"Hurt" Johnny Cash

[backintime]

This is a stunning song, one of my favourites. It's hard for me to think of a song with more genuine emotion in than this one. It is one of the greatest, if not the greatest cover version of all time in my opinion.

I could fill this thread with trivia about how Trent Reznor considers this to be a Johnny Cash song now and that it made him cry when he first saw the video, that within months of the videos release first Cash's wife, then Cash himself died and just recently his house (in which the video was filmed) burned down, but it's best to just let the song speak for itself.

UK Singles Chart: #39; Modern Rock Tracks: #33; Hot Country Singles & Tracks: #56



The video is also a classic.

[That Skipping Rope.]

Yep. This song gives me chills every time. The emotion is out of this world.

[tozion]

I think this is insanely overrated. The fact that he died shortly after it's release creates a bunch of poignancy that I don't think would exist otherwise. I prefer the original.

[-m-]

haveyoueverbeenlow said:

Yep. This song gives me chills every time. The emotion is out of this world.

[sleepy eat pepper]

I think the video was better than his actual version of the song. The video was tremendous, the song not so much. I think it got a lot of acclaim because it was a portrait of someone at the end of their life, looking back at their mistakes and strangely accepting his not-so-distant death. From the standpoint that this was a song by someone who was a shell of what they once were, at death's door, it garnered more attention than perhaps the song itself deserved. Still, there was worse sh*t out there that did better than this did, so it's hard to complain all that much about it's success.

I went through a phase in high school where I was all about the NIN original. One of those "nobody knows my pain", Sophmore year bullsh*t deals.