Album cover - baby's face with blue water covering the top half of the baby's forehead

Cracking The Simon Code

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"Will anybody get it?" Simon says. "Am I just talking to myself?"
USA Today interview , Edna Gundersen 6/19/2006.

If you have not heard Surprise, the first ten tracks interweave pieces of seemingly unrelated songs, in a manner that is very beautiful, but seemingly random. Seemingly. One song's structure is discussed in the blog, here, and shown in the annotations, here.

It led this listener to wonder, "Is this really random? Maybe Simon is taking a single idea and looking at it from several angles to illuminate it." And "That," I thought, "would really make this album a monster, if it's true."

Well, guess what. It's true. All those random bits are really just a single concept looked at from different angles. And it's even bigger than that. All these tracks are explorations of parts of a single, larger concept. Now click the baby's nose and come on in!

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This website is dedicated to deciphering Paul Simon's masterpiece,
Surprise.