The best analysis I have seen about this song is that the original Simon and Garfunkel version was a warning to all humanity that we need to start listening to each other, respecting each other, and helping each other. The Disturbed version displays the angst and a little bit of anger at the warning from the original going unheeded.
You should also look up how Paul Simon came up with how these lyrics. They came to him in a dream. And the meaning of this in the day it was wrote compared to the meaning for today.
That's my analysis of it. S&G were like "Um, hey, gotta message here", then Pentatonix is "Hey, this is really important!" and then Disturbed comes at you like "LISTEN DAMN IT!!!!"
60 years ago, Simon and Garfunkle wrote this song as a warning to us all about listening to each other and not letting our government dictate our lives. Disturbed re-released it in anger because 60 years later, we haven't learned a damn thing!
A lot of people don't think Cantor training is 'classical' but it predates 'classic' opera training by over 2,000 years. And David's father and grandfather were/are cantors.
For me, the lyrics are about people talking past each other, hearing or seeing the messages but not "listening" to what was said, or perhaps misinterpreting it, or just not getting it at all. And about warnings not heeded, cries for help being ignored, songs being appreciated solely for the music, but not for the message, signs that something is wrong being ignored, etc.
Dave Draiman has some of the most powerful vocals in music. Disturbed does some amazing covers. Their video of "Land of Confusion" ( originally by Genesis, in 1986), is FIRE.
I just went to look up exactly when this song was written...it was written on my birthday! Lol A few years before I was even thought of but lol it was written in 1964! And is still relevant and thought provoking as it was back then! Fully written on February 19, 1964!
Joe, I'd like to see you do more Disturbed as well. Down With The Sickness, and Stricken are both good. I'm on the fence about recommending Inside The Fire. For a videographer perspective, it would be nice, and it's a great song. BUT, it deals with the real experience of his girlfriend ending her life, and his battle with his own demons telling him to do the same. The video is powerful, but the imagery is fairly disturbing. I guess that's enough information for you to decide yourself.
This version is so immense. When I listen to this, the world stops for me, the chills consume me and all I can do is listen. Sound healing on a cellular level. Meditative state incarnate for sure. Loved watching your faces as you reacted
I take it as we communicate now on smart phones and texts and do not talk like we used to. Which means Simon and Garfunkel were predicting the future pretty good back when they wrote the song.
As a rapper, I suggest you Check out Liberate by Disturbed. If you want to hear him throw some power behind his vocals, check out the title track from the Ten Thousand Fists album. If you want to hear the softest that Disturbed gets, check out Darkness
You aren’t far off with the meditation analogy, BP.. Simon explained that the song was written in his bathroom, where he would turn off the lights to better concentrate. The bathroom had tiles, so it was a sort of echo chamber. He’d turn on the faucet so that water would run because he found it soothing and just play guitar and sing In the dark - which became 'Hello darkness, my old friend, I've come to talk with you again.' During a live performance in Harlem in 1966, Garfunkel summed up the song's meaning as the inability of people to communicate with each other, especially emotionally, so that what you see around you is people who are unable to love each other. I think the meaning of this song is even more relevant today.
I have tickets to see Falling in Reverse open for Disturbed in February. I am beyond excited as I love both bands. I went to see Falling in Reverse open for Avenged Sevenfold in September and I already know they are awesome live. I have always wanted to see Disturbed perform this song live ever since I first heard it and saw the live performance on Conan. I am beyond stoked!
@@OhhGeeMatt I can't wait. Kim Dracula and Falling in Reverse opened for Avenged Sevenfold at the last concert I went to but I mostly went for Falling in Reverse. They are one of my favorites. I'm really looking forward to this one though because I also really love Disturbed.
14:33 that’s exactly how the original meaning of the song is. That everybody’s talking talking and it just doesn’t have any substance. Everybody’s worshiping what they see on TV or you know in a store, but not the things that really matter.
Seeing it live in person, gives you chills and is awesome. Everyone got so quiet and sucked into the moment and the feeling of the song. Words don't even begin to describe it.
Yes. This suggestion. On the Conan O'Brien show he was recovering from being ill and it just adds to the power behind the vocal performance. And it was simply goosebump inducing! Please watch it, even if it's just for your personal enjoyment. Unbelievable.
Hey guys, Kathy here. Hope you had a wonderful holiday season and a great New year's. I have been out of touch due to back surgery on 12-16, and not being able to sit for more than 30 minutes. But so glad I found you doing this one. I love the original Simon and Garfunkel version, as that is what I grew up on. I will be 69 in Feb. But this version, it hits you in a different way. The original was just like making an observation of the world, but this one is saying to the world, you didn't listen, and now look at the shape this world is in. Thanks for letting it play all the way through. It gives you a better "impact" of their version. David Draiman has such a vocal range, about 4 octaves. He was classically trained as a Cantor, as his father and grandfather. When he switched to heavy metal, he hired a vocal coach to help him get the grit and growl to sing in his normal genre. Thank you for your reaction. You both got it! Peace out - Live - Laugh - Love
14:24 is exactly how I think the song meant. The danger of society being so disconnected from each other is what they were warning about. People so focused on themselves that they have no idea what's going on around them. Talking without speaking and hearing without listening. People divided and completely out of touch with each other.
I always recommend people watch/listen to this video first, but then go listen to the live version from Conan O'Brien's show. The video adds meaning and the vocals are more technically accurate, but damn the live performance will just give you chills!!! Especially when you find out the man was seriously ill with the flu and still give one of the best live performances I've ever heard.
This is an excellent cover (reimagining) of such an iconic classic! They captured everything the original intended and then some....to be honest, it's become my favorite between the two.
I see this as a warning to us to stop “canceling” each other and start listening. We can’t silence those we don’t agree with. We must remember that there is a difference between hate speech and speech that we hate.
I am 76 so I loved the Simon and Garfunkel version but like this one so much more. Disturbed is a heavy metal band and David Draiman is the lead vocalist. He has an interesting background Jewish day schools, college degrees and was a cantor. He did this in one take. I could not take my eyes off your guest because he was visibly reacting to this video.
Art is defined as art because it is what makes you feel. Doesn’t matter if it makes you feel happy or angry or confused, the point is that it makes you feel, that is what makes it art.
YES YES YES!!! I've been an artist ever since I can remember. I put my emotions in my art. Thank you! Some like and some silently question my work... that's ok. I'll never stop.
It makes me think of how people have disconnected from each other when communicating. So many won't actually call someone, but text them. I see it a lot in public, the light from the phones glowing on all the faces looking down, oblivious to life going on around them. Then, the video shows the people with the music playing in their heads, but they won't even hum, to disturb the sound of silence. The musicians resurrect the instruments, then are going to the people with the sheet music. They are going to interrupt the silence, bring us all back together with the music. That's my take anyway. It was great to learn about some of the filming points your guest made.
As a 60 year old, Simon and Garfunkel is a staple in the music of my generation. But the first time I heard this version, a year or so ago, my brain cannot even hear Simon and Garfunkel’s version. It has been overwritten by my brain.
David Draiman...wow! ...amazing range and control...a powerful yet soulful voice that can go from warm baritone to angelic tenor, from clear as a crystal to rasp/distortion/vocal fry and back on a dime, which is incredibly difficult to do . He is so unique as he actually puts vibrato on his distortion!....also VERY difficult to do...one of the best male vocalists on the planet imho. Loved your reaction BP.
I love how powerful this song is, the memories that it brings up. There are only a few songs that bring up such powerful emotions for me and you have reacted to 2 of them, I want to suggest one more which is a song that you have heard but the way that the gentleman sings it just adds so much power to it. Please react to Amazing Grace sung by Dan Vasc.
We are now in a world where we play more attention to our phone, computer screens and tv than we do with each other. I recently saw a Banksy art piece called "Mobile Lovers" that showed a couple embracing, but their attention was on their phones. Our world is now filled with the "neon God" we've made with our technology.
I think an important line was "and the people bowed and prayed to the neon god they made" (tv, phones, etc). We all have our heads in our devices and can be in the same room and not even speak to each other. You guys had some pretty good interpretations I haven't heard anyone else come up with! Kudos!!
Down With the Suck ess was Disturbs first hit. The band has matured so much since then. Their music has gotten better and better. They are my fave band of all time. I think they are awesome!
That is one of the best reactions I have ever seen, I loved your guest, he's a very awakened person, I love him, he's like me, he sees soo manythings within 😁 Truly thankyou for this reaction, it was awesome 🤗
For me, it has always meant that we don't connect to each other anymore. "How are you?" "What's up?" etc We have so many "throw away" questions that we don't expect real answers to. Even when we do talk, how real is it? Or is it mostly superficial and...safe? We don't talk about meaning, purpose, values, tradition, growth....REAL subjects that too many people never put much thought into.
"The words of the Prophets are written on the subway walls and tenement halls". Too true. I certainly wish that humanity would accept the fact that we must, like every other species, *evolve* and that means *learning* from our past mistakes instead of just repeating them over, over, over and over again.
It’s simply about communication. With all this technology connecting all of us easily, anywhere… we still are not communicating with each other. Especially with those around us, physically.
Lol, just watched Anthony Ray's reaction to Disturbed singoing this on Conan. He called you and said you need to check that out--he was almost speechless.
The way I like to think of it is the original (Simon and Garfunkel) is a warning, this one is more so an "I told you so" and then there's a version by Pentatonix AND another one by Peyton Parrish... The one for Pentatonix I like to think of as a healing with Peyton's finishing it off as a story for the future to learn by.
I have to start by saying I don't usually like or enjoy covers and I scrolled by this reaction many times. I should know better than that. This is some of the best black and white photography I've seen in ages, and OhMyGod the musical performance is absolutely brilliant. So powerful! Thanks for sharing this with this old lady who is a 60-year Simon & Garfunkle fan.
In 1969 when the song was written, color TV was reaching a level of popularity that was so embraced that people were intranced by it they would set and stare at the bright light they had created and were forgetting about the music. The idea was to get people back to the music 😊
Black Pegasus, your comment about people not singing about things like cancer and tenements in older years had me jumping out of my seat yelling at the screen shouting "YES THEY DID!". Billie Holiday - Strange Fruit (1939) about the lynching of black men in Southern States. Protest and political songs of the 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s Bob Dylan - Blowing in the wind A Change Is Gonna Come- Sam Cooke Fortunate Son - Creedance Clearwater Revival Marvin Gaye - What's Going On Bill Haley and the Comets - Thirteen Women and Only One Man in Town. Johnny Cash - Folsom Prison Blues Sam Cooke - Chain Gang Elvis - In The Ghetto Edwin Starr - War The Isley Brothers - Fight The Power Kate Bush - Army Dreamers U2 - Sunday Bloody Sunday Rush - Manhatten Project Paul Hardcastle - 19 Genesis - Land of Confusion The Cranberries - Zombie (90s) Just some that come from the top of my head Storytelling is poetry is song and has been used to express the suffering of the world since the dawn of time. With the greatest respect, you really need to study some music history. You might even find it enriches your own creativity ❤
It's often interpreted that way, in reality it's a bunch of stuff Paul got from English Lit. class that he thought would impress the ladies, and make it sound like he was dark and full of angst.
Originally Simon and Garfunkel wrote this song as a warning for everyone to really listen to each other and come together as people. Disturbed released it in anger because no one listened. You can see at the end the musicians were reunited with their instruments again on the ship , hopefully ti try again and make it work this time.
@joeesparks7Always great to hear Joe's view on the video aspects of a production. As viewers we do not always realize what it is we are perceiving until someone with special skills names it for us.
Agreed, this version is great (love it), but there's something about the original that's.. I dunno it hits me deeper, but in a different way to this cover
When Simon and Garfunkel brought this out it felt (to me) like a warning. Then I heard this version by David Draiman, and was riveted by his rage because people still aren't listening. It became my hands-down favorite and I listened to it over and over again. But then Geoff Castellucci did it, and it feels like deep regret/sadness. Neither of the last two are my favorite; both are. It depends on my mood. I've always loved this song, but it feels like these two new covers have made it even more potent than it was when Simon wrote it.
I’ve always loved this song, so didn’t hold much hope that I would like it sung by a heavy metal band , but I absolutely loved it, the only version I listen to now, he does a brilliant job
The medative state is where it took me,i have heard this version before but i have not seen the video,the two together focus the mind and the eyes to the extent that it blocked out everything else,totally magical.This song was written in the 1960,s during the time of the cold war,the Vietnam war and the protest marches against it and just after the assassination of J.F.K.so i think the message could be about governments not listening to the people.
Disturbed has SO MANY good songs. And since they have been around since the early 2000's when MTV was still about music, they have high production videos too.
This video is a reawakening to the original by S & G. I remember the original( yes, I'm that old, at least). My daughter introduced this in video of the song. I'm an artist so I flow toward visual. In the video, when he picked up the original sheet music off the ground, it was a demand to actually see the truth of the words. Listen, react..."The words of the Prophets are written on the subway walls..." Are we so busy to actually hear each other? Kind of like the words, "Freedoms just another word for nothing left to loose..." We continually fight for freedom, don't we..like if we don't listen, we never learn.
The best analysis I have seen about this song is that the original Simon and Garfunkel version was a warning to all humanity that we need to start listening to each other, respecting each other, and helping each other. The Disturbed version displays the angst and a little bit of anger at the warning from the original going unheeded.
I like that - rings true
100% Agreed!!!
You should also look up how Paul Simon came up with how these lyrics. They came to him in a dream. And the meaning of this in the day it was wrote compared to the meaning for today.
@@julianlane2638 I will do that, thank you!
That's my analysis of it. S&G were like "Um, hey, gotta message here", then Pentatonix is "Hey, this is really important!" and then Disturbed comes at you like "LISTEN DAMN IT!!!!"
60 years ago, Simon and Garfunkle wrote this song as a warning to us all about listening to each other and not letting our government dictate our lives. Disturbed re-released it in anger because 60 years later, we haven't learned a damn thing!
I’ve listened to this this song thousands of times- it still gives me chills.
Paul Simon never made me cry. Tears and goosebumps EVERY TIME with Disturbed's version. Every time.
I was a cinematographer for 10 years. When your guy said he was into visuals I was thinking "well, you're about to get a motherload brother" - lmao.
His voice is hauntingly beautiful ❤
The singer was, I think classically trained as a cantor. This is such a wonderful cover. He has made this song his own. I love Joe and BP ❤
You are correct about David Draiman being classically trained as a Cantor.
I think they need to consider starting a separate channel with both of them together and reacting. They work very well together imo 👍
@@johnk275 100%
A lot of people don't think Cantor training is 'classical' but it predates 'classic' opera training by over 2,000 years.
And David's father and grandfather were/are cantors.
He went to Israel to be trained.
For me, the lyrics are about people talking past each other, hearing or seeing the messages but not "listening" to what was said, or perhaps misinterpreting it, or just not getting it at all. And about warnings not heeded, cries for help being ignored, songs being appreciated solely for the music, but not for the message, signs that something is wrong being ignored, etc.
This version seems very true today in our country. Both sides talking but not listening.
Yes!
Love your interpretation of this song. This cover gives me chills and reaches down in my very soul. It is a masterpiece.
i've seen this video at least a hundred times and it still gives me chills and gets the water works going. i absolutely love it
Dave Draiman has some of the most powerful vocals in music. Disturbed does some amazing covers. Their video of "Land of Confusion" ( originally by Genesis, in 1986), is FIRE.
That might be the best reaction I have ever seen. Guys mouth is just hanging open in aw. You can feel that song in your soul.
Dude's whole body had a reaction to the song and David's voice! ❤
From what I have learned, the original was like a prediction, and Disturbed's version is here now
Who wants to sing the Epitaph version next?
I just went to look up exactly when this song was written...it was written on my birthday! Lol A few years before I was even thought of but lol it was written in 1964! And is still relevant and thought provoking as it was back then! Fully written on February 19, 1964!
Loved your look of awe and utter respect for a true work of art!
I agree the look on his face is priceless
Love JOE E sparks been following him since he started the channel because of Ren. Love disturbed Joe, you should react to more disturbed
Joe, I'd like to see you do more Disturbed as well. Down With The Sickness, and Stricken are both good. I'm on the fence about recommending Inside The Fire. For a videographer perspective, it would be nice, and it's a great song. BUT, it deals with the real experience of his girlfriend ending her life, and his battle with his own demons telling him to do the same. The video is powerful, but the imagery is fairly disturbing. I guess that's enough information for you to decide yourself.
I love how your guest almost never blinked...he was totally into it.
....and totally slack-jawed at what he was experiencing!
This version is so immense. When I listen to this, the world stops for me, the chills consume me and all I can do is listen. Sound healing on a cellular level. Meditative state incarnate for sure. Loved watching your faces as you reacted
I take it as we communicate now on smart phones and texts and do not talk like we used to. Which means Simon and Garfunkel were predicting the future pretty good back when they wrote the song.
The thing about art is each of us reacts with our own experience. Amazing vocals, amazing song, amazing video, amazing reaction!! 'Nuff said...
"His voice echoed in the hallways of memory." I can't think of a better way to describe it.
I like this line more...
"Fools you do not know! Silence like a cancer grows!" If you let that silence grow, soon it will be everywhere.
As a rapper, I suggest you Check out Liberate by Disturbed.
If you want to hear him throw some power behind his vocals, check out the title track from the Ten Thousand Fists album.
If you want to hear the softest that Disturbed gets, check out Darkness
This song was relevant in the '60s, and so it remains to this day.
You aren’t far off with the meditation analogy, BP.. Simon explained that the song was written in his bathroom, where he would turn off the lights to better concentrate. The bathroom had tiles, so it was a sort of echo chamber. He’d turn on the faucet so that water would run because he found it soothing and just play guitar and sing In the dark - which became 'Hello darkness, my old friend, I've come to talk with you again.'
During a live performance in Harlem in 1966, Garfunkel summed up the song's meaning as the inability of people to communicate with each other, especially emotionally, so that what you see around you is people who are unable to love each other.
I think the meaning of this song is even more relevant today.
I have tickets to see Falling in Reverse open for Disturbed in February. I am beyond excited as I love both bands. I went to see Falling in Reverse open for Avenged Sevenfold in September and I already know they are awesome live. I have always wanted to see Disturbed perform this song live ever since I first heard it and saw the live performance on Conan. I am beyond stoked!
Dude that is going to be an amazing concert.
@@OhhGeeMatt I can't wait. Kim Dracula and Falling in Reverse opened for Avenged Sevenfold at the last concert I went to but I mostly went for Falling in Reverse. They are one of my favorites. I'm really looking forward to this one though because I also really love Disturbed.
I saw Disturbed in August in Tampa and I'm thinking of seeing them again in February in Orlando. This is amazing live.
@@meganmurdock9107 I can't wait!
Officially envious. That's gonna be a show!
14:33 that’s exactly how the original meaning of the song is. That everybody’s talking talking and it just doesn’t have any substance. Everybody’s worshiping what they see on TV or you know in a store, but not the things that really matter.
The live version of this on the late night show is amazing if you get a chance to check that out as well.
Seeing it live in person, gives you chills and is awesome. Everyone got so quiet and sucked into the moment and the feeling of the song. Words don't even begin to describe it.
Yes. This suggestion. On the Conan O'Brien show he was recovering from being ill and it just adds to the power behind the vocal performance. And it was simply goosebump inducing! Please watch it, even if it's just for your personal enjoyment. Unbelievable.
Hey guys, Kathy here. Hope you had a wonderful holiday season and a great New year's. I have been out of touch due to back surgery on 12-16, and not being able to sit for more than 30 minutes. But so glad I found you doing this one. I love the original Simon and Garfunkel version, as that is what I grew up on. I will be 69 in Feb. But this version, it hits you in a different way. The original was just like making an observation of the world, but this one is saying to the world, you didn't listen, and now look at the shape this world is in. Thanks for letting it play all the way through. It gives you a better "impact" of their version. David Draiman has such a vocal range, about 4 octaves. He was classically trained as a Cantor, as his father and grandfather. When he switched to heavy metal, he hired a vocal coach to help him get the grit and growl to sing in his normal genre. Thank you for your reaction. You both got it! Peace out - Live - Laugh - Love
When I first saw/heard this version of this song, which I love...... it brought me to tears. The passion, the darkness. Perfection.
The original was a landmark in music. You can't imagine how popular it was.
You guys got so many more gems to discover on old songs and video's
This very well might be the best cover of all time. Amazes me every time I hear it.
14:24 is exactly how I think the song meant. The danger of society being so disconnected from each other is what they were warning about. People so focused on themselves that they have no idea what's going on around them. Talking without speaking and hearing without listening. People divided and completely out of touch with each other.
I really love watching the expressions on Joe E's face. He is so expressive and empathic. He's a man who wears his heart on his sleeve.
David has classical training. He has such range! I forget which one but Simon and Garfunkle(one of them) said this is now Disturbed's song.
Simón was very impressed with how David owned this version!
Oh shiiiiii! I've been on a kick listening to this song and reactions to it! Awesome to see a fresh reaction by some of my favs!
I always recommend people watch/listen to this video first, but then go listen to the live version from Conan O'Brien's show. The video adds meaning and the vocals are more technically accurate, but damn the live performance will just give you chills!!! Especially when you find out the man was seriously ill with the flu and still give one of the best live performances I've ever heard.
This is an excellent cover (reimagining) of such an iconic classic! They captured everything the original intended and then some....to be honest, it's become my favorite between the two.
I see this as a warning to us to stop “canceling” each other and start listening. We can’t silence those we don’t agree with. We must remember that there is a difference between hate speech and speech that we hate.
Three for one! Two of my favorite reactors reacting to one of my all time favorite songs!
I am 76 so I loved the Simon and Garfunkel version but like this one so much more. Disturbed is a heavy metal band and David Draiman is the lead vocalist. He has an interesting background Jewish day schools, college degrees and was a cantor. He did this in one take. I could not take my eyes off your guest because he was visibly reacting to this video.
Art is defined as art because it is what makes you feel. Doesn’t matter if it makes you feel happy or angry or confused, the point is that it makes you feel, that is what makes it art.
YES YES YES!!! I've been an artist ever since I can remember. I put my emotions in my art. Thank you! Some like and some silently question my work... that's ok. I'll never stop.
It makes me think of how people have disconnected from each other when communicating. So many won't actually call someone, but text them. I see it a lot in public, the light from the phones glowing on all the faces looking down, oblivious to life going on around them. Then, the video shows the people with the music playing in their heads, but they won't even hum, to disturb the sound of silence. The musicians resurrect the instruments, then are going to the people with the sheet music. They are going to interrupt the silence, bring us all back together with the music. That's my take anyway. It was great to learn about some of the filming points your guest made.
Both you guys need to check in to this band more!
I loved the Conan performance. Everything I know tells me it was live and I always prefer live.
Okay.... so based off the beginning of the video, Joe E needs to do a reaction to Down with the Sickness now.
As a 60 year old, Simon and Garfunkel is a staple in the music of my generation. But the first time I heard this version, a year or so ago, my brain cannot even hear Simon and Garfunkel’s version. It has been overwritten by my brain.
Tune reaches in and grabs your soul, then shows the End. River Styx ride.
David Draiman...wow! ...amazing range and control...a powerful yet soulful voice that can go from warm baritone to angelic tenor, from clear as a crystal to rasp/distortion/vocal fry and back on a dime, which is incredibly difficult to do . He is so unique as he actually puts vibrato on his distortion!....also VERY difficult to do...one of the best male vocalists on the planet imho. Loved your reaction BP.
Loved it! Going to be keeping my eyes peeled for Joe E's reaction to their other stuff!
I love how powerful this song is, the memories that it brings up. There are only a few songs that bring up such powerful emotions for me and you have reacted to 2 of them, I want to suggest one more which is a song that you have heard but the way that the gentleman sings it just adds so much power to it. Please react to Amazing Grace sung by Dan Vasc.
We are now in a world where we play more attention to our phone, computer screens and tv than we do with each other. I recently saw a Banksy art piece called "Mobile Lovers" that showed a couple embracing, but their attention was on their phones. Our world is now filled with the "neon God" we've made with our technology.
I think an important line was "and the people bowed and prayed to the neon god they made"
(tv, phones, etc). We all have our heads in our devices and can be in the same room and not even speak to each other.
You guys had some pretty good interpretations I haven't heard anyone else come up with! Kudos!!
that Down with the Sickness ..err...freestyle ;) I love you put Joe E in front of one of the great videos for a music video
My all-time favorite, this is so powerful and gives me chills
I feel it was the discription of a buch of fans standing next to each other being on in an emotional state that a song can put you in.
Down With the Suck ess was Disturbs first hit. The band has matured so much since then. Their music has gotten better and better. They are my fave band of all time. I think they are awesome!
This guy loves music. Fantastic.
Yeah the lead singer's performance is outstanding u should c him do it live
Shreveport! It was amazing! 😊
That is one of the best reactions I have ever seen, I loved your guest, he's a very awakened person, I love him, he's like me, he sees soo manythings within 😁
Truly thankyou for this reaction, it was awesome 🤗
For me, it has always meant that we don't connect to each other anymore.
"How are you?"
"What's up?"
etc
We have so many "throw away" questions that we don't expect real answers to. Even when we do talk, how real is it? Or is it mostly superficial and...safe?
We don't talk about meaning, purpose, values, tradition, growth....REAL subjects that too many people never put much thought into.
BP looked so stoned in the first verse. He was just amazed hahahaha. I love BP reactions ☺️
Joe...I think the mouth gape was the most appropriate reaction to this version of this song, ever!
You also gotta check out the live version !
The original was first released in 1964, & it stands the test of time with this version & amplifies it.
Fukin love gettin nerdy with Joe E!
"The words of the Prophets are written on the subway walls and tenement halls". Too true. I certainly wish that humanity would accept the fact that we must, like every other species, *evolve* and that means *learning* from our past mistakes instead of just repeating them over, over, over and over again.
It’s simply about communication. With all this technology connecting all of us easily, anywhere… we still are not communicating with each other. Especially with those around us, physically.
His reaction has been one of the best reactions of your guests. He was 1000% into the song and video without constant stops.
Here for you.
❤🤗❤
love this reaction gentlemen! well done!
It’s honestly a spoken word on society as a state….and here we are.
Lol, just watched Anthony Ray's reaction to Disturbed singoing this on Conan. He called you and said you need to check that out--he was almost speechless.
I just gotta say that the t-shirt your guest is wearing is awesome.
The way I like to think of it is the original (Simon and Garfunkel) is a warning, this one is more so an "I told you so" and then there's a version by Pentatonix AND another one by Peyton Parrish... The one for Pentatonix I like to think of as a healing with Peyton's finishing it off as a story for the future to learn by.
I have to start by saying I don't usually like or enjoy covers and I scrolled by this reaction many times. I should know better than that. This is some of the best black and white photography I've seen in ages, and OhMyGod the musical performance is absolutely brilliant. So powerful! Thanks for sharing this with this old lady who is a 60-year Simon & Garfunkle fan.
His live performance of this song on Conan O’Briens show was epic.
I could listen to you two discuss music for hours. Great content.
In 1969 when the song was written, color TV was reaching a level of popularity that was so embraced that people were intranced by it they would set and stare at the bright light they had created and were forgetting about the music. The idea was to get people back to the music 😊
You have to watch the Conan O'Brien version!!! His voice even comes through better!!! Watch that version please.
Black Pegasus, your comment about people not singing about things like cancer and tenements in older years had me jumping out of my seat yelling at the screen shouting "YES THEY DID!".
Billie Holiday - Strange Fruit (1939) about the lynching of black men in Southern States.
Protest and political songs of the 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s
Bob Dylan - Blowing in the wind
A Change Is Gonna Come- Sam Cooke
Fortunate Son - Creedance Clearwater Revival
Marvin Gaye - What's Going On
Bill Haley and the Comets - Thirteen Women and Only One Man in Town.
Johnny Cash - Folsom Prison Blues
Sam Cooke - Chain Gang
Elvis - In The Ghetto
Edwin Starr - War
The Isley Brothers - Fight The Power
Kate Bush - Army Dreamers
U2 - Sunday Bloody Sunday
Rush - Manhatten Project
Paul Hardcastle - 19
Genesis - Land of Confusion
The Cranberries - Zombie (90s)
Just some that come from the top of my head
Storytelling is poetry is song and has been used to express the suffering of the world since the dawn of time.
With the greatest respect, you really need to study some music history. You might even find it enriches your own creativity ❤
The song was actually a warning about our society that is about what we are going through today political
It's often interpreted that way, in reality it's a bunch of stuff Paul got from English Lit. class that he thought would impress the ladies, and make it sound like he was dark and full of angst.
Originally Simon and Garfunkel wrote this song as a warning for everyone to really listen to each other and come together as people. Disturbed released it in anger because no one listened. You can see at the end the musicians were reunited with their instruments again on the ship , hopefully ti try again and make it work this time.
Stunning! Thank you so much❤
@joeesparks7Always great to hear Joe's view on the video aspects of a production. As viewers we do not always realize what it is we are perceiving until someone with special skills names it for us.
Love the original love this version too! Love when you guys get together. Great reaction ❤️🔥✌🏻🫶🏻
Agreed, this version is great (love it), but there's something about the original that's.. I dunno it hits me deeper, but in a different way to this cover
So everybody knows original version was done by Simon and Garfunkel.😊
I've heard it said that the original was the warning, this version is anger over the warning being ignored.
The original was for the ladies.
I've listened to this song a million times... I was TOTALLY DOWN with all the nerdy takes on videography!
When Simon and Garfunkel brought this out it felt (to me) like a warning. Then I heard this version by David Draiman, and was riveted by his rage because people still aren't listening. It became my hands-down favorite and I listened to it over and over again. But then Geoff Castellucci did it, and it feels like deep regret/sadness. Neither of the last two are my favorite; both are. It depends on my mood. I've always loved this song, but it feels like these two new covers have made it even more potent than it was when Simon wrote it.
Judgement Day and Wrong Side of Heaven by Five Finger Death are excellent gut punches
I’ve always loved this song, so didn’t hold much hope that I would like it sung by a heavy metal band , but I absolutely loved it, the only version I listen to now, he does a brilliant job
I interpret it as the people are all silent because they are into their phones and no longer interact with each other.
The medative state is where it took me,i have heard this version before but i have not seen the video,the two together focus the mind and the eyes to the extent that it blocked out everything else,totally magical.This song was written in the 1960,s during the time of the cold war,the Vietnam war and the protest marches against it and just after the assassination of J.F.K.so i think the message could be about governments not listening to the people.
Disturbed has SO MANY good songs. And since they have been around since the early 2000's when MTV was still about music, they have high production videos too.
Don't forget the live version on Conan O'Brien if you haven't seen it he was sick with the flu and pulled it off maybe even better
Love BP and Joe E reactions! Hoping BP will introduce Joe E to Skitz Kraven for the videographer perspective on the videos! ❤❤❤
these guys will make a BILLION clicks for that song - in 2024 !
This video is a reawakening to the original by S & G. I remember the original( yes, I'm that old, at least). My daughter introduced this in video of the song. I'm an artist so I flow toward visual. In the video, when he picked up the original sheet music off the ground, it was a demand to actually see the truth of the words. Listen, react..."The words of the Prophets are written on the subway walls..." Are we so busy to actually hear each other? Kind of like the words, "Freedoms just another word for nothing left to loose..." We continually fight for freedom, don't we..like if we don't listen, we never learn.
The album is The Sickness. The song is Down With The Sickness.