The recent thread Jinx started about S&G’s Sounds of Silence prompted this question:
What’s your favorite Simon and Garfunkel song?
Without question, my runaway favorite is Kathy’s Song.
Rounding out my top five would be:
America
For Emily
A Simple Desultory Philippic
The Boxer
Honorable mention: Bridge Over Troubled Water, The Only Living Boy in New York.
Does anyone else care or are these guys too unhip/old school?
Cecilia
Haj
I also love Kathy’s Song. Another of my all time favorites of theirs is America. I could go on and on and on, but those are definitely the top two.
“I Am A Rock (I Am An Island)” describes me pretty much! Along with the others, this song certainly deserves mentioning! - Jinx
“If I Never Loved I Never Would Have Cried…”
You mean I have to pick one! Nooo!!! Impossible!!
Okay, I love “The Sound of Silence”, “America”, “Scarborough Fair”, “Feelin’ Groovy”, “At the Zoo”,“Hazy Shade of Winter”, “El Condor Pasa”…
Crap. This could take a while.
All right, I love 'em all! My tops would be “The Sound of Silence”, “Scarborough Fair” and “El Condor Pasa”.
As you can tell, I wuv S&G 
3 S&G threads! That must be a record.
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ohh, brother…I go as far as even mentioning Sounds of Silence in my OP, but I don’t include it in my top five list.
Man, if anyone sees my brain around here somewhere, let me know…
My favorites…
#6- April, Come She Will
#5- Scarborough Fair/Canticle
#4- America
#3- Kathy’s Song
#2- The Boxer
#1- For Emily, Wherever I May Find Her
The first four are amongst the 100 best songs of all times (IMHO of course).
Top Ten Favorite S&G:
…deputy sheriff said to me/ tell me what you come here for/ you better get your bags and leave/ you’re in trouble, boy/ and now you’re headed into more/ it’s the same old story/ everywhere I go/ I get slandered/ I hear words I never heard in the Bible…
I’m haunted now. Can somebody remember the title of this song before my head explodes?
Old Friends
ratty, that was ‘Keep the Customer Satisfied’ IIRC.
I’m surprised ‘American Tune’ isn’t on anyone’s list… it’s be near the top of mine.
Still Crazy After All These Years.
Reuben,
Both of these are by Paul Simon, not by S&G.
S&G’s songs are all so great, and there is no way I can put them in any kind of order from favorite to least favorite.
Wait… no… that’s wrong. There is one that I consider my absolute favorite. That song is: Bleeker Street
My top 5:
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In that case…
Kathy’s Song and America are my faves.
Can’t do top five. I can do top eight, though,
America: I love the bit about "Laughing on the bus/Playing games with the faces/She said the man in the gabardine suit was a spy./I said, “Be careful, his bow tie is really a camera.”
American Tune (I teared up the first time I heard this one after 9/11. The line “But it’s all right, it’s all right/you can’t be forever blessed” just hit me.)
The Boxer
59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin’ Groovy (talk about capturing the feeling of pure joy)
Homeward Bound
For Emily, Whenever I May Find Her ("…clothed in crinoline of smoky burgundy/as she walks by")
Punky’s Dilemma (ANY song that contains the lyric “I prefer the bosenberry/More than any ordinary jam./I’m a Citizens for Boysenberry Jam fan” must be considered pure genius).
Scarborogh Fair/Canticle
Fenris
The Boxer (“All lies and jest/still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest” gives me shivers),
followed closely by At the Zoo, (I love the animals’ profiles, especially “pigeons plot in secrecy, while hamsters turn on frequently”)
followed closley by Hazy Shade of Winter (there’s something about the narrator “looking over manuscripts of unpublished rhyme/drinking my vodka and lime” that makes me smile, even though it’s a bleak song.)
then America and Mrs. Robinson.
I guess you can tell Bookends is my favorite S&G album!
I am quite fond of “Sparrow” and “Red Rubber Ball” among others. “Hazy Shade of Winter” is an awesome song as well.
I’m 99.999% sure Red Rubber Ball is not a S&G song. Well, Simon wrote it, but that’s like saying “Word Without Love” is a Beatles song just because McCartney wrote it.