0420. Simon & Garfunkel
Bookends

It's a pretty harsh mood change from the high-toned guitar in Bookends Theme to Save The Life Of My Child, as a distorted synth breaks in and the production costs started to soar. This is, in other words, a whole other album than the last time we heard from the duo - the album Parsley, Sage, Rosemary And Thyme from two years earlier.

The A-side is dedicated to the narrative of the span of life, from the birth in Save The Life Of My Child to aging and (implicated) death in Old Friends (which has some of the most overly dramatic strings on the list this far). This concept-part isn't really that much fun, but the B-side is better.

Here we have songs meant to be in the film The Graduate, but most of them were, for one reason or another, not. Mrs. Robinson, though, made sure this album was a hit, pulled along by the movie, while the other singles (like A Hazy Shade Of Winter, later covered by The Bangles) fought their own fight.