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- #1
- Posted: 06/07/2014 20:00
- Post subject: Album of the day (#1291): Sounds Of Silence
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Today's album of the day
Sounds Of Silence by Simon And Garfunkel (View album | Buy this album)
Year: 1966.
Country: 
Overall rank: 575
Average rating: 79/100 (from 237 votes).
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Tracks:
1. The Sound Of Silence
2. Leaves That Are Green
3. Blessed
4. Kathy's Song
5. Somewhere They Can't Find Me
6. Anji
7. Richard Cory
8. A Most Peculiar Man
9. April Come She Will
10. We've Got a Groovey Thing Goin'
11. I Am A Rock
About album of the day: The BestEverAlbums.com album of the day is the album appearing most prominently in member charts in the previous 24 hours. If an album, or artist, has previously been selected within a x day period, the next highest album is picked instead (and so on) to ensure a bit of variety. A full history of album of the day can be viewed here.
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drakonium
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- #2
- Posted: 06/07/2014 20:04
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Strangely, I think it's very solid. I much prefer it to Bookends, for example. Nothing life-changing, but nice and catchy pop-folk tunes, featuring more than decent songwriting and vocals. Also, doesn't "bookends" mean the two things you use to hold books? Because if yes, then this album has one of the best pair of bookends tracks of the 60s.
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jqmusiclove
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- Posted: 06/08/2014 13:32
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It's a great album for easy listening. If you love Simon & Garfunkel then you'll definitely love this.
My personal highlights (or recommended tracks) from the album:
1. The Sound of Silence
4. Kathy's Song
6. Anji
8. A Most Peculiar Man
9. April Come She Will
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Mercury
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JasonZaia
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- Posted: 01/18/2015 07:58
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It was from here on that they say "the rest is history". I cannot overstate Simon & Garfunkels work. Nor can I overstate Simons solo career! He is just consistently brilliant!
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CA Dreamin
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- Posted: 01/18/2015 17:04
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The title track was what got me into this duo, but this album was hard to find at local record stores at the time. I actually bought and listened to the three that came after 'Sounds of Silence' before I finally found this one months later. After being blown away by PSR&T, Bookends, and BOTW, I didn't think SoS could match those three. I was wrong. I was pleasantly surprised one last time by S&G.
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satiemaniac
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- Posted: 01/18/2015 20:10
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the intro and outro tracks (the bookends if you will  ) are the only decent tracks here. really have a hard time thinking of S&G as much more than a very commercial '60s folk-ish duo that blew up way more than they should have *slinks back to corner before Norman hits me with the newspaper*
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alelsupreme
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- Posted: 01/18/2015 20:29
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Most of it is just fairly decent folk, but (as Satie pointed out) the opening and ending tracks stand way apart from the others, two of the finest rock songs of that weird bit of the 60's between the early Beatles stuff and when "classic rock" as we know it REALLY took off.
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Norman Bates
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- Posted: 01/18/2015 21:51
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Miles behind Bookends or even Parsley Sage.
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