PAUL SIMON : YOU'RE THE ONE IN CONCERT

 

  1. That's Where I Belong
  2. Graceland
  3. One Man's Ceiling is another man's floor
  4. You're the One
  5. 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover
  6. That Was Your Mother
  7. Look at that
  8. Me & Julio down by the schoolyard
  9. The Teacher
  10. Diamonds on the soles of her shoes
  11. you can call me al
  12. Old Friends
  13. Homeward Bound
  14. i Am a Rock
  15. Darling Lorraine
  16. Old
  17. the Boy in the Bubble
  18. Pledging My Love
  19. The Late Great Johnny Ace
  20. The Coast
  21. Late in the Evening
  22. American Tune
  23. Hurricane Eye
  24. Kodachrome
  25. Bridge Over Troubled Water
  26. Still Crazy after all these years
  27. The Boxer

Label : Warner Bros.

Release Year : 2001

Running Time : 120 minutes

NTSC : 16:9

Recording Date : November 1st, 2000

Venue : L'Olympia, Paris, France

Review (Sam Sutherland) : After exploring world music in the '80s and tackling an ambitious if ultimately unsuccessful Broadway musical in the '90s, Paul Simon resurfaced in 2000 with a deceptively "modest" studio album. You're the One tabled overarching cultural or narrative agendas to return to Simon's early strengths as an archetypal singer-songwriter, a path followed on this superb video concert, which echoes its studio counterpart's back-to-basics approach while mirroring the impact of those larger-scaled projects. In concert, the newest songs stand alone thematically, yet Simon's long pilgrimage through Third World music now elicits utterly natural, multicultural accents. On songs such as the opening mission statement, "That's Where I Belong," as well as "The Teacher" and "Darling Lorraine," Simon flexes polyrhythmic nuances that measure how completely his music now fuses its familiar folk-rock origins with the more elastic influences gathered from Africa, South America, and the Caribbean. That achievement seems effortless, thanks to his remarkable 11-piece stage band, which likewise reflects Simon's musical diaspora through its multinational makeup. As the show's front man, Simon proves more relaxed and playful than was often the case earlier in his career. Whether illustrating key lyrics with exaggerated hand gestures, or pulling rank with a deadpan delivery of "Old" (his funny, unapologetic look at the other side of the generation gap), Simon radiates authority. The song list manages to capture all of the new album's highlights (especially the brilliant, tragi-comic "Darling Lorraine") with ample room for solid new versions of earlier solo songs and Simon & Garfunkel hits.