I was 23 when Hurt came out by Reznor. It was my song to listen to when I was depressed - almost a hopeless feeling of emotion. Cash's version gives off a totally different vibe. When I listen to it, it's more of a life reflection feeling. When I see the video, I think of elements like "persistence, coming to terms with one's self and looking back" Reznor created something awesome but Cash definitely took it one step further.
I'm so glad Reznor was open to having him cover his song. Cash's cover is amazing, and he managed to give it a different feel and meaning, which is what a great cover is all about.
The most moving and powerful video I have ever seen & heard in my 58 years. Trent Reznor's comments about it were clearly heartfelt and a tribute to Cash's cover of his song...
"It wasn't my song anymore..."
Reznor's comments here are also moving & powerful... important to hear for followers of both artists, for lovers of music, for the bridges & understanding they can build
When I listen to Trent Reznor do this song I sing along in a powerful voice- When I listen to Johnny Cash do this song tears run down my face. That is Art !
Amazing heart felt commentary by Reznor. This is an amazing song- I think the only artist who could cover and do justice to this incredible song is Johnny Cash-
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i think that johnny cash is fucking cool but he's kind of a pussy for saying 'thrones' instead of 'shit'. :/ but it's okay i guess. go nin and go johnny cash!
He deliberately changed it to 'thorns' to tie in with his Christian faith, which was such a huge part of his life but also troubled him greatly.
To have a legend reinterpret a song in such a meaningful and honest way is the mark of a great musician and a great and timeless song. Well done to Reznor, it's a truly great piece that he should be proud of, and Johnny Cash is, was and always will be a legend. This song is the most perfect and fitting tribute to his legacy.
I respect Reznors honesty in this commentary. Truly great cover musicians choose songs that they can virtually 'make their own'. Bryan Ferry was a master at this and this is another fine example. Their take on a particular piece may at first be shocking to the original writer and the listener, but true artists will understand that both works can co-exsist without insult to either party, and more often than not, bring new audiences to the music that may never have heard it otherwise.
@lbmusictchr He says when he played it however many times "This is a song that isn't mine anymore." then somewhere he says something like "It's weird, like someone kissing your girlfriend."
Reznor's moral of the story, art is objective, it depends who is looking through the spy glass to get the complete picture. I'm certain Johnny Cash understood what it meant. He just made his own version of it... nothing new in the world of music, get with it.
To all who think the song was done "right" or "wrong", there is neither a way to do it. It is the artist way. Both songs are great songs, but the video for this version just hits a lot of people in a way they cannot understand or comprehend. You cannot prepare yourself for how you feel when you see this video. some will think that one is better than the other and that is their right, but to say one is done "wrong" I cannot agree with. Both have their place and can coexist.
great way of putting things together "Both have their place and can coexist"
simply awesome, i wish people could understand what you're saying, instead of bitching saying that "cash wrote it (lie)", "cash's is better", "NIN's better", "Trent sucks", and all that kind of silly arguments that doesn't take anywhere but to more arguing
people have the right to prefer one or another, and you can like both the same, or sometimes one better and then the other one
Trent's reaction to Johnny's cover is awesome. That's how a man should be. Not dramatic. Trent just let's Cash have the moment even though it's his song. Amazing cover. Amazing reaction by Trent.
@bobo15234 yea he must really think it's powerful because right when he talks about Hurt being the last song johnny cash ever did u can hear a hint of him about to cry but then he pulls it back.
Trent is right in that this video opened up Johnny Cash to a whole new generation of fans. I hadn't listened to any of his stuff before this video and absolutely love his music.
I wonder who are those nine twats who didn't like this video. If they are Cash fans, I don't see a reason why they wouldn't like it. if they are Reznor's fans they have no class. I'm a huge NIN fan and this song is so good it deserves to be covered as much as possible by people who want to convey their own meaning or interpretation of this song
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Cash wrote and kept this song guarded secret for so many years of his life. Then Trent Reznor heard him play the song at a private engagement of Cash's which he snuck into. Trent recorded the song on a small devise he used often in those days, being an audiophile who specialized in technology. Trent was discovered and thrown out of the party. In 1994 the band Nine Inch Nails covered his song without permission, but cash was powerless to do anything because he had never officially claimed Hurt
i really respect Johnny Cash for covering artists like Trent Reznor. Most people his age when he did the cover would not give a person like Trent Reznor a chance and would dismiss his music. Johnny Cash was a true musician who really understood all types of music. He also covered a Beck song called Rowboat.
@supak108 Johnny Cash was in a way kind of a Trent Reznor of his time when you think about it... struggled with drugs and alcohol and a failed marriage and the guild over his brother and such. Just dealt with in a slightly different way in a slightly different time.
@tattoosjohn69 Trent Reznor wrote this song you fucking idiot, stop trying to act like you know stuff. Oh yeah and fuck christians, nobody wants to hear that bullshit.
How soon people forget, Johnny was a married man when he fell in love with June, although he himself constantly told people he was flawed, he tried to be a good man.......he didn't judge people unlike you, and I bet you consider yourself a good Christian.
@Dalek1230 i don't give a fuck who disagrees. what's a christian/ catholic gonna do to me? they are a ignorant, single-minded religious cult of people who preach to others who realize they're so called "god" is a fake profit the man uses to try and control society.
@zbfunfunfun321 But of course! Religion is a mindsucking waste of time. Why, look at me! I can hardly put two words together! Logic is anathema! If it weren't for you brilliant atheists, humanity would have ceased to exist long ago!
@calvinjluther finnaly someone who shares my opinion! yeah asshole, i understand sarcasm. it looks as though you could be an intelligent person, or should i say COULD'VE been. you are one preachy sonofabitch aren't 'ya? you're a stupid prick, and guess what, YOU DON'T NEED GRAMMAR TO PROVE IT! if a stupid person, such as you're self, can spell correctly, what if a fucking genius couldn't spell. why don't you focus more on the words that come out of you're mouth instead of how you say them.
@Dalek1230 he was shot. by a crazed fanatic, whom of which i did some research on and he wanted nothing more than to acquire johns fame. you cant even tell me that has anything to do with religion. the man who shot john was an atheist, i should also mention. so why dont you do some fucking research before you open you're fat fucking mouth.
I continue to watch both NIN and Johnny Cash's versions of Hurt. Piano version Reznor, Cash on the video. This song (and the performers) is why music moves a person
I continue to watch both NIN and Johnny Cash's versions of Hurt. Piano version Reznor, Cash on the video. This song (and the performers) is why music moves a person
I continue to watch both NIN and Johnny Cash's versions of Hurt. Piano version Reznor, Cash on the video. This song (and the performers) is why music moves a person.
I'd never really been into Cash until this song, the first time I heard it I thought it was great, then when I saw his family saying it was his final video, he knew he wasn't long for this world when he sang it and his wife died six months after it was made and him a few months after her, it's haunting. You can see it in their eyes. To see the clips of his life with the beating guitar rhythm, it made me cry. Cover or not, these are Cash's final words to the world, his life, his end, his song.
To me the original and Johnny's version evoke similar, but slightly different feelings. Kudos to Mr. Cash for taking a great song, changing it slightly, personalizing it, and providing with his cover, a powerful video. As Trent says it's a wonderful piece of art. I disagree however with Trent's comment "it wasn't my song anymore". Johnny Cash's cover is Johnny's song... Trent's original is Trent's song. Both are equally significant.
@eqgilethan Well in my opinion when Trent said it wasn't his song, I didn't see it as Hurt was no longer his song but more of that version, the cover Johnny did was no longer a cover, but a song that Johnny made into his own, even though it is still a cover, but both versions either way, amazing
@daemonheart777 yea, but I believe what Trent meant was that the video + the song matches more of Johnny Cash compared to him (Trent Reznor) who wrote it. Both versions are good, but I find this version a bit better because of the video, it just matches up more with his past which is completely odd since Trent wrote the damn song. Very rare that something like that happens.
A cover is a cover. When you make a cover, you take the lyrics, and you bend it to make it yours. Thats what it is. Music can't be played wrong. It just depends on how you listen to it.
@hehfilms My brain and my respect are just fine. Yes, there are many who never heard this song before Cash recorded it. I have listened to the NIN/Reznor performances, and personally, I prefer Cash's arrangement and performance . That's my opinion.
To hehfilms...yes, a cover CAN be better than the original...and this song is proof positive of that. It doesn't happen oftern, and I mean zero disrespect to Reznor, as I've owned and listened to just about anything he's ever put out, but you have to give credit where credit is due. NIN's version simply does not bring forth the wellspring of emothion that Johnny's does. The context is entirely different...it's a song sung by a man who knows his time is near, and he just grabs you in a way that
@hehfilms who gives a fuck if u support the cover or not? IF the songwriter supports it, then your opinion is obsolute. Johnny Cash diden't make it, BUT he made it his own.
amazing song, and this song always get's me sad, but everytime i hear it, i learn something new about life, and that we shoulden't take things for granted, and be greedy, cuz in the end, it's your mistakes that you have to live with. "you can have it all. my Empire of dirt" really gets to me
@hehfilms You've got flawed logic, Bud. With your way of thinking, a Model T would be "better" than a Lamborghini just because the Model T came out first and was "the original". Even Trent Reznor gives Cash credit for the performance he did. There are many, many songs out there that didn't quite "make it" until the were covered by someone else.
I caught that too. I had to play that back to make sure that I heard what I heard.
Funny though, I saw another interview where he said that he was dead against anyone else recording this, but changed his mind after he heard and saw Johnny's take.
Whatever the case, it is a good cover and even more so, a meaningful video
The banging solitary notes of the piano sound and feel like the shudders and gasps when you cry; it's so raw. To me, Johnny's version is better in that it reaches me..." If I could start again". I love how covers can change the meanings of the originals; like Matt Widdle's version of Outkast's "Hey Ya". It sounds like it's about something else.
@hehfilms as per Hermitintherain has already said really. Im not intending to do down the original at all as I love it. But Cash's version has taken it to the next level. Even those with no musical taste can apreciate the gravitas of this version over the original. I love them both but this cover is phenomenal for sure :)
Hurt is an incredible song regardless and one that will be proven to be timeless. Long live music.
Great song. Both versions have the same lyrics, but are completely different. For me Johnny Cash's version sounded like a relection on his life than was coming to an end. With NIN's version its not as sad more uplifing, but more like a story of a lesson learned. If Trent sang it again when he was an old man would the meaning change.
its a brilliant song in its original incarnation but this version is arguably even better given the gravitas and emotion brought to it through Cash and Rubins version.
@atomhammer Indeed. It reminds me of other songs in the past where the original composer/singer were overrun by a cover that made it come to life. Hendrix's cover of Bob Dylan's All Along the Watchtower, or Manford Man's cover of Bruce Springstein's Blinded By the Light. Sure there are many others. But no cover has had such depth of soul to it as Cash's cover of Trent's Hurt. To me the best cover song of all time.
This video and song combination is one of the most powerful I have ever seen and heard. Both parts compliment each other in a way that is amazing. I can never watch this video without it bringing a tear to my eye, ever.
@Lonewolfmike Took the words out of my mouth (and heart). It brings tears from me every time I watch it. Great to hear Trent's own reaction to it; obviously, he feels much the same way. A great song (both the original and this poignant cover) that will endure.
@tamoril I have to agree the cover, even though I am not a NIN fan, brings a new life to it and bring both Reznor and Cash fans to a common place with a beautiful and powerful song.
Trent Reznor does an excellent vocal with this song. He is clearly a talented musician and his song, "Hurt", invokes very powerful emotions.
Johnny Cash's cover still haunts me to this day. When I first heard the cover, I believed then that Johnny Cash knew he was going to die, and he was trying to set the record straight with God. I could see it in the imagery.
I believe that empire of dirt means wealth, past accomplishments mean very little when compared to children and loved ones.
I'm down with all of it, but I will say this. I appreciate all the venom that bleeds from the track at the end of the NIN version. The abrupt and disheartening crash, almost cacophony of it all, leaving you at least moderately shaken. The first time I heard the song, that's what shook me, what moved me, what made it stick. I think that while Cash knows all about the subject matter, Trent is the one who put the shame, hate, depression, into it in the first place.
NIN better. When trent sings it it seems more like an invented story but with cash it seems more like he is singing about himself. All I know is that neither version is bad or superficial. But NIN version better enough said.
This really is the best cover done since Hendrix did "all along the watchtower". But I will say this, NIN is a live band, and I wish I could have seen Cash do this live but the 1 time I saw NIN do this song live it was mind blowing and 10x better than the album version.
I just wish people would show a little more respect towards Reznor when commenting on this. Too many comments seem to down him when it was originally his painful experiences that created this masterpiece.
Just as Dylan passed All Along the Watchtower over to Hendrix, Reznor hands this Beautiful song to Johnny Cash.. Trent was, as I was growing up, and in some ways still is, one of my favourite artists - but this song is now, and always will be, Cash's....
Impressive video. I love Johnny Cash... I have never been a NIN fan, but was moved by what Trent had to say. It goes to show what a generous heart he has to acknowledge the success of J.R.'s interpretation of the song. Thanks for writing such a beautiful song, Trent. This seemed to encompass Cash's life...you feel his pain.
It is the unique old broken voice and the very simple introductory notes and chords that surpass you, Trent. It is not your fault or any inability on your part, not at all. You wrote and performed a beautiful song, but until now it is JC who has reshaped and performed it best. He took the raw diamant and cut it amazingly. Nearly 25.000.000 watchers is crazy.....
Seriously, this is the only music video that gives me the biggest lump in my thoat. Well done Johnny, you will be the only person who can make a cover of a Trent Reznor song that is as good as the original. R.I.P
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@buzzy462 This is shit - it's a christianization of a really bleak, angry Nine Inch Nails' song about the difficulté d'être - "crown of shit" is changed to "crown of thorns" etc - it's a travesty of the worst kind. It's had all its original sting taken out of it and been transformed into a mediocre, melancholy, MOR, meager, maudlin lament about a life poorly lived - ie Johnny Cash's. Boring.
@yodasling You clearly have no taste in music and cannot tell that Johnny Cash actually singing this song with true emotion as he does with all his other songs.
@yodasling It's a shame Trent Reznor doesn't agree with you isn't it? You tool. The song is being sung in a completely different way, and framing the end of a true legend's life. Perhaps it should be viewed as a massive compliment to Trent Reznor and Nine Inch Nails that Johnny Cash chose this song to do that, as opposed to people like you bitching about a man who people will still long be listened to after you, me and anyone else on here shuffles off this planet.
i cant watch that video without having to fight back tears. trents right it is a very powerful work of pure art. and thats what true art does it connects and brings out those emotions of happiness or remorse or whatever it is the artist is trying to portray.
I love both versions of this song, and I'm a massive MASSIVE NiN fan, and it really baffles me how cash managed to out-melancholy Trent Reznor. This piece just really strikes directly at your heart and just keeps on stabbing.
nice that you came to your senses Trent. I don't know how important it is for your fans to hear the true story of your history with Johnny Cash covering this particular song.... however, I think it more important for you to realize your mistake and to publicly make THIS statement.
this is why music is the highest of languages. the lyrics are the same but the different styles of music and the general tones give off totally different meanings and in turn you have your own personal feelings. an amazing song either way you hear it.
Thanks for sharing. It seems that what he was saying is that when he first heard it, Trent had the thoughts that it was his song made weird,. Then he saw the video and now considers them to be two completely different songs. Both are awesome, imo.
This was really a credit to everyone involved - Reznor, Cash, Romanek, Rubin, etc. I can't even come up with a decent description of just how powerful this song and video are.
sounds like trent got a little choked up in the end, when he was talking about that cash picked his song for the last. none the less they are both awesome artists and will live on till the generations that know them past on.
In all reality, what contributed to the ignorance of many. Was not Cash's "mainstreamness," but rather his lack of living at the time when the song began to gain popularity. That and, Joaquin Phoenix, before his musical career, and Reese Witherspoon's oscar nod at best picture. I would have to blame hollywood, and an old man's poor health. Besides we all know who wrote it!
Wow this is probably one of my most favorite uploads of all time. So incredible.
xlmmortal 1 day ago
I was 23 when Hurt came out by Reznor. It was my song to listen to when I was depressed - almost a hopeless feeling of emotion. Cash's version gives off a totally different vibe. When I listen to it, it's more of a life reflection feeling. When I see the video, I think of elements like "persistence, coming to terms with one's self and looking back" Reznor created something awesome but Cash definitely took it one step further.
gmccord1970 1 week ago
I'm so glad Reznor was open to having him cover his song. Cash's cover is amazing, and he managed to give it a different feel and meaning, which is what a great cover is all about.
ViciousOval 1 month ago
cash pouring the wine on the table with his fragile hand shaking really gets to you, this is cashs song now
carnige4 1 month ago
Hears the difference: the original is about a young, addicted singer. Johnny made it into a song about a guy who's staring death in the face.
steelers8279 1 month ago 6
@steelers8279 Very astute observation .
bigdubbatoo 1 month ago
The most moving and powerful video I have ever seen & heard in my 58 years. Trent Reznor's comments about it were clearly heartfelt and a tribute to Cash's cover of his song...
"It wasn't my song anymore..."
Reznor's comments here are also moving & powerful... important to hear for followers of both artists, for lovers of music, for the bridges & understanding they can build
michael0156 1 month ago 13
When I listen to Trent Reznor do this song I sing along in a powerful voice- When I listen to Johnny Cash do this song tears run down my face. That is Art !
monkigun 2 months ago 10
Amazing heart felt commentary by Reznor. This is an amazing song- I think the only artist who could cover and do justice to this incredible song is Johnny Cash-
yeeeahbaby801 2 months ago 4
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i think that johnny cash is fucking cool but he's kind of a pussy for saying 'thrones' instead of 'shit'. :/ but it's okay i guess. go nin and go johnny cash!
TheSilentAnnie 3 months ago
@TheSilentAnnie *Thornes :)
lez0319 2 months ago
@lez0319 okay...o.0 do forgive me. i'm finnish :D
TheSilentAnnie 2 months ago
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He deliberately changed it to 'thorns' to tie in with his Christian faith, which was such a huge part of his life but also troubled him greatly.
To have a legend reinterpret a song in such a meaningful and honest way is the mark of a great musician and a great and timeless song. Well done to Reznor, it's a truly great piece that he should be proud of, and Johnny Cash is, was and always will be a legend. This song is the most perfect and fitting tribute to his legacy.
ChickenGoujons 2 months ago
@TheSilentAnnie thats very disrespectful
MichealPiksRice2 1 month ago
I respect Reznors honesty in this commentary. Truly great cover musicians choose songs that they can virtually 'make their own'. Bryan Ferry was a master at this and this is another fine example. Their take on a particular piece may at first be shocking to the original writer and the listener, but true artists will understand that both works can co-exsist without insult to either party, and more often than not, bring new audiences to the music that may never have heard it otherwise.
leonakita 4 months ago 3
I think that the spilling of the wine is powerful.
superkillmondo 4 months ago 4
@superkillmondo this!
BjjHannover 3 months ago
12 people didn't find a way.
shmarch1337 5 months ago
I believe Reznor also said, "That song belongs to Johnny Cash now; I feel like someone stole my girlfriend."
lbmusictchr 6 months ago
@lbmusictchr He says when he played it however many times "This is a song that isn't mine anymore." then somewhere he says something like "It's weird, like someone kissing your girlfriend."
KedViper 5 months ago
He also covered Personal Jesus, but I don't think he really got what it meant.
CIRCLECIX 6 months ago
@CIRCLECIX
Pretty arrogant statement to make. Do you get what it really meant?
TheMetalChefOnline 6 months ago
@CIRCLECIX
Reznor's moral of the story, art is objective, it depends who is looking through the spy glass to get the complete picture. I'm certain Johnny Cash understood what it meant. He just made his own version of it... nothing new in the world of music, get with it.
deathtogamers 6 months ago 2
To all who think the song was done "right" or "wrong", there is neither a way to do it. It is the artist way. Both songs are great songs, but the video for this version just hits a lot of people in a way they cannot understand or comprehend. You cannot prepare yourself for how you feel when you see this video. some will think that one is better than the other and that is their right, but to say one is done "wrong" I cannot agree with. Both have their place and can coexist.
Lonewolfmike 7 months ago 2
@Lonewolfmike
great way of putting things together "Both have their place and can coexist"
simply awesome, i wish people could understand what you're saying, instead of bitching saying that "cash wrote it (lie)", "cash's is better", "NIN's better", "Trent sucks", and all that kind of silly arguments that doesn't take anywhere but to more arguing
people have the right to prefer one or another, and you can like both the same, or sometimes one better and then the other one
opethgarzaMD 6 months ago 4
Trent's reaction to Johnny's cover is awesome. That's how a man should be. Not dramatic. Trent just let's Cash have the moment even though it's his song. Amazing cover. Amazing reaction by Trent.
bobo15234 7 months ago 4
@bobo15234 yea he must really think it's powerful because right when he talks about Hurt being the last song johnny cash ever did u can hear a hint of him about to cry but then he pulls it back.
ChildIncomplete 5 months ago
Trent is right in that this video opened up Johnny Cash to a whole new generation of fans. I hadn't listened to any of his stuff before this video and absolutely love his music.
BoogerBomb 8 months ago 6
very nicely and honestly said,but trent reznor..respect
andrewkenworthy 9 months ago
I wonder who are those nine twats who didn't like this video. If they are Cash fans, I don't see a reason why they wouldn't like it. if they are Reznor's fans they have no class. I'm a huge NIN fan and this song is so good it deserves to be covered as much as possible by people who want to convey their own meaning or interpretation of this song
rude1987 9 months ago
johnny cash made it his song!
kittykitty0422 10 months ago
Even with Trent commenting on this song, it still brings a tear to my eye.
MansonFan64 11 months ago 3
respect 2 Reznor. Ever head must bow, every tongue must profess....Mr Cash is in the building!!!!
si260188 11 months ago
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@DeliveryManBoy hahahaha good joke
u03ejm6 11 months ago 2
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Cash wrote and kept this song guarded secret for so many years of his life. Then Trent Reznor heard him play the song at a private engagement of Cash's which he snuck into. Trent recorded the song on a small devise he used often in those days, being an audiophile who specialized in technology. Trent was discovered and thrown out of the party. In 1994 the band Nine Inch Nails covered his song without permission, but cash was powerless to do anything because he had never officially claimed Hurt
DeliveryManBoy 11 months ago
@DeliveryManBoy OOH ALSO 9/11 WAS CAUSED BY ETHIOPIANS!
therikjones 11 months ago
@DeliveryManBoy how come your commenting in every "hurt" video? get a life man
bassmasta1626 11 months ago
@DeliveryManBoy Proof?
BassButcher57 9 months ago
@DeliveryManBoy Right! Everything perfectly makes sense now! Wait... no it doesn't...
ozzy797 9 months ago
he also covered rusty cage from soundgarden
how cool is that :)
09metante87 11 months ago
i really respect Johnny Cash for covering artists like Trent Reznor. Most people his age when he did the cover would not give a person like Trent Reznor a chance and would dismiss his music. Johnny Cash was a true musician who really understood all types of music. He also covered a Beck song called Rowboat.
supak108 1 year ago 89
@supak108 Among Soundgarden, Neil Young, Depeche Mode.
Johnny covered a lot of cool shit.
Parafreakingdiso 3 months ago
@supak108 Johnny Cash was in a way kind of a Trent Reznor of his time when you think about it... struggled with drugs and alcohol and a failed marriage and the guild over his brother and such. Just dealt with in a slightly different way in a slightly different time.
BOB10011001 1 week ago
Nice to see Trent showing incredible respect for a pioneer in music. Love both of their song writing abilities.
Buff180 1 year ago 2
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Johnny Cash is a respectable Christian man. He is the original man in black. Plus his marriage to June Carter is so sweet.
Now look at Trent Reznor. He is married to a playboy slut and covers this song?
tattoosjohn69 1 year ago
@tattoosjohn69 Trent Reznor wrote this song you fucking idiot, stop trying to act like you know stuff. Oh yeah and fuck christians, nobody wants to hear that bullshit.
chessinfantry 1 year ago
@chessinfantry hahaha you NINNIES always have your panties in a wod. Turn that frown upside down.
tattoosjohn69 1 year ago
@tattoosjohn69 :) better, good now go fuck yourself and have a nice day :) haha
chessinfantry 1 year ago
@chessinfantry WOA WOA WOA!! Fuck Christians.... GTFO ASSHOLE!!!
hun64597 1 year ago
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And what's your role in this comment? Being a fucking idiot?!
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How soon people forget, Johnny was a married man when he fell in love with June, although he himself constantly told people he was flawed, he tried to be a good man.......he didn't judge people unlike you, and I bet you consider yourself a good Christian.
VBJ3 11 months ago
@tattoosjohn69 Your god is dead and no one cares.
Rocksoccer123 8 months ago
@tattoosjohn69 you are an ignorant fuck with a false religion.
zbfunfunfun321 8 months ago
@zbfunfunfun321 2 Billion people disagree with you
Dalek1230 7 months ago
@Dalek1230 i don't give a fuck who disagrees. what's a christian/ catholic gonna do to me? they are a ignorant, single-minded religious cult of people who preach to others who realize they're so called "god" is a fake profit the man uses to try and control society.
zbfunfunfun321 7 months ago
@zbfunfunfun321 Hypocrisy, thy name is zbfunfunfun321.
calvinjluther 7 months ago
@calvinjluther stupidity, thy name is religion.
zbfunfunfun321 7 months ago
@zbfunfunfun321 But of course! Religion is a mindsucking waste of time. Why, look at me! I can hardly put two words together! Logic is anathema! If it weren't for you brilliant atheists, humanity would have ceased to exist long ago!
calvinjluther 7 months ago
@calvinjluther finnaly someone who shares my opinion! yeah asshole, i understand sarcasm. it looks as though you could be an intelligent person, or should i say COULD'VE been. you are one preachy sonofabitch aren't 'ya? you're a stupid prick, and guess what, YOU DON'T NEED GRAMMAR TO PROVE IT! if a stupid person, such as you're self, can spell correctly, what if a fucking genius couldn't spell. why don't you focus more on the words that come out of you're mouth instead of how you say them.
zbfunfunfun321 7 months ago
@zbfunfunfun321 So I should launch into a rant every time I run into someone I don't agree with?
calvinjluther 7 months ago
@calvinjluther yes, it seems to be the only way to do it.
zbfunfunfun321 7 months ago
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Koolaidmusicjunkie 6 months ago
@zbfunfunfun321 you can belive in 11 dimensions but not god, thats amusing, thats infintly amusing.
Think about that
Dalek1230 7 months ago
@Dalek1230 11 dimensions? im pretty sure that's scientifically proven, you know, with PROOF. in the words of john lennon,
" i don't believe in magic
i don't believe in buhdda
i just believe in me, and that's reality."
zbfunfunfun321 7 months ago
@zbfunfunfun321 And Look what happened to him!
Dalek1230 7 months ago
@Dalek1230 he was shot. by a crazed fanatic, whom of which i did some research on and he wanted nothing more than to acquire johns fame. you cant even tell me that has anything to do with religion. the man who shot john was an atheist, i should also mention. so why dont you do some fucking research before you open you're fat fucking mouth.
zbfunfunfun321 7 months ago
@Dalek1230 shut the fuck up, i couldn't care less how many people disagree with me. just goes to show how stupid 2 billion people can be.
zbfunfunfun321 7 months ago
This song and Fake Plastic Trees by Radiohead are the two pieces of music which make me want to cry every time I hear them.
Shadow9392 1 year ago
@Shadow9392 I just want to let you know that anytime someone even says Fake Plastic Trees I start to cry, thank now Im gonna go cry in a corner (=
mikester5983 1 year ago
This always gives me a lump in my throat...so sad yet such a mastepiece
conorlovesbooze 1 year ago
thanks for posting this
VanGoghRothko 1 year ago
I don't like Cash's cover IMHO, don't hate me.
bp56789 1 year ago
Trent: "It really then wasn't my song anymore." Trent gave Johnny one of NIN's best hits, and the last piece of Johnny's 5,000 piece puzzle.
kasteman1 1 year ago 2
I have no words to describe the feelings this video gives me.
xcountessxbsx 1 year ago
Just isn't my cup of tea.
I personally prefer Reznor's version much, much better.
braedenbilley1991 1 year ago
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I continue to watch both NIN and Johnny Cash's versions of Hurt. Piano version Reznor, Cash on the video. This song (and the performers) is why music moves a person
shalainey 1 year ago 2
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I continue to watch both NIN and Johnny Cash's versions of Hurt. Piano version Reznor, Cash on the video. This song (and the performers) is why music moves a person
shalainey 1 year ago
I continue to watch both NIN and Johnny Cash's versions of Hurt. Piano version Reznor, Cash on the video. This song (and the performers) is why music moves a person.
shalainey 1 year ago
I'd never really been into Cash until this song, the first time I heard it I thought it was great, then when I saw his family saying it was his final video, he knew he wasn't long for this world when he sang it and his wife died six months after it was made and him a few months after her, it's haunting. You can see it in their eyes. To see the clips of his life with the beating guitar rhythm, it made me cry. Cover or not, these are Cash's final words to the world, his life, his end, his song.
reido82 1 year ago 4
@reido82 Excellent Comment
leonc100 1 year ago
Can someone please tell me something? The elderly woman at the end... is it really June? Was it some footage they had of her, or is it an actress?
katherinesixteen 1 year ago
@katherinesixteen It is June yeah, she was in the video - the photograph of the elderly woman earlier on is Cash's mother. :o)
Onmercury 1 year ago
@Onmercury Thanks a lot! I thought she was already dead by the time the video was made.
katherinesixteen 1 year ago
@katherinesixteen It is her
leonc100 1 year ago
I'm completely over the country genre and cash's version still gets to me every time. i love this song
phillipskid32 1 year ago
To me the original and Johnny's version evoke similar, but slightly different feelings. Kudos to Mr. Cash for taking a great song, changing it slightly, personalizing it, and providing with his cover, a powerful video. As Trent says it's a wonderful piece of art. I disagree however with Trent's comment "it wasn't my song anymore". Johnny Cash's cover is Johnny's song... Trent's original is Trent's song. Both are equally significant.
eqgilethan 1 year ago 3
@eqgilethan Well in my opinion when Trent said it wasn't his song, I didn't see it as Hurt was no longer his song but more of that version, the cover Johnny did was no longer a cover, but a song that Johnny made into his own, even though it is still a cover, but both versions either way, amazing
daemonheart777 1 year ago 2
@daemonheart777 yea, but I believe what Trent meant was that the video + the song matches more of Johnny Cash compared to him (Trent Reznor) who wrote it. Both versions are good, but I find this version a bit better because of the video, it just matches up more with his past which is completely odd since Trent wrote the damn song. Very rare that something like that happens.
Gypscrew 11 months ago
@daemonheart777 Agreed
eqgilethan 2 months ago
@hehfilms
=/.
A cover is a cover. When you make a cover, you take the lyrics, and you bend it to make it yours. Thats what it is. Music can't be played wrong. It just depends on how you listen to it.
IshDat1KiD 1 year ago 2
@hehfilms My brain and my respect are just fine. Yes, there are many who never heard this song before Cash recorded it. I have listened to the NIN/Reznor performances, and personally, I prefer Cash's arrangement and performance . That's my opinion.
DJDrugless 1 year ago
To hehfilms...yes, a cover CAN be better than the original...and this song is proof positive of that. It doesn't happen oftern, and I mean zero disrespect to Reznor, as I've owned and listened to just about anything he's ever put out, but you have to give credit where credit is due. NIN's version simply does not bring forth the wellspring of emothion that Johnny's does. The context is entirely different...it's a song sung by a man who knows his time is near, and he just grabs you in a way that
Xccam 1 year ago
@hehfilms i love internet fights, i had my fun with you, let's call it quits
Arrigato senpai
simonistic 1 year ago
@hehfilms Japanese is not watching anime while eating noodles reciting SENSEI AND ARRIGATTOOO
asshole, get a fucking clue how to interact with people instead of spurting your negative comments allaround. Be happy
simonistic 1 year ago
@hehfilms .....okey, this is my third language which i speak almost fluently, how many languages do you know "fuckhead"?
simonistic 1 year ago
@hehfilms who gives a fuck if u support the cover or not? IF the songwriter supports it, then your opinion is obsolute. Johnny Cash diden't make it, BUT he made it his own.
simonistic 1 year ago
amazing song, and this song always get's me sad, but everytime i hear it, i learn something new about life, and that we shoulden't take things for granted, and be greedy, cuz in the end, it's your mistakes that you have to live with. "you can have it all. my Empire of dirt" really gets to me
simonistic 1 year ago
@hehfilms Johnny Cash version is better. Deal with it.
truthfulmind 1 year ago
I recorded an instrumental of this song, if anyone cares to hear it...it's on my channel. Cheers:).
peep1954 1 year ago
@hehfilms You've got flawed logic, Bud. With your way of thinking, a Model T would be "better" than a Lamborghini just because the Model T came out first and was "the original". Even Trent Reznor gives Cash credit for the performance he did. There are many, many songs out there that didn't quite "make it" until the were covered by someone else.
DJDrugless 1 year ago
"And to walk the line with it not being tasteless."
Did Reznor just make a pun?
ThatsFuckingIntense 1 year ago 37
@ThatsFuckingIntense
I caught that too. I had to play that back to make sure that I heard what I heard.
Funny though, I saw another interview where he said that he was dead against anyone else recording this, but changed his mind after he heard and saw Johnny's take.
Whatever the case, it is a good cover and even more so, a meaningful video
haitipi 1 year ago
The banging solitary notes of the piano sound and feel like the shudders and gasps when you cry; it's so raw. To me, Johnny's version is better in that it reaches me..." If I could start again". I love how covers can change the meanings of the originals; like Matt Widdle's version of Outkast's "Hey Ya". It sounds like it's about something else.
DamnItNanet 1 year ago
@hehfilms sure it can, the cover is 103u84930 times better. BETTER.
airlebron2345 1 year ago
I think Johnny Cash did an amazing job with this song and the video. An absolute masterpiece. He will be missed. Rest in peace.
SuicideChilde 1 year ago 3
@hehfilms as per Hermitintherain has already said really. Im not intending to do down the original at all as I love it. But Cash's version has taken it to the next level. Even those with no musical taste can apreciate the gravitas of this version over the original. I love them both but this cover is phenomenal for sure :)
Hurt is an incredible song regardless and one that will be proven to be timeless. Long live music.
atomhammer 1 year ago
Trent wrote a great song and Johnny immortalized it.
Thank You both
TheRebuttle 1 year ago 4
Awesome!
Mikevdog 1 year ago
greatest video ever made. so immensely powerful. it just takes you to a place...
u2soadfan 1 year ago
Great song. Both versions have the same lyrics, but are completely different. For me Johnny Cash's version sounded like a relection on his life than was coming to an end. With NIN's version its not as sad more uplifing, but more like a story of a lesson learned. If Trent sang it again when he was an old man would the meaning change.
richiebowen 1 year ago 2
I'm not really a Johnny Cash fan at all but this version is just incredible. Probably one of the best covers I've ever heard.
nembutals 1 year ago 2
Walk the line with it
LOVE IT
SABWT2320 1 year ago
its a brilliant song in its original incarnation but this version is arguably even better given the gravitas and emotion brought to it through Cash and Rubins version.
Really touching stuff.
atomhammer 1 year ago
@atomhammer Indeed. It reminds me of other songs in the past where the original composer/singer were overrun by a cover that made it come to life. Hendrix's cover of Bob Dylan's All Along the Watchtower, or Manford Man's cover of Bruce Springstein's Blinded By the Light. Sure there are many others. But no cover has had such depth of soul to it as Cash's cover of Trent's Hurt. To me the best cover song of all time.
HermitintheRain 1 year ago
This video and song combination is one of the most powerful I have ever seen and heard. Both parts compliment each other in a way that is amazing. I can never watch this video without it bringing a tear to my eye, ever.
Lonewolfmike 1 year ago 2
@Lonewolfmike Took the words out of my mouth (and heart). It brings tears from me every time I watch it. Great to hear Trent's own reaction to it; obviously, he feels much the same way. A great song (both the original and this poignant cover) that will endure.
MrNomomojo 1 year ago
I am a massive NIN fan, Hurt has been my favourite song for about ten years, and I don't see how anyone could complain about this cover.
It is tasteful, sad, beautiful, and it brings a whole new life to it.
RIP Johnny Cash and thank you for this song.
tamoril 1 year ago
@tamoril I have to agree the cover, even though I am not a NIN fan, brings a new life to it and bring both Reznor and Cash fans to a common place with a beautiful and powerful song.
Lonewolfmike 1 year ago
every time I hear johnny's version and see the video, I cry.
SineadOrebellion13 1 year ago
I apologize for the last posting. Thanks for sharing the commentary. That song still evokes powerful emotions.
shephatiah888 1 year ago
Trent Reznor does an excellent vocal with this song. He is clearly a talented musician and his song, "Hurt", invokes very powerful emotions.
Johnny Cash's cover still haunts me to this day. When I first heard the cover, I believed then that Johnny Cash knew he was going to die, and he was trying to set the record straight with God. I could see it in the imagery.
I believe that empire of dirt means wealth, past accomplishments mean very little when compared to children and loved ones.
shephatiah888 1 year ago
I'm down with all of it, but I will say this. I appreciate all the venom that bleeds from the track at the end of the NIN version. The abrupt and disheartening crash, almost cacophony of it all, leaving you at least moderately shaken. The first time I heard the song, that's what shook me, what moved me, what made it stick. I think that while Cash knows all about the subject matter, Trent is the one who put the shame, hate, depression, into it in the first place.
heid138 1 year ago 2
NIN better. When trent sings it it seems more like an invented story but with cash it seems more like he is singing about himself. All I know is that neither version is bad or superficial. But NIN version better enough said.
sulmagnificent 1 year ago
whats sad is trent not gettin the respect he deserves for his own fucking song.
xasthurisamazing 1 year ago
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Trent does not want it. Trent believes Cash's version is _better_. I'm sure he does sometimes wish he'd said no, because of that.
soheifox 1 year ago
to Soheifox: WHAT??? Listen to what Trent says!! He was very proud to let Cash do this!
DrVegasIII 1 year ago
This really is the best cover done since Hendrix did "all along the watchtower". But I will say this, NIN is a live band, and I wish I could have seen Cash do this live but the 1 time I saw NIN do this song live it was mind blowing and 10x better than the album version.
AquaticLD50 1 year ago
RIP JC
Brilliant cover. Amazing power.
I just wish people would show a little more respect towards Reznor when commenting on this. Too many comments seem to down him when it was originally his painful experiences that created this masterpiece.
pixierus 1 year ago 12
Ok in all honesty I can't tell if Trent is really happy about it or if he wishes he said no...
MissGwen17 1 year ago 3
For some reason, this video really soothes me. Hearing Trent speaking and the song in the background. intense..
MorrisonHotel87 1 year ago
yeah..Mr Renzor is a good man, he respects J.C
eldadmi 1 year ago 24
Just as Dylan passed All Along the Watchtower over to Hendrix, Reznor hands this Beautiful song to Johnny Cash.. Trent was, as I was growing up, and in some ways still is, one of my favourite artists - but this song is now, and always will be, Cash's....
thebarnz1983 1 year ago 20
This song got me into both Johnny Cash and Nine Inch Nails. I can see the relation, but Trent and Johnny are amazing artist.
SangaPeach 1 year ago 3
I dunno i luv both but the NIN version is more fun to play
The7Evanator 2 years ago 2
Impressive video. I love Johnny Cash... I have never been a NIN fan, but was moved by what Trent had to say. It goes to show what a generous heart he has to acknowledge the success of J.R.'s interpretation of the song. Thanks for writing such a beautiful song, Trent. This seemed to encompass Cash's life...you feel his pain.
n2Adagio 2 years ago 3
It is the unique old broken voice and the very simple introductory notes and chords that surpass you, Trent. It is not your fault or any inability on your part, not at all. You wrote and performed a beautiful song, but until now it is JC who has reshaped and performed it best. He took the raw diamant and cut it amazingly. Nearly 25.000.000 watchers is crazy.....
rubarb4rubies 2 years ago 5
Both versions are incredible, and yeah Trent should be flattered. By the way, check out my cover of "The Becoming"
LouisGuidone 2 years ago
Fuckin right
K3ilSom3body 2 years ago
Seriously, this is the only music video that gives me the biggest lump in my thoat. Well done Johnny, you will be the only person who can make a cover of a Trent Reznor song that is as good as the original. R.I.P
buzzy462 2 years ago 65
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@buzzy462 This is shit - it's a christianization of a really bleak, angry Nine Inch Nails' song about the difficulté d'être - "crown of shit" is changed to "crown of thorns" etc - it's a travesty of the worst kind. It's had all its original sting taken out of it and been transformed into a mediocre, melancholy, MOR, meager, maudlin lament about a life poorly lived - ie Johnny Cash's. Boring.
yodasling 1 year ago
@yodasling You clearly have no taste in music and cannot tell that Johnny Cash actually singing this song with true emotion as he does with all his other songs.
LannyMan300 1 year ago 2
@yodasling try having some respect for the dead you dumb punk this was his last song before the end of his life you scumbag
TheManCalledSteven 1 year ago
@yodasling It's a shame Trent Reznor doesn't agree with you isn't it? You tool. The song is being sung in a completely different way, and framing the end of a true legend's life. Perhaps it should be viewed as a massive compliment to Trent Reznor and Nine Inch Nails that Johnny Cash chose this song to do that, as opposed to people like you bitching about a man who people will still long be listened to after you, me and anyone else on here shuffles off this planet.
Onmercury 1 year ago
@yodasling life poorly lived - ie you
lostboyz704 1 year ago
@buzzy462 nea better than the original
phillipskid32 1 year ago
i truly do love both songs
s0undtribe 2 years ago 2
i cant watch that video without having to fight back tears. trents right it is a very powerful work of pure art. and thats what true art does it connects and brings out those emotions of happiness or remorse or whatever it is the artist is trying to portray.
ostrich2008 2 years ago 9
I love both versions of this song, and I'm a massive MASSIVE NiN fan, and it really baffles me how cash managed to out-melancholy Trent Reznor. This piece just really strikes directly at your heart and just keeps on stabbing.
ronnysoeberg 2 years ago 41
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should have stopped at "nice to be recognized" cash dont need your approval. but its your song, props
IIvIIegosh 2 years ago
apologies, didn't go through the whole vid.
IIvIIegosh 2 years ago
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nice that you came to your senses Trent. I don't know how important it is for your fans to hear the true story of your history with Johnny Cash covering this particular song.... however, I think it more important for you to realize your mistake and to publicly make THIS statement.
ohgimemo 2 years ago
this is why music is the highest of languages. the lyrics are the same but the different styles of music and the general tones give off totally different meanings and in turn you have your own personal feelings. an amazing song either way you hear it.
toolfan12 2 years ago 10
It did turn me on to J. Cash - but not onto NIN
dockaiser 2 years ago 2
This video makes me cry every time I watch it.
KickArseToothbrush 2 years ago 8
that's an amazing song and Johnny Cash sang it like it was his own.
I love when 2 totally different musicians play the same song.
joenobody13 2 years ago 13
It's awesome how two great artists can take a song and take it to two different places.
rcfuguzi75 2 years ago 8
i love... trent reznor... hooray!
Leacheable 2 years ago 6
to bad johnny cash is not between us anymore, id give away part of my soul to see both of then sharinv the stage on a performace!!
gilzineto 2 years ago 4
Very Very cool :)
MsCatfire 2 years ago
What a grace by Trent Reznor !
So nice to hear him talking about this Hurt version
mizz77anna 2 years ago 6
Thanks for sharing. It seems that what he was saying is that when he first heard it, Trent had the thoughts that it was his song made weird,. Then he saw the video and now considers them to be two completely different songs. Both are awesome, imo.
rickbauls 2 years ago
This was really a credit to everyone involved - Reznor, Cash, Romanek, Rubin, etc. I can't even come up with a decent description of just how powerful this song and video are.
mindkillerq 2 years ago 7
I'm speechless. This is art at it's finest.
DEQ54 2 years ago 7
I think, Trent Reznor, is implying that this is the definitive version of "Hurt " - he's right !
zincthi 2 years ago 5
I am that new generation Trent was talking about that has just been opened to Johnny Cash... Glad your paths intersected...
hiruan83 2 years ago 12
I won $50 off this "cover"
azrial4421 2 years ago
very interesting thank you for uploading
jamesisapain 2 years ago 3
Is this the greatest song ever made??? I just heard this song done on the harp, it was so sad. /watch?v=r9LrYJAd51g
BrokebackWonder 2 years ago
sounds like trent got a little choked up in the end, when he was talking about that cash picked his song for the last. none the less they are both awesome artists and will live on till the generations that know them past on.
gundambob646 2 years ago 41
In all reality, what contributed to the ignorance of many. Was not Cash's "mainstreamness," but rather his lack of living at the time when the song began to gain popularity. That and, Joaquin Phoenix, before his musical career, and Reese Witherspoon's oscar nod at best picture. I would have to blame hollywood, and an old man's poor health. Besides we all know who wrote it!
Emergedtitan 2 years ago
I heard that Michael Jackson was going to cover this song before he died. This song is also done on the harp, search "hurt harp" to hear it.
BrokebackWonder 2 years ago
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He would of ruined it, probably made a crappy mainstream version that everyone though was the origional.
TSpencerT008 2 years ago
cause Johnny Cash and NIN aren't mainstream. Stupid faggot.
iamabomination2 2 years ago 9