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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsIt's not often a video puts the hook in me like this one has.
An old metal band, Disturbed, has taken an already great classic Simon and Garfunkel song and made it into something magnificent. David Draiman himself was in tears after he left the recording booth and listened to the playback, as was everyone else there.
If you've listened to this one before, cool. If not, trust me on this one. It'll stick to you.
sharp_stick
(14,400 posts)but you're right about this cover. It's fantastic.
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,588 posts)Wow, just .........wow.
Very effective. Beautifully done.
Thanks.
Prisoner_Number_Six
(15,676 posts)It's good to know I still know a good song when I hear it!
Haveadream
(1,630 posts)That was truly unexpected. What a voice. Tremendous orchestration and the video was epic. Thank you for sharing that.
Prisoner_Number_Six
(15,676 posts)GeorgeGist
(25,319 posts)thanx Prisoner_Number_Six
demmiblue
(36,841 posts)Just as good (if not better) live:
Prisoner_Number_Six
(15,676 posts)when the music stops and you can almost hear the audience picking themselves up off the floor. It loses nothing when they do it live.
TexasBushwhacker
(20,174 posts)riderinthestorm
(23,272 posts)Binkie The Clown
(7,911 posts)Ino
(3,366 posts)CanSocDem
(3,286 posts)...is interesting, but not groundbreaking. This song was so good in its original form that nothing or nobody could make it bad. Or so I thought.
Simon & Garfunkle were writing for a non-violent generation who preferred thought-provoking lyrics and metaphors to the 'in your face' belligerence that this cover offers up...
"Something Magnificent"????.....something disturbing is more like it.
astral
(2,531 posts)The song started out to just blow me away but then it bothered me because it was not the peaceful beautiful experience of the original version. To each his own, I didn't end up listening to it more than once, but remembered that I found my reaction to the song interesting.
Maybe I will listen again later. The word 'disturbed' best describes why I stopped listening after the first time.
Duppers
(28,120 posts)But also love S&G's version.
Both are powerful to me.
We are asked to be silent everywhere, by most people because they "cannot handle truth."
"Silence like a cancer grows..."
nolabear
(41,959 posts)I had no idea who they were and my son filled me in. What an incredible interpretation.
NWmountainman
(19 posts)My son played this for me about a week ago. I was a little worried when he told me about it, but they did it proud. Another cover that rocks IMO is Shinedown's version of " Simple man " Check it out....
Prisoner_Number_Six
(15,676 posts)I had not heard that one before. Many thanks!
MerryBlooms
(11,767 posts)RazBerryBeret
(3,075 posts)I just saw them live 3 weeks ago... waited (in the rain) and hoped he would sing this. Not disappointed!!!
RazBerryBeret
(3,075 posts)another great cover:
Codeine
(25,586 posts)I've enjoyed some of Disturbed's earlier stuff but then they got too much of that "Metal for Missouri kids" sound that I can't stand; you know -- that Shinedown, Staind, Papa Roach, Godsmack, Drowning Pool type of artless, horrid, earfucking bullshit.
This cover was very, very good, however.
Well chosen!