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Lily
Oct-17-2007, 04:48 GMT
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USA - United Staates America
 | No disrespect intended but I´m really curious. I ended up here by accident and browsed all these passionate posts about who was where in 1964 and so on. Anyone mind if I ask a couple of questions? For instance...
- Have most people here been fans since the 1950s/1960s?
- Pop songs can be fairly short and musically straightforward. How do the earliest ones hold up for you after 40 or 50 years? Does listening to these songs still have the same emotional or intellectual impact as when you first heard them? Or are you hearing them differently now?
- Has listening to these songs made you interested in tracing back to Mr Simon´s earlier jazz or pop influences, exposing you to something you might not have heard otherwise?
Good lord, this sounds like a research survey! I hope no one minds, but I am really interested. Anyone want to share a thought or two? :-)
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Russ
Oct-17-2007, 15:38 GMT
United Kingdom
 | well for me i try to do that with all singers and bands in like.
find out asmuch as i can about who influencesed them.
and now im into some dowop music that paul liked.
hope that helps!
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Mr Beerbelly
Oct-18-2007, 08:51 GMT
United Kingdom
| - I`m not quite Old enough to have seen those decades, and have only been a fan since Graceland, but it was You Can Call Me Al and this album that got me into not just Paul, but music in general. I`ve a lot to thank him for in that respect.
- While his music has gotten more complex and I Love that, those old songs of his while `simpleâ? in their sound have the greatest lyrics anyone has ever committed, and I`ll go out on a limb here, and say despite what Paul may think of his own work of that time. I love it all. They are still important to me, so many happy sounding tunes, but with subject matter that is far from happy ` We`ve Got A Groovy Thing for example and Richard Corey
- Just as much impact. As many of us have said, we find more and more meaning in his lyrics. I have as I`ve gotten older and when I reach an age where I`d know about something and I listen to a song and I`ll think to myself that I now know what that means. It meant nothing before as I`d not experienced what Paul was talking about. So, if anything the emotional impact increases. This is a man who can make me laugh, cry, think and improve myself. Who wouldn`t want to rid themselves of anger and cleanse their soul of rage?
- My music collection is now like a music library and if it weren`t for Paul and that remarkable album 21 years ago it probably wouldn`t look or sound the way it does now.
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nancy
Oct-19-2007, 05:50 GMT
USA - United Staates America
| Been there since the ´60s, and I still can´t define what his music has and still does mean to me. I think of his early music in two ways- the memories of the times, and how my feelings and understandings of those lyrics have evolved through the decades. The melodies hooked me, and some of those songs still are just happy toe-tappers that have stayed with me and bring back the feelings of those times- but the lyrics of the deeper songs have stayed with me and changed in meaning as I have changed through the years.I feel the man is truly a gift to song writing. |
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Nikki
Oct-19-2007, 17:12 GMT
Canada
 | Very well said Nancy. I haven´t been around as long though... :) |
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Suzi
Oct-21-2007, 04:55 GMT
USA - United Staates America
| I´ve been there since the beginning and I still Love it all. Listening to the Old stuff brings back so many memories of what was going on in my life then. His music has grown, I beleive, with each album. I´m 66 and was out there for the Surprize concert in Milwaukee. I sat next to two young girls in their early 20´s who were there because their boss played Paul Simon music when they cleaned up at night and they wanted to hear more. They were going out for the CD the next day. But back to the subject, its mostly what I listen to, especially at work. |
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