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Originally Posted by kermitology
Well you sir, have no taste! When even the original author of the song admits that it's no longer his song.. yikes.
Cash did an amazing job covering it. Besides crown of thorns is better than crown of ****
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Here is the exact quote from Reznor. He did not "give" the song to Johnny he just said how impressed he is because Cash did such a good job. Don't think for a minute that the song is no longer his, just that he respected the Cash version. Something said once in the heat of the moment does not mean that it is now Cash's song.
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.
Hurt is a staple for any live NIN performance since 1994, and probably will be for years to come. It easily one of the two most popular NIN songs of the entire NIN catalogue (the other being Closer).
And while I enjoy the Cash song on its own, the song can attribute much of its success to the fact that Johnny died months after its release and I believe it was his last video before he died.
As much as I enjoy the Cash version, the NIN version, in the context of the album,
The Downward Spiral, is a far deeper and saddening song to me.
Here's a link to a dissertation written on the meaning of TDS.
http://www.4degreez.com/nailz/ninter...ownspiral.html
Basically in context of the album the song can be interpreted as his suicide after everything he's been through or him looking back at his life after committing suicide at the end of the previous song.
BTW
The Downward Spiral is obviously a concept album if you couldn't tell.
