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Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme | 
 enlarge | Artist: Simon & Garfunkel
Label: Sony
Category: Music
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Rating:  29 reviews
Sales Rank: 15517
Format: Extra Tracks, Original Recording Remastered
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 66001
UPC: 074646600122
EAN: 0074646600122
ASIN: B00005NKKX
Release Date: August 21, 2001
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| Tracks:
| • | Scarborough Fair/Canticle | | • | Patterns | | • | Cloudy | | • | Homeward Bound | | • | The Big Bright Green Pleasure Machine | | • | the 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy) | | • | The Dangling Conversation | | • | Flowers Never Bend With The Rainfall | | • | A Simple Desultory Philippic (Or How I Was Robert McNamara'd Into | | • | For Emily, Wherever I May Find Her | | • | A Poem On The Underground Wall | | • | 7 O'Clock News/Silent Night | | • | Patterns | | • | A Poem On The Underground Wall |
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Amazon.com essential recording
When a retrofit of electric guitars transformed "Sounds of Silence" into Simon & Garfunkel's folk-rock entree, the partners and their label hastily followed with a like-titled album mixing Paul Simon's acoustic folk songs with plugged-in bids for radio play. By contrast, this successor, released less than a year later, more coherently and convincingly reveals Simon's broadening horizons as a writer and the duo's nascent studio perfectionism. The title song remains a haunting signature piece, relying on acoustic guitar and harpsichord to carry its contrapuntal marriage of English ballad and antiwar plaint; such acoustic delicacy prevails throughout and has proven more durable than by-the-numbers wattage. The first great S&G album, the set includes "The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy)," "Homeward Bound," "Dangling Conversation," and Art Garfunkel's luminous solo piece, "For Emily, Wherever I May Find Her." (The 2001 reissue adds a pair of unreleased demos to the original work.) --Sam Sutherland
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A Classic August 21, 2008
This was one of the first albums I ever owned. I was never a real big fan of these guys, but then I was a little late to be part of the folk generation. However, it is reasonable to look at Simon and G as artists who kind of bridged the gap between folk and pop rock. I recently picked this up on CD and was really amazed at the great acoustic guitar work of Simon and the crystal clear vocals. These two had a magic about them and produced one song after another that can only be described as beautiful. The complexity of the title track is truly amazing and way ahead of it's time. If you feel like you have a bad case of high blood pressure and want some serenity and peace then give this a listen.
Poetry set to music... June 7, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Hugely popular at the time but, as with much of Simon & Garfunkle's work, now increasingly consigned to the "interesting time-piece" category, "Parsley, Sage, Rosemary & Time" is quite simply one of the best albums from the 60's. If you haven't listened to it recently, get out your old copy and prepare to be amazed at the quality of the songs, the complexity and superb metering of their lyrics and the often stunningly beautiful singing - captured at its finest in the breathtakingly poignant "For Emily, Whenever I May Find Her". Sure, a couple of tracks sound pretty dated and a couple fall into the easy-listening "rock-pop" category, but most have a timeless clarity and sincerity that few of their contemporaries and equally few artists since then have mastered. And... if you don't own it but want to discover how good poetry set to music can be, well, it doesn't get much better.
a masterpiece of musical brilliance March 13, 2008
This is Simon & Garfunkel's second classic album (you can guess what's number one). It features many well-known songs, as well as tunes you will absolutely fall in love with right away. Expect to hear one classic right after another. Phenomenal songwriting, beautiful vocals, and insanely catchy vocal melodies. What else do you need? A songwriter lovers dream.
Simon And Garfunkel's best February 24, 2008
This Album is They're best one, but you will here that this is from 60s.
There's somthing timeless over it. I Just Love It.
Bookends and Bridge Over Trouble Water is also very good,but this one is my favorite!!!!
Timelessly 'of its time' June 13, 2007
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
1966, in many respects was to rock 'n roll what 1984 was to punk, with now seminal releases such as the Beach Boys' Pet Sounds, The Beatles' Revolver and Bob Dylan's double Blonde On Blonde notable in an era when groundbreaking work was emerging almost monthly. No other album however, possessed the sheer sophistication of Simon & Garfunkel's third recording.
In an unlikely connection, Parsley, Sage, Rosemary & Thyme has ties with Tool's sophomore release, Aenima (1996) in that both were heavily influenced by - and in both cases, dedicated to - renegade comedians Lenny Bruce (1925-1966) and Bill Hicks (1961-1994) respectively.
Through Art Garfunkel's ethereal vocals and Paul Simon's elegiac lyricism and acoustic guitar, Parsley, Sage, Rosemary & Thyme is a contemplative interrogation of both high and popular culture, age and adolescence, individual and collective identity.
The album opens with 'Scarborough Fair/Canticle' a traditional English folk song and an anti-war Simon original intertwined to majestic effect, and continues with the furtive 'Patterns' and enigmatic 'A Poem on the Underground Wall' sitting comfortably alongside literary ballads ('The Dangling Conversation' and 'Cloudy') and scathing indictment of consumer culture ('The Big Bright Green Pleasure Machine'). In 'A Simple Desultory Philippic (Or How I Was Robert McNamara'd Into Submission)' Simon snips away at various public figures, including The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, Norman Mailer, Ayn Rand, Phil Spector and Andy Warhol. There are songs, 'hits' even, to have become ubiquitous in popular music, notably 'Homeward Bound,' 'The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy)' and the celestial ballad 'For Emily, Whenever I May Find Her.'
Having abandoned sporadic attempts to sound like the Everly Brothers singing Bob Dylan on their 1964 debut Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M., and The Beatles on Sounds of Silence (1966), Parsley, Sage, Rosemary & Thyme represents Simon & Garfunkel establishing a sound uniquely their own, their own vision.
The album closes with '7 O'Clock News/Silent Night,' with the duo's rendition of the Christmas carol hauntingly interspersed with an evening news bulletin from August 3rd 1966, documenting plans for Martin Luther King's controversial open housing march into the Chicago suburbs of Cicero; Richard Nixon's desire to increase the war effort in Vietnam; the trial of proto-typical mass murderer Richard Speck; and the death of Lenny Bruce. The fact that these individuals, intrinsic to the ethos of the album, having been so influential (for good or bad) in the manner in which the world has since evolved, remain figuratively pertinent in contemporary society, render the album so timeless, quite possibly more so than any other album.
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