The Very Best of Simon & Garfunkel: Tales from New York (2000)

About this title: Released around the same time Columbia/Legacy expanded the original The Best of Simon & Garfunkel to a comprehensive 20-track single-disc collection, the British-only Tales From New York: The Very Best of Simon & Garfunkel takes that expansion a little further. It weighs in at a hefty 40 songs spread over two discs. This is not a problem, yet it isn't entirely an unqualified blessing, either. There are many terrific songs here that didn't make the cut on The Best of -- which, after all, concentrated primarily on the biggest hits -- but Tales From New York isn't exactly trim. Actually, it ... read more

Tracks:

1. The Sound of Silence [Single Version] [Simon]
2. Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M. [Simon]
3. The Sun Is Burning [Campbell]
4. Peggy-O [Traditional]
5. Benedictus [Garfunkel/Simon/Tra]
6. He Was My Brother [Simon]
7. We've Got a Groovey Thing Goin' [Simon]
8. Homeward Bound [Simon]
9. I Am a Rock [Simon]
10. Kathy's Song [Simon]
11. April Come She Will [Simon]
12. Leaves That Are Green [Simon]
13. Flowers Never Bend with the Rainfall [Simon]
14. The Dangling Conversation [Simon]
15. Scarborough Fair/Canticle [Garfunkel/Simon]
16. Patterns [Simon]
17. Cloudy [Simon]
18. For Emily, Whenever I May Find Her [Simon]
19. Save the Life of My Child [Simon]
20. 7 O'Clock News/Silent Night [Simon]
21. A Hazy Shade of Winter [Simon]
22. The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy) [Simon]
23. At the Zoo [Simon]
24. Fakin' It [Simon]
25. Punky's Dilemma [Simon]
26. You Don't Know Where Your Interest Lies [Simon]
27. Mrs. Robinson [Simon]
28. Old Friends/Bookends [Simon]
29. The Boxer [Simon]
30. Baby Driver [Simon]
31. Keep the Customer Satisfied [Simon]
32. So Long, Frank Lloyd Wright [Simon]
33. Bridge over Troubled Water [Simon]
34. Cecilia [Simon]
35. The Only Living Boy in New York [Simon]
36. Bye Bye Love [Bryant/Bryant]
37. Song for the Asking [Simon]
38. El Condor Pasa (If I Could) [Milchberg/Robles/Si]
39. America [Simon]
40. My Little Town [Simon]

Note: This is a general synopsis. Each listing is further described below.