Hearts and Bones

Simon’s first album after the soundtrack to his film One Trick Pony, Hearts and Bones began as a project intended as a Simon and Garfunkel album called Think Too Much and meant to coincide with a reunion tour following their 1981 concert in Central Park.

Just prior to the album’s release, Simon removed Garfunkel’s vocals from the album and prepared to release the retitled Hearts and Bones as a solo album.

Much of the album deals with the nuances of relationships using what he called a combination of everyday vernacular and enriched language.

Hearts and Bones underperformed commercially, though songs like “Allergies” and “Think Too Much (B)” represent a musical shift away from his folk-pop background and toward the sound that would become the foundation of his next album, 1986’s Graceland.