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...ASSUMED I wouldn't like Paul Simon. I didn't like Simon and Garfunkel. Arthur was as precious as anyone deliberately called Artie could be. I found their music smug and overconfident; it represented the worst of the thoroughly reprehensible middle sixties "folkie" tradition. It was all there in "Homeward Bound;" its singer's over-inflated, self-pitying view of himself was combined with a banal excursion into sentiment. By the time S and G had reached the self-conscious artiness of "The Boxer," they had dissipated their creative impulse, aad were selling two million records at a crack...
Paul Simon's solo work has been aimed at revitalizing himself musically. It turns out that Arthur Garfunkel was a restrictive influence in roughly the same way Paul McCartney restricted John Lennon. Paul Simon sang Simon's problems; not unusual in light of the trend toward works exploring "the pain of the heart," exemplified by Joni Mitchell and Baby James. Songs like "Everything Put Together Falls Apart," "Run That Body Down," and "Armistice Day" probed their author's psyche, while "Mother and Child Reunion," and "Me and Julio" revitalized Simon's music, as well as letting him look within...
There Goes Rhymin' Simon (Paul Simon, Columbia; $5.98). Simon's second solo album since his breakup with Art Garfunkel testifies anew to a major talent that simply will not stop growing. By now a pop composer with no superiors and few equals, Simon, 31, manages to distill a diversity of pop styles into an original blend, yet remarkably enough never loses the original force or point, whether it be rock, gospel, folk, soul, jazz, or even hymnody...
PAUL SIMON (Columbia). Unpretentious poeticizing about many of the same urban and exurban complaints that Simon & Garfunkel used to adjudicate so well...
Within these constraints, some artists--usually in folk or in blues--have enjoyed considerable success in spite of the prettiness of their music or a special quality to their lyrics. A musician named John Simon has produced albums for some of the best, including Simon and Garfunkel, Seals and Crofts, Gordon Lightfoot, and The Band Ironically his own first record John Simon's Album, cut in 1970, remains virtually unknown. By almost any other standard its arrangements, musicianship, variety in tone, and emotional sophistication made it a remarkable debut...