told me this today when i asked what it was about =D
DeformedMelonFilms 6 months ago
@DeformedMelonFilms - Hello. Don't know your age, but, clearly, if you listen to S&G, you've got excellent taste in music. Our teens recognize the talent & also listen frequently. Best Wishes & Peace to you from a middle aged flower child.
mjcamck71 6 months ago
@mjcamck71 Peace to you from a 15 yr old flower child =P.
DeformedMelonFilms 6 months ago
@mjcamck71 Just seen the documentary Harmony and was very impressed by the story after only hearing rumors about them for so very long. Loved them since their debut
gottselig2004 4 months ago
@gottselig2004 - Hello. I didn't know about "The Harmony Game." It looks very interesting. I will try and catch it. Thank you & Peace.
mjcamck 4 months ago
Old friends. And influences. Thanks for this sweet tribute. Thanks to my husband, a wonderful guitarist, for sharing this with me.
saccatscan1 6 months ago
So much of the comments have nothing to do with this song or Simon and Garfunkel,.... good grief...
57babyboomer 6 months ago
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NewYorkChelsea 7 months ago
How different from today, the 1955 class of Parsons Junior High School. I would not want to see what the class picture looks like today. Ugh!
chrissy1095 7 months ago
They dont know how to worship me.
TheBlindPig1 7 months ago
Get a blog already.
Pixiel711 7 months ago
@Pixiel711 don't worry, I'm sure this Administration will find some way to have thought removed from this medium fast enough. Then you can go back to pretending you don't want to hear anything about your world by listening to one of the great talents who can and has discussed topics personal and political with depth and sensitivity.
huston3 7 months ago
Tom & Jerry
glaeken14 7 months ago
pointless partial people pick their partial partition
TheBlindPig1 7 months ago
huston3 7 months ago
@huston3 Know christ is the alpha and omega and america is the godless, kingless, read revelaitons.
TheBlindPig1 7 months ago
drink in their black sun.
TheBlindPig1 7 months ago
Great song...brings back some wonderful memories. Thanks for posting!
57babyboomer 7 months ago
We had professional performers, and surfers, but England was sending us Artists in the early '60s. Artists who were playing music and writing lyrics we needed to hear. We countered with poetsi, but it was hard enough to get artist in America to get serious about music--they were busy not being serious about ART. Pack a baseball stadium with Artists, and you could likely count the number of Geniuses on one hand, Maybe two. John was a genius, and unfortunately for us, Yoko saw it first.
huston3 7 months ago
@huston3 I would only add that you guys, (I'm Canadian,) gave England and the rest of the world the Artist to end all Artists, Bob Dylan by chosen name, who had an enormous influence on Lennon as well as Brian Jones, George and Eric, and The Byrds and on and on. By changing the tone and the tenor of our dialogue I readily concede that you display more wisdom than I. I am "learning" from our exchanges. Must listen yet again to Jackson Browne's song 'For Everyman" as there is much wisdom within.
hugosalarm 7 months ago
@hugosalarm It was a testimony to Dylan's genius that he could put out an album that might sell a fraction of the albums of even new artists, but that 50,000 albums would have more effect on the circle of his influence and the millions they reached than anyone, so that Columbia would keep him without making a profit off of him. In a capitalist country, there IS no higher compliment.
huston3 7 months ago
@hugosalarm My sympathetic chord on that same theme (I gave up Jackson Browne on reports of domestic violence when Darryl Hannah was living with him), is Todd Rundgren's "Change Myself": "Both of us want to win this fight/both of us think the other is mistaken, so mistaken/Meanwhile, everyone wants to take up sides so/everyone helps us to fall apart....Americans have become so focused on the "win," that they don't care enough about the rules of the game. In one sense, we've \ been this way but
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huston3 7 months ago
@hugosalarm ...there's a large number of Americans that DON'T feel that way, who are embarrassed by our transgressions and horrors over the years. What has made the American dream so tantalizing to so many is what we've been able to overcome DESPITE our horrors. Some worry, because in appealing to compassion to those who feel guilt can lead to sacrificial movements. Only a balance of compassion and equal justice before the law can save America, and I truly hope for all our sakes that we can.
huston3 7 months ago
@huston3 I grew up in the U.S., formative years, school years "Pledge of Allegiance", "God Bless America" I feel a strong spiritual connection with the country, cheer for the S.F Giants, Cincinnati Bengals, West Virginia football, Syracuse basketball, the smaller towns and their people, the musical history, the literary history, (excluding Faulkner), the history, period. I can only hope your future is guided by, what are they called? Your better angels? Settlers saw a future there.
hugosalarm 7 months ago
@hugosalarm It's pretty much a function of when you left the US. Kennedy mobilized a generation to believe we could achieve anything. Nixon and Reagan taught the youth of America that there was a pool of corruption in Washington, whatever the face put forward. By putting himself before the office, Clinton divided the nation into the sanctimonious and the licentious. Now we are being run by the generation who came of age during Nixon and it's not enough to not want to vote for Palin....
huston3 7 months ago
@hugosalarm ...she MUST be an IDIOT! A majority of Weiner's constituents want him to stay; it took his pregnant wife, with her position with Hillary, to come back and tell him HELL no. Hippies have put on suits and mock the Man to run the world, and don't understand why acting like a schmuck doesn't inspire, or why abject failure and wrongheaded policies aren't at least questioned by the media, which used to earn its appellation as the Fourth Estate, but now exists to kiss the Left's bottom.
huston3 7 months ago
@huston3 Notice that you've had to fend off the unsolicited yelpings of the current breed of lout, those who won't hesitate to pronounce that the mind, which begets thought, which begets opinion, is all the stuff of cursedness. Frightening to think how easily the "yo shut up" people make their way in the world, a smirk and salacious one-liner for Weiner, praising this politician, pilloring that one, and groovin with the rapper driving a million dollar sports car, shoutin' "where dem girls at?"
hugosalarm 7 months ago
@hugosalarm I hardly ever give these guys a thought, but every so often, if they're on a page like this, I remember how formative artist like Simon when I was a kid. And I figure, I'll offer what i'd offer my own kid: the right to ignore me and walk off a cliff, but not without the last thing is his ears being my voice still trying to give him solutions to his problem. Irony and satire are lost on some of this generation, so they fall to this level:.youtube.com/watch?v=J5Sn-A7D76o
huston3 7 months ago
@huston3 A cynic asks,"Any hope for another generation that believes we can do anything?" The FEELING was there in the last presidential election. The Nobel Peace Prize? The feeling's enhanced and since then? A return to the 2007 (and before) reality. Sanctimony and licentiousness, when they worked together, provided the US with a sense of innocence and fun that was the envy of the world. "She'll have fun,fun,fun, til her daddy takes the T-bird away." Schism really Clinton's doing? Cheers.
hugosalarm 7 months ago
@hugosalarm pretty much started in the middle of the Reagan years. The far right wing ran much more of the party than ever, much in the way the far left has seized the Crats. They went nuts when Reagan's Justice Dept put up the name of Robert Bork for Supreme Court Justice. Until then, both parties would give consent as long as the nominee had an ABA :"well qualified." With a few exceptions, each party gave consent when they were out of power so as not to receive grief then it was their turn.
huston3 7 months ago
@huston3 They had a collective belief and a will and a vision of what they and their descendants could accomplish. And look at the accomplishments! It seems to me you've got to rediscover that "old time feeling" once again, make it apply, (once again) to all Americans. . . and frankly I don't see how this could work because people don't pull together anymore, ony in Joplin and Tuscaloosa and places enveloped in tragedy and as George said,"Isn't It A Pity" that it takes a tragedy to. . . . . .
hugosalarm 7 months ago
@hugosalarm Not so much that it's a tragedy that brings people together, as much as we've become two nations: the Cities, and Flyover Country. I remember floods in Alton when I was a teenager. We would jump in our cars and go to the site to fill and fit sandbags. Despite race, social classes--helping people is just the Missouri way. But New York/Hollywood. It's a zero-sum game. If I give to you, somehow, I lose something. "If nobody wants to share the blame, then everyone gets more of the same."
huston3 7 months ago
@huston3 i wouldn't be too hard on Yoko. It couldn't have been easy being her. Harrison said there was trouble brewing long before she appeared but then again, in a 70's interview, he promptly rose from his chair and feigned moving to another when Dick Cavett told him Yoko had sat in that chair. Who knows the truth, huh? Will try to hook up with your song. Good health and happiness to you. . . .
hugosalarm 7 months ago
@hugosalarm John met an artist he wanted to work with (and live with and love). Bands have kept tension and worked, but when you can do something bigger than rock and roll band, as John saw Hair Peace and Bed Peace, his genius was piqued, and he went that way (that, of course, and his mother issues...). Some of Yoko's stuff was pretty hip for the room at the time. I think if Klein hadn't come along, and they'd have been open to the idea, they could have done like many later bands, solo projects.
huston3 7 months ago
@huston3 So why did "one nation. . . .(ellipses out of respect for our agnostic and atheist friends) indivisible, with liberty and justice for all" disappear from the collective consciousness? Or was that just the beginnings of the bumper sticker/sound bite/twitter/ shrinking attention span that dominates and corrodes the current social landscape? If Epstein hadn't died? You don't hear much about the tornado victims anymore, (it's news no longer) but I wish them and all Missourians well.
hugosalarm 7 months ago
How do you rebulid the temple, with mist still in your eyes.
TheBlindPig1 7 months ago
Exposed, first definition, Miriam Websters Dictionary. Exposed=open to view. Anything more you read into that choice of a word comes from your own paranoia, particularly after I explained I meant nothing more than that by the word choice. I won't fake fight with you.. You intend to find some sort of racial animosity in me that isn't there. Look away, friend. I recall a white city employee being fired by his boss for the offence taken by black council members when he used the word niggardly.
huston3 7 months ago
Would you then be "exposed to" or "put on display for" Arabs, Japanese, etc,etc. Your cultural, ethnic, racial elitism is revealed through the the use of these "loaded" words. An entire ethos developed out of such language that sanctified European, then American cultural, racial, intellectual superiority over "the darker regions of the world." Imperialism, colonization followed. I find you boorish, and I find myself becoming boorish as well. Where's my map of Israel disappeared to?
hugosalarm 7 months ago
@hugosalarm I am sure that for some people, when they are first exposed to me, I am the first American black they have met. I don't think that word means what you are trying to make it mean. At least, not coming from me.
huston3 7 months ago
@hugosalarm Don't know what time zone you're in, but I'm sure you can come up with some insightfully ugly name for me again before you lull yourself to sleep knowing you've warned everyone of what a hater I am. What race do you think I believe to be elite? What ethnicity? Continue to argue against things I didn't say and ignore my requests for what it is that I have indicated to be a fact that you find untrue. I live well, could live better. I would say many in the world could say the same....
huston3 7 months ago
@huston3 On and on you do go, like the Duracell bunny. It's a mystery to me why idlers and reprobates like yourself aren't stricken with acute arthritis of the fingers while actually worthy people: pianists, guitarists, painters, hairdressers, computer analysts, cat burglars, safecrackers, seamstresses, and others whose livelihoods depend on digital dexterity, are stricken with same, cut down in the prime of life. And now, with obsessively itchy fingers, you bill yourself as EVERYMAN. Nausea.
hugosalarm 7 months ago
@hugosalarm You a fiunny man. You say to yourself out loud that you should shut me up by refusing to further respond to my crazinews, and yet, here you are again, inviting a response. I'm glad you find artists worthy, ask I have written songs for years. Some personal, others more universal. Todd Rundgren and the Beatles are my core musicmen. The reason you can't draw me into battle is I believe Lennon. Peace is ours if you want it. But I also believe Clausewitz: you have to make war horrible....
huston3 7 months ago
huston3 7 months ago
@huston3 Why didn't you say you loved Lennon? I idolize him to this day. Cried like a child the night he died. Thanks for the snippet of lyric, the reminder. Like almost everything John created musically, so simple, so true. Please accept my apologies for the personal attacks I leveled against you. They were, in hindsight, unnecessary and sometimes malicious. Keep writing music, making music. It's a positive contribution. I now IMAGINE you a very soulful person. Peace to you and your family.
hugosalarm 7 months ago
@hugosalarm There's usually someone human, sometimes drowning, at the bottom of every pool of invective. One of my many lessons taught to me by having children. Of course apologies accepted; the relative anonymity of the Internet, mixed with the direct contact with another human soul is like giving alcohol to toddlers, then watch them climb the monkeybars, or whatever young whippersnappers call today's climbing dome.(write to hsiii at earth link dot net if you want to hear it.) I wrote a song.
huston3 7 months ago
There was an comic strip artist. who took an art form, the daily and Sunday strips, and not only excelled in his field in terms of the standard, he pushed the envelope, almost always in a excellent direction, and quit, at the TOP of his popularity, when he said he felt he had presented in that form. He refused many offers to utilize his characters for money (mugs, t-shirts, and others) and refused them all for the same reason Paul Simon gave for HIS reasons earlier. So his change of heart hurts.
huston3 7 months ago
Truth doesn't ALWAYS trump mythology, but it usually does, when people approach a topic with an open mind and eyes.
huston3 8 months ago
3 People are def.
Ethanbaryehuda 8 months ago
Actually, I showed up here after hearing this song in a Honda commercial and was shocked that it was a Simon & Garfunkel and it was weird because I love Simon and Garfunkel and was talking about them to somebody yesterday about how I must have every song by them and didn't even realize it was them on this commercial.
Yay , run-on sentences.
surfmcgoogler 8 months ago
THIS IS SO FUCKING BAD I JUST GOUGED MY EYES OUT WITH A RUSTY FORK
ACTlVISION 8 months ago
@ACTlVISION Aw, that's too bad.
surfmcgoogler 8 months ago
@ACTlVISION But you can still hear it, right?
huston3 8 months ago
@huston3 AAAAAAUUUUUUGH I DIDN'T THINK OF THAT. THIS DID NOTHING!!!
ACTlVISION 7 months ago
Finally, go to that map of the entire Middle East and tell us why, with the size of all the countries aligned against Israel, that not a single one could find themselves hospitable enough to offer them land to settle on. Look at how little Palestine would have taken out of nearly ANY of the enemies of Israel. The answer is obvious: they're enemies of Israel. (Sorry, son, I'm no Jew-hater; I'm old enough to remember who were the rrist to join the freedom riders.:)
huston3 8 months ago
@huston3 Pardon me, too, if I find you more than a little uncouth and condescending by throwing "jew-hater" and "son" into the mix. I do not need an "elder statesman" to school me on the invaluable contributions, both practical and intellectual, that the Jewish people have bestowed on society. The present-day reality of Palestine suggests that it is very difficult to make "concessions" with a jackboot on your throat. Read Edward Said to provide yourself with a more balanced pespective. Peace.
hugosalarm 8 months ago
@hugosalarm I would never promote my couthiness, saving it for fine dining; in an online exchange of ideas, I find that directness and clarity are worth more than a pretend respect for someone who seems to have contempt for oneself.
huston3 8 months ago
@hugosalarm The "son," far from being condescending, was pointing out how different history seems to some who reads books about it versus someone who actually lived through the times, and how easily that first person not only misrepresents what is being spoken of, but misunderstands what the reference is to.
huston3 8 months ago
@hugosalarm At your age, you don’t remember the time when no Arab spokesman would appear in a segment with a Jew that wasn’t separated with a commercial, and would not appear on a show after a Jew had spoken. “reasoned objectivity,” indeed!
I didn't "throw" the words "Jew-hater;" if you'll move past your OWN paranoia and reread the actual sentence, I said, "I'M no Jew-hater," (emphasis mine), not to suggest you ARE one, but…
huston3 8 months ago
@hugosalarm ...to point at the long effort made to divide the black and Jewish communities, from the time when Freedom Riders, a large percentage of them Jews, risked their lives, and lost them, fighting for the right of blacks to use public accommodations. many American blacks today, trying to identify with a lost African heritage are considering Islam, while others, mistakenly believing there is some correlation between Muslims and the Honorable Elijah Muhammad’s brand of "Black Muslims,"...
huston3 8 months ago
@hugosalarm have over the years, ignorant of their own people's history in this country, adopted Jew-ha tred.
I think we could call the presiding judge over the Freedom Riders murder case a Jew-hater, as none of the people guilty of the crime was even charged with murder. The judge said, "They killed one nigger, one Jew, and a white man. I gave them all what I though they deserved." (may I presume you don’t include HIM filled with “the brotherhood of man”?)
huston3 8 months ago
@hugosalarm Old enough to have been denied service at a Woolworth's lunch counter in downtown St. Louis, all I was pointing out is the view from the cheap seats make things look a bit different, if you don't think 20 years makes a significant difference in the validity of impressions, you're kidding yourself. Mebbe if you published your criteria of couth, I might avoid seeming to fall into your trap.
As far as it being “difficult to make “concessions” with a jackboot on your throat,...
huston3 8 months ago
@hugosalarm As far as it being “difficult to make “concessions” with a jackboot on your throat, the only “concession,” I have heard the Israelis making is a request that the Palestinians come to the table to talk. It’s the Palestinians who are requiring “preconditions” for the talks…..why?
huston3 8 months ago
@huston3 hey asshole, why don't you save your f@#king comments on your tweet for someone who cares!!
bboy220 7 months ago
@hugosalarm Because when they refuse to sit down, Obama makes an ignorant statement like publically discussing the ’67 borders “with land swaps” as a STARTING negotiation session, rather than something to be gained through negotiation, so they continue to stay away from the bargaining table to see what else Obama will get them without their having to do anything.
huston3 8 months ago
@huston3 The tone of your diatribe, shot through with bitterness, impresses and saddens, while the substance, those "events" you recount and upon which you easily hang your biases and contempt, is "old news". I think that the good heart you once had turned to stone at that Woolworth's lunch counter. You cannot say of yourself,"with age comes wisdom" when you have gone from civil rights activist to what I perceive to be a detester of Arabs and African-Americans who choose the Muslim faith.
hugosalarm 8 months ago
@hugosalarm I am fascinated that the expression of a fully formed series of thoughts passes in this clipped-thought word as a "diatribe." I hold no contempt for anyone, the few Arabs I have been exposed to have impressed me with their devotion. And while I realize that since the election of our first African-American president, it has become liberal sport to call anyone "a detester of African-Americans," but I can assure you nothing could be further from the truth.
huston3 8 months ago
@hugosalarm It's also funny how in America, where interracial marriage was nationally forbidden until 1970, you'd consider THAT "old news", yet 1967 borders don't count. Check your perrceptions; trust me, they're off. You completely misunderstand that I believe the greatness of America has come from not the problems that we have, but from the issues that we have OVERCOME as a nation. But we didn't move toward solutions until the TRUTH was on the table.
huston3 8 months ago
@huston3 "America" was and is fashioned largely out of myth. That's been great in many ways but too often seems to make TRUTH an unwanted guest. Either I'm quickly lapsing into stupidity or opacity runs wild in your statements. Do problems have to turn into "issues" before they can be overcome? Or are problems irrelevant and issues paramount? Solutions? Truth? For the average American, these words may as well be the stuff of alchemy.
hugosalarm 8 months ago
@hugosalarm So the average American is too stupid to know what's going on, unlike "enlightened" ones, (like yourself, I assume). And America is a myth. Don't know what part of America you have been exposed to, but I would suggest you travel a bit before you make your assumptions on what you have seen to this point..
huston3 8 months ago
@huston3 You want "positions of fantasy"? Mr. Netanyahu has recently said that, thanks to him, Palestine is currently experiencing an economic boom. Yes, he's removed several border checkpoints, allowing people to move a little more freely, thus providing greater business opportunity. Yes, he says, he can envision a two state solution, autonomy as defined by Isreal with the necessary "proscriptions." But, a burgeoning economy!! At the end of the roadmap to peace?. . . .a ritzy ghetto!
hugosalarm 8 months ago
@hugosalarm The people keeping Palestine poor are the people who insist they read books that reach them the rights they have over their women, but nothing about history except hate the jews/hate america. Keeping the native Palestiniahn population's anger aimed at Israel has long been obvious in all surrounding Arab states.We are very near a time where a whole lot of people better wake up soon or a whole LOT of people are going to be put into permanent sleep. With many more to follow.
huston3 8 months ago
@huston3 It dawns on me that most everything you spew is either specious or absurd. You are shamelessly prejudicial, incapable or unable to consider what I'm saying, suffering a maniacal compulsion to hurl your torpid verbal garbage my way, excruciatingly vague, and in dire need of finding a hobby that will free you from the tedium of thinking and writing. We're ALL going into permanent sleep, Mr. Philosopher. Uh, how do many more sleeps follow a permanent sleep?? I do not suffer fools gladly.
hugosalarm 8 months ago
@hugosalarm Everything seems prejudicial when you have only a prejudiced view of history. Far from being "incapable, or unable to consider what you are writing, I have specifically addressed your points, using a larger, historical view of the talking points you raise; by putting them into context, one can see how misdirected your anger is. You call that "vague;" it's only because you made up your mind when you found a comfortable answer instead of continuing to see truth. Now you've lost so,..
huston3 8 months ago
@huston3 Your particular brand of ignorance would deny you membership to your local sophistry club and probably has. You have not, nor are you capable of, "specifically addressing" or glorying in anything but your own "illogic." . Continue to pacify yourself with monologues of hatred, denial of other points of view and a talent for inarticulation that makes Ozzy Osborne sound like James Joyce. You should get enough mileage out of all that to make it to your last, inconsequential breath.
hugosalarm 8 months ago
@hugosalarm And yet, you offer no specific point I have failed to address. You have yet to offer the example of "illogic" you find so strange. And I continue to wonder where in the world you find hatred of ANYONE in my posts. I can only suggest you ask your shrink to explain "transference" to you. I've helped raise a child of whom am as proud of as any other accomplishment of my life. I married well, and have done my best to assist and protect the people I love. I'm fine with my life, hope ur2.
huston3 7 months ago
@huston3 "The few Arabs I've been (EXPOSED??) to have impress me with their devotion?" Gee, thanks for "EXPOSING the rest of us to what is as near as you can come to a "some of my best friends are Negroes" moment. Orgasmic for you maybe, but not for anyone with a shred of sense, (or humanity.)
hugosalarm 8 months ago
@hugosalarm What's your problem, dude? The jobs I have, where I've lived and the friends I have had haven't included many Muslims, but of those to whom I have been exposed, the vast majority of them had not been exposed to many American blacks, either. If you want to feign some outrage at my choice of word "expose," you can, but it looks pretty silly from here. I've had positive interactions with most "real" Muslims. So, sue me.
huston3 7 months ago
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@hugosalarm ...ad hominem attacks.
huston3 8 months ago
@huston3 Funny that this type of dialogue takes place in the aural shadow of such a beautiful song, very nearly powerful enough to make you believe that a more peaceful world is not an unrealistic notion. Rather than continuing to cultivate a passion for railling against "others", our intellects and our souls would be better served in seeking solutions to these profound problems and with the same zeal that we apply ourselves to technological advancement.
hugosalarm 8 months ago
@hugosalarm Nothing prevents peace except sides who want it enough to stop killing/dying for it. But no one can negotiate from a position of fantasy. When you call Israeli policies "expansionist, when anyone with a map and an accurate history book knows that's bunk, you don't tell the truth, and there is no peace in that direction.The Israelis have been at the negotiating table; it's the Palestinians who have been holding out and refusing to sit, since Obama was doing fine without them.
huston3 8 months ago
@huston3 Sorry, that should read "Islamic" faith at the end of paragraph 1. Also, when you brought renewed attention to the phrase"I'M no jew-hater" I'm hopeful that in retrospect you realize that what you MEANT could only be understood by the the inflectionof your VOICE, the degree of emphasis which you placed on the word "I'M. "It is impossible to decipher meaning in written form. And wasn't it a crusty, decidedly unjust "Jewish"judge who presided over the trial (fiasco) of the Chicago 8?
hugosalarm 8 months ago
@hugosalarm I brought renewed attention to the phrase because you misunderstood the words. It is not "impossible" to decipher meaning in written form; if it were, the novel would not be an art form. All it takes is an effort on the part of the reader to open his mind enough to someone's point of view other than his own, and in a media such as this, where we can interact, to ask question when unaware,
huston3 7 months ago
@huston3 Did I say "decipher meaning in written form" bonehead, or are you omitting another more salient part of my statement, as you do repeatedly, to fashion rebuttals that would cause delayed embarrassment and whipered confusion in the 50-70 IQ crowd. I appreciate that for you the time is 1951. In 2011, "exposed" is commonly used to reference living things' proximity to dangerous things:"exposed" to anthrax, the Japanese people "exposed" to radiation.
hugosalarm 7 months ago
@hugosalarm I could suggest you purchase a dictionary, but it would address your hostility, which is the cost for most of your statement. "Bonehead?" Why yes, you did say, in only the paragraph above "It is impossible to decipher meaning in written form." Of course, that was 8 days ago....You were using it to say that it was justified to take the words at their most outlandish or deliberately misunderstood meaning in order to say they weren't clear. Clarity is YOUR problem. IF you misunderstood
huston3 7 months ago
Also, you might ask yourself why there was no talk of "Palestine" when Jordan owned the West Bank. Just as al-Qaeda uses the poor as weapons against the West, Arab leaders have kept the Palestinians poor and disenfranchised with the countries in which they were living in order to use them against Israel. I hope you all have hand generators, because the first country to drop an atomic bomb on Israel will make all the oil in the Gulf radioactive for some time to come.
huston3 8 months ago
Another generation; not that you can't feel this--the fact that you're here shows you can--but it's different. It's a different world, and we don't fight over that--it just is. But Half of the time we're gone, but we don't know where...and we don't know where. The current times are stirring up a different plan than the forces then, and we wax nostalgic for what for you guys is just beautiful music by a poet and true artist.
huston3 8 months ago
@huston3 And there's always Jeff Beck. Thoughtful people from coast to coast know that being an ex-Yardbird as opposed to having Palin's advanced degree in cosmetology from Mazzola (SD) Community College easily puts him in the driver's seat in a head-to-head competition for the Presidency, yes?
hugosalarm 8 months ago
It is one of, if not, his best, song. The times were different. Popular music was saying things music hadn't said before, both personal and political. Back then, there wasn't much thought about politics, other than, "I'm Democrat" and "I'm Republican." Scoop Jackson Democrats were to the right of Newt Gingrich, and the Republicans were almost as liberal as Obama, which is how we got into this mess.
huston3 8 months ago
what happens when purity comes in to the world of sin.?
TheBlindPig1 8 months ago
Oh thank you Simon and Garfunkel for making us all just a little happier after hearing this. So beautiful!
caleab27 8 months ago
Can we shut up about Bush and Palin already? I'm trying to enjoy some awesome music here.
Pixiel711 8 months ago in playlist Music
@Pixiel711 what are you, like, 9? How in the world can the comments below take away from this music?
huston3 8 months ago
@huston3 I am 39, actually, and any mention of Palin immediately leaves a sour miasma that befouls anything and everything nearby, distracting from my enjoyment... back to the music.
Pixiel711 8 months ago
@Pixiel711 if the words Sarah Palin affect you more than the beauty of this song, you truly need to seek something balance your soul. Casey Anthony, maybe, but what did Sarah Palin ever do to YOU? JEEZ.
huston3 7 months ago
@huston3 I am trying to mellow out to this song, but your comments keep distracting me- go talk about Palin on her Paul Revere vid or something and let me get back to making my walls vibrate with sublime bass.
Pixiel711 7 months ago
@Pixiel711 Do yourself a favor; listen to the song with your eyes closed. If you can't do yourself that favor, simply skip anything that has my name attached to it. There are places to listen to this song that don't have comments. Feel free to enjoy them. And if you can't help but read me during this song and infuriate yourself, well, folks gotta do what folks gotta do.
huston3 7 months ago
Wow ! It's seems that a Simon & Garfunkel song had been choice for an add or something... It's a pleasure.
Nice vid, those pictures are rare, and you made a nice work with the rhythm and the pictures...
LeZorgh 8 months ago
@LeZorgh a lot of artists will do stuff with their music out of the country, but usually an artist of Simon's stature wouldn't allow it. It's one thing to write a song for a commercial purpose, but this poignant piece has so much more meaning than the background for more automobiles. It was the first public sign of the schism that lay ahead.If Artie had caught fire on the big screen, what would that have done to Simon and Garfunkel?
huston3 8 months ago
2011 Honda Accord brought me here haha
yungboy1992 8 months ago
dunky loved this song.......
dunky66 9 months ago
every times i hears this song i feel im back in time
rock2dashy 9 months ago
-.- Thumbs up if the only thing that matters is that you listened to it...
bwall47 9 months ago
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scimanuk 9 months ago
Have been listening to this song so much recently!.. and just recorded a cover of it... Would be grateful if you checked it out.
scimanuk 9 months ago
I don't know why, but for some reason this song makes me think of James Dean. Every time I hear it I see those pictures of him during his days in New York City as a struggling actor. There is one picture in particular of him walking with a long trench coat on in the rain. That picture for some reason stands out in my head when I hear this song. The words are brooding and mysterious yet beautiful. Just like James Dean.
exxodus29 9 months ago
Wonderful song... brings back so many memories! Thanks for posting.., the pics really make it special!
57babyboomer 9 months ago
I love this so much that it makes me sad that this era is over. Wish more music had substance these days.
CarlaK65 9 months ago
thumbs up if you just watched garden state but also think simon and garfunkel are awesome and those plus a number of other reasons and events in your life brought you here :)
ANTFARANO 10 months ago
I love the "Here I am" part. it's so pretty and dream like!
ohnoaperson543 10 months ago
@ohnoaperson543 I love the "here I am" part too, as well as the ahhhh ahhhh!! I just learned that the background was done by the two of them in an echo chamber and was layered like eight times to create the sound of a choir. It is so beautiful and nostalgic. I think Enya uses that method in her music a lot. I'm new to Simon and Garfunkel's music so I'm just getting started with them. Thanks to this song I'm now a fan.
exxodus29 9 months ago
@exxodus29 If you're just getting started with Simon & Garfunkel, are YOU in for a treat!
huston3 8 months ago
@ohnoaperson543 I wonder how they did the background vocals when they sang this song live.
exxodus29 9 months ago
@ohnoaperson543 you can just float away!!!
diodewatch11 9 months ago
This and Fat Old Sun by Pink Floyd were cut from the same fabric. Gorgeous.
Marixpress2 10 months ago
I think it's fantastic that even through an ad that bueatiful music can still shine...Now for a hip-hop Wayne head such as myself I may have not been exposed...#Honda ads
Transcended2k8 10 months ago
Rebecca blacks friday video has 500x more views than this
my faith in humanity diminishes each day
jrod4592 10 months ago 7
@jrod4592 More people go to the freakshow when the carnival comes to town than attend opera. (Sorry Rebecca; I actually think your song is fun and cute and it's a shame that all of America seemed to find the deed to piss all over your dream (I'm hoping it sold enough on iTunes to make it all worthwhile for you).
huston3 8 months ago
@jrod4592 you gotta remember, EVERYBODY gets a Friday; How many people are from New York? Five hundre-to-one are some pretty good odds. One's an artist who's had a lifetime of dreams come true, and one's a little girl who had her dream come true. Cut her some slack; she's not competing with him.
huston3 7 months ago
Joe Osborn and Hal Blaine both hit the ball out of the park on this song. Every time I hear it I'm amazed all over again!
billyjoeboomboom 10 months ago
The spirit of this song and the title reminds me of "The Catcher in the Rye." Just sayin.
cdpresberg 10 months ago 2
@cdpresberg
Haha, I used this song for a project on it and can't agree with you more.
redhot654 10 months ago
Who cares how they found the music, as long as they found it? It's music, people. Only the worst kind of self righteous jerk cares about how people stumble into soulful songs. Just knock off the ego-inflation and enjoy the music and allow other people to do it, too, without sending them on a guilt trip. I don't care if this gets a thumbs up or not.
itsjustlikewhoa 10 months ago 3
@itsjustlikewhoa Wouldn't have the slightest problem with it, except Simon has be visually critical on people who are serious songwriters selling their music to sell goods. It was bad enough with the Beatles, but they didn't own publishing rights. Simon is the smartest performer ever; he maintained all rights to his songs, and used Charing Cross as the distributor only. Certainly the huge volume of greaat stuff he's done outweighs that one transgression, but the hypocricy is still there.
huston3 8 months ago
Garden State brought me here. So basically you can just credit Natalie Portman and her everlasting talent.
SharonTaint666 10 months ago
You 33 people who thumbed up the Honda promoting asshole should be ashamed...
Zachleejumper 10 months ago 4
@Zachleejumper why D:
ArchuletaObsessed 10 months ago
I wonder if this is where Grizzly Bear got the idea for their sound from
BrigadierCalvet 10 months ago
Thumbs up if you love Simon and Garfunkel and that's what brought you here...
agathaandpenelope 10 months ago 97
Great photo's!
I never knew that played together in the 50's(?)
Patsik 10 months ago
Thumbs up if Honda didn't bring you here and you don't need car commercials to find out about good music.
ZenAesthetic 10 months ago 24
As sublime as sublime can be...whatever that might be...Just too much for words...really.
TheJamesalden 10 months ago 3
As sublime as sublime can be...whatever that might be...
TheJamesalden 10 months ago
Nice video. Great song and pictures.
ssur55 10 months ago
lyrics are amazingly good
JaredM91 10 months ago
Real music, really written on real paper, really felt in the heart, really good.
graycloud057 11 months ago
What an amazing duo these two were, nobody can ever match them. A sad day when they preformed their last show together, even the come back concert couldn't make up for this loss..
They sang from the heart..
FantasticlifeinJesus 11 months ago
Call me old all you want. How I pitty those of you who weren't around listening to songs like this! This kind of music made youth so much more enriching than the rap, r&b and hip hop of today. I saw the 60's and you didn't. HA!
Razorusskie 11 months ago
The melody is quite beautiful, in my opinion it deserves a better liric, but I like it anyway. Thanks...thank...thanks.
manzanero2008 11 months ago
@manzanero2008 what was it about the lyric that you didn't care for? Too personal?
huston3 8 months ago
COOL.
edwardocall1 11 months ago
Great song about Simon resenting Garfunkel for going to Mexico to film "Catch-22" when he should have been in NYC working on the album. "Tom" is, of course, the name Garfunkel used in the 50's when they were known as "Tom & Jerry". Garfunkel's harmonies were filled in later. Beautiful song. Almost as good as "Bridge Over Troubled Water".
WallyVanRiper1 11 months ago
@WallyVanRiper1 I think the climax of Bridge makes this a much finer song for repeat listening. But, hey, thass just ME....
huston3 8 months ago
Put a dark pair of sunglasses on Garfunkel and you'd have Steven,
from the 70's TV Show, lol.. :-)
RatBastardCulhane 11 months ago
Yes, Awesome Song from the past. Indeed~!! Bone Chilling Harmony~!!!!
It's just ashame, that such a "TRUE AMERICAN ICON" of a song, is being used
to sell "JAP" cars on AMERICAN SOIL....
RatBastardCulhane 11 months ago 2
@RatBastardCulhane I absolutely agree with you!!! It's a crime when art in ANY form is prostituted into an ad just sell something. I am sure Paul and Art do not approve.
stynqueone 10 months ago
@stynqueone Paul HAS to approve, unless he's sold his rights; he's always owned them.
huston3 8 months ago
The finest S&G song ever. Heard this first in early 70's and have had a copy ever since.
littlebigbrain 11 months ago 2
@littlebigbrain Totally agree. Actually one of the finest songs ever. Magic.
hugosalarm 11 months ago
@hugosalarm Great minds think alike. lol
littlebigbrain 11 months ago
Wow, I heard this for the first time on the Honda commercial - I thought it was some new hipster band. Totally surprised to find it's Simon and Garfunkel. Great tune!
korenic1 11 months ago
gracias Honda for reliving the memories..
anvayz 11 months ago
Montage at the end was quite fantastic - very thoughtful.
emerpus01 11 months ago
I love the movie Titanic so much, I searched to see if there was a Titanic 2. I stumbled upon a fan-made mashup trailer for "titanic 2" and this song was in the trailer. I heard it and was like "this is actually a pretty good song" then finally, almost a year later, I hear this song on the Honda commercial! I'm like hell to the yeah I am buying this song on iTunes! Love this song:) thanks Honda for reminding myself to search this song!
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