The Slipknot shirt is the only thing making my ears bleed.

My boss showed me this in response to me describing Jpegmafia's music as punk/metal influenced experimental trap



I patiently waited for it to end while his sides split. I don't talk to him about the shows I go to anymore

What the hell problem you got with Gloria Jones?
You act like you were in that car with Marc Bolan.
(kidding, of course).

As I was typing my dumb comment, the thought actually went through my head "what if the Soft Cell version is not even the original?".

For all I know, the Gloria Jones version might be the best. I wouldn't be surprised! (not gonna check right now because I'm listening to the album club album).

So basically, I knew I was probably typing nonsense but did it anyway.

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.

+1

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.

"Diamonds and Rust" is a boring Priest song tbh.

You and I must be listening to two different songs then because, although not bad per say, to say the original is much more than a by-the-numbers, psych-tinged folk tune with a slighty above average hook is hyperbolic at best.

Yes because Rob Halford crooning softly about his relationship with Bob Dylan would have been more fitting, right? "Plastic" or not, Priest are a metal band, and were getting heavier as they approached the 80's. If you ask me, I think their energetic presentation brings a completely new side to Baez' good lyricism and songwriting that previously wasn't accessible with the original. Idk what you're talking about with the "disco bassline" either. Sure it was 1977 but I don't see how a sort of "galloping" bassline is inherently disco. I thought it was fairly common, in fact. Again, hyperbolic.

Also, you like Joanna Newsom. You have no right to dis "unintentionally hilarious" vocals.

No, it isn't. Priest took a folk pop song and turned it into a metal song. Disturbed took a folk pop song and turned it into...a symphonic pop song? 'Sound of Silence', the original, is a fairly simplistic song consisting of just vocals and guitar. Disturbed replaced the guitar with piano and added orchestral elements to coincide with the song's climax. Sure it's a pretty ill fitting change but the genre shift between the original and the cover is not comparable to the Baez Priest cover. I can see Simon and Garfunkel messing around with symphonics. I can't see Baez playing metal.

And I also realize that Baez has an XX chromosome which also contributes to your love for the opposite, but at the end of the day to each their own.

Compared to much of their other material, yeah it is. Still pretty standout in their catalog, imo