Still Crazy After All These Years [Extra tracks] [Original recording remastered]

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Paul Simon's third solo album unifies the varied threads running through its predecessors--confessional ballads, wily story songs, agnostic spirituals and snapshots of modern life, circa 1975, are extensions of the models on his self-titled debut and--There Goes Rhymin' Simon. Here, Simon and producer Phil Ramone establish a more cohesive, explicitly urban setting that burnishes the artist's acoustic folk accents to spotlight his sophistication as an inventive composer and, as always, deft wordsmith. Included is his last great collaboration with Art Garfunkel, the bittersweet "My Little Town," a pop gospel romp with Phoebe Snow on "Gone at Last," and the sly adulterer's solution of "Fifty Ways to Leave Your Lover" (arguably the antithesis of Willie Dixon's classic "29 Ways"), along with the tender "I Do It for Your Love" and the woozy, dissolute "Have a Good Time." Best of all, of course, is the brilliant title song, shifting from anecdotal verse to soaring bridge and colored by keening strings and Phil Woods's knowing tenor-sax solo. Simon was crazy, like a fox. --Sam Sutherland

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Still Crazy After All These Years [Extra tracks] [Original recording remastered]

Average customer rating: correction to the editorial review Slippery slopes A MUST HAVE!!! Paul Simon in a different direction Not crazy about it but worth it for the already converted

Still Crazy After All These Years Paul Simon Manufacturer: Rhino / Wea ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Pop | Styles | Music Singer-Songwriters | Pop | Styles | Music Soft Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music General | Adult Contemporary | Pop | Styles | Music Folk Rock | Rock | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Album-Oriented Rock (AOR) | Classic Rock | Styles | Music Rhino Records | Amazon.com Label Stores | Stores | Music Similar Items: There Goes Rhymin' Simon Paul Simon Graceland The Rhythm of the Saints One-Trick Pony ASIN: B0002847VS Release Date: 2004-07-13

Tracks:

1. Still Crazy After All These Years
2. My Little Town
3. I Do It For Your Love
4. 50 Ways To Leave Your Lover
5. Night Game
6. Gone At Last
7. Some Folks' Lives Roll Easy
8. Have A Good Time
9. You're Kind
10. Silent Eyes
11. Slip Slidin' Away (Demo)
12. Gone At Last (Orginal Demo)

Amazon.com essential recording

Paul Simon's third solo album unifies the varied threads running through its predecessors--confessional ballads, wily story songs, agnostic spirituals and snapshots of modern life, circa 1975, are extensions of the models on his self-titled debut and--There Goes Rhymin' Simon. Here, Simon and producer Phil Ramone establish a more cohesive, explicitly urban setting that burnishes the artist's acoustic folk accents to spotlight his sophistication as an inventive composer and, as always, deft wordsmith. Included is his last great collaboration with Art Garfunkel, the bittersweet "My Little Town," a pop gospel romp with Phoebe Snow on "Gone at Last," and the sly adulterer's solution of "Fifty Ways to Leave Your Lover" (arguably the antithesis of Willie Dixon's classic "29 Ways"), along with the tender "I Do It for Your Love" and the woozy, dissolute "Have a Good Time." Best of all, of course, is the brilliant title song, shifting from anecdotal verse to soaring bridge and colored by keening strings and Phil Woods's knowing tenor-sax solo. Simon was crazy, like a fox. --Sam Sutherland

Customer Reviews:

correction to the editorial review.......2007-06-22

Track 1 (the title track) of this album has perhaps one of the greatest jazz/fusion tenor sax solos ever recorded by the late virtuoso Michael Brecker (RIP). As a s sax player, I cant sit here idily and read this aggregious error. Phil Woods is a great contemporary saxophonist, but he did not record this solo.

Slippery slopes.......2007-05-31

One of the neat things about living today is you can turn back to yesterday and plan tomorrow by accessing anything you want now in music in seconds....if you have money...so I thought of Slip Sliding Away (actually just a line with Delores in it-listen-) and down loaded the album to hear tonight as quick as you can hit the button on your bank account.
Of course being a day away from payday and slightly over drawn this buying of song will earn me a fee and another massive reminder of "who is the real boss around here." Slip sliding away. So go to Finland, leave your wife to go it alone and expect to be immortalized on return. I may order two more tonight. I kind of want that Aja download..and a Taj Mahal. And what about Graceland? Slip and slide right away...

This was a favorite album, listening I'm back in 1975-76 and I know exactly what I felt. Music is amazing this way. Feeling. Transported to a long streak of bad luck tune...pray it's gone at last. Man. I had long streak..pray it's gone at last....love the trip listening to memories to try to lift out of pain today.
This remix has a terrific couple songs at the end too (demo version whatever that is). Rhythm is great. Not the Ramones but I saw them too, and Simon in New York I think it was 1977 or maybe 80?, it was in the height of this, saw a Saturday Night Live...live.

In that time this album was so much fun to listen to, wistful, urban, interior, about love failed, changing. Of course I was young, 18. My daughters age now. What did I know then? Wow, we seem so very different. She's so very smart, choosing, charting. At that time I wasn't going to get married or involved, ever. Oh we are kind of alike in those words.

Hop on the bus Gus, drop off the key, slip out the back Jack, you don't need to discuss much, get yourself free. Running days....days I got around to sing and live. And here I am listening to these tunes some for the first time in 15 years. I'd forgotten My Little Town, hanging shirts in the dirty breeze...such a great tune about growing up in nowhere in the times I became me. My little town, just hanging your life on the line ...black rainbows. God what writing. The lack of imagination in a small town has never changed. I sang this to move away and beyond the dead and dying dreams I had...

I Do It For Your Love was a tune I love to hear others cover, but listening today I remember it was sweet to listen to Simon. Too much... we were married on a rainy day. The sky was yellow, grass was gray. I do it for your love....you can love that writing too. I recall all those early married years living in a migrant town in a shanty where I saw the dirt through the floorboards. And lost all my jewelry in a plastic bag to a break in.Worth only the memories. By the time I was married nine years and owned a mattress and a table, and three kids. Made the love fade, life so hard getting all the degrees after working all day and trying to do it all....on a shoe string I suppose. The orange bled the blue. Sting of reason, splash of tears. I do it for your love. Beautiful tune. Like listening to Bill Evans lay it out.

Do you like harmonica lilting through your head, listen to Night Game....I recall on this album Sanborn, Brecker, Bob James, Ralph Mc Donald, Grady Tate, Steve Gadd, Phoebe Snow...but you know poor memory... I mostly enjoy listening which I'm going to do now. Was this really the reason, "I like to sleep with the window open and you keep the window closed", so goodbye? Yeah, it's as good as any reason. Sad. I recall this is an 'after a marriage ends release', is that right...it fades in my memory. Goodbye was it?

This beautiful bed of stones holding Jerusalem...I'd forgotten it's here too. I was playing this one night years ago, over the December break...alone in my tiny apartment, no food...a friend stopped over just as I was singing this out (giving them a scary show I suppose) they'd brought me a food care package. That I was singing this ballad at the time struck me as something very like proving you have connections to universe...call of this song in the dark ...we tumble and fall through no fault of our own....never catching our stars......but times seem to leave me wondering listening tonight....his is a tune I can almost not take, bone felt, still. Very beautiful.

So now I'm slip sliding away. Again. Good thing we can sing. It's about all you've got in the dark. A day tomorrow, I lie in bed and think of things that might have been....have A Good Time those that can. Will.

Good memories. In a year with great music this got a lot of awarding. And I still enjoy it 'cause awards are a sure killer.

A MUST HAVE!!!.......2007-04-02

For serious Paul Simon fans only!!! This cd showcases the first glimpse of his musical genius!!! Still a relevant cd 30 yrs after it was first released!!!

Paul Simon in a different direction.......2006-10-29

The best way to describe this album would be "melodically pleasing and mellow". In fact, the mellow atmosphere combined with the excellent songwriting will show you that Paul Simon really is a great singer and songwriter. He can do it all, folks. Buy this collection for a completely consistent album.

Not crazy about it but worth it for the already converted.......2006-07-14

This album had a few too many low-key cuts that wafted by without a lot of impact. I love Simon's stuff (and not just the "hits", for instance "St. Judy's Comet" is one of my favorite songs of his..) but sometimes he veers a bit into pretension. He's at his best when he's doing stuff that COULD be hits..if they weren't a little "too smart" for the room.

HIGHLIGHTS:
The title cut picks up a nice smoky jazz ambience thanks to jazzers like Michael Brecker adding a tasty sax solo and the string and woodwind arrangement by Bob James heightening the drama of the tune while not plunging it into melodrama. Perhaps the last great pairing with Art Garfunkel, "My Little Town" is another high point as Simon recalls his childhood in a one horse town ("And after it rains/There's a rainbow/And all of the colors are black/It's not that the colors aren't there/It's just imagination they lack"). The duo share production chores on the song with Phil Ramone (Billy Joel's producer). Crisp military snare drumming from Steve Gadd guides cheater how-to "50 Ways to Leave your Lover" which became a #1 for Simon. Simon hooks up with Phoebe Snow on the gospel-esque barnburner "Gone at Last" with gospel's Jessy Dixon Singers along for the ride. The lazy musical backing for "Have a Good Time" perfectly enhances the 'take it as it comes' hedonism. ("I've been loving and loving and loving/I'm exhausted from loving so well/I should go to bed/But a voice in my head/Says 'Ah, what the h**l')

LOWS:
"Night Game" is a finely etched word painting but it just never grabs me musically. I can't decide if Simon is genuinely desiring Jerusalem in "Silent Eyes" or if it's an ironic lament. It's just another one that 'lays there' for me.

BOTTOM LINE:
If you're already a fan you'll probably like it but if you've heard NEGOTIATIONS AND LOVE SONGS (Simon's greatest hits) and you want to go on from there, I'd try THERE GOES RHYMIN' SIMON next or GRACELAND and RHYTHM OF THE SAINTS for his world music excursions.

3 1/2 stars

Average customer rating: Two and a half stars Still successful after all those years! THE LITTLE BROTHER IN A BIG FAMILY good stuff Paul Simon's solo career turns towards the darker side

Still Crazy After All These Years Paul Simon Manufacturer: Warner Bros / Wea ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Pop | Styles | Music Singer-Songwriters | Pop | Styles | Music Soft Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music General | Adult Contemporary | Pop | Styles | Music Folk Rock | Rock | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Album-Oriented Rock (AOR) | Classic Rock | Styles | Music Similar Items: There Goes Rhymin' Simon Hearts and Bones Graceland The Rhythm of the Saints You're The One ASIN: B000002LBY Release Date: 1990-10-25

Tracks:

1. Still Crazy After All These Years
2. My Little Town - Art Garfunkel
3. I Do It For Your Love
4. 50 Ways To Leave Your Lover
5. Night Game
6. Gone At Last - Phoebe Snow/Jessy Dixon Singers
7. Some Folks' Lives Roll Easy
8. Have A Good Time
9. You're Kind
10. Silent Eyes

Amazon.com essential recording

Paul Simon's third solo album unifies the varied threads running through its predecessors--confessional ballads, wily story songs, agnostic spirituals and snapshots of modern life, circa 1975, are extensions of the models on his self-titled debut and--There Goes Rhymin' Simon. Here, Simon and producer Phil Ramone establish a more cohesive, explicitly urban setting that burnishes the artist's acoustic folk accents to spotlight his sophistication as an inventive composer and, as always, deft wordsmith. Included is his last great collaboration with Art Garfunkel, the bittersweet "My Little Town," a pop gospel romp with Phoebe Snow on "Gone at Last," and the sly adulterer's solution of "Fifty Ways to Leave Your Lover" (arguably the antithesis of Willie Dixon's classic "29 Ways"), along with the tender "I Do It for Your Love" and the woozy, dissolute "Have a Good Time." Best of all, of course, is the brilliant title song, shifting from anecdotal verse to soaring bridge and colored by keening strings and Phil Woods's knowing tenor-sax solo. Simon was crazy, like a fox. --Sam Sutherland

Customer Reviews:

Two and a half stars.......2006-06-28

Though there are some great songs here, this album finds Paul Simon beginning to run out of creative energy. It's all getting to sound by-the-book and it doesn't always sound like he's happy to be making music. There are two great songs - 50 Ways and My Little Town; and the title track, while subdued and downcast feeling, has a spooky, dreamy atmosphere and heartfelt vocal. Have A Good Time *might* sound better if he had someone else sing it, i.e. a female. To hear him wail away in a whiny falsetto for the WHOLE SONG is only slightly less grating than Prince's 'Kiss'. No wonder Art Garfunkel did all the falsetto stuff on the S&G albums. The rest of it is not bad, but suffers from blandness. No real catchy hooks or anything to make you remember the music. As far as the musicianship goes, it's top-notch throughout the album.

Still successful after all those years!.......2005-03-30

Yes,Paul Simon is still successful,by himself,after all those years since his musical partnership with Art Garfunkel dissolved. Don't worry,their friendship never was severed. Hits from this album include the title track,50 WAYS TO LEAVE YOUR LOVER,HAVE A GOOD TIME and MY LITTLE TOWN with Garfunkel. All but the latter appeared on NEGOTIATIONS AND LOVE SONGS 1971-1986,released in 1988. MLT also appeared on Garfunkel's 1975 album,BREAKAWAY. Also,MLT was reportedly the first Simon & Garfunkel recording since they recorded their BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATER album in 1969. I guess the reason MLT didn't appear on N&LS was because it was Simon's album. The other songs are good.

THE LITTLE BROTHER IN A BIG FAMILY.......2004-07-21

STILL CRAZY AFTER ALL THESE YEARS is regarded by many as Paul Simon?s last great album. Afterward he released two snoozers before he embarked on his ?world music? phase. As such this CD contains three of Simon?s great songs: ?Still Crazy?, ?50 Ways To Leave Your Lover? and ?Gone At Last?. He also includes the last duet ?My Little Town? he recorded with Art Garfunkel (at that point). On this basis alone STILL CRAZY AFTER ALL THESE YEARS is regarded as a classic. Released in October 1975, millions snapped it up?myself included.

Listening to this CD after all this time, I am struck at how somber and depressed the atmosphere is in these songs. I tend to imagine Simon himself was going for a wistful and humorous attitude; still this is not a happy record. The songs cover one?s spirit much like a wet blanket. But to object to this CD on this basis: is it fair?

Indeed, a brief survey of the Paul Simon songbook reveals a singer/songwriter often in moments of clarity in which life and relationships are pretty much futile affairs prone to collapse. Naturally, there are important exceptions to this?most notably ?54th Street Bridge Song?, ?Loves Me Like A Rock? and ?Bridge Of Troubled Water?. Simon also has recorded his fair share of just plain goofy songs such as ?Cecilia?, At The Zoo? and ?Baby Driver? (I mean ?goofy? in the most positive sense). Still, in most of Simon?s songs there is more than just a touch of sadness. Consider both the words and the tone of the music in just this brief sample:

?The Sound Of Silence?
?Richard Cory?
?I Am A Rock?
?Scarborough Fair/Canticle?
?Dangling Conversation?
?America?
?Fakin; It?
?The Boxer?
?The Only Living Boy In New York?
?Mother And Child Reunion?
?Run That Body Down?
?American Tune?
?Take Me To The Mardi Gras?

So to complain that STILL CRAZY AFTER ALL THESE YEARS is a bit of a downer in many ways is to state Simon?s standard operating mode.

It is said that while recording this album, Simon?s first marriage was falling apart. I can?t confirm this piece of ?common knowledge? but it makes sense and explains a lot about the overall tone of this album. What one can say is that Simon had a way of making a song beautiful as well as sad. Both ?Still Crazy After All These Years? and ?50 Ways To Leave Your Lover? carry an undertone of depression lightly. But ?My Little Town? is so bitter and bleak that I always found it crushingly oppressive. The rest of the album carries the face of irony, which covers forlorn hopes, and a sense of one having been dealt a bad hand of cards. Even such tunes as ?I Do It For Your Love? and ?Have A Good Time? betray a fair measure of sarcasm and disappointment beneath the surface of warmth and intimacy.

In my opinion, STILL CRAZY AFTER ALL THESE YEARS is not as brilliant as THERE GOES RHYMIN' SIMON and not quite as interesting as PAUL SIMON (his first solo album). The lesser songs are not as memorable and their verbal images are not as vivid. Frankly, PAUL SIMON IN CONCERT: LIVE RHYMIN' [LIVE] is far more absorbing and satisfying. So by all means, purchase this CD. But I would get Simon?s first three solo CDs and all the Simon and Garfunkel CDs first. In the context of these other albums, STILL CRAZY AFTER ALL THESE YEARS stands like the little brother in the family photograph: not as tall; but you can definitely see the family resemblance.

good stuff.......2003-12-04

not as good as his self-titled solo debut, but still quite good. some very well written songs like 50 ways to leave your lover and night game and you're kind.

Paul Simon's solo career turns towards the darker side.......2003-08-23

"Still Crazy After All These Years" was Paul Simon's third solo album and decidedly different from his previous efforts, "Paul Simon" and "Rhymin' Simon." For one thing, Simon's songs are much more introspective this time around, most of them dealing seriously with the subject of lost love (Of course, if you remember seeing Simon hosting "Saturday Night Life" and trying to sing the title song while dressed up as a giant turkey that seriousness is somewhat tempered). Musically, Simon is focusing more on the piano than the guitar in his compositions, and producer Phil Ramone clearly played a role in coming up with Simon's new sound on this album. Taken together those two factors would explain why "My Little Town," the song where Simon reunites with Art Garfunkel, sounds so different from previous Simon & Garfunkle songs. The album made it to the top of the Billboard charts in 1975 and three of the songs made it to the Top 40: the duet with Phoebe Snow, "Gone At Last" (#23), "50 Ways to Leave Your Lover" (#1), and "Still Crazy After All These Years" (#40). Those last two are the choice cuts off of the album and both reflect a wry sensibilities in the lyrics that was never as prominent in Simon's earlier work. The same applies to "My Little Town," and it is easy in retrospect to look at that song and "Night Games" as reflecting Simon's dark side. I was surprised that "Still Crazy After All These Years" was Simon's only #1 album, but "Graceland" only made it to #3. It is rather gratifying to know that Simon's serious work was more popular than his "fun" songs like "Kodachrome" and "Loves Me Like a Rock." The bottom line is that Paul Simon is one of those artists for whom a greatest hits collection does not suffice and the goal should be to have as many of their albums in your music library as possible tracing his ongoing musical evolution.

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Still Crazy After All These Years Paul Simon Manufacturer: Wea International ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Pop | Styles | Music Singer-Songwriters | Pop | Styles | Music Soft Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Folk Rock | Rock | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Album-Oriented Rock (AOR) | Classic Rock | Styles | Music Similar Items: Ziggy Stardust Discovery Moonflower Sweet Baby James Transformer ASIN: B000JU7IBA Release Date: 2006-12-04

Tracks:

1. Still Crazy After All These Years
2. My Little Town - Art Garfunkel, Paul Simon
3. I Do It for Your Love
4. 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover
5. Night Game
6. Gone at Last - Jessy Dixon Singers, Paul Simon, Phoebe Snow
7. Some Folks' Lives Roll Baby
8. Have a Good Time
9. You're Kind
10. Silent Eyes
11. Slip Slidin' Away [#][*][Demo Version]
12. Gone at Last [Original Demo][#][*] - Jessy Dixon Singers, Paul Simon

Album Description

Limited Edition European pressing of this album comes house in a miniature LP sleeve. WEA. 2006.

Album Details

2006 Digitally Remastered Reissue of the Classic Paul Simon Album in a Limited Edition LP Sleeve Replica of the Original Vinyl Album Cover.

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Still Crazy After All These Years Karaoke Manufacturer: Sound Choice ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Latin Music | Styles | Music Karaoke | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music ASIN: B000253KN2 Release Date: 2005-03-18

Average customer rating:

Still Crazy After All These Years Paul Simon Manufacturer: Wea/Rhino ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Pop | Styles | Music Singer-Songwriters | Pop | Styles | Music Soft Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Folk Rock | Rock | Styles | Music Album-Oriented Rock (AOR) | Classic Rock | Styles | Music Rhino Records | Amazon.com Label Stores | Stores | Music ASIN: B000GW88NI Release Date: 2006-10-02

Tracks:

1. Still Crazy After All These Years
2. My Little Town - Art Garfunkel, Paul Simon
3. I Do It for Your Love
4. 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover
5. Night Game
6. Gone at Last - Jessy Dixon Singers, Paul Simon, Phoebe Snow
7. Some Folks' Lives Roll Baby
8. Have a Good Time
9. You're Kind
10. Silent Eyes
11. Slip Slidin' Away [#][*][Demo Version]
12. Gone at Last [Original Demo][#][*] - Jessy Dixon Singers, Paul Simon

Album Description

Limited Edition Japanese pressing of this album comes housed in a miniature LP sleeve. Rhino. 2006.

Album Details

Japanese Limited Edition Issue of the Album Classic in a Deluxe, Miniaturized LP Sleeve Replica of the Original Vinyl Album Artwork.

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