# Air Supply vs Simon/Garfunkel **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 12, 2010, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/air-supply-vs-simon-garfunkel/546435 "2010-07-12T19:48:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![jrepka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ee59a6/32.png) [@jrepka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jrepka)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2010, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/air-supply-vs-simon-garfunkel/546435/21 "2010-07-13T04:23:04Z")
I’ll give Air Supply this: I have always believed that they were the most honestly named band in music history. ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Bean](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_bean/32/1760_2.png) [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2010, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/air-supply-vs-simon-garfunkel/546435/22 "2010-07-13T04:36:58Z")
> [@Sam\_Stone](#): > > In fairness, Simon & Garfunkel (ignoring Paul Simon’s solo work) is more famous for the lyrics than the music, but both elements work together well. I’d argue that S&G are as famous for the vocal performances as they are for the music and lyrics. Compare Simon and Garfunkel singing together to the lead singer of Air Supply? It is to laugh. ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2010, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/air-supply-vs-simon-garfunkel/546435/23 "2010-07-13T04:48:17Z")
Comparing Simon & Garfunkel to Air Supply is like comparing apples to paper clips, they’re not even in the same league. ---
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2010, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/air-supply-vs-simon-garfunkel/546435/24 "2010-07-13T04:48:19Z")
Air Supply has some great vocals, but Art Garfunkel blows them away. ---
**Author:** ![Cardinal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardinal/32/4000_2.png) [@Cardinal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardinal)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2010, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/air-supply-vs-simon-garfunkel/546435/25 "2010-07-13T04:48:50Z")
Eh, given the success of Dylan, Mellencamp, Turner, Springsteen, and others, I’m convinced it’s the attitude and songwriting that really carry the day. How many successful bands have someone comparable to Mercury? Even the Beatles were only pretty good, not mind-bendingly awesome at vocals. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2010, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/air-supply-vs-simon-garfunkel/546435/26 "2010-07-13T04:51:57Z")
> [@Ogre](#): > > Sure, but then you have: > > Slow down, you movin’ too fast > You gotta make the morning last > Just kickin’ down the cobblestones > Lookin’ for fun and > Feelin’ groovy > > Hello lamp post > Whatcha knowin? > I’ve come to watch your flowers growin’ > Ain’tcha got no rhymes for me? > Doo Bee Doo Doo, > Feelin’ groovy Beats the hell out of “Red Rubber Ball”. Even Simon knew better than to sing it himself. ---
**Author:** ![Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hilarity_n.suze/32/6223_2.png) [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hilarity_N.Suze)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2010, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/air-supply-vs-simon-garfunkel/546435/27 "2010-07-13T05:28:01Z")
Air Supply. They lost me at “Even the nights are better.” What! EVEN the nights are better when you’re in love? Even the NIGHTS are better? Actually I think they lost me before that. Air Supply = Switch channel now Somewhere else I saw a poll that was INXS v. Air Supply. I thought, these people gotta be kiddin. (PS, INXS by a million miles) ---
**Author:** ![Mister\_Rik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mister_rik/32/491_2.png) [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2010, 7:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/air-supply-vs-simon-garfunkel/546435/28 "2010-07-13T07:24:44Z")
The difference between the two can be summed up thusly: “Perfectly-crafted songs” vs. “Perfectly-crafted hit records” S&G created little works of art for art’s sake. AS created pieces with all the elements in right places to push the right buttons of the record-buying public. Both good and well done in their own ways, but one has staying power while the other doesn’t. ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Mapp](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miss_mapp/32/369_2.png) [@Miss\_Mapp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Mapp)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2010, 11:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/air-supply-vs-simon-garfunkel/546435/29 "2010-07-13T11:11:29Z")
> [@E-Sabbath](#): > > … I will be damned, they’re early Emo? Huh. But back then, they called it Alienation. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2010, 11:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/air-supply-vs-simon-garfunkel/546435/30 "2010-07-13T11:54:06Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > Beats the hell out of “Red Rubber Ball”. Even Simon knew better than to sing it himself. [Au contraire, mon frere.](http://www.amazon.com/Red-Rubber-Ball/dp/B001BEC3JK/ref=sr_1_14?ie=UTF8&qid=1279021892&sr=1-14) ---
**Author:** ![Duke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e8c25b/32.png) [@Duke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2010, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/air-supply-vs-simon-garfunkel/546435/31 "2010-07-13T13:03:44Z")
Air Supply vs. Simon and Garfunkel? Beatles vs. Oasis? C’mon guys. [I combined these two threads and asked a serious question here.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=570638) ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2010, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/air-supply-vs-simon-garfunkel/546435/32 "2010-07-13T16:39:37Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > [Au contraire, mon frere.](http://www.amazon.com/Red-Rubber-Ball/dp/B001BEC3JK/ref=sr_1_14?ie=UTF8&qid=1279021892&sr=1-14) Gahhhh! My ears! ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2010, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/air-supply-vs-simon-garfunkel/546435/33 "2010-07-13T16:48:09Z")
Armed with paring knives. I’d pay for seats to watch that one. ---
**Author:** ![robardin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/43a26b/32.png) [@robardin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robardin)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2010, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/air-supply-vs-simon-garfunkel/546435/34 "2010-07-13T18:48:13Z")
> [@Thudlow\_Boink](#): > > Out of curiosity, what’s your opinion of The Bangles’ cover? Not bad, but not quite as good as the S&G version of “Hazy Shade of Winter”. Maybe because 24-year-old Paul & Art sing about having “manuscripts of unpublished rhyme” seems to fit right in with the lyrics depicting bitter and depressed young poetic types wearing black turtlenecks in the springtime of their lives (and who on the same album do an absolutely uncoverable song in “Old Friends”), versus the Bangles who I associate mainly with 80’s pop “Manic Monday” and “Walk Like An Egyptian”. I like those Bangles songs, and I don’t mind their cover version of “Hazy Shade Of Winter”… But it’s not “the” version for me. ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2010, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/air-supply-vs-simon-garfunkel/546435/35 "2010-07-13T20:37:53Z")
You know, I agree with everything everyone’s said… but you know what’s in my head now? It isn’t “The Boxer”, although I love that song - it’s “All Out of Love”. ---
**Author:** ![Nametag](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nametag/32/406_2.png) [@Nametag](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nametag)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2010, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/air-supply-vs-simon-garfunkel/546435/36 "2010-07-14T06:25:39Z")
> [@Zsofia](#): > > You know, I agree with everything everyone’s said… but you know what’s in my head now? It isn’t “The Boxer”, although I love that song - it’s “All Out of Love”. Yeah, “The Boxer” … needs a hook. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/air-supply-vs-simon-garfunkel/546435.md?page=1)