![]() I wonder “How accurately am I reading it?” We had a small hit record in 1956 It was just rock ’n’ roll. All I want to do is understand the world. Even as you know it’s a dead end, there’s a stirring to know: “Is this really right?” The fact that people have so much trouble understanding each other drives me crazy. The “convergent thinker” takes the facts and thinks the world should make sense. Paul is the opposite-what I call a “divergent thinker.” He loves the idea of going off in different directions. I follow the use of logic to an end, rather than the play of ideas. The records became very personal to me I’d watch a song fall off from No. Each record was a colored dot on a vertical line. I’d keep charts of the top forty songs on big sheets of graph paper. We recorded our first song in one of those booths at Coney Island for twenty-five cents. G ARFUNKEL: When we were teenagers, we didn’t care so much about being good as about being popular. But I see the possibility now that I could be one, and that pop music could be an art form. I don’t take the title of “poet.” It would be a slap in the face of Wallace Stevens to do that. A lot of the things we’ve done have been hack. ![]() S IMON: I think a lot of the praise we’ve had is really not warranted. There have been tunes when I’ve had no defenses, and I felt like I was flying.Īnother of Simon’s songs, “The Sounds of Silence,” goes: Every time you drop a defense, you feel so much lighter. Then people can see you laid out, and they don’t hit, and they know you won’t hit them. It was so important to people that he should be true. I always thought it was a big shock to people when Bob Dylan’s name turned out to be Bob Zimmerman. I think if we ever lie, they’re going to catch us. If you go to work and try to digest them right away, though, the effect will be a kind of growth. The “in” person is not a different cat, but there’s a fantastic bombardment of stimuli thrown at you. G ARFUNKEL: People who have gone through our kind of experience in pop music are baffled by the role they’re in. I been Ayn Rand’d, nearly branded Communist, ’cause I’m left-handed. Simply click the "Rerank List" button and you can put the songs in whatever order you like.I been Norman Mailer’d, Maxwell Taylor’d, I been John O’Hara’d, McNamara’d, I been Rolling Stone’d and Beatle’d Till I’m blind. If the order of this list bothers you, then start a protest and fight back by creating your own version and re-ranking it. ![]() Is one of your favorite Simon and Garfunkel songs missing from this poll? Add it to the list so it has a chance to rise to the top. Robinson" are included here, but true fans know there are tons of songs worth voting on besides the radio classics. Music videos and lyric videos are included next to each track name, so if you haven't heard a song you can listen to it right here on this list. This list focuses just on tracks Simon and Garfunkel recorded together (in case you were wondering, we have a separate list for Paul Simon's solo work ).All of Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel's major hits like "The Sound of Silence" and "Mrs. Few folk artists have achieved as much commercial success or influenced more singer-songwriters. This legendary, critically-loved duo was one of the best-selling acts of the '60s. List of Simon and Garfunkel songs, ranked from best to worst by the Ranker community.
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