Reviewed on 9/18/2014...
This album, cassette, and CD have been a part of my life since, well, I can't remember that far back. I know every song, and love the whole thing. THE WHOLE THING.
CD Reviews
Lawrance M. Bernabo
| 04/12/2006
(5 out of 5 stars)
"When they put out "Bookends," Simon & Garfunkle provided evidence that they were trying to move up to the next level from the pleasing folk-rock duets such as "Scarborough Fair" upon which they had made their reputation. But even the growth shown in that album could hardly prepare listeners to the quantum leap forward represented by "Bridge Over Troubled Water." You listen to the title song and you just think that Art Garfunkle had been waiting his entire life to sing this song (I know that Garfunkle always maintained that Simon should have sung the song, but I will never ever want to live in that alternative reality). The opening piano part and the crescendo strings at the end could have been ostentatious, but instead the result is the greatest final "chord" this side of "A Day in the Life," which is pretty heady company, boys and girls. I might never work out the entire list, but I have no doubt that "Bridge Over Troubled Water" is one of the ten most beautiful "pop" songs of all-time.