Week 5 - Graceland by Paul Simon

Hi again,

Yes we are still slightly behind with our reviews of classic albums ever since we went off to End of the Road festival. Yes it took a while to return back to our usual selves, by which time it was also time to get back to work and as such, the whole thing fell off the radar a little. Our sincere apologies.

Week 5 we were treated to an absolute classic album in Graceland by Paul Simon. This is actually one of my all time favourite albums because I remember it from when I was younger and think I revisited it a few times as I grew up.

As such I actually really enjoyed listening to it again and there were a few tracks that I didn't really remember, especially the opening track, The Boy in the Bubble which sounded much darker than I remembered.

I also really enjoyed Gumboots and the really great observational lyrics from Monsieur Simon.

Stephen enjoyed Diamonds on the Soles of her Shoes and we both found that Call Me Al made us both particularly happy.

I think it just falls into that category of almost 100% perfect pop songs which include a really healthy dose of slightly dark or questionable lyrics and upbeat music. It's also impossible to listen to it without thinking of the video with Chevvy Chase, which is very funny.

The album in all brightened up a particularly rubbish day at work for me.

Sam 8/10
Stephen 7.5/10 (but only gave it so little because he liked Johnny Cash much better)

This week we are into week 6, that's Odessey and Oracle by The Zombies (Time of the Season? Bring it on!)