This boxed anthology includes nine solo studio albums the veteran singer-songwriter Paul Simon released between dissolving his epochal partnership with Art Garfunkel
and 2000 ably underscores the long-term pursuit of those eclectic
tastes. Digitally remastered, each of the albums also contain bonus
demos and outtakes; culled together, they're essentially an additional
double-album's worth of raw insight into Paul Simon's adventurous creative vision and restless musical soul.
Disc 1: Paul Simon [1972]
01. Mother and Child Reunion
02. Duncan
03. Everything Put Together Falls Apart
04. Run That Body Down
05. Armistice Day
06. Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard
07. Peace Like a River
08. Papa Hobo
09. Hobo's Blues
10. Paranoia Blues
11. Congratulations
12. Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard - (bonus track)
14. Duncan - (bonus track)
15. Paranoia Blues - (previously unreleased, bonus track)
Disc 2: There Goes Rhymin' Simon [1973]
01. Kodachrome
02. Tenderness
03. Take Me to the Mardi Gras
04. Something So Right
05. One Man's Ceiling Is Another Man's Floor
06. American Tune
07. Was a Sunny Day
08. Learn How to Fall
09. St. Judy's Comet
10. Loves Me Like a Rock
11. Let Me Live in Your City - (Bonus Track)
12. Take Me to the Mardi Gras - (bonus track, acoustic demo)
13. American Tune - (bonus track, unfinished demo)
14. Loves Me Like a Rock - (bonus track, acoustic demo)
01. Still Crazy After All These Years
02. My Little Town
03. I Do It For Your Love
04. 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover
05. Night Game
06. Gone at Last
07. Some Folks Lives Roll Easy
08. Have a Good Time
09. You're Kind
10. Silent Eyes
11. Slip Slidin' Away - (demo)
12. Gone at Last - (original demo, with The Jessy Dixon Singers)
Disc 4: One-Trick Pony [1980]
01. Late in the Evening
02. That's Why God Made the Movies
03. One-Trick Pony
04. How the Heart Approaches What It Yearns
05. Oh, Marion
06. Ace in the Hole
07. Nobody
08. Jonah
09. God Bless the Absentee
10. Long, Long Day
11. Soft Parachutes - (previously unreleased, soundtrack recording)
12. All Because of You - (previously unreleased, outtake)
13. Spiral Highway - (previously unreleased, soundtrack recording)
14. Stranded in a Limousine
Disc 5: Hearts and Bones [1983]
01. Allergies
02. Hearts and Bones
03. When Numbers Get Serious
04. Think Too Much (B)
05. Song About the Moon
06. Think Too Much (A)
07. Train in the Distance - (original acoustic demo)
08. Rene and Georgette Magritte with Their Dog After the War
09. Cars Are Cars
10. The Late Great Johnny Ace
11. Shelter of Your Arms - (previously unreleased)
12. Train in the Distance
13. Rene and Georgette Magritte with Their Dog After the War - (original acoustic demo)
14. The Late Great Johnny Ace
Disc 6: Graceland [1986]
01. The Boy in the Bubble
02. Graceland
03. I Know What I Know
04. GumBoots
05. Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes
06. You Can Call Me Al
07. Under African Skies
08. Homeless
09. Crazy Love Vol. II
10. That Was Your Mother
11. All Around the World or the Myth of Fingerprints
12. Homeless - (demo)
13. Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes - (previously unreleased)
14. All Around the World or the Myth of Fingerprints - (early version)
01. The Obvious Child
02. Can't Run But
03. The Coast
04. Proof
05. Further to Fly
06. She Moves On
07. Born at the Right Time
08. The Cool River
09. Spirit Voices
10. Rhythm of the Saints, The
11. Born at the Right Time - (original acoustic version)
12. Thelma - (outtake)
13. Coast, The - (work in progress)
14. Spirit Voices - (work in progress)
Disc 8: Songs from The Capeman [1997]
01. Adios Hermanos
02. Born in Puerto Rico
03. Satin Summer Nights
04. Bernadette
05. The Vampires
06. Quality
07. Can I Forgive Him
08. Sunday Afternoon
09. Killer Wants to Go to College
10. Time Is an Ocean
11. Virgil
12. Killer Wants to Go to College II
13. Trailways Bus
14. Shoplifting Clothes - (previously unreleased)
15. Born in Puerto Rico - (demo, with Jose Feliciano)
16. Can I Forgive Him - (original demo)
Disc 9: You're the One [2000]
01. That's Where I Belong
02. Darling Lorraine
03. Old
04. You're the One
05. The Teacher
06. Look at That
07. Senorita With a Necklace of Tears
08. Love
09. Pigs, Sheep and Wolves
10. Hurricane Eye
11. Quiet
12. That's Where I Belong
13. Old - (live)
14. Hurricane Eye
