Johnny Cash is Cool
I know who Johnny Cash is, I mean I had heard of him and I think I know how he looks like. What I didn’t know was that one of my favorite Nine Inch Nails songs was originally played by Johnny Cash. The song I am talking about is called “Hurt” and I just heard Johnny Cash’s version and its pretty cool. So I just spent a full $1.80 and downloaded the The Legend Of Johnny Cash album from AllOfMp3.com. Check out the two different version below. They are not the full songs just a preview, the Nine Inch Nails one kicks in late in the song which you can’t hear in the preview below but I found the live version which is more active the first minute then the regular one.
Hurt – Johnny Cash
Hurt (Live) – Nine Inch Nails
Update: Ok it turns out Johnny Cash took the song off Nine Inch Nails, not the other way around! Wiki has more info. [Link]
Update 2: Watch the Johnny Cash – Hurt video. [Link]
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11 Comments, add your own...
1. Abood | January 22nd, 2006 at 9:36 am
on K.thekuwaiti, he got an icon on right side, just below the blog roll heading. I have seen several blog sites with similar icons. IS there a website I can make these icons? are those custom made?
2. Marzouq | January 22nd, 2006 at 10:11 am
From what I know, there are a lot of songs based of his old songs. Even some rap songs if i am not mistaken. He made some pretty good music.
3. muscati | January 22nd, 2006 at 2:51 pm
No dude, Hurt is a NIN song that was covered by Johnny Cash in 2003, not the other way around. In his final years Cash made quite a few albums with Rick Rubin which contained lots of covers including Depeche Mode’s Personal Jesus and Sound Garden’s Rusty Cage.
4. Mark | January 22nd, 2006 at 2:52 pm
u serious? would never have guessed that…
5. nibaq | January 22nd, 2006 at 6:16 pm
Yeah, they are called the American series, him doing covers or famous and not so famous bands. It really shows his talent in really taking a song and making it his.
You need to see the Johnny Cash – Hurt video. Trent Reznor and Zach De LaRocha both like got emtoional when they saw the first screening of it.
6. Mark | January 22nd, 2006 at 7:23 pm
Just watched the video, its really sad.
7. Mark | January 22nd, 2006 at 7:25 pm
I was gonna say that its as if he is dead in the video, and I just realized Johnny Cash IS dead.
8. Mark | January 22nd, 2006 at 7:28 pm
Reznor’s reaction
In an interview with Alternative Press, Reznor admitted that when Rubin first asked if Cash could cover his song, he was “flattered” but worried that “the idea sounded a bit gimmicky.” The power of Cash’s song didn’t fully hit Reznor until he saw the video:
I pop the video in, and wow… Tears welling, silence, goose-bumps… Wow. I just lost my girlfriend, because that song isn’t mine anymore. … It really made me think about how powerful music is as a medium and art form. I wrote some words and music in my bedroom as a way of staying sane, about a bleak and desperate place I was in, totally isolated and alone. [Somehow] that winds up reinterpreted by a music legend from a radically different era/genre and still retains sincerity and meaning—different, but every bit as pure. [1]
Reznor still occasionally refers to “Hurt” as “a song that isn’t mine anymore.”
9. Marzouq | January 22nd, 2006 at 9:17 pm
Damn.. wow thats intense. Real talent.
10. holla | January 22nd, 2006 at 10:28 pm
Johnny cash the man in black. he walks the fucking line. RIP.
11. WFT? | January 23rd, 2006 at 3:19 pm
The video still gives me goosebumps whenever i watch it..
The video also has his wife June who passed away a few months before him..
“I hurt myself today
to see if I still feel
I focus on the pain
the only thing that’s real
the needle tears a hole
the old familiar sting
try to kill it all away
but I remember everything”
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