Simon and Garfunkel - Bookends
SIMON AND GARFUNKEL - BOOKENDS 6/10/21 RATING: 10/10 As a freshly graduated, spanking new, straight-out-of-school reviewer, I can conclusively say that the hardest thing about reviews is beginning them. I spent a solid ten minutes of my precious time sitting here thinking about the first sentence of this review until I settled on a sentence about how hard this process was. There now, that wasn't so bad, was it? I thought I'd start off this site with a review of my favourite Simon and Garfunkel albums, the wonderful Bookends. I feel like this is one of the only two S+G albums (and, more broadly, Paul Simon albums) where Paul Simon's talent is realised and consistent, the other one being this album's successor: the lush, beautiful Parsley, Sage, Rosemary, and Thyme. Wednesday Morning, 3am is fine, but too full of folk classics instead of Paul Simon originals. Sounds of Silence is fun but too much of it feels rushed off to get an album out. Bridge Over Troubled Water, oft...