Old Friends by Simon & Garfunkel (3 CDs)

Old Friends by Simon & Garfunkel (3 CDs)


UPC: 074646478028(1997)
5.6 x 10 inches

Track Listing:Bleecker Street
The Sound of SilenceThe Sun Is Burning
Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M.He Was My Brother
SparrowPeggy-O
BenedictusSomewhere They Can't Find Me
We've Got a Groovey Thing Goin'Leaves That Are Green (Album Version)
Richard CoryI Am a Rock
The Sound of SilenceHomeward Bound
Blues Run the GameKathy's Song
April Come She WillFlowers Never Bend With the Rainfall
PatternsCloudy
The Dangling ConversationScarborough Fair/Canticle
The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy)For Emily, Whenever I May Find Her
7 O'Clock News/Silent NightA Hazy Shade of Winter
At the ZooA Poem on the Underground Wall
Red Rubber BallBlessed
AnjiA Church Is Burning
Fakin' ItSave the Life of My Child
Program Open: AmericaYou Don't Know Where Your Interest Lies (Album Version)
Punky's DilemmaComfort and Joy
Star CarolMrs. Robinson
Old Friends/BookendsOvers
A Most Peculiar ManBye Bye Love
The BoxerBaby Driver
Why Don't You Write MeFeuilles-O
Keep the Customer SatisfiedSo Long, Frank Lloyd Wright
Song for the AskingCecilia
El Condor Pasa (If I Could)Bridge Over Troubled Water
The Only Living Boy in New York

The Collected Works was a triple-disc box set that included all of the duo's albums, but no rarities. For average fans -- even fairly dedicated ones -- that set contained most everything they would need, even if the sound quality was a little below average. Old Friends is a three-disc box set that was designed to replace The Collected Works, but it fails to achieve its goals despite its improved remastered sound. Part of the reason is the content itself -- all five albums plus the rarities on this set could have fit on three discs, offering a real complete recorded studio works, but the compilers decided to truncate the albums and toss on a handful of rarities. Even if it isn't all it could have been, the box isn't bad -- after all, it features all of the hits, most of the major album tracks, the 1975 reunion "My Little Town," and a couple of good rarities like "Blues Run the Game" -- and it may be enough for some casual fans---------------------
Old Friends is the second box set of Simon & Garfunkel songs, released in November 1997. The three-disc anthology collects most of the duo's best-known works, and also includes previously unreleased outtakes. Some of these outtakes subsequently appeared on both the reissues of Simon & Garfunkel's five studio albums as well as the later boxed set The Columbia Studio Recordings (1964-1970).