Paul Simon often reworks his music quite considerably. I was unaware of this early version of “Bridge Over Troubled Water” with different lyrics.
skip to main |
skip to sidebar
Rambling recollections of an aging engineer
About Me
- kai
- Back in academia after a decade in industry, with a new generation of students.
Recent comments
Blog Archive
-
▼
2007
(161)
-
▼
December
(18)
- Useful knowledge alert!
- Outnerded!
- Tindra med ögonen, ungjävel!
- Veckans ord: vårtrött
- God Jul!
- Lunch conversation
- Veckans ord: verklighetstorget
- More statistics
- In the top 6%
- Headshake…
- Veckans ord: destonation
- Rock on!
- Smells
- Another bridge
- Veckans ord: ingengör
- Satumaa
- By popular request
- Myopic review
-
▼
December
(18)
Recently read
- Siden sammet M Lang. An impressively tangled weave.
- Tre små gummor M Lang. [Reread] And here we move into the distant past from the 1960s, with plentiful period markers.
- En främmande man M Lang. Very atmospheric.
- En kodex för universitet och högskolor: Grundläggande principer och kärnvärden T Ekberg & A Söderbergh Widding. A useful overview of how things work and what people think.
- Aircraft model special C Ellis (ed). Thoroughly obsolete.
- 112 Gripes about the French Germans are Nazis, all of them.
Places I keep track of
- IPMS Stockholm One of the best plastic modelling forums you'll find.
- Hyperscale More modelling stuff.
- Occasional kvetch Thnidu is a linguist and an old friend.
- Another CyborgManifesto Small and large, always with alarming skill.
- Aardvarchaeology What kind of archaeologist doesn't have a whip or even a fedora?
- Arkland Archaeology and random bits.
- Pharyngula Biology, politics and atheism. And eight-legged animals.
- Something positive Magical realism in a very cynical way.
- Chicken Wings It's about birds…that fly…
- xkcd Don't miss the mouse-overs.
2 comments:
Well, that surprised me. I have the LP* whose cover is the graphic -- have had, roughly since it came out -- and of course the first two verses are unchanged, if memory serves, at least up to "In darkened rooms". (BTW, what's the Stones cover doing in there?) And in the break ("Sail on...") at first I wasn't sure if I was hearing differences or not, because my headset here has a broken or cracked wire and I was only getting one channel of the stereo. But it is definitely different. Where'd you find this version?
* Oh, that's archaic, isn't it? Everyone says "vinyl" now, when they mention it.
Oh, I found it on YouTube of course :-) All kinds of stuff comes up when you surf long enough. I understand it is a demo version done during the recording of what became the “Bridge Over Troubled Waters” album. It is interesting to note that much of the arrangement is there, but the lyrics are still in flux.
Post a Comment