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Sounds of Silence | 
| Artist: Simon & Garfunkel
Label: Sony
Category: Music
List Price: $11.98
Buy New: $10.99
You Save: $0.99 (8%)
Rating:  27 reviews
Sales Rank: 2923
Format: Extra Tracks, Original Recording Remastered
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 65998
UPC: 746465998222
EAN: 0074646599822
ASIN: B00005NKKV
Release Date: August 21, 2001
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| Tracks:
| • | The Sound Of Silence | | • | Leaves That Are Green | | • | Blessed | | • | Kathy's Song | | • | Somewhere They Can't Find Me | | • | Anji | | • | Richard Cory | | • | A Most Peculiar Man | | • | April Come She Will | | • | We've Got A Groovy Thing Goin' | | • | I Am A Rock | | • | Blues Run The Game | | • | Barbriallen | | • | Rose Of Aberdeen | | • | Roving Gambler |
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Amazon.com
One suspects that Paul Simon cringes a bit when he listens to Simon & Garfunkel's 1966 breakthrough release. Lines from "I Am a Rock" ("For a rock feels no pain / And an island never cries") and the title track ("Fools, said I, you do not know / Silence like a cancer grows") are the essence of sophomoric poetry. And who but a couple of self-serious young men would sequence the suicide odes "Richard Cory" and "A Most Peculiar Man" back to back? That said, every callow couplet found here is counterbalanced by words that are disarmingly guileless. The unabashed romanticism of "Kathy's Song" is truly poignant; it ranks with "For Emily" and "The Only Living Boy in New York" among the duo's most resplendent performances. "April Come She Will" has a similar innocent appeal, while the title track, despite its overwrought moments and Tom Wilson's tacked-on production, is a folk-rock landmark. It's not hard to find fault with The Sounds of Silence, but it's easier still to bask in its inchoate splendor. (The 2001 reissue adds the bonus track "The Blues Run the Game" plus three unreleased 1970 demos.) --Steven Stolder
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| Customer Reviews: Read 22 more reviews...
 GREAT Album, Great Re-release May 3, 2008
Matthew Brown (Marshall, MI)
This is one of the all-time best albums, and one of my all-time favorites (there IS a difference!). This re-release is excellent for the inclusion of a couple of extra tracks. Great stuff.
Richard Cory July 18, 2007
R. Olesnevi (Berlin, Germany)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
ts it, if it doesnt work, thats as good as it gets.I rated it in stars, I entered a title for the review, and I typed a review. So whats this OOPS???? I hate when this happens.
The Pinnacle of Folk Pop/Rock May 9, 2007
Trimac20 (Perth, WA, Australia)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This album lacked the self-aggrandazing bombast of 'Bridge Over Trouble Water' (which I hold was a little too comfortable with its brilliance, although with a touch more humility than the Beatles Sgt. Pepper), but more importantly, I don't see it as a rawer sketch of Bridge Over Troubled Water of the work Simon and Garfunkel produced in between, but I believe this IS their definitive statement, their magnum opus. What I like most is Simon's atatention to melody and music AS well as the lyrics. It did not revel in its own lyrical cleverness like Dylan, yet the lyric messages were poignant and well developed and despite the simplicity never lacked thematic depth. So redolent of the times, this was a coherently brilliantly album that shoots through the mush of drab 'folk rock' clones like a flashlight in the dark.
Perfect! January 15, 2007
Claudene E. Blake (Southlake, Texas)
0 out of 4 found this review helpful
This is an absolutely perfect CD. You cant help but envision scenes from the "Graduate" while listening to it!
Don't you know? January 14, 2007
Big Guy (Virginia)
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
This is a classic. S&G influenced everyone. If you like rock music, and don't have this album, and Bridge over Troubled Waters and Bookends, you should buy them. Now.
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