Musical Interlude
He’s Johnny Cash and you’re not. In an interview, Trent Reznor said of this version “that song isn’t mine anymore”. Classy and correct.
Remember, I do this to entertain me, not you.
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October 26th, 2012 at 10:40 pm
I like
Have you seen my Cash impersonation? Works with Elvis,
or the other dead celebs.
October 26th, 2012 at 11:24 pm
Amazing how Cash made Reznor’s song into a quintessential Johnny Cash song. A song that Cash picked up and wore like a suit tailored for him.
October 26th, 2012 at 11:31 pm
I like to say that Johnny Cash was one of the very first (and best) goths. That he can take a NIN song and make it his is proof of that.
October 27th, 2012 at 12:19 am
It would be extra cool for Trent to introduce it I concerts as “This is a Johnny Cash song”.
October 27th, 2012 at 9:57 am
Talk about owning it. I would be honored if Cash took my song from me.
October 27th, 2012 at 10:31 am
Grew up on him. I was not one of the cool kids, listening to FM rock. It was AM, WJJD Chicago.
October 27th, 2012 at 3:53 pm
2004 called ……
October 27th, 2012 at 4:04 pm
Class acts, on BOTH sides…
October 27th, 2012 at 6:24 pm
It was good in 2004, and it’s good now.
October 27th, 2012 at 10:52 pm
I love Johnny Cash. His music was, and is, an inspiration. Weirrd thing is, I know a guy who knew him. He thinks he was an asshole. Think about that.
October 28th, 2012 at 10:59 am
Cash’s cover of Rusty Cage by Soundgarden is amazing too
October 28th, 2012 at 6:27 pm
Jerry, I’m sure he was. Great talent does not often come accompanied by great personality. I don’t care. I want my singers to sing.
October 29th, 2012 at 8:13 am
I can believe Cash was an asshole. Hell, I know he was during his drug addicted early years.
I heard the Trent Reznor version after I heard Cash’s. I didn’t like it. Reznor wrote this when he was in his late twenties. When he performs it, it feels like an whiny kid that needs to grow up to me. Cash’s version is the lament of an old man watching his life and work pass away before his eyes. I’ve seen that look in my grandfather’s eyes.
October 29th, 2012 at 8:40 am
@Jeff, I agree.
October 29th, 2012 at 10:23 am
This is pretty much the only Johnny Cash song I like.
I respect him, but his music just never spoke to me the way his comtemporaries’ did…Willie, George, DAC, Waylon…or lordie, Waylon.
October 30th, 2012 at 1:55 am
“Cash’s version is the lament of an old man watching his life and work pass away before his eyes.”
I guess I heard more of a man who is lamenting how much pain he has caused in his life more than that he’s watching what he has pass away.
October 30th, 2012 at 11:37 am
Me too, Laughingdog. Me too.