The Sound of Silence

[Pepsi90919]

Originally posted by: eits

Originally posted by: Pepsi90919

Originally posted by: eits

Originally posted by: Steve
"The words of the profits are written on the studio wall ... concert hall"




wait what

prophets, dumbass. not profits.

he's referring to the rush song which has a play on words to this song. he is correct and you are wrong.

you're such an uneducated asshole. please stop posting.

i'm uneducated because i didn't get some obscure rush reference in a thread about 'the sound of silence'?

yes, you are a complete dumbass because you didn't even bother to look up the reference. if you were to do a simple Google search you would find endless discussion on the spirit of radio.

 

[eits]

Originally posted by: Pepsi90919

Originally posted by: eits

Originally posted by: Pepsi90919

Originally posted by: eits

Originally posted by: Pepsi90919

Originally posted by: sandorski

Originally posted by: ThePresence
Bump for awesomeness.

Sometimes I wish some bands would get over their petty differences and arguments.
The world lost alot of good music because of over-inflated egos and petty squabbling.
S&G and Pink Floyd immediately come to mind.

I dunno, Garfunkle always seemed a little weird to me. Kinda like Carrot Top on Valium. :Q

to you and Red Dawn: it's Garfunkel. and sound of silence isn't really a great song.

'sounds of silence' is the name of the album... 'the sound of silence' is the name of the song.

by the way, it's an amazing song...

no, the album is "Wednesday Morning, 3am". The song is printed as "The Sounds of Silence" several times there.

really, asshole?

yeah really, asshole. from your own link:

It was originally recorded as an acoustic piece for their first album Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M. but was later electronically overdubbed and released as a single.

keep digging yourself in deeper, lol.

hey, fvckhead... keep reading...

"The Sound of Silence" is the song that propelled the 1960s folk music duo Simon and Garfunkel to popularity. It was written by Paul Simon in the aftermath of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963. Simon conceived of the song as a way of capturing the emotional trauma felt by many Americans left by the sudden death of a vigorous and visionary leader. It was originally recorded as an acoustic piece for their first album Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M. but was later electronically overdubbed and released as a single. The single slowly climbed the charts until it reached number one on New Year's Day 1966. The song was included in the 1966 album Sounds of Silence.

so, whenever you said "no," you should have just said "yup, but..."

 

[Steve]

Jesus Christ, people are at each other's throats over Simon and Garfunkel! :laugh:

 

[eits]

Originally posted by: Pepsi90919

Originally posted by: eits

Originally posted by: Pepsi90919

Originally posted by: eits

Originally posted by: Steve
"The words of the profits are written on the studio wall ... concert hall"




wait what

prophets, dumbass. not profits.

he's referring to the rush song which has a play on words to this song. he is correct and you are wrong.

you're such an uneducated asshole. please stop posting.

i'm uneducated because i didn't get some obscure rush reference in a thread about 'the sound of silence'?

yes, you are a complete dumbass because you didn't even bother to look up the reference. if you were to do a simple Google search you would find endless discussion on the spirit of radio.

why would i look it up? the lyrics from 'the sound of silence' are "the words of the prophets are written on the subway walls"...

 

[eits]

for pepsi90919

 

[zinfamous]

Originally posted by: nakedfrog

Originally posted by: slsmnaz

Originally posted by: nakedfrog

Originally posted by: slsmnaz
Why? It's not a great song and not that widely known by younger people.

It is that great of a song, and I'm sorry your musical education was lacking.

Gotta love opinions presented as fact :roll:

Oh, please tell me you can detect the irony here.

lol..kids these days. bottom line: if you aren't aware of this song, and/or have not seen "The Graduate," (regardless of whether or not you like either)...then you really do fail at life.

FYI: "The Graduate" was released ~11 years before I was born. So, you can consider this the opinion of a damn "ragamuffin..."

 

[nakedfrog]

Originally posted by: BrokenVisage

Originally posted by: Pepsi90919
you expected any more from ATOT?

Had to piggyback on this because more and more people are expressing their opinion on something as fact more and more often and it's getting ridiculous. Doesn't matter how many people might agree with you or how popular your opinion might be, calling a song great is an opinion. I love bands like Yes, Van Halen, and Genesis to name a few and consider a couple of their works to be some of the greatest songs ever made but no way would I express that thought as anything more then my opinion and wouldn't put down anybody who disagreed with me (I would, however, try to build a case for why I think what I do if someone adamantly spoke against it)

So basically, yes it may be a timeless piece of music by some great performers, but you can't declare it to be a great song across the board and proclaim anyone who dislikes as lacking musical education. Same with The Beatles, sure they're a great band with some classic, genre-defining music, but I know plenty of people who really don't find beauty or interest in their songs, I disagree with them but understand why they don't and never make a big deal about what they each do feel is great music.

I just want to point out that I don't think this is an increasing trend, you're just noticing it more.
Even pre-intarweb days, people would have the same kind of discussions (right down to pointless name-calling ). It's just discussion, and discussions like this are exactly why those 100 GREATEST SONGS EVER lists are made.

 

[batchusa]

:music: Hello Grampa, my old friend :music:

 

[nakedfrog]

Originally posted by: batchusa
:music: Hello Grampa, my old friend :music:

Heh... I haven't heard that for years... probably since I was tuning in to Doctor Demento on my FM radio back in junior high :shocked:

 

[Tipsy Turtle]

To you people who have never heard the song. WTF is wrong with you? No wait. Change that to I feel sorry for you.

You see there used to be this thing called music. It was made by artists who actually had something to express and cared about what they were creating. I know this idea is foreign to you since you have been brought up listening to the likes of Ashley Simpson, Avril Lavigne, Brittany Spears, NSync, etc, etc, etc.... who are nothing more than no talent morons who some record label exec thought would make a good face for the music. Hell most of them couldn't write a lyric if their damned life depended on it.

For you sake please please go listen to some music that was made before to corporate suits started trotting out the next pretty faced pop star or putting boy bands together that made all the young girls associate fingering themselves with whatever pop drivel they were "singing."

Here are some bands for you to listen to:

Cream
Traffic
Jimi Hendrix
Jefferson Airplane
The Who
David Bowie
The Beatles
Pink Floyd
Three Dog Night
Bob Dylan
The Doors
The Moody Blues


There are many, many more but those just happen to be the bands I can see at the moment in the small window of my playlist.

 

[BrokenVisage]

Originally posted by: nakedfrog
I just want to point out that I don't think this is an increasing trend, you're just noticing it more.
Even pre-intarweb days, people would have the same kind of discussions (right down to pointless name-calling ). It's just discussion, and discussions like this are exactly why those 100 GREATEST SONGS EVER lists are made.

Yeah that's kinda what I meant when I made the post that it's becoming more prevalent attitude-wise on here. I don't just jump on people when they say this is the greatest or that was the greatest either, I read what they post and use context clues to decide if they honestly think something is invariably the best or if they're just saying something is the greatest to them.

The problem is there are many people who are just naturally wired a selfish way into thinking their opinion is above reproach and they apply this characteristic towards anything debatable. Movies, music, athletes.. some people just assume they have surveyed enough to know better then others and have no problem projecting their thoughts basically as truths, and that tends to irk me when the same people show this attitude so freely. This happens a lot with talk show hosts on the radio (eg. Howard Eskin :|) and kinda permeates through the other fields of broadcasting too. You get that "holier then thou" mantra when you're constantly talking at people and not discussing with them enough.

 

[nakedfrog]

Originally posted by: BrokenVisage

Originally posted by: nakedfrog
I just want to point out that I don't think this is an increasing trend, you're just noticing it more.
Even pre-intarweb days, people would have the same kind of discussions (right down to pointless name-calling ). It's just discussion, and discussions like this are exactly why those 100 GREATEST SONGS EVER lists are made.

Yeah that's kinda what I meant when I made the post that it's becoming more prevalent attitude-wise on here. I don't just jump on people when they say this is the greatest or that was the greatest either, I read what they post and use context clues to decide if they honestly think something is invariably the best or if they're just saying something is the greatest to them.

The problem is there are many people who are just naturally wired a selfish way into thinking their opinion is above reproach and they apply this characteristic towards anything debatable. Movies, music, athletes.. some people just assume they have surveyed enough to know better then others and have no problem projecting their thoughts basically as truths, and that tends to irk me when the same people show this attitude so freely. This happens a lot with talk show hosts on the radio (eg. Howard Eskin :|) and kinda permeates through the other fields of broadcasting too. You get that "holier then thou" mantra when you're constantly talking at people and not discussing with them enough.

Yeah, I can't stand it when some tool thinks his opinion is better than mine.

 

[johnjohn320]

Originally posted by: eits

Originally posted by: AUMM

Originally posted by: eits

Originally posted by: jpeyton
Never heard of it.

hehe ok... sure thing.

ive never heard of the song as well.... will check it out though

wait... please tell me that's just a joke...

It's so funny when people get all upset because someone else hasn't heard of their favorite band. :roll:

I like S&G pretty well. Nice sound, good lyrics, decent song-writing. Their one of those groups that you don't realize how many popular songs they had until you listen to a whole album/compilation (I'm thinking of CCR as another example).

 

[Platypus]

Originally posted by: Tipsy Turtle
To you people who have never heard the song. WTF is wrong with you? No wait. Change that to I feel sorry for you.

You see there used to be this thing called music. It was made by artists who actually had something to express and cared about what they were creating. I know this idea is foreign to you since you have been brought up listening to the likes of Ashley Simpson, Avril Lavigne, Brittany Spears, NSync, etc, etc, etc.... who are nothing more than no talent morons who some record label exec thought would make a good face for the music. Hell most of them couldn't write a lyric if their damned life depended on it.

For you sake please please go listen to some music that was made before to corporate suits started trotting out the next pretty faced pop star or putting boy bands together that made all the young girls associate fingering themselves with whatever pop drivel they were "singing."

Here are some bands for you to listen to:

Cream
Traffic
Jimi Hendrix
Jefferson Airplane
The Who
David Bowie
The Beatles
Pink Floyd
Three Dog Night
Bob Dylan
The Doors
The Moody Blues


There are many, many more but those just happen to be the bands I can see at the moment in the small window of my playlist.

Do you pride yourself in coming off as a pretentious dick? I'm just curious.

Oh and for the record, take the advice of your own post, listen to 'Have a Cigar' and 'Welcome to the Machine' by Pink Floyd and then reread what you've written about 'the corporate suits of today' and punch yourself in the face.

 

[Eli]

One of my favorite songs of all time.

I :heart: S&G.

 

[johnjohn320]

To you people who have never heard the song. WTF is wrong with you? No wait. Change that to I feel sorry for you.

You see there used to be this thing called music. It was made by artists who actually had something to express and cared about what they were creating. I know this idea is foreign to you since you have been brought up listening to the likes of Ashley Simpson, Avril Lavigne, Brittany Spears, NSync, etc, etc, etc.... who are nothing more than no talent morons who some record label exec thought would make a good face for the music. Hell most of them couldn't write a lyric if their damned life depended on it.

For you sake please please go listen to some music that was made before to corporate suits started trotting out the next pretty faced pop star or putting boy bands together that made all the young girls associate fingering themselves with whatever pop drivel they were "singing."

Here are some bands for you to listen to:

Cream
Traffic
Jimi Hendrix
Jefferson Airplane
The Who
David Bowie
The Beatles
Pink Floyd
Three Dog Night
Bob Dylan
The Doors
The Moody Blues

Wow, way to be a dick about it. :roll: To be clear: I like the bands you listed. I strongly dislike the pop singers you mentioned as much as you do, and I don't like how hot bodies are what sells records now more than music. In other words, I basically agree with you.

But the pissy tone of your post is what made me reply like this. What makes you so sure that the bands you listed are what young people should be listening to? Is it because that's what you grew up with, or because it's really the greatest music, in your opinion? And finally, what makes you so sure that sex, corporate money, and the like weren't at play with those bands? You think record labels in the 60s and 70s would have booked these guys if they weren't going to sell? Remember Beatle-mania? Sure they wrote great songs, but the Beatles had the sex appeal thing going, as did the Stones. You listed Jim Morrison-hey remember when he got arrested for drunkenly whipping his c*ck out on stage and asking the audience to touch it?

I'm playing devil's advocate here. Like I said, I like the 60s/70s bands you listed, and I do think music has head down a troublesome path. But you wrote your post with such conviction and venom, I just had to ask these questions.

 

[AUMM]

Originally posted by: eits

Originally posted by: AUMM

Originally posted by: eits

Originally posted by: jpeyton
Never heard of it.

hehe ok... sure thing.

ive never heard of the song as well.... will check it out though

wait... please tell me that's just a joke...

nope no joke... but i did just listen to the song, not bad :thumbsup:

 

[nakedfrog]

Originally posted by: Platypus
Oh and for the record, take the advice of your own post, listen to 'Have a Cigar' and 'Welcome to the Machine' by Pink Floyd and then reread what you've written about 'the corporate suits of today' and punch yourself in the face.

You mean... he wasn't talking about an actual train made of gravy?

 

[Platypus]

Originally posted by: nakedfrog

Originally posted by: Platypus
Oh and for the record, take the advice of your own post, listen to 'Have a Cigar' and 'Welcome to the Machine' by Pink Floyd and then reread what you've written about 'the corporate suits of today' and punch yourself in the face.

You mean... he wasn't talking about an actual train made of gravy?

Beef gravy maybe.

 

[schneiderguy]

Originally posted by: Tipsy Turtle

You see there used to be this thing called music. It was made by artists who actually had something to express and cared about what they were creating. I know this idea is foreign to you since you have been brought up listening to the likes of Ashley Simpson, Avril Lavigne, Brittany Spears, NSync, etc, etc, etc.... who are nothing more than no talent morons who some record label exec thought would make a good face for the music. Hell most of them couldn't write a lyric if their damned life depended on it.

Do you seriously think most young people here listen to that sh1t?

 

[Red Dawn]

Originally posted by: Pepsi90919

Originally posted by: sandorski

Originally posted by: ThePresence
Bump for awesomeness.

Sometimes I wish some bands would get over their petty differences and arguments.
The world lost alot of good music because of over-inflated egos and petty squabbling.
S&G and Pink Floyd immediately come to mind.

I dunno, Garfunkle always seemed a little weird to me. Kinda like Carrot Top on Valium. :Q

to you and Red Dawn: it's Garfunkel. and sound of silence isn't really a great song.

LOL, thanks for the correction I guess:roll:

You might not think it's a great song but that doesn't mean it isn't. I'm not saying it is based on my opinion either but on the opinion of respected critics. However you are entitled to your opinion and if you don't consider it a great song that's fine with me, I don't think any less of your opinion than I did prior to you stating it.

 

[Red Dawn]

Originally posted by: schneiderguy

Do you seriously think most young people here listen to sh1t?

Well according to record sales and the artists and have sold the most I think the answer is rather obvious. It seems to me that it's the Industry that's deciding what the youngsters listen too instead of the youngsters themselves. It's 180 degrees different than 20 or 30 years ago. Fortunately there are some young people who are into Underground and Alternative Music which is refreshing and can be extremely creative!

 

[jman19]

Originally posted by: Platypus

Originally posted by: Tipsy Turtle
To you people who have never heard the song. WTF is wrong with you? No wait. Change that to I feel sorry for you.

You see there used to be this thing called music. It was made by artists who actually had something to express and cared about what they were creating. I know this idea is foreign to you since you have been brought up listening to the likes of Ashley Simpson, Avril Lavigne, Brittany Spears, NSync, etc, etc, etc.... who are nothing more than no talent morons who some record label exec thought would make a good face for the music. Hell most of them couldn't write a lyric if their damned life depended on it.

For you sake please please go listen to some music that was made before to corporate suits started trotting out the next pretty faced pop star or putting boy bands together that made all the young girls associate fingering themselves with whatever pop drivel they were "singing."

Here are some bands for you to listen to:

Cream
Traffic
Jimi Hendrix
Jefferson Airplane
The Who
David Bowie
The Beatles
Pink Floyd
Three Dog Night
Bob Dylan
The Doors
The Moody Blues


There are many, many more but those just happen to be the bands I can see at the moment in the small window of my playlist.

Do you pride yourself in coming off as a pretentious dick? I'm just curious.

Oh and for the record, take the advice of your own post, listen to 'Have a Cigar' and 'Welcome to the Machine' by Pink Floyd and then reread what you've written about 'the corporate suits of today' and punch yourself in the face.

"Come in here dear boy have a cigar you're gonna go far..."

"By the way, which one of you is Pink?"

 

[MikeSci457DC]

Go Simon and Garfunkel!!!

Also to all the haters, you guys just keep waiting for Underoath to put out a new album... I'm sure it will be great... :thumbsdown:

 

[Icepick]

Great song.