Paul SimonBest Paul Simon Albums Ranked
8.2
Avg Score
38
Opinions
21
Albums
12
Reviewers
Summary from 38 ratings
On Rate.fm, fans have rated Paul Simon’s catalog across 21 albums from 38 opinions, with an overall average of 8.2/10. The top-rated Paul Simon album is Graceland (1986) with a 9.1/10 average from 4 ratings, followed by Seven Psalms and Stranger To Stranger. The discography on Rate.fm spans 1965 to 2023. American Tune (with The Jessy Dixon Singers & Urubamba) [Live 1973] ranks as the highest-rated Paul Simon song on Rate.fm with a 9.5/10 average.
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Seven Psalms
“In 2018, Paul Simon retired from performing. So Seven Psalms, a 33-minute work of seven interlinked movements, arrives both as a surprise and a revelation. Coming to Simon in a series of dreams, Seven Psalms finds this revered singer-songwriter approaching the big questions in a manner that recalls the seeking of the late Leonard Cohen, another great pop metaphysician raised originally in the Jewi”
Graceland
“In his typically understated way, Paul Simon has been an ardent musical explorer since he went solo in 1972. His songs have incorporated almost every style of American music, including doo-wop, gospel, blues and jazz, as well as reggae, minimalism, salsa and South American folk. But because he’s never based an entire album on any […]”
Graceland (25th Anniversary Deluxe Edition)
“The 25th anniversary reissue of Paul Simon's Graceland shows how the album gave a human face to the perception of South Africa during apartheid by synthesizing geographically disparate musical strains that turned out to be remarkably complementary.”