Metal covers, Rock Songs. Parte 3.


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.