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Disturbed Sound of Silence Studio Version Download DISTURBED's 'The Sound of Silence' Tops Hard Rock Digital Songs Chart disturbed sound of silence studio version download DISTURBED's 'The Sound Of Silence' Tops Hard Rock Digital Songs Chart. According to Billboard.com, DISTURBED 's cover of SIMON & GARFUNKEL 's classic "The Sound Of Silence" has landed at No. 1 of Billboard 's Hard Rock Digital Songs chart, with 11,000 downloads sold in the tracking week ending December 17. The track also jumped 18-12 on the Hot Rock Songs chart. Although DISTURBED 's rendition of "Silence" has been available for download since the August 21 release of the band's latest album, "Immortalized" , the track received renewed interest following the release of the official music for the song on December 8. DISTURBED frontman David Draiman stated about "The Sound Of Silence" : "When I cut the vocal, I had just finished tracking another song, and it was the end of my work day. I was exhausted, and I wasn't expecting to have to sing anymore… so I took a nice hit off a big fat bowl. Then Kevin [ Churko , producer] played me the arrangement and he said, 'You wanna try singing to it?' And I was, like, 'I just got high! I'm stoned off my ass!' But I wound up getting back in the vocal booth for two hours, maybe more. Just vibing and going on feel." DISTURBED landed its fifth No. 1 album on The Billboard 200 chart with "Immortalized" . The new disc opened with 98,000 equivalent album units earned in the week ending August 27, according to Nielsen Music . Of that sum, 93,000 were pure album sales. The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week based on multi-metric consumption, which includes traditional album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). DISTURBED is only the third group to score five consecutive No. 1-debuting studio albums. They join METALLICA (five No. 1-debuting studio sets between 1991-2008) and DAVE MATTHEWS BAND (six; 1998-2012). "Immortalized" is DISTURBED 's first studio set since 2010's "Asylum" , which opened atop The Billboard 200 with 179,000 copies sold in its first week, according to Nielsen Music . The act previously led the list with "Indestructible" (released in 2008), "Ten Thousand Fists" (2005) and "Believe" (2002). The only DISTURBED album to miss the top position was the band's debut, "The Sickness" , which peaked at No. 29 in 2000. Sound of Silence. The theme of Sound of Silence is alienation and lack of communication. From the darkness (my old friend) onwards it carries that theme and loneliness along. "In restless dreams I walked ALONE" Then the neon light splits the night and touches the sound of silence. The naked light show 10,000 people (maybe more) talking without speaking and hearing without listening and writing songs that voices never shared (no one dared) because of the fear of breaking the silence. Then the writer steps in with his warning "Fools said I you do not know, silence like a cancer grows, thus he draws attention to the dangers of non communication. But with no success " but my words like silent raindrops fell" The last verse is interesting to me where he talks about "the neon god they made". Could this be television? Fairly new in 1964 when the song was written but completely changing social values and interaction. Families stared at a silver screen rather than talk to each other. Then the sign flashes it's warning to take note of loneliness as opitimised by people living on the streets or in poor housing. The song was written on Feb 19th 1964. You might like to draw attention to other songs following the same theme. You can point to Bleeker Street on Wednesday Morning 3am with lines like "Voices leaking in a sad cafe" and "$30 pays your rent on Bleeker Street". There is another song called "A poem on the underground wall" written in London where the Underground is what New Yorkers call the Subway. This song is about a mysterious graffiti artist who writes a one word poem of "four letters" on the wall. It was written about a very lonely place Whitechapel station in London's east end. Yet another song from this period is "A most Peculiar Man" about a lonely man living in one room who winds up killing himself. "And all the people said, what a shame that he's dead, but wasn't he a most peculiar man". They excuse themselves from any involvement in his death by saying he was. Sound of Silence (Disturbed) In terms of its meaning, I am not sure about the origin of this Simon & Garfunkel song, but after listening to this version by Disturbed, I have to think it has something to do with the alienation and disconnection humans, mostly in the Western world, have from each other. The feeling of being alone with an inner voice screaming I am here but silence all around. We each know that the other is yearning for connection but yet silently continue about our affairs — suffering. According to Wikipedia: Garfunkel once summed up the song’s meaning as “the inability of people to communicate with each other, not particularly internationally but especially emotionally, so what you see around you are people unable to love each other.” Wikiwan. I watched the video a few times, pored over the lyrics and realized that the song could be used as a commentary on our culture and the current overuse of our smart devices — our iPhones and iPads, and MacBooks. 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. Perhaps that flash of neon light is the collective flash from millions of iPhone screens lit up. Then another part of the lyrics cemented that imagery for me. And the people bowed and prayed To the neon god they made. ProStudioMasters.com. High-resolution audio offers the highest-fidelity available, far surpassing the sound quality of traditional CDs. When you listen to music on a CD or tracks purchased via consumer services such as iTunes, you are hearing a low-resolution version of what was actually recorded and mastered in the studio. ProStudioMasters offers the original studio masters — exactly as the artist, producers and sound engineers mastered them — for download, directly to you. What do I need for playback? You may need additional software / hardware to take full advantage of the higher 24-bit high-res audio formats, but any music lover that has heard 16-bit vs 24-bit will tell you it's worth it! Immortalized (Deluxe Edition) After a four-year hiatus, Disturbed announce their return in impressive fashion on Immortalized . The GRAMMY®-nominated metal outfit’s sixth studio album kicks off in earnest with a bruising, breakneck title cut that’s lifted by frontman David Draiman’s towering howl: “Let the beast inside now be woken.” From there it’s an unforgettable sprint through scorching operatics (“The Vengeful One”), steamrolling grinds (“Fire It Up”), and a surprising cover of Simon & Garfunkel’s “The Sound of Silence” that features warm, acoustic leads and a haunting string section..
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