The Paul Simon Songbook
by Paul Simon
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The Paul Simon Songbook is ranked 8th best out of 29 albums by Paul Simon on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Paul Simon is Graceland which is ranked number 122 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 10,732.
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The tracks on this album have an average rating of 79 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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| ! | 10/24/2025 03:11 |  AAL2014 | 3,582 | 75/100 |
| ! | 07/20/2025 21:09 | TastyandTemptin | 2,920 | 72/100 |
| ! | 05/14/2025 16:09 |  nitomano | 2,224 | 71/100 |
| ! | 02/10/2025 06:47 | Pienk | 693 | 80/100 |
| ! | 12/27/2024 14:16 | habibi333 | 918 | 73/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 9% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 74.8/100, a mean average of 75.1/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 75.1/100. The standard deviation for this album is 12.8.
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Jboy56 10/31/2022 17:21 | #290940
What a SongBook.. !
Mercury 10/19/2017 20:38 | #199815
This album used to confuse me. I didn't get it. I thought it was a compilation of early solo recordings of Simon whilst he was a member of Simon & Garfunkel. Then I finally stopped my nonsense and researched it. Turns out this was made when Simon was taking a bit of a hiatus from his burgeoning at the time duo with Art. He went to England, became of sensation of sorts and was rushed into the studio to record some of his solo recordings with just himself with an acoustic. The production and renditions in genral sound a bit rushed and unadorned in a bad way., But the beautiful songs, and the excellent vocals shine through despite all the BS.
Songs like "Leaves That Are Green", "April Come She Will" "Kathy's Song", "A Most Peculiar Man", "The Side of The Hill"and "A Church Is Burning" all sound gorgeous and plain and very nice here. And I just enjoy hearing Simon on his own just a bit before his duo became very successful. I put this for sure a tier below S&G albums such as "The Sound of Silence" "Bookends" and "Parsley, Sage, Rosemary & Thyme", but it still shimmers at times with an young, bright-eyed, and very talented songwriter named Paul Simon.
7.5/10
sszwalbenest 07/11/2013 11:21 | #81082
The beauty of this album is that one can hear these songs from the lips of the one who created them. This provides for a much more soulful delivery. The barebones acoustic method also allows one to hear the music on this album as originally intended by Paul.
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