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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsI 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.

flying rabbit
(4,877 posts)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.
Ptah
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Figarosmom
(7,009 posts)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.
True Dough
(23,701 posts)to the original by Nine Inch Nails, right?
hlthe2b
(110,698 posts)sir pball
(5,047 posts)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)It turns a beautiful song of warning into an ugly growling metal song. Sorry, alternatives, but it is.
SamKnause
(14,355 posts)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)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)When he does a plank dance routine to Disturbed's version of Sounds of Silence, you will be moved