The Paul Simon Anthology [Import]

Paul Simon | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 16, 1996)
• Number of Discs: 2
• Format: Import
• Label: WARNER BROS UK
• ASIN: B0000073T5
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #147,771 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. The Sound Of Silence

2. Cecilia

3. El Condor Pasa

4. The Boxer

5. Mrs. Robinson

6. Bridge Over Troubled Water

7. Me And Julio Down By The School Yard

8. Peace Like A River

9. Mother And Child Reunion

10. American Tune

11. Loves Me Like A Rock

12. Kodachrome

13. Gone At Last

14. Still Crazy After All These Years

15. Something So Right

16. 50 Ways To Leave Your Lover

17. Slip Slidin' Away

18. Late In The Evening

19. Hearts And Bones

20. Rene And Georgette Magritte

See all 37 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews

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Genre: Popular Music
Media Format: Compact Disk
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Release Date: 30-AUG-2002

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Higly reccomended. Includes most of his best songs., September 6, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: The Paul Simon Anthology (Audio CD)

This is an amazing album as it includes a large number of incredible songs, making few sacrifices. I also love the second version of The Sound of Silence. This is a must buy for anyone looking for a collection of Paul Simon.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A set of Masterpieces, May 14, 2003

By 

Pieter "Toypom" (Johannesburg) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Paul Simon Anthology (Audio CD)

This 2 Disc set includes Simon's greatest hits with the duo Simon & Garfunkel plus highlights from his solo work. Disc One includes the old classics from the 1960s like Sound Of Silence, El Condor Pasa and Cecilia, plus his 70s solo hits like the reggae ditties Me And Julio Down By The Schoolyard and Mother And Child Reunion and other hits like the impressive American Tune and the fun hit 50 Ways To Leave Your Lover. Disc Two draws from his masterpiece Graceland and the post-Graceland albums. Here my favourites include Boy In The Bubble, Under African Skies and You Can Call Me Al but others like Further To Fly are also beautiful. The anthology is a great compilation of his best known and commercially most successful songs.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars How Does It Compare Sound-Wise to Other S&G Collections/Box Sets?, February 16, 2007

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KC "metroxing" (Northern CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Paul Simon Anthology (Audio CD)

Of course, the songs are time tested classics - great songwriter, great arrangements and great voices will do that. Nearly every one of his songs could be released tomorrow for the first time and still sound fresh - they still sound great and you don't need any further reviews to the testament of his talent ... but more importantly if you own a bunch of his & S&G greatest hits and box sets, how does the sound compare?

I have: GREATEST HITS, ETC; NEGOTIATIONS AND LOVE SONGS and; the OLD FRIENDS BOX SET.

I bought the original GRACELAND CD upon first release and unless you have a remastered version, the GRaceland tracks all sound better here.

The LATE IN THE EVENING sounds much better here than on NEGOTIATIONS.

AMERICAN TUNE is the studio version and not a live version as it was on OLD FRIENDS.

ME & JULIO sounds much better here than on GREATEST HITS and NEGOTIATIONS.

SOUNDS OF SILENCE sounds slighty better on the remastered SOUNDS OF SILENCE CD than her though ...

Any tracks I don't mention are of comparable sound quality to the earlier collections (most of the S&G tracks repeated from OLD FRIENDS - they sound like the exact versions remastered from that set). So, you might not feel the need to buy this collection since you probably own most if not all the tracks and it's just a matter of sound fidelity - though if you want an extra CD to pop in, it's a great collection of great songs.