The Paul Simon Album(Broadway Sings The Best Of Paul Simon)
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The Paul Simon Album(Broadway Sings The Best Of Paul Simon)专辑介绍
Don't get me wrong - I adore Broadway musicals, and the performers on this CD are not untalented. I also think Paul Simon is one of the musical geniuses of the late 20th/early 21st century. But his songs are subtle, occasionally abstruse, and witty in a sly, understated way. Asking Broadway-style singers to tackle his repertoire is akin to asking a knuckleball pitcher to paint the outside corner of the plate - one requires an entirely different discipline than the other. The stock in trade of the Broadway performer is immediate, in-your-face emotion... something for which Simon's songs are ill-suited. The beauty of a Paul Simon song is how its seeming impassivity quietly works its way into your psyche, until you suddenly realize that he's uncovered a subliminal truth. There's something deeply human and breathtakingly honest couched in all those clever words and images - but it's the kind of thing that's revealed only with a delicate touch, as opposed to a sledgehammer. A Broadway-style approach doesn't reveal those elusive truths so much as beat the stuffing out of them.
Kodachrome
Bernadette
Still Crazy After All These Years
Red Rubber Ball
America
Ways to Leave Your Lover
So Long, Frank Lloyd Wright
Feelin' Groovy/At the Zoo
The Sound of Silence
Keep the Customer Satisfied
I Do It for Your Love
The Graduate Medley
Homeward Bound
Bridge over Troubled Water
Bookends/Old Friends