Sounds of Silence - Simon & Garfunkel
Simon and Garfunkel were not just singers - they were incredibly talented poets who wrote words which touched your heart. Think of Shakespeare or Robert Frost put to music. You get not only the power of the words, but also the beauty fo the music.
With Sounds of Silence, you get numerous classics - The Sounds of Silence, I Am a Rock, Kathy's Song for three. You also get a collection of less well known but just as intricate tunes - Leaves that are Green, Belssed, Somewhere they Cn'at Find Me, Anji, Richard Cory, A Most Peculiar Man, April Come She Will, We've got a Groovey Thing Goin'.
Each song here has its own meaningful message. In I Am A Rock, they sing "I won't disturb the slumber of feelings that have died. If I never loved, I never would have cried." Quite a different view from 'Tis better to have loved and lost'!
In The Sounds of Silence, they rail against people complacently accepting what they are told. "The people bowed and prayed to the neon god they made." Written back in 1965, the words are just as meaningful in modern times.
Well recommended!
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