Poor Elliott Smith... Poor Paul Simon...

["Bruce Lachey" <b_lachey at hotmail_com>]

You guys write too much..  haha!  I'm *working* here!!  I agree with 
everything Rhys said so far.. ;)  If the issues were on a ballot, I'd vote a 
uniparty ticket today.

Don't get me wrong, I like Paul Simon's songs, I have a bunch of 
Simon&Garfunkle and Paul Simon solo in my collection.  But he tries too 
hard..  Not everything has to be so "fancy".

This email originally had a bunch of comparisons between the two I'd dug up 
on the internet.  Elliott said in some interview basically the same thing I 
did - that he writes about REAL things that affect him, and not the garbage 
that Paul Simon writes..  or something..  It made Elliott seem an ass, but I 
agree, his lyrics are leaps and bounds more personal to me than Paul Simon's 
stuff.

Someone wrote on one site: "Smith's voice is like alleyways full of broken 
glass, peopled with soon-to-be ghosts. Paul Simon is a luxury condominium 
with the air conditioner blasting."

So at the end of the day (I'm sick of that expression) Paul can be alluding 
to my life in all sorts of clever lyrical ways, but I still listen to him 
just for clever pop songs and the production..  Elliott is affecting in a 
way that Over The Rhine is, in a useful, personal way.

Drink up baby , look at the stars
I'll kiss you again, between the bars
B

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