Title: a low, but still better than most pop records
Product review: This is probably Paul Simon's second worst record (after the dismal "Songs from the Capeman", and not counting the first three Simon and Garfunkel records). The epithet "one man's ceiling is another man's floor" is mildly amusing--I suppose--, but repeated it quickly becomes annoying, and it certainly can't support an entire lyric: Simon should know better. Musically "Kodachrome" and "An American Tune" are pastiches, strings of cliches; lyrically they are drab. The best one can say about "Was a Sunny Day" and "Take Me to the Mardi Gras" is that they are filler. On the other hand, "Love Me Like a Rock" is clever; "Tenderness" is apposite (and opposite Billy Joel's insipid "Honesty"); "Something So Right" is pleasant.Just make sure your collection includes "Bridge Over Troubled Water", "Paul Simon", Still Crazy After All These Years", and "Graceland" first.
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