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Originally Posted by windsock
Ridiculous comparison. The Baez version is bland 70's folk pop that's fair at best. God forbid Priest make it actually interesting and not a snooze-fest.
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My take is somewhat different. I'd say Priest took a beautiful, expressive song with artfully handled, carefully chosen elements in the arrangement that sound great and create a very special, dreamy and melancholy atmosphere. Then Priest decided it would be much better if it was reduced to a tacky piece of embarrassing sounding plastic metal with unintentionally hilarious vocals that completely miss the mark on expressing what the lyrics speak to. And that ****ing disco bassline. Lol.
A sort of bull-in-a-porcelain-shop situation, which is why I think the comparison with Disturbed's version of "the Sound of Silence" is dead on!
Also, I don't even like Judas Priest at all, so there's that too.