Monday, July 24, 2017

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


 
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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