Vinyl Record
Paul Simon - Ultimate Collection
Paul Simon - Ultimate Collection on 2LP vinyl. A 2015 record available from Kilmorna Collection in Listowel, Ireland.
2LP ยท 2015
Available from Kilmorna Collection in Listowel.
Buyer notes: 2015 2LP, currently available from the Kilmorna Collection vinyl shelf. Pay for pickup in Listowel or ship within Ireland for EUR 5.50.
Ultimate Collection is the Paul Simon overview designed for listeners who want the long arc rather than a single era: the folk partnership, the 1970s solo reinvention, the Graceland explosion and the later records where rhythm, age and worldliness keep reshaping the writing. Its value is partly in sequence. The Sound Of Silence and Mrs. Robinson establish the Simon and Garfunkel language of melody, social observation and close harmony; Bridge Over Troubled Water shows the scale that partnership reached; Mother And Child Reunion and Me And Julio Down By The Schoolyard open the solo catalogue with rhythmic curiosity; Still Crazy After All These Years and 50 Ways To Leave Your Lover show adult craft at its most compressed. Then Graceland, You Can Call Me Al and Diamonds On The Soles Of Her Shoes mark the 1980s renewal that changed Simon's career again. As a vinyl collection, it is a map of a songwriter who kept refusing to stay inside one successful version of himself.
Ultimate Collection matters because it makes the continuity across Simon's career audible. The set shows how the writer of 1960s folk-pop standards became a solo artist fluent in reggae, gospel, jazz-pop, South African township textures and late-career reflection.
For collectors, this is a practical anthology rather than a substitute for the albums. It works as a front-door title for the Simon shelf, especially when paired later with Still Crazy, Hearts And Bones, Graceland and Seven Psalms for the deeper chapters.
Career-spanning songwriter pop with folk harmonies, acoustic storytelling, jazz-pop polish, gospel and reggae touches, South African rhythmic colour and sharply memorable melodic hooks.
Recommended for: Listeners starting a Paul Simon vinyl collection; Collectors who want Simon and Garfunkel touchstones alongside solo hits; Fans of songwriter anthologies that show several stylistic eras.
What period does Ultimate Collection cover? It covers major Simon and Garfunkel songs as well as Paul Simon solo material from the 1970s through later career highlights. Is Ultimate Collection a studio album? No. It is a compilation that gathers key tracks from across Paul Simon's career. Why collect this if the original albums exist? It gives a clear single-title overview of Simon's range, useful as an introduction or as a convenient way to keep the major songs together on vinyl.