I love talent shows. The Voice and America's Got Talent are some of the only good shows on TV. This kid took this song places I have never heard it taken before. He has incredible power, range and movement. He crushed it technically too. It was flawless. From the hushed whisper notes to the full throttle upper register work he exercised absolutely precise vocal control, displayed a wide array of textures and demonstrated masterful artistic creativity in making it his own.
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Amazing performance. I like people who can actually sing. And props to the house audio team - he doesn't pull that off unless his monitor is perfect too.
The best version is Pentatonix by far but they are a group. I prefer the Disturbed version personally and he had a cold during the Conan performance....
- Greg
Success is found at the intersection of planning, hard work, and stubbornness.
I will await the expert critique of CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC Being as he taught music for 124 years. Those are the careless and untruthful words of an insatiable “aird a thabhairt ar whore “.
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The thing is, you cannot accept being told on this forum that youre full of SHÎT. You seek attention with your wordsmithing and 19 paragraph replies. No one gives a fouck. And you needed to be told of that long ago, no one had the brass balls. Lately you’ve been rough handled by a couple of members who have also called you out your long winded, tiresome eric clapton crap. Every week you report some fantastic career you did for “38 years, 55 years, 30 years”. Just put a goddamm sock in it.
The best version is Pentatonix by far but they are a group. I prefer the Disturbed version personally and he had a cold during the Conan performance....
I think this version captivated me because of the way he arranged it. Having heard it so many times, I was mentally following and anticipating it. When he made his completely unexpected departures from the normal arrangement and took it where I never imagined it going, it really worked for me.
- he doesn't pull that off unless his monitor is perfect too.
Tell me about that. I am completely ignorant on the production side of things.
It's hard to speak and I assume sing if you can't hear yourself. Don't know if you remember when Rush lost his hearing - his voice had no inflection, color or natural sound.
Singers have the ear piece so they can hear themselves and thus sing and sound well. (I'm not 100% on this, remembering what a friend of mine in a semi-pro band told me back in the 90s)
So to sound THAT good, I suspect the house audio crew had his monitor perfect too so he could hear himself to "adjust" his voice as he sings.
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
And he left out the fourth verse:
"Fools" said I, "You do not know Silence like a cancer grows Hear my words that I might teach you Take my arms that I might reach you" But my words, like silent raindrops fell And echoed in the wells of silence
Analyze the lyrics, 60 years ahead of time Paul Simon is describing the effects of the Iphone.
"People talking without speaking...people hearing without listening..." Try to have a ten minute conversation with a young person, you get about 3 minutes, and they start texting on the Iphone. Nominally having a conversation with you, the Iphone guy is talking without speaking, and hearing without listening.
It kind of sounds like he's got a good voice. He should have selected a song that would have allowed him to demonstrate it instead of that old, slow Simon and Garfunkel Sad Sack Special.
