Parsley, Sage, Rosemary And Thyme

one of the best examples ever of a christmas album that's not really a christmas album

Okay. Fav song: Patterns

First track alone is worth 5 stars, but the rest is pretty awesome as well.

Boring

Fun

Wonderful. More on it than I remembered but all good.

Again, not for me. Just to boring

So good to hear this album again. A true masterpiece and I still cant believe its from 1966. THere are so many clever studio things being done here that are just beyond impressive. Roy Halee - what a guy. With the songs of Simon and the voice of Garfunkel nothing could be more perfect. (5/5)

It's Simon & Garfunkel. What's not to love?

6.3

They are classic and this album is a great easy listen.

It's nice but not great

Perfect for the British autumn we are sliding into

10/22

Man, I wanted to dislike this album. My high school drama teacher made a joke about the spice blend and my understanding made me bias against it. Top that with my distaste for early Folk music and I thought this would be a disaster to listen to. It wasn't! Even the open track bangs. Loved the soft and light tones. This album explored and developed the Folk sound. Favorite tracks were: Scarborough Fair/Canticle, Patterns, The Big Bright Green Pleasure Machine, The 59th Street Song, The Dangling Conversation, A Simple Desultory Philippic, and shout out to Silent Night. Couldn't make it through the whole Silent Night track, though.

Nice listen 👍

That’s a very good record, but I had to dock points for the goofy Dylan diss track.

I want to believe that Dylan's cover of "The Boxer" is his retaliation for "A Simple Desultory Philippic". 9 keepers in 12 (75%). 75

Great first album. Set up for the rest of their heavy metal career.

Bra men ikke beste fra S&G. 3 av 5

It's a very pretty album, but it isn't really anything more than that. I enjoyed that Bob Dylan parody though.

I don’t have much to say about this one but I did really like it. I wasn’t totally focused on what was going on for whatever reason but I liked what I heard.

Pretty good but Tim Buckley did folk rock better

My affection for S&G continues. Folk rock goodness, little all over the place but that's okay by me. Mostly struck by the choice to open with something as whimsical and traditional as "Scarborough Fair / Canticle" and close with something as chilling as "7 O'Clock News / Silent Night." (update the news stories and it could've been released in this decade... oh wait, Phoebe Bridgers, Fiona Apple, and Matt Berninger did...)

honestly not my favorite. it is too one note. homeward bound is the only one with a more interesting rhythm and IMO is the best song on the album

They’re true all-time classics. Good choice, sir; in all honesty, it’s an album that deserves to be on this list :-)

It has Homeward Bound, and a bunch of stuff I didn't like. I don't know. Scarborough Fair is too Ren Faire for my liking, some songs were just plain dumb (looking at you, Big Bright Green Pleasure Machine), and then there were the songs trying to sound too smart for the room (Dangling Conversation, and whatever that Bob Dylan (parody??) was). Frankly, I could tell by Paul Simon's shirt on the cover I wouldn't care for this album.

im new to folk music, might like it

Having only played the hits, I didn’t realize how silly and pop culture reverential S&G can get. Also didn’t know Phoebe Bridgers ripped the Christmas song/news montage from them.

My dad always had “Si & Gar” playing in his car. He has all of their albums, so this sound reminds me of growing up. 😊

A very good folk album with all time bangers of "Scarborough Fair/Canticle", "Homeward Bound", and "The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy)". PSRaT also has some of my favorite deeper cuts like "Patterns" and "Cloudy". Even the weaker tracks on the back half of the album sound like they would be top tier stuff on a lesser folk artist's album of the time.

Wow. What a beautiful, gentle record. Favourite tracks: Scarborough Fair / Canticle, Patterns, The Big Bright Green Pleasure Machine, The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy), The Dangling Conversation, A Simple Desultory Philippic, A Poem on the Underground Wall, 7 O'clock News / Silent Night.

Not bad, not really my jam sandwich though.

Really good listen. You know the big songs but had a few other ones that I liked. This had a strong Bob Dylan sound for half the songs. I just told all my Simon & Garfunkel stories 2 albums ago reviewing 'Graceland,' but feel very grateful for seeing Paul Simon live and meeting Art Garfunkel at Enterprise.

I think it was really nice. Some songs were really good. For example: The danglimg conversation; For Emily, whenever i may find her; Scarborough fair... But overall good album but not my vup of tea. But i enyojed listenimg to a new genre.

I’m probably not with a lot of you on here but I just do not get the track ‘Scarborough fair’ at all. It’s bland boring folk. There are however some belting tracks on this album that showcase the best of S & G however none of them hit home like their bridge over troubled water album, making this a massive letdown in comparison. But I will rate it as a standalone like I do all the albums. I think ‘patterns’ is a belting track as are ‘homeward bound’ and my personal favourite ‘the 59th bridge street’ and also ‘Emily’ was a good track too. The rest all felt like filler and the Silent night/new report on Vietnam war did absolutely nothing for me and is my worst track. 6/10

Simon & Garfukel - PSR&T A few good songs put a load of fluffy filler too. Probably the weakest S&G album, IMO. Good stuff - Scarborough Fair, Homeward Bound, For Emily, 7 o'clock News Fair stuff - 59th Street Bridge Song, Flowers Never Bend The rest is nowhere near the standards of the following Bookends and BOTW. And also has none of the enthusiastic charm of what came before. Best Track - For Emily Worst Track - Big Bright Green Pleasure Machine A disappointing 6/10

I was so bored the whole time. Nothing here is bad but it's just background noise to me. 2/5

i'm garfunkeled out

I don't like simon & garfunkel

At times incredibly beautiful and at times nauseatingly pretentious

oh, these two schmucks again.. all the bells and whistles, literally, and zero fun. reminds of a band being chopped in a plagued village tavern somewhere on the outskirts of the witcher

Pretty classic S&G, lots of songs on here that I really enjoyed listening to.

The Paul Simon led songs are much better than the rest Best Song: Homeward Bound Rating: 5.5/10 Stars: 3

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ok yeah this album is pretty good. my hopes weren't so high after the last simon b2b garfunkel album we rolled but somethin about this one just hits way better than bridge over troubled water did i guess.....? it definitely helps that im familiar with "scarborough fair / canticle" (or the first part of it at least?) and already liked it quite a lot, but theres a few other tracks i enjoyed too. none of them quite good enough to unseat it and become my favourite track on the album, but "patterns" and "a poem on the underground wall" are both great, and i especially like the double tracking and delay/reverb stacked up on the vocals on the latter. i gotta shout out "7 o'clock news / silent night" too, great way to end an album. definitely this is a 4 i think, although i do kinda wonder how much of that is down to it being short enough it could almost pass as an ep. 12 tracks in under half an hour is crazy pacing. respect i guess.

Apart from the Dylanesque bit towards the end this is just on. That's not because Dylan is great but because it might be that they're slating him which I'm fully behind. Also at that point it's a window to the time and what's happening so I'll give a bonus point for being a time capsule. Let's see how we get on with their other albums.

This kind of folk music really isn't for me; it should be playing in an overpriced tavern at a renaissance fair. I did, however, enjoy The Big Britght Green Pleasure Machine. Their lyricism is impressive, they definitely know how to write a song. Most of this album was a miss for me though, so I'll give it a 2. That sounds harsh, but 4/10 is fair for an album I did not particularly enjoy.

I always found them boring and this album is no exception. I give it that, at least, it's better than Bookends and (more importantly) very very short. Some songs would be OK (Homeward Bounds, Feelin' Groovy -- besides the silly lyrics) if I hadn't had some classmates with their fucking guitars playing them to death during high-school trips. And that was 30 years ago but already 30 years too late. So because of those assholes, here I could genuinely enjoy only the percussions of Patterns and the Dylan's impression of the Philippic...

Enjoyable listen. A lot of fun when they’re having fun but a bit boring on the tracks with less energy.

A few months ago I was in Seattle and got invited to a friend's house for a "backyard concert", which I assumed meant someone was jamming outside while we all casually drank and ate. Turns out this "backyard concert" was actually in my friend's very small living room with chairs set up facing a makeshift stage where we were told to please give the artists our undivided attention for the next 90 minutes. I accidentally sat in the front row before I knew what was going on. The band was comprised of two guys playing very sweet acoustic music with beautiful harmonies; however, they clearly wanted to sing about Joni Mitchell-esque environmental concerns while driving a diesel van and being heavily involved in the San Francisco tech scene, and, once again, I had to give them my undivided attention in the front row for 90 minutes. All of this is to say, Simon & Garfunkel have by proxy been ruined for me for the foreseeable future.

This album is named after the rub that I use for my Thanksgiving turkey! Whenever I listen to smartly written music from this era, I’m reminded and blown away by the number of major events that were taking place simultaneously. With all the chaos and change, I can see why the counterculture movement appreciated some chill. Despite the sometimes-heavy lyrics, this is a fun poppy, folksy album. The songwriting is mostly pretty exceptional and these two have voices that mesh better than almost any band before or since. These mo’ fuckies know how to harmonize. There is a lot to like, but the album is also a bit uneven and not particularly innovative. That is okay though, sometimes it is okay to just take a load off and feel groovy.

Classic.

Solid, loved it right after Freewheelin

Better than Bookends. Still weird in places, but better than a lot from this period, honestly. I appreciate that Paul was constantly experimenting with percussion, style and form. 4 Boolean: True

Pretty ok, but why is there a christmas song at the end? That was a little bit on the "too random for me" scale.

Instant 5 stars for the Bob Dylan piss-take. Fucking beautiful. OK, editing after gut reaction to that track... This album has quite a few staple S&G tracks that I'm very familiar with already. Paul Simon's songwriting here is as good as ever, and there's a decent amount of variety in style although always still easily identifiable as S&G - with the exception of the Bob Dylan parody which is honestly just gold - the random harmonica playing between phrases had me cackling. Frankly there's a haunting beauty to S&G that I find hard to criticise much, realistically my main complaint is that it's simply not really massively to my personal taste. I gave "Bridge Over Troubled Water" a 3 on that basis; it was all pleasant to listen to, it's just not something I would generally choose. I'm going to be generous and bump this one up purely on the basis of the parody track, it was something different and I loved it.

The first song sounded like a christmas song but actually pretty good, we're kinda getting into christmas territory so I enjoyed it It genuinely sounds like every christmas song ever copied these guys Everything sounds so warm from the voices to the instruments. The bob dylan mockery was peak 28 minutes of peak, doesn't get samey because of it's short length... this feels wrong to put as a 5 but I can't fault it.

I really liked this album I haven’t listened to much of Simon and Garfunkel before and I really liked it I liked some of the Beatles-esque sounds in this album Also the similarities between Scarborough fair and girl from north country Silent night/7 o clock news is a track I’ve loved for a while now and it was pretty genius putting those 2 together Favorite album I’ve had in a while from 1001 4/5 Favorites: silent night, homeward bound

amazing!!!! loved it

Finally, a 5. It's been a long string of six "1" ratings in a row. This is a great album start to finish.

It’s fine, but certainly no Bookends or Troubled Water.

Guitar

1 dont like folk

Tänkte först att dom här jävla hoberna borde åka tillbaka till Medeltidsveckan, men sen kom låtarna med trummor och då blev det ganska bra! Uppfriskande med Dylan-parodin, spelade den för Kajsa hon blev kränkt >:)

There's some nice melodies and such here but super unmemorable

Linda banda, lindas canciones, pero no me genera nada, medio aburrida. Además habían canciones que estaban en el otro disco tmb, no entendí.

People are always goo goo eyed about their harmonies, which are great, but I'm more struck by how trippy and intricate the production is on this album. Some of these songs are like Fabrege eggs. I'd put it up there with Pet Sounds and Sgt Peppers in that gilded horse race.

Gorgeous harmonies, affecting songs, poetic lyrics, wonderful arrangements. The album is strong enough to overcome a lyric like “couched in our indifference,” and the choice to record “Silent Night” set to a newscaster reading the big headlines of 1966 makes for an all-time great closer. A classic.

I didn't much like the songs I didn't already know (the singles), and the Silent Night Mashup with the TV news was just cringe. The Dylan parody was also dumb.

Baba catch up

These medieval court jesters again! You could pick any two of the musicians from the band playing in the Mos Eisley Cantina and they would be better!

An, in my opinion, incredibly creative and personal folk album. I really enjoyed this album. I appreciated how human this album felt, and how concise it was while still retaining creative freedom. I don't think this is my favorite genre, though. Full of great ideas, so for that it gets a solid 4.

I don't think two guys in the history of the world ever sounded more beautiful together 🥹

Having listened to this I think I would rather hear the previous “Sounds of Silence” album or the later “Bridge over Troubled Water”. However, it has some nice tunes, a few interesting bits such as the intentional Dylan-style harmonica (played badly!) and I had a bit of a play with the rest of it too… Firstly, I read the back of the LP cover which was a reprint of a New York Times article from 1966 reviewing the album before its release. I thought it would be good to share this and so, having taken a photo of it, I AI’d it into a word doc which I will paste below here for anyone interested. I then thought more about the production of the album as I’d noticed the stereo sound separation throughout was about as defined as most Beatles albums were in the ‘60s. An example being “7 O’Clock News /Silent Night”. Although I couldn’t work out how to change the balance on my PC via Tidal by playing the LP through my own stereo system I could get Silent Night sung perfectly in the left blanking out the news output completely which was solely in the right channel. I clearly need to get out more!! A LAW FIRM THEY’RE NOT By ROBERT SHELTON The New York Times August 28, 1966 Almost before the public knew whether Simon and Garfunkel was a comedy act, a law firm, or a partnership in the garment industry, the two young musicians bearing those names were becoming the fastest-rising popular vocal duo in the land. The last year has seen two of their LPs and four of their singles sell an amazing total of five million copies. Even more unusual is that these records are saying something, in lyrics and in music, and that the start of their popular acceptance came through the use of an electronic gimmick. “Pop music has become the most exciting area of all music today,” said Simon. The short, moon-faced, boyish songwriter sings and plays the guitar with great ability. “Pop music is catching up with film as the leading medium in which to make some comment about the world for a large audience, just as film caught up with literature.” “Among all the forms of entertainment we have, pop music has become the most alive medium,” Garfunkel added. He is a tall, lean tenor with a shock of blond hair that stands erect as if an electric shock had passed through it. With the lines of musical categories melting all around, Simon and Garfunkel are not overly concerned with whether they are called pop, folk, pop-folk or folk-rock singers, or just plain singers. Their backgrounds were in the folk movement, but they currently find they are influencing such performers outside the category as The Beatles. “Old concepts about ‘the top 40’ and Tin Pan Alley are dying,” Simon said. “In a year they will be dead, as the new music comes in. Bob Dylan made a breakthrough with his lyrics, and he certainly has had an effect on my thinking, if not my style. He proved that there were people listening to song lyrics.” Simon and Garfunkel have had gratifying reports that several teachers of English, from junior high school to college level, have been playing their recordings in class and teaching from their lyrics. The partners make it clear, however, that they are not aiming to be pedants. “We would never call our music teaching,” said Garfunkel, who is completing work on a master’s degree in education at Columbia. And his partner added: “I write and perform to entertain, not to teach or preach, I would much rather a concert-goer say: ‘I had a great evening’ than ‘I learned a lot’. If we make them think, okay — it’s an added dimension. We are just creating doubts and raising questions. There are doubts in every area.” Some of Simon’s most doubting songs will be on a new album “Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme”. Their SILENT NIGHT, The Christmas Carol, will be drowned out by the voice of a radio announcer reading the day’s news about war and discrimination. The close harmony, musical and philosophical, of Simon and Garfunkel began almost a decade ago when they were schoolmates in Forest Hills, Queens. Their musical interests trail back to “digging rock‘n’roll shows when the audiences were mostly made up of kids from Harlem.” They found themselves sensitive adolescent outsiders, not interested in athletics, but finding common ground in music. At college time, they split paths for a while, Arthur went to Columbia to major in mathematics while Paul studied English Literature at Queens College and then six “miserable” months in law school before fleeing to London. He wrote BLESSED, one of several church-music-flavoured songs, in St. Anne’s Church in London. The pair’s first album, “Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M.,” had caused little stir in the U.S., but on that album was a Simon song, “The Sound of Silence,” which a CBS distributor in Miami believed had a hit potential if rhythm were added. Without the singers present, an over-dubbing rhythm backing was added, and the single released. The single caught everyone by surprise, sold a million copies and hit the top of the U.S. hit chart. This little bit of electronic wizardry was to open up the vast audience the pair have played to all year. Simon is planning to write a book, joining Lennon and Dylan and a growing number of “pop-music intellectuals” in writing for the page as well as for the stage. He concedes that although he is bringing new subjects and new depth to the three-minute pop song, there are still limitations in song-writing that impel him to plan writing for the page. Reproduced by kind permission of The New York Times.

Such a short record!! Not sure why I haven’t heard this before but I’ve always hated Scarborough Fair so might be because of that. I would say it’s okay - I appreciate this kind of folk music but some songs are just a bit pants (Cloudy, Feeling Groovy, A Simple…) can’t help but think maybe it would have been more beneficial to direct some of the energy into making the better songs longer (Homeward Bound, Patterns etc) anyway this was very much okay

Other than the overtly Dylan track I find something intoxicating about this extremely delicate production and the way these songs vanish almost as soon as they start. I think Wes Anderson films are to blame for my love of this sort of sound.

I think this is one of those albums where I've heard the songs I like, and the stuff I have not heard I didn't feel like I was missing anything. I do really like the 7 O'clock Night News/ Silent Night though.

I loved this, I’m always so focused on how incredible Art Garfunkel’s voice is but I really appreciated Paul Simon’s tone here. Also the last song is wild, so impressive, so impactful.

Like first song! Had heard that song before but was unsure where it came from. Solid folk album.

I’d kill to be able to harmonise this well. That being said, the songs are what counts, and they are mostly okay. Homeward Bound is the one brilliant moment whereas the others, while not bad, don’t reach those heights. And it is slightly boring at times, isn’t it?

Peaceful and heartwarming music that gives hope.

Классная запись, но несколько слащаво, и не мое. Но звукорежиссура восхитительная.

Il duo migliore nel genere.

3 I really like the half the album, the popular stuff I listened to as a kid. The rest doesn’t reg with me.

28 minutes of very fantastical folk, incredible instrumentation and harmonies, a simply excellent record with great whimsy, writing and production.

Favorite songs: Scarborough Fair/Canticle, Homeward Bound, The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin’ Groovy), Flowers Never Bend with the Rainfall, For Emily, Whenever I May Find Her, 7 O’Clock News/Silent Night 3.5

Listened before? No Familiar with the artist? Yes Thoughts: - I kind of needed some Easy Listening today... - I think I sang Scarborough Fair at some point in a school choir, lol. This version is beautiful. - I enjoy this much more than I liked Simon's Graceland; not sure if that's a popular opinion or not. - Not sure if "A Simple Desultory Philippic" is meant to be a Bob Dylan parody? But I did actually laugh out loud at it. Favorite track(s): A Simple Desultory Philippic

Less than 30mins and some amazing songwriting. 4/5.

very calming - i enjoyed

Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme is the album where Simon & Garfunkel become more than a successful folk duo. It’s the beginning of their transformation into sophisticated studio artists and Paul Simon’s emergence as one of America’s major songwriters. It’s beautiful, intelligent and meticulously constructed. But it’s not flawless, and I’m glad we’re being stricter with the ratings: the supporting material doesn’t consistently reach the astonishing level of its best songs.

Great album.

Don't love it!!

Its a pretty good album. Folk for the literate undergraduate set. 4

Very good album definitely stoner type music

I like the first track, it's nostalgic to me. Nothing particularly special about the rest of it.

Mixed bag.

Why did I enjoy the silent night / congressional news report song? Enjoyed homeward bound, a simple desultory philippic (rest of the album could have done with more harmonica...). Overall enjoyable but not massively memorable. 3.

Wasn’t my favorite. I can see how this band inspired America (the band, not the country). To be frank I wasn’t listening much to the lyrics. This seems to be country + celtic folk inspired, and it got me to tap my foot at some parts. I can see why people would like it, just not for me. Last song was cool though

lembra muito de cara o Sufjan Stevens (no caso o Sufjan Stevens lembra muito eles), tanto a voz quanto a vibe. achei as músicas muito bem escritas. produção bem simples mas funciona. entendo muito a vibe mas é zero a minha, dito isso as músicas são bem bonitas e mega colocaria num dia de chuva bem chill. tem umas musicas que funcionariam muito bem numa trilha sonora do Wes Anderson. as musicas são tipo poesias, muito bem escritas. 7 O'clock news/Silent Night é uma música muito genial. cpa vire meu novo album de estudo/de dormir não sei se isso é uma coisa boa.