[b]The Source Presents[/b]
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[b]Artist: Simon And Garfunkel
Album: Bookends
Release Info: Original US Mono
Year Of Release: 1968
[quote]....if it's in the Wax it's in the Flacs[/b][/quote]
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This is uber rare..special thanks to the music lover who lent me this LP
{Tracklisting}
A1 Bookends Theme
A2 Save The Life Of My Child
A3 America
A4 Overs
A5 Voices Of Old People
A6 Old Friends
B1 Bookends Theme
B2 Fakin' It
B3 Punky's Dilemma
B4 Mrs. Robinson
B5 A Hazy Shade Of Winter
B6 At The Zoo
{Technical Details}
Turntable: VPI Scoutmaster
Tonearm: Trans-Fi Terminator 3
Cartridge: Audio-Technica AT33PTG
Preamp: Pro-Ject Tubebox
Soundcard: E-MU 1212
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MAY THE SOURCE BE WITH YOU
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Bookends is a literary album that contains the most minimal of openings with the theme, an acoustic guitar stating itself slowly and plaintively before erupting into the wash of synthesizers and dissonance that is "Save the Life of My Child." The classic "America" is next, a folk song with a lilting soprano saxophone in the refrain and a small pipe organ painting the acoustic guitars in the more poignant verses. The song relies on pop structures to carry its message of hope and disillusionment as two people travel the American landscape searching for it until it dawns on them that everyone else on the freeway is doing the same thing. The final four tracks, "Mrs. Robinson," the theme song for the film The Graduate, "A Hazy Shade of Winter," and the album's final track, "At the Zoo," offer as tremblingly bleak a vision for the future as any thing done by the Velvet Underground, but rooted in the lives of everyday people, not in the decadent underground personages of New York's Factory studio. But the album is also a warning that to pay attention is to take as much control of one's fate as possible.