(12-23-2016, 03:43 PM)Cuntnugget Wrote: I hate most Christmas music, so I came up with a list of the metal versions of some Christmas songs that I enjoy.
Shinedown - Happy Xmas https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yigASFxk4LU
Metallica - Carol of the Bells https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uC3O_ztCWOM
Disturbed - the Sound of Silence https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=u9Dg-g7t2l4
Manowar - Silent Night https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Sj-THeKHu_g
Halford - We Three Kings https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ctTVcYMYXLA
(This one is for @Apix ) Amon Amarth - Viking Christmas https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oTTegnql6mY
I hummed and hawed over this one, wanting to pick at least one of these. I chose: Shinedown - Happy X-mas. That was great! And not at all very heavy. And... did they mention
beer lolol... I detect some changed lyrics, which made me like it even more!
Next I tried Manowar - Silent Night. I liked it! No words changed that I could tell, and not at all what I expected from these guys, judging from the girl-candy shots on the video link. :| They just changed the ending, where they partied their way.
So now I gotta try another: Disturbed - The Sound of Silence Okay, I knew that I knew the original song, but didn't think it was a Christmas tune. Simon & Garfunkel did it originally. Then I noted this video was published only a year ago, and it has 157 million views?! MAN. The guy these people subscribed to, has to be 'doing well' off his Youtube stuff. ~makes angry noises @ Google~
Then I went looking for signs that it's somehow Christmas music, but found none. In the Wikipedia article on the Simon & Garfunkel verion -- a REALLY interesting read, btw... (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sound_of_Silence) and this was the line it uses that best sums it's meaning, that I could find, "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.'"
For some reason, that line makes me emotional, and I can in an off-hand way, attach it to Christmas, because of Who it celebrates and what He is all about (love).
The Disturbed version gets its own mention in the article, as it received praise from Paul Simon, and was later performed live on one of those late-night shows I avoid like the plague (lol).
There is
no question this version enhances the emotional response. A truly well-made cover, and it's obvious that Disturbed really thought a lot of the original.
So Christmas music or not, glad it made your cut!
Next, I tried Halford - We Three Kings. This was more what I was expecting, when I started listening to these! The words all intact, just made over in their own way. I liked it, particularly the message, which is the only decent reason (by my humble opinion) to celebrate this holiday.
And that's almost all of them! With only Metallica / Carol of the Bells left, I had to try it too. WOW! I never thought I was going to get what they gave. It was a wordless-wonder, and that is praise, not a put-down. You immediately know the song... but using the instruments they did, with their own additions -- this song had to be the best at showing raw power and emotion of all of them -- something I was prepared to marvel about the 'Disturbed' tune instead. They were far more musical purists, to be able to make that, than I'd previously thought. Very powerful.
WAIT! I almost missed one "Viking Christmas". Okay, this song I don't know, and yeah, it's heavy metal, and yeah, they're singing something, but I couldn't make out the words very well, and it didn't leave me with any real need to go look up the lyrics. (Should I apologize to Apix?! lol ...Or you?)
Instead what it conjured in my brain, was the old BC Comic strip, swilling beer, and the strip's 'monster' in it that was all mouth/nose, stomach and hair, who only ever said one word. (There was a year or so in my 'party years' where this was me at the parties. I was just known for saying that one word, and often played the games of the day under the name 'Grog'. Really, it does look like a rodent, now that I think of it. :|)
~yells for old times sake~
GrrRrRrRrooOOoOoOoOoooOOoOoOoOoOoOoOGgGgGGG!!
(Aren't you glad you didn't know me then? lol)
~ahem~
www.facebook.com/BCcomic/photos 'Grog', is the dude/thing on the far right.
OH! And to make sure Nugget looks at it... I think she's probably closer to the gal in the strip with the club, rather than the other one, even if the looks aren't right. :| (Looks can be.... sooOoooOo deceiving!)
Hmm. Yeah. I did it again.
Time to runnnnn!
~tears off into the trees without ever looking back or uttering a sound~
So thanks a lot!
I dunno how long this has taken me, but I appreciated each and every one! (And honestly, I didn't expect to listen to them all, especially the Metallica tune, but I need to give them more credit, in light of that.)
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