Bodo
Nov-19-2010, 17:46 GMT
Austria
 | You are absolute right Andras. (looking forward to the new album, hopefully)
I see that many very young people Love this new song/sound. I guess you have to grew up with it, someone at the age of 18 began to buy music around the year 2002 or so...a time when I already said the music industrie has died, I buy nothing new.
So could it be that they try to promote Paul Simon a little bit with those new sounds, try to tell the young audience how cool Mr. Simon is? I guess not... this is a real Paul Simon song. Well, what more can I say than: In 1982 he also thought Cars Are Cars is a big hit, played the song live a few times. And the lyrics are always strong: I once had a car that was more like a home, I lived in it, loved in it, polished it´s chrome. |
deleted_user
Nov-20-2010, 13:24 GMT
Unknown
 | Simon´s solo music (and even some S&G -- Save the Life of My Child) has often included odd sounds -- the background in Me and Julio, the goat-like sound in Think Too Much, but these are usually more limited than on Surprise and this new song. I think the electronics worked on some of the songs on Surprise, but not all. I really don´t like the off-note at the beginning of Everything About it is a Love Song, or the reverb opening line of Once Upon A Time I was an Ocean. I think this new song is an example of when these sonic effects fail to add anything to the song. (I wonder if Simon has been watching those videos where they take famous speeches and turn them into songs -- you know Martin Luther King, Kennedy, Churchill. The spoken parts of this song reminded me of those videos.)
I feel all that sonic sound and talking detracts from the song and I hope not all the songs on the album are so noisy. But I am still eagerly looking forward to the album. I would think that having Phil Ramone again produce would help, but we shall see... or rather hear. |