I don’t know if you’ve seen this video, solost, but I never tire of watching it.
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Duncan is great but I heard it on The Essential Paul Simon, so it’s not a deep cut.
Yeah. Peace Like a River is deeper. And Run that Body Down.
At a Brian Wilson tribute concert, Simon performed a pretty nice cover of Surfer Girl.
Does it count as a deep cut if the casual listener doesn’t know he wrote it? If so, I’m going with* Red Rubber Ball* as performed by The Cyrkle.
I like “Stranded in a Limousine” and “The Late Great Johnny Ace.”
Also “The Afterlife” (from So Beautiful or So What)
Fair enough. I’ll switch to “Peace Like A River”
I’ll go with “Gumboots” from Graceland, and “Born at the Right Time” from Rhythm of the Saints.
Simon & Garfunkel recorded “Red Rubber Ball” at a live concert in New York in 1967, along with a hilarious introduction by Art. I guess it only made it onto Old Friends, and not the concert album itself.
The song right after that is another great deep cut. “A Poem on the Underground Wall” preceded by an even more hilarious introduction by Art.
If we’re including Paul performing other people’s songs, I have a bootleg mp3 of him and George Harrison singing “Here Comes the Sun” on Saturday Night Live.
If we’re including S&G songs I rather like “Bleecker Street” - simple and sweet.
If we’re only including his solo songs, probably “Rene and Georgette Magritte With Their Dog After the War”.
Another vote for “Heart & Bones” which I loved even before I knew it was written about Princess Leia. Carrie Fisher has a funny bit in one of her one-woman acts about how that song is her divorce settlement.
I intended the thread to be about Simon’s solo work, but S&G stuff is fine too.
Not sure I’d consider Red Rubber Ball to be a deep cut; it was very popular back in the day. But I’ll allow it 
Mine:
One Man’s Ceiling is Another Man’s Floor - There’s been a bloody purple nose
And some bloody purple clothes
**Gone at Last **- Sweet little soul, now, what’s your problem?
Tell me why you’re so downcast
Train in the Distance - Negotiations and love songs
Are often mistaken for one and the same
**
Homeless **- Homeless, homeless
Moonlight sleeping on a midnight lake
Adios Hermanos - Well the Spanish boys had their day in court
And now it was time for some fuckin’ law and order
The Obvious Child - Well, I’m accustomed to a smooth ride
Or maybe I’m a dog who’s lost its bite
**That Was Your Mother **- Along came a young girl
She’s pretty as a prayer book
Sweet as an apple on Christmas day
I said, “Good gracious can this be my luck?
If that’s my prayer book
Lord, let us pray”
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Let’s see… I always liked:
“Learn How to Fall”
“St. Judy’s Comet”
“The Late, Great Johnny Ace”
“All Around the World (or “The Myth of Fingerprints”)”
If S & G songs count, throw in:
“So Long, Frank Lloyd Wright”
“The Dangling Conversation”
“April, Come She Will”
I saw Art tell that story during a S&G concert in 1967 (IIRC). “The Old Familiar Suggestion” indeed. Still makes me chuckle.
ETA: my fave PSDC: “Stranded In A Limousine”
Thanks mmm, nice video! She did a great job-- I’m a very amateur “sittin’ around the campfire”-type singer and guitar player, and I would be so nervous in that situation that I’d probably screw it up and ask the band to restart 6 or 7 times. :rolleyes:
Pretty much every song on Graceland that wasn’t released as a single. What a fantastic album. “Under African Skies” has already been mentioned (harmonies by Linda Ronstadt, btw), and I’ll add in particular “I Know What I Know” and “The Myth of Fingerprints.”
From the Simon & Garfunkel days:
Richard Cory (if it counts as a deep track)
A Most Peculiar Man
Flowers Never Bend With the Rainfall
For Emily, Wherever I May Find Her
So Long, Frank Lloyd Wright
The Only Living Boy in New York
Gone at Last off of “Still Crazy after All these Years.”
For Emily was released as a single in 72.
The Only Living Boy was Paul’s favorite track on Bridge.
And was barely noticed, topping out at #53 on the charts.
I think it’s still a deep track, if that’s what you’re questioning. Ditto “Only Living Boy.”