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Sounds of Silence | 
 enlarge | Artist: Simon & Garfunkel
Label: Sony
Category: Music
List Price: $11.98
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Rating:  28 reviews
Sales Rank: 6718
Format: Extra Tracks, Original Recording Remastered
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 65998
UPC: 746465998222
EAN: 0074646599822
ASIN: B00005NKKV
Release Date: August 21, 2001
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| Tracks:
| • | The Sound Of Silence | | • | Leaves That Are Green | | • | Blessed | | • | Kathy's Song | | • | Somewhere They Can't Find Me | | • | Anji | | • | Richard Cory | | • | A Most Peculiar Man | | • | April Come She Will | | • | We've Got A Groovy Thing Goin' | | • | I Am A Rock | | • | Blues Run The Game | | • | Barbriallen | | • | Rose Of Aberdeen | | • | Roving Gambler |
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Amazon.com
One suspects that Paul Simon cringes a bit when he listens to Simon & Garfunkel's 1966 breakthrough release. Lines from "I Am a Rock" ("For a rock feels no pain / And an island never cries") and the title track ("Fools, said I, you do not know / Silence like a cancer grows") are the essence of sophomoric poetry. And who but a couple of self-serious young men would sequence the suicide odes "Richard Cory" and "A Most Peculiar Man" back to back? That said, every callow couplet found here is counterbalanced by words that are disarmingly guileless. The unabashed romanticism of "Kathy's Song" is truly poignant; it ranks with "For Emily" and "The Only Living Boy in New York" among the duo's most resplendent performances. "April Come She Will" has a similar innocent appeal, while the title track, despite its overwrought moments and Tom Wilson's tacked-on production, is a folk-rock landmark. It's not hard to find fault with The Sounds of Silence, but it's easier still to bask in its inchoate splendor. (The 2001 reissue adds the bonus track "The Blues Run the Game" plus three unreleased 1970 demos.) --Steven Stolder
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| Customer Reviews: Read 23 more reviews...
 HELLO DARKNESS MY OLD FRIEND.... December 12, 2008
wally gator (USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I have always declared myself as a non Simon and Garfunkel fan. Meaning, for the most part, they do nothing for me. But I won't say that there isn't a time and place for everything. Sometimes Simon and Garfunkel are just whats needed. If so, then I would have to make this Simon and Garfunkel album the one. The Sounds Of Silence.
That title track has always put me on hold when I hear it. For the two minute duration, I freeze. Even when I was really young, I could see the beauty in this song.
Now every so often I go visit some friends of mine in the city. Usually when I do this (I gotta take two trains to get there)I end up spending the night, because navigating my way back becomes way too much of a process. These friends of mine never seem to be able to keep up with my pace of steady beer drinking until the sun comes up, and at some point in the night, I will find myself alone in the living room, still drinking whats left of my beers, and rummaging through the records. On a particularly drunken evening, I threw this album on the turntable and cranked it... I realized that the title track is only the beggining. Just about every song is just as, if not more so, beautiful than the first.
There is a fine mix of style here, and really (in my opinion of course), the best showcase of the Simon and Garfunkel talents. Darkly poetic, with rich accompianment and solid harmonies. I can smell the attic on the record cover just thinking about it but you will love it if you are at least fifteen beers deep on a dank night.
GREAT Album, Great Re-release May 3, 2008
Matthew Brown (Marshall, MI)
This is one of the all-time best albums, and one of my all-time favorites (there IS a difference!). This re-release is excellent for the inclusion of a couple of extra tracks. Great stuff.
Richard Cory July 18, 2007
R. Olesnevi (Berlin, Germany)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
ts it, if it doesnt work, thats as good as it gets.I rated it in stars, I entered a title for the review, and I typed a review. So whats this OOPS???? I hate when this happens.
The Pinnacle of Folk Pop/Rock May 9, 2007
Trimac20 (Perth, WA, Australia)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This album lacked the self-aggrandazing bombast of 'Bridge Over Trouble Water' (which I hold was a little too comfortable with its brilliance, although with a touch more humility than the Beatles Sgt. Pepper), but more importantly, I don't see it as a rawer sketch of Bridge Over Troubled Water of the work Simon and Garfunkel produced in between, but I believe this IS their definitive statement, their magnum opus. What I like most is Simon's atatention to melody and music AS well as the lyrics. It did not revel in its own lyrical cleverness like Dylan, yet the lyric messages were poignant and well developed and despite the simplicity never lacked thematic depth. So redolent of the times, this was a coherently brilliantly album that shoots through the mush of drab 'folk rock' clones like a flashlight in the dark.
Perfect! January 15, 2007
Claudene E. Blake (Southlake, Texas)
0 out of 4 found this review helpful
This is an absolutely perfect CD. You cant help but envision scenes from the "Graduate" while listening to it!
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