Editorial Review:

Amazon.com:
Simon & Garfunkel have two 3-CD box sets collecting their entire career output, one with out-takes and live recordings, but the duo who were among the bestselling acts of the 1960s only recorded five studio albums throughout the entire 1960s! Their studio perfectionism is never better served than here. This greatest hits is simple and to the point, a perfect collection for anyone looking to get the basic idea (and hits) without committing to a more serious relationship. The harmonies, Paul Simon's masterful songwriting, Garfunkel's soaring choirboy voice, are all here. --Rob O'Connor

Rating: - Great music
This CD is 44 minutes and 18 seconds long and was released on June 14, 1972. It reached #5 on the United States charts and #2 on the United Kingdom charts. Go figure. It was a 14x multi-platinum album. It features their number 1 songs Sounds of Silence, Mrs. Robinson, and Bridge Over Troubled Water. Overall this is a great CD for people like me who like Simon and Garfunkel, but don't own any of their material. This is 5 star material all the way.

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Rating: - One of the biggest consumer rip-offs ever
First of all let me say I LOVE SIMON AND GARFUNKEL and their music is wonderful. But what we have here is somebody's mistaken idea that a greatest hits album should for some reason not include greatest hits! That's what I thought when the album was first released on vinyl, and here we are still dealing with this rip-off almost four decades later. And I do mean RIP OFF because nowhere on the jacket does it say that several of the tracks are alternate live recordings and that the applause at ... Read More

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Rating: - Careful - Tracks 4 & 8 are Live and Track 8 bleeds into Track 9!
If you want the songs you remember, avoid this CD in favor of the "Definitive Simon & Garfunkel" Sony TVK 24003 available at
http://www.amazon.com/Definitive-Simon-Garfunkel/dp/B0000566K2/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1221346327&sr=1-1

These Tracks are problematic:
4. 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy) - Live version
8. Homeward Bound - Live version
9. Bridge Over Troubled Water - Original ruined by applause bleed-in from end of previous track!
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Rating: - Really really greatest hits!
We bought this album last century and it is still in a big box of 60's and 70's vinyl LP's somewhere in the house. Having just travelled the length of the New Jersey Turnpike I had to have this as a souvenir. I had forgotten just how brilliant Simon and Garfunkel were-and are! This is a classic compilation, which I play several times a day. My favourite of all time is "America", or is it "Cecelia"? "Or Bridge over Troubled Water"? Just magic music.

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Rating: - Could've Been a Nice Little Collection
At 14 tracks and just over 44 minutes, this CD is a little short for an S&G compilation. Nevertheless, it could've been a cute little collection, encompassing, as the title suggests, their greatest commercial hits. It falls short of even this aspiration, however, as the familiar studio versions of several songs (including 'For Emily, Whenever I May Find Her,' 'The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy)' and 'Homeward Bound') are eschewed in favor of live versions. This would be fine if this ... Read More