Bookends

Good Lord is this a good album. I can't decide if I like it better than Bridge Over Troubled Waters, I think I like them both for different reasons, so let me tell you why I love this album so much....oh first let me share a cool moment featuring the artwork on the front of the record. You know how Bookends has this really great black and white photo of the folkster boys here? (I think it actually makes Paul Simon look hott, way to go photographer!) Anyway, Almost Famous has the funniest scene where William's sister is mad because her mom won't let her listen to S&G..."this is poetry, mom!" and then the mom goes something like "It's poetry alright...it's the drug induced poetry of permiscous sex and drugs...just look at their eyes, they're stoned!" Hahahahahahahaha;) I think that is so friggin funny!Ahemmm....let me go on know or this review will go on for a mile and you'll fall asleep or I will.

"Save the Life of My Child" follows in the vein of Elton John's classic "I Think I'm Gonna Kill Myself" about teen suicide. The moms' outside screaming at the police to save the life of her child who's standing on the edge of a building, ready to jump. "Good, God! Don't jump! A boy sat on the ledge. An old man who had fainted was revived. And everyone agreed it would be a miracle indeed if the boy survived....When darknees fell, excitement kissed the crowd and made them wild. In an atmosphere of freaky holiday. When the spotlight hit the boy, The crowd began to cheer, He flew away. "Oh my Grace, I got no hiding place."

"America'" is another of the songs of my life that will never leave me, even while I'm lookin' for America...it can come along with me in the car you know on a little tape I made of Simon and Garfunkel songs that I'm playing right now..........I think I'm high on rubber cement. "Toss me a cigerette, I think there's one in my raincoat...we smoked the last on an hour ago" So I looked at the scenery, she read her magazine, and the moon rose over an open field. Kathy I'm lost , I said though I knew she was sleeping. I'm empty and aching and I don't know why. Counting the cars, on the New Jersey Turnpike, Theyv'e all come to look for America.All come to look for America."

"Overs" captures Paul's great twist of a wordplay...funny song about stuff we all go through..."How long can I delay? We're just a habit, like sacharin, and I'm habitually feelin' kinda blue. But each time I try on the thought of leaving you, I stop and think it over.

"Voices of Old People" was recorded by Art Garfunkel in various New York locations. It's really odd because there's all this really great music then you hear the sounds of this old lady hacking and crotchedly old people ramblin on but it works because it goes into one of their popular songs...

"Old Friends" about these two old guys who've been through thick and thin together. "Old friends, memory brushes the same years, silently sharing the same fear..." 'Bookends theme...' "Time it was and what a time it was...a time of innosence, A time of confidences. Long ago...It must be...I have a photograph. Preserve your memories, they're all that left you."

Then it goes into side two if you are listening to the LP...'Fakin It' is really one of my favorites on this album...it has great energy, the first side was more a ballad side and the next side is when we get into the spunky, funky S&G mentality! "I've just been fakin it. I'm not really makin it. This feeling of takin it, I still haven't shaken it.."

"Punky's Dilemma" I seriously think this song is what started the California raisin trend, just check out these lyrics..."Wish I was a Kellog's Cornflake Floatin' in my bowl takin' movies, Relaxin awhile, livin' in style, Talkin to a raisin who 'casionn'ly plays L.A."

"Mrs. Robinson" is the best song on here in my opionion, just something about that guitar riff at the beggining.

"Hazy Shade of Winter" Oh yeah, I believe there was a cover of this was done by the Sex Pistols? Not sure on that though. Great song, definatly jamable.