If you have a new account but are having problems posting or verifying your account, please email us on hello@boards.ie for help. Thanks :)

Hello all! Please ensure that you are posting a new thread or question in the appropriate forum. The Feedback forum is overwhelmed with questions that are having to be moved elsewhere. If you need help to verify your account contact hello@boards.ie

Hurt...Johnny Cash or Nine Inch Nails

Rockee · 2006-03-06 02:08:23

Well which version of the song 'Hurt' do you prefer??? Is it the original version written by Trent Reznor from Nine Inch Nails or is it the tear-jerking version by Johnny Cash??

Options

06-03-2006 3:08am

#1

Rockee

Registered Users Posts: 1,743 ✭✭✭

Join Date: December 2005

Posts: 1619

Well which version of the song 'Hurt' do you prefer??? Is it the original version written by Trent Reznor from Nine Inch Nails or is it the tear-jerking version by Johnny Cash??

0

Comments

Options
#2 06-03-2006 3:12am
fade2black

Closed Accounts Posts: 6,937 ✭✭✭

Join Date: November 2004

Posts: 6441

My sig should express my opinion.

0
Options
#3 06-03-2006 3:26am
Rockee

Registered Users Posts: 1,743 ✭✭✭

Join Date: December 2005

Posts: 1619

fade2black wrote:

My sig should express my opinion.

Your sig inspired me to start this thread fade2black....:D

0
Options
#4 06-03-2006 11:20am
Nightwish

Closed Accounts Posts: 7,129 ✭✭✭

Join Date: January 2005

Posts: 7052

there was a poll on this not too long agoa nd as far as I remember, Johnny Cash's version won. I prefer his version too, as I dont like NIN.

0
Options
#5 06-03-2006 11:22am
MorningStar

Closed Accounts Posts: 3,031 ✭✭✭

Join Date: January 2005

Posts: 2905

I think Cash did an amazing job with a great song. It shows the genius of the song from Trent Reznor which justifies many fans views for a long time. Cash manages to make it his own like is very uncommon.

0
Options
#6 06-03-2006 11:55am
Civilian_Target

Registered Users Posts: 5,618 ✭✭✭

Join Date: July 2000

Posts: 5486

I like the Cash version better recorded, but when I saw them live, NIN played a stonking rendition of this.

0
Advertisement
Options
#7 06-03-2006 2:15pm
rp171

Closed Accounts Posts: 7 ✭

Join Date: February 2006

Posts: 7

not only do i prefer cash's version but imho the video is one of the best. simple and incredibly poignant, sheer quality

0
Options
#8 06-03-2006 3:57pm
Jonny Arson

Closed Accounts Posts: 4,124 ✭✭✭

Join Date: December 2004

Posts: 3977

I've never been much of a fan of Johnny Cash' music (even though I recognise how influential he was) but his version of Hurt was stunning.

I'd probably just lean towards NIN original version though. Tough question I must say!

0
Options
#9 07-03-2006 12:29pm
lordgoat

Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 11,373 Mod ✭✭✭✭

Join Date: August 2003

Posts: 10853

NIN for me, hands down, Cash does a great version but i still NIN one has a darker edge to it. The video doesn't come into it.

0
Options
#10 07-03-2006 10:28pm
StJimmy

Closed Accounts Posts: 175 ✭✭

Join Date: October 2005

Posts: 168

So who recorded the origional?

0
Options
#11 07-03-2006 10:29pm
Basq

Registered Users Posts: 43,931 ✭✭✭✭

Join Date: February 2004

Posts: 40419

StJimmy wrote:

So who recorded the origional?

Nine Inch Nails

0
Advertisement
Options
#12 07-03-2006 10:29pm
p2kone

Registered Users Posts: 120 ✭✭

Join Date: June 2005

Posts: 105

gotta be Cash's version for me.

0
Options
#13 07-03-2006 10:32pm
Töpher

Registered Users Posts: 8,483 ✭✭✭

Join Date: February 2002

Posts: 8355

Too tough to call without 48 solid hours of listening to nothing but those 2 versions!

0
Options
#14 07-03-2006 10:43pm
weemcd

Registered Users Posts: 6,421 ✭✭✭

Join Date: March 2003

Posts: 6318

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2054882744

cash ftw

0
Options
#15 08-03-2006 12:04am
Rockee

Registered Users Posts: 1,743 ✭✭✭

Join Date: December 2005

Posts: 1619

weemcd wrote:

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2054882744

cash ftw

very good....kinda hard to keep up with everyones threads in fairness

0
Options
#16 10-03-2006 2:38pm
Briony Noh

Closed Accounts Posts: 154 ✭✭

Join Date: December 2005

Posts: 150

Completely agree with Zane from MTV, I have one and only one Johnny Cash record in my entire forty-year-old collection of tapes, disks, vinyls, MDs, CDs, cassettes and MP3s and it's Hurt. Knocked me out of my chair first time I saw it on TOTP. Production, stunning; performance, stunning.

0
Options
#17 10-03-2006 3:24pm
Loomis

Registered Users Posts: 2,692 ✭✭✭

Join Date: January 2006

Posts: 2625

Johnny Cash by a mile!
Nine Inch Nails versions sounds terrible.Not just the song,but the actual quality.It sounds like it could be something from the 50's

0
Options
#18 10-03-2006 3:31pm
dudara

Registered Users Posts: 33,518 ✭✭✭✭

Join Date: September 2003

Posts: 32068

Johnny Cash by the proverbial mile. His later series of covers were truly excellent, and Hurt is the best.

0
Options
#19 10-03-2006 7:16pm
Killaqueen!!!

Closed Accounts Posts: 2,026 ✭✭✭

Join Date: December 2004

Posts: 1911

Johnny Cash IMO. The video is breathtaking as well...it's so sad..

But here's the thing...I hate 'Johnny Cash fans' who call him a legend even though they only know this song (Hurt)...and it's not even by him! Though he does do a fantastic version of it, why can't people buy some of his earlier albums and listen to a different Cash song..

But 'The Man Comes Around' is a great album (and song)

0
Options
#20 10-03-2006 7:32pm
deadduck

Registered Users Posts: 1,140 ✭✭✭

Join Date: May 2003

Posts: 1006

cash makes it more complete, reznor's sounds lacking in comparison. NIN's version is still great, but he could never put the feeling into it that a dying man could. it's almost unfair to compare them.

as for the video, greatest music video i've ever seen, ever

0
Options
#21 10-03-2006 7:35pm
Scoops

Registered Users Posts: 199 ✭✭

Join Date: March 2006

Posts: 179

deadduck wrote:

cash makes it more complete, reznor's sounds lacking. easy to say now, and NIN's version is still great, but he could never put the feeling into it that a dying man could. it's almost unfair to compare them.

as for the video, greatest music video i've ever seen, ever

I couldn't agree more!!

0
Advertisement