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Paul Simon Pictures
Artist:
Paul Simon
Origin:
United States, Newark Heights - New JerseyUnited States
Born date:
October 13, 1941
Paul Simon Album: «The Studio Recordings 1972-2000»
Paul Simon Album: «The Studio Recordings 1972-2000» (Front side)
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  • Customers rating: (4.8 of 5)
  • Title:The Studio Recordings 1972-2000
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Review - Product Description
In a remarkable career spanning six decades, singer-songwriter Paul Simon has amassed 9 Grammy awards and has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame twice, first as a member of Simon & Garfunkel, then in 2001 as a solo performer and composer. Encompassing nine studio albums - all contained herein - Simon's catalogue is one of the most diverse, literate, adventurous, and musically rich in all of popular music. Simon is an American treasure, and this awesome collection celebrates his ever-growing legacy.
Review - Amazon.com
Paul Simon's rich, 1986 South African-rooted Grammy triumph Graceland and its 1990 Brazilian steeped follow-up are but the most obvious examples of his restless, inquisitive muse. This boxed anthology of the nine solo studio albums the veteran singer-songwriter released between dissolving his epochal partnership with Art Garfunkel and 2000 ably underscores the long-term pursuit of those eclectic tastes. While his solo debut and sophomore album delivered hits ("Mother and Child Reunion," "Me and Julio," "Kodachrome") that could have just as easily passed as fodder for Simon & Garfunkel, they also delved deeper into black American roots music via tracks like "Tenderness" and "Loves Me Like a Rock." For the Grammy winning Still Crazy After All These Years, Simon arguably went both backwards (reuniting with Garfunkel on "My Little Town") and forward, infusing his music with the looser, more jazz-influenced approach that would also characterize the songs from his misfired Hollywood conceit, One Trick Pony, if with considerably less focus. 1983's Hearts and Bones now seems like the artistic crossroads of Simon's career; begun as an S&G reunion, Garfunkel's vocal tracks were soon after erased, eventually yielding the most personally insightful songs of Paul's career, wed to a spare, modernist production that virtually guaranteed commercial disappointment. It's introspective, rhythmically complex artistic bookend came 17 years later, closing out a half-century during which Simon had firmly established himself as one of America's most consistently challenging singer-songwriters. Digitally remastered, each of the albums slipcased together here contain several bonus demos and outtakes; culled together, they're essentially an additional double-album's worth of raw insight into Paul Simon's adventurous creative vision and restless musical soul. --Jerry McCulley
Customer review
19 of 19 people found the following review helpful:
- Paul Simon boxed set

Even though I have all of these cd's, I really like this boxed set-the sound is great, and the extras are great. This man has written music that resonates with me-the 60's throught the 90's(and hoping for a DVD from the "Old Friends" tour). It is worth getting this set just for the sound-I am listening to this music, and it sounds better than ever- It sounds fresh to me.

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20 of 24 people found the following review helpful:
- Could've been better if B-sides, unreleased songs were added

Paul Simon is one of my favorite singers/song-writers. I took this box set to have the full collection and I'm currently exploring with the albums that I haven't heard before.

The collection would have been better if singles, B-sides, previously unreleased recordings have been added rather than demo and live recordings of songs of the Album.

In my opinion, the bonus tracks are not really that significant addition.

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16 of 20 people found the following review helpful:
- For a Simon-lover

First off, this is 120+ of Paul Simon's songs. And it isn't even the "complete" studio recordings. But it is stil a triumph for any Simon-lover. There are no new special-edition liner notes, but I still gave it 5 stars. The winner of 9-Grammy's gives us a 9-disk masterpiece with music from Kodachrome to Call Me Al, any fan would love this as a gift.

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
- a lot of material

Okay , how many Paul Simon compilations are there out there ? Which do you chose, and how do you chose ? You don't. You plunk down the $ for this box and get everything Paul has recorded (solo)(studio) up to 2000. You can't go wrong. With every compilation you get edited tracks (mostly chopped for time) , you get tracks left off that really should have been included , and you get frustrated because you STILL don't have the "best of" Paul Simon. Here , you will.

Customer review
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
- The kind of set I wish every recording artist made.

All Simon's albums in a simple sturdy box with nice remastering, booklets and demos/outtakes. I can't tell you how many artists I wished had a no frills collection of their albums in nice editions like this. I'm all about the rarities/b-sides/hard-to-find-tracks box sets too, but you gotta start with a comprehensive album set, and do it right. This is what I'm talking about.

The one drawback is that the cases are digipack, so make sure and store the disks elsewhere to prevent the inevitable breakage and uselessness of the disk holding clips.