Body Count "Comfortably Numb"

[Llama]

https://consequence.net/2024/09/body...M4geWNs0Enz5-Q

i just saw this on Facebook.

[Emdy]

I have become violently ill

[rontoon]

I'm not the biggest rap fan but I love this. Timely, EPIC and Gilmour's on fire!

[Floydophile]

Absolutely. Make 'Comfortably Numb' great again!

[Emdy]

Any chance somebody could have a go at extracting Gilmour’s guitar from this? I can do stem separation in Logic, but it bunches all the guitars and “other” stuff aside from drums, vocals and bass into one track. I agree with Ron here, Gilmour’s work is really great on this one, but the rest is… less great, to put it conservatively.

[Tony_Floyd]

I'm not the biggest rap fan but I love this. Timely, EPIC and Gilmour's on fire!

100% Agree.

[billydee]

So awesome, Ice-T is badass. And Body Count live when they played at Lollapalooza 1991 was something to behold.
Would have never imagined something like this.

[madhombre]

Yes saw this tonight. I too am very much not a fan of this genre but Gilmour is outstanding

[YYZ]

Not my thing, but I like it.
The chorus and verse are vastly different in production and volume.
It sounds like they are badly edited together from seperate sessions.
Maybe thats what the kids on the street like these days.

[Alan Smithee]

Ice T is a poseur...apart from Gilmour I do not care for this. Sorry.

[stonytokes]

That surely beats the hell out of Roger's recent reinterpretation of Comfortably Numb as a funeral dirge.

Seeing this posted here is some strange synchronicity for me since just yesterday the gf and I watched Frank and John Denver's Senate testimony before the assembled establishment goons and the PMRC who were trying to limit artist's freedom of speech during the whole "Porn Rock" scare in the mid-80s which resulted in record labeling that effectively boosted sales of any album labeled as explicit. As a result, the YT algorithm fed me a video about how Ice T and BC ran up against the same authoritarian goons when they released the first Body Count album, and how he stood his ground at the time, but ultimately bowed to corporate pressure by replacing "Cop Killer" with "Freedom Of Speech" on subsequent pressings of the first album.

I really dig old school gangster rap AND metal so I freakin' LOVE Body Count's first album. I wish Ice T would grow a pair and re-release the first album with "Cop Killer", but I guess that's not really the image he wants to portray any longer.

[Pottel]

So awesome, Ice-T is badass. And Body Count live when they played at Lollapalooza 1991 was something to behold.
Would have never imagined something like this.

saw them in 95,and gotta agree (same festival bill as House of Pain and many others, 90ies were fun times)

[Demamo]

David seems to rise to the occasion on guest tracks.

[Pottel]

MIND is blown....
where did this come from? have not seen/read anything about this collab AT ALL?

[beeco]

Absolutely love this! Dave is on fire and the lyrics are great.

Ice T to guest on Numb at MSG on election night?

Crazy that Dave and Rog were both happy with it happening.

[TheGent]

I love it, like a 6 min ragged solo

saw this quote in on a site

"“Body Count's version of Comfortably Numb is quite radical, but the words really struck me. It astonishes me that a tune I wrote almost 50 years ago is back with this great new approach. They've made it relevant again," Gilmour explains. "The initial contact from Ice-T was for permission to use the song, but I thought I might offer to play on it as well. I like the new lyrics, they're talking about the world we’re living in now, which is quite scary. Ice-T and Body Count played in London recently, sadly I couldn't make it, but if another opportunity came up to play with them, I'd jump at it.”