Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes BBC

This is a great version of the song with a beautiful dialog between the instruments. Only the better songwriters are capable of changing a song and make it sound fresh and worthwhile to listen to. Also the band plays the song superb.

Well this pretty much sucks...how dissappointing.

i like some of paul simon's songs, this is my favourite but this is a dreadful performance unfortunately :o(

I saw Ladysmith Black Mambazo in Brisbane on Monday (30/6/09). They didn't do Diamonds. Is that a copyright thing?

This version is awful, Im currently doing a theoritical analysis of this song for my university and they've just simplified absolutely everything?! The only thing thats the same is the bass guitar response to the guitar riff but there's not guitar riff in the first place, they should've got the original line-up back or not bothered at all

Can i get back to sawwing off my leg please ? -)

by all means!

I'm a massive fan of the original, i grew up surrounded by it. This is just a different take on the instrumentation, the sentiment and meaning is still there. The overdriven strat replicates and strengthens one of the horn parts, the lead line is funked up to help the slightly more 'filled out groove', and they try and cover as many harmonies as they can. (I know they're no Ladysmith, but its a good effort) :)

Ive never heard the pair in better tune....

the one in africa is so much better with that chior behind him