Darling Lorraine (track) by Paul Simon
Year: 2000
From the album You're The One (track #2)
Darling Lorraine appears on the following album(s) by Paul Simon:
- You're The One (track #2) (this album) (2000)
- The Essential Paul Simon (track #32) (compilation) (2007)
- In The Blue Light (track #8) (2018)
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90/100  | 06/23/2025 05:39 | mostlymor | | 80/100 |
90/100 | 12/12/2024 11:15 |  NowhereMan | | 85/100 |
100/100 | 11/16/2024 05:05 | davidleewrong | | 82/100 |
100/100 | 04/19/2024 21:54 | phmusic | | 100/100 |
75/100 | 04/12/2022 21:39 | Pluto11 | | 76/100 |
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This track is rated in the top 4% of all tracks on BestEverAlbums.com. This track has a Bayesian average rating of 81.6/100, a mean average of 84.7/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 84.7/100. The standard deviation for this track is 9.8.
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Easily the best track on the album. Simon has always been brilliant at those kind of middle age/midlife crisis stories. Here, his character Frank finds love at last with darling Lorraine, and although the couple have their ups and downs, Lorraine and Frank stay true to each other and he ends up nursing her through her terminal illness to which she inevitably succumbs to. A moving story, brilliantly done.
"Darling Lorraine" is probably the most lyrically engaging song on the album. The highlight is the peaceful scene of Christmas morning and then the gradual build-up to the second chorus, where it just explodes! (yeah I said explodes, on this album ;-).
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