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sir pball

(5,047 posts)
Wed Jul 16, 2025, 11:58 PM Wednesday

I know a lot of y'all love the Dave Draiman/Disturbed cover of this song...but you're wrong.

Sorry, but Art and Simon do it better than, well, anyone.
Dave's cover is really good, but his dark metal growl changes it too much; it's no longer a cover but a different song, and IMO not a better one.

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I know a lot of y'all love the Dave Draiman/Disturbed cover of this song...but you're wrong. (Original Post) sir pball Wednesday OP
I love them both flying rabbit Thursday #1
How can I be wrong about what I like? Ptah Thursday #2
I agree, 👍...yet Figarosmom Thursday #3
But you prefer Johnny Cash's cover of Hurt True Dough Thursday #4
Well, if the OP doesn't, I DO. Cash all the way. hlthe2b Thursday #6
Ten thousand percent...and Trent Reznor agrees. sir pball Thursday #10
I agree totally. "Disturbed" version is crap. hlthe2b Thursday #5
I'm not wrong. SamKnause Thursday #7
Also, if you like the Dodgers instead of the Giants Oeditpus Rex Thursday #8
If you watch a JamesLay reel on fb Marthe48 Thursday #9
Sometimes the cover is objectively just plain better than the original JoseBalow Thursday #11

flying rabbit

(4,877 posts)
1. I love them both
Thu Jul 17, 2025, 12:13 AM
Thursday

Prefer Disturbed. I have read a lot of comments saying that S&Gs version was a warning about the future. Disturbed was an alarm that it had arrived. I Kind of agree.

Figarosmom

(7,009 posts)
3. I agree, 👍...yet
Thu Jul 17, 2025, 01:17 AM
Thursday

After thinking about it, Disturbed cover really does reflect the anger at the world being made because of the silence of those who could have made the difference.

sir pball

(5,047 posts)
10. Ten thousand percent...and Trent Reznor agrees.
Thu Jul 17, 2025, 02:30 PM
Thursday
A few weeks later, a CD shows up with the track. Again, I'm in the middle of something and put it on and give it a cursory listen. It sounded... weird to me. That song in particular was straight from my soul, and it felt very strange hearing the highly identifiable voice of Johnny Cash singing it. It was a good version, and I certainly wasn't cringing or anything, but it felt like I was watching my girlfriend fuck somebody else. Or something like that.

Anyway, a few weeks later, a videotape shows up with Mark Romanek's video on it. It's morning; I'm in the studio in New Orleans working on Zack De La Rocha's record with him; I pop the video in, and... wow.Tears welling, silence, goose-bumps... Wow. I just lost my girlfriend, because that song isn't mine any more. Then it all made sense to me. It really made me think about how powerful music is as a medium and art form. I wrote some words and music in my bedroom as a way of staying sane, about a bleak and desperate place I was in, totally isolated and alone. Some-fucking-how that winds up reinterpreted by a music legend from a radically different era/genre and still retains sincerity and meaning – different, but every bit as pure. Things felt even stranger when he passed away. The song's purpose shifted again. It's incredibly flattering as a writer to have your song chosen by someone who's a great writer and a great artist.

hlthe2b

(110,698 posts)
5. I agree totally. "Disturbed" version is crap.
Thu Jul 17, 2025, 06:35 AM
Thursday

It turns a beautiful song of warning into an ugly growling metal song. Sorry, alternatives, but it is.

SamKnause

(14,355 posts)
7. I'm not wrong.
Thu Jul 17, 2025, 07:01 AM
Thursday

I like the Disturbed version much better !!!

I was 11 when the original was released.

It never brought tears to my eyes the hundreds of times I heard it.

The Disturbed version has on many occasions.

How can you say someone's preference is wrong ???

I like what I like.

You like what you like.

Oeditpus Rex

(42,109 posts)
8. Also, if you like the Dodgers instead of the Giants
Thu Jul 17, 2025, 07:10 AM
Thursday

you're wrong. Same if you like the Red Sox over the Yankees, Chevies over Fords or MoPars, and apples over bananas. Those are all wrong.

Marthe48

(21,286 posts)
9. If you watch a JamesLay reel on fb
Thu Jul 17, 2025, 08:21 AM
Thursday

When he does a plank dance routine to Disturbed's version of Sounds of Silence, you will be moved



JoseBalow

(7,961 posts)
11. Sometimes the cover is objectively just plain better than the original
Thu Jul 17, 2025, 11:38 PM
Thursday
(5:29)

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