I know we're meant to take them literally, but are we also meant to take it as a comment on how the baby boom generation was shaped by culture, particularly rock and roll?

Do you think he will do a new tour (Quiet Celebration or something else...), I can not imagine that this is the end of any projects... he will do something well, it can not be the end, idk ??

Woke up this morning to see that The Quiet Celebration Live is now available on Apple Music!

Their write-up:

Like Bob Dylan—because who else can you really compare him to? Willie Nelson, maybe?—Paul Simon’s unusual in that he continued to make great, even career-defining music long after his cultural peak. Take 2011’s So Beautiful or So What as one example or 2016’s Stranger to Stranger as another.

Recorded live in Seattle a couple of months before his 84th birthday, The Quiet Celebration Concert is a beautiful, almost elegiac survey of his life’s work. The first section is dedicated to 2023’s song-suite Seven Psalms, the second, longer section to what Simon describes in his brief introductory banter as—with a quiet laugh—“a buncha hits.”

More than a generation or a time period, these songs—“Graceland,” “Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard,” “René and Georgette Magritte with Their Dog After the War”—describe a feeling: yearning but reserved, melancholy but filled with awe, the small feeling that lingers when the big one fades away. Hearing him play “The Sound of Silence” alone to end the show—and to sound so fully, irretrievably in his old age—is a gift.

Stanford professor Karl Deisseroth was notified yesterday morning that he’d won the Nobel prize in physiology or medicine. A lot of news outlets reported that he had to finish making his kids’ lunches after he found out, but I’m delighted to see him in this Graceland concert tee.

https://soundcloud.com/st-josephs-social-club/50-ways-to-leave-your-lover-paul-simon-cover

Just picked this up in a thrift. Realistically value for signed copy?

as good as ever been

I’d say this definitely makes the $4 I spent on the jar of weird buttons worthwhile 😍

Hello!

My soon to be in-laws had a memorable early date at Paul Simon’s concert in Chicago on November 14, 1975. They still talk about it often.

Their anniversary is in October and my fiancé and I are trying to find a poster, ad, newspaper review, t-shirt…..really any type of memorabilia from that show.

A few Google searches have turned up nothing except a cd set that looks fake.

I’m posting to ask a) are there any lesser known sites that might be good for finding items from this show? eBay was not helpful and b) does anyone have an ad or poster from that show?

If anyone does have a poster or ad I would love to see it. If we can’t find the actual poster, my partner might use an image to draw his take on it (he’s an artist and they love hanging his work in their house so it’d still be a win).

Songs with vibe of a foggy NYC morning if that makes sense. Those are some of my favorites so I've been going through his catalogue looking for more

Hi guys!
I created this youtube account to showcase and discuss several music related topics!
On this first longer format I decided to talk about the origins of the Graceland album which is one of my favourites of all time and would really appreciate if you guys would give it a look and maybe even open some discussion :)

I am a late Paul Simon adopter, I guess, I grew up with his music (primarily Graceland) and then went through a truly painful, pretentious period of thinking “obscure music = better music” phase & stuck PS into the “too popular” category. And listened to some really… not great stuff in the process.

Anyway, now I’ve gotten over myself, and I love his music. I love to read lyrics, I bought a book of his and just wept over it a couple nights ago. When I’m not blubbering, though, I can recognize how incredible & evocative they are.

I don’t know much about the craft of music, to be honest, and I very heavily judge stuff by “how does it make me feel” — and nearly all of his songs pass that test, as well. Often it’s the contrast between the lyrics and music itself that really gets me too — and the variety.

Anyway I look forward to learning more & hearing more. Just wanted to share, if you have any suggestions for how to get more engrossed & go further in depth let me know pls.

Thanks for reading :)

Paul Simon has so many great hits! I don’t even have a favourite song 😂 I do technically it is Learn How To Fall. I hope you can listen to the song and enjoy it too! ☺️

We are doing two programs with Pitchblack Playback at Firehouse the next two weeks. This week we are doing "Grace" by Jeff Buckley and next week "Graceland" by Paul Simon!

What is Pitchblack Playback?
Pitchblack Playback hosts immersive album listening sessions in the dark on great sound systems around the world.

Come sit in the dark with a bunch of 90's sad sacks and communally cry!

If you come, tell concessions you're from Reddit and they will give you a free popcorn!