I don’t think it is an exaggeration to state that his live performance on Conan was almost life-changing for many people. I thought that I would have permanent goose bumps.
You mean, Auto Tune knocked it out of this world. Sad that the showbiz "ruined" that performance, really, because when we hear the live version in Houston with Myles Kennedy, we realise that it was completely unnecessary.
I'm old and was used to the Simon and Garfunkel original, and I never thought it needed any improvement. But David Draiman and Disturbed knocks them out of the park. That voice! Best listened to with headphones at volume. This is what first got me interested in Disturbed and now I'm a fan.
@@JPVNG67I disagree completely. Paul Simon wrote the song as a warning literally after waking from a dream. They sang it in that warning type way. Disturbed sang it in a manner that was scolding people for not listening to the warning. Both were and are appropriate for the time they were preformed.
@@IAT1964My Dad grew up with the original song. He raised me with the original as well. When I told him Disturbed had done a cover (he knew the band but didn't like how heavy they are), he laughed at the idea that they could even make a cover of that song sound good. It's been almost a decade since I got him to listen to it, and he still hasn't been able to pick a favourite. Neither have I.
I heard the original when I was 20yo in 1965 and loved it then and ever since. Paul McCartney once said that a good cover reveals something new to the listener. Using that as a criteria I think this might just be the greatest cover of all time, only Johnny Cash's Hurt or Elvis's cover of Bridge Over Troubled Waters are in contention.
Surprised you had not heard this one yet Lilly. Paul Simon of Simon & Garfunkel who were the originator's of the song said David Draiman's version of this song was the best he had heard.
Paul Simon never said that.....for like the millionth time. The email he sent to David is literally everywhere on the net and on Disturbed's website. Since you are probably to lazy to go look it up since you believe this anyways, here is what Paul Simon sent David after the show on Conan: "Really powerful performance on Conan the other day. First time I'd seen you do it live. Nice. Thanks." That's it....
@@JuanHughJorgan .....OMG...Thank you!!!! Someone that's actually NOT regurgitating some rumor they heard at the pub whilst doing Jäger bombs!!! Paul also started writing this song when he used to practice in the bathroom of his first apartment to get away from roommates, he said the tile gave a nice reverb, he'd turn off the lights, turn the water on to sound like he was using the bathroom and practice. One evening, "hello darkness my old friend" just fell out as he started strumming, and the rest, according to him, was stuff he heard in English Lit. that was full of brooding angst and he hoped it would impress the ladies. But hey, everyone else says Paul could tell the future and predicted all that came afterwards...lol.
In his younger years, Draiman was classically trained as a cantor, who is someone that sings liturgical music and leads prayer in a synagogue. But after being expelled from three different yeshivas and blowing up his high school rabbi's van, Draiman wasn't cut out for the seminary
Go check out "Phantom of the Opera" cover by Nightwish (End of An Era Live 2005) and you'll have another stunning cover... In case you haven't already heard of that rendition. Same goes to : "High Hopes" (Pink Floyd cover) from the same particular live gig...😉 🤘😎 🇫🇮 💙 💯 💥
When I was young, I liked this song. But this cover, just blew me away. Never had a song give me goose bumps, and spine chills at the same time. The lyrics hit hard.
The story I heard is that this is the only cover of one of his songs Paul Simon has linked on his website. Hope this is true, it definitely deserves the shine
People sleep on David as a singer. His range, control, and technique are one of the best in the business. They've also done a cover every album. Land Of Confusion they covered from Genesis is amazing, and Shout 2000 (is a heavy update to Tears For Fears 84' song Shout)
I saw them in 2019 when the "Evolution" album came out. When they played this song, he sang it THROUGH your soul, I had goosebumps over my entire body and it brought me to tears because he knows how to capture the attention of an audience. David Draiman IS a rock God.....PERIOD !!!!!
He ran int Paul Simon at a party sometime after this was released. He said he was worried about his reaction to the restyling of one of his classics but Paul loved the way they had re-envisioned it.
Loved your reaction and take on this. I was in college when Simon and Garfunkel did the song and overlooked it except for the line “the words of the prophets are written on the subway walls.” He brings out the message so much more powerfully and it pertains even more now. You reflected that beautifully. Luv ya girlie! 😊
Thanks to S & G for writing and recording this classic over 50 years ago, allowing Disturbed, Pentatonix and others to re-interpret the meaning.......a warning against an increasingly detached, unfeeling, cold society.......maybe more relevant today than in the 1960's
Well only P wrote it, and he did so to sound brooding and full of angst in order to impress the ladies, but he has said that he is quite pleased that people draw such meaning from it to this day.
This song debuted in 1964, was a huge hit. No one speaking down from the clouds, the message was & is clear. A different arrangement from original, with David Draiman, a trained vocalist with a powerful interpretation of song.
I’ve had the good fortune to see Disturbed LIVE. Dave Draiman is an OLD SCHOOL rocker! You go to a Disturbed concert you get the Real Thing. No canned music. No autotune. The ONLY time was on the hmm what was it? Letterman show? Where he didn’t have the veto of the autotune,, he was stuck with it against his wishes for an authentic live performance.
This song was written as a warning of a future they saw coming. In this version I think David’s singing is illustrating anger that we let it come to pass despite the warning.
Actually Paul wrote it in his bathroom with the lights off, and the lyrics were just different things he picked up in English Lit class that sounded brooding and full of angst, to impress the ladies, that's the extent of it. th-cam.com/video/Ld4s-RYHmi8/w-d-xo.htmlsi=wlXXIUvmacVx3QJP
David has a beautiful voice when he wants it to be. Disturbed has done several balad type songs, and they're all just beautiful! But I love his hard stuff too! Stupify is still one of my favorites!
3 brilliant sisters Called The Warning wrote a song called XXI century Blood. They were pre-teen and one was a young teen when they wrote this. The Music Video won 4 out of 8 awards. They are showing no one listened to Paul Simon. 3 Sisters from Mexico that are rocking the world right now.
A band called ‘Bad Wolves’ covered ‘The Cranberries’ “Zombie” a few years ago. It is my absolute favorite cover of any song. Highly recommend listening to it and checking out the video. 🤘
Very good cover I'm on the fence on if it is better than the cranberries. I think if I am pissed then bad wolve is the one but in general cranberries is a better song.
Grew up with Simon and Garfunkel. Granddaughter led me to Disturbed, and then I found Geoff Castellucci and he did a cover of this. Geoffs' cover won't be blocked as he is independent and does everything himself. I absolutely love the original and both covers.
Thank you, Lilly Jane, I just met you today. I would really love to see your reaction to Pentatonix doing this song. IMO the best one yet. Thanks again.
When I die this is the song that will be playing. This song has always been a favorite of mine from the original to this one. Cause well darkness is my friend.
This song is about the failure of communication in modern society. "People talking without speaking, people hearing without listening." In other words, people are not making a genuine effort to understand people they disagree with. Instead, they demonize them and dunk on them on social media. Paul Simon truly was prophetic when he wrote those lyrics back in the 1960s.
This song is based on a American officer in word war 2 and the speech he gave to the German people that were next to a " Death camp" for the jews. When it was discovered what had happened there , the people protested that they had nothing to do with it. His response was that by being silent they gave strength to the Nazis,. " Silence like a cancer grows" Bad things grow in strength and power when no one speaks out and it's greatest ally is "The sound of Silence" When he became aware of the speech and wrote this song at such a young age is just simply mind blowing.
You should check out the Nine Inch Nails cover of Hurt that Johnny Cash did. You might want some tissue handy though, just maybe. It's profound and powerful. Similar to Disturbed's S&G cover, it hits harder than the original. I think you'll like it.
Best version of this song I’ve ever heard by far. I like it even better than the original. It brings me to tears just about every time and I’m not one to cry about anything ever. It’s amazing.
I grew up with Simon and Garfunkel, l’d always thought their songs could never be covered well. Until l heard this version, which l heard on Ken Bruce’s radio two morning show, back in the UK about ten years ago. I was totally blown away by it and to this day still am. IT IS THE BEST VERSION EVER. ❤🇦🇺
Disturbed covered Land of Confusion by Genesis and it was also brilliant. You should check out some of their other songs too. Stricken is a great one to start with.
Disturbed singer is trained in the classical style and has one of the most powerful voices in the world according to many and in this song you get a glimpse into his massive range. Never write of a heavy metal singer.
Fun fact. When David and disturbed covered this song, I want to say it was on Conan. The difference between that time and the music video aside from it being live was David was very sick when he sang this on Conan. As for what song I think is a masterpiece or close to being a masterpiece. Other than this, it would have to be The Light by Disturbed.
Disturbed’s cover is a masterpiece, this video also portrays the meaning of the lyrics, Simon & Garfunkel version was a warning and Disturbed’s version is we better get our act together
Just found your channel. You asked about standout performances. Heart does a tribute to Led Zepplin at the Kennedy Center Honors of Stair Way to Heaven. It Brought Robert Palmer to tears who was in the audience. The drummer in this performance is Jason Bonham the son of John Bonham. The bands drummer that passed away. He's also wearing his dad's hat.
I am a huge music buff. I spent multiple years searching for and downloading all the greatest songs (in my opinion) ever made. Hundreds and hundreds of hours searching for songs i had heard but had no clue who even sang them. 2700+ songs and 800+ artists later i still could not tell you what any song is about. And really dont know many of the words outside of the chorus'. Cause to me, quite frankly, the words do not even matter. They could be any words. It's the beats and music that makes or breaks songs to me. As long as the words sound like they fit to the music. You can't beat an epic score/beat. Or even the tonality of the singer. So when i say this song is beyond epic.... you know i mean it.
Masterpiece songs Alter Bridge - Blackbird Live at Amsterdam Queenryche - Silent Lucidity Lovebites - Frozen Serenade 2021 Live in Tokyo with lyrics Testament - Return to Serenity (lyrics video) 6:32 min Triumph - Fight the Good Fight Live at 1983 US Festival
I 100% agree with Queensryche-Silent Lucidity. That song is epic and I do not think anyone will ever do it better than the original! Excellent callout.
Lilly - Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel, two New York City boys, wrote the song and lyrics and recorded it in 1964 (there's a theme going on here for you with the 1960s 🤠). They sang and played the song with great sadness and resignation. David Draiman, also a New York City boy, re-interpreted the song. He sang the song as active and angry. The song is about how they saw New York City and its decay. People of the City were strangers to one another no longer verbally communicating, their story of addiction, crime and poverty written in the graffiti on the subway and tenement building walls. Both Art and Paul agreed that David's version is the best cover ever. The theme was repeated in Art and Paul's songs "The Boxer" and "Bridge Over Troubled Water."
Every time i listen to the track it moves me to tears. Every single time, at the same point when David takes it up a notch. Love it. I just need a sound system suitable to take it up to 11!
Simon & Garfunkel released that song in 1964, then re-released in 1965 with some differences. That was back during the Vietnam War and the Civil Rights Movement when our country was really in chaos. Folk songs were more of the hippie (I was one!) approach to many of the social ills at the time. It was powerful then but in it's own soft spoken way. All of a sudden, here comes Disturbed with a new version. It's as if nothing has changed but the frustration about the social state of things has evolved into rage! Disturbed does an amazing job of illustrating that. It is powerful and more intense, 60 years later, and this version of it conveys it in an exponentially more alarming truth. It's as we've learned nothing in 60 years! Thank you!
Of all the covers and versions of this song, Paul Simon of the original Simon & Garfunkel said that this is the only cover that actually got the point and considers it better than the original that HE and Art composed and sang
The "Wrong side of heaven" by 5 fingers death punch is a very sad emotional song of people having ptsd and tragedy of soldier's coming all torn up homeless on the streets screaming of hell and war in their thoughts of war.
Well...a piece of music that is definitely a masterpiece, if not THE masterpiece, with somewhat similar theme, but more hopeful, is Beethoven's 9th symphony. David Draiman's vocals on the last verse is just so powerful in so many ways. it was like him saying, "People, wake the F^%$ up!!"
It's good. Hits hard, like Simon and Garfunkel. Very hard. The 60's are now like a cruel blur, and this anthem to the 2020's, feels like the pulse of the 60's. Cudos to Disturbed...
The atory as I understand it is that Simon and Garfunkle wrote the original as a warning about the TV and the faxt that its growing popularity kind of had people talking to each other less and communicating with each other less. It was sort of the advance of technology was going to erode community and interpersonal communication. Simon and Garfunkle were the gentle warning, David and Disturbs' version was the angry 'I told you so' as society breaks down with people talking without speaking and hearing without actually listening to others. Absolutely beautiful cover.
David Draiman is a great singer. The ability to go from the gorgeous baritone to the sweet tenor to then transitioning into that growling heavy metal rock vocal - is just awe inspiring. I actually went down a rabbit hole because of this song, finding isolated vocals of hard rock/heavy metal singers, and was just shocked to realize how talented so many of them are - it's not just screeching or growling, so many of them are great SINGERS - just singing a different style than maybe we are used hearing.
I'm pleased to see you react to this the way many others have. I too, to this day still feel that shiver when I hear it. The power is undeniable. Full transparency, I'm a HUGE Disturbed fan. That said, as someone to was diagnosed with and lives with PTSD this song was golden to me. "The Sound of Silence" from my point of view is the words not said when something was needed. In that space, your mind fills in the blanks, or in this case. the silence. Glad you enjoyed this. David is an amazing vocalist but is 100% grounded and humble. So rare for a man with such talent and notoriety in this music space. Have a blessed day, -PhantomF4G
My brother and I played this song at my dad's funeral in 2015. People asked who song this and they didn't believe this was Disturbed. For me it's an emotional masterpiece
Not many people comment on the artistry and quality of the video itself. I think that besides the masterful vocals and epic music this video in itself was a work of art. It is a beautiful video and done in black and white but finds a way to be powerful in itself. Even if there was no one singing, this video would be beautiful.
It's such a great example how a cover can elevate a song.. also a metal cover of such a song, just shows how freakin cool arrangement a metal band can do it! For that, I'm on constant alert for such covers.
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"Heavy Metal Singers CAN'T ACTUALLY SING", they said!!! David Draiman of Disturbed: "Here, hold my OH-WAH-AH-AH-AH!!!"
In his younger years, Draiman was classically trained as a cantor, who is someone that sings liturgical music and leads prayer in a synagogue.
oh i know!! he had "behavioral" issues.... like lighting a car on fire...@@jacobrohwein3944
No one said that lol.
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When he sang this live on the Conan show, he was actually sick and still knocked it out of this world. Absolutely worth your time.
My wife and I heard them perform this song live August 1 in Alpharetta, Georgia, and it was absolutely flawless note for note😳🔥
I think the version he sang on Conan was better and had better background music.
I don’t think it is an exaggeration to state that his live performance on Conan was almost life-changing for many people. I thought that I would have permanent goose bumps.
You mean, Auto Tune knocked it out of this world. Sad that the showbiz "ruined" that performance, really, because when we hear the live version in Houston with Myles Kennedy, we realise that it was completely unnecessary.
No he wasn't
It's been said, that Simon & Garfunkel's version was the warning and Disturbed's is the reality. Pretty accurate.
Yes the original was the warning and this version is the result and the truth the best sound is the sound of silence
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i see it more the original was the warning and this version is the anger that said warning was ignored.
The people who said that were wrong!
@@tntlassiter were they?
I'm old and was used to the Simon and Garfunkel original, and I never thought it needed any improvement. But David Draiman and Disturbed knocks them out of the park. That voice! Best listened to with headphones at volume. This is what first got me interested in Disturbed and now I'm a fan.
Same. And I totally agree!
the original is the original , it has no comparison. This brilliant cover is in another tone and just adds how great is the original song.
I just turned 61 and know exactly what you're saying. I can honestly say that I have never really listened to the words until this came out.
@@JPVNG67I disagree completely. Paul Simon wrote the song as a warning literally after waking from a dream. They sang it in that warning type way.
Disturbed sang it in a manner that was scolding people for not listening to the warning. Both were and are appropriate for the time they were preformed.
nothing that i wrote is against what u said, yet its only your opinion like i have mine.@@WatchingFromWork6636
Disturbed lifted that song to a whole new level.
Never did a cover overwhelm me - this one did big time.
This version is FAAARRR better than the original.
Check out Hurt by Johnny Cash 😢
@@IAT1964My Dad grew up with the original song. He raised me with the original as well. When I told him Disturbed had done a cover (he knew the band but didn't like how heavy they are), he laughed at the idea that they could even make a cover of that song sound good. It's been almost a decade since I got him to listen to it, and he still hasn't been able to pick a favourite. Neither have I.
you should listen to Hurt by Johnny Cash.
I heard the original when I was 20yo in 1965 and loved it then and ever since. Paul McCartney once said that a good cover reveals something new to the listener. Using that as a criteria I think this might just be the greatest cover of all time, only Johnny Cash's Hurt or Elvis's cover of Bridge Over Troubled Waters are in contention.
Surprised you had not heard this one yet Lilly. Paul Simon of Simon & Garfunkel who were the originator's of the song said David Draiman's version of this song was the best he had heard.
Paul Simon never said that.....for like the millionth time. The email he sent to David is literally everywhere on the net and on Disturbed's website. Since you are probably to lazy to go look it up since you believe this anyways, here is what Paul Simon sent David after the show on Conan:
"Really powerful performance on Conan the other day. First time I'd seen you do it live. Nice. Thanks."
That's it....
@@JuanHughJorgan .....OMG...Thank you!!!! Someone that's actually NOT regurgitating some rumor they heard at the pub whilst doing Jäger bombs!!! Paul also started writing this song when he used to practice in the bathroom of his first apartment to get away from roommates, he said the tile gave a nice reverb, he'd turn off the lights, turn the water on to sound like he was using the bathroom and practice. One evening, "hello darkness my old friend" just fell out as he started strumming, and the rest, according to him, was stuff he heard in English Lit. that was full of brooding angst and he hoped it would impress the ladies. But hey, everyone else says Paul could tell the future and predicted all that came afterwards...lol.
@@sunshynff Indeed! Most of the time, reality is far better and way more weird than the stuff that gets made up or misheard.
Kinda gives ya hills don't it?
@JuanHughJorgan nope they actually stated in an earlier interview the song is what he wanted his original to be like .
You're welcome
In his younger years, Draiman was classically trained as a cantor, who is someone that sings liturgical music and leads prayer in a synagogue. But after being expelled from three different yeshivas and blowing up his high school rabbi's van, Draiman wasn't cut out for the seminary
But Synagogue was where he first found his voice and talent for singing. ❤🙏😇
A cantor, that's super cool, does sound like some kind of wizard though XD
God had a different calling for him.
This fact is what made the comparison of a "godlike" voice hit me. He was trained to sing "God's Word."
Damn... That's a fully Metal story 😂🤘🏻
As a fan of Simon and Garfunkel, Sound of Silence is one of the greatest songs ever written. David Draiman's version is the best I have ever heard.
Simon and Garfunkle made it too upbeat, Davis Dariman does it in such a way you can feel the dark and macabre atmosphere of the lyrics of the song
Totally agree!
This and Johnny cash’s rendition of Hurt are by far my two favorite covers ever made
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True dat
Damn straight
Totally agree
Trent resnor from nine inch nails who wrote and performed hurt said it now belongs to Johnny Cash after hearing his cover
This IMO is one of the best covers I have ever heard. The striped down musical. Davids voice is just, haunting and powerful.
Go check out "Phantom of the Opera" cover by Nightwish (End of An Era Live 2005) and you'll have another stunning cover...
In case you haven't already heard of that rendition.
Same goes to :
"High Hopes" (Pink Floyd cover) from the same particular live gig...😉
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Phenomenal cover, he said in an interview the first time he heard it after singing it, he cried.
The resonance on that lead voice is INSANE. I will never get tired of it.
When I was young, I liked this song. But this cover, just blew me away. Never had a song give me goose bumps, and spine chills at the same time. The lyrics hit hard.
His version is absolutely‘BEAUTIFUL’!
He is classically trained and an incredible singer. This was everyone's shock when they released this song
He’s a classically trained Jewish Cantor, as his father and grandfather before him.
Rare that a cover of an iconic song by iconic artists is anywhere close to good or better. This one does it justice.
I have listened to this song/music video hundreds of times and it gives me CHILLS EVERY FREAKIN TIME!!!
IKR!!! Every single time!!!!!
The story I heard is that this is the only cover of one of his songs Paul Simon has linked on his website. Hope this is true, it definitely deserves the shine
People sleep on David as a singer. His range, control, and technique are one of the best in the business. They've also done a cover every album. Land Of Confusion they covered from Genesis is amazing, and Shout 2000 (is a heavy update to Tears For Fears 84' song Shout)
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Few things can make me tear up let alone tears streaming! This guy continues to blow my mind!!! You the man Dave..
This is definitely the most incredible voicals I really have heard him sing. He really put his heart and soul into this.
A lot of metal screamers are amazing singers. It's always a treat when they choose to sing.
Howard Jones is the perfect example of this. Incredible screamer, but his voice is so incredibly soulful when he sings.
This is an epic cover. His voice with the instrumentation is so perfect, & always brings a tear to my eye.
I saw them in 2019 when the "Evolution" album came out. When they played this song, he sang it THROUGH your soul, I had goosebumps over my entire body and it brought me to tears because he knows how to capture the attention of an audience. David Draiman IS a rock God.....PERIOD !!!!!
He ran int Paul Simon at a party sometime after this was released. He said he was worried about his reaction to the restyling of one of his classics but Paul loved the way they had re-envisioned it.
The live version he did on Conan was pretty epic too.
He sang that on Conan while sick as hell as well.
I think it is better then the original
Loved your reaction and take on this. I was in college when Simon and Garfunkel did the song and overlooked it except for the line “the words of the prophets are written on the subway walls.” He brings out the message so much more powerfully and it pertains even more now. You reflected that beautifully. Luv ya girlie! 😊
Thanks to S & G for writing and recording this classic over 50 years ago, allowing Disturbed, Pentatonix and others to re-interpret the meaning.......a warning against an increasingly detached, unfeeling, cold society.......maybe more relevant today than in the 1960's
Well only P wrote it, and he did so to sound brooding and full of angst in order to impress the ladies, but he has said that he is quite pleased that people draw such meaning from it to this day.
Your reaction to this beautiful classic was amazing. Thank you, young lady.
This song debuted in 1964, was a huge hit. No one speaking down from the clouds, the message was & is clear. A different arrangement from original, with David Draiman, a trained vocalist with a powerful interpretation of song.
I’ve had the good fortune to see Disturbed LIVE. Dave Draiman is an OLD SCHOOL rocker! You go to a Disturbed concert you get the Real Thing. No canned music. No autotune. The ONLY time was on the hmm what was it? Letterman show? Where he didn’t have the veto of the autotune,, he was stuck with it against his wishes for an authentic live performance.
This song was written as a warning of a future they saw coming.
In this version I think David’s singing is illustrating anger that we let it come to pass despite the warning.
Actually Paul wrote it in his bathroom with the lights off, and the lyrics were just different things he picked up in English Lit class that sounded brooding and full of angst, to impress the ladies, that's the extent of it.
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The Official music video and the story it tells is a masterpiece in and of itself! 🙏🙏
I love all genres of music but my all time favorite is Disturbed. David is simply amazing
One of my favourite song's and on my playlist ❤️ he sing it so beautifully. Perfect performance
He didn't just sing it he made you feel the words in the song.
David has a beautiful voice when he wants it to be. Disturbed has done several balad type songs, and they're all just beautiful! But I love his hard stuff too! Stupify is still one of my favorites!
3 brilliant sisters Called The Warning wrote a song called XXI century Blood. They were pre-teen and one was a young teen when they wrote this. The Music Video won 4 out of 8 awards. They are showing no one listened to Paul Simon. 3 Sisters from Mexico that are rocking the world right now.
One of the best covers ever, IMO. Another of my favorite covers is Shinedown doing the song Simple Man.
A band called ‘Bad Wolves’ covered ‘The Cranberries’ “Zombie” a few years ago. It is my absolute favorite cover of any song. Highly recommend listening to it and checking out the video. 🤘
That cover isn't bad but the cranberries are still better.
Very good cover I'm on the fence on if it is better than the cranberries.
I think if I am pissed then bad wolve is the one but in general cranberries is a better song.
Grew up with Simon and Garfunkel. Granddaughter led me to Disturbed, and then I found Geoff Castellucci and he did a cover of this. Geoffs' cover won't be blocked as he is independent and does everything himself. I absolutely love the original and both covers.
This definitely is a masterpiece. It actually penetrates your very soul.
Thank you, Lilly Jane, I just met you today. I would really love to see your reaction to Pentatonix doing this song. IMO the best one yet. Thanks again.
This is my favorite cover of sound of Silence. I love to watch your facial expressions as you listen to the songs.
This is the best cover of a really nice song. The way the tempo picks up throughout the song is amazing and is on all of my playlists,
When I die this is the song that will be playing. This song has always been a favorite of mine from the original to this one. Cause well darkness is my friend.
This song is about the failure of communication in modern society. "People talking without speaking, people hearing without listening." In other words, people are not making a genuine effort to understand people they disagree with. Instead, they demonize them and dunk on them on social media. Paul Simon truly was prophetic when he wrote those lyrics back in the 1960s.
This song is based on a American officer in word war 2 and the speech he gave to the German people that were next to a " Death camp" for the jews. When it was discovered what had happened there , the people protested that they had nothing to do with it. His response was that by being silent they gave strength to the Nazis,. " Silence like a cancer grows" Bad things grow in strength and power when no one speaks out and it's greatest ally is "The sound of Silence" When he became aware of the speech and wrote this song at such a young age is just simply mind blowing.
Great reaction, song and performance!❤️ Live version from Conan is great too.
Yes, wonderful
This version is a clear journey through the stages of grief, to me.
Another great cover you should check out is Johnny Cash’s cover of Hurt by Nine Inch Nails.
The Hollies , "The Air That I breath" . Beautiful Love Song .... one hit wonder :)
You should check out the Nine Inch Nails cover of Hurt that Johnny Cash did. You might want some tissue handy though, just maybe. It's profound and powerful. Similar to Disturbed's S&G cover, it hits harder than the original. I think you'll like it.
Best version of this song I’ve ever heard by far. I like it even better than the original. It brings me to tears just about every time and I’m not one to cry about anything ever. It’s amazing.
I always get the chills on this song
I grew up with Simon and Garfunkel, l’d always thought their songs could never be covered well. Until l heard this version, which l heard on Ken Bruce’s radio two morning show, back in the UK about ten years ago. I was totally blown away by it and to this day still am. IT IS THE BEST VERSION EVER. ❤🇦🇺
Disturbed covered Land of Confusion by Genesis and it was also brilliant. You should check out some of their other songs too. Stricken is a great one to start with.
One of my favorite cover songs! You would think a total metal rock song, but no that got the solemn respect it needed for it! Great job Disturbed!
Absolutely beautiful ❤ the best cover ever
Disturbed singer is trained in the classical style and has one of the most powerful voices in the world according to many and in this song you get a glimpse into his massive range. Never write of a heavy metal singer.
The Conan O'Brien live version is also epic. Even though they auto-tuned him and David was livid when he found out.
Completely unnecessary as well. He sang it the way he did for a reason, with purpose.
I heard this song for the first time two weeks ago and I swear it literally has changed my brain chemistry. It’s somehow beyond just music.
Fun fact. When David and disturbed covered this song, I want to say it was on Conan. The difference between that time and the music video aside from it being live was David was very sick when he sang this on Conan. As for what song I think is a masterpiece or close to being a masterpiece. Other than this, it would have to be The Light by Disturbed.
How is that a "fun" fact?
@@jedislap8726 it's just an expression.
I found your channel today and subscribed to it today. Thanks for sharing this beautiful voice of this man ❤
Disturbed does a fantastic cover of Genesis' The Land of Confusion. Worth checking out!
His Voice...... Worth dying for ❤️ Love it! One of a kind.
Disturbed’s cover is a masterpiece, this video also portrays the meaning of the lyrics, Simon & Garfunkel version was a warning and Disturbed’s version is we better get our act together
This palcony of generations...
Watching your reaction makes me wish I could hear this for the first time again, this is probably my favourite cover of a song of all time!
I can’t recommend The vengeful One from Disturbed enough, it’s definitely one of my favorite songs and music videos of all time. 😄
Just found your channel. You asked about standout performances. Heart does a tribute to Led Zepplin at the Kennedy Center Honors of Stair Way to Heaven. It Brought Robert Palmer to tears who was in the audience. The drummer in this performance is Jason Bonham the son of John Bonham. The bands drummer that passed away. He's also wearing his dad's hat.
As others have said, Disturbed also have an amazing cover of "Land of Confusion" by Genesis. I'd recommend the music video too it’s great!
love your facial reactions to his voice/song they exhubit more than what could be spoken...🥰🥰🥰
If you liked this, you’ll love Hold On to Memories by Disturbed. Another beautiful balad.
This song gives me goose bumps.
amazing voice! and a cover that totally surpasses the original. ❤
I am a huge music buff. I spent multiple years searching for and downloading all the greatest songs (in my opinion) ever made. Hundreds and hundreds of hours searching for songs i had heard but had no clue who even sang them. 2700+ songs and 800+ artists later i still could not tell you what any song is about. And really dont know many of the words outside of the chorus'. Cause to me, quite frankly, the words do not even matter. They could be any words. It's the beats and music that makes or breaks songs to me. As long as the words sound like they fit to the music. You can't beat an epic score/beat. Or even the tonality of the singer.
So when i say this song is beyond epic.... you know i mean it.
The emotion on your face was great. A powerful song!
There is two versions of this song where Disturbed does this Simon & Garfunkle song, one of them they do it Live in the talk show Conan on TBS.
Masterpiece songs
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Queenryche - Silent Lucidity
Lovebites - Frozen Serenade 2021 Live in Tokyo with lyrics
Testament - Return to Serenity (lyrics video) 6:32 min
Triumph - Fight the Good Fight Live at 1983 US Festival
I 100% agree with Queensryche-Silent Lucidity. That song is epic and I do not think anyone will ever do it better than the original! Excellent callout.
Lilly - Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel, two New York City boys, wrote the song and lyrics and recorded it in 1964 (there's a theme going on here for you with the 1960s 🤠). They sang and played the song with great sadness and resignation. David Draiman, also a New York City boy, re-interpreted the song. He sang the song as active and angry.
The song is about how they saw New York City and its decay. People of the City were strangers to one another no longer verbally communicating, their story of addiction, crime and poverty written in the graffiti on the subway and tenement building walls. Both Art and Paul agreed that David's version is the best cover ever.
The theme was repeated in Art and Paul's songs "The Boxer" and "Bridge Over Troubled Water."
not bad for a 50+ year old song. its a tear jerker.
it will be 60 next year
Every time i listen to the track it moves me to tears. Every single time, at the same point when David takes it up a notch. Love it. I just need a sound system suitable to take it up to 11!
The live version on Conan is even better
What a great voice. Love this and I’m 81
this is one of the few remakes made better,
This, and cashes hurt
Simon & Garfunkel released that song in 1964, then re-released in 1965 with some differences. That was back during the Vietnam War and the Civil Rights Movement when our country was really in chaos. Folk songs were more of the hippie (I was one!) approach to many of the social ills at the time. It was powerful then but in it's own soft spoken way. All of a sudden, here comes Disturbed with a new version. It's as if nothing has changed but the frustration about the social state of things has evolved into rage! Disturbed does an amazing job of illustrating that. It is powerful and more intense, 60 years later, and this version of it conveys it in an exponentially more alarming truth. It's as we've learned nothing in 60 years! Thank you!
Of all the covers and versions of this song, Paul Simon of the original Simon & Garfunkel said that this is the only cover that actually got the point and considers it better than the original that HE and Art composed and sang
Excellent reaction. It was written in 1964. It's a very relatable song.
Disturbed singing the sound of silence and Don Vasc doing the national anthem.. both give me goosebumps
One of my favourite songs! Huge Disturbed fan 👍👍👍
The "Wrong side of heaven" by 5 fingers death punch is a very sad emotional song of people having ptsd and tragedy of soldier's coming all torn up homeless on the streets screaming of hell and war in their thoughts of war.
Well...a piece of music that is definitely a masterpiece, if not THE masterpiece, with somewhat similar theme, but more hopeful, is Beethoven's 9th symphony. David Draiman's vocals on the last verse is just so powerful in so many ways. it was like him saying, "People, wake the F^%$ up!!"
Henk Poort did a version of this too. On “Beste Zangers”. Great stuff. Floor is there.
Yesss maybe even a beter version of this song
It's good. Hits hard, like Simon and Garfunkel. Very hard. The 60's are now like a cruel blur, and this anthem to the 2020's, feels like the pulse of the 60's. Cudos to Disturbed...
The atory as I understand it is that Simon and Garfunkle wrote the original as a warning about the TV and the faxt that its growing popularity kind of had people talking to each other less and communicating with each other less. It was sort of the advance of technology was going to erode community and interpersonal communication.
Simon and Garfunkle were the gentle warning, David and Disturbs' version was the angry 'I told you so' as society breaks down with people talking without speaking and hearing without actually listening to others. Absolutely beautiful cover.
David Draiman is a great singer. The ability to go from the gorgeous baritone to the sweet tenor to then transitioning into that growling heavy metal rock vocal - is just awe inspiring. I actually went down a rabbit hole because of this song, finding isolated vocals of hard rock/heavy metal singers, and was just shocked to realize how talented so many of them are - it's not just screeching or growling, so many of them are great SINGERS - just singing a different style than maybe we are used hearing.
I'm pleased to see you react to this the way many others have. I too, to this day still feel that shiver when I hear it. The power is undeniable.
Full transparency, I'm a HUGE Disturbed fan. That said, as someone to was diagnosed with and lives with PTSD this song was golden to me. "The Sound of Silence" from my point of view is the words not said when something was needed. In that space, your mind fills in the blanks, or in this case. the silence.
Glad you enjoyed this. David is an amazing vocalist but is 100% grounded and humble. So rare for a man with such talent and notoriety in this music space.
Have a blessed day,
-PhantomF4G
My brother and I played this song at my dad's funeral in 2015. People asked who song this and they didn't believe this was Disturbed. For me it's an emotional masterpiece
Not many people comment on the artistry and quality of the video itself. I think that besides the masterful vocals and epic music this video in itself was a work of art. It is a beautiful video and done in black and white but finds a way to be powerful in itself. Even if there was no one singing, this video would be beautiful.
It's such a great example how a cover can elevate a song.. also a metal cover of such a song, just shows how freakin cool arrangement a metal band can do it!
For that, I'm on constant alert for such covers.