Favorite Simon & Garfunkel song?

[Guaranteed]

Poll question: Favorite Simon & Garfunkel song?

This is by NO means a comprehensive list...just the Greatest Hits album.

No room for "something else!" Just name it!

[Trajan]

1. I had to go with 'The Boxer' ...

Cause I learned it on the guitar ....

Thanks to an awesome DUer for planting the seed in my head ...

[Guaranteed]

3. Sure thing, right there with ya nt

[Trajan]

10. Then again ...

Nearly EVERY ONE of these songs are acoustic masterpieces ...

Songs of Silence ? ... Not all acoustic, but amazing anyways ....

Scarbourough Fair ? ... an absolute gem ....

I LOVE these guys ...

[Droopy]

2. It's a tie between

"Mrs. Robinson" and "Bridge Over Troubled Water."

[ok_cpu]

4. "America"

And stop posting music threads. I feel like I'm stalking...

[Guaranteed]

6. LOL it's alright, I do it all the time nt

[LynzM]

5. Oh man.... I can't pick!

Ok, not true, I picked the Boxer. I have a soft spot for that... the first S&G song I knew. But there are SO many good songs.... I Am A Rock, El Condor Pasa... Scarborough Fair...

*off to find CDs*

[LeftyDarthBrodie]

7. None of the above

I was never a fan of Simon and Garfunkle until I heard "The Only Living Boy in New York" on the soundtrack to Garden State. Now I really dig that song. I'd heard and liked Mrs. Robinson and Bridge Over Troubled Water before but don't like either of them as much as I like "Only Living Boy..."

[Kathleen04]

8. I voted Cecilia

also really like El Condor Pasa. The others are such staples on the radio that I'm giving the edge to these two. :)

[Demeter]

9. Do I Have To Choose?

Love them all.

[peekaloo]

11. My Little Town

[eaprez]

12. America

[eyepaddle]

13. Ceceeeeeeeeelllll - yaaaaaa

Your breakin my heart!

It sounds so upbeat, and yet it's just the darkest song.

And I think it's poignant for a lot of us as well.

[ghostsofgiants]

14. Of the ones listed, "The Boxer"

But otherwise, "The Only Living Boy In New York".

[MuseRider]

15. For Emily, Whenever I May Find Her

That is my favorite of all however it is very hard to choose.

[Bossy Monkey]

39. Ditto. Or America nt

[MuseRider]

42. America would be

my second choice. Actually they are pretty interchangeable and I could be listening to a different song and then change my mind entirely lol. Hard to decide isn't it?

Both of those songs are so beautiful that they often bring tears to my eyes.

[Bleacher Creature]

16. Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard

[Shell Beau]

44. I love that song!

[Lannes]

17. The Boxer

Saw them in Central Park.Great concert!

[sundog]

18. the boxer still chokes me up every time i hear it

lots of threads of my personal story in there

[Terran]

19. Somethin' Tells Me It's All Happenin' at the Zoo.

I do believe it! I do belive it's true!

[AlienGirl]

20. Flowers Never Bend with the Rainfall

Through the corridors of sleep
Past the shadows dark and deep
My mind dances and leaps in confusion.
I don’t know what is real,
I can’t touch what I feel
And I hide behind the shield of my illusion.

So I’ll continue to continue to pretend
My life will never end,
And flowers never bend
With the rainfall.

The mirror on my wall
Casts an image dark and small
But I’m not sure at all it’s my reflection.
I am blinded by the light
Of God and truth and right
And I wander in the night without direction.

So I’ll continue to continue to pretend
My life will never end,
And flowers never bend
With the rainfall.

It’s no matter if you’re born
To play the king or pawn
For the line is thinly drawn ’tween joy and sorrow,
So my fantasy
Becomes reality,
And I must be what I must be and face tomorrow.

So I’ll continue to continue to pretend
My life will never end,
And flowers never bend
With the rainfall.

[BuddhaGirl]

21. "America"

"...counting the cars on the New Jersey turnpike they've all come to look for Amer---i---ca..."

I LOVE that song :-)

[steely]

22. Ditto

I was surprised to see it absent from the poll.
Toss me a cigarette, I think there's one in my raincoat.

On edit: oh - the list is from the greatest hits album

[Guaranteed]

23. Be careful, his bowtie is really a cameraaaaaa.... nt

[steely]

25. what is it about that song?

makes me feel sentimental about a bus trip I never took?
oh, the music is great too

[Guaranteed]

27. I took SO many bus trips when I was in college...

from Santa Barbara to Arcata...

Every single one of them...

My God...just thinking about them now...

Sleeping there on the Greyhound, going south, even, with my ex... (on edit: so to speak...beautiful times)

Very poignant.

[halobeam]

26. Kathy I'm lost, I said ....

but I knew she was sleeping.

[Guaranteed]

28. Michigan seems like a dream to me now...

LOL I'm way off

Counting the cars on the New Jersery turnpike.....and whatnot...

:P

[halobeam]

35. la la la lalala

okay now I'm way off, too! la la la

LOL!

[Richardo]

45. Me too

It has always made me choke up a little -

[Lilyhoney]

24. I voted for the boxer

but there is a live version of the sound of silence that is unbelievable.

[halobeam]

29. Was at the central park concert

reunion. When the sound of silence began, you literally HEARD the wind pick up and rustle the trees... there were a quarter of a million people there..as far as your eyes could see, you saw people and still..it was silent. A memory that sends me the chills every SINGLE time I think of it.

wow.

[Lilyhoney]

33. It could be that concert.

It sounds like you have a great memory to treasure. Thanks for sharing it with me.

[halobeam]

36. Glad to share it....

everyone I know has heard it at least twice now, so I can't tell them anymore or I become "one of those kind of people"... hehe

[Bossy Monkey]

41. I more remember the cheer that went up on "Counting the cars on the

New Jersey turnpike." I came from Philly with a dozen fellow Penn students; it's a fair bet that a good proportion if not the majority of the crowd came on the turnpike as well. I just found out below that the actual printed lyrics are "They've all gone to look for America," though for the night Paul and Artie made it "all come" instead. I guess they knew, too.

By the way, I think it was 400K rather than 250K in the throng, though of course I might be mistaken.

[In_The_Wind]

30. I voted

but there are so many that I love it's hard to pick just one

[shugah]

31. the dangling conversation

or bookends

...or, of course - for emily, whenever i may find her. great love song!

[Guaranteed]

32. For Emily is very, very special...

As is Bookends...

Both of them have parts that are very dear to me.

[deadparrot]

34. America or Mrs. Robinson.

Since America wasn't up there, I went with Mrs. Robinson.

[enigmatic]

37. "America"

Always chokes me up..



Let us be lovers we’ll marry our fortunes together
I’ve got some real estate here in my bag
So we bought a pack of cigarettes and mrs. wagner pies
And we walked off to look for america
Kathy, I said as we boarded a greyhound in pittsburgh
Michigan seems like a dream to me now
It took me four days to hitchhike from saginaw
I’ve gone to look for america

Laughing on the bus
Playing games with the faces
She said the man in the gabardine suit was a spy
I said be careful his bowtie is really a camera

Toss me a cigarette, I think there’s one in my raincoat
We smoked the last one 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
They’ve all gone to look for america
All gone to look for america
All gone to look for america......

[Robeson]

38. Went with "Scarborough Fair". Just a classically beautiful song.

[sleipnir]

40. Feelin' Groovy, but, FYI, it's called the "59th Street Bridge Song"

Which is in itself a misnomer, because the bridge is officially called either the Queensboro Bridge or Queens Bridge, and you actually might offend someone from Queens to call it the 59th St Bridge.

[underpants]

43. "The Only Living Boy in New York"

Somehow someway I had missed that one. The "Graden State" soundtrack clued me into it, GREAT song.