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@The Rube wrote:

IMO, the thing with Dylan was he was one of the big faces of an entire movement (yeah, they were hippies and all, but a movement nonetheless) along with all the great music he did. The outrage when he went electric was deafening. Prince was just an amazing musician.

You're saying Prince had no effect on styles, trends, musically and things like fashion? Ummm ok.

@Gopher Hockey Rube wrote:

@The Rube wrote:

IMO, the thing with Dylan was he was one of the big faces of an entire movement (yeah, they were hippies and all, but a movement nonetheless) along with all the great music he did. The outrage when he went electric was deafening. Prince was just an amazing musician.

You're saying Prince had no effect on styles, trends, musically and things like fashion? Ummm ok.

You're misunderstanding me.

Dylan was one of the faces of an entire political/social movement.

@The Rube wrote:

@Gopher Hockey Rube wrote:

@The Rube wrote:

IMO, the thing with Dylan was he was one of the big faces of an entire movement (yeah, they were hippies and all, but a movement nonetheless) along with all the great music he did. The outrage when he went electric was deafening. Prince was just an amazing musician.

You're saying Prince had no effect on styles, trends, musically and things like fashion? Ummm ok.

You're misunderstanding me.

Dylan was one of the faces of an entire political/social movement.

I get that. But the influence that Prince had on the music scene over his life was also amazing. You were the one who said "Primce was just an amazing musician". He was so much more than that to millions of fans.

@Gopher Hockey Rube wrote:

@The Rube wrote:

@Gopher Hockey Rube wrote:

@The Rube wrote:

IMO, the thing with Dylan was he was one of the big faces of an entire movement (yeah, they were hippies and all, but a movement nonetheless) along with all the great music he did. The outrage when he went electric was deafening. Prince was just an amazing musician.

You're saying Prince had no effect on styles, trends, musically and things like fashion? Ummm ok.

You're misunderstanding me.

Dylan was one of the faces of an entire political/social movement.

I get that. But the influence that Prince had on the music scene over his life was also amazing. You were the one who said "Primce was just an amazing musician". He was so much more than that to millions of fans.

Musically? I don't know if anyone can touch Prince's talent as a whole; if anything, simply the amount of instruments he could play/had mastered.

Dylan was more than just music/fashion/etc, though, and that's not a knock on Prince.

My point being, I think Dylan MAY be the only MN thing bigger than Prince. Dylan is at least Prince's equal, all things considered. Both were beyond awesome, for what they did and influenced.

@The Rube wrote:

IMO, the thing with Dylan was he was one of the big faces of an entire movement (yeah, they were hippies and all, but a movement nonetheless) along with all the great music he did. The outrage when he went electric was deafening. Prince was just an amazing musician.

I think it's a factor in the discussion that Prince claimed Minnesota far more actively than Dylan ... I feel like singing "Let's Go Crazy" in the streets last night was just as much a celebration of Minneapolis music as it was the life of Prince. I don't think I would get that same experience from Dylan. So many stories coming out of him going music shopping at the Fetus, or attending a show at the Dakota in his final week ... the guy seems genuinely proud of the local music scene.

@st8ofhockey wrote:

@The Rube wrote:

IMO, the thing with Dylan was he was one of the big faces of an entire movement (yeah, they were hippies and all, but a movement nonetheless) along with all the great music he did. The outrage when he went electric was deafening. Prince was just an amazing musician.

I think it's a factor in the discussion that Prince claimed Minnesota far more actively than Dylan ... I feel like singing "Let's Go Crazy" in the streets last night was just as much a celebration of Minneapolis music as it was the life of Prince. I don't think I would get that same experience from Dylan. So many stories coming out of him going music shopping at the Fetus, or attending a show at the Dakota in his final week ... the guy seems genuinely proud of the local music scene.

Exactly. Dylan is just some guy born here, Prince was MN. He was truly one of us.

I'll take crap for this but...

"Some" of this tribute stuff I keep reading on social media for Prince is becoming an overkill.

@Neat Hat wrote:

@st8ofhockey wrote:

@The Rube wrote:

IMO, the thing with Dylan was he was one of the big faces of an entire movement (yeah, they were hippies and all, but a movement nonetheless) along with all the great music he did. The outrage when he went electric was deafening. Prince was just an amazing musician.

I think it's a factor in the discussion that Prince claimed Minnesota far more actively than Dylan ... I feel like singing "Let's Go Crazy" in the streets last night was just as much a celebration of Minneapolis music as it was the life of Prince. I don't think I would get that same experience from Dylan. So many stories coming out of him going music shopping at the Fetus, or attending a show at the Dakota in his final week ... the guy seems genuinely proud of the local music scene.

Exactly. Dylan is just some guy born here, Prince was MN. He was truly one of us.

I won't even begin to claim that Dylan was proud of his MN roots. I know better (and given where he grew up, I don't blame him*).

*My dad grew up near Dylan, and Dylan actually asked my aunt out on a date in HS. She said no. Why? "He was...off. Kinda weird."

@The Rube wrote:

@Neat Hat wrote:

@st8ofhockey wrote:

@The Rube wrote:

IMO, the thing with Dylan was he was one of the big faces of an entire movement (yeah, they were hippies and all, but a movement nonetheless) along with all the great music he did. The outrage when he went electric was deafening. Prince was just an amazing musician.

I think it's a factor in the discussion that Prince claimed Minnesota far more actively than Dylan ... I feel like singing "Let's Go Crazy" in the streets last night was just as much a celebration of Minneapolis music as it was the life of Prince. I don't think I would get that same experience from Dylan. So many stories coming out of him going music shopping at the Fetus, or attending a show at the Dakota in his final week ... the guy seems genuinely proud of the local music scene.

Exactly. Dylan is just some guy born here, Prince was MN. He was truly one of us.

I won't even begin to claim that Dylan was proud of his MN roots. I know better (and given where he grew up, I don't blame him*).

*My dad grew up near Dylan, and Dylan actually asked my aunt out on a date in HS. She said no. Why? "He was...off. Kinda weird."

And that is a huge part of why Prince is a bigger deal in this state.

I'm all for naming the park in front of the stadium after him.

@Bonin21 wrote:

I'm all for naming the park in front of the stadium after him.

I want a street named "Alphabet St." Just sayin'.

I vote for Pussy Control Parkway.

@Bonin21 wrote:

I'm all for naming the park in front of the stadium after him.

Let's don't get too carried away...

We should petition the city to change the name of the street Gator lives on to Surly-Prince Avenue.

@The Rube wrote:

@Neat Hat wrote:

@st8ofhockey wrote:

@The Rube wrote:

IMO, the thing with Dylan was he was one of the big faces of an entire movement (yeah, they were hippies and all, but a movement nonetheless) along with all the great music he did. The outrage when he went electric was deafening. Prince was just an amazing musician.

I think it's a factor in the discussion that Prince claimed Minnesota far more actively than Dylan ... I feel like singing "Let's Go Crazy" in the streets last night was just as much a celebration of Minneapolis music as it was the life of Prince. I don't think I would get that same experience from Dylan. So many stories coming out of him going music shopping at the Fetus, or attending a show at the Dakota in his final week ... the guy seems genuinely proud of the local music scene.

Exactly. Dylan is just some guy born here, Prince was MN. He was truly one of us.

I won't even begin to claim that Dylan was proud of his MN roots. I know better (and given where he grew up, I don't blame him*).

*My dad grew up near Dylan, and Dylan actually asked my aunt out on a date in HS. She said no. Why? "He was...off. Kinda weird."

I don't blame Robert Zimmerman either, but the rest of your post is garbage. Where he grew up had little to do with it. Dylan would have likely been received similarly regardless of where he grew up - with few exceptions. If you think he would have fit in that much better in most places at the time I think you are kidding yourself, and I am not going to pretend the Range doesn't have its issues.

@Golden FE Ranger wrote:

@The Rube wrote:

@Neat Hat wrote:

@st8ofhockey wrote:

@The Rube wrote:

IMO, the thing with Dylan was he was one of the big faces of an entire movement (yeah, they were hippies and all, but a movement nonetheless) along with all the great music he did. The outrage when he went electric was deafening. Prince was just an amazing musician.

I think it's a factor in the discussion that Prince claimed Minnesota far more actively than Dylan ... I feel like singing "Let's Go Crazy" in the streets last night was just as much a celebration of Minneapolis music as it was the life of Prince. I don't think I would get that same experience from Dylan. So many stories coming out of him going music shopping at the Fetus, or attending a show at the Dakota in his final week ... the guy seems genuinely proud of the local music scene.

Exactly. Dylan is just some guy born here, Prince was MN. He was truly one of us.

I won't even begin to claim that Dylan was proud of his MN roots. I know better (and given where he grew up, I don't blame him*).

*My dad grew up near Dylan, and Dylan actually asked my aunt out on a date in HS. She said no. Why? "He was...off. Kinda weird."

I don't blame Robert Zimmerman either, but the rest of your post is garbage. Where he grew up had little to do with it. Dylan would have likely been received similarly regardless of where he grew up - with few exceptions. If you think he would have fit in that much better in most places at the time I think you are kidding yourself, and I am not going to pretend the Range doesn't have its issues.

I think if he grew up in a bigger city, things might have been a little different. From all accounts, personal and public, that area is very....judgmental and backwards. My dad has even said he'd never go back there, and hates that area. Having been in that area a few times...yeah...not a good area to be any kind of different.

@Neat Hat wrote:

We should petition the city to change the name of the street Gator lives on to Surly-Prince Avenue.

Tell that to the city of Mpls. I live on 11th Ave. which runs parallel with the new stadium. The Mpls. City Council already voted down changing Chicago Ave... LOL

Switching gears a bit ... who would be your "Mt. Rushmore of MN Music"? For me, it's:

- Prince
- Dylan
- Paul Westerberg
- Dan Wilson

@The Rube wrote:

@Golden FE Ranger wrote:

@The Rube wrote:

@Neat Hat wrote:

@st8ofhockey wrote:

@The Rube wrote:

IMO, the thing with Dylan was he was one of the big faces of an entire movement (yeah, they were hippies and all, but a movement nonetheless) along with all the great music he did. The outrage when he went electric was deafening. Prince was just an amazing musician.

I think it's a factor in the discussion that Prince claimed Minnesota far more actively than Dylan ... I feel like singing "Let's Go Crazy" in the streets last night was just as much a celebration of Minneapolis music as it was the life of Prince. I don't think I would get that same experience from Dylan. So many stories coming out of him going music shopping at the Fetus, or attending a show at the Dakota in his final week ... the guy seems genuinely proud of the local music scene.

Exactly. Dylan is just some guy born here, Prince was MN. He was truly one of us.

I won't even begin to claim that Dylan was proud of his MN roots. I know better (and given where he grew up, I don't blame him*).

*My dad grew up near Dylan, and Dylan actually asked my aunt out on a date in HS. She said no. Why? "He was...off. Kinda weird."

I don't blame Robert Zimmerman either, but the rest of your post is garbage. Where he grew up had little to do with it. Dylan would have likely been received similarly regardless of where he grew up - with few exceptions. If you think he would have fit in that much better in most places at the time I think you are kidding yourself, and I am not going to pretend the Range doesn't have its issues.

I think if he grew up in a bigger city, things might have been a little different. From all accounts, personal and public, that area is very....judgmental and backwards. My dad has even said he'd never go back there, and hates that area. Having been in that area a few times...yeah...not a good area to be any kind of different.

Like I said, given the timeframe we are talking about, he wouldn't have fit in well hardly anywhere. He was very "different" as many artists are and many are not appreciated at the time. Maybe he would have fit in better in a big city, but that is such a small percentage of the state. The point is, with maybe an exception or two, he could have been born in any town in Mn and likely had the same experience.

I was thinking more than MN. Mpls/St Paul, more accepted, but not saying much. The coasts, esp CA? Way more accepted.

@The Rube wrote:

I was thinking more than MN. Mpls/St Paul, more accepted, but not saying much. The coasts, esp CA? Way more accepted.

Ok, I guess I didn't read your original post that way - and I am not going to pretend I am not biased considering I live about 2.1 miles from the house he grew up in. His parents sold the house to my aunt and uncle and there are some pretty close connections. I grew up with autographed pictures of him laying around in my grandma's basement and saw boxes of his stuff that was left behind. My cousin's bedroom had RZ carved into the wood on the wall. My family has a great appreciation for him but nobody would pretend he wasn't different. Heck, if he walked into a room of people in 2016 and they didn't know him, most would say the same. The point I am trying to make is he would have likely had a similar experience growing up anywhere in MN at the time, it just happened to be on the Iron Range. Maybe Minneapolis would have been a better fit but I doubt even St Paul would have been much better in the 40's and 50's for someone as eccentric as Dylan.

@Golden FE Ranger wrote:

@The Rube wrote:

I was thinking more than MN. Mpls/St Paul, more accepted, but not saying much. The coasts, esp CA? Way more accepted.

Ok, I guess I didn't read your original post that way - and I am not going to pretend I am not biased considering I live about 2.1 miles from the house he grew up in. His parents sold the house to my aunt and uncle and there are some pretty close connections. I grew up with autographed pictures of him laying around in my grandma's basement and saw boxes of his stuff that was left behind. My cousin's bedroom had RZ carved into the wood on the wall. My family has a great appreciation for him but nobody would pretend he wasn't different. Heck, if he walked into a room of people in 2016 and they didn't know him, most would say the same. The point I am trying to make is he would have likely had a similar experience growing up anywhere in MN at the time, it just happened to be on the Iron Range. Maybe Minneapolis would have been a better fit but I doubt even St Paul would have been much better in the 40's and 50's for someone as eccentric as Dylan.

http://archive.boston.com/ae/celebrity/articles/2007/05/03/weird_guitar_guy_bob_dylan/

@Golden FE Ranger wrote:

@The Rube wrote:

I was thinking more than MN. Mpls/St Paul, more accepted, but not saying much. The coasts, esp CA? Way more accepted.

Ok, I guess I didn't read your original post that way - and I am not going to pretend I am not biased considering I live about 2.1 miles from the house he grew up in. His parents sold the house to my aunt and uncle and there are some pretty close connections. I grew up with autographed pictures of him laying around in my grandma's basement and saw boxes of his stuff that was left behind. My cousin's bedroom had RZ carved into the wood on the wall. My family has a great appreciation for him but nobody would pretend he wasn't different. Heck, if he walked into a room of people in 2016 and they didn't know him, most would say the same. The point I am trying to make is he would have likely had a similar experience growing up anywhere in MN at the time, it just happened to be on the Iron Range. Maybe Minneapolis would have been a better fit but I doubt even St Paul would have been much better in the 40's and 50's for someone as eccentric as Dylan.

And I can definitely see that point. From what I've seen, he's softened his anger (?) in recent years, has become more accepting. But yeah, at the time...he had no place here.

@The Rube wrote:

I was thinking more than MN. Mpls/St Paul, more accepted, but not saying much. The coasts, esp CA? Way more accepted.

Even the coasts were 'traditional' then. Really traditional. In the 50s and very early 60s it was just the way it was. I mean you had a couple really small pockets of Bohemia - Greenwich / SoHo in NYC and North Beach near City Lights in San Fran... Other than those neighborhoods - east coast west coast and pretty much every where was stereotypical 1950s. South was worse - obviously worse - but 50s culture was pretty well entrenched for both good and bad (it wasn't all bad just sort of weird).

Thing is many great artists are as much a product of their time as they are their own talents. I think that applies with both Dylan and Prince.

Someone needs to brew a beer called Purified by the Waters of Lake Minnetonka. Hey Excelsior Brewing - I'm talking to you!

@Slap Shot wrote:

Someone needs to brew a beer called Purified by the Waters of Lake Minnetonka. Hey Excelsior Brewing - I'm talking to you!

What's sad, but still brings me hope, is that someone that has very odd names for beers, and is MN-aware (Clown Shoes!) would do that.

@Greyeagle wrote:

@Golden FE Ranger wrote:

@The Rube wrote:

I was thinking more than MN. Mpls/St Paul, more accepted, but not saying much. The coasts, esp CA? Way more accepted.

Ok, I guess I didn't read your original post that way - and I am not going to pretend I am not biased considering I live about 2.1 miles from the house he grew up in. His parents sold the house to my aunt and uncle and there are some pretty close connections. I grew up with autographed pictures of him laying around in my grandma's basement and saw boxes of his stuff that was left behind. My cousin's bedroom had RZ carved into the wood on the wall. My family has a great appreciation for him but nobody would pretend he wasn't different. Heck, if he walked into a room of people in 2016 and they didn't know him, most would say the same. The point I am trying to make is he would have likely had a similar experience growing up anywhere in MN at the time, it just happened to be on the Iron Range. Maybe Minneapolis would have been a better fit but I doubt even St Paul would have been much better in the 40's and 50's for someone as eccentric as Dylan.

http://archive.boston.com/ae/celebrity/articles/2007/05/03/weird_guitar_guy_bob_dylan//blockquote >

That is hilarious. He got the same reaction 60 years ago on the stage at HHS. See Rube, even LA thinks he is nuts.
But yes, he has softened some. I know he was back here not to long ago checking out the town with family. It is too bad it wasn't different for him growing up but that is what made him who he is.

Another misunderstood genius. /Stereotype

@Slap Shot wrote:

Someone needs to brew a beer called Purified by the Waters of Lake Minnetonka. Hey Excelsior Brewing - I'm talking to you!

I know a guy...

Hell he got booed when he first plugged in back in what - 1964? - all the pure folkies who loved him in the coffee shops of NY couldn't accept he had gone electric. He's been getting under audiences skin since he started pissing off his neighbors and fellow students in Hibbing! Guy hasn't changed.

@dryfly wrote:

Hell he got booed when he first plugged in back in what - 1964? - all the pure folkies who loved him in the coffe shops of NY couldn't accept he had gone electric. He's been getting under audiences skin since he started pissing off his neighbors and fellow students in Hibbing! Guy hasn't changed.

This. This is why I mentioned him "vs" Prince in the first place. He had the ear of a whole generation, and it was more than music. Frankly, if it was only music, I think Prince buries Dylan, and I love me some Dylan.

@The Rube wrote:

@dryfly wrote:

Hell he got booed when he first plugged in back in what - 1964? - all the pure folkies who loved him in the coffe shops of NY couldn't accept he had gone electric. He's been getting under audiences skin since he started pissing off his neighbors and fellow students in Hibbing! Guy hasn't changed.

This. This is why I mentioned him "vs" Prince in the first place. He had the ear of a whole generation, and it was more than music. Frankly, if it was only music, I think Prince buries Dylan, and I love me some Dylan.

I think they both had their place in time. Dylan's strength were his lyrics at a time when people just did nor question authority much - or if they did paid a heavy price - see Selma.

Prince a totally different time - different message. I wouldn't choose which is the better. Different but powerful.

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@dryfly wrote:

@The Rube wrote:

@dryfly wrote:

Hell he got booed when he first plugged in back in what - 1964? - all the pure folkies who loved him in the coffe shops of NY couldn't accept he had gone electric. He's been getting under audiences skin since he started pissing off his neighbors and fellow students in Hibbing! Guy hasn't changed.

This. This is why I mentioned him "vs" Prince in the first place. He had the ear of a whole generation, and it was more than music. Frankly, if it was only music, I think Prince buries Dylan, and I love me some Dylan.

I think they both had their place in time. Dylan's strength were his lyrics at a time when people just did nor question authority much - or if they did paid a heavy price - see Selma.

Prince a totally different time - different message. I wouldn't choose which is the better. Different but powerful.

I could agree with this.

The passing of Prince is one of the rare times that someone you saw up close a few times but never new personally hits you like a ton of bricks. There are not many artists that conjure up more than one lasting memory of your youth, Prince conjures up several.

My brother of all people who was just as likely to blast Van Halen or Skynyrd in the stereo played Controversy for me the first time (maybe it was even [gasp] Dirty Mind) and from there I never stopped being a fan. Learning the lyrics to DMSR, sitting up at night hoping to hear Little Red Corvette on MTV, Purple Rain being the soundtrack of an entire summer and the following school year, Diamonds and Pearls coming out the October of the Twins last WS, asking those around you were watching with, "WTF - was that the greatest half time show ever?"...

I knew Prince was huge but the sentiment that's been expressed by so many since his announced death has blown me away. I was really mad at myself that the flash drive in my car full of thousands of songs didn't have any Prince on it and instead all his stuff was at the house. That changed pretty quickly today.

Thanks Prince for so many memories!

btw I can't believe he'd allow a video this bad to be released, but if you watch this all the way through andI still can't agree he can shred better than most I don't know what to say: http://videos.sapo.pt/qm89J3ECVgZzl2Od82P r"> http://videos.sapo.pt/qm89J3ECVgZzl2Od82Pr

@dryfly wrote:

@The Rube wrote:

@dryfly wrote:

Hell he got booed when he first plugged in back in what - 1964? - all the pure folkies who loved him in the coffe shops of NY couldn't accept he had gone electric. He's been getting under audiences skin since he started pissing off his neighbors and fellow students in Hibbing! Guy hasn't changed.

This. This is why I mentioned him "vs" Prince in the first place. He had the ear of a whole generation, and it was more than music. Frankly, if it was only music, I think Prince buries Dylan, and I love me some Dylan.

I think they both had their place in time. Dylan's strength were his lyrics at a time when people just did nor question authority much - or if they did paid a heavy price - see Selma.

Prince a totally different time - different message. I wouldn't choose which is the better. Different but powerful.

The thing that makes a talent sui generis is that he brings to the world something original and never done before. Dylan and Prince both can make that claim, and in that way they are alike.

As for Dylan growing up on the range, why not just listen to what he himself has to say about that? He wasn't being critical when he said (paraphrasing), "There was nothing for me there...I went to New York because I was going to my destiny." Almost like that scene in Superman, when the high school Clark Kent knew he had to leave Smallville, Kansas, because his destiny awaited him someplace else.

@Neat Hat wrote:

We should petition the city to change the name of the street Gator lives on to Surly-Prince Avenue.

Hahahaha

Corey Taylor Little Red Corvette

Living Colour -- Cult of Personality

All of these videos surfacing of Prince have been fantastic to watch. That link to Cream in the Pet Peeves thread is fantastic. I also saw a couple of FB shares, including his original performance of Purple Rain at First Ave, that I just haven't been able to stop listening to

Electro Goth Tribute To Prince:

@English Gopher wrote:

Electro Goth Tribute To Prince:

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I'm sorry, but that was terrible. And I like a lot of electronica/etc.

@The Rube wrote:

@English Gopher wrote:

Electro Goth Tribute To Prince:

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I'm sorry, but that was terrible. And I like a lot of electronica/etc.

I thought it was interesting when this came my way. I'd say hit or miss. I've only listened to half of it, but I thought the cover of "Pop Life" was good.

Here's some German goth rock from 1985. It's Marquee Moon's "Prince of Darkness," posted just a little after midnight:

@5 O.T. wrote:

Living Colour -- Cult of Personality

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Another song that influenced my musical taste back when I first got MTV on cable...gawd I miss the late 80's on MTV!

Apologies if this has been talked about already. Thoughts on disturbed's Simon and garfunkel cover of The Sound of Silence?? I'm a big metal fan, not a big disturbed fan, but this cover is a 10. Disturbed always seemed a little juvenile and meat-headish to me but maybe I should delve deeper.
Also, I laugh thinking about will Ferrell knocking children out of the way after shooting himself with a tranq gun in Old School, falling into a pool, and this song immediately strikes up.

@Laxref wrote:

Apologies if this has been talked about already. Thoughts on disturbed's Simon and garfunkel cover of The Sound of Silence?? I'm a big metal fan, not a big disturbed fan, but this cover is a 10. Disturbed always seemed a little juvenile and meat-headish to me but maybe I should delve deeper.
Also, I laugh thinking about will Ferrell knocking children out of the way after shooting himself with a tranq gun in Old School, falling into a pool, and this song immediately strikes up.

I agree it's awesome! I've been hearing it for a few weeks and love it!! :dup: The first time I heard it, I knew I recognized the song, but couldn't place who sang the original. I was kinda shocked when I realized it was Simon & Garfunkel.

Like everyone else I've been listening to some Prince since he passed. I knew he was a good guitar player but I guess I never realized he was that good. He's top 10 in my book.

@ScoobyDoo wrote:

Like everyone else I've been listening to some Prince since he passed. I knew he was a good guitar player but I guess I never realized he was that good. He's top 10 in my book.

Oh boy here we go again.

@Luckygirl#13 wrote:

@Laxref wrote:

Apologies if this has been talked about already. Thoughts on disturbed's Simon and garfunkel cover of The Sound of Silence?? I'm a big metal fan, not a big disturbed fan, but this cover is a 10. Disturbed always seemed a little juvenile and meat-headish to me but maybe I should delve deeper.
Also, I laugh thinking about will Ferrell knocking children out of the way after shooting himself with a tranq gun in Old School, falling into a pool, and this song immediately strikes up.

I agree it's awesome! I've been hearing it for a few weeks and love it!! :dup: The first time I heard it, I knew I recognized the song, but couldn't place who sang the original. I was kinda shocked when I realized it was Simon & Garfunkel.
I'd consider myself a fan of Disturbed and I am totally in liven with the Sound of Silence cover. The lead singer absolutely kills it. The performance they had on Conan was absolutely brilliant.