I'm still gonna give this one to S&G. The Disturbed cover is fine, but I don't think it's anywhere near as good as the original. The cover is, IMO, trying too hard to sound even more melancholy, and it achieves the opposite effect as a result: it's almost comical.
Just playing everything in minor key and being more dramatic doesn't make the song better. That's like saying Gary Jules' cover of Mad World is somehow better in spite of-I love the original, but contrary to your reaction, I have seen people make the argument that the original is not as dark as the lyrics suggest it should be. While singing about a very dark subject, Simon & Garfunkel sing it in a very soothing way. Disturbed do it very differently, do the lyrics justice with a deliberately dark performance, upping the epic quotient by quite a bit and elevating the song as a result.
I love both versions but I mostly agree with that assessment - the original is sung almost like a lullaby while the newer version is as dark as the lyrics themselves.
Doing pretty much all of this. Remember that trend in movie and game trailers over the last five years where songs with excitement, energy, passion, or simply emotions that weren't "I am the big sad" got weird remixes and covers that made them slower and "sadder"?This one is easy for me. Gary Jules strips everything good out of the Tears for Fears version. It's like listening to it die of a wasting disease. It works in Donnie Darko, as that film opened with unadulterated TfF and thematically it fits with the ending. I wouldn't want to listen to it at any other time though.
Just playing everything in minor key and being more dramatic doesn't make the song better. That's like saying Gary Jules' cover of Mad World is somehow better in spite of-
Doing pretty much all of this. Remember that trend in movie and game trailers over the last five years where songs with excitement, energy, passion, or simply emotions that weren't "I am the big sad" got weird remixes and covers that made them slower and "sadder"?
The "super sad and edgy" covers worked for me when I was a teenager. Now that I'm older, I appreciate the originals of both Sound of Silence and Mad World, since they contrast the dark subject matter with hopeful or outright upbeat rhythm. It's a purposeful contrast, and going all-in on the "sad" aspect of those songs misses what makes them so good.
This is a bad take but I did ask for it.Going by the pots so far, the originals still hold the crown. The posted covers range from mediocre to down right terrible.
Bear MacCreary took over All Along The Watchtower from Dylan. Not even Hendrix did it better than the BSG alumn...
God i hate that Disturbed version 😄🤢
Its a nice cover but Hendrix murdered that song for anyone else attempting to do it.
Both of those opinions are so wrong. NIN's Hurt & Bear McCreary's All Along The Watchtower >>>>> all the others.
I'll end this post with another hot take that is: Jeff Buckley's Hallelujah >>>>> Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah.
That's it for me, too many hot takes in one day, I'm gonna overheat.
Same. Sends me on journeys :)Nicely done for sure. But Drake checks all my boxes and some i didn't even know i had.
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That's actually a good description.
Criminal how little footage there is of him. I often ponder sitting him down to let him know how important his music would one day be seen as, but there's so much pain (a decent amount self inflicted it has to be said) in his music we probably wouldn't be talking about him. I wouldn't post a cover of his music lightly but I was a big Sucre fan before I knew they'd done the song. They showed it the respect it deserves while producing a markedly different version. It's hard as fuck to play on guitar too. Nick had the chops for sure and all those altered tunings just melt in the mouth :)
Folks are posting the cover on top of the original. They're "covered up".Ok I'll be that person - can you pleasepost which is he original and which is the cover?
I wouldn't say better but this is one the few examples of a pop song with a somber twist that actually works.