Cecilia - Simon & Garfunkel

Obvious, right? WRONG! Try finding a decent rendition of this jam on Youtube and you'll wind up a very unhappy blogger. 'Twas this very situation I found myself in recently when I tried to post Cecilia by S-dogg and G-Funk. Instead of relishing in the clap inspiring, folk sing-a-long of my youth, I was greeted with an aging, mousey-eyed Paul Simon and that grandstanding, pseudo-Alzheimer's patient Arthur Garfunkel squeezing out this jam the way all legacy acts do with their most precious material: shittily. I almost threw up on my keyboard.

So I did what any moderately educated web designer would do: I built my own flash interface, uploaded the resultant SWF file featuring the original studio version onto a server and embedded the URL here, on Obvious_Jams.

Most importantly, I did it so that we could all enjoy what is clearly a classic, rollicking, fun time party jam! Who among us can deny, as young children, listening to this folksy, organic jam about unrequited love and promiscuous girlfriends? Who among us did not sit by the stereo in their pajamas, listening to these nefarious harmonies issuing from the speakers, feverishly reading the liner notes for Bridge Over Troubled Water, looking for close to uncertain 60's fame? Anyone?

I thought not.

That is perhaps a part of what makes this jam so obvious. I myself, a singularity amongst a veritable galaxy of internet content providers, cannot lay claim to all that makes any one jam so obvious. But I will say this: when I was young, perhaps not yet a decade old, my father and I would drive around and sing this song aloud as it played on the tape player. And still today, I could place this song on my obvious_jams playlist, download it to my mp3 player and then blare it in the car with my friends. The result would be indistinguishable from those times with my father. If that isn't obvious, I dare not say what is.