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AFLW 2024 - Round 10 - Chat, game threads, injury lists, team lineups and more.
Down with the Royals , up with a RepublicLet's go Bears. It's time to kick some Royal butt.
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All part of the recipe..I can't see us losing today. I am ready to bury PMBangers and all his royal team mates into the ground, after he treated Muddiemoose so poorly at the pre game parade.
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I'll only need 1.Incorrect response. You have 19 more attempts.
You reckon that's bad? Run your check list over this. It's totally unrecognisable.I'll only need 1.
Throughout the history of music there have been precious few covers that have surpassed the original. There's something quintessential when the writer of the song also sings it; the raw humanity of someone truly inhabiting the lyrics like no other person can. Of course, there are some notable exceptions like Jimi Hendrix taking on Bob Dylan's "All Along The Watchtower" or Nine Inch Nails' "Hurt" being reimagined by Johnny Cash, where the performance somehow transcends the divide between writer and performer.
Disturbed's cover of "The Sound Of Silence" is no such exception.
Put aside for now the fact that the version of the song we all know and love was actually somewhat of a cover itself*, The Disturbed version is the audio equivalent of this painting "restoration":
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You can vaguely see what they were trying to do and there is some resemblance to the original, but it's a tragic example of the Dunning-Kruger effect.
But let's delve a little bit deeper into what makes this cover such an abomination:
The original song has been saved by the US Library Of Congress for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically important", a fate that will only be mirrored by the Disturbed version if every physical copy of it ever produced were to be piled together, set on fire and launched out of Earth's orbit; a recording of the world's collective sigh of relief would probably meet that same bar of being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically important".
- Does it replace an instrument with a piano to instantly emotionally manipulate a sense of seriousness? Check.
- Is the song slightly slower with breathier vocals to match the cliched template of every trailer for an upcoming shitty TV show**? Check.
- Does it have an unnecessary string section? Check.
- Does the vocal melody change just enough to make stupid people think they've actually made the song "their" song? Check.
- Is there symphonic percussion instead of standard drums to bring the pomposity up to nauseating levels? Check.
- Does it build to an cathartic release that is completely at odds with the original? Check.
- Do you hear the singer push his voice to the limit in a completely transparent attempt at making him seem sincere? Check.
I could fart a tune that had more emotional sincerity and less self-important grandeur than anything David Draiman produces in this crime against humanity. I would prefer to listen to Crazy Frog dragging his green, webbed fingernails down a chalkboard than ever torment myself to listen to that atrocious worship of banality ever again.
To be completely honest, I'm more disgusted than words can describe that hundreds of millions of people have willingly put themselves through the aural molestation that this song truly is. I feel sick. You make me sick. Humanity makes me sick. But I'd rather throw up all over the floor, lick it clean, then vomit again in a continuous Sisyphean eternity if it meant erasing this pathetic excuse for musical reappropration from existence.
* It was originally released as a very simple folk song and didn't make any real impact at all. Then, without either Simon or Garfunkel's knowledge or approval, the producer Tom Wilson remixed the song, adding electric guitar and drums to it for the record label to release, to massive worldwide success.
** Seriously, enough is enough.
I'm not reading that. I'm reading the Qooty Record, while getting a rub down from Sven, while listening to this.I'll only need 1.
Throughout the history of music there have been precious few covers that have surpassed the original. There's something quintessential when the writer of the song also sings it; the raw humanity of someone truly inhabiting the lyrics like no other person can. Of course, there are some notable exceptions like Jimi Hendrix taking on Bob Dylan's "All Along The Watchtower" or Nine Inch Nails' "Hurt" being reimagined by Johnny Cash, where the performance somehow transcends the divide between writer and performer.
Disturbed's cover of "The Sound Of Silence" is no such exception.
Put aside for now the fact that the version of the song we all know and love was actually somewhat of a cover itself*, The Disturbed version is the audio equivalent of this painting "restoration":
View attachment 1275776
You can vaguely see what they were trying to do and there is some resemblance to the original, but it's a tragic example of the Dunning-Kruger effect.
But let's delve a little bit deeper into what makes this cover such an abomination:
The original song has been saved by the US Library Of Congress for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically important", a fate that will only be mirrored by the Disturbed version if every physical copy of it ever produced were to be piled together, set on fire and launched out of Earth's orbit; a recording of the world's collective sigh of relief would probably meet that same bar of being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically important".
- Does it replace an instrument with a piano to instantly emotionally manipulate a sense of seriousness? Check.
- Is the song slightly slower with breathier vocals to match the cliched template of every trailer for an upcoming shitty TV show**? Check.
- Does it have an unnecessary string section? Check.
- Does the vocal melody change just enough to make stupid people think they've actually made the song "their" song? Check.
- Is there symphonic percussion instead of standard drums to bring the pomposity up to nauseating levels? Check.
- Does it build to an cathartic release that is completely at odds with the original? Check.
- Do you hear the singer push his voice to the limit in a completely transparent attempt at making him seem sincere? Check.
I could fart a tune that had more emotional sincerity and less self-important grandeur than anything David Draiman produces in this crime against humanity. I would prefer to listen to Crazy Frog dragging his green, webbed fingernails down a chalkboard than ever torment myself to listen to that atrocious worship of banality ever again.
To be completely honest, I'm more disgusted than words can describe that hundreds of millions of people have willingly put themselves through the aural molestation that this song truly is. I feel sick. You make me sick. Humanity makes me sick. But I'd rather throw up all over the floor, lick it clean, then vomit again in a continuous Sisyphean eternity if it meant erasing this pathetic excuse for musical reappropration from existence.
* It was originally released as a very simple folk song and didn't make any real impact at all. Then, without either Simon or Garfunkel's knowledge or approval, the producer Tom Wilson remixed the song, adding electric guitar and drums to it for the record label to release, to massive worldwide success.
** Seriously, enough is enough.
Phawks just won. That tightens the screws.
Gumbies doing to the Furies, what they did to us last week. Screw job incoming.
Thought that said Nic Nat tattoo for a secondDon't worry Broken, it's the Royals that are on the downward spiral.
Side note, the wife got a NIN tat today.
Oooooh it's the cat/buttered toast analogy again, as I'm about to miss my 18th finals campaign in my past 15 seasons.Don't worry Broken, it's the Royals that are on the downward spiral.
Side note, the wife got a NIN tat today.
Thought that said Nic Nat tattoo for a second
That's going on the inner thigh.
LVB
Ulahoopski BRAB PMBangers
kane249 Western Stand Warrior Jezmiester40
Smartys Power Blacky MrPremiership
Broken Art Vandelay_ TheTick
krakouers85 nahnah Fitzey
Matera92 Tommycash I Dont Care
ShaunDuggan CakeEater brahj
tony MWPP CarterS
grumbleguts The Filth Wizard MC Bad Genius
terrybull JoshWoodenSpoon bl4ke
GCR
GCR Foll : GreyCrow, spookism, Marlowe
LVB Foll : Muddiemoose, Millky95, Electronic_Renaissance
GCR INT : Dancing Potato, Engimal v3
LVB INT : Campaigner for good, RookiePick
Don't worry Broken, it's the Royals that are on the downward spiral.
Side note, the wife got a NIN tat today.