"A Simple Desultory Philippic (Or How I Was Robert McNamara'd into Submission)"Simon & Garfunkel
Featured on Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme
Columbia
Released October 10, 1966
Folk Rock
Vinyl
B+
Not only a hilarious Dylan parody (that name-checks Bob D, Dylan Thomas, Art Garfunkel, and a whole bunch of others, see the Wikipedia entry), but it's actually garagy as fuck, and, yes, that's a compliment. There are even references to pot and masturbation! Paul and Art, I didn't know you had it in you! (This was, however, one of my all-time favorite song titles as soon as I saw it on the cover, because I was an '80s teen who knew a little about the Vietnam War.)
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