Simon & Garfunkel - The Dangling Conversation video free download
"The Dangling Conversation" is a song written by Paul Simon, first released in September 1966 as a Simon and Garfunkel single "The Dangling Conversation"/"The Big Bright Green Pleasure Machine." The song only climbed to 25 on the US charts and never made it onto the UK charts. Paul Simon was amazed it was not a big hit. He put it down to the song's heaviness. It was released a month later as a recording on the Simon and Garfunkel album Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme.
The theme is failed communication between lovers. The song starts in a room washed by shadows from the sun slanting through the lace curtains and ends with the room "softly faded." They are as different as the poets they read: Emily Dickinson and Robert Frost.
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8 years ago
drrusty2325
Played this album when first released several times over at the summer cottage in northern Quebec. At the time it was unique8 years ago
Mark Muffs
I was flying on a vintage DC-3 in April 1987 and the other passengers were doing what is described in the song. The song has never left me ever since.9 years ago
St Pauli
Just another reason 1966 was a great year in music.9 years ago
Kay Taylor
One of the best songs on one of the best albums ever. Thank you.9 years ago
cumomsandcureloms
This would be better without the strings etc.9 years ago
Bob Walters
...we are verses out of rhythm, couplets out of rhyme..... 9 years ago
Jomar Machado
The greatest ones!!!9 years ago
johnebgood108
even worse now, when people don't even respond to emails. never pick up a phone. but why is everyone walking around talking on a cel phone?phony...worse now.9 years ago
Jack Stalcup
amazing and beautiful song9 years ago
andre' leibee
poignantly sad and brilliantly captured understanding in these lyrics. the music so right to surround it and sung with the enough emotion to enhance those very thoughts. why simon and garfunkel are still in a class all by themselves9 years ago
stewart scholl
beautiful piece of music, I would love to here this with electronic voices when ever they arrive. For now, no one does this song better !9 years ago
Brian Cosby
Though big S&G fan, I had not heard this song until I found it in my Freshman English book at Wright State. It was a unique experience to read and understand the poem in class...only then to go home and listen to the song. What a writer!9 years ago
Eric Melanson
Thank you kylecrazyford for the posting. A great song from Simon and Garfunkel.9 years ago
Jack Higgins
You sad people who have conversations on here...9 years ago
1etcetera13
I thought of you....9 years ago
John Leonard
This song is so 60's Bohemian New York.9 years ago
Echo Shannon
Feeling this~~~ ♥ 19679 years ago
richard lafferty
It is too self-consciously 'literary' to be a truly great song. Paul Simon's best lyrics are direct and observational. For anyone who has studied literature and understands music, The Dangling Conversation, for all its charm and melody, is a bit cringe.9 years ago
Julian Whitbred
This is music. A poem brought to life. Something we can remember for the rest of our lives... Thanks Paul and Art.9 years ago
David Howse
Paul Simon is my favourite songwriter. I think I saw a quote which said he considered The Dangling Conversation to have been his worst song. I can understand why, he might say that, and understand why this was not a top selling single, it does not fit the usual mould of pop song, but I think that it was his best song of that era, which pushed the boundaries between poetry and colloquial lyric. I think it is an exquisite song, a song which needed to be written, a song which in its distinctive way, was one of Paul Simon's best songs and a work of art, rather than popular success. Cerebral rather than emotional, mind over heart, a tragedy of life, experienced by many who have love to share, but fail.Related Videos
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