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Johnny Cash did a good job with "Hurt"
Trent Reznor himself admitted that it’s Cash’s song now.
And Cash had been skeptical about covering it.
I'm not saying you're wrong but I do think the love of this cover is one of the most insane popular opinions in all of music. I will die on the hill that if it was anyone other than the man in black, everyone would agree.
It sounds so, so bad to me. People say you can really hear the hurt in his voice but he sounds no different than any old man who used to sing but hasn't kept up the practice. It's warbly and honestly sounds like shit. The instrumentation is equally boring
People (not you) say there's more emotion than the original but Trent Reznor sounds like he's actively going through withdrawals, expressing several different emotions as the song evolves.
Sorry for the rant. I'll cap it off by saying it's equally dumb to me that the song is about pain and regret but Cash's music video just....aggrandizes his life with a montage of classic Johnny Cash moments.
You've just said what I've been thinking all these years. Except the video. I think that might be why people praised it. They knew he didn't have long to live and the video is pretty heartbreaking when you think he might have chose the song because he was bitter about losing everything he ever worked for.
IMHO, the cover sucked but I do think it was from the heart.
I went back and watched the video and ehhh I dunno, it's footage of old shows and concerts mixed with some really on-the-nose imagery. Though I don't disagree with your final point.
I haven't listened to it in awhile and I forgot the mix is pretty bad, too lol
Good for anyone who likes that version, but I could never get into it. It is okay, but will always pale in comparison to the raw emotions of the original, in my opinion.
I dunno, I think Cash is just as rawly emotional, it's just a different expression of a slightly different emotion. Reznor is expressing bleak despair in the midst of a Downward Spiral of self abuse, Cash is expressing bleak regret bearing the weight of decades of decisions.
Maybe it's just because I have a soft spot for old, tough men expressing vulnerability, but
hits way more raw coming from an old guy.
Cash's version has the same emotion but it's coming from a completely different place.
I recently learned that the guitar on the original is actually a synth, blew my mind
NiN has Something I Can Never Have for the feels. Give Johnny's ghost this one.
I think it's differently good but still prefer the original. I think there's something more compelling in the arrangement and orchestration of the original.
Social Distortion did a good job with Johnny Cash.
Pretty much any song he covered ended up being the definitive version.
Yeah....but only because he's Johnny Cash. No way the cover was getting radio play if it was just some random old guy who recorded it
He actually wasn’t an old guy his entire career.
Yeah and he was making good music until he became one
Mercy seat and In my life are masterpieces in the original but his renditions are immaculate. It's something about his low emotion, speaking from a position of looking back at the events rather than being emotional and in them like the originals.
Also Johnny Cash with "The Mercy Seat"
It's a toss up between Cave and Cash for me. Both are fantastic songs.