Yes a broken love can hurt and hurt deeply, but a new love can heal even the deepest cuts. Look for love and love will find you...shut yourself off and only depression and loneliness are your rewards.
drmorq 0 seconds ago I was with my previous girlfriend for 17 years. I almost lost myself in trying to make our relationship last. I was married to a different woman for 5 years before that. Again I tried my danmdest to make that marriage work, but in the end I felt that it was me who caused the friction and the pain. I had spent 22 years trying to make others happy. And I cannot imagine doing it all again. I dont want to chance the pain of having my heart ripped out of my chest again...
Sorry, no disrespect, but that's a very simplistic way to look at things. There are many, many people who desperately want to connect with others, but who are unable to. This is particularly true of some people with Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, a problem which is found much more widely than most people realise. People who have been traumatised in their early childhood can work for years with therapy and still be unable to connect with others. It is not something that can be changed just by changing conscious thoughts. It's extremely painful and difficult to live completely alone.
@@steveullrich7737 self awareness??? seriously.. did you even get the message of my comment? I had my heart tipped from my chest 17 years ago... I want to be alone because its better then the pain of losing a love. I donmt want to cause anyone any pain and I dont want any pain from a relationship. It is you who has no self awareness.. Or that doesnt know any better than to explain love to a 65 year old man... gfy
My very favourite song (with "Book Ends - Old Friends"). I have never fallen in love again and have stayed with my books and poetry - this song is my song !
I build walls, a fortress deep and mighty, that none may penetrate. This was almost my mantra after leaving the Army. This song means a lot of things for a lot of different reasons to many different people.
So true brother. We all build walls for many reasons but always based on that most baseless of things. Fear. My new mantra is this: “In life you always have two choices; Love of Fear. And only one of them is real.
So true of great song writing. It can mean so many different things to many different people and none of the points of view are wrong, as it is so personal.
I guess I should add that I figured I was going to spend my final years (I am 66) in the manner of the person described in this song. Been alone about 12 years. You might be happy to learn about a year ago I fell in love again with the wonderful wonderful person. She has truly changed me. I still got my books. But now I share them with her.
When Norwegian comedian Trond Kirkvaag passed away, his long time friend and comedy partner said something along the lines of "it hurts an awful lot, but that is the price for having had a long friendship with lots of laughs and love, and I wouldnt trade that away just to not feel the hurt now" or something to that effect. Essentially, yeah, it sucks when relationships end and you get your heart broken, either through death or other reasons, but you have to think of all the happy memories and times you had together, and the hurt is just a small price to pay then in comparison. "If I never loved I never would have cried", sure, but you also wouldnt have loved.
The same goes with friends. Many in my life are now dead, from various causes. There are only a few who remain, one who we have been in contact for over 60 years. Both, who closest to me, are women, both of whom I trust. It becomes difficult to open the door.
In my late 30s, I fell into a deep clinical depression. (I'm 71 now). I ended up in the hospital where they kept trying to break my barriers. In one group setting, they played this song and I broke down. They had found it. I had never cried before that. I had been closed to emotions that I had considered weakness and this exposed it. It was just the beginning of a turnaround. It took a few years but I credit this song and Paul Simon to a personal enlightenment that saved me. Of course I still have my books and my poetry.
What an awesome story and I thank God for your healing. Great tune. I struggle with depression and Karen CARPENTER'S voice is "my rock". Cheers, Chuck in NC
I celebrated 25 yrs of sobriety last Friday. For many yrs I drank to access my emotions. I was either very angry, depressed or over the top happy. The happy always an act. Besides the physical wellness I've enjoyed for years I enjoy most feeling my emotions and they're never fake. Crying releases so much and sometimes I cry in joy Never do I apologize for crying. It shows a strength when we mistook it for weakness for so long. Thanks for your words on healing...without apology.
Brilliant how at the end how it goes to solo voices saying "and a rock feels no pain" and "an island never cries" to communicate the abject loneliness of the faux philosophy of the song.
Thank You HarriBest- You just gave me some insight into some very old memories I have struggled with. You have a very kind soul. God bless you brother.
This is also a brilliant reply to the poet John Donne, "No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main". Paul Simon's father was an English professor so no doubt he knew of Donne's poetry. It is also germain to some other lines of Donne's, "Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee." I use to use this song in my poetry class to show in part, how one artist can respond to another even though they lived centuries apart and to provoke a conversation about what each artist meant.
I used to think this song was a cautionary tale, but at the age of 69 this song describes my life perfectly. It tells the truth as I've discovered it in my life. Some of us need to be alone and left alone. You won't find joy alone, but you can find contentment if you can accept life as it is. The world is crazy...stay away from them.
Fantatic it is. Paul SImon is one heck of a songwriter. So so good. He wrote it when he felt like this and later on really disliked it and felt he never should have written it. May be not for himself, but to me and I guess to us it is another brilliant song he wrote. I like how you are commenting here. Not to talk down others to much from some other continent, but you are here not tryin to be funny or sooo cool. Just yourself and I like it. Thx.
I was hoping you would get to this song. I just cannot get enough of their beautiful lyrics and harmonies. Paul Simon’s songwriting is up there with the very best. Great reaction Harri 🌺✌️
This just takes me back to being a very small child listening to my Dad’s record collection. Paul Simon (with or without Garfunkel) was my Dad’s favourite artist. These songs, are so deeply ingrained in me. My favourites besides this are America, Homeward Bound, Only Living Boy in New York, El Condor Pasa, And The Boxer.
"Leave your heart open to be broken once again". This was me the first time that I heard this song. I was 15. 50 years later, there I was back in the same place. Then I was rescued. I met a wonderful woman online...it was four years until I was able to hold her in my arms. She lives in China, I live in the UK... Covid was a real problem...then a cancer diagnosis, treatment and recovery....but that's all in the past now. Rocks do feel pain and islands do cry. But this one?....not anymore. 🙂
You are so right about the amazing talent of Paul Simon. By the end of the song, I think Paul Simon has come full circle. He works up to the “I am a rock” line during the song, and the music gets more and more intense. By the end, however, he sings alone, rather softly, “Because a rock feels no pain. And an island never cries” There is no harmony with Garfunkel at the end. He is feeling the pain of being human again.
In an interview with Art Garfunkel, he was asked if he did the music or the lyrics. "Neither, Paul does both." So what kind of guitar do you play? "I don't play an instrument. I just sing." I think he eventually got frustrated with the questions he got during interviews and quit doing them.
A lot of this song is based on John Donne's Holy Sonnets - No man is a rock, an island particular to himself. It goes on to say, we are all a part of the whole, if one part falls off, the entire island suffers. It ends, And thus never send to ask for whom the bells toll, they toll for three.
I saw Paul Simon in concert in 1973. This was after he'd released the Here Comes Rhymin' Simon album, and his big current hits were Loves Me Like a Rock and Kodachrome. He opened the show with Me and Julio, just him and his acoustic guitar at a mike. (He was joined by the Edwin Hawkins Singers, a gospel group, for the first set, and by some flutes and other instruments in the second set.) As he hadn't been a solo artist that long, and to satisfy fans, he included many Simon & Garfunkel hits in his sets, songs like Bridge OverTroubled Water, The Boxer and Sound of Silence. It was a fantastic show, and he'd already done two or three encores, when he came out again and asked what people wanted to hear. Someone yelled out, I Am a Rock. He just shook his head, as if to say, I'm not in that place any more. Eventually he ended the show with an acoustic solo rendition of Johnny B. Good.
I am fairly certain that you will enjoy "American Tune" from their concert in Central Park. It is a song from a Paul Simon solo album. But with Art joining in with his exquisite harmonies, the song soars to the highest level. Pangs of anquish. Pangs of hope. A song full of meaning about meaninglessness in this modern age. It is beautiful. In the concert footage it starts around 29:30.
So many of us have felt the "welI of loneliness" as it was once called. Sometimes you have to say I am a rock. I am an island. And take love and joy from yourself. So evocative here. Sheer lyrical and musical genius.
I grew up listening to Simon & Garfunkel & had a lot of their records. Absolutely loved them & their harmonies. You won't find a bad song. They have had so many hits such as "Bridge Over Troubled Water", "Sound Of Silence", "The Boxer", "Mrs. Robinson", "Scarborough Fair", "At The Zoo", "Cecilia", "America", "I Am A Rock", "El Condor Pasa" etc. Paul Simon went on to have a huge solo career with lots of great songs.
Ages ago when I first changed from vinyl to CD (yes, I am that old) one of the selections I bought as part of my Columbia House introductory pack was "The Collected Works of Simon and Garfunkel". It has every song they released except "My Little Town". I have loaded it onto my MP3 too via Itunes so I can listen on my phone too.
@@johndalley1288 In my opinion, the studio version of The Boxer, with Hal Blaine’s percussion and Paul’s guitar planning, particularly at the end, has to be in the running for the greatest song of all time. And I don’t mean greatest S&G song, I mean the greatest of any song ever recorded. It’s a masterpiece.
@@hectorsmommy1717 Sister, you are not alone! I moved from 45s and albums to 8-tracks to cassettes to cds and then to mp3s. My eler brother made the same journey, but he started moving from albums to reel-to-reel. Still, nothing sounds better than an album with the proper equipment.
@@jamestaylor2920 LOL. my first experience with music was 78's. I was maybe 2nd grade when my parents bought a record player that could play all 4 speeds (16. 33 45. and 78) and we could buy and play OUR songs instead of Mom and Dad's. I still love the sound of vinyl but was thrilled when I could listen to an album all the way through without having to flip it over.
I've always loved Paul's songwriting, despite the fact that he told a friend in high school she'd be a better wife than a songwriter. That girl was Carole King! Love your reactions Harri.
He mighta been right at the time he said it - i doubt he was anywhere near as good in highschool either! Its still not exactly a great thing to say to a friend tho lol.
@@HarriBestReactions from Donne's No Man is an Island reference....already in the mid 70's this was being discussed in university literature....and Simon was just getting started..in retrospect.
I listen to this song after break ups. The person who makes you cry the most is the one you loved the most. I cried the most for my dad as even my mom never heard me cry so much when he left this world. I never cried for my ex until she died as I did feel love at one time. Better to let go with love as someone better will come along. If you close down your heart forever you will be unhappy.
We've all been there!! This song was my mantra as a teenager in the early 70's but eventually another door opened and life was good. Don't ever give up!!!😁😁🇬🇧
Your interpretation is so right on, Harri. Maybe love is not what people think it is. Maybe it is 53 years of working together and being there for each other. So I have know real love.
@@personalcheeses8073 You Know, sometimes I do, You Know and sometimes I do not, You Know.. I am a stickler on how someone pronounces my name, You Know.. Who's Gary?? You Know, I do not know what U mean.. ♠W.G.
I really really love your broadcast. You're one of my favorites. Thanks for playing Simon and Garfunke. They have always been my favorite too. God-bless you
You can pick any Simon & Garfunkel song and listen to pure genius songwriting. Scarborough Fair is my favorite by these 2 great guys. Great choice Brandon I absolutely love this song. Harri there are so many tracks you haven't touched yet! "50 ways to leave your Lover", "Me and Julio down by the schoolyard", and "Cecilia" just some good mentions!
Hari, I love your reaction perspectives. I will become a paying supporter for sure but right now things are not that good. Please keep doing what you do.
When this song was new and I was young, I couldn't relate. I'm the oldest of six children and never had a moment to myself. However, as I've aged and life has handed me changes as it will do, I realize what a loner I really am. I spend almost all of my time alone and I love it! It's not that I hate people. I'm sociable and pleasant. I have good manners. But being an empath means that my battery is discharged in just a few minutes of being around other people. We're all different and have different requirements, but for me, solitude is peace. Thanks, Harri. 🙏
I heard an interview once, long ago, in which Paul Simon told the interviewer that it was John Donne's 1623 poem, "No man is an island," that inspired him to use this particular analogy for an individual isolating himself.
I remember listening to this album when I was 3-4 yo (back in '68-'69) because my mom played their albums a lot, She told me when I was a teenager that she loved this song and how powerful the lyrics were. It made me a little sad because I knew that she was listening to this in the middle of the divorce from my dad. S&G are legendary but be careful if you're going through a dark period! lol..
"The Wall" long before it was conceived by Pink Floyd. Honestly, this, along with "The Boxer," are my favorite S&G songs. Thanks for sharing, Harri. it's been a while since I listened to it.
Yes a broken love can hurt and hurt deeply, but a new love can heal even the deepest cuts. Look for love and love will find you...shut yourself off and only depression and loneliness are your rewards.
This is a fantastic contribution! The best ive read today.I'm gonna pin this!
drmorq
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I was with my previous girlfriend for 17 years. I almost lost myself in trying to make our relationship last. I was married to a different woman for 5 years before that. Again I tried my danmdest to make that marriage work, but in the end I felt that it was me who caused the friction and the pain. I had spent 22 years trying to make others happy. And I cannot imagine doing it all again. I dont want to chance the pain of having my heart ripped out of my chest again...
Sorry, no disrespect, but that's a very simplistic way to look at things. There are many, many people who desperately want to connect with others, but who are unable to. This is particularly true of some people with Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, a problem which is found much more widely than most people realise. People who have been traumatised in their early childhood can work for years with therapy and still be unable to connect with others. It is not something that can be changed just by changing conscious thoughts. It's extremely painful and difficult to live completely alone.
@@drmorqWarrenProject Hopefully one day with self awareness and fate you'll be able to love again.
@@steveullrich7737 self awareness??? seriously.. did you even get the message of my comment? I had my heart tipped from my chest 17 years ago... I want to be alone because its better then the pain of losing a love. I donmt want to cause anyone any pain and I dont want any pain from a relationship. It is you who has no self awareness.. Or that doesnt know any better than to explain love to a 65 year old man... gfy
This was my theme song as a teen/young adult. I'm 75 now. So, I survived.
Same, at 13 1nd 14 years old. I'm 55 and I survived. I remember though, and i think that this is the saddest song I've ever heard.
"Hiding in my room. Safe within my womb" Pure lyrical genius.
Folk rock, don’t you love it? They sure don’t make music like this anymore. A timeless masterpiece by the great Simon & Garfunkel.♥️🌹🎼
I've always thought that Mr Simon should have been America's Poet Laureate.
My very favourite song (with "Book Ends - Old Friends"). I have never fallen in love again and have stayed with my books and poetry - this song is my song !
American Tune. Slip Sliding Away.
I build walls, a fortress deep and mighty, that none may penetrate. This was almost my mantra after leaving the Army. This song means a lot of things for a lot of different reasons to many different people.
So true brother. We all build walls for many reasons but always based on that most baseless of things. Fear. My new mantra is this: “In life you always have two choices; Love of Fear. And only one of them is real.
So true of great song writing. It can mean so many different things to many different people and none of the points of view are wrong, as it is so personal.
My life song...to be played at my funeral. If people there...fine. If not...oh well
I guess I should add that I figured I was going to spend my final years (I am 66) in the manner of the person described in this song. Been alone about 12 years.
You might be happy to learn about a year ago I fell in love again with the wonderful wonderful person. She has truly changed me. I still got my books. But now I share them with her.
When Norwegian comedian Trond Kirkvaag passed away, his long time friend and comedy partner said something along the lines of "it hurts an awful lot, but that is the price for having had a long friendship with lots of laughs and love, and I wouldnt trade that away just to not feel the hurt now" or something to that effect. Essentially, yeah, it sucks when relationships end and you get your heart broken, either through death or other reasons, but you have to think of all the happy memories and times you had together, and the hurt is just a small price to pay then in comparison. "If I never loved I never would have cried", sure, but you also wouldnt have loved.
The same goes with friends. Many in my life are now dead, from various causes. There are only a few who remain, one who we have been in contact for over 60 years. Both, who closest to me, are women, both of whom I trust. It becomes difficult to open the door.
If he never cried he never would have loved.
I enjoy your reaction
'Gazing from my window. to the streets below - on a freshly fallen silent shroud of snow.'
That is pure poetry.
He's talent is ridiculous
In my late 30s, I fell into a deep clinical depression. (I'm 71 now). I ended up in the hospital where they kept trying to break my barriers. In one group setting, they played this song and I broke down. They had found it. I had never cried before that. I had been closed to emotions that I had considered weakness and this exposed it. It was just the beginning of a turnaround. It took a few years but I credit this song and Paul Simon to a personal enlightenment that saved me. Of course I still have my books and my poetry.
Thank you.
So profound…and I can relate to an extent
I'm 71 and know exactly where you came from.
What an awesome story and I thank God for your healing. Great tune. I struggle with depression and Karen CARPENTER'S voice is "my rock". Cheers, Chuck in NC
I celebrated 25 yrs of sobriety last Friday. For many yrs I drank to access my emotions. I was either very angry, depressed or over the top happy. The happy always an act. Besides the physical wellness I've enjoyed for years I enjoy most feeling my emotions and they're never fake. Crying releases so much and sometimes I cry in joy
Never do I apologize for crying. It shows a strength when we mistook it for weakness for so long.
Thanks for your words on healing...without apology.
Brilliant how at the end how it goes to solo voices saying "and a rock feels no pain" and "an island never cries" to communicate the abject loneliness of the faux philosophy of the song.
Well done, Harri. You're quite sensitive to all songs you hear. You can feel the pain. And, pain is one thing we all have in common.
Paul Simon. No peer. The greatest songwriter of my generation. Period.
Hi. Paul is truly a poet
Harri. Love the channel. Paul Simon is a genius. Please when you get a chance pedi a reaction to American Tune. So beautiful and moving!!!
You say it would be sad to take the song's philosophy to the end. I felt like another Simon and Garfunkel song, "A Most Peculiar Man" does just that.
Been there many times myself.
It's hauntingly beautiful...
I am this song.
Thank You HarriBest- You just gave me some insight into some very old memories I have struggled with. You have a very kind soul. God bless you brother.
S & G solid gold music and lyrics.
I’m 71. Love Simon and Garfunkel. This is my favorite song
Harri,I have a CONCERT DVD OF Simon AND GARFUNKEL THAT THEY did in NEW YORK AND it's A GREAT ONE
This is also a brilliant reply to the poet John Donne, "No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main". Paul Simon's father was an English professor so no doubt he knew of Donne's poetry. It is also germain to some other lines of Donne's, "Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee." I use to use this song in my poetry class to show in part, how one artist can respond to another even though they lived centuries apart and to provoke a conversation about what each artist meant.
That a great song!
We discussed the lyrics to this and other songs on this album in my 7th grade English class (1970). I had a lot of great teachers in the 60s and 70s.
Simon and Garfunkel, songs, “Scarborough Fair/ Canticle”,.”Baby Driver”,.”At The Zoo”,. “America”,.
I'm an older man, and I can tell you get this song. What he's saying. Thank you, young friend, for getting it too. :)
I used to think this song was a cautionary tale, but at the age of 69 this song describes my life perfectly. It tells the truth as I've discovered it in my life. Some of us need to be alone and left alone. You won't find joy alone, but you can find contentment if you can accept life as it is. The world is crazy...stay away from them.
Fantatic it is. Paul SImon is one heck of a songwriter. So so good. He wrote it when he felt like this and later on really disliked it and felt he never should have written it. May be not for himself, but to me and I guess to us it is another brilliant song he wrote. I like how you are commenting here. Not to talk down others to much from some other continent, but you are here not tryin to be funny or sooo cool. Just yourself and I like it. Thx.
Lol Whenever I'm let down by someone I trusted and loved I listen to this song.
He conveys the day without saying it directly -- it's Christmas. "A winter's day, in a deep and dark December."
Thats a very clever line..the thought of christmas didnt occur to me
Great commentary Harri…
Great reaction. Thank you!
Harri keep up the work I enjoy watching you amazing
Once again, such perceptic and insightful analysis.
I love Simon and Garfunkel. Never gets old. Listen to the Sounds of Silence. Then Homeward Bound.
Paul Simon is one of music's greatest Lyricists.
I was hoping you would get to this song. I just cannot get enough of their beautiful lyrics and harmonies. Paul Simon’s songwriting is up there with the very best. Great reaction Harri 🌺✌️
Thank you! Another great tune from a talented person like Paul Simon.
Paul Simon had to be one of the greatest song writers ever
This just takes me back to being a very small child listening to my Dad’s record collection. Paul Simon (with or without Garfunkel) was my Dad’s favourite artist. These songs, are so deeply ingrained in me. My favourites besides this are America, Homeward Bound, Only Living Boy in New York, El Condor Pasa, And The Boxer.
"Leave your heart open to be broken once again".
This was me the first time that I heard this song. I was 15.
50 years later, there I was back in the same place.
Then I was rescued. I met a wonderful woman online...it was four years until I was able to hold her in my arms.
She lives in China, I live in the UK...
Covid was a real problem...then a cancer diagnosis, treatment and recovery....but that's all in the past now.
Rocks do feel pain and islands do cry.
But this one?....not anymore. 🙂
You are so right about the amazing talent of Paul Simon. By the end of the song, I think Paul Simon has come full circle. He works up to the “I am a rock” line during the song, and the music gets more and more intense. By the end, however, he sings alone, rather softly, “Because a rock feels no pain. And an island never cries” There is no harmony with Garfunkel at the end. He is feeling the pain of being human again.
Paul Simon is in the top 5 best male songwriters. 🥰🎶🎼
Top 5 on my list as well! I rate him right up there with Bob Dylan, Gordon Lightfoot and Al Stewart.
@@taun856 Yes! Simon and Stewart are 2 of my top 3 (I call them my Holy Trinity). The other is Bruce Cockburn.
I would hope John Prine is on your list.
@@Dusty999 That's why I never list all five. I can then always say "Oh yeah, they're on the list!" 😁
Jackson Browne, Neil Young, Stephen Stills, and Jon Anderson
In an interview with Art Garfunkel, he was asked if he did the music or the lyrics. "Neither, Paul does both." So what kind of guitar do you play? "I don't play an instrument. I just sing." I think he eventually got frustrated with the questions he got during interviews and quit doing them.
A lot of this song is based on John Donne's Holy Sonnets - No man is a rock, an island particular to himself. It goes on to say, we are all a part of the whole, if one part falls off, the entire island suffers. It ends, And thus never send to ask for whom the bells toll, they toll for three.
It is a fantastic song! I have always loved it. We all have to go through it. It's life❤️
You should try "Homeward Bound ".
I saw Paul Simon in concert in 1973. This was after he'd released the Here Comes Rhymin' Simon album, and his big current hits were Loves Me Like a Rock and Kodachrome. He opened the show with Me and Julio, just him and his acoustic guitar at a mike. (He was joined by the Edwin Hawkins Singers, a gospel group, for the first set, and by some flutes and other instruments in the second set.) As he hadn't been a solo artist that long, and to satisfy fans, he included many Simon & Garfunkel hits in his sets, songs like Bridge OverTroubled Water, The Boxer and Sound of Silence. It was a fantastic show, and he'd already done two or three encores, when he came out again and asked what people wanted to hear. Someone yelled out, I Am a Rock. He just shook his head, as if to say, I'm not in that place any more. Eventually he ended the show with an acoustic solo rendition of Johnny B. Good.
I am fairly certain that you will enjoy "American Tune" from their concert in Central Park. It is a song from a Paul Simon solo album. But with Art joining in with his exquisite harmonies, the song soars to the highest level. Pangs of anquish. Pangs of hope. A song full of meaning about meaninglessness in this modern age. It is beautiful. In the concert footage it starts around 29:30.
That’s a gem!
Spot on
Harri, thank you, enjoy your channel 🙋🏼♀️🎼
I have felt like this from time to time about and a rock feels no pain
Every song on this album is great. Bought the album back in the 60's, 75 now and still got it.
So many of us have felt the "welI of loneliness" as it was once called. Sometimes you have to say I am a rock. I am an island. And take love and joy from yourself. So evocative here. Sheer lyrical and musical genius.
I grew up listening to Simon & Garfunkel & had a lot of their records. Absolutely loved them & their harmonies. You won't find a bad song. They have had so many hits such as "Bridge Over Troubled Water", "Sound Of Silence", "The Boxer", "Mrs. Robinson", "Scarborough Fair", "At The Zoo", "Cecilia", "America", "I Am A Rock", "El Condor Pasa" etc. Paul Simon went on to have a huge solo career with lots of great songs.
All are great songs of theirs, but my Favorite is The Boxer.
Ages ago when I first changed from vinyl to CD (yes, I am that old) one of the selections I bought as part of my Columbia House introductory pack was "The Collected Works of Simon and Garfunkel". It has every song they released except "My Little Town". I have loaded it onto my MP3 too via Itunes so I can listen on my phone too.
@@johndalley1288 In my opinion, the studio version of The Boxer, with Hal Blaine’s percussion and Paul’s guitar planning, particularly at the end, has to be in the running for the greatest song of all time. And I don’t mean greatest S&G song, I mean the greatest of any song ever recorded. It’s a masterpiece.
@@hectorsmommy1717 Sister, you are not alone! I moved from 45s and albums to 8-tracks to cassettes to cds and then to mp3s. My eler brother made the same journey, but he started moving from albums to reel-to-reel. Still, nothing sounds better than an album with the proper equipment.
@@jamestaylor2920 LOL. my first experience with music was 78's. I was maybe 2nd grade when my parents bought a record player that could play all 4 speeds (16. 33 45. and 78) and we could buy and play OUR songs instead of Mom and Dad's. I still love the sound of vinyl but was thrilled when I could listen to an album all the way through without having to flip it over.
This song described me years ago
What a joy to watch and listen to this review... such a good job.
I love this song so much.
Thank you for your review.
Give a listen to "For Emily Wherever I may Find Her" so nice it's sublime.
I've always loved Paul's songwriting, despite the fact that he told a friend in high school she'd be a better wife than a songwriter. That girl was Carole King! Love your reactions Harri.
Hahaha Poor Carole
He mighta been right at the time he said it - i doubt he was anywhere near as good in highschool either! Its still not exactly a great thing to say to a friend tho lol.
@@elevown Good strategy though. Hamstring the potential competition early lol
@@elevown Actually, she wrote "Since I Don't Have You" which was a huge hit for The Skyliners in 1959.
Paul Simon is gifted, but he's always been a bit of a jerk as well. (Jerk is too mild, but I'm trying to keep my comment family friendly.)
Based on the poem by John Donne…..it’s called “intellectual rock”…..Now react to the Dangling Conversation incredible song.
Intellectual rock 😁
The Dangling Conversation is just a great, great song.
@@HarriBestReactions from Donne's No Man is an Island reference....already in the mid 70's this was being discussed in university literature....and Simon was just getting started..in retrospect.
I listen to this song after break ups. The person who makes you cry the most is the one you loved the most. I cried the most for my dad as even my mom never heard me cry so much when he left this world. I never cried for my ex until she died as I did feel love at one time. Better to let go with love as someone better will come along. If you close down your heart forever you will be unhappy.
One of many perfect tunes by Rhymin’ Simon and his buddy!
"LATE IN THE EVENING'...! GREAT STORY TELLING IN A UPBEAT FUN TUNE...!
That’s my favorite Simon solo tune.
Yes he is a musical and lyrical genius. My favorite solo song of his and it’s super fun is ‘Late in the Evening’. I know you will LOVE it! 🙂
I have no idea what it is about this guy but I love his reactions. Him and the Rob Squad my two favorites definitely
We've all been there!! This song was my mantra as a teenager in the early 70's but eventually another door opened and life was good. Don't ever give up!!!😁😁🇬🇧
You can only offer your heart, not give it unless it’s wanted. Or tears will follow.
I listened to this song immediately after losing someone very close to me. Might not be the healthiest, but helped. Thank you for reacting to this.
Your interpretation is so right on, Harri. Maybe love is not what people think it is. Maybe it is 53 years of working together and being there for each other. So I have know real love.
"The luckiest man on earth is the one who finds... true love."
What?? know real love???? ♠W.G.
@@wgdavis5353 No need to be pedantic. You know what Gary means
@@personalcheeses8073 You Know, sometimes I do, You Know and sometimes I do not, You Know.. I am a stickler on how someone pronounces my name, You Know.. Who's Gary?? You Know, I do not know what U mean.. ♠W.G.
I really really love your broadcast. You're one of my favorites. Thanks for playing Simon and Garfunke. They have always been my favorite too. God-bless you
I have watched a few of your videos. You seem like a great guy. Excellent reviews!
If I'd never loved I'd never have laughed in joy, either. He is my guardian angel now.
You can pick any Simon & Garfunkel song and listen to pure genius songwriting. Scarborough Fair is my favorite by these 2 great guys. Great choice Brandon I absolutely love this song. Harri there are so many tracks you haven't touched yet! "50 ways to leave your Lover", "Me and Julio down by the schoolyard", and "Cecilia" just some good mentions!
Cecilia i have done ✌🏾🤩
Paul Simon is a true American treasure.
Yes Harri, & if we do express this sentiment we are deemed fools. So i forever keep trying.....
Not only lyrically but musically one of Paul's best.
Another Simon & Garfunkel classic is “El Condor Pasa”. ✌️
Ah, Harri, I caught Paul Simon finally in 1975. during the concert he had a Gospel group doing this with him, a wonderful version.
You are an astute gentleman. Paul Simon is indeed a genius!
Thank you Leslie.A happy new year to you 🖤
Hari, I love your reaction perspectives. I will become a paying supporter for sure but right now things are not that good. Please keep doing what you do.
Paul Simon is a true genius. Such lyrics!
Everything on that album is golden!
Yes Paul Simon is indeed a genius
This song carried me me through many dark days.. thanks to Dad for playing it for me when I needed it.
When this song was new and I was young, I couldn't relate. I'm the oldest of six children and never had a moment to myself. However, as I've aged and life has handed me changes as it will do, I realize what a loner I really am. I spend almost all of my time alone and I love it! It's not that I hate people. I'm sociable and pleasant. I have good manners. But being an empath means that my battery is discharged in just a few minutes of being around other people. We're all different and have different requirements, but for me, solitude is peace.
Thanks, Harri. 🙏
I heard an interview once, long ago, in which Paul Simon told the interviewer that it was John Donne's 1623 poem, "No man is an island," that inspired him to use this particular analogy for an individual isolating himself.
“Homeward Bound” is another classic.
I remember listening to this album when I was 3-4 yo (back in '68-'69) because my mom played their albums a lot, She told me when I was a teenager that she loved this song and how powerful the lyrics were. It made me a little sad because I knew that she was listening to this in the middle of the divorce from my dad. S&G are legendary but be careful if you're going through a dark period! lol..
Excellent psychological analysis.
Thank you 🙏🏾🖤✌🏾
I so enjoy your reactions and indeed you are a true pleasure to listen to!
Please do "American Tune". Most profound song Simon ever wrote. It expresses the American psyche and angst that we live with always.
"The Wall" long before it was conceived by Pink Floyd. Honestly, this, along with "The Boxer," are my favorite S&G songs. Thanks for sharing, Harri. it's been a while since I listened to it.
Good eye re. The Wall.
Thank you. This has been one of my favorites for 50 years. It is now my theme song.