I don't understand the appeal of...

[Mikey]

Paul Simon may be a genius.

 

I hate him the most!

M.

[Richmond Clements]

Paul Simon may be a genius.

 

I hate him the most!

M.

Heh! Fair enough- doesn't stop the genius, though!

[Mike Gloady]

Simon & Garfunkel are boring as hell.  Dull, dull music.  Yeah, there's certainly ability there but not enough to counteract my instinctive dislike of the noise they make.

[nev]

Using text speak when you're typing a message ON A COMPUTER; it's unforgivable on a phone as even the cheapest have T9 or predictive text, but when you're posting on a chum's Facebook wall? Vomit! I know of people who have A-levels in English who do this - please stop you look like a total arse

I now have to stop myself from correcting people as I am being perceived as more of a bastard than usual by attempting to rectify their mistakes.

[Roger Godpleton]

"Is there a John in the room ..?"

Yes!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8h_Lvuh9t5w&feature=related

[Peter Wolf]

I like Simon and Garfunkel but mostly selected tracks rather than entire albums.

I always find this track to be strangely moving because of the contrast of the music and the lyrics offset against the litany of misery and negativity and war in the news report in the background.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgYFXCUEL4Y

[Mikey]

There are noexceptions to my rule on the issue!

I present a (possibly paraphrased) quote from the inestimable Shane Magowan.

"I find songs floating about in the air - and it's my job to catch them before some fucker like Paul Simon gets them."

Haw!

M.

[johnnystress]

Simon and Garfunkel.

These pair have caused quite abit of grief chez Mikey. I just can't stand the whiney, safe fucking pretension of the music. I can't help but put it into a context where if you had the Beatles, Jimi Hendrix Experience, Bob Dylan and Black Sabbath - why the fuck would you be drawn to these tossers?

Mrs Mikey loves them 

M

I'm with Mrs Mikey on this one I grew up listening to them as my Dad had all their albums- went through a phase of hating them then rediscovered them.

Paul Simon's version of Anji is amazing

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jN2sWrr6l80

[Mike Gloady]

Shane McGowan - genius. 

[Mikey]

Poetry.

I just don't get it. And before there are cries of 'you're reading the wrong poems', I have tried and sort of enjoyed some, but don't get that connection others seem to. I've even been to readings, which successfully put me off some poets I thought I enjoyed. I think you need a certain type of brain or something, or some kind of primer on how to approach it as mostly is seems obscure and a bit smart arse to me.

Mrs Mikey loves poetry 

M.

[Tiplodocus]

Most people ignore most poetry bcause most poetry ignores most people.

(I think that was a funny poet, John Hegley or Henry Normal, that said that).

[The Cosh]

I understand the appeal of poetry, but I can't often be arsed to make the effort.

I don't understand the appeal of Love and Rockets.

[Dandontdare]

Poetry.

I just don't get it. And before there are cries of 'you're reading the wrong poems', I have tried and sort of enjoyed some, but don't get that connection others seem to. I've even been to readings, which successfully put me off some poets I thought I enjoyed. I think you need a certain type of brain or something, or some kind of primer on how to approach it as mostly is seems obscure and a bit smart arse to me.

Mrs Mikey loves poetry  

M.

It definitely needs some training or guidance to appreciate poetry, at least initially. I'm so glad I studied English, as I was forced to read, and taught to appreciate, loads of poetry that I would never in a million years have read otherwise. Not something I'd generally read for pleasure these days, but I still keep loads of my old uni books on my shelves, just to snobbilly prove my intellectual credentials and give some counter-balance to the shelves full of comics and graphic novels!

[Richmond Clements]

It definitely needs some training or guidance to appreciate poetry, at least initially. I'm so glad I studied English, as I was forced to read, and taught to appreciate, loads of poetry that I would never in a million years have read otherwise.

That's a damned good point.
I would say I'm another who doesn't get poetry, and now I think about it, the only poems I do get are ones I studied in school... coincidence? I think not.

[Tiplodocus]

My cock.  Women love it and can't stop stroking it and commenting on how much nicer it is now it's long.






















Did I say cock? I meant hair.