As much as I adore the original 'Sound of Silence' I thought that Disturbed did a good job with it. Pretty impressive that a band like Disturbed would want to tackle such an incredibly dark but beautiful song.
I have no problem with Disturbed's cover. It might be that I'm young, and I think I've always known 'Sound of Silence's opening bit but never really payed much attention to the rest of the song and categorized it as "old/classic rock" since it's from that time period. I guess in my mind a folk song means it's existed for quite a few generations and maybe tells a story. Probably a slow country song or Celtic music could count as folk to my mental definition for some reason.
It's more of a petty word choice disscussion/conversation starter, I'm not really prepared for the deep end of the conversation pool right now, clearly, because on actually listening to a 'sound of silence' just now I understand how somebody could call it 'folk music'
Anyway, that's just my thought process, sorry if it's a mess of words, I'm running on low sleep, thank you for listening to my ted talk, don't forget to like, comment and ssssscribe
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