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Johnny Cash - Hurt

Discipline - 12-17-2009 at 10:51 AM

I'm nominating this song for the greatest cover song EVER. One of the best videos too.

Jason the Magnificent - 12-17-2009 at 11:14 AM

Song/vid is DEEP

Mark Lind - 12-17-2009 at 11:21 AM

You won't get an argument from me on this.

JawnDiablo - 12-17-2009 at 11:21 AM

regardless of the fact that Reznor wrote it, i just think Cash sung it with a lot more conviction than he did.

morgan - 12-17-2009 at 11:37 AM

I'll agree to this.

M.Alki - 12-17-2009 at 12:44 PM


The video nearly made me cry when i first saw it! (to be fair, the timing wasnt great)
But yeah much prefer the Cash version to the NIN one.

BDx13 - 12-17-2009 at 01:33 PM

fuck it, i have a hard time NOT crying every time i watch it!

ShawnRefuse - 12-17-2009 at 03:51 PM

:thumbup:

newbreedbrian - 12-17-2009 at 04:41 PM

Agreed to all.

necrobutcher - 12-17-2009 at 05:21 PM

One of the most grim songs I have ever heard in my life.
It found a way to become more mournful a few months later when Cash passed on.

random - 12-17-2009 at 05:36 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by BD
fuck it, i have a hard time NOT crying every time i watch it!


^this

SS76 - 12-17-2009 at 05:46 PM

I like a handfull of his older songs, but I can't think of a time I've ever been in the mood to listen to old men sing sad songs. I'm obviously in the minority here, because I think the original is alot better. Johnny's version sounds like it came off a convalescent home greatest hits comp.

Discipline - 12-17-2009 at 06:53 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Shootingscars
I like a handfull of his older songs, but I can't think of a time I've ever been in the mood to listen to old men sing sad songs. I'm obviously in the minority here, because I think the original is alot better. Johnny's version sounds like it came off a convalescent home greatest hits comp.


:puzzled::shocked2:

Spoiler - 12-17-2009 at 07:59 PM

I love Cash.....and his version of Hurt.
at the end of the video,when he closes the lid over the piano keys, it's creepy,almost like he knows his time has come.

clevohardcore - 12-17-2009 at 08:44 PM

Reznor can write.

JawnDiablo - 12-17-2009 at 08:59 PM

this thread has inspired me to pull out the 2 CASH box sets I have while I wrap presents and drink...
thanks amigos

moron - 12-17-2009 at 09:36 PM

I like the NIN version better.

tireironsaint - 12-17-2009 at 11:28 PM

I've loved Johnny Cash since I was a kid, but it took me a long time to come around to this cover. I hate the original version as it has always sounded like whiney, self pitying bullshit to me and I really couldn't figure out why Cash would want to express that. After hearing it enough times I can see it from a different perspective from him and I've come to appreciate the sincerity and pain behind his version, but I still can't deal with the NIN version.

lifeisabitch - 12-18-2009 at 12:07 AM

trent is a cunt, and this example goes to show how great Cash was...
he could take a whiney, self pitying bullshit song and turn it into something far more powerful and meaningful...

MyOwnWay - 12-18-2009 at 08:41 AM

I dig the NIN version for sure... But Cash took that song, and did it as if it was his own heart that wrote it...

First time I heard Cash's version was also the first time I saw the video... The two together had me in tears as I watched it, and no video/song combo has ever made me do that before or since.