Oldish, but wow!

[thistlechaser]

I'm not a music person, so it's really, really rare for me to stay in the car just so I can finish listening to a song. However, this was the most unique, amazing cover I had ever heard.

Nine Inch Nail's Hurt (which I liked in the original version), but sang by an "old man" with an amazing voice. Listen for yourself:

Like so many DJs do, this one gave no credit for who the song was by, but luckily googling "NIN old man cover" gave me perfect results. The singer is Johnny Cash. What an interesting idea!

Comments

[atdelphi.livejournal.com]

The official music video for it is beautiful. This was definitely Cash's swan song.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Oooh, I'll check around for it! Thanks!

[tharpy.livejournal.com]

yes...find the real video for the song. this text craps ruins it ;;

Cash is awesome.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I just put the window to the back and ignored the text.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Huh. I found a copy ( http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xpvix_johnny-cash-hurt-nin-cover_music ), but I think I like it better as just the song. A lot of the images (Jesus on the cross) were over the top -- my imagination does a better job of it. :}

[tharpy.livejournal.com]

I forgot about that...its been a rather long time since i've actually watched it :(

I think that's part of the side effects of when people who know they've lived kind of a shitty life seem to find God and religion when they're about to die. It wasn't too long after this was recorded/video made that he did in fact die.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I did read that. So sad! And that makes sense too, plus it matches his changing of the lyrics ('crown of shit' to 'crown of thorns').

[quasilemur.livejournal.com]

I've always preferred this cover to the original. Of course, I'm a big Johnny Cash guy, but even still.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't have been able to pick Johnny Cash out of a crowd, but I think I like the cover better, too.

[namerankserial.livejournal.com]

I'm one of the many that like the cover better, as well.

Like, to the point when Johnny Cash died, and this (at the time) high school kid on my eljay made some, "I'm glad he's dead, because he RUINED Trent Reznor's song," it inspired in me a grudge that I carry TO THIS DAY.

I am also biased because I love me some Johnny Cash, but I just felt that the song, being as bleak as it is, brings more to it when it's sung by a man who is 71, fighting his swiftly deteriorating health, and has either recently, or is in the process of losing the love of his life. (I am not sure when in 2003 they recorded the cover, but June Carter Cash died in May of that year, so), than a man who is 29 and has basically his whole life ahead of him.

No offense to Mr. Reznor, obviously, he was obviously feeling some serious pain at time or the song wouldn't be as evocative as it is. I just feel like Cash, being at the end of his life, brought more to it.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

high school kid on my eljay made some, "I'm glad he's dead, because he RUINED Trent Reznor's song,"

Gah! Kids are so stupid, what a horrible thing to say!

but I just felt that the song, being as bleak as it is, brings more to it when it's sung by a man who is 71, fighting his swiftly deteriorating health, and has either recently, or is in the process of losing the love of his life.

That's what decided it for me. You can hear the experience in his voice, how personal this was for him. Not to insult Reznor intended either, but I think Cash wins this one rather easily.