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New thing learned today: SOAD - Zelda...

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  • 16-02-2012 10:44am
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    chin_grin
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    ....wasn't actually SOAD.

    http://kotaku.com/5885558/no-system-of-a-down-did-not-make-a-zelda-song-but-this-guy-did
    No, System of a Down Did Not Make a Zelda Song. But This Guy Did.
    Let's give a man his dues! For over a decade now, there's been a kinda-famous song about Zelda on the internet that many people believe was written and performed by System of a Down.
    It wasn't.

    The song, simply called Zelda, was actually written (and sung) by a man named Joe Pleiman. It was released in 1998 on an album called Rabbit Joint, by the band of the same name. Neither of which had anything to do with System of a Down.

    So how'd this modern internet fallacy come to be? Over ten years ago, the song was uploaded to Napster, in the wild days before the service was shut down and went straight. And it was uploaded simply as "SOAD - The Legend of Zelda", or "SOAD - Zelda". Given this was the early 2000's, many people assumed this meant it was perofrmed by System of a Down, particularly given the similarities between Pleiman's vocals and those of System's Serj Tankian.

    The track, which is damn catchy, thus snowballed, and for millions of people System of a Down were given credit for a song they had no part in. Poor Joe. At least he can see the funny side of it, writing on his own website that the 1998 album featured "the song 'Zelda' as unintentionally made famous by System of a Down".

    To make up for it, you could go to Joe's site and listen to some of his (and his band's) stuff. In 2003, he was in a band called Splinter, which released an album called Hip Tanaka. Which is an awesome thing to do.

    If you've somehow never heard the song, check it out below.


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    Sorry if this is "old news" to you and you sigh and post something referring to your time machine or read this x years ago.


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    Numina
    Registered Users Posts: 1,258 ✭✭✭Numina


    So when I was a kid, I was sleeping and my brothers woke me up and brought me downstairs just to listen to this song which they had downloaded off Napster (ahh memories.) After I listened to it I went straight back to bed and fell back asleep immediately. I woke up thinking I had dreamt it, and spent months thinking that the song was just a figment of my imagination


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    Joe_Dull
    Registered Users Posts: 900 ✭✭✭Joe_Dull


    Must not... post... Slowpoke meme...

    ;)


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    chin_grin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,808 ✭✭✭✭chin_grin


    I'm so very glad I'm not following this forum any more. :pac:


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