#the_sound_of_silence

[jamieroxxartist]

Today in Pop Culture History: Feb 14, 1966 #SimonandGarfunkel’s “#SoundsOfSilence” is certified gold.

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sound_of_Silence)

[bnhacharacterweeks]

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[that-horror-gal]

The sound of silence

After lifetime of being deaf, my best friend just received cochlear implants. When he woke up from the surgery, we all stood around him. His wife was the first one to say anything. He heard her voice and at once began to cry. We all took turns speaking, letting him hear our voices and our names, and with each word we said, he became more emotional. When we were all finished, silence hung in the room.

He looked up at me and asked what that sound was. It took me a moment to understand what he was hearing, and when I understood, I told him he was hearing silence.

He shook his head. “This isn’t silence,” he said slowly, hearing his own voice for the first time. “I’ve been hearing silence all my life, and this is different.”

A sound came from just outside the hospital room, and he perked up immediately. “Isn’t that silence?”

We all exchanged looks of trepidation around the room before I spoke. “No,” I said slowly. “That was the sound of someone screaming.”

Credit: https://www.reddit.com/r/shortscarystories/comments/6sw3pn/the_sound_of_silence/

[jamieroxx]

Today in Pop Culture History: Feb 14, 1966 Simon and Garfunkel’s “Sounds Of Silence” is certified gold. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sound_of_Silence)

[baileye]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sound_of_Silence

...the song was recorded in March 1964 at Columbia Studios in New York City for inclusion on their debut album, Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M.. 

Released in October 1964, the album was a commercial failure and led to the duo breaking apart, with Paul Simon returning to England and Art Garfunkel to his studies at Columbia University. In spring 1965, the song began to attract airplay at radio stations in Boston, Massachusetts, and throughout Florida. The growing airplay led Tom Wilson, the song's producer, to remix the track, overdubbing electric instrumentation with the same musicians who backed Bob Dylan's "Like a Rolling Stone". 

Simon & Garfunkel were not informed of the song's remix until after its release. The single was released in September 1965. The song hit No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 for the week ending January 1, 1966, leading the duo to reunite and hastily record their second album, which Columbia titled Sounds of Silence in an attempt to capitalize on the song's success. The song was a top-ten hit in multiple countries worldwide, among them Australia, Austria, West Germany, Japan and the Netherlands. Generally considered a classic folk rock song, the song was added to the National Recording Registry in the Library of Congress for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically important" in 2013 along with the rest of the Sounds of Silence album.

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Simon stated unambiguously in interviews however, "I wrote The Sound of Silence when I was 21 years old", which places the timeframe firmly prior to the JFK tragedy, with Simon also explaining that the song was written in his bathroom, where he turned off the lights to better concentrate. "The main thing about playing the guitar, though, was that I was able to sit by myself and play and dream. And I was always happy doing that. I used to go off in the bathroom, because the bathroom had tiles, so it was a slight echo chamber. I'd turn on the faucet so that water would run (I like that sound, it's very soothing to me) and I'd play. In the dark. 'Hello darkness, my old friend / I've come to talk with you again'.”...According to Garfunkel, Simon originally wrote the lyric as "Aloha darkness, my old friend." Garfunkel once summed up the song's meaning as "the inability of people to communicate with each other, not particularly internationally but especially emotionally, so what you see around you are people unable to love each other."

[ecotone99]

The sound of silence

You could hear a pin drop. Tranquil, peaceful, amicable, the setting was almost serene. Golden rays of sunlight flitted through the warehouse windows, perched high near the ceiling, giving the entire room a golden glow. Reflecting on the floor which was messy and littered - puddles of water lay in random spots and scraps of paper flew all over. The light also showed off the walls, covered in colorful graffiti and torn down posters. With the exception of a solitary figure bound to a chair in the middle, the warehouse was deserted. However, despite its destitute nature, the warehouse looked almost artistic - beautiful even.

The situation in reality couldn’t be further from the truth. Hannah’s eyes flicked open and she surveyed the scene infront of her, confused. She couldn’t remember where she’d been or how she’d gotten here, bound tightly to a chair in the middle of an abandoned warehouse.

The bitter taste of the gag in her mouth was making her choke. She tried to spit it out to no avail. A scream attempted to escape from her throat only to be held back.

Tears slowly rolled down her cheeks. Who would do this to her? How long had she been there? What day was it? Her memories struggled to find their way to the fore. Everything was foggy.

“My name is Hannah, I’m 25,” she thought to herself.”

If she managed to remember the small things, she would probably manage to remember what happened.

“I just started working, I love my family, I hate sports...”

She cut off and tried to scream in frustration. There was a blank space in her brain and try as she might, she was unable to break through.

A headache was beginning to creep up on her and the gag was making her attempt to throw up.

She was going to die.

The headache seemed to bring flashes of what had happened. It was the weekend. She was at a bar. It had been a long week and she had to unwind.

How much had she drunk? Sniffing the white lines of powder. Her entire body froze. How much had she unwound? Had that been cocaine? What the fuck had happened?

She was pretty sure it was Monday now. And judging by the light it was probably just the late afternoon.

Closing her eyes, she took a deep breath. The remaining memories were inaccessible.

Calming her racing heart down, she slowly opened her eyes and saw the other woman.

Walking towards her, heels echoing on the ground.

Panic ran through her every nerve.

WHAT WAS HAPPENING!!

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[anvil527up]

IFeelEmptyInsideMe6h

We have rules in war. Not to protect, but to limit how much death we deal.

Once the rules are broken, the gloves come off.

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The Doctor: Good men don't need rules. Today is not the day to find out why I have so many.”

95. ArchDemonKerensky2h

"There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man. Upon him I will visit famine and a fire. That vengeance is the business of a man."

-Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear

[panterashadow]

TH£ SÕÜÑD(S) ÖF SÏL£ÑÇ£ 1964 W£DÑ£SDÄ¥ MÖRÑÏÑG, 3 Ä.M.. SÏMÖÑ & GÄRFÜÑK£L PÄÑT£R∆'SH∆DØ￦ STÜDÏØ V£RSÏØÑ https://youtu.be/4zLfCnGVeL4 L¥RÏK: "The Sound Of Silence" Hello darkness, my old friend I've come to talk with you again Because a vision softly creeping Left its seeds while I was sleeping And the vision that was planted in my brain Still remains Within the sound of silence In restless dreams I walked alone Narrow streets of cobblestone ‘Neath the halo of a streetlamp 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 in the naked light I saw Ten thousand people, maybe more People talking without speaking People hearing without listening People writing songs that voices never share No one dare Disturb the sound of silence “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 And the people bowed and prayed To the neon god they made And the sign flashed out its warning In the words that it was forming And the sign said “The words of the prophets Are written on the subway walls And tenement halls And whispered in the sounds of silence” ÏÑFØ: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sound_of_Silence "The Sound of Silence", originally "The Sounds of Silence", is a song by the American music duo Simon & Garfunkel. The song was written by Paul Simon over a period of several months in 1963 and 1964. A studio audition led to the duo signing a record deal with Columbia Records, and the song was recorded in March 1964 at Columbia Studios in New York City for inclusion on their debut album, Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M.. "The Sound of Silence"

[nasirnsrk-blog]

The silence of night is where you listen everything... #PMT #night #night_click #the_sound_of_silence

[upon-light]

“ Hello darkness, my old friend, I've come to talk with you again, Because a vision softly creeping, Left its seeds while I was sleeping, And the vision that was planted in my brain Still remains Within the sound of silence. 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. “ #The_Sound_Of_Silence #Simon_and_Garfunkel

[jamieroxxartist]

Today in Pop Culture History: Jan 1, 1966 #SimonandGarfunkel’s “#TheSoundOfSilence” hits #1 in the US for the first of two weeks.

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sound_of_Silence)

[jamieroxxartist]

Today in Pop Culture History: Feb 14, 1966 #SimonandGarfunkel’s “#SoundsOfSilence” is certified gold.

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sound_of_Silence)

[jamieroxxartist]

Today in Pop Culture History: Jan 1, 1966 #SimonandGarfunkel’s “#TheSoundOfSilence” hits #1 in the US for the first of two weeks.

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sound_of_Silence)

[jamieroxx]

Today in Pop Culture History: Jan 1, 1966 Simon & Garfunkel’s “The Sound Of Silence” hits #1 in the US for the first of two weeks. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sound_of_Silence)

[jamieroxxartist]

Today in Pop Culture History: Jan 1, 1966 #SimonandGarfunkel’s “#TheSoundOfSilence” hits #1 in the US for the first of two weeks.

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sound_of_Silence)

[jamieroxxartist]

Today in Pop Culture History: Feb 14, 1966 #SimonandGarfunkel’s “#SoundsOfSilence” is certified gold.

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sound_of_Silence)