Posted on 09/16/2023 6:40:06 PM PDT by nickcarraway
I think it could hurt to have somebody so relatively effortlessly improve your work.
Cash’s version is definitely better than the original.
Great song off of a great album. The Man Comes Around is my favorite song off of that one. Zack Snyder used it to great effect in the into to Dawn of the Dead.
I was a Cash fan before being a Cash fan was cool with the new kids.
His “God’s Gonna Cut You Down” is powerful, along with a host of other songs, but his rendition of “Hurt” (along with the video) makes me weep.
Ecclesiastes with a country twang.
I have spent my life in classical and jazz music, loved bluegrass and avoided country, but I cannot watch and listen to Cash’s “Hurt” without breaking down into tears.
What have I become, my sweetest friend?
Everyone I know goes away in the end.
I agree, The Cash version was much better.
x2. I never thought anything written by Reznor could be that good.
“I think it could hurt to have somebody so relatively effortlessly improve your work.”
I’m sure it really can be. I have heard that Nina Simone was very annoyed that Eric Burdon & the Animals had such a big hit with her song “I’m just a soul whose intentions are good”. Which is an amazingly good song and they did an amazing version of it.
But I always thing Burdon & Co. had the edge, because to me that song makes more sense from a man. But, she did write it. So, ART!
Cash’s version of Hurt is also amazing. And so is Chrissie Hynde’s version of Creep.
I find one way to test a song, to see if it is a good song even if it is not to my taste, is to transpose it into another genre.
If, in the case of this song, Cash took a grunge rock genre song and turned into a classic country song and it’s fantastic. To me, even though I’m not a fan of grunge rock, it’s obviously a fantastic song on its own merits.
I saw Johnny Cash in concert twice. Both shows were excellent.
The Cash version along with the video really took you somewhere. It made me respect Johnny Cash even more than l already did. Truly great.
Bookmarking.
What really almost made me lose it is when June appears. The way she's looking at what her husband is doing to himself. You can practically hear her asking Johnny "Why?"
Sometimes the covers are better than the Original
Kudos to Trent to have publicly acknowledged that.
I requested a cover of an old depeche tune once. It was good
What a great article. I love Johnny Cash’s video version.
There was a video team among the members who produced a daily in-house television program. One day it was noted that the date was Friday the 13th. One of the video crew asked if we could have fun with that and I told him absolutely.
So the team took the camera and videoed various staff and members looking horrified and trying to flee. That was used with a bunch of clips of Jason Vorhees from the Friday the 13th movies. And it was all set to Johnny Cash's "Ain't No Grave".
I was REALLY darn proud of them for coming up with that :-D
rent Reznor/Nine Inch Nails was not grunge it’s industrial, which, if anything, is farther away from country than grunge.
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