The Studio Recordings 1972–2000

Album by Paul Simon

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Disc 1

  1. 1.
    Mother and Child Reunion
    3:10
  2. 2.
    Duncan
    4:43
  3. 3.
    Everything Put Together Falls Apart
    2:02
  4. 4.
    Run That Body Down
    3:55
  5. 5.
    Armistice Day
    3:57
  6. 6.
    Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard
    2:45
  7. 7.
    Peace Like a River
    3:23
  8. 8.
    Papa Hobo
    2:36
  9. 9.
    Hobo’s Blues
    1:21
  10. 10.
    Paranoia Blues
    2:58
  11. 11.
    Congratulations
    3:51
  12. 12.
    Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard (demo – San Francisco 2/71)
    2:30
  13. 13.
    Duncan (demo – San Francisco 2/71)
    2:49
  14. 14.
    Paranoia Blues (unreleased version)
    3:14

Disc 2

  1. 2.
    Kodachrome
    3:35
  2. 3.
    Tenderness
    2:56
  3. 4.
    Take Me to the Mardi Gras
    3:31
  4. 5.
    Something So Right
    4:37
  5. 6.
    One Man’s Ceiling Is Another Man’s Floor
    3:48
  6. 7.
    American Tune
    3:47
  7. 8.
    Was a Sunny Day
    3:44
  8. 9.
    Learn How to Fall
    2:48
  9. 10.
    St. Judy’s Comet
    3:22
  10. 11.
    Loves Me Like a Rock
    3:40
  11. 12.
    Let Me Live in Your City (work‐in‐progress)
    4:22
  12. 13.
    Take Me to the Mardi Gras (acoustic demo)
    2:31
  13. 14.
    American Tune (unfinished demo)
    4:03
  14. 15.
    Loves Me Like a Rock (acoustic demo)
    3:25

Disc 3

  1. 3.
    Still Crazy After All These Years
    3:27
  2. 4.
    My Little Town
    3:52
  3. 5.
    I Do It for Your Love
    3:35
  4. 6.
    50 Ways to Leave Your Lover
    3:37
  5. 7.
    Night Game
    2:59
  6. 8.
    Gone at Last
    3:41
  7. 9.
    Some Folks’ Lives Roll Easy
    3:14
  8. 10.
    Have a Good Time
    3:26
  9. 11.
    You’re Kind
    3:20
  10. 12.
    Silent Eyes
    4:12
  11. 13.
    Slip Slidin’ Away (demo)
    5:30
  12. 14.
    Gone at Last (original demo)
    4:39

Disc 4

  1. 4.
    Late in the Evening
    4:03
  2. 5.
    That’s Why God Made the Movies
    3:38
  3. 6.
    One‐Trick Pony
    3:54
  4. 7.
    How the Heart Approaches What It Yearns
    2:49
  5. 8.
    Oh, Marion
    4:01
  6. 9.
    Ace in the Hole
    5:43
  7. 10.
    Nobody
    3:33
  8. 11.
    Jonah
    3:31
  9. 12.
    God Bless the Absentee
    3:18
  10. 13.
    Long, Long Day
    3:57
  11. 14.
    Soft Parachutes (unreleased soundtrack recording)
    1:54
  12. 15.
    All Because of You (outtake)
    4:07
  13. 16.
    Spiral Highway (unreleased soundtrack recording)
    2:57
  14. 17.
    Stranded in a Limousine
    3:11

Disc 5

  1. 5.
    Allergies
    4:39
  2. 6.
    Hearts and Bones
    5:39
  3. 7.
    When Numbers Get Serious
    3:26
  4. 8.
    Think Too Much (b)
    2:45
  5. 9.
    Song About the Moon
    4:11
  6. 10.
    Think Too Much (a)
    3:05
  7. 11.
    Train in the Distance
    5:12
  8. 12.
    Rene and Georgette Magritte With Their Dog After the War
    3:46
  9. 13.
    Cars Are Cars
    3:15
  10. 14.
    The Late Great Johnny Ace
    4:53
  11. 15.
    Shelter of Your Arms (work‐in‐progress)
    3:12
  12. 16.
    Train in the Distance (original acoustic demo)
    3:14
  13. 17.
    Rene and Georgette Magritte With Their Dog After the War (original acoustic demo)
    3:47
  14. 18.
    The Late Great Johnny Ace (original acoustic demo)
    3:22

Disc 6

  1. 6.
    The Boy in the Bubble
    4:00
  2. 7.
    Graceland
    4:51
  3. 8.
    I Know What I Know
    3:14
  4. 9.
    Gumboots
    2:45
  5. 10.
    Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes
    5:51
  6. 11.
    You Can Call Me Al
    4:41
  7. 12.
    Under African Skies
    3:37
  8. 13.
    Homeless
    3:49
  9. 14.
    Crazy Love, Vol. II
    4:20
  10. 15.
    That Was Your Mother
    2:53
  11. 16.
    All Around the World or the Myth of Fingerprints
    3:26
  12. 17.
    Homeless (demo)
    2:32
  13. 18.
    Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes (unreleased version)
    4:43
  14. 19.
    All Around the World or the Myth of Fingerprints (early version)
    3:17

Disc 7

  1. 7.
    The Obvious Child
    4:10
  2. 8.
    Can’t Run But
    3:37
  3. 9.
    The Coast
    5:05
  4. 10.
    Proof
    4:40
  5. 11.
    Further to Fly
    5:36
  6. 12.
    She Moves On
    5:04
  7. 13.
    Born at the Right Time
    3:48
  8. 14.
    The Cool, Cool River
    4:33
  9. 15.
    Spirit Voices
    3:56
  10. 16.
    The Rhythm of the Saints
    4:21
  11. 17.
    Born at the Right Time (original acoustic demo)
    3:50
  12. 18.
    Thelma (acoustic demo)
    4:15
  13. 19.
    The Coast (work‐in‐progress)
    5:14
  14. 20.
    Spirit Voices (work‐in‐progress)
    3:50

Disc 8

  1. 8.
    Adios Hermanos
    4:42
  2. 9.
    Born in Puerto Rico
    5:03
  3. 10.
    Satin Summer Nights
    5:46
  4. 11.
    Bernadette
    3:34
  5. 12.
    The Vampires
    5:15
  6. 13.
    Quality
    4:19
  7. 14.
    Can I Forgive Him
    6:02
  8. 15.
    Sunday Afternoon
    3:25
  9. 16.
    Killer Wants to Go to College
    1:51
  10. 17.
    Time Is an Ocean
    5:24
  11. 18.
    Virgil
    2:50
  12. 19.
    Killer Wants to Go to College II
    2:10
  13. 20.
    Trailways Bus
    5:23
  14. 21.
    Shoplifting Clothes (unreleased)
    3:38
  15. 22.
    Born in Puerto Rico (demo w/ Jose Feliciano)
    5:02
  16. 23.
    Can I Forgive Him (original demo)
    1:57

Disc 9

  1. 9.
    That’s Where I Belong
    3:13
  2. 10.
    Darling Lorraine
    6:39
  3. 11.
    Old
    2:20
  4. 12.
    You’re the One
    4:28
  5. 13.
    The Teacher
    3:36
  6. 14.
    Look at That
    3:54
  7. 15.
    Señorita With a Necklace of Tears
    3:41
  8. 16.
    Love
    3:51
  9. 17.
    Pigs, Sheep and Wolves
    3:58
  10. 18.
    Hurricane Eye
    4:12
  11. 19.
    Quiet
    4:25
  12. 20.
    That’s Where I Belong (live)
    3:43
  13. 21.
    Old (live)
    2:40
  14. 22.
    Hurricane Eye (live)
    6:00

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