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Originally Posted by rostasi
Well, I guess you could blame someone other than the songwriters themselves for the failure of their own album,
but I don't think it's the case here. I mean, it's on CBS and so you can't say that it was short-shrifted by a small
label with no money. As Tom & Jerry, they had hits that rated higher than this album initially did that actually
were on small labels, so you can't say that it was due to inexperience. No, it just didn't catch until someone had
to distract attention from the maudlin feel and attempted poorly metered "rhymes" by puffing it up and trying
hard to re-sell it to the public (something that A&R guys were good at at Columbia).
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I suppose I was alluding to the idea that, afaik, most of us hold here; that how the world reacts to your "masterpiece" is not the responsibility of the artist and that popular acclaim (or lack of) is not a measure of musical quality.
I remember
Weds morning 3 a.m. as being a decent album in it's quiet way, which could be said of the Sound of Silence song too imo, so I'm a bit surprised that you should have taken against it so strongly. But let's not sweat it; perhaps in the US, S & G ended up getting too much praise/exposure for their own good.
St.Trinian's: Sorry, rather than check back to your post and put in the right name (St.Andrew's) I was lazy and put in a name which in the UK has come to stand for a generic, joke girls' school. It's a reference to some very dated comedy films that's not worth pursuing any furthur than this:-