SIMON & GARFUNKEL STUDIO 1964-1970 БОКС-СЕТ, 5 компакт-дисков

SIMON & GARFUNKEL - THE COLUMBIA STUDIO RECORDINGS 1964 - 1970

DELUXE EDITION 5 ORIGINAL ALBUMS + BONUS TRACK

5 CD BOXSET / BONUS TRACK / EXTENSIVE 76 - PAGE BOOKLET WITH LINER NOTES FOR EACH ALBUM / RARE PHOTOS & MORE

ALBUM 5 CD / DIGIBOOK BOX / 2010

Zbiór pierwszych pięciu płyt duetu. Wszystkie płyty uzupełnione są o dodatkowe bonusy , wersje demo, alternatywne podejścia (m.in. ,,Bridge Over Troubled Water'' w wersji z sierpnia 1969, podczas gdy ,,właściwą'' wersję panowie Paul i Art zarejestrowali dopiero w listopadzie). Jest też nagranie z drugiej strony singla ,,Old Friends'': ,,You Don't Know Interest Lies''.  Tym razem otrzymujemy wszystko efektownie podane w jednym boksie -książce. Dużo zdjęć, obowiązkowo w dużym formacie reprodukcje oryginalnych okładek i dokładne opisy dyskograficzne.

This box set containing the remastered, expanded editions of all five of Simon & Garfunkel's original LPs on five CDs. The sound is, as with the individual editions of each title, a significant improvement over any prior releases of this material and proves to be utterly impeccable, and the annotated booklet, containing the original credits and notes off the albums as well as the lyrics and all of the new annotation for each individual album by Bud Scoppa, is fairly handy.

Though the American folk movement of the early '60s would influence bands like the Byrds and Buffalo Springfield and a score of oh-so-sensitive '70s singer-songwriters, its two most looming successes during the decade–Bob Dylan and Simon and Garfunkel–couldn't have seemed more disparate. While Dylan turned hard-left, outraging many a folk purist by zealously embracing rootsy blues-rock and its electrified cacophony, S&G veered toward the center, equally infuriating snooty pundits by embracing a Top 40 pop sense whose ostensible shallowness often belied its rich musical diversity.

In retrospect, Simon and Garfunkel's career as a duo was remarkably brief (five albums in six years), if no less commercially potent (a slew of Top 40 singles, two Number One albums, and the requisite handful of Grammy Awards). This box set compiles digitally remastered versions of the original S&G albums, each expanded to include bonus tracks (mostly previously unissued demos with a few scattered outtakes, the quartet on Sounds of Silence the best of the lot) and a booklet featuring new notes for each album and song lyrics. It's a rewarding journey, wending from the almost slavish folk devotion of Wednesday Morning 3 AM through the greeting-card iconoclasm of Sounds of Silence, the madrigal-pop of Parsley, Sage, Rosemary, and Thyme to the increasingly impressionistic lyrical landscape of Bookends. It also covers the rich musical tapestry of Bridge over Troubled Waters, which foreshadowed Simon's own diverse solo career by embracing everything from the Everlys and Jan & Dean to Andean folk and R&B.

CD 1 - Simon & Garfunkel - Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M. (1964)

1. You Can Tell The World

02. Last Night I Had The Strangest Dream

03. Bleecker Street

04. Sparrow

05. Benedictus

06. The Sound Of Silence

07. He Was My Brother

08. Peggy-O

09. Go Tell It On The Mountain

10. The Sun Is Burning

11. The Times They Are A-Changin'

12. Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M.

13. Bleecker Street (Demo) [Bonus track]

14. He Was My Brother (Alt. Take 1) [Bonus track]

15. The Sun Is Burning (Alt. Take 2) [Bonus track]

CD 2 - Simon & Garfunkel - Sounds Of Silence (1966)

1. The Sounds Of Silence

02. Leaves That Are Green

03. Blessed

04. Kathy's Song

05. Somewhere They Can't Find Me

06. Anji

07. Richard Cory

08. A Most Peculiar Man

09. April Come She Will

10. We've Got A Groovy Thing Goin'

11. I Am A Rock

12. Blues Run The Game [Bonus track]

13. 13 Barbriallen (Demo) [Bonus track]

14. Rose Of Aberdeen (Demo) [Bonus track]

15. Roving Gambler (Demo) [Bonus track]

CD 3 - Simon & Garfunkel - Parsley, Sage, Rosemary And Thyme (1966)

1. Scarborough Fair / Canticle

02. Patterns

03. Cloudy

04. Homeward Bound

05. The Big Bright Green Pleasure Machine

06. The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy)

07. The Dangling Conversation

08. Flowers Never Bend With The Rainfall

09. A Simple Desultory Philippic (Or How I Was Robert McNamara'd Into Submission)

10. For Emily, Whenever I May Find Her

11. A Poem On The Underground Wall

12. 7 O'Clock News / Silent Night

13. Patterns (Demo) [Bonus track]

14. A Poem On The Underground Wall (Demo) [Bonus track]

CD 4 - Simon & Garfunkel - Bookends (1968)

1. Bookends Theme

02. Save The Life Of My Child

03. America

04. Overs

05. Voices Of Old People

06. Old Friends

07. Bookends Theme

08. Fakin' It

09. Punky's Dilemma

10. Mrs. Robinson (From The Motion Picture 'The Graduate')

11. A Hazy Shade Of Winter

12. At The Zoo

13. You Don't Know Where Your Interest Lies [Bonus track]

14. Old Friends (Demo) [Bonus track]

CD 5 - Simon & Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water (1970)

1. Bridge Over Troubled Water

02. El Condor Pasa (If I Could)

03. Cecilia

04. Keep The Customer Satisfied

05. So Long, Frank Lloyd Wright

06. The Boxer

07. Baby Driver

08. The Only Living Boy In New York

09. Why Don't You Write Me

10. Bye Bye Love

11. Song For The Asking

12. Feuilles-O (Demo) [Bonus track]

13. Bridge Over Troubled Water (Demo Take 6) [Bonus track]