The Studio Recordings 1972-2000 (2004)

About this title: Look closely at the title to this nine-disc box set -- it's Studio Recordings, not the complete studio recordings, which means there are things missing, and they will be things that you will miss. Naturally, the emphasis on studio recordings means that neither of Paul Simon's two live albums -- 1974's Live Rhymin' or 1991's Concert in the Park -- are here, but this also doesn't contain all of Simon's released studio recordings, somehow bypassing "Slip Slidin' Away," the Top Five single originally released as one of two new songs on his 1977 compilation, Greatest Hits, Etc. Since that ... read more

Tracks:

1. Mother and Child Reunion [Simon]
2. Duncan [Simon]
3. Everything Put Together Falls Apart [Simon]
4. Run That Body Down [Simon]
5. Armistice Day [Simon]
6. Me and Julio Down by the School Yard [Simon]
7. Peace Like a River [Simon]
8. Papa Hobo [Simon]
9. Hobo's Blues [Simon/Grappelli]
10. Paranoia Blues [Simon]
11. Congratulations [Simon]
12. Me and Julio Down by the School Yard[Demo Version] [Simon]
13. Duncan[Demo Version] [Simon]
14. Paranoia Blues [Simon]
15. Kodachrome [Simon]
16. Tenderness [Simon]
17. Take Me to the Mardi Gras [Simon]
18. Something So Right [Simon]
19. One Man's Ceiling Is Another Man's Floor [Simon]
20. American Tune [Simon]
21. Was a Sunny Day [Simon]
22. Learn How to Fall [Simon]
23. St. Judy's Comet [Simon]
24. Loves Me Like a Rock [Simon]
25. Let Me Live in Your City [Work-In-Progress] [Simon]
26. Take Me to the Mardi Gras [Acoustic Demo] [Simon]
27. American Tune [Unfinished Demo] [Simon]
28. Loves Me Like a Rock [Acoustic Demo] [Simon]
29. Still Crazy After All These Years [Simon]
30. My Little Town [Simon]
31. I Do It for Your Love [Simon]
32. 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover [Simon]
33. Night Game [Simon]
34. Gone at Last [Simon]
35. Some Folks' Lives Roll Easy [Simon]
36. Have a Good Time [Simon]
37. You're Kind [Simon]
38. Silent Eyes [Simon]
39. Slip Slidin' Away[Demo Version] [Simon]
40. Gone at Last[Demo Version] [Simon]
41. Late in the Evening [Simon]
42. That's Why God Made the Movies [Simon]
43. One-Trick Pony [Simon]
44. How the Heart Approaches What It Yearns [Simon]
45. Oh, Marion [Simon]
46. Ace in the Hole [Simon]
47. Nobody [Simon]
48. Jonah [Simon]
49. God Bless the Absentee [Simon]
50. Long Long Day [Simon]
51. Soft Parachutes [Simon]
52. All Because of You[Outtake] [Simon]
53. Spiral Highway [Simon]
54. Stranded in a Limousine [Simon]
55. Allergies [Simon]
56. Hearts and Bones [Simon]
57. When Numbers Get Serious [Simon]
58. Think Too Much (B) [Simon]
59. Song About the Moon [Simon]
60. Think Too Much (A) [Simon]
61. Train in the Distance [Simon]
62. Rene and Georgette Magritte With Their Dog After the War [Simon]
63. Cars Are Cars [Simon]
64. The Late Great Johnny Ace [Simon]
65. Shelter of Your Arms [Work-In-Progress] [Simon]
66. Train in the Distance [Original Acoustic Demo] [Simon]

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