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9. “Hearts And Bones”- While contemporaries were courting MTV in 1983 with glossy dance tracks, Simon was writing twisting, profound relationship songs like this title track to his most underrated album. The marriage of the “One and one-half wandering Jews” (Paul and former wife Carrie Fisher) may not have survived the romantic pitfalls Simon eloquently renders, but their “arc of a love affair” is endlessly captivating nonetheless.
