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  • All these decades I wondered about the meaning of the lyrics.

  • One of the most beautiful songs ever written!

  • My eyes just well up to hear this harmony.

  • @egauthre Mine too. I cry every time.

  • Love this song, love S&G, but I find it depressing how many people wax nostalgically and lament the "demise" of music. You're being lazy and listening to what's on your radio instead of searching and asking and listening. For starters check out Death Cab For Cutie and Fleet Foxes, and imagine your ears are as young as they were when you listened to S&G.

  • @Morkimo -- COMPLETELY. I think it's easier to know in retrospect when music was genius, instead of recognizing that same kind of genius in the present with music being presently made. Also-- people who make statements about the "sad state of music in the world today" are ignoring the influence that them aging has on the perception of the world. I'm 39, and I know I'm not nearly as open and maleable as I was to accepting new/current music as I was when I was younger.

  • @Morkimo

    that brings joy to my heart reading, Death Cab is so unrenowned... anyways, agree with everything you said

  • awesome......that is all

  • this is one of those songs that instantaiously transports you to another place and time. to this day i can still tell you exactlly where i was and what i was doing when i heard this song for the first time

  • 2:42 Mistake...

  • At the end i believe he is playing "Anji" Would you happen to have a clip of that? Because it cut away. :(

  • Paul Simon is, for me personally, the best songwriter the world has ever known. This is just one of a quite stunning collection. Amazing.

  • Sunay music

  • I love this song,it has been with me since I was a kid but,it also reminds me of one of the worst days of my life.I love listening to it but it also pains me greatly. . . of loss,of grief,of moments I can never take back and will leave an open wound inside me that can never heal.It does make me think that life is a meaningless nightmare.

  • @Pancerni Well.... that's kinda a pessimistic response...

  • @eriggs323 Aye,pessimism hangs about me like a dead albatross around my neck.

  • im 19 and i seem to have grown up in the age when real music died. 95% of the music after 85 is shit. what happen to passion?! Today its all about the money

  • @Dustencumbie There's still some passion in today's music...not much.  Look up "Deja Vu" by John Fogerty.

  • Do you want to write a song and don't think you can do it? You can. Get a guitar, an acoustic guitar. Now do this. Remove the D string and the high-E strings. This would be the string closest to the floor and the fourth one up from that. Next, tune the remaining strings to F#,C#,C#,F#. ( or GDDG)

    What I have just turned you onto is a very easy tuning that is neither Major nor Minor, but is full sounding and covers two octaves.

    Fret just 1 or 2 notes and strum, let your voice follow. Fret more

  • I always thought this song was about being a ghost. Watching over your loved ones but not being able to talk to them or feel them. Being so close yet so far.

  • @jackcompean A good interpretation.

  • muito bonita esta canção eterna

  • YADENO - Soon.......

  • what a great song. Im only 13 and i appreciate the song and the band, i just wish kids my age could do the same

  • @hudybudy3 I'm the same age,I've loved these guys since I was 11,and I'm glad to see someone my age loves them,too.

  • @hudybudy3 Wow, how cool is it to see a young person who gets it. Good for you. Don't ever lose your ear for hearing the real thing.

  • Two people are beiber-tards

  • god can you imagine hearing this for the first time when it was first written? Kind of shocking and soothing at the same time!

  • Beautiful!!!!!

  • the true artists are around, and the Internet will democratize the world of music... it will eventually separate the good from the bad.. it's up to us as consumers of music to make that happen by spending money on the good stuff...

  • I hope to god i'm not the only 14 year old who loves Simon & Garfunkel

  • @MASAI97 you are

  • @tgamache11 Then I just lost faith in humanity

  • @MASAI97 nope, Im 14 and love them too, Only just remembered when my dad used to play S+G songs in the car and straight away found them on here. Brilliant songs

  • @tw1nt3rr0r Yay!

  • In the end, Simon was playing "Angi."

  • Than you for this! Brings back lots of memories.

  • They definitely don't make music this meaningful anymore! I absolutely enjoy Simon & Garfunkel...very mesmerizing!...thanks for uploading this gem!

  • Isn't it amazing how Paul can make one guitar sound as if it is SO much more than just one instrument. Never ceases to impress. Bet none of these so called "artists" now could even come close.

  • this song gave me the ablity to be free and do what i want too, thank you paul and arthur, u will never be forgotten!

  • this was the best song of 1965. still sounds great in 2011.

  • Thank you for posting!! They are somewhat hypnotical. 

  • These guys didn't need auto-tune to make a record sound good. Amazing musicians. I just wish they had got along.

  • Every time I listen to this song, the lyrics break my heart but the harmony heals it right back up. True beauty, true creativity, true music.

  • 1 douche

  • Musical genius!

    Thank you so much, Art and Paul. I have always loved this song.

  • lml love it.

  • It looks if the audience have no idea en no feeling what kind of world artist en superbe song is there before their ears and eyes!

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  • I LOVE SIMON AND GARFUNKEL! 100% PURE!

  • my fahter showed me their songs, he died when i was 12 so for me their songs will alwys be connected to him.

  • This ALWAYS has me thinking of Dustin Hoffmann in "The Graduate" - probably because this is the theme song for that film in which Dustin Hoffmann starred in...

  • what he is talking about at 0:10 to 0:27 , can anyone tell me ?? thx

  • @yinyinkong2559 Dude, he says it kinda simple. Listen to it more often and go to school

  • @yinyinkong2559

    Exactly what they said. The song is about people who can't communicate with each other on an emotional level and is unable to love each other.

  • This version hits like a punch!

  • that song really relate to the generation ,since computers people are more isolated,now adays,its sad and so afraid to comuicate to each other and the bullying that goes on in scholls is so sad,

  • but rap is so old its been around since the 70s it so old it boring,,i like regie better,but the music producers seem to think the youth like the crap they put out..there must be some great bands out there who havent got a chance to ,get there music out .,.thank god for youtube,,

  • @jminto88 Would this work as a Raggae tune?

  • Jeeze - where is this performance? The audience looks really unhappy to be there. What a waste - if they only knew what treasures they had in front of them...

  • Though I do believe everyone is entitled to their own opinion, I don't believe you should generalize today's music as, well, not music. I happen to enjoy a lot of music, as well as certain Simon and Garfunkel songs. I do agree that a lot of rap is a bunch of stupidity wrapped up in garbage, and that certain songs just aren't good. But music is a form of art, and if you know anything about art, there are no bounds. Art has no definition, therefore, neither does music.

  • "poetry in Motion" just beautiful.

  • Seems present day and another one of my favorites. Freaky

  • Has anyone noticed that music nowadays has no effort? Its techno music that does not sound good. The only techno music I like (this may sound weird coming from a S&G fan) are Aphex Twin. The rest of music is some talentless performer talking into a micraphone. The computer does the rest for them. And what's a musician without talent?

  • Beautiful song that truly touches the human soul wherever one lives. xraycat30, you are right; where has the real music gone? music that conveyed the feelings that reside in the deepest part of our hearts. I was lucky to have been a teenager in the '60s; we had such diversity in music, in social change, in feeling that our generation could actually make a difference; what happened? Did everyone just sell out? No one has a heart any more and it breaks mine to realize it. Where did the hope go?

  • It is so telling of America today.We went from qaulity(S&G) to crap(RAP) in such a realitivly short period of time.The culture is sick and only getting sicker.Is there a cure?

  • @TheVengence1988 If only

  • @TheVengence1988 yes, i do believe there is still hope! I am fifteen years old, and i first heard sound of silence through the movie Watchmen. S and G's songs bring you deep within yourself, to a point where music rarely takes you. I am also in a band, and we're trying to make our lyrics meaningful as well. But its hard, as the simpler the lyrics, the easier they are too sing. The only cure, to introduce the Youth to these bands, is to create remixes in which they will enjoy

  • @chillybearB A very fine comment.At 15,you are wise beyound your years.

  • @chillybearB There is a crap version from atrocity on watchmen, face it, youth is doomed

  • es soll auch Länder geben in denen Männer Dinge in sich tragen und nicht quatschen.

  • Might I just point out that is isn't 'Sounds' but is in fact 'Sound'.

  • Amazing. Natural voices. Something very rare now days.

  • i love that all their songs have the same power acoustically as the sometimes over produced singles put on the albums, sometimes more so!

  • Danke für Eure so wunderbare emotionale Musik. Sie begleitet mich heute noch durch mein Leben. Weil sie beständig ist!

  • harmonization is 100% awsome

  • i wish this wasnt in The Watchmen, it used to be such a great song until nerds ruined it

  • @ILOVESHIT2000 yes...the fact that this song was featured in a movie that came out 40 years after the song did will forever ruin this song...that makes sense

  • this is 100% real-

    real message

    real vocals (no lip-sycing) and it still sounds perfect

    real artists playing their own instruments..writing their own songs with no electronicly produced beats

    real intelugence

    pure art

    these 2 guys, only 2, are hard to beat

  • Yeah come with us to a time when

    you had to be outstanding artists to succeed. Generally at least.

  • They had me from Hello Darkness...

  • @randomactsoflove

    Me, too!!

  • @randomactsoflove ;))) I like it

  • Dutch = U hept gekeken en geluisterd naar, Simon & Garfunkel.

    Deutsch = Sie haben gesehen und gehört, Simon & Garfunkel.

    English = You've watched and listened to, Simon & Garfunkel.

    But in any language, those two names simply mean, talent. Ta for posting. :o)o:

  • una de mis favortias de simon and garfunkel, so amazing beautiful,, form mexico city

  • no1 really gives simon enough credit for how great he is on the guitar...amazing stuff

  • These guys elicit real emotion.....amazing stuff

  • what a feeling in a song - this make me happy and .... angry

  • I like this version because they are perforning their song the way they want, not the way the record company wanted to arrange it.

  • True! They were just so good with two voices and a guitar! Cheers to you!

  • ...and a capo

  • maybe the studio version was the way they wanted it, but they didn't have the ability to use the instruments or effects here.

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  • That depends on which studio version. The first was folky, like this one. Then after they broke up and Simon went to England, the song started getting heavy rotation on radio and the producer decided to overdub a band on to the original recording, thus creating the folk-rock fusion of SoS that most are familiar with.

  • @goldendome10383 I think you're referring to the studio version from the Sounds of Silence album. But the original from Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M. was the best and that's the way they preferred it. They actually weren't very pleased with the re-dubbed version on Sounds of Silence. It was the record company that wanted an electric version so they brought in some studio musicians to play over the original track. If you ask me, I love both, but the original is the best.

  • ¡¡¡Jajaja me encanta la tipografía del final!!!

  • Awesome!

  • if paul had a black shirt on he would've started the emo stage jkz

  • If everyone was as groovy and relaxed as Art is, there'd be no wars in the world...

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  • What is it he's playing as the outro ? Or is he just jamming..

  • he's playing Anji... (from the sounds of silence album)

  • Thanks... :)

  • It was also in the watchmen during The Comedians funeral.

  • its so weird how paul can play so good but it never seems like hes actually playing guitar. he never seems to move. but his fills are really brilliant. great song.

  • Oh come on mate, this was a tv studio in the mid 60s

    things were a bit different then.

  • Just two guys and a guitar.

    But with more power and emotion than many groups these days. Songs written from the heart and NOT for the wallet

  • Amen, S&G are real artists...real musicians. 100% genuine. Very rare today. The saddest part is how young people seem so detached from their true feelings as contemporary culture saturates them with falsehoods about what it is to be human beings. So much so that the majority can't even appreciate S&G and the like. It really is a dark age of culture...especially musically speaking.

  • Indeed, Corporate men in grey suits sucking the lifeblood out of the business.

  • you got it dead on lol

  • i mean like its just 2 guys and a guitar... not a room full equipment to make everything sound right.. a ghostwriter and a faceless producer lol

  • @xraycat30 : listen to Bon Iver.

  • @xraycat30

    In america maybe

    but in other parts of world

    no

  • @xraycat30 I quite agree.

  • Tears In My Eyes, No Beat In My Heart...

    Brillient!

  • loved how they created the echo when they said "echo" at 2:34. very creative.

  • Was a live performance in Holland???

  • Sounds like "Anji" at the end.....

  • my favorite performance of sound of silence!!

    but you should put dates on your videos please

  • Thanks for that boris. I think you could be right there. Have googled it and the story is pretty close to how I remember it.

    Now to find the soundtrack listing :)

    Thanks for your help

  • No problem, good luck in your search :D

    You might want to try wikipedia, they usually have all that info :)

  • I love these guys!!

    Can anyone help me?

    I THINK this song was on a soundtrack for an old b & w movie.

    I believe it was about when the London Underground rail system was being built and they came across a spaceship buried deep beneath London. I think you can guess the rest...

    Any ideas?

  • this song was in the graduate. that movie is'nt in black and white but simon and garfunkel did alot of the music in that movie

  • The Graduate.. yeah, cause that film's all about spaceships being found in London Undergrounds...

  • wow you're a douche

  • Wow, you're not the type we want in the YouTube community :D

  • True, with Dustin Hoffman ;}

  • The film you're thinking of is 'Quatermass and the Pit' whether this song is in it or not, I don't know...

  • It,s on the soundtrack album "the graduate" if it,s ever used on a space movie I don,t know ;}

  • dude, i wish i could have been at that show..

  • Paul Simon is a G on guitar!

  • great......

  • Does anyone know where the songs from this concert are available? I would certainly like to own a DVD of this concert, so awesome.

  • i really think they're in my top 3 of best bands of all time. i love their lyrics, and art garfunkel's voice is amazing.

  • oh man...truly a great song. Words can't describe it. Thank you :)

  • i just started listing to these guys, man are they talented or what? i love i am a rock =]

  • Ah, the 60's, they changed music forever. And this was one of the best songs Simon and Garfunkel ever did, IMO.

  • this audience is so dead

    it looks like none of them are enjoying themselves

  • Back then people were a little more respectful and didn't speak during a performance or have cell phones going off. Plus they knew they were being taped for tv or whatever.

    (yes I know they didn't have cell phones back then)

  • if you wait till the end of the song, the credits appear and they are all written in German- therefore this is a German audience in the 60's. Many of them are dressed in suits. The performers are both Jewish - if that makes any difference , I don't know. This song sold many records -a big big hit- It was also played in the movie "The Graduate" - a blockbuster for all actors and director who won an oscar for his effort-Mike Nichols.

  • FYI It's not German but Dutch.

  • thanks for straightening me out. It just shows my lack of knowledge of languages. Perhaps the real reason for the audience being respectful was simply because the listeners were Dutch.

  • Top song to make you think. So lovely, so sad and so true today. "Words of the prophets are written on the subway walls".......Peace to ya.

  • one of my favorite songs of all time.

  • Is there any VHS or DVD where these concert ist recorded?

  • dayum, Paul was buff.

  • This is so early that Art is actually introducing the song, the very song that catapulted them to stardom and was to become one of the best songs ever written in the English language.

  • doesnt garfunkel look like will ferrel?

  • I think this is 66.

  • :D

    what year is this?

  • Paul Simon = one of the greatest musical entities to come from Western cuture. Unreal.......

  • And not too shabby in the company of African culture, if I remember correctly

  • i'm not sure one of the great 'musical' talents...though he's damned good.

    world-class songwriter, though, oh yeah.

    i've actually entered 'american tune' in a contest for 'new american anthem'.

  • omg this is amazing!

    what year was it recorded?

    Thank you thank you thank you for uploading this.

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