Just read in Entertainment Weekly that Sony Legacy will be reissuing the Paul Simon solo catalog with remastered sound and bonus tracks.

Jimbo sez "Yay!"

I like the current batch though. Unless they add something, I won't feel compelled to dip into these again.

The main album tracks will be the same masterings as on the Warner Bros. discs, so unless there's new bonus content, then no deal.

I like my Rhino/WB's...I'll "find" the bonus tracks.

I bought the box set of WB remasters with bonus tracks. That'll be good enough.

Unless Sony adds different bonus tracks.

Has Graceland ever been released with bonus tracks? The version I have from 1996 does not have any, just some extra computer content that I've looked at once, so that one I might consider upgrading. Otherwise I have a couple of titles from the 2004 reissues, and I'm happy with them. Still need to eventually fill in some gaps, though, so those will probably end up being the new versions. It's a good thing I'm not the kind of guy who has to have everything matching.

What a futile exercise, no matter how big a Paul Simon fan you might be. The Rhino/WB box set cube suits me just fine.

Sony is probably doing straight reissues of the WB/Rhino releases, which were perfect. All of the 1972-2000 albums had bonus tracks (including Graceland).

Maybe in jewel cases?

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Found this from the Second Disc:

The reissues will be drawn from the same remasters as Rhino’s 2004 catalogue overhaul but will feature new bonus tracks. As for the titles in the first batch? It’s Paul Simon (1972), There Goes Rhymin’ Simon (1973), Paul Simon in Concert: Live Rhymin’ (1974), Still Crazy After All These Years (1975) and Graceland (1986).

Stay tuned for more info, which must surely be coming soon.

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I never got these before, so I am interested and I wouldn't be double or triple dipping as I've never owned any Simon on CD.

It says "new" bonus tracks, but that doesn't mean those will be in addition to the WB/Rhino ones...so you might have to double dip if you want it all.

I'll check the track listings as they come out, and as I said above I'll get the new bonuses somehow...

Bump: added pre-order links to the first post. So far, Amazon has tracklistings up for the first two albums — assuming they didn't just copy their listings from the previous remasters, it looks like the Legacy editions will feature the same bonus tracks as before.

Increasingly, Sony isn't believable when they say that they're adding previously unreleased material. After all, Sony recently had a big announcement about how they were getting a license on the Emerson,Lake & Palmer catalog, and how they were going to bring out all sorts of exciting unreleased material. In the end, it was a UK-only license for only the group's main catalogue albums, and in the end they were released (Mostly) with no bonus tracks whatsoever, stripped of the bonus tracks that were present on the previous UK CD's of certain albums(not to mention that Sanctuary/Universal had released 2-CD Deluxe Editions of several albums). As with Sony/UK's ELP CD's, the Sony Paul Simon CD's look likely to be pointless......unless Amazon.com is mistaken. I'm all set with the Warner/Rhino "Paul Simon" box of expanded reissues.

My suspicions were correct. Paul Simon's motive in bringing his solo catalogue to Sony was to get a "stick" that he could wield(the possibility of again taking his solo catalog off of Columbia Records) as a means of exerting control over Sony's Simon & Garfunkel product(I.E. to make sure that they don't release any more S&G studio outtakes), hence we get the "Bridge Over Troubled Water" album with a bonus DVD, but no audio bonus tracks, and Paul Simon solo CD's whose bonus tracks are identical to the Rhino releases. The only Simon solo CD worth buying in the new releases is "Live Rhymin' "(which is apparently new to CD and adds 2 unreleased tracks).
With the same masterings and bonus tracks as the Rhino CD's, The Sony Paul Simon reissues aren't going to sell well. Why would anyone buy them?

Live Rhymin' is not new to CD. I have a Warner Bros. CD. Not sure what year it was released. Though, you are correct, the new version does add two tracks that are not on my CD.

Other than that they paid for the catalog, and well to make the catalog available in print and to make money, well they need to release it themselves….






Holy conspiracy theories. Relax, people move catalogs. I bet McCartney just wanted all the coffee he could drink for free….





They are going to sell as well as they would had they still been on the shelf (what shelf these days anyway) with a WB label on them.



Um, people who don’t already own something in his catalog that interests them. You don’t think someone as iconic as Paul Simon picks up younger (or newer regardless of age) listeners/fans through random ways that we all discover music?

I hope they DON'T have any new bonuses...I'd hate to have to re-purchase them again. Love the Rhinos. Adding "Live Rhymin' " will be enough for me.

Gotta agree with most of this-why the X-Files conspiracy theories with music? And why wouldn't they re-release these once they got the rights to them? And when Did Sony ever promise the ELP re-releases were going to have extra content? If they did, I missed it, but I don't recall that being anything than just re-distributing what was already out there.

They appear to have no new bonus tracks. Just the WB/Rhino bonus cuts.

Columbia and Legacy Recordings have set a June 7 release date for the first round of releases in the Paul Simon catalog project with definitive editions of four of the artist's essential solo albums -- Paul Simon, There Goes Rhymin' Simon, Paul Simon In Concert: Live Rhymin' and Still Crazy After All These Years.
News of the Paul Simon catalog releases arrives as Simon, the quintessential American singer-songwriter-performer, tours the United States in May and Europe this summer with an eight-piece band in support of his recently-released critically-acclaimed new album, So Beautiful Or So What on Hear Music.

The new Columbia/Legacy editions of four classic Paul Simon catalog titles marks the first set of releases since last year's historic licensing agreement between the artist and Sony Music Entertainment brought Simon's entire catalog of recordings together under the one roof for the first time since the 1970s.

Paul Simon, There Goes Rhymin' Simon, Paul Simon In Concert: Live Rhymin' and Still Crazy After All These Years have returned to the Columbia imprint for the first time since their original vinyl releases.

While all the titles feature the remastered sound, bonus tracks and expanded packaging from their first CD incarnations, Paul Simon In Concert: Live Rhymin', a Columbia Records release in 1974, has been newly remastered for this Columbia/Legacy edition. Recorded during Simon's groundbreaking tours with Urubamba and the Jessy Dixon Singers in 1973-74, Live Rhymin' includes two previously unavailable live tracks -- "Kodachrome" and "Something So Right" -- which have never appeared on the vinyl or CD editions of the album.

Originally released on Columbia Records in 1972, Paul Simon, the artist's first solo studio album without Art Garfunkel, peaked at #4 on the Billboard 200 while generating the signature hits "Mother and Child Reunion" (#4 Hot 100) and "Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard" (#22) and other classic tracks. CD bonus cuts include demos of "Duncan" and "Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard" and an unreleased "Paranoia Blues."

There Goes Rhymin' Simon, a 1973 Columbia Records release, showcased a pair of timeless summer car radio anthems -- "Kodachrome" and "Loves Me Like a Rock" -- and peaked at #2 on the Billboard 200. The CD features non-album bonus tracks including work-in-progress "Let Me Live in Your City," acoustic demos of "Take Me to the Mardi Gras" and "Loves Me Like a Rock," topped off by an unfinished demo of "American Tune."

1975's Grammy-winning Album of the Year, Still Crazy After All These Years rocketed to #1 with a hit-packed tracklist that included "My Little Town" (a one-track "reunion" with Art Garfunkel) and the #1 smash "50 Ways to Leave Your Lover." Bonus cuts on the CD include demos of "Slip Slidin' Away" and "Gone At Last" (with The Jessy Dixon Singers).

During his distinguished career Paul Simon has been the recipient of many honors and awards A recipient of the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, Simon has won 12 Grammys including three Albums of the Year: "Bridge Over Troubled Water" (1970), "Still Crazy After All These Years" (1976) and "Graceland" (1986). 2011 marks the 40th anniversary of "Bridge Over Troubled Water," a 1998 Grammy Hall of Fame inductee. Simon has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame both as a member of Simon & Garfunkel and as a solo artist.