Paul Simon's "Rene and Georgette Magritte with their dog after the War" recording...

[CTyankee]

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I don't know what to say after hearing this...

[spike jones]

1. Paul Simon again failing badly at trying to be Bob Dylan.

[CTyankee]

3. I'm not hearing that because one can say that about lots of Dylan-esque songs or what we

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think is a Dylan song. I think we should put Dylan aside and judge this one on the merits. IOW, if we always use the Dylan standard for songs such as these, more than likely we'll be disappointed.

I don't know music but I think I can look for what I think is meritorious. His accompaniment is terrific and I particularly love the flute.

Did he write the music and/or the lyrics?

[spike jones]

4. Paul Simon was with Dylan's former woman-friend when he thought about writing it.

Otherwise you are absolutely right.

"Simon told a story about being at Joan Baez’s home and waiting for her to get off the phone to rehearse. Simon pulled a book off her shelf of Magritte’s artwork and found a picture with the song title."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rene_and_Georgette_Magritte_with_Their_Dog_after_the_War

[OnDoutside]

5. Big difference in that you're not straining to understand the lyrics here, plus it's more evocative

of The Beatles "Eleanor Rigby" in its melancholy and descriptive detail, I would have thought.

[Nitram]

6. Give me a break. What could possibly have brought Dylan to mind?

The only time something Simon wrote made me think of Dylan was where he humorously references Dylan in "A Simple Desultory Philippic":

I knew a man, his brain so small
He couldn't think of nothing at all
Not the same as you and me
He doesn't dig poetry
He's so unhip that when you say Dylan
He thinks you're talking about Dylan Thomas
Whoever he was, the man ain't got no culture,
But it's all right ma
Everybody must get stoned.

[William Seger]

7. Whoever told you that must have been talking about a different song

[mahina]

10. Lol

Nope

[Clash City Rocker]

2. Beautiful. One of my favorite Paul Simon songs.

This is based on the version from 2018’s “In the Blue Light.” I go back and forth between it and the original version from “Hearts and Bones” but really, I love them both about the same.

For a guy who started recording way back in 1957, Paul still sounds fantastic. May he live forever.

[TygrBright]

8. Thank you for sharing this now...

In an era struggling with ginned-up hatred for immigrants, this song captures the simplicity and power of why millions have been drawn to America- escaping many forms of oppression and repression.

sadly,
Bright

[mahina]

9. Lovely

Thank you.

[zanana1]

11. I've always loved that song.

Beautifully done.