What Are You Listening To?

[Music Head]

from my library (vinyl)



Pop perfection. The duos fifth and their finale. One of the few groups that I can safely say I love every album
they released. The title track here has to be one of the greatest pop songs ever written. The entire album comes
close to the best. How can you make an album this superb and then just call it quits? On to decent careers as solo
acts, but nothing could equal those five albums. Seven of the eleven tracks get my top rating. Reaching #1 and a
grammy for Album Of The Year, along with Song Of The Year and Record Of The Year for the title track. Other singles
followed, The Boxer at #7, Cecilia #4, and El Condor Pasa #18. As much as I love the title song, The Boxer takes my
favorite. Lyrics win that battle. Paul was the meat of the pair, but I have always thought Art had the better
voice.

I LOVE THIS ALBUM

Worst Track - Song For The Asking

Best Track - The Boxer

I am just a poor boy
Though my story's seldom told
I have squandered my resistance
For a pocket full of mumbles such are promises
All lies and jests
Still a man hears what he wants to hear
And disregards the rest

When I left my home and my family
I was no more than a boy
In the company of strangers
In the quiet of the railway station running scared
Laying low, seeking out the poorer quarters
Where the ragged people go
Looking for the places only they would know

Lie la lie ...

Asking only workman's wages
I come looking for a job
But I get no offers,
Just a come-on from the whores on Seventh Avenue
I do declare, there were times when I was so lonesome
I took some comfort there

Lie la lie ...

Then I'm laying out my winter clothes
And wishing I was gone
Going home
Where the New York City winters aren't bleeding me
Bleeding me, going home

In the clearing stands a boxer
And a fighter by his trade
And he carries the reminders
Of ev'ry glove that layed him down
Or cut him till he cried out
In his anger and his shame
"I am leaving, I am leaving"
But the fighter still remains

Lie la lie ...

1) Bridge Over Troubled Water ***
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-XCmb6t6Zw
2) El Condor Pasa (If I Could) ***
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BCLb21Y7Z8
3) Cecilia ***
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5_QV97eYqM
4) Keep The Customer Satisfied ***
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YNsZLtzF18
5) So Long, Frank Lloyd Wright **
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cf0RrF6KsI8
6) The Boxer ***
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzUEL7vw60U
7) Baby Driver **
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eeqUUNHwAl8
8) The Only Living Boy In New York ***
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJGSHMgbB0E
9) Why Don't You Write Me ***
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPthjsBCk0o
10) Bye Bye Love **
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0gLnfSgdLA
11) Song For The Asking **

3's - 7
2's - 4
1's - 0

Grade - 2.6

so many albums, so little time