Simon Garfunkel

Simon & Garfunkel quietly slipped Bookends, their fourth album, into the bins with a whisper in March 1968. They are equal collaborators with producer/engineer Roy Halee in a multivalently layered song cycle observing the confusion of those seeking an elusive American Dream, wistfully reflecting on innocence lost forever to the cold winds of change…

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Simon & Garfunkel quietly slipped Bookends, their fourth album, into the bins with a whisper in March 1968. They are equal collaborators with producer/engineer Roy Halee in a multivalently layered song cycle observing the confusion of those seeking an elusive American Dream, wistfully reflecting on innocence lost forever to the cold winds of change…

The soundtrack to Mike Nichols' The Graduate remains a key musical document of the late '60s, although truth be told, its impact was much less artistic than commercial (and, for that matter, more negative than positive). With the exception of its centerpiece track, the elegiac and oft-quoted "Mrs. Robinson" – which only appears here as a pair of fragments – the Simon & Garfunkel songs that comprise much of the record (a series of Dave Grusin instrumentals round it out) appeared on the duo's two preceding LPs; Nichols' masterstroke was to transplant those songs into his film, where they not only meshed perfectly with the story's themes of youthful rebellion and alienation (and the inner life of the central character, Dustin Hoffman's Benjamin Braddock) but also heralded a new era in movie music centered around the appropriation of past pop hits, a marketing gimmick that grew exponentially in the years to follow…

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.

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.