SIMON & GARFINKEL-SOUNDS OF SILENCE ORIG MONO PRESSING IN SHRINK WRAP GREAT COPY
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Artist: SIMON & GARFUNKEL Title: SOUNDS OF SILENCE Label: COLUMBIA CL-2469 Year: 1966 Format: 12” VINYL 33RPM ALBUM Sound: MONO Cuts include: Side 1: The Sound of Silence / Leaves That Are Green / Blessed / Kathy's Song / Somewhere They Can't Find Me / Anji Side 2: Richard Cory / A Most Peculiar Man / April Come She Will / We've Got a Groovey Thing Goin' / I Am a Rock * Condition * Jacket: VG++ Jacket Comments: This is the 1st cover, and still in the original shrink-wrap. There are no song titles on front and Art Garfunkel has a copy of “Teen Beat” magazine in his back pocket Vinyl: VG++ Vinyl Comments: NONE Album notes: Personnel includes: Paul Simon (vocals, guitar); Art Garfunkel (vocals). Producers include: Bob Johnston, Tom Wilson, Paul Simon, Art Garfunkel, Roy Halee. Though it was their second album, SOUNDS OF SILENCE was the record that introduced Simon & Garfunkel to the world at large. When the original, acoustic version of the title tune (included on the debut album) was given a rock sheen here, courtesy of a hastily added electric backing track, folk-rock was invented, and Paul and Art were catapulted to superstardom. The songs here follow in that electrified direction for the most part, with the widescreen irony of "Blessed" buoyed by plangent guitar and drums, and the paranoid "Somewhere They Can't Find Me" pushed to neurotic extremes by an insistent rhythm section. SOUNDS OF SILENCE marked the introduction proper of Simon as sensitive song poet: intellectual, well-read, politely iconoclastic, self-consciously poetic--the perfect '60s folk-pop idol. Fortunately, Simon's melodic and lyrical prowess and the duo's beautiful post-Everly Brothers harmonies were enough to counteract any intrinsic tendencies toward pretension. From the romantic melodrama of "Kathy's Song" to the anthem of alienation "I Am a Rock," SOUNDS OF SILENCE was the ultimate sonic portrait of the artist as a young man. Somewhere, a young Morrissey was taking notes
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