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Poll: Cover or Original 21 July 2019


notsmokinjo
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Cover v Original #4  

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  1. 1. Who gives Aus the best version of Hurt?

    • The Originals - Nine Inch Nails
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    • Cover - Johnny Cash
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  • Poll closed on 07/26/19 at 12:59 PM

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Well we all kinda knew this one was coming. .  especially with @Boo in the house... I think that the cover us going to smash the original in the polls though. ... So here the are:

 

Original: Nine Inch Nails 

Cover: Johnny Cash 

The Song: Hurt

 

Original:

 

Cover:

 

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It should come as no surprise that I voted for Johnny's version.

 

Trent Reznor not only wrote the song, but lived it and breathed it.  Cash and Reznor were hesitant at first about this cover.  Reznor because the song was such a personal and powerful detailing of his battles with heroin addiction and Cash thought the cover might come across as "gimmicky."  After hearing Cash's version and seeing the video, Reznor expressed great admiration for Johnny's interpretation of his song.

 

I've watched the video of Cash's version hundreds of times and it still hits me every single time.

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My vote went to Johnny Cash.

 

I usually prefer the original to the cover but not in this case.  Trent Reznor has done some great, challenging and thought-provoking stuff and I know this song was very personal to him but watching Johnny Cash cover this is pretty amazing.

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9 hours ago, notsmokinjo said:

@Boo, you ever hear Reznor's acoustic version....still doesn't compare, but it's a third perspective of the same song.

 

I like the "unplugged" version better than the original.  Feels more powerful and haunting than the version on "The Downward Spiral" album.  I just never could get into the whole "industrial rock" sound.  It felt like the songs got lost somewhere in the effects.

 

Stripped down and raw is preferable to overproduced every time.  Which goes a long way in explaining why I hate most everything I hear on corporate radio these days.

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