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Akshually, the song 'Hurt' is originally from Trent Reznor / 'Nine Inch Nails'.
There we go, that didn't take long
Yeah, if that's what Johnny Cash was talking about, then what was Trent Reznor talking about?
His empire of shit. Probably fertilizer, creating a healthy garden.
Edit: see below. I remembered wrong.
The empire is DIRT. The crown is SHIT. Get it right
You're right. That'll teach me to comment while sober. I'd have remembered that if I were drunk.
Sober is Tool, try to keep up.
Empire = dirt Crown = thorns/shit (JC/NIN) Chair = liar’s
Who knows
My wife is gonna appreciate the meme, but yeah, she's gonna roll her eyes about who the song is attributed to... all the more reason to send it.
I'm pretty sure it's the worm thing.
Is the NIN version of Hurt about worms though?
That’s what I thought…
Maybe, but both artists didn't necessarily think about the same.
I love the different styles of Cash's version, nine inch nails, and the Eric Whitacre choral version. They all bring out different parts of the text, and the comparison is fascinating.
While we're at it I'd like to mention this bardcore version I found that's pretty good
Well that was quite the rabbit hole. 2 new subscriptions out of it.
Hell yeah! Glad I could help you find something you like, same thing happened to me when I first ran across that channel a few months ago lol.
Well that's an immediate subscribe from me.
My favorite version is NIN with Bowie
True, but like Watchtower by Hendrix, the covering artist to the original's lunch money, and now that song is his.
I just can't shake the feeling that the only way Johnny Cash COULD find any relevancy was to cover am edgy song. The Johnny Cash version just sounds like an old man trying to be cool, it's really lame.
Holy cow, that one brain cell you have is working overtime. How about you lookup the history of that album, which was produced by the legendary producer Rick Rubin.
It still sucks though? If he had anything meaningful to say he works have written a new hit song. Who gives a fuck who produced an album anyway? Like somehow that means it's good?
Rick Rubin on convincing Johnny Cash to cover Hurt https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-7_loqsEWY
This is good context, thanks for sharing that. I guess it's kind of like Annie Lennox covering "No More I Love Yous" in a full on album of cover songs. Knowing that it wasn't Johnny Cash thinking he could do a better job than Trent Reznor makes it much more palatable.