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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0074646600320
Format: Extra tracks, Original recording remastered
Label: Sony
Manufacturer: Sony
MPN: 66003
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Sony
Release Date: August 21, 2001
Studio: Sony

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Editorial Review:

Amazon.com essential recording:
Track for track, this is Simon & Garfunkel's best album. By 1968, Simon had shed his more precious tendencies as a songsmith. Meanwhile, the duo and coproducer/engineer Roy Halee had become adept studio technicians. "America" and "Mrs. Robinson" displayed the kind of sonic breadth that would flower even more fully two years later with "The Boxer" and "Bridge over Troubled Water." Bits of whimsy ("Punky's Dilemma," "At the Zoo") and melancholy ("Old Friends," "A Hazy Shade of Winter") complete this autumnal album. (The 2001 reissue adds two bonus tracks, including a demo of "Old Friends.") --Steven Stolder

Customer Reviews

Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating:

- An Old Friend
I bought this album in 1968, stupidly warped it in the back window well of my VW while driving to college from Iowa to Oregon in 1970, and bought another copy as soon as I arrived in Portland. To me, side 1 one of this album is the apogee Simon and Garfunkels' musical, creative and emotional genius. While in college I moved on to more Important Things--jazz, rural blues, Frank Zappa and on and on.

Now, some 40 years later, I found myself humming "Old Friends" as i watched a couple of ... Read More

Rating:

- Voice (of old people) of a generation.
Now that Paul and Arthur are well into their 6O's, can this album be also called ''Voices 0f 0ld People''? Still a classic. l hope these old Jews keep rocking into their 8O's.

Rating:

- "What's becoming of our children?"
Whilst the duo's previous masterwork (1966's Parsley, Sage, Rosemary & Thyme) showcased both Paul Simon's supremely literary lyricism and Art Garfunkel's gorgeously elegiac vocals at the height of their powers, 1968's Bookends transcends its predecessor in terms of its understated ambition.

Whilst it is possible to view Bookends as something of a parody of all that S&G and their contemporaries were (rightly or wrongly) associated with (be it folk rock, 60s counter-culture, the ever-widening ... Read More

Rating:

- An absolutely classic album...
Under-rated on its release and rapidly eclipsed by the massive success of "Bridge Over Troubled Water", "Bookends" has, with time, proved to be not only Simon & Garfunkle's best album but one of the very best albums of the 60s.

And, 40 years on, the first seven tracks tracks that formed side one of the original LP, with its themes of old age and alienation, remain as fresh and relevant today as they were then... a cohesive and beautifully reflective suite of quite exceptional musical poetry. ... Read More

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- Not called their best for nothing
This is the first Simon and Garfunkel album I've ever bought, although I've heard them alot on the oldies stations. I must say, this album is a very good introduction to S&G.

The album is somewhat of a concept album, at least for the first half. Growing older, feeling lost, questioning life are all themes explored by Paul Simon during the first half of the album. The classic "America" as well as "Old Friends" are highlights. The montage "Voices of Old People" is surprisingly poignant, as ... Read More

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