As a fan of a wide variety of popular (and not-so-popular) music from the 1950s (and sometimes even earlier) up through the present, one of my bucket list projects for years has been to put together a list of my 100 favorite songs of all time. At some point I decided that, once I got around to figuring that out, I could put it out on a blog, for the infinitesimally small proportion of the Internet world that might be interested. So, here we are. While the Top 100 will be a major focus, I also plan to post on a variety of other musical (and occasionally non-musical) topics, in which you may or may not be interested. (If a particular posting doesn’t ring your bell, you’re only a few clicks away from a dancing cat video on YouTube.)

Monday, July 24, 2017

#152 Train In The Distance – Paul Simon (1983)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YUEziX25DQ
 
In commercial terms, 1983’s Hearts and Bones album is one of Simon’s least successful, both in terms of its own sales and its failure to produce a Top 40 single. It did produce my two favorite Paul Simon songs of all time: the title cut and “Train in the Distance”. I avoided choosing between them for a long time, and even then it was basically a coin flip. Simon apparently liked them as well, as he included both in his 1988 collection Negotiations and Love Songs (whose title is taken from the lyrics of “Train in the Distance”).
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