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Although its cover art does little to dissolve self-serious folksinger stereotypes (matching black turtlenecks? Artfully cocked heads?), 1968's Bookends is a stunning collection that includes two of the duo's most heartbreaking songs: Whose stomach doesn't plummet once or twice during "Mrs. Robinson" ("Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio? A nation turns its lonely eyes to you," Simon implores) or "America" ("'Kathy, I'm lost,' I said, though I knew she was sleeping / I'm empty and aching and I don't know why")? Looking beyond the beauty of its melodies, Bookends is also a brutal examination — pre-blog — of the identity-grasping that almost every 25-year-old endures (Simon was 27 when it was released).
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They Say...
Bookends is a literary album that contains the most minimal of openings with the theme, an acoustic guitar stating itself slowly and plaintively before erupting into the wash of synthesizers and dissonance that is "Save the Life of My Child." The classic "America" is next, a folk song with a lilting soprano saxophone in the refrain and a small pipe organ painting the acoustic guitars in the more poignant verses. The song relies on pop structures to carry its message of hope and disillusionment as two people travel the American landscape searching for it until it dawns on them that everyone else on the freeway is doing the same thing. The final four tracks, "Mrs. Robinson," the theme song for the film The Graduate, "A Hazy Shade of Winter," and the album's final track, "At the Zoo," offer as tremblingly bleak a vision for the future as any thing done by the Velvet Underground, but rooted in the lives of everyday people, not in the decadent underground personages of New York's Factory studio. But the album is also a warning that to pay attention is to take as much control of one's fate as possible.
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Bookends Theme |
0:32 |
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Save The Life Of My Child |
2:49 |
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America |
3:36 |
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| 04. | |
Overs |
2:15 |
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| 05. | |
Voices Of Old People |
2:07 |
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| 06. | |
Old Friends |
2:36 |
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| 07. | |
Bookends Theme |
1:20 |
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| 08. | |
Fakin' It |
3:17 |
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| 09. | |
Punky's Dilemma |
2:13 |
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Mrs. Robinson |
4:04 |
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A Hazy Shade Of Winter |
2:17 |
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At The Zoo |
2:23 |
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12 Total Tracks, 29:29 Total Length
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- Art Garfunkel - Vocals // Art Garfunkel - Vocals // Art Garfunkel - Producer // Art Garfunkel - Producer // Simon & Garfunkel - Main Performer // Paul Simon - Guitar // Paul Simon - Vocals // Paul Simon - Producer // John Simon - Production Assistant // Roy Halee - Producer // Roy Halee - Engineer // Jimmie Haskell - Arranger // Jimmie Haskell - Arrangement Preparation // Bob Johnston - Production Assistant // Jim Marshall - Photography
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