Blowing In The Wind has to at least contend for the honor. I suspect more people would go for it. The songs are different. One’s meaning is complex & not competely clear. The other is perhaps Dylan’s simplest song as far as meaning, but with a timeless quality. I happen to like Simon & Garfunkel better than Dylan……
fairly positive garfunkels voice is being tampered with in this performance if i remember rightly his voice had declined by this point could be wrong though
I’m just a teenager who has only this year discovered Simon and Garfunkel. The more I listen to their music and return to watch these videos, the more I envy those who were able to experience them live and in their prime. I truly believe my generation will never get to see a duo of this talent - it’s bittersweet.
My father whom was a big country western lover, introduced this to me as a kid. Turned my whole love of listening to different music! Thanks dad. Love you and miss you.
I'm a registered nurse at a nursing home and this is one of my patient's favorite songs. I always play music for my patients during medication pass. This patient does not speak much so when he asked me if I could play this song for him, I was a bit surprised. When this song is playing, this guy who doesn't talk much, will belt it at the top of his lungs and just smile, and it always brings tears to my eyes. You can tell that he's just remembering back when he was younger. We've made it our daily routine now. I love every aspect of my job, but getting to see my patients happy and smiling is the best reward ever!
Honestly, I think that smile was when Simon changed chords/positions on the fretboard of the guitar, and was clearly out of tune. But they go for it. What can you do? Lol.
This touched me 21. I'm now 71 and it will touch me for the rest of my life. Sound of Silence song is one of the most deep and emotional songs in my life time. Thank you Simon & Garfunkel !
I am eighty years old, and I was around when this was written and performed by Simon and Garfunkel. It was a masterpiece then and is just as powerful today. I read that Paul Simon wrote this awesome song by himself, but I don't know that for sure. Anyway, whoever wrote it is a genius, and they foretold the future in so many lines in the song, that it is a prophetic creation. I loved it when I was a young man, and I still do at 80.
They gave the world one of the greatest songs we will ever know. I hope they can find peace and friendship with eachother again someday. Even if they don't make anymore music together. The artists they once were together deserve to be at peace.
My dad introduced me S&G at my age of 7. Oh Lord, time passed 42 years now. Thankfully, listening this precious sound with my gorgeous three daughters now.
Listened to this creative,beautiful master piece and emotional song years 40yrs ago while growing up. This generation should embrace and learn more from beautiful poetic music
Simon and Garfunkel never came to my part of the world but I was lucky enough to hear and see Paul Simon perform this song live. He had a big band on the tour but at the end came out on his own and played Sound of Silence. The 10,000 crowd were completely silent. A great moment for all of us there.
@ Crying Clown The fact that I am reading your comment randomly 4 days later is amazing ! Yes, I too am frozen in time as a wee infant 1964 / 1965 era. Sounds of joy....over the AM radio during those days !!
Well, I suppose you could call pitch correction a gimmick of sorts. Not quite, but it's certainly something that is separate from talent. Someone should have tuned Simons guitar instead of Garfunkels vocals.
+Nevil It's astonishing to me that some people deny or can't hear it. It is so obviously corrected in some fashion. However, that doesn't mean they endorsed or asked for it - there's precedent for pitch correction to be applied by whoever mixes a live performance for DVD, annoying the singer in question who had no idea it was going to happen. Let's hope they went out raw to the audience at least. That guitar, though. Eeeesh.
Rico Cilliers It's a story of depression. I feel it now after a loss. I try hard not to cry when i know i should, it's grieving, grieving is natural and this song has unleashed my tears.
This song is still haunting …. ❤ it’s so beautiful , it will be around for many years to come. EVERY-TIME I hear it ,it reminds me of the film with Dustin Hoffman, THE GRADUATE. Brilliant film too…… one of my all time favourites .
Toute ma jeunesse on traduisait les paroles un bon exercice d'anglais nos tendres années sont Simon et Garfunkel géniale et indémodable chanson et d'autres encore magnifique !!
boy this is pure voice. just because newer artists use it doesn't mean everyone does like David gimour from pink floyd, they have retained the ability to hit notes. at different octaves
I'm not a boy. granny. Time is very cruel to your ears too. Seriously, have you ever deal with music or professional musicians, instruments, tools, software or anything musical. you should be deaf is you didt heard this effect in this song. Gilmour may sing how he want - it is doesn matter, he is solo singer. But Art must sing in interval with Paul and he must do it precisely. Anyway - if you are over 70 years old, you cant sing like boy in church choir. These are two matters to use slightly autotune. Just use your brains and ears.
you got so damn wrong my friend, look at my channel, i got planty of songs with autotune, this isnt autotune, its a chorus effect that you use on guitars to make the string more effective, put it on the song and lower the mix pretty much and you got that pure song, this is his voice that makes the "bubbleinthroat" voice, cuz he is older and that happens when you are a singer to the most of em, so go back and learn a little before trying to sound smart and modern :d
Same here. Classic music is also in my playlist, For somereason classic and metal combine to make the most beautifull work. Whe else do metal singers make the best ballads?
Most of metal music comes from these songs because we all metalheads have the same goal. Peace and lot of great music. that´s only my opinion, I have listened hundreds of metal/rock bands and their message is clear. We are freaks, but we still understand each others and we are united! I actually liked "disturbed" version because they "updated the song" but only paul and art made it happen so. :D Sometimes we just don't wanna hear the bombs, maybe that´s the sound of silence :)
This song is a masterpiece. This is authentic music. This track is 58 years old but is not out of age at all. What a pleasure to hear that again and again. It is a gift for our ears. Good music never dies.
@@paulmartos7730 . . . "I expect we'll be celebrating this music in centuries to come, across worlds and stars." It may already be making that journey.
Saw them perform in concert four times. Most memorable was at UNH, they opened with Sound, there was a group talking, Paul Simon just stopped dead still, and explained that the song was about people not listening, and if the group taking would rather talk than listen, they S&G would leave as the talkers were the exact meaning of the song, a rather succinct explanation of The Sound of Silence.
they're not humans they're angels Edit:thanks for the likes!and also I used angels as a metaphor you don't have to comment telling me they're not angels or fight in the comments about religion...I felt like writing "angels" because in my first language(which is not english obviously)we often use this word when someone sings beautifully and with soul such as these two great musicians!
Oh, please. They are musicians. They sing well, they magnify jejune emotions; but they are all feeling and sloganizing, with paucity of understanding. They sang to an 18-year-old, and their warbling is still sweet; but after fifty years, they have not learned Churchill's lesson about maturing and putting aside utopian enthusiasms. Garfunkel was early on a Randian, but he was soon schooled out of that way of thinking. Rather like Bill Gates when he gained acceptance among the masters of the universe. We all bow to the regime, but once we do, continuing to pretend to be a rebel is a hypocrisy that offends the Holy Spirit.
This is July 2023 and this song continues to be exceedingly popular even today. The lyrics are legendary, music is marvellously melodious and singing is soulful, sincere, spellbinding, superb and sweet. ❤❤
What a great song, I love it! I put it into my "Shellshocked Radio - Recommendations" List: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-P-KdPsT-9UU.html Very well done!
Oh no no, Paul's voice is the best and so so so stunning! ❤️ And Arthur's makes me vomit, who else have that pitch feminin voice? Actually all Arthur's behaviour amd gestures makes me vomit, I find him disgusting and repulsive.
Man.... I remember watching this on BluRay and was like IF ONLY I COULD HAVE BEEN THERE!! Tom Hanks Directed this, and what a masterpiece of a show this was!!!
@@LonexWolf415 really need 36 minutes ago it's October 28th and Denver this is awesome I don't understand how Tom Hanks directed it I hope you can answer me wonderful to find this late
Listening to these melodies takes me back to a beautiful time, reminiscing about the past and present. It reminds me of many memories of my youth, old love hahaha!! The 80s: the golden era of music
