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[Existentialist]

OK, Ed is a dick. He's a cocksucker. He's embarrassing himself. I hate him. But Zion is a great song, and Ed is still Ed. I will tone down my bashing of him. I'm drunk. Fuck you. Ed still has flashes of greatness. I wish I were my age now in 1995. Oh well.

[LiveRoCkS77]

When I first heard Zion acoustically, I was floored.

I heard the passion and uniqueness once again that made him great in the past. He completely stayed away from pussifying the song and just let it all hang out.

Since then, we've gotten the studio version, which personifies everything that is wrong with produced music today. I can't even begin to explain how the studio version of this song makes me sick to my stomach, so I won't bother. I haven't listened to it in god knows how long, nor will I ever again by choice.

Also, I've heard a couple of acoustic versions of it that he has performed since, and they're just not the same. He changes tones and pitches at the end of lines that make him sound like a complete fucking tool, and I feel embarassed for him.

Sing the song like it was meant to be sung, powerful and emotional, and stop pussying it down FFS. It's the epitomy of what has gone wrong with this fucking guy. He takes something so utterly raw, beautiful and powerful and turns it into something that I don't want to listen to him finish performing.

That very RAWNESS was what made Ed great. It exuded that aura of spirituality and realness about him. Pussifying the shit down makes him seem fake and to me, like a comple and utter sellout joke.

This post has been edited by LiveRoCkS77: Aug 19 2011, 11:16 pm