WIN? The most awful single we've heard all year!
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And it might just be the worst thing we've heard in our six-year history...
It's little wonder Genesis are reforming, what with talentless pop-metal monkeys covering their songs and trashing them into hollow nut-sacks of their former selves.
DiS took a chance on Disturbed's version of the proggers' 'Land Of Confusion' (released last week), originally released by the then-Phil-Collins-fronted outfit in 1986 (it got to number 15 in the charts, y'know), and slipped it into the stereo. "How awful could it be?", thought we. Nothing, nothing, could have prepared us for this awful aural abortion of a 'song'. Eeerrrrgghhhh.
So we want rid of it. Forever. So we're offering YOU, dear DiS readers, to celebrate our sixth birthday with a frenzy of CD-related violence. We'll send you this single - already slightly damaged (we had to snap the case to get the CD out, really!) - and you can destroy it however you see fit. Just so long as you document the destruction using what the kids are calling 'photography'. And send us the images.
Just e-mail mike DOT diver AT drownedinsound DOT com explaining how you'll take this piece of shit excuse for popular music apart, physically; include your address and we'll maybe post it your way. For you to smash the absolute crap out of it, of course; anyone feeling sympathetic will be banned from DiS, forever. The funnier and more inventive your obliteration of this compact disc, the better - if said act involves defacing an image of David Draiman's amusing face (pictured), all the better.
DiS is six. We shouldn't have to tolerate 'music' that's this shit and yet ridiculously popular. You can help us beat these jokers down, crushing their super-selling albums into splinters.
C'mon, do it...
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Genesis
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Disturbed:
Funnier than dragonforce
why has he got
part of a fork stuck in his chin? Dinner related mishap?
...
You would have to pay me even to physically touch this.
True story: One of my friends is a good mate of Disturbed. So one time after I spent, oh, about 20 minutes denigrating them, he promised to relay my concerns to the band. A week later I get an e-mail - it's a picture of the singer and guitarist giving me the finger. Put me in a good mood all day.
oi
don't pretend Disturbed have friends - even their parents must have disowned them...
narghhhhhhhhhh
dragonforce are just playa's
all of a sudden
i respect you again.
i don't necessarily believe you, but you win points for the story. who the hell are Disturbed, anyway?
What are you, Twelve??
Just wanted to drop by and say that uou write and speak as if you are just a little bit older than your pathetic excue for a site.
Gonna ban 'em forever, huh? Cuz they disagree with ya? Farewell Mike Sausage-Diver
What are you, twelve??
Just wanted to drop by and say that you write and speak as if you are just a little bit older than your pathetic excuse for a site.
Gonna ban 'em forever, huh? Cuz they disagree with ya? Farewell Mike Sausage-Diver
really,
believe him, please. i woke up with this song a couple days ago, and my whole day was shit because of it. (my clock radios day was worse though, since I smashed it in utter desparation as soon as I was able to move)
it's true horror.
Mike Dicker is a dick
Fuck off with you fucked up comments, you wouldn't know good hard working musicians if their dicks slammed you in your asshole, Disturbed happens to be one of the best thus far in this genre of music you cunt stain son of a bitch. Mike were you the type of kid that was picked on and tormented throughout you childhood, if so, please refer to the article on why, you asshole. People like you just shouldn't have the right to say anything, you sit there behind a computer and pass judgement on something you know nothing about...Eat shit bitch....I'll have you know, if it weren't for the strength in Disturbed's lyrics and for the positive additute this band radiates, I wouldn't be alive right now, they rescued me from a volatile abusive relationship, and to here a dickless prick like you say shit about this band, just lights a fire up my ass....you wanted a comment, you got it ASSHOLE
Disturbed
Who the fuck are you to sit back in your little office and run one of the best metal bands into the ground? People like you have no right even saying what you did. Maybe the "shit" music as you say, is popular because people DO like it.....ever consider that? Fuck Off.
FUCKING HELL YOU'RE RIGHT
a reviewer?
PASSING JUDGEMENT?
surely life as we know it will soon decend into chaos?
Name...
me one person on here other than you who like this.
No, thought not.
kill...
...disturbed.
i should think they are lacking in musical talent because the best segments of their collective dna's were left as a brown stain on their parents' mattreses.
truly, trully godawful and terrifying for that reason.
cliffhanger...
...get a sense of humour you camel-nosed fuck.
disturbed1_06...
...why would you react in such an over the top manner if you felt diver was wrong? you wouldn't have, you would simply have buttered some scones and sat down to treat yourself to the steaming pile of shite that passes for your record collection.
i put it to YOU that you are in fact a repressed homosexual with
quote of the year
you "wouldn't be alive right now" if it wasn't for Disturbed.
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
Suddenly the Genesis version sounds good...
...and the video was good, it had loads of Spitting Image puppets in it...*shows age*
you wouldn't be alive now...
...if not for disturbed? one more reason to hate them as far as we're concerned, 'bitch'.
p.s. your momma sucks cable like tiger woods plays golf.
id put my cock in it
and fuck you up the yanghai with it.
id have to cut the inner 'rim' of the CD out, but it would be worth it.
Does anybody else think its funny
that every one who has defended disturbed created a new profile to stop themselves for being banned?
You Wouldn't Know Good Music If It Came Up And Bit You...
Disturbed is the most talented band making
music today!
David Draiman is a genius. His lyrics are
emotive and if you are not an intelligent person (obviously you are not) you will not understand half of the words or meanings in the lyrics.
Mike plays a hell of a bass drum kick and
Dan shreds the electric guitar riffs.
is his nose
really like a camel's nose? hehehe.
what???!!!???!!
you're lighting a fire WHERE?????
No change...
I didn't change my account whatsoever. I heard about this topic and signed up to reply. The point is that millions of records don't sell if a band "sucks". There are also constructive-criticism ways of reviewing an album or single. Mike Diver did nothing but come across like some scorned 12 year old. Saying negative things about a band/album/single can be done without resorting to childish things like "we'll send ya the cd just so you can destroy it". I'm far from having a camel's face, am probably older than most of you and obviously far more educated in music and what is talent and what is just banging guitars on the neck. I give respect to those that give respect first.
Oh, and...
Not all of the defenders that have posted are even guys.....you're just a buncha real geniuses aren't ya? Ya just sit at home for hours on end trying to come up with "you're a camel-face", "you're gay" and "your best parts ran down mom's leg"? Give me a break! And you all dare try and judge when this forum is probably the only reason you exist.
NEWSFLASH: Marriage is illegal between a man and/or boy and a woman whose last name is JPG.
?
you're gay
Some
people...
David Draiman a good lyricist?
bullshit
"Scratch my itch
Give me your power glowing, juicy flowing red hot, meaning of life
It's not enough to have a little piece
I want the whole damn thing now
Can you dig it?"
fucking idiot
I think
that in this story we now have final proof that metal fans have no sense of humour.
Disturbed
have never sold a million records.
God if thats true i have lost faith in humanity
i spent ten minutes...
...thinking of the best way to poke holes in your theories, before realising that the sentence: '[i am] obviously far more educated in music and what is talent and what is just banging guitars on the neck' made me realise...you ARE a camel-nosed fuck.
since when have disturbed ever being considered even as good as 'guitar neck bangers'? they probably spent five years figuring out the difference between a jumper and a fretboard.
redneck fuckwit.
while we're on about intelligence, disturbed4ever...
...it should be 'disturbed are the most...' rather than 'disturbed is the most...'.
other than that, i think you do far more to discredit disturbed than we ever could. after all, how much meaning is there to be found in the thoughts of a chubby white male pissed off that women don't appreciate his misogny?
I dunno about that,
Americans refer to bands as a single item rather than a group of people. For example, "Disturbed is the most terrible band of an era that produced other such terrible bands as Limp Bizkit and Papa Roach".
'additute'
Is that a kind of additive?
M.O.L. Get One!
You are talking about one song from the first album!
Listen to Believe and Ten Thousand Fists.
Oh, never mind you don't have the intelligence to understand the what what the words mean.
You would need a dictionary.
Go listen to Avenged Sevenfold that's probably more your speed.
Go Back To Grammer 101
Subject-Verb Agreement
The verb of a sentence must agree with the subject in number and in person.
Instead of: What was Stephen and Laura like as schoolchildren?
Consider: What were Stephen and Laura like as schoolchildren?
Instead of: Tom watch the snowy egret stab at the fish.
Consider: Tom watches the snowy egret stab at the fish.
Go Back To Grammer 101
Subject-Verb Agreement
The verb of a sentence must agree with the subject in number and in person.
Instead of: What was Stephen and Laura like as schoolchildren?
Consider: What were Stephen and Laura like as schoolchildren?
Instead of: Tom watch the snowy egret stab at the fish.
Consider: Tom watches the snowy egret stab at the fish.
I'm
sure I could paste lyrics from any Disturbed song on here to highlight the ridculousness of the statement 'David Draiman is a talented lyricist'.
What is M.O.L?
Grammar has no 'e' in it. Unless you're talking about the Frasier actor?
To 'Cliffhanger'
"The point is that millions of records don't sell if a band "sucks""
Yet, I bet you're the kind of guy who despises Girls Aloud.
yes
fuck their shit
.
DISTURBED 4 REAL
this song really is about as good as bad AIDS is bad.
grammer?
SPELLANG!?!
Grammar!
Now, write out grammar correctly ten times.
Grammer
Grammer
Grammer
Grammer
Grammer
Grammer
Grammer
Grammer
Grammer
Grammer
ahhem
humble pie, how did that happen?
Grammar!
grammar
grammar
grammar
grammar
grammar
grammar
grammar
grammar
grammar
grammar
GRANDMA!
You read the comments from Disturbed fans...
... and presume they're joking. Really, you are joking and not real Disturbed fans, surely?!
Well said on the 'i bet you're the sort of person who hates Girls Aloud' comment- nu metal fans hate 'pop' fans when in fact they're pretty much the same thing.
Fact- Dave Draiman is a great lyricist.
Fact- only good bands sell millions of records.
Fact- Disturbed = most talented band in the world.
Fact- i am being incredibly sarcastic on all fronts.
Grammar
Go back to Spelling 101.
children no more
i salute you
disturbed fans?
go fuck yourselves! mwahaha american twunts.
what an amazingly entertaining read
proof, if proof be need be, that we all need lives, grammar lessons and a big blow-up doll with a protruding buzzsaw to win the competition and destroy this single 4EVA.
L0LZ.
is it really as bad as Prangin' Out with Doherty though?
yes - this thread has
alternated between madness and genius.
I think you'll find you're right *and* wrong
You're right in American grammar, where a band *is* good, whereas in English grammar a band *are* good. This site is based in England and people who resort to grammar and spelling corrections to support their arguments have run out of interesting things to say. So, I rule in favour of manofhonour.
I thought I'd added the extra 'be' into 'proof be need be' as I read it
and then I realised that no, you really were quoting a twelve year-old comedy sketch. Top stuff :)
This is funny
please keep going
interesting
interesting how disturbed fans use homosexuality as an insult.
disturbed make me want to form a band...
...of thugs and beat the shit out of them with guitars
all this has made my monday morning
Camel nosed fuck?
your mummer sucks cabel like what now?
Dicks slammed you in your ass hole?
Please stop because the laughter is killing me !!
My fave was def dickless prick. Surely if one was a prick one wouldn't have a dick?!
Ah, we haven't had one of these for a while
Whilst I think it's reprehensible to laugh a people's claims that Disturbed saved their life (it IS possible, I'm sure), I do find the no-brainer posts in these threads very amusing and hardly a successful defence of the band's reputation.
Personally, I find them fairly average at best and, besides, the best thing about the original 'Land of Confusion' was the Spitting Image video. Maybe 'Mad' Mr Draiman is just looking to another baldy for inspiration.
..
i think everyone is overlooking the fact their most succesful song really kicked off with him doing an impression of a monkey. Thats proper talent that is.
was it that song 'Voices?'
I think a couple of my mates owned the "Down With The Sickness" album. The title track was ok, Richard Cheese does a mean cover version of it for Dawn of the Dead 2004.
Monkey noises?
Ooohwahahaha!
Yes I remember now - inspired, and are they still doing them? What a trademark to have. And is it just me or are the Americans the only ones that take Phil Collins at face value?
Arf!
I've come to the conclusion
That they must be a comedy band. How else could someone claim that their lyrics is dead good like when they cover a Gin-knee-sis song.
best thread
in ages !! the richard cheese version of down with the sickness pisses over anything disturbed have done !!
No way
I'm new to the site, but i full disagree with this artical...I understand that not everyone has the same opinion as i do, but they made this a little harsh...
I love the horrible, horrible irony
that DiS is bashing Disturbed, yet placing the new Slipknot album at #51 on its 'top 66 albums of the last 6 years' list
well
it's true :(
LOL
thank you for that small nugget of idiocy
bit of a difference between
Slipknot and Disturbed. That difference being quality.
Re: Oh, and.....
Wtg Cliffhanger you are right. I am a female and I am not a fucking homosexual as someone previously had said when they responded to my post. And to adam_ant_is god: final proof that metal fand don't have a sense of humor? Where did you pull that statement out of?? Your punk ass?
-LindseyLeigh TDO
Disturbed fans uperturbed by music that sounds like turds.
You know what I am wondering? I am wondering what in the name of Kerry Kings nuts are all these disturbed fans doing on DIS. Its a free country I know but surely DIS is not the sort of place where the music that these people like is covered, wich brings me around to my point and conclusion. The disturbed fans on this board sit infront of their computer googling disturbed just in case any indie shufflers are (DIS)sing them so that they can then reply a repy of tryly hilarious angsty nonesense. I say we should try and nurture this group on DIS the comedic possibilities are endless. Go on somebody put together a collection of the best quotes that disturbed fans have to offer.
i think its because
they DON'T normally hang out here, but have stumbled across the story somehow and are now filled with angsty rage. thats why most of the Disturbed defenders have brand new accounts, surely?
it ain't too surprising to find them here though, DiS does cover a lot of metal. Well, i say 'DiS', i guess i mean Mostly Raz.
To:The Hair and Teeth
And look at you asshole....sitting behind your monitor fucking patrolling this board for us "disturbed defenders" to post...just so u can make a list of quotes. Get a fucking life yourself.
To:always tired
Not everyone likes fags....that's life though...get over it
Re: Haven't sold...
Just replying to "have never sold a million records":
Research much? The first two albums sold over a million copies alone.
My point was to say that the genius that did this review (Mike Diver) didn't do so as a responsible "journalist"...the term I use loosely.
It's hard to take seriously someone who does it in a form of outright immaturity.
Sure...we'll never all agree on something about ANY band, but there are better ways of doing it than he did.
The majority of Disturbed fans replying here are more pointing out the WAY he did it, rather than his actual opinion.
This "thread" is amazing.
Its really scientific fact that disturbed are shit. its unarguable. Really.
The only people ive ever known to like disturbed stopped liking them when they started puberty.
could you stand up in court and prove that for me?
its like a re-enactment of the Blur vs Mogwai days.. only.. Disturbed vs Music.
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