michael
Sep-07-2006, 18:10 GMT
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USA - United Staates America
 | Why did Paul write two songs about that subject on Hearts And Bones?
This is just an opinion but I was looking at the Hearts and Bones Cover last night and couldn´t help but think how awful it was, One Trick Pony is the same cheezy style. In my opinion he makes such great music but overall the cover art is usually weak. I think Graceland and Surprise has the most interesting art, but still could be much better to compliment the music quality.
I was thinking that this site could give him better art and mgmt direction from what I´ve read than his own. In fact they don´t even put the Surprise Band Members on his own website, I would think that´s pretty basic information...
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Tim
Sep-07-2006, 22:08 GMT
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Canada
 | I think each song reopresents a side of the brain (like in the song)
One if very lyrical and dream like
the other is much more regimented and structured
I think that is the answer |
Jeroen
Sep-07-2006, 23:29 GMT
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Netherlands
 | The fact that he wrote 2 songs on the same subject shows that he really thinks too much. It was a sort of a joke. But I think your point is valid, Tim! |
matthewsemple
Sep-08-2006, 00:18 GMT
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United Kingdom
 | Paul Simon´s explanation:
`The first one was the up-tempo, the fast one. And when I finished it I said "Maybe I´ve treated the subject too lightly." And then I realized that was really funny, ´cause that´s exactly what I´m talking about: thinking too much. Something I´m writing along in a song and it´s interesting enough, but I´ll have no idea why I´m writing these lyrics. Then later I´ll say "Oh, it´s about this subject!" Rene & Georgette Magritte With Their Dog After The War is one of the best songs I´ve written that way. It holds together on the level of surrealistic imagery as a Magritte painting would, because I juxtapose two things that wouldn´t normally be within the same frame: the Magritte couple and the rhythm 7 blues groups of the ´50s -- "The Penguins, the Moonglows, the Orioles, the Five Satins." That song has a mood about it that seems to be right. It makes me feel something. It´s harder to say exactly what it means, but it makes me feel something specifically. I´m thinking back over the lyricsâ?.
`I had two songs called "Think Too Much" is just a joke. l write one song called "Think Too Much" and I think, "That isn´t even the way I should write it. I should write it this way." [Laughs ] It´s just an other example of never letting it go and thinking too much. That´s why I did two songsâ?.
`But they are two entirely different songs. One was saying, "I think too much and ha, ha, ha, it´s a joke. Look at that. Maybe I think too much." That´s the fast song. ["Think Too Much, A"]
`Then I finish and I say, "Well, maybe it isn´t a joke. Maybe the point is that you think too much and you´re not in touch with what you feel. And the Proof of it is that you´ve written this joke song about a very serious sub- ject." So now I wrote a song that is all about feeling on the same subject. So there were two ways of approaching that subjectâ?. |