1966 in music. • Page 4

be nice to me

 

yeah I'm planning on it tomorrow

 

Has anyone seen the Funk Brothers documentary? Probably going to watch that and revisit the Wrecking Crew doc in the next couple of days

 

I feel like Bookends and Bridge Over Troubled Water will really wow you.

 

God I can’t wait until the school year is over and I can put this on with a beer on the back porch

 

It’s happening tomorrow for me - today got away from me I was super irritated. Still have the YouTube page queued up.

 

This is a great single from ‘66. Perhaps oft-forgotten, gotta assume a one-hit wonder ?

 

Have to assume this is part of why:

 

i’m sure they would. i’ll check them along with the 66 albums tomorrow. me ignoring them was a product of annoying people pushing them on me early on

 

Yeah I definitely had some bands like that.

I honestly think people overrate SOS by putting it on a tier with their next 3, but PSR&T is where they realized how to be great

 

i honestly think the only song I know is the only living boy in new york, genuinely

 

I got mixed up, this is on Sounds of Silence. My bad

 

I’ll be surprised if you don’t recognize “The Sound of Silence” once it starts, it’s been all over the zeitgeist in recent years

 

Man, “The Boxer” is gonna leave brain fragments splattered on your wall

 

i look forward to getting fucked up

 

"Bridge Over Troubled Water" is legitimately one of the top 10-20 songs ever, "The Boxer" not far behind.

SOS is for sure on the same plane as the next three; it's my second favorite S&G and favorite album of '66. I'll concede that's it's definitely more raw on a technical level, but you have the all-timer bookends (npi), with everything in between some of the most beautiful writing and melodies put to record.

 

pressing play on SOS

edit: oh it’s this song LOL

 

it’s hard to tell which dude is which when they’re singing. who is the main voice and who is the more harmony voice? i’m guessing paul is the lead? or is it different song to song

 

glenn campbell played on this?? wow

 

that was very pleasant. gonna need more listens to let the songwriting seep in but i enjoyed myself. onto PSR&T

 

ah, yeah, i know homeward bound

 

Paul Simon is a top 3 (or 2? Top 1?) artist for me, but I think Simon & Garfunkel is a little patchy and hasn’t aged particularly well. For my sensitivies, his work takes a massive leap forward with the solo years.

I have a lot of fondness for all the S&G albums and obviously love the classics, but there’s a looooot of filler and Art...he is a great singer, but I think often kinda cringey

 

i knew people loved graceland but i thought the group was considered superior. interesting. i’ll roll with his solo stuff when we get to those years for sure

 

Come October, I think you will enjoy the sad surreal lyrics of Graceland a bunch.

With 1966 on my mind, I wanna say that album bears a lyrical resemblence to Blonde On Blonde. Fewer adjectives, but it’s similarly abstract.

 

i was gonna say dylan is due some money from “a simple desultory philippic” and then they name drop him mid-song lol