Vinyl Record
Paul Simon - Hearts And Bones
Paul Simon - Hearts And Bones on LP vinyl. A 1983 record available from Kilmorna Collection in Listowel, Ireland.
LP ยท 1983
Available from Kilmorna Collection in Listowel.
Buyer notes: 1983 LP, currently available from the Kilmorna Collection vinyl shelf. Pay for pickup in Listowel or ship within Ireland for EUR 5.50.
Hearts And Bones is Paul Simon's 1983 album of private fracture, written in the shadow of the Simon and Garfunkel reunion moment but ultimately released as a solo record. That backstory matters because the songs keep testing the distance between partnership and isolation. The title track turns a road trip with Carrie Fisher into one of Simon's most finely observed adult love songs, full of motion, comedy and emotional imbalance. Allergies opens with nervous modern gloss; Think Too Much arrives in two contrasting versions, as if the album itself cannot decide how to process doubt; Train In The Distance and Rene And Georgette Magritte With Their Dog After The War show Simon returning to narrative grace after the bright public triumphs of the 1970s. The Late Great Johnny Ace closes the record by linking 1950s rock memory, John Lennon's death and Simon's own pop history. It is not an easy comeback album. It is a beautifully unsettled document of a writer between eras.
Hearts And Bones matters because it is the bridge between Simon's 1970s singer-songwriter authority and the radical renewal of Graceland. Its commercial modesty can obscure how sharp the writing is: autobiographical, literary, rhythmically curious and already restless with the old frame.
For collectors, Hearts And Bones is the Paul Simon album that often becomes more compelling after the obvious first-choice titles are already on the shelf. It rewards close listening because its best songs are not trying to announce a new phase loudly; they are quietly dismantling one.
Early-1980s singer-songwriter pop with precise acoustic writing, polished studio surfaces, anxious rhythm touches, adult romantic detail and flashes of narrative surrealism.
Recommended for: Paul Simon listeners exploring the road between Still Crazy and Graceland; Collectors drawn to overlooked 1980s songwriter records; Fans of literate pop albums shaped by autobiography and doubt.
When was Hearts And Bones released? Hearts And Bones was released in 1983 as Paul Simon's sixth solo studio album. Was Hearts And Bones planned as a Simon and Garfunkel album? The material was connected to the reunion period, but the finished album was released under Paul Simon's name as a solo record. Which songs are central to Hearts And Bones? Hearts And Bones, Train In The Distance, Rene And Georgette Magritte With Their Dog After The War and The Late Great Johnny Ace are key to the album's emotional range.