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* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: "The Sound of Silence", "Bridge Over Troubled Water", "The Boxer"... Heck, let's just include most of their catalog.

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* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: "The Sound of Silence", "Bridge Over Troubled Water", "Cecilia", "The Boxer"... Heck, let's just include most of their catalog.
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* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: "Cecilia", "The Boxer"... Heck, let's just include most of their catalog.

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* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: "Cecilia", "The Sound of Silence", "Bridge Over Troubled Water", "The Boxer"... Heck, let's just include most of their catalog.
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** How about the next three songs after that, where all three titular characters (Richard Cory, the Peculiar Man, and whoever "She" is) [[spoiler: die in very gruesome ways]]? It doesn't make it any less unsettling that the latter two songs-- ''especially'' "April Come She Will"-- [[DissonantSerenity are sung eerily soft.]]

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* StuckInTheirShadow: Art Garfunkel, former TropeNamer for "LesserStar."

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* SignatureSong: "The Sound of Silence" has become the duo's only song most people are familiar with today.
* StuckInTheirShadow: Art Garfunkel, former TropeNamer for "LesserStar.""LesserStar".
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* MemeticMutation: "Hello darkness my old friend..." has become a catch-all expression to describe despair.

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* MemeticMutation: "Hello darkness my old friend..." has become a catch-all expression to describe despair.despair after its use in the fourth season of ''Series/ArrestedDevelopment''.
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* MemeticMutation: "Hello darkness my old friend..." has become a catch-all expression to describe despair.
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** Happened in the other direction with "Hazy Shade of Winter" after TheBangles' version became a BreakawayPopHit.

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** Happened in the other direction with "Hazy Shade of Winter" after TheBangles' Music/TheBangles' version became a BreakawayPopHit.

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* AdaptationDisplacement:
** "Richard Cory" (the song) is much more well-known these days than "Richard Cory" (the poem by [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Arlington_Robinson Edwin Arlington Robinson]] that the song is based on).

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* AdaptationDisplacement:
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AdaptationDisplacement: "Richard Cory" (the song) is much more well-known these days than "Richard Cory" (the poem by [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Arlington_Robinson Edwin Arlington Robinson]] that the song is based on).

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** Many people don't realize "Scarborough Fair" is an English ballad a few centuries old, or that it has an even older version of the original called "The Elfin Knight".



* OlderThanTheyThink: To modern audiences, "Save The Life of My Child" might sound like an early example of {{Industrial}} and {{Sampling}}.

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* OlderThanTheyThink: OlderThanTheyThink:
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To modern audiences, "Save The Life of My Child" might sound like an early example of {{Industrial}} and {{Sampling}}.{{Sampling}}.
** Many people don't realize "Scarborough Fair" is an English ballad a few centuries old, or that it has an even older version of the original called "The Elfin Knight".

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* AdaptationDisplacement: "Richard Cory" (the song) is much more well-known these days than "Richard Cory" (the poem by [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Arlington_Robinson Edwin Arlington Robinson]] that the song is based on).

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* AdaptationDisplacement: AdaptationDisplacement:
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"Richard Cory" (the song) is much more well-known these days than "Richard Cory" (the poem by [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Arlington_Robinson Edwin Arlington Robinson]] that the song is based on).on).
** Many people don't realize "Scarborough Fair" is an English ballad a few centuries old, or that it has an even older version of the original called "The Elfin Knight".
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** The epic closing of "Bridge Over Troubled Water".
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* CoveredUp: "El Condor Pasa (If I Could)", which is just Simon's lyrics sung over the Los Incas version of the Peruvian folk song "El Cóndor Pasa" by Daniel Alomía Robles. Similarly, "Scarborough Fair/Canticle" adds new lyrics sung in counterpoint to the original folk ballad.

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* CoveredUp: "El Condor Pasa (If I Could)", Could)" from ''Music/BridgeOverTroubledWater'', which is just Simon's lyrics sung over the Los Incas version of the Peruvian folk song "El Cóndor Pasa" by Daniel Alomía Robles. Similarly, "Scarborough Fair/Canticle" adds new lyrics sung in counterpoint to the original folk ballad.
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** "Anji" is a rather unsettling instrumental.
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*** Also with Harper's Bizarre and "The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy)".

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* NightmareFuel: "The Sun is Burning". "Save the Life of My Child" (Also verges on TearJerker).

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* NightmareFuel: "The Sun is Burning". Burning", "Save the Life of My Child" (Also verges on TearJerker).TearJerker).
* OlderThanTheyThink: To modern audiences, "Save The Life of My Child" might sound like an early example of {{Industrial}} and {{Sampling}}.

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* NightmareFuel - "The Sun is Burning"
* StuckInTheirShadow - Art Garfunkel, former TropeNamer for "LesserStar."

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* NightmareFuel - NightmareFuel: "The Sun is Burning"
Burning". "Save the Life of My Child" (Also verges on TearJerker).
* StuckInTheirShadow - StuckInTheirShadow: Art Garfunkel, former TropeNamer for "LesserStar.""
* TrueArtIsAngsty: Particularly on the ''Parsley, Sage, Rosemary & Thyme'' and ''Bookends'' albums, S&G could be every bit as inward-looking and melancholy as {{Emo}} (Though usually much less {{Narm}}-y).
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* SoundtrackDissonance - "Seven O'Clock News/Silent Night". ''Big'' time.
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* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: "Cecilia", "The Boxer" ... Heck, let's just include most of their catalog.

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* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: "Cecilia", "The Boxer" ...Boxer"... Heck, let's just include most of their catalog.
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* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: "Cecilia", "The Boxer", ... Heck, let's just include most of their catalog.

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* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: "Cecilia", "The Boxer", ...Boxer" ... Heck, let's just include most of their catalog.
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* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: "The Boxer", "Cecilia"... Heck, let's just include most of their catalog.

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* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: "Cecilia", "The Boxer", "Cecilia"...Boxer", ... Heck, let's just include most of their catalog.
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* StuckInTheirShadow - Art Garfunkel, former TropeNamer for "LesserStar."
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** Happened in the other direction with "Hazy Shade of Winter" after TheBangles' version became a BreakawayPopHit.
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* HighOctaneNightmareFuel - "The Sun is Burning"

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* HighOctaneNightmareFuel NightmareFuel - "The Sun is Burning"

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* CoveredUp: "El Condor Pasa (If I Could)", which is just Simon's lyrics sung over the Los Incas version of the famous Peruvian folk song "El Condor Pasa" by Daniel Alomía Robles. Similarly, "Scarborough Fair/Canticle" adds new lyrics sung in counterpoint to the original folk ballad.

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* CoveredUp: "El Condor Pasa (If I Could)", which is just Simon's lyrics sung over the Los Incas version of the famous Peruvian folk song "El Condor Cóndor Pasa" by Daniel Alomía Robles. Similarly, "Scarborough Fair/Canticle" adds new lyrics sung in counterpoint to the original folk ballad.
** Robles' son sued Simon and Garfunkel in 1970 to gain a writer's credit for "El Cóndor Pasa", but noted that the court case itself was friendly since the oversight was the result of Simon being misled to believe it was a traditional folk song, and has stated he bears Simon no ill will. Los Incas similarly did not mind the fact that their instrumental backing had been used without permission, and even became friends with Simon and had him produce their first English-language album.

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* CoveredUp: "El Condor Pasa (If I Could)", which is just Simon's lyrics sung over the Los Incas version of the famous Peruvian folk song "El Condor Pasa" by Daniel Alomía Robles. Similarly, "Scarborough Fair/Canticle" adds new lyrics sung in counterpoint to the original folk ballad.

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* CoveredUp: "El Condor Pasa (If I Could)", which is just Simon's lyrics sung over the Los Incas version of the famous Peruvian folk song "El Condor Pasa" by Daniel Alomía Alomía Robles. Similarly, "Scarborough Fair/Canticle" adds new lyrics sung in counterpoint to the original folk ballad.
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* SoundtrackDissonance - "Seven O'Clock News/Silent Night". ''Big'' time.

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* SoundtrackDissonance - "Seven O'Clock News/Silent Night". ''Big'' time.time.
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* CoveredUp: "El Condor Pasa (If I Could)", which is just Simon's lyrics sung over the Los Incas version of the famous Peruvian folk song "El Cóndor Pasa" by Daniel Alomía Robles. Similarly, "Scarborough Fair/Canticle" adds new lyrics sung in counterpoint to the original folk ballad.

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* CoveredUp: "El Condor Pasa (If I Could)", which is just Simon's lyrics sung over the Los Incas version of the famous Peruvian folk song "El Cóndor Condor Pasa" by Daniel Alomía Robles. Similarly, "Scarborough Fair/Canticle" adds new lyrics sung in counterpoint to the original folk ballad.


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* EveryoneIsJesusInPurgatory: Tons of interpretations of "The Boxer" say that its refrain of "Lie la lie" means something significant (e.g.: that the singer is actually lying about his whole tale). PaulSimon has gone on record as saying that he just couldn't think of [[SingingSimlish any words to sing there]].
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* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: "The Boxer", "Cecilia"... Heck, let's just include most of their catalog.

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* HighOctaneNightmareFuel - "The Sun is Burning"
* SoundtrackDissonance - "Seven O'Clock News/Silent Night". ''Big'' time.
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* AdaptationDisplacement: "Richard Cory" (the song) is much more well-known these days than "Richard Cory" (the poem by EdwinArlingtonRobinson that the song is based on).

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* AdaptationDisplacement: "Richard Cory" (the song) is much more well-known these days than "Richard Cory" (the poem by EdwinArlingtonRobinson [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Arlington_Robinson Edwin Arlington Robinson]] that the song is based on).

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