There Goes Rhymin' Simon
| Paul Simon
There Goes Rhymin' Simon
There Goes Rhymin' Simon is the third solo studio album by American musician Paul Simon rush-released on May 5, 1973. It contains songs covering several styles and genres, such as gospel ("Loves Me Like a Rock") and Dixieland ("Take Me to the Mardi Gras"). It received two nominations at the Grammy Awards of 1974, including Best Male Pop Vocal performanceand Album of the Year. - Wikipedia
Critic Reviews
Show All-
Rolling Stone
1974 - Simon’s deliveries are straight — restrained and supple, bowing as they should to the material, which is of the very highest order ... a rich and moving song cycle, one in which each cut reflects on every other to create an ever-widening series of refractions
-
All Music
Retaining the buoyant musical feel of Paul Simon, but employing a more produced sound, There Goes Rhymin' Simon found Paul Simon writing and performing with assurance and venturing into soulful and R&B-oriented music.
-
Classic Rock Review
This album is bookmarked by two of his top pop hits with a sandwich of soft-rock songs in between, covering such diverse styles as R&B, gospel, reggae, folk, and jazz. The album was both a commercial and critical success and firmly established Simon as a top-notch solo artist.
-
Pop Matters
2011 - There are so many things for your ear to grab onto that the record never slips into monotony or self-aware sympathy-baiting, even when you think it might.
-
Keno
2007 - All of the other songs found on here are very good, simple, and easy going tunes that you only have to hear two or three times to be hooked on them.
-
Robert Christgau
The vocals are softer, smoothed over with borrowed or double-tracked harmonies, and the pep shots from more specialized styles (by the Dixie Hummingbirds, the Onward Brass Band) less speedy. The lyrics celebrate domestic satisfactions and seem to find political ambiguities more curious than ominous.
-
Only Solitaire
There ain't a single hook in these songs on the entire record. Everything is just so smooth and slick, and flows around you so evenly, predictably and without even an ounce of genuine unexpected excitement.
-
The Guardian
Kodachrome was banned from UK radio for its reference to a brand of film – a shame, because it is a brilliant, shiny pop song with bite. And there is plenty more to admire on Simon’s third solo album, particularly American Tune and St Judy’s Comet. “That may be my favourite album of the 70s,” he said. “It’s joyful.”
-
The Reinvigorated Programmer
2014 - a classic example of an album that’s more than the sum of its parts. The songs complement each other, and build a pervasive atmosphere of ease and wellbeing — a feeling so persuasive and seductive that even the less significant songs (Take Me to the Mardi Gras, Was a Sunny Day) make a significant contribution.
-
Wilson & Alroy's Reviews
some of the material is strong even in comparison to Simon's 60s work
Rate This Album and Leave Your Comments