Vamos a dedicar ésto por partida triple. A Victoriano y Anaclara, que vieron la película El Graduado, les gustó la música de Paul Simon, y me motivaron a encontrar este cover TAN ABSOLUTAMENTE IMPRESIONANTE.
2015 - Disturbed - The Sounds of Silence (Simon & Garfunkel cover).
La letra es una de las mejores de toda la historia del rock.
"Hello darkness, my old friend
I've come to talk with you again
Because a vision softly creeping
Left its seeds while I was sleeping
And the vision that was planted in my brain
Still remains
Within the sound of silence .
In restless dreams I walked alone
Narrow streets of cobblestone
Neath the halo of a street lamp
I turned my collar to the cold and damp
When my eyes were stabbed
By the flash of a neon light
That split the night
And touched the sound of silence.
And in the naked light I saw
Ten thousand people, maybe more.
People talking without speaking
People hearing without listening
People writing songs
That voices never share
And no one dare
Disturb the sound of silence.
"Fools" said I
You do not know silence like a cancer grows
Hear my words that I might teach you
Take my arms that I might reach you
But my words like silent raindrops fell
And echoed in the wells of silence.
And the people bowed and prayed
To the neon god they made
And the sign flashed out its warning
In the words that it was forming
And the sign said
"The words of the prophets
Are written on the subway walls
And tenement halls
And whispered in the sounds of silence"
Y a Alfre, a quien le ruego paciencia si me tardo en escuchar su nueva sugerencia The Fields Of Nephilin. Para mi oreja no son los mejores tiempos de acomodarse a algo nuevo, y sobre todo, diferente.
Pero para demostrar que mi memoria está intacta, vaya esta recomendación que me hizo hace algunos años. No es exactamente un cover en esta versión, aunque Tom Morello si la hace, por las suyas, en caracter de tal. Pero ésto es inigualable.
Bruce Springsteen w.Tom Morello - Ghost of Tom Joad
La letra también es una maravilla.
Men walking 'long the railroad tracks
Going someplace, there's no going back
Highway patrol choppers coming up over the ridge
Hot soup on a campfire under the bridge
Shelter line stretching 'round the corner
Welcome to the new world order
Families sleeping in the cars in the southwest
No home, no job, no peace, no rest
Well the highway is alive tonight
But nobody's kidding nobody about where it goes
I'm sitting down here in the campfire light
Searching for the ghost of Tom Joad
He pulls a prayer book out of his sleeping bag
Preacher lights up a butt and he takes a drag
Waiting for when the last shall be first and the first shall be last
In a cardboard box 'neath the underpass
You got a one-way ticket to the promised land
You got a hole in your belly and a gun in your hand
Sleeping on a pillow of solid rock
Bathing in the city's aqueduct
Go!
Well the highway is alive tonight
Where it's headed everybody knows
I'm sitting down here in the campfire light
Waiting on the ghost of Tom Joad
Now Tom said, "Mom, wherever there's a cop beating a guy
Wherever a hungry newborn baby cries
Where there's a fight against the blood and hatred in the air
Look for me, Mom, I'll be there
Wherever somebody's fighting for a place to stand
Or a decent job or a helping hand
Wherever somebody's struggling to be free
Look in their eyes, Ma, and you'll see me"
Yeah!
The highway is alive tonight
Where it's headed everybody knows
I'm sitting down here in the campfire light
With the ghost of old Tom Joad
Por si alguno no lo sabe, Tom Joad es el nombre del protagonista de la GRAN novela de John Steinbeck, conocida en español como "Las Viñas de la Ira", y llevada al cine por John Ford, con un joven Henry Fonda en el rol protagónico.
Para finalizar, ésto que también está buenísimo.
Synesthesia - 28 days - In the House (John Murphy metal cover)
Un saludo.
