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 Graceland (album) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Graceland is an album released in 1986 by Paul Simon.
This view was not supported by the United Nations Anti-Apartheid Committee, as the album showcased the talents of the fl South African musicians while offering no support to the South African government.
It was voted as the best album of the year in The Village Voice Pazz and Jop critics poll.
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 Hearts and Bones - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hearts and Bones is a rock and roll album released in 1983 by Paul Simon.
The title track is about Simon and his then-wife Carrie Fisher as they travel through New Mexico ("one and one-half wandering Jews"), and also about love in general.
The album also contains one of the few songs about numbers (and love)—"When Numbers Get Serious", which evokes the beginnings of the Information Age.
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 Paul Simon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-14)
He released Paul Simon in 1972, although this was not his first solo album, as he released The Paul Simon Song Book as a UK-only LP in 1965.
In 2000, Simon released an album titled "You're the One" backed up by concerts, one of which filmed in Paris is available on DVD.
Each of the expanded individual albums feature a total of 30 bonus tracks, including original song demos, live recordings, duets, six never-before-released songs and outtakes from each of his nine solo albums.
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 Paul Simon/Simon and Garfunkel: Album Reviews   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-14)
The disharmony between the pair may also explain the nature of this album; half of it consists of brilliant sophisticated pop epics, while the remainder is merely enjoyable filler.
Hearts and Bones was actually intended as Simon and Garfunkel's reunion album, but it became a solo effort after Garfunkel failed to complete his vocals on time.
Hearts and Bones doesn't start or end particularly well either; opener 'Allergies' is interesting, but not representative of the rest of the album, while 'The Late Great Johnny Ace' is rather dull.
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 MSN Encarta - Search View - Paul Simon
The album featured several of Simon's original compositions, one of which, “The Sound of Silence,” rose to number one on the music charts and earned the duo's first gold record.
The Graceland album received a Grammy Award in 1987, and the single release “Graceland” was similarly honored in 1988.
In 1990 Simon released the album Rhythm of the Saints.
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 The New Yorker: PRINTABLES   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-14)
The highlights of the album, the reggae-inflected "Mother and Child Reunion" (which was recorded in Jamaica) and the urban-Latin romp "Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard," demonstrated that Simon's tastes were far more eclectic—and less coffeehouse folk—than his Simon and Garfunkel repertoire.
The album was a subdued effort, with whispery ballads that continued along the soft-rock course charted by "Still Crazy After All These Years." A trio of brash R. and B.-flavored rockers, "Late in the Evening," "Ace in the Hole," and the title track, only confirmed the feeling that Simon's muse lacked focus.
The album picked up the common thread of African musics and American rock and roll and went one step further, by using African musicians on the record, from the Cameroonian guitarist Vincent Nguini to the South African vocal troupe Ladysmith Black Mambazo.
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 bones
Broken bones could not keep US pop diva Madonna from travelling to Toronto to support her husband, director Guy Ritchie, in his quest for a distributor for his latest film "Revolver," he said.
Human bones found on a beach may be those of someone who drowned trying to enter the UK in the 1970s.
Hearts and Bones Hearts and Bones is a rock and roll album released in 1983 by Paul Simon.
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 NO News is Good News
Hearts and Bones is a strong Paul Simon album.
This time at the Moody Blues listening party we listened to December again, but also listened to their version of "What Child Is This?" That song was done for charity and can be found on the A Rock'N'Roll Christmas compilation CD.
One weird thing is that the second side of the album would start with "The Intro and the Outro." This feels a bit weird coming in the middle of the CD.
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 Hearts And Bones by Paul Simon CD   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-14)
HEARTS AND BONES was the last link in the chain that led to the epiphany of GRACELAND, the adventurous bridge between that album and the poetic insights of ONE TRICK PONY.
HEARTS AND BONES is a vital, criminally underlooked part of the Paul Simon catalog.
Nevertheless, "Hearts and Bones" from 1983 is one of Paul Simon's finest albums and is well worth discovering or rediscovering.
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 Paul Simon
The pair began to work on a new album together, but Garfunkel objected to the songs Simon had written (mostly alluding to Simon's recent divorce) and soon both Simon and Garfunkel were on their own again.
Simon used most of the material he had offered to Garfunkel on his next solo album, 1983's Hearts and Bones, which was not as commercially successful as past albums.
After Hearts and Bones Simon took several years off to work on his songwriting, and began working with African musicians, who greatly influenced his musical style.
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 Graceland by Paul Simon Songfacts
By naming the album after the home of Elvis, he is making the connection between African music and American Rock 'n' Roll.
Its B-side was "Hearts and Bones," which can be found on the album of the same name, released three years prior to Graceland.
The album was one of many recorded at The Hit Factory in New York City.
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 London, England - October 25, 2000   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-14)
From the Graceland album, we had 'Graceland' itself, 'Diamonds on the soles of her shoes', 'That was your mother' (Cajun style!),'You can call me Al' and 'The boy in the bubble'.
'Hearts and Bones' (please put it back in your live set Paul), 'Train in the Distance', and the totally stunning, 'Rene and Georgette Magritte with their dog after the war'.
This album may not have sold many copies but you would be hard pushed to think of another album by any artist with three such perfect songs.
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 Article - Why We Are Here
But it is also true that Mozart's Muzak includes moments that ravish the senses and pierce the heart – private addresses, perhaps, to the dinner guest who has become bored with the pompous ass on the left and the airhead on the right, and who has started paying attention to the band.
The patterns made by these life-threads, by this play of backwards and forwards, of being here and in the past and in the future all at the same time, are in themselves fascinating, beautiful, and, to those sensible to their speech, moving.
We can be touched, stirred, moved by the beautiful tone of a voice or an instrument, by the insistence of one rhythm or the teasing suppleness of another, by the tension in a leap, by a stimulus as simple as the sound of a full orchestra at flood-tide or by a barely audible hush.
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 Hearts and Bones - Paul Simon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-14)
Salvador Agron died of a heart attack in 1986, whilst living with his mother and sister in the Bronx.
This album is a disturbingly warm narrative, lending itself to a mixture of emotions one would not readily associate with the facts of the story.
Although one of the lesser known titles from Paul Simons collection, "Hearts and Bones" is his greatest achievement.
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 Paul Simon - Songs from The Capeman   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-14)
Paul Simon's new album is a tour through the music of his past (as well as of the broadway show he co-penned with poet Derek Walcott), as he mines the sounds of doo wop, reggae, latin salsa, the girl groups of Phil Spector, the jump blues of bands like (the original) Wallflowers (i.e.
I just wish at times the instrumentation could be fleshed out a bit, and that the album didn't have the sparse emptiness that seems to pervade albums of Broadway show tunes (and I don't mean the bloated Miss Saigons of today, but the quieter Fantasticks of the past).
This is not the Paul Simon of Rhythm of the Saints, (in fact, the album it most makes me think of in his oeuvre is Hearts and Bones) but this musical melting pot (as syphoned through Simon) is interesting in its own right.
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 Amazon.com: Music: Hearts and Bones   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-14)
One of Paul Simon's most accomplished albums, Hearts & Bones is also among his least appreciated, a commercial disappointment at the time of its release due more to Simon's darker themes than to any discernible decline in his powers as a songwriter or instincts as a producer.
This album was a commercial letdown, and is not normally mentioned early on when people think of Paul Simon.
Hearts and Bones is an emotional, complex, and challenging album from Paul Simon that is not an easy listen.
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 Paul Simon Albums   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-14)
Though he recorded the album's prominent percussion tracks in Brazil, Paul Simon fashioned The Rhythm of the Saints as a deliberate follow-up to the artistic breakthrough and commercial comeback that was the South Africa-tinged Graceland.
The third new studio album of Paul Simon's post-Simon & Garfunkel career was a musical and lyrical change of pace from his first two, Paul Simon and There Goes Rhymin' Simon.
The first album to use this title is one of the most mysterious in Paul Simon's output and almost belongs more with Simon & Garfunkel's discography, given its 1965 recording date.
www.mp3.com /paul-simon/artists/4678/discography.html   (598 words)

  
 RollingStone.com: Hearts And Bones : Paul Simon : Review   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-14)
The tunes on Hearts and Bones are subtle, not immediately singable and certainly less startling than the lyrics, but the music has a certain playfulness that matches the album's cerebral self-consciousness.
Hearts and Bones was meant, for a while, to be a Simon and Garfunkel album.
A reunion package would have made the album a different event than what it really is: a thinking man's homage to the Penguins, the Moonglows, the Orioles and the Five Satins.
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 Amazon.co.uk: Music: Hearts and Bones   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-14)
Anyone who expects this album to be as accessible as Graceland is missing the point (though you can hear the first glimmers of Graceland in some of the drum and vocal arrangements).
The jazzy Train In The Distance studies the life and death of a romance, Magritte is warm and suitably surreal, and Hearts And Bones is an utterly stunning journey through the deserts of New Mexico.
Hearts and Bones creates a narrative voice which guides us through this sad piece of work, layered with contemplation, regret, tribute and consideration.
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 Amazon.ca: Music: Hearts and Bones (Expanded)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-14)
Hearts and Bones was a commercial disaster, the lowest-charting new studio album of Paul Simon's career.
Musically, Simon moved forward and backward simultaneously, taking off from the jazz fusion style of his last two albums into his old loves of doo wop and rock & roll while also incorporating current sounds with such new collaborators as dance music producer Nile Rodgers and minimalist composer Philip Glass.
The result was Simon's most impressive collection in a decade and the most underrated album in his catalog.
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 Hearts And Bones
No debemos olvidar, sin embargo, que Hearts and bones está escrito desde una perspectiva seria y reflexiva, desde la cual Simon desarrolla -sin caer jamás en la impudicia- una auténtica confesión sentimental, cuyo leit-motiv no es otro que la tortuosa relación con su -entonces- reciente segunda esposa, la actriz Carrie Fisher.
Hearts and bones es una espléndida canción de viaje que, conscientemente, se mueve en el terreno de la ambigüedad y la contradicción.
Hearts and bones es, sin duda, un disco heterogéneo desde el punto de vista musical, en el que conviven diversos estilos, unificados entre sí -como es habitual en Simon- por medio de la fusión.
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 Dictionary of Meaning www.mauspfeil.net   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-14)
The last track is Simon's homage to John Lennon, who had been killed shortly before Simon wrote it, although the song and its title also wistfully harken back to Johnny Ace, an early rock and roller who committed suicide.
Track listing: #Allergies #Hearts and Bones #When Numbers Get Serious #Think Too Much (a) #Song About the Moon #Think Too Much (b) #Train in the Distance #René and Georgette Magritte with their Dog after the War #Cars are Cars #The Late Great Johnny Ace
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 SIMON AND GARFUNKEL
Paul Simon, as we would soon know him, was represented by "Sparrow," a song art Garfunkel professed not to like in the liner notes to the record album.
Still Crazy After All These Years was baby-boomerish in its preoccupation with growing older, lover affairs in dissolution; the album toyed with the idea of the 60's freedom-lover's inability to settle down.
Hearts and Bones is moving, especially the title track and "Rene and Georgette Magritte with their dog after the War;" but the album's highly poetic, confessional verbosity makes it less tuneful than his best albums.
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 Music reviews: Paul Simon, Tito Puente, Don Covay, Allison Moorer
"You're the One," his exceptional new CD, is singer-songwriter Simon's first album without a high-profile concept since 1983's "Hearts and Bones." It's also one of his finest solo albums.
The album's best song, "Darling Lorraine," is a haunting tale of marital disharmony and the unexpected way it is resolved.
The collection affords equal respect to the pop showmanship that made him a superstar (a funky remake of the Drifters' "On Broadway"), his ongoing romance with the bolero ("Contigo en la Distancia") and his enduring love of bebop and modern (Horace Silver's "Tokyo Blues" and John Coltrane's "Equinox").
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 Paul Simon Album Reviews
Hearts and Bones (Warner Brothers ‘83) Rating: B+ After the uneventful soundtrack to One Trick Pony (which at least yielded the memorable “Late In The Evening”) and a much ballyhooed reunion tour with Garfunkel (captured for posterity on The Concert In Central Park), Paul Simon returned with Hearts and Bones.
Ever the pop craftsman, what is atypical about this album is how autobiographical it obviously is in places, in particular the way Simon dissects the failure of his first two marriages.
Most of the album is of a similar, sometimes samey-sounding mood, and its mellow melodies are carried by Simon’s melodic guitar playing, his plaintive singing, the occasional catchy backing vocal, and (especially) its inventive, highly sophisticated percussion.
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 The 500 Words Album Reviews... You're the One   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-14)
On his most straightforward album since 1983's Hearts and Bones, Paul Simon takes his listeners on another journey through his life, albeit one that contains many of the world music influences evident on his past few albums.
In a quick two minutes, he pokes fun at the fact that he is aging by reminding his friends that "1,500 years ago the messenger Mohammed spoke and his wisdom like a river flowed through hills of gold.
Which is not to say that it's not an enjoyable song, because it is. But I think it represents the major problem with this album, which is that a part of Simon seems to want to pull away from the world music influences while another part of him wants to embrace those same influences.
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