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Old 04-02-2013, 06:07 AM   #24 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by ZiggyStardust View Post
His version of Star Spangled Banner lost the melody completely - there's no point doing a song if you can't actually hear the melody that's being played. The bombs and machine guns sound like machine guns, I'll give you that, but if he wanted to play a protest song he didn't need to add it into the country's anthem.
Normally he uses feedback in a good way, but in this case it just sounds messy and out of place. The buzz coats all the notes so half of them just sound like buzzes.
Why not? The protest was aimed at the country the anthem is about. Seems rather fitting to me...
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