At a point when it looked like his time in the music limelight might be behind him, Paul Simon came roaring back with a major triumph in Graceland. Released in 1986, the album found Simon plopping his searching lyrics down into World Music settings, with a who's who of stellar musicians from all over the globe helping him bring it all to life. There aren't any flawed songs in the album, which makes choosing the top five songs from it a tough task. But that's what we're here to do, so let's give it a whirl.

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