This was actually one magic night in 1992 🙂 Why do I remember? Because our family had just returned stateside from being stationed in Germany and we couldn't wait to watch American MTV... it was so different from European MTV ❤
One of the very few males on the planet that can pull off even attempting to sing this particular song and have it go as it was meant to be sang. This acoustic version is the best, their concert versions just dont flow like this version does, and this song have to have 100% of the whole song in tonal flow, or it just sounds bad, with partially sang good parts. This is one of the most difficult songs to ever try to sing, due to have be on key tune flow with every single note and word 100% of the song all the way, or it just doesn't work well.
Think THIS Kix Azz? Then y'all needz to check out "Sound Of Silence" done by a band (appro. named) Heir Apparent - who are also from the same home town as Geoffie and Ryche!
I adore Queensryche and Geoff Tate.....but the best version of this has been and always will be Simon and Garfunkel. Queensryche will always be the best metal band in my book but Simon & Garfunkel killed this song in the best way possible. No one can top their version, not even my Geoff Tate.
This is one of the best speeches I have ever heard in defense of free speech (i.e. against 'hate speech' legislation). What saddens me is that Christopher is making an argument that already was made and won by the late 1600's.
The CD version of this is hands down the best remake of all time in my opinion. I will never forget the first I heard this on the B side of a CD single in 1991. I couldn't believe what I was hearing. The power that Tate's voice pumped into this song is beyond measure. Chills every time!
bsetchells he does? His voice is shot now. I'm not expecting him to be as good as he once was, since aging has a huge effect on singing, but he's...terrible anymore.
It sucks ass that the first progressive metal band that wrote the most thought provoking, mind-expanding music has parted ways. Geoff Tates' vocals crushed everyone and still do. And Chris DeGarmos' guitar work and songwriting stand alone. Metal has a vitality of its own and has taken music to the extreme ; it cannot get any harder, faster, technical, emotional nor progressive. That is why it is the sickest form of music humans can create.. i.e. Korn( first album: finest work using bagpipes) the first progressive metal band Queensryche, (key boards, piano work, female vocals, and operatic overture). Metalcore band As I Lay Dying (piano work) and God Forbid (electronic violin and piano work). I am sure there are more metal bands I am not aware of that use others musical instruments not mentioned.
We should have seen it coming when during the year that Empire came out, the song "Losing my Religion" overran everything--got nominated and won all the awards--except for People's Choice, which "Silent Lucidity" won. [Did they scratch their heads over this? ].
Plus, Hitchen's is 100% opposed to holocaust deniers, and anyone who knows anything about him knows this - hes made countless speeches where he's stated his hatred of holocaust deniers - its the FACT he hates them so much that hes using them in this example, i.e "Even holocaust deniers - who I despise - have the right to deny what we all know was a real event that happened..." If you dont understand that, then you're just a fucking idiot.
He's not DEFENDING holocaust deniers, you cretin! He's making the point that free-speech needs to apply to everybody, universally across the board - even for those whose views are utterly retarded, because without those people being able to voice their views, we can never be confident that we are right to disagree with them - if you dont ever accept the possibility that you might be wrong, then you have no credibility, because if you WERE wrong, you'd never realise it.
