Johnny Cash's cover of "Hurt"...

[fallenpegasus]

... is better than Trent Reznor's version.

Comments

[mangosteen]

Rumor has it that even Trent thinks that's the case.

[icebluenothing.livejournal.com]

Yup. The quote I've read, although I don't remember the source was, "I didn't *know* I was writing a Johnny Cash song .... "

[faerieburst.livejournal.com]

It's one of the few times when I've felt the cover version was better than the original.

~Aramada

[dhole.livejournal.com]

Johnny Cash is the artist whose work turned out to be least like what I expected it to be.

[dossy.livejournal.com]

+1.

[cinema-babe.livejournal.com]

Absolutely.

[radarrider.livejournal.com]

Reznor is quoted as saying:

"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."

[jmboyles.livejournal.com]

agreed!