Pan over dead young soldiers, cafes and churches splintered by gunfire, and ease into mass memorial for the soldiers and citizens killed in the crossfire
It like a soft terror- like the lights are on and your resting in bed, but some sad and lonely figure is hovering at the foot of your bed. It doesn’t do anything but you are grateful for its company. The nights are long and do not get any shorter.
Always found the original weird. The only chords that are actually minor are the "...of silence", "Hello darkness my old friend", plus the guitar bit immediately before that. Everything else is already major anyway (mostly III and VI, if you assume the minor chord is the i chord). So yeah, while the original starts with a minor chord, I'm not entirely convinced it's actually in a minor key. "Transforming" this from minor to major can't really make it much "more major" to begin with. If I'm hearing this correctly, this version has a new minor chord in "vision softly creeping" / "halo of a street lamp" part. At least it sounds that way to me, even if it could techincally also be a 7 in a weird inversion or something like that. Anyway that chord, at that position, is way more powerful than the one minor chord at the beginning in the original version.
Ugh it reminded me of our vocal teacher in uni. Yeah basically, force a smile even if it's an event no one on stage or in the audience cares for and you, the teacher give an evil stepmother witch vibe from a mile ahead and forced smile only makes it worse.
God I hate singing upbeat songs when I'm in a bad mood. Especially when it's for drama class or for the school play (which are optional and I love theatre so much so I totally am there by choice). I just gotta be way too energised and I hate it.
Guy who thinks he's achieved everything he's wanted in life, reflects on whether or not he wanted any of it. This is the music that plays when he's in parks and walking alongside river banks, musing.
it’s funny because the original version of mad world (the tears for fears one) is an upbeat 80s song, which if anything makes it worse than the gary jules cover - the singer sounds like he’s having a nervous breakdown (which as far as i know was the intention) rather than that he’s depressed it really CAN’T be happy, even with synth
I guess I can see why you would think that. However, it doesn't sound like that to me. In my opinnion, it sounds like Harpers Bizarre would've covered this song. Harpers Bizarre (The Tikis, formally known) were a sunshine pop band usually known for cheerful, ethereal soundscapes.
The image that rushed into my head is of someone returning home to find their country town erased by war, and just starting to sift through the rubble of the old temple and clean it again. Because, what else?
This is the version where the singer remembers how awful the things he saw were, but he’s managed to make his peace with them. He only brings them up now to help others who’ve gone through what he went through.
It’s like being on a deathbed, with your family around you. Awaiting the fact you will die, and that these are your last moments with the people you love and care for. 10/10
Basically, this captures depression very well. In a way, this version captures someone trying to force themselves to be happy around everybody, though they feel desperately sad and lonely inside.
It sounds even more unsettling, as if it's trying to convince you everything is fine in an attempt to lull you into a false sense of security. Waiting for you to lower your guard.
This sounds no more sad, but sinister. Because a joyful soundtrack accomplished by ghostly singing and depressing lyrics makes it even more melancholic and scary.
After years of worsening depression, you finally beat it. Your life turned around, you were truly happy, just do life to hit another downwards spiral. You do your best to stay positive, but the crushing reality around you is too much to bare.
This just fills you with longing for times long past. I want to go back to those times, but I can't. I'm forced to live with the knowledge that I wasted my childhood and that the future will never be the same.
It sounds like an growing tension and a turning point where anything can happen. It sounds to me, especially the middle part, like the song played at the climax of Rudy. That ever-growing tension that’ll seemingly never boil over into action.
I actually really prefer the way it sounds in major key as opposed to the original; there's more of a bittersweet sound like others have said here; just this profound blend of melancholy & sentimentality that to me, sounds simply beautiful
I don't know whether this song is creepy or relaxing-- It sounds like sleepwalking. Like... it captures the same feeling of being cosy at home at night, and everybody else is asleep, but you are awake. ... I don't know.
this major ver. is a perfect soundtrack song for a 70s style serial killer crime movie scene where the killer kills one his victims and has a cigarette afterwards while sitting in front of the victim's corpse
this isn’t happier, now it’s a different flavour of sadness.
Less depression, more melancholy.
Lol yes. As one of the commenters said, it sounds like a forced smile
This is ''advanced'' sadness.
Less depression, more creepiness
Its true depression
Sounds like the most forced smile ever
So, the smile of a retail worker.
or they were held at gunpoint to sing the song happily at the kindergarten
Or the entire country of North Korea
So jimmy falon?
No.... THAT. is NOT. a SMIIIILLLE.....
It's like war is over, and all your friends are dead.
I want to laugh and cry at the same time.
Perfect description 👌
Thats it. Thats what it is.
Yep. I could maybe come up with a better description, but that'll work for all intents and purposes.
Pan over dead young soldiers, cafes and churches splintered by gunfire, and ease into mass memorial for the soldiers and citizens killed in the crossfire
I’m happy to tell you this is horrifying and comforting.
It like a soft terror- like the lights are on and your resting in bed, but some sad and lonely figure is hovering at the foot of your bed. It doesn’t do anything but you are grateful for its company. The nights are long and do not get any shorter.
@@ViewingChaos Suddenly you recognize him: Shia LaBeouf.
Actual Cannibal Shia LaBeuof....
Goes well with midsommar or hereditary
@Mrsuckitable no, its just horrifying
This sounds even more disturbing than the original somehow
It's like they are being brainwashed by the Silence and the Neonlights.
@@donnaquixote7538 more like good times with comrades in arms, long set in the past. Only blood and shrapnel remaining...
I think it's the dissonance in some of the harmonies.
Why does it sound like a mildly threatening campfire song?
With the camp advisor stealing glances at you while slapping your butt more often than comfortable.
journeytoform How many times does it take for it to be “more than comfortable”?
@@BigSlappaman When you start picking up on the signal that he only does it to you.
It sounds like jason vorhees if he was reunited with his mom and his mom taught him how to talk and play the guitar.
campfire song where all of the people around you are part of the cult except you and you're slowly starting to realize and so they are...
"The Silence of Sound" by Garfunkel&Simon
*Gimon & Sarfunkel
@@bangtanimosity8564 Oh my god, "Sarfunkel" is amazing!!
Sarmon & Gifunkel
Somehow this sounds sadder
@Wind 2000 No I mean this doesn't even sound like major key, it sounds like minor key 2.0
It's because malincholia takes both from joy and sadness. No matter matter how you twist it still sounds bitter.
Actually there are still a bunch of minor chords which the song rely on. They only changed the tonic.
Always found the original weird. The only chords that are actually minor are the "...of silence", "Hello darkness my old friend", plus the guitar bit immediately before that.
Everything else is already major anyway (mostly III and VI, if you assume the minor chord is the i chord). So yeah, while the original starts with a minor chord, I'm not entirely convinced it's actually in a minor key. "Transforming" this from minor to major can't really make it much "more major" to begin with.
If I'm hearing this correctly, this version has a new minor chord in "vision softly creeping" / "halo of a street lamp" part. At least it sounds that way to me, even if it could techincally also be a 7 in a weird inversion or something like that. Anyway that chord, at that position, is way more powerful than the one minor chord at the beginning in the original version.
@@illuminatus13 The key is supposed to be D minor.
This is the embodiment of a forced smile. Or like, when you’re in a really bad mood and you go to choir, and you have to sing a super upbeat song
Ugh it reminded me of our vocal teacher in uni. Yeah basically, force a smile even if it's an event no one on stage or in the audience cares for and you, the teacher give an evil stepmother witch vibe from a mile ahead and forced smile only makes it worse.
God I hate singing upbeat songs when I'm in a bad mood. Especially when it's for drama class or for the school play (which are optional and I love theatre so much so I totally am there by choice). I just gotta be way too energised and I hate it.
Made me think of Laura Linney's character in Love Actually
It’s like a rural lullaby, kind of a “Sound of Music” vibe
Exactly
This is just Simon and Garfunkel meeting an actual old friend named Darkness
lol
A guy named Darkness, you sure he’s not a Kingdom Hearts character?
Dhark Niss
I didn't know Simon & Garfunkel knew Charlie Murphy
They actually had a friend who was blind and called him darkness.
Guy who thinks he's achieved everything he's wanted in life, reflects on whether or not he wanted any of it. This is the music that plays when he's in parks and walking alongside river banks, musing.
so it fits The Graduate even more?
Next song: Richard Corey, in other words
'Everything you Ever' from Dr. Horrible's Sign Along Blog
I always dream of being in the Netherlands, near a river, also contemplating life🙂.
Sounds very natural. The new Melodyne?
It's funny how this becomes more, not less dramatic
One of the few that sounds good after a key change.
Except for all the rest of them.
Note to self: Agree to disagree.
This sounds like insanity
This sounds like a father struggling with depression but keeping smile in front of his young children
Like mad world, this song can't be happy!
it’s funny because the original version of mad world (the tears for fears one) is an upbeat 80s song, which if anything makes it worse than the gary jules cover - the singer sounds like he’s having a nervous breakdown (which as far as i know was the intention) rather than that he’s depressed
it really CAN’T be happy, even with synth
This gives off if the Beatles wrote Mr. Blue Sky vibes.
Ok, now I want to hear Mr. Blue Sky switched!
the Beatles did write Mr. Blue Sky, it's called A Day in the Life
*Hello brightness my good friend*
It’s good to see sunshine again
Bruh I’ve found you more than 20 times why
Goodbye brightness his young rival
Amazing
@@maks9589 She comments a lot.
It's like I'm being robbed politely
It sounds like they are part of a cult.
I guess I can see why you would think that. However, it doesn't sound like that to me. In my opinnion, it sounds like Harpers Bizarre would've covered this song. Harpers Bizarre (The Tikis, formally known) were a sunshine pop band usually known for cheerful, ethereal soundscapes.
this feels like the confort posterior to a period of struggle and sadness
This looks like something that would fit in a movie's credits
This sounds like Satan giving you a hug
Sounds like if "Sound of Silence" was written by Simon & Garfunkel.
I don’t get it
Gimon & Sarfunkel
Yeah it definitely does
Hol up
@@sporketernal5479 The writer is Paul Simon only.
This is like when Repunzel went back to mother gothel, the only family and comfort she ever knew, but upon realizing she was evil
That's a great comparison.
The image that rushed into my head is of someone returning home to find their country town erased by war, and just starting to sift through the rubble of the old temple and clean it again.
Because, what else?
This is what a manic episode feels like.
Instant Beatles
You know "don't worry, be happy"?
This is basically that
When you have to act happy to the outside.
Sounds like someone happily losing their mind.
This sounds great, particularly the intro.
Sounds like darkness really is his friend
Honestly just sounds a lot more appropriate for the era it's from. Sounds like any other 60's track.
Thats what I thought! They were ahead of their time
It really does, I love it
This is the version where the singer remembers how awful the things he saw were, but he’s managed to make his peace with them. He only brings them up now to help others who’ve gone through what he went through.
I was REALLY confused in the beginning, and then it just turned into a vibe.
It’s like being on a deathbed, with your family around you. Awaiting the fact you will die, and that these are your last moments with the people you love and care for. 10/10
Basically, this captures depression very well. In a way, this version captures someone trying to force themselves to be happy around everybody, though they feel desperately sad and lonely inside.
... ... B-BUT IT IS SO BEAUTIFUL!
This is not ok, HOW COME IT SOUNDS SO GOOD?!
Now it's just as if someone has resigned themselves to dying soon.
The sound of silence...
Librarian Edition
It sounds like sarcastic happiness
This gives me both anxiety and relaxation at the same time.
Now it’s just bittersweet,
Until the bass comes in that is then it’s just weird
sounds like someone who has regrets, but is at peace with their life now
It's like tragedy struck and you're the only survivor, happy that you survived but destroyed by the death of the ones you loved
Goodbye sunshine my young enemy
Sounds like Simon and Garfunkel made their peace with silence
that was quite enjoyable.
When your dog is called darkness.
This one is nicer and even more sad. Beautiful 👌
It sounds even more unsettling, as if it's trying to convince you everything is fine in an attempt to lull you into a false sense of security. Waiting for you to lower your guard.
That is *exactly* what it feels like!
Minor: Funeral
Major: Breakup
i swear this existed before, how was this not posted until now?
Mandela Effect?
Are you thinking of the Negative Harmony version, perhaps?
@@billiegrame6136 maybe?
Ywah, it was probably the negative harmony, that version also sounds like a fake happy (aka way sadder) version of Sound Of Silence
Sounds like a sad nostalgia. Like remembering your childhood after receiving news that your parents died in a car accident
The vision coming true.
The the theme of the guy who keeps his chin up and a grins in the face of the dystopian world that has ruined all but him.
This sounds no more sad, but sinister. Because a joyful soundtrack accomplished by ghostly singing and depressing lyrics makes it even more melancholic and scary.
Now melancholy is taking over..
It feels like walking in a sunlit forest, while contemplating something.
When the anime charcater starts laughing at how sad his situation is
That's not an anime character, that's me.
After years of worsening depression, you finally beat it. Your life turned around, you were truly happy, just do life to hit another downwards spiral. You do your best to stay positive, but the crushing reality around you is too much to bare.
Hello darkness my old friend :D
This still sounds sad but even sadder for some reason
Normal key: 😔😭😪
Major key: 💃💃💃
the climax is even more terrifying....somehow
I've been listening to several of these switched key songs, but so far this has been the most terrifying.
If Hide the Pain Harold meme had a theme song, this would be it.
this is just spicy sadness
This is like going insane but you're fully aware that you're going insane.
*Original* : Pre-suicidal
*This* : post-suicidal
This just fills you with longing for times long past. I want to go back to those times, but I can't. I'm forced to live with the knowledge that I wasted my childhood and that the future will never be the same.
this sounds like a credits song that plays after a character realizes they've won...but at a great cost
That one scene with no dialogue where something extremely traumatic happens in a slightly slowed motion.
This is a song an optimist writes about some horrific even in history where everyone dies and there’s only silence left.
This song is about a man so happy that he welcomes darkness as a friend because y'know, he's got to sleep.
I’m always excited to hear new Oleg reworkings. Looking forward to hearing The Disappointer Sisters someday.
It sounds like an growing tension and a turning point where anything can happen. It sounds to me, especially the middle part, like the song played at the climax of Rudy. That ever-growing tension that’ll seemingly never boil over into action.
This sounds like someone who is about to die and is walking through the places they enjoyed in their life, and are ready. They're ready to die.
I never really liked this song that much but this version is fuckin amazing, its got so much more complexity of emotion in major
this sounds like cold rainy day in France
Simon and garfield
L A S A G N A
The imposter smiling back after his bestfriend calling him sus
It's like a bittersweet happy reunion
The shout of loudness
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This makes me feel like everything is burning around me
This is better than the original
I actually really prefer the way it sounds in major key as opposed to the original; there's more of a bittersweet sound like others have said here; just this profound blend of melancholy & sentimentality that to me, sounds simply beautiful
The Silence of Noise.
the original: 😪☹💔
the major key:😪☹💔
You're still depressed, but you're learning to live with it.
Amazing.
Sounds like a very old song with a mysterious origin. Still sounds kind of sad but really good.
I was sad, but now I'm | s a d |
I don't know whether this song is creepy or relaxing--
It sounds like sleepwalking. Like... it captures the same feeling of being cosy at home at night, and everybody else is asleep, but you are awake.
... I don't know.
this major ver. is a perfect soundtrack song for a 70s style serial killer crime movie scene where the killer kills one his victims and has a cigarette afterwards while sitting in front of the victim's corpse
Sounds like a lullaby now. When you finally put your baby to sleep.
when the hero goes to have tea and a chat with the benevolent mentor archetype character about the prophetic dreams he keeps having
Love it!