Simon & Garfunkel Bookends

This album has had over three decades to make an impact, and it says something for its staying power that, in the face of more recent, more generously programmed, and better mastered compilations of the duo's work, it remains one of the most popular parts of the Simon & Garfunkel catalog…

It's no secret that Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel didn't end their partnership on the friendliest terms. Despite a brief reunion every decade or so – most notably in the fall of 1981 at The Concert in Central Park – Simon & Garfunkel were notorious for not speaking to each other, so their reunion at the 2002 Grammy Awards, opening the show with "The Sound of Silence," was a big deal. It was a good performance, too, whetting the appetites of an audience eager for a full-fledged reunion tour, which the duo delivered in 2003 and into 2004…

This box set containing the remastered, expanded editions of all five of Simon & Garfunkel's original LPs on five CDs just – but only just – misses a top rating, by virtue of its packaging. The sound is, as with the individual editions of each title, a significant improvement over any prior releases of this material and proves to be utterly impeccable, and the annotated booklet, containing the original credits and notes off the albums as well as the lyrics and all of the new annotation for each individual album by Bud Scoppa, is fairly handy…

Simon & Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water (1970) [2CD+DVD] {40th Anniversary Edition Columbia 2011}
EAC rip (secure mode) | FLAC+CUE+LOG -> 528 Mb | MP3 @320 -> 231 Mb
DVD-9 -> 6.79 Gb | All Regions | NTSC 16:9 | English (LinearPCM, 2 ch)
~ 72 min | Subs: Eng, Ned, Fr, De, Po, Es, It | ISO Image
Full Artwork @ 600 dpi (jpg) -> 210 Mb | 5% repair rar
© 2011 Columbia / Legacy | 88697828292
Rock / Soft Rock / Folk Rock / Psychedelic

Bridge Over Troubled Water has sold over 25-million copies worldwide and was one of the biggest-selling albums of its decade, topping the charts world-wide including 33 weeks at #1 and six years in the chart in the UK alone. Perhaps the most delicately textured album to close out the 1960s from any major rock act, Bridge Over Troubled Water, at its most ambitious and bold, was a quietly reassuring album; at other times, it was personal yet soothing; and at other times still, it was just plain fun.

Simon & Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water (1970) [2CD+DVD] {2011 40th Anniversary Edition}
EAC rip (secure mode) | FLAC (tracks)+CUE+LOG -> 528 Mb | MP3 @320 -> 231 Mb
DVD-9 -> 6.79 Gb | All Regions | NTSC 16:9 | English (LinearPCM, 2 ch)
~ 72 min | Subs: Eng, Ned, Fr, De, Po, Es, It | ISO Image
Full Artwork @ 600 dpi (jpg) -> 210 Mb | 5% repair rar
© 2011 Columbia / Legacy | 88697828292
Rock / Soft Rock / Folk Rock / Psychedelic

Bridge Over Troubled Water has sold over 25-million copies worldwide and was one of the biggest-selling albums of its decade, topping the charts world-wide including 33 weeks at #1 and six years in the chart in the UK alone. Perhaps the most delicately textured album to close out the 1960s from any major rock act, Bridge Over Troubled Water, at its most ambitious and bold, was a quietly reassuring album; at other times, it was personal yet soothing; and at other times still, it was just plain fun.

Simon & Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water (1970) {2CD+DVD, 40th Anniversary Edition Columbia rel 2011}
EAC rip (secure mode) | FLAC (tracks)+CUE+LOG -> 528 Mb | MP3 @320 -> 232 Mb
DVD-9 -> 6.72 Gb | All Regions | NTSC 16:9 | English (LinearPCM, 2 ch) | ~ 72 min | ISO Image
Subs: Eng, Ned, Fr, De, Po, Es, It
Full Artwork @ 600 dpi (jpg) -> 210 Mb | 5% repair rar
© 1970, 2011 Columbia / Legacy | 88697828292
Rock / Soft Rock / Folk Rock / Psychedelic

Bridge Over Troubled Water has sold over 25-million copies worldwide and was one of the biggest-selling albums of its decade, topping the charts world-wide including 33 weeks at #1 and six years in the chart in the UK alone. Perhaps the most delicately textured album to close out the 1960s from any major rock act, Bridge Over Troubled Water, at its most ambitious and bold, was a quietly reassuring album; at other times, it was personal yet soothing; and at other times still, it was just plain fun.