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 | Title : The Best of Simon & Garfunkel
Author : Simon & Garfunkel
Release Date : 19991116
Binding : Audio CD
Regular Price : $18.98
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Editorial Reviews :
Augmenting 1972's Greatest Hits with additional tracks, Best of... now stands as the preeminent one-disc introduction to the music of Simon & Garfunkel. Containing everything Greatest Hits offered except for the live version of '59th Street Bridge Song' (the original studio hit resurfaces here) and the incandescent 'Kathy's Song,' the updated retrospective boasts 20 tracks, in contrast to its predecessor's 14 selections. Added to the mix are the likes of 'Hazy Shade of Winter,' 'The Only Living Boy in New York,' 'Song for the Asking,' and 'My Little Town,' a one-off the twosome did five years after they ended their phenomenally successful partnership. Remastered from the original source tapes, Best of... also boasts far superior sound to the earlier hits collection.
Buyer Reviews :
Now that this Best Of has been released, one has pretty much all the Simon And Garfunkel one truly needs. This is not to say that the rest of the songs they recorded were bad--for the most part, they weren't--but nearly every vital cut is here. The collection ignores their interesting but formative debut folk album (not a big miss, except perhaps for the bittersweet title track 'Wednesday Morning 3 AM'), and skimps a little on the sophomore effort 'Sounds Of Silence' (I would definitely have included 'April Come She Will' and 'Kathy's Song') but every other major classic on the next three groundbreaking releases is here, including a bonus live version of the incandescent 'For Emily' and the lost mid-70s reunion 'My Little Town'. Listening to all these songs in one shot--with superb remastered sound quality--reminds one of just how important these two guys were to the face of American pop music, no matter how many times you've heard the songs on classic-rock radio. Even supposedly dated cuts like '59th Street Bridge Song' and 'At The Zoo' come off as joyous and essential. Of course, if you're a Simon And Garfunkel buff you'll probably want to get all of the albums plus the 3-disc box set, which would not be a bad idea. But with the exception of the two or three missing early songs listed above, this is one of the finest 'Best Of' collections one can purchase, and supercedes 1972's Greatest Hits by some way (ah, the bonuses of 77-minute CD running times!).
(by Michael Topper)
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