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Pelle  
Apr-28-2016, 16:21 GMT
Sweden

http://pitchfork.com/news/65127-paul-simon-shares-
new-song-cool-papa-bell-listen/

Pelle
Apr-28-2016, 17:12 GMT
Sweden

I like like like

Bodo  
Apr-29-2016, 05:34 GMT
USA - United Staates America

An Amazing song.
Interestingly it reminds me more of the songs Edie Brickell is doing. Thats very relaxing background music.

Pelle
Apr-29-2016, 07:42 GMT
Sweden

I have forgot my password and change my email so my inlog goes whit facebook and I can´t like what you say down but I like all what you say about the song I fell the same

mog
Apr-29-2016, 14:58 GMT
Canada

I am happy everybody loves it. I still stand firm in my dissent...;-)

Lyrically, it is mostly non-sense. Maybe it would make some sense if I read more about Papa Bell.

I would get rid of the central section with the 'motherf*cker'. It gets in the way.

I would not say that Simon is really exploring new sounds, just because he is using a tuba out of tune.

The song is kind of a synthesis of techniques he has already explored:

Vincent's Guitar lines: Graceland, ROTS, SBOSW

Sonic landscapes and rapid song change: Surprise

Exotic instrumentation: ROTS, YTO, SBOSW

Spoken vocals + coarse language: The Capeman


I wish Bodo a great concert tonight at the Louis Armstrong Park.

Richard USVI
Apr-29-2016, 17:19 GMT
USA - Virgin Islands

I have to agree with Mog. I liked Wristband much better. In my opinion, this one is a sort of throw away. "Look at that, look at this..." but with less of a point. But I respect the right of everyone to have their own opinions!

Jay
Apr-30-2016, 00:47 GMT
USA - United Staates America

I thought it had a lot of meaning. It seemed like his thoughts about determinism and whether or not it's even possible to redeem yourself when you're the outsider in the world.

Ugly got a case to make
It's not like every rodent gets
A birthday cake
It's you're a chipmunk
How cute is that
But you you mother fucker are a flithy rat

Is it true papa bell
That the beauty's go to heaven
And the ugly go to hell

I think that's the central part of the song

Brenda
Apr-30-2016, 10:12 GMT
Australia

Thank Jay. Totally love this song and agree with you regarding what the lyrics are implying and the statement they are making .They take a lot of thinking out. It is amazing how many people also review 'Wristband" as only a star being locked out and never mention the last verse.

Jett Rink
May-04-2016, 00:09 GMT
USA - United Staates America

So far I don't like either song. Don't care for spoken
lyrics, rap type songs, that horrible tuba, and no more lyrical music that I love, don't like the swearing, There hasn't been any album that I didn't like most of it, I should
say loved them all, except Capeman and even that had some
good music and lyrics too.

Baggy
May-04-2016, 08:53 GMT
United Kingdom

I'm enjoying the song rather more on my second listen. ..and i can cope with the tuba haha.

But the swearing is seriously off-putting. At least in Capeman there was a context. What gives here?? Is he getting Tourette's?

Pelle
May-04-2016, 13:42 GMT
Sweden

How can people be upset of swearing year 2016 in a song, 1954 I can get it but 2016 I can not. War in Syria and Is and all shit there is in the world and Paul Simon sings some word we have heard over and over again and oh my god what is he doing.

Manus
May-04-2016, 14:06 GMT
Netherlands

I love it!

Richard USVI
May-04-2016, 14:58 GMT
USA - United Staates America

I'm another one not crazy about the swearing. I just think it lends little in part because swearing is so common now, it is practically meaningless. If words are tools of a poet, swearing to me is a blunt instrument.

But of course, it is also a generational thing, I am older and I was brought up not to swear.

Baggy
May-04-2016, 19:39 GMT
United Kingdom

I was also brought up not to swear, and i'd no more use that particular term now than i would have done if i'd been around in 1954. You don't stop wars in Syria by using the word M""""""er in songs, and i find the logic perverse..

Jett Rink
May-05-2016, 01:05 GMT
USA - United Staates America

It's not just the swearing, it's something I don't expect
from Paul. No context, well Capeman, I'd say that's different.

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