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JohnC
Dec-05-2006, 13:47 GMT
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United Kingdom
 | Found this site devoted to analysis of the tracks on Surprise. Well worth a read!
http://www.CrackingTheSimonCode.blogspot.com
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michael
Dec-05-2006, 14:59 GMT
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USA - United Staates America
 | John, thaks for that. I enjoyed the read.
I agree that the quality of this music is far better than anything out there. Lately I´ve been listenting to all of his albums, and I think this one is simply the best.
He´s at the top of his game.
The site also made me think of another frustration. I´m a dedicated fan, always looking forward to his interviews. I wish the focus would be more on his current work, like what was he thinking specifically on those lyrics etc.
Instead the focus is always on the broad thought of suprise for 10 to 20 percent of the interview and then it shifts to Simon and Garfunkel... I like hearing about it, but get tired of it after a while. I´m sure he does too.
I wish he would do an in depth show on the making of Surprise...and explain the lyrics, and what personal experiences made him think of that stuff. I want to see studio workings...kind of like an evolution of the album. The Beatles seemed to always have great documentaries like that, but Simon seems kind of elusive. |
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JohnC
Dec-05-2006, 22:03 GMT
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United Kingdom
| I agree. Surprise should have had a documentary...the kind of thing done in the UK by The South Bank Show. |
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Simon Dooker
Dec-06-2006, 17:01 GMT
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United Kingdom
| Paul Simon was covered by The South Bank Show in August 1992, a career retrospective,which was later released as an official video,entitled Born At The Right Time. But am not sure if still available.
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Bodo
Dec-06-2006, 17:29 GMT
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Austria
 | Born At The Right Time.
Think the VHS is available at some obscure shops - there have been rumours that it will be released on DVD, but I never heard anything about that later.
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Micky
Dec-07-2006, 11:09 GMT
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USA - United Staates America
| Whta is this thing everyone has about anylising Pauls lyrics? I read the one on Outragious and felt it was complete....Yes well...I´ll keep tha comment to myself.
Going by everything Paul has ever said, there is no code to crack. Most stuff just floats on by and falls in to stunning place. He rarely has an agenda and when people do ask him why he qwrote this or that he can almost hardly answer himself because it just came to him, almost from no where.
How about just listening to this amazing and brilliant album rather than trying to find stuff that might not have been there in the first place.
If you want an anylistical view on Outragious here it is from someone who dyes their own hair.
There is vanity and then there is vanity...yep same word. I´m not a vain woman, far from it. But equaly well I don´t want my hair the normal colour, not do I want it grey. I like to take care of myself, not for vanity reasons, but because I do.
Paul is married with kids. His wife happens to be younger that he is, you can´t help who you fall in Love with. He wants to take care of himself so that he has a better life. Couch potatoes can´t do a hell of a lot, inclusing running after their kids, regardless of being 25 or 65.
"Who´s going to love you when youre looks are gone" when you´re with someone you love there is always that inbuilt fear that if you let yourself go they´ll walk. So maybe deep down it is a fear, no matter how much he loves Edie, that one day she may just go....
Ok...I´m stopping. I´m finding myself falling into that trap I dislike...And I´m babbling...sorry had a REALLY BAD day! |
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Micky
Dec-07-2006, 11:11 GMT
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USA - United Staates America
| ...And I´ve mispelt heaps of stuff... |
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Scaaty
Dec-07-2006, 12:32 GMT
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Ireland
 | I´m inclined to agree with you Micky, I think that the site overanalysed everything - seems like a cross between the da vinci code and the Zen book of motorbikes - can anyone remember that book? |
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michael
Dec-07-2006, 16:13 GMT
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USA - United Staates America
| Paul himself over analyzes everything (Think Too Much A and B).
His lyrics are filled with subject matter worth digging into and that´s what I like about him. Not some mumbo jumbo so he can keep feeding his family. He said himself he made his money a long time ago, and he is not in it for that.
He´s in it for the art and there is more to his stuff than just face value, that´s why I can listen to the tracks until the CD wears out and then buy another one.
I don´t agree with someone trying to "crack his lyrics" I just wish he would elaborate himself more on why they were constructed, because he put tons of thought into them. I read his thought on "Song About The Moon" and it was great. |
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nancy
Dec-07-2006, 17:44 GMT
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USA - United Staates America
| What were his thoughts about that song? It is one of my favorites. |
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Lekornee
Dec-09-2006, 05:41 GMT
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USA - United Staates America
| I tend to agree with Mickey. I think "Outrageous" was not really "cracked", especially the part about the windowsill, which is totally inaccurate because you can have flowers on your windowsill outside. Ah well, that was just a random detail. |
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michael
Dec-09-2006, 08:23 GMT
IP:
Unknown
 | When Paul said "God will..." I thought that part of the song was sincere. And then when I read the crack it was almost sarcastic. And that really changes the feel of the song. I wander what is true?
I remember in One Trick Pony he could be pretty sarcastic. |
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matthewsemple
Dec-10-2006, 18:07 GMT
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United Kingdom
| I read that bit about the flowers on the windowsill being inside and I thought it was total nonsense and that the interpretation of the song was way off, it it was to be based on this assumption. |
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