Album Recommendation of the Winter - Bridge Over Troubled Water
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Simon & Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water
Remember February 1970? That was a cold winter. Simon & Garfunkel make no bones about it, this album is for the winter. Came out in February and look at that damn cover. I think Paul is being attacked by a Yeti from behind. Anyway, I popped this album on last week. I'd say it's been a couple of years since I listened to it and man, it brought me back. There is not a single bad track, besides "Bye Bye Love", but that's a bonus CD track, so it doesn't count.
My favorites? "Keep the Customer Satsified", "Cecilia", "The Boxer", and shamefully (Thanks Dr. Zach Braff for ruining it) "The Only Living Boy In New York". Can't forget "Baby Driver". Shit, did I just mention the whole album? Yeah close to it.
Ok, the only weirdness of this album is the track order. It's like S&G made a 11-Sided dice with all the track names, smoked a splif (they would have had to make the dice first before smoking or maybe the dice idea came from another stoner experience), and then rolled the dice. It starts off with "Bridge Over Troubled Water" which initially you're like "Why would you start an album off with the most depressing song? This is clearly 'last song' material. And then by the middle of the song you're like they're geniuses!" THEN, a few more tracks go by and you think you just put the album on shuffle. So, the flow is strange. But, it is clearly a hit–at the Money Store.
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