Still crazy after all these years
| Paul Simon
Still crazy after all these years
Still Crazy After All These Years is the fourth solo studio album by Paul Simon. Recorded and released in 1975, the album produced four U.S. Top 40 hits: "50 Ways to Leave Your Lover" (#1), "Gone at Last" (#23), "My Little Town" (#9, credited to Simon & Garfunkel), and the title track (#40). It won two Grammy Awards for Album of the Year and Best Male Pop Vocal Performance in 1976. -Wikipedia
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All Music
Still Crazy came off as a post-divorce album, its songs reeking of smug self-satisfaction and romantic disillusionment. At their best, such sentiments were undercut by humor and made palatable by musical hooks, as on "50 Ways to Leave Your Lover,"
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Rolling Stone
1975 - no one has ever questioned his craftsmanship, the quality of his melodies or his seemingly inherent decency. It is difficult to imagine him “still crazy” because his pervasive intelligence has never allowed us to think him crazy in the first place. Good middleweights never are.
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Countdown Kid
2013 - It also might be his most downbeat album, full of mid-life crises, romantic ennui, dead-end hometowns and baseball fatalities. Still, even though it stagnates a bit on Side Two, it’s another fascinating effort.
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Robert Christgau
I hope in 1977 I'm not moved to praise unduly the small, self-involved ironies that define this record at its best ("50 Ways to Leave Your Lover," "You're Kind") without alleviating its lugubriousness ("Night Game," "Silent Eyes").
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Only Solitaire
this time Paul mostly abandons folk ditties and soulful grooves and veers into jazz-pop territory
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Mark's Record Reviews
To me, this is tedious, limp, boring, hookless '70s AOR jazz-pop garbage
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The Guardian
“Hope and dread,” Simon once said, “that’s the way I see the world.” The two states of mind clash fervently on his fourth solo album, a premature reflection on his regrets – he was only 34. Fifty Ways to Leave Your Lover, though, is deliciously silly.
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Wilson & Alroy's Reviews
There's no coherent political or social commentary here, but otherwise it's got everything you could want in a Paul Simon album, more consistent than much of his 60s work.
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Acoustic Sounds Inc
2014 - The original was a good sounding record mastered at Sterling Sound (but not attributed to anyone) but this reissue absolutely kills it in every way. "50 Ways to Leave Your Lover" should floor you.
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The Reinvigorated Programmer
2016 - Choosing favourites is invidious, but there is a strong case to be made for Still Crazy After All These Years as the finest album of Simon’s career.
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