"Folk-rock." On Fri, 4 Jan 2008, Drew MacDonald wrote: > Jeez, of course! Not only was Simon's Dylan parody certainly the first > instance of Jagger-checking I'd ever heard, the album it appeared on > (PARSLEY, SAGE, ROSEMARY & THYME) was one of the first albums I ever owned. > > I asked my parents for a Simon & Garfunkel record after one of the nuns at > St. Michael's School used "I Am A Rock" to introduce us tykes to the concept > of lyric metaphor. Pretty cool of her, in retrospect. She also cited Bob > Lind's "Elusive Butterfly Of Love" in the same lesson. > > Drew, > who's dropped his harmonica, Albert. > > > On Jan 3, 2008 9:45 PM, Benjamin Lukoff wrote: > > > Can't believe no one has mentioned Simon & Garfunkel's "A Simple Desultory > > Philippic (or how I was Robert McNamara'd Into Submission)" (how's *that* > > for a pretentious song title): > > > > "I been Mick Jaggered, been silver daggered. > > Andy Warhol, won't you please come home? > > I been mothered, fathered, aunt and uncled, > > Been Roy Haleed and Art Garfunkeled. > > I just a-discovered somebody's tapped my phone." > > > > >