Complete List Of Paul Simon Albums And Songs

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Paul Simon was born on October 13, 1941, in Newark, New Jersey, and spent his formative years in Queens, New York. His solo catalog extends from the acoustic recordings of The Paul Simon Songbook through the stylistic breadth of Graceland, The Rhythm of the Saints, Stranger to Stranger, and the seven-movement composition Seven Psalms.

This complete Paul Simon discography presents his studio and live albums in chronological order. Each entry includes its release date and complete standard-edition track listing.

Paul Simon Studio Albums

The Paul Simon Songbook

Released June 23, 1965

CD Track Listings:

1. “I Am a Rock” – 2:49
2. “Leaves That Are Green” – 2:23
3. “A Church Is Burning” – 3:25
4. “April Come She Will” – 1:49
5. “The Sound of Silence” – 3:06
6. “A Most Peculiar Man” – 2:30
7. “He Was My Brother” – 2:48
8. “Kathy’s Song” – 3:32
9. “The Side of a Hill” – 2:20
10. “A Simple Desultory Philippic (Or How I Was Robert McNamara’d Into Submission)” – 2:12
11. “Flowers Never Bend with the Rainfall” – 2:10
12. “Patterns” – 2:45

Paul Simon

Released January 14, 1972

CD Track Listings:

1. “Mother and Child Reunion” – 3:05
2. “Duncan” – 4:39
3. “Everything Put Together Falls Apart” – 2:01
4. “Run That Body Down” – 3:52
5. “Armistice Day” – 3:55
6. “Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard” – 2:42
7. “Peace Like a River” – 3:20
8. “Papa Hobo” – 2:34
9. “Hobo’s Blues” – 1:21
10. “Paranoia Blues” – 2:54
11. “Congratulations” – 3:42

There Goes Rhymin’ Simon

Released May 5, 1973

CD Track Listings:

1. “Kodachrome” – 3:32
2. “Tenderness” – 2:53
3. “Take Me to the Mardi Gras” – 3:28
4. “Something So Right” – 4:34
5. “One Man’s Ceiling Is Another Man’s Floor” – 3:47
6. “American Tune” – 3:44
7. “Was a Sunny Day” – 3:40
8. “Learn How to Fall” – 2:45
9. “St. Judy’s Comet” – 3:19
10. “Loves Me Like a Rock” – 3:32

Still Crazy After All These Years

Released October 25, 1975

CD Track Listings:

1. “Still Crazy After All These Years” – 3:26
2. “My Little Town” – 3:51
3. “I’d Do It for Your Love” – 3:35
4. “50 Ways to Leave Your Lover” – 3:37
5. “Night Game” – 2:58
6. “Gone at Last” – 3:40
7. “Some Folks’ Lives Roll Easy” – 3:13
8. “Have a Good Time” – 3:26
9. “You’re Kind” – 3:20
10. “Silent Eyes” – 4:12

One-Trick Pony

Released August 12, 1980

CD Track Listings:

1. “Late in the Evening” – 4:02
2. “That’s Why God Made the Movies” – 3:38
3. “One-Trick Pony” – 3:54
4. “How the Heart Approaches What It Yearns” – 2:49
5. “Oh, Marion” – 4:00
6. “Ace in the Hole” – 5:43
7. “Nobody” – 3:33
8. “Jonah” – 3:30
9. “God Bless the Absentee” – 3:15
10. “Long, Long Day” – 3:48

Hearts and Bones

Released November 4, 1983

CD Track Listings:

1. “Allergies” – 4:37
2. “Hearts and Bones” – 5:39
3. “When Numbers Get Serious” – 3:25
4. “Think Too Much (b)” – 2:44
5. “Song About the Moon” – 4:07
6. “Think Too Much (a)” – 3:05
7. “Train in the Distance” – 5:11
8. “René and Georgette Magritte with Their Dog After the War” – 3:44
9. “Cars Are Cars” – 3:15
10. “The Late Great Johnny Ace” – 4:45

Graceland

Released August 25, 1986

CD Track Listings:

1. “The Boy in the Bubble” – 3:59
2. “Graceland” – 4:48
3. “I Know What I Know” – 3:13
4. “Gumboots” – 2:44
5. “Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes” – 5:48
6. “You Can Call Me Al” – 4:40
7. “Under African Skies” – 3:37
8. “Homeless” – 3:48
9. “Crazy Love, Vol. II” – 4:18
10. “That Was Your Mother” – 2:52
11. “All Around the World or the Myth of Fingerprints” – 3:15

The Rhythm of the Saints

Released October 16, 1990

CD Track Listings:

1. “The Obvious Child” – 4:10
2. “Can’t Run But” – 3:36
3. “The Coast” – 5:04
4. “Proof” – 4:39
5. “Further to Fly” – 5:36
6. “She Moves On” – 5:03
7. “Born at the Right Time” – 3:48
8. “The Cool, Cool River” – 4:33
9. “Spirit Voices” – 3:56
10. “The Rhythm of the Saints” – 4:20

Songs from The Capeman

Released November 18, 1997

CD Track Listings:

1. “Adios Hermanos” – 4:41
2. “Born in Puerto Rico” – 4:54
3. “Satin Summer Nights” – 5:45
4. “Bernadette” – 3:28
5. “The Vampires” – 5:05
6. “Quality” – 4:10
7. “Can I Forgive Him” – 6:02
8. “Sunday Afternoon” – 3:25
9. “Killer Wants to Go to College” – 1:51
10. “Time Is an Ocean” – 5:23
11. “Virgil” – 2:50
12. “Killer Wants to Go to College II” – 2:10
13. “Trailways Bus” – 5:15

You’re the One

Released October 3, 2000

CD Track Listings:

1. “That’s Where I Belong” – 3:11
2. “Darling Lorraine” – 6:36
3. “Old” – 2:19
4. “You’re the One” – 4:28
5. “The Teacher” – 3:36
6. “Look at That” – 3:54
7. “Señorita with a Necklace of Tears” – 3:41
8. “Love” – 3:48
9. “Pigs, Sheep and Wolves” – 3:58
10. “Hurricane Eye” – 4:12
11. “Quiet” – 4:17

Surprise

Released May 9, 2006

CD Track Listings:

1. “How Can You Live in the Northeast?” – 3:42
2. “Everything About It Is a Love Song” – 3:55
3. “Outrageous” – 3:24
4. “Sure Don’t Feel Like Love” – 3:57
5. “Wartime Prayers” – 4:49
6. “Beautiful” – 3:07
7. “I Don’t Believe” – 4:09
8. “Another Galaxy” – 5:22
9. “Once Upon a Time There Was an Ocean” – 3:55
10. “That’s Me” – 4:43
11. “Father and Daughter” – 4:11

So Beautiful or So What

Released April 12, 2011

CD Track Listings:

1. “Getting Ready for Christmas Day” – 4:06
2. “The Afterlife” – 3:40
3. “Dazzling Blue” – 4:32
4. “Rewrite” – 3:49
5. “Love and Hard Times” – 4:09
6. “Love Is Eternal Sacred Light” – 4:02
7. “Amulet” – 1:36
8. “Questions for the Angels” – 3:49
9. “Love and Blessings” – 4:18
10. “So Beautiful or So What” – 4:08

Stranger to Stranger

Released June 3, 2016

CD Track Listings:

1. “The Werewolf” – 3:25
2. “Wristband” – 3:17
3. “The Clock” – 1:02
4. “Street Angel” – 2:11
5. “Stranger to Stranger” – 4:35
6. “In a Parade” – 2:21
7. “Proof of Love” – 5:44
8. “In the Garden of Edie” – 1:48
9. “The Riverbank” – 4:11
10. “Cool Papa Bell” – 4:02
11. “Insomniac’s Lullaby” – 4:33

In the Blue Light

Released September 7, 2018

CD Track Listings:

1. “One Man’s Ceiling Is Another Man’s Floor” – 4:00
2. “Love” – 4:10
3. “Can’t Run But” – 3:29
4. “How the Heart Approaches What It Yearns” – 4:30
5. “Pigs, Sheep and Wolves” – 4:00
6. “René and Georgette Magritte with Their Dog After the War” – 4:43
7. “The Teacher” – 3:36
8. “Darling Lorraine” – 7:13
9. “Some Folks’ Lives Roll Easy” – 3:59
10. “Questions for the Angels” – 4:00

Seven Psalms

Released May 19, 2023

Seven Psalms is a continuous 33-minute composition divided into seven connected movements. Digital editions have also presented the movements as individual selections.

CD Track Listings:

1. “The Lord”
2. “Love Is Like a Braid”
3. “My Professional Opinion”
4. “Your Forgiveness”
5. “Trail of Volcanoes”
6. “The Sacred Harp”
7. “Wait”

Paul Simon Live Albums

Paul Simon in Concert: Live Rhymin’

Released April 13, 1974

CD Track Listings

1. “Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard” – 2:47
2. “Homeward Bound” – 2:45
3. “American Tune” – 3:58
4. “El Cóndor Pasa (If I Could)” – 4:08
5. “Duncan” – 5:11
6. “The Boxer” – 6:11
7. “Mother and Child Reunion” – 4:00
8. “The Sound of Silence” – 4:27
9. “Jesus Is the Answer” – 3:28
10. “Bridge over Troubled Water” – 7:10
11. “Loves Me Like a Rock” – 3:16
12. “America” – 4:35

Paul Simon’s Concert in the Park

Released November 5, 1991

Recorded during Paul Simon’s free Central Park concert on August 15, 1991, this two-disc live album spans his solo catalog and songs first recorded with Simon & Garfunkel.

Disc 1

1. “The Obvious Child” – 4:38
2. “The Boy in the Bubble” – 5:59
3. “She Moves On” – 6:26
4. “Kodachrome” – 4:14
5. “Born at the Right Time” – 5:12
6. “Train in the Distance” – 4:46
7. “Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard” – 3:14
8. “I Know What I Know” – 4:45
9. “The Cool, Cool River” – 5:41
10. “Bridge over Troubled Water” – 5:16
11. “Proof” – 5:36

Disc 2

1. “The Coast” – 7:03
2. “Graceland” – 5:31
3. “You Can Call Me Al” – 5:10
4. “Still Crazy After All These Years” – 3:43
5. “Loves Me Like a Rock” – 2:54
6. “Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes” – 9:31
7. “Hearts and Bones” – 6:18
8. “Late in the Evening” – 4:45
9. “America” – 3:23
10. “The Boxer” – 4:19
11. “Cecilia” – 3:24
12. “The Sound of Silence” – 5:40

Live in New York City

Released September 18, 2012

Recorded at Webster Hall during Simon’s 2011 tour, Live in New York City combines material from So Beautiful or So What with songs spanning several decades.

Disc 1

1. “The Obvious Child”
2. “Dazzling Blue”
3. “50 Ways to Leave Your Lover”
4. “So Beautiful or So What”
5. “Mother and Child Reunion”
6. “That Was Your Mother”
7. “Hearts and Bones”
8. “Crazy Love, Vol. II”
9. “Slip Slidin’ Away”
10. “Rewrite”

Disc 2

1. “The Boy in the Bubble”
2. “The Only Living Boy in New York”
3. “The Afterlife”
4. “Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes”
5. “Gumboots”
6. “The Sound of Silence”
7. “Kodachrome”
8. “Gone at Last”
9. “Late in the Evening”
10. “Still Crazy After All These Years”

The Concert in Hyde Park

Released June 9, 2017

Recorded at the 2012 Hard Rock Calling Festival in London, The Concert in Hyde Park includes a Graceland reunion with Ladysmith Black Mambazo and appearances by Jimmy Cliff, Hugh Masekela, Thandiswa Mazwai, and Jerry Douglas. The two Jimmy Cliff solo performances marked with an asterisk appear on the DVD program.

Disc 1

1. “Kodachrome”
2. “Gone at Last”
3. “Dazzling Blue”
4. “50 Ways to Leave Your Lover”
5. “The Harder They Come” (Jimmy Cliff) *
6. “Many Rivers to Cross” (Jimmy Cliff) *
7. “Vietnam” (with Jimmy Cliff)
8. “Mother and Child Reunion” (with Jimmy Cliff)
9. “That Was Your Mother”
10. “Hearts and Bones / Mystery Train / Wheels”
11. “Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard”
12. “Slip Slidin’ Away”
13. “The Obvious Child”

Disc 2

1. “Homeless” (with Ladysmith Black Mambazo)
2. “Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes” (with Ladysmith Black Mambazo)
3. “I Know What I Know”
4. “The Boy in the Bubble”
5. “Crazy Love, Vol. II”
6. “Gumboots”
7. “Under African Skies” (with Thandiswa Mazwai)
8. “Graceland”
9. “You Can Call Me Al”
10. “The Sound of Silence”
11. “The Boxer” (with Jerry Douglas)
12. “Late in the Evening”
13. “Still Crazy After All These Years”

* DVD-only performance.

Updated August 3, 2026.

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