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Johnny Cash - Hurt
I'm nominating this song for the greatest cover song EVER. One of the best videos too.
‘Do you know what a love letter is? It’s a bullet from a fucking gun. Straight through your heart.’
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Song/vid is DEEP
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You won't get an argument from me on this.
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regardless of the fact that Reznor wrote it, i just think Cash sung it with a lot more conviction than he did.
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I'll agree to this.
Support the arts, shoot a rapper.
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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.
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fuck it, i have a hard time NOT crying every time i watch it!
If I fail math, there goes my chance at a good job and a happy life full of hard work.
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Agreed to all.
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fire, but I?m just not close enough to get the job done.? George Carlin
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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.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by BD
fuck it, i have a hard time NOT crying every time i watch it! |
^this
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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.
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| 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.
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‘Do you know what a love letter is? It’s a bullet from a fucking gun. Straight through your heart.’
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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.
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Reznor can write.
Each aspect of the soul has it's own part to play, but the ideal is harmonious agreement with reason and control.
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this thread has inspired me to pull out the 2 CASH box sets I have while I wrap presents and drink...
thanks amigos
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I like the NIN version better.
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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.
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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...
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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.
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