"But all my words come back to me
In shades of mediocrity" -Paul Simon

You know you got to go through hell
before you get to heaven -Steve Miller Band

All alone or in twos
The ones who really love you
Walk up and down outside the wall
Some hand in hand
And some gather together in bands
The bleeding hearts and the artists
Make their stand
And when they've given you their all
Some stagger and fall after all it's not easy
Banging your heart against some mad bugger's wall -Pink Floyd

The words of the prophets
Are written on the subway walls
And tenement halls
And whispered in the sounds of silence -Paul Simon

Your video, Paul Simon tells the story behind Mrs. Robinson (1970), has made it into the Top 15 New Videos listing. Congratulations on your achievement. For your contribution you have been awarded 1 Power Point.

FYI here's the list if you haven't already seen it ...

1 Wilco - Foxtrot
2 Neil Young - Harvest
3 Leonard Cohen - Songs of Love and Hate
4 Radiohead - In Rainbows
5 Pink Floyd - The Wall
6 Sex Pistols - Nevermind The Bollocks
7 The Velvet Underground & Nico
8 The Ramones
9 Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds -The Boatman's Call
10 Elvis Costello - This Year's Model
11 Jay Z - Blueprint
12 Nilson –Schmilsson
13 George Harrison - All Thing Must Pass
14 Paul Mccartney - Mccartney II
15 Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band - Trout Mask Replica
16 Bob Dylan – Blonde on Blonde
17 Paul Simon – Paul Simon
18 Beck – Sea Change
19 Elliot Smith - Figure 8
20 Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run
21 The Clash - London Calling
22 Backstreet Boys - Millenium
23 Ringo Starr - Beaucoups of Blues
24 Patti Smith – Horses
25 Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers
26 Bruce Springsteen - Born in the USA
27 Tom Petty – Damn The Torpedoes
28 Iron & Wine - Our Endless Numbered Days
29 Michael Jackson - Thriller
30 The Smiths - This Charming Man
31 Tom Waits – Rain Dogs
32 Morrissey, The Best of
33 U2 - The Best
34 David Bowie - Aladdin Sane
35 Kalle Mattson - Avalanche

Love this. The music sounds like something Paul Simon would write.

Incredibly beautiful song for such a somber performance, but.. Wow, geez, he's got work done! That expression was like an evil Paul Simon mask!

Nice! Thanks for the quality!

In reply to this comment by gwiz665:
*quality

Yay, thanks for the promote too!

In reply to this comment by Hybrid:
*promote

This video has been declared a duplicate by the original submitter; transferring votes to the original video and killing this dupe - dupeof declared by Hybrid.

*dupeof=http://videosift.com/video/Paul-Simon-The-Sound-of-Silence-9-11-Ground-Zero

>> ^soulmonarch:

Credit should go to Simon AND Garfunkle, shouldn't it?
I think it's important distinction. Paul Simon played very different music solo than in his S&G days.


From the wiki:

"I Am a Rock" is a song written by Paul Simon. It was first performed by Simon alone as the opening track on his album The Paul Simon Songbook which he originally recorded and released in August 1965, only in the United Kingdom. Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel, as the American pop/folk duo Simon and Garfunkel, re-recorded it on December 14, 1965, and included as the final track on their album Sounds of Silence, which they released on January 17, 1966.

Credit should go to Simon AND Garfunkle, shouldn't it?

I think it's important distinction. Paul Simon played very different music solo than in his S&G days.

interesting perversion of pop music sentiments.

maybe doesn't push it far enough to offset the harmless chorus and generic Paul Simon backing...
if it went one step more into funny/gross than it would be less creepy.

I find myself really enjoying the Bantu samples, especially the Swazi.

I attribute that to Paul Simon's "Graceland" as their introduction to Western culture back in the mid-late 1980's.

Paul Simon is just brilliant. I've played lots of his stuff. Love it.