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| Headline | How to think about the One Trick Pony record |
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Proof
May-04-2009, 18:47 GMT
USA - United Staates America
 | I Love OTP, but I think it is best approached as a Jonah Levin record, rather than a Paul Simon record. I think that´s why its overlooked. It seems as though he were very much in character when writing and recording it. Thus, the songs don´t have that anthem quality that so many PS songs do.
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DannyJ
May-04-2009, 19:32 GMT
United Kingdom
 | To be honest I see it as a Movie Soundtrack rather than a stand alone album. it needs to be viewed in the contect of the movie, and then it ´works´ beautifully.
I think it wa overlooked in the UK, mainly because we did not get the movie until it aired on TV years and years later. We still haven;t got the DVD, thanks to Warners wierd policies :-( |
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Ian
May-04-2009, 19:47 GMT
USA - United Staates America
| Hi Proof,I LOVE OTP!! I don´t think it´s any less a Paul Simon album though,I´ve got to say. Anymore than SFTC was anyway. A lot of people do think that way. It´s like Paul released Still Crazy in 75,then released Hearts And Bones in 83,with nothing but a Greatest Hits package,and a Soundtrack to a failed movie in between! As if a soundtrack is to be treated like a live album,and not something to be classed alongside earlier albums! Like The Capeman,the author of the OTP is Paul Simon. I simply look at it like a thematic piece of work. Like Sgt Peppers was for The Beatles. I think OTP has some great songs. No,not some-All of them are excellent. There´s some seriously funky stuff happening there. The title track,Late In The Evening,Oh,Marion,Ace In The Hole-cool gear. The ballads are no less wonderful either. The music itself,compositionally,is Great! ´Jonah´ is just wonderfully written,with it´s beautiful melody almost(but not quite) hiding it´s sophisticated harmonic structure. I´m off to play it:-) |
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Paul
May-04-2009, 20:06 GMT
Unknown
 | Hi Ian, you are right!!!!
This movie is firstly a live album!
I totally agree with u
I´m off to sleep :)))
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Bodo
May-04-2009, 21:16 GMT
Austria
 | Hi
Well, I had this album long before I knew that a movie exists. (How should I know?)
So I never saw it as a soundtrack album, and I never realized any difference to the other albums from the 70´s. Also the lyrics work without the movie IMO (just compare that to the Capeman Cast album) - but maybe that was just my own approach.
I knew 2 good examples for such soundtrack and not-really-soundtrack ablums from Queen: While ´Flash´ was a real movie soundtrack, with 28 or more not so good songs, I would never say that ´A kind of magic´ is a soundtrack album (for Highlander) |
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nancy
May-05-2009, 08:22 GMT
USA - United Staates America
| I am very fond of this album, but I also liked the movie very much. |
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Klausi
May-05-2009, 09:20 GMT
Germany
 | Recently I heard an interview with Simon just before or with the release of ROTS.
He said, he made 4 albums he is satisfied with, and no better ideas came afterwards:
BOTW
There goes...
Still crazy...
Graceland.
About One-trick pony he said, the music was dated when the movie came out.
Three of the songs were written and recorded in 1979, the rest in 1978.
The record came out in August 1980 and was regarded as his weakest, mostly because of "Simon makes music like Simon". And is on the way to "mainstream" pop with lush arrangements in songs like Long, Long Day, Jonah, God bless etc.
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Nikki
May-06-2009, 12:57 GMT
Australia
 | Jonah and Long Long Day are two of my favourite PS songs! There´s nothing like listening to the latter after you really have had an awful long long day... it almost never fails to make me feel slightly better. |
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