The seventy-first album: #71: Simon & Garfunkel - Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme
While I've covered a couple of folk albums before, with Bob Dylan the most notable, Simon & Garfunkel feel like they lift the genre to a different level. Wile the basic sounds are still there, there are many more effects, instruments and ideas mixed in that even beyond the lyrics, the songs sound quite distinct, and the feelings a song is meant to evoke come through strongly in the music. Cloudy sounds floaty, Homeward Bound has the rhythm of a train and Dangling Conversation feels distant. There's even a Bob Dylan parody on here that hits the sound and the voice quite well.
A lot of it is like poetry, the way the words flow and the lyrics sound, as well as the images it creates. It's a lovely sound that keeps impressing me. None of it is ever very complicated, but the songs are all so different that the album as a whole feels different and more layered. It makes for something easy and lovely to listen to, while leaving more of an impression than mostly any album.