ONE-TRICK PONY
| Paul Simon
ONE-TRICK PONY
One-Trick Pony, Paul Simon's fifth solo studio album, was released in 1980. It was Simon's first album for Warner Bros. Records, and his first new studio album since 1975's Still Crazy After All These Years. His back catalog from Columbia Records would also move to Warner Bros. as a result of his signing with the label. -Wikipedia
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Ultimate Classic Rock
a record that never quite comes together, even though a handful of songs -- especially the hit single "Late in the Evening" -- were worth the long wait and haul
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Rolling Stone
1980 - One-Trick Pony may be the subtlest Paul Simon album yet. but it’s not the easiest one to like.
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All Music
This is the closest thing to a band album Simon ever made, and it contains some of his most rhythmic and energetic singing. But it is also his most uneven album, simply because the songwriting, with the exception of the title song and the ballads "How the Heart Approaches What It Yearns" and "Nobody," is not up to his usual standard.
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The Reinvigorated Programmer
2018 - it may be the best of all his albums, for its narrative richness, tonal consistency, emotional ambivalence, and for the fact that there is not a single song on it that I don’t love
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Robert Christgau
So if individual songs don't stand out the way they have ever since "The Sound of Silence," maybe he doesn't work as hard at them anymore. Like so many aging folkies he's devolved into a vaguely jazzy pop, and except for the lead cut and the one with Ray Charles on it everything serves the excuse for a groove.
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Only Solitaire
It's a pure mood listen, a bit of intelligent background music to soften your limbs and caress your brain. Late in the evening is the only time you should listen to it, preferrably in headphones and not too loud.
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Mark's Record Reviews
I think it's pretty obvious that Paul Simon is guilty of recording some pretty terrible records, so today we're going to arrest him.
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Aphoristic Album Reviews
The accompanying soundtrack is a little sleepy, but contains the hit ‘Late In The Evening’, and strong album tracks like ‘Jonah’ and ‘Ace in the Hole’.
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Wilson & Alroy's Reviews
But here he doesn't come up with any real melodies, and you get the feeling he just asked his supertalented band (Levin, Tee, Gadd, Eric Gale, Joe Beck, McCracken, Hiram Bullock) to make up the tunes as they went along.
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Countdown Kid
2013 - The quasi-soundtrack to Paul Simon’s largely forgotten movie of the same name, 1980’s One-Trick Pony was the singer-songwriter’s first album in five years. The absence didn’t result in a ton of inspiration, however, as the album, although expertly played and rarely less than solid, was lacking in truly killer songs
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Alan's Album Archives
2008 - ‘One-Trick Pony’s greatest strength is how invested you become in the characters
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Under the Radar
It's a gentle introduction to tasteful, palatable schmaltz-a sentimental awakening for those caught up in the world of cool or worried that they've turned out just like their mother.
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