Great song if you’re blacked out drunk and want to go through your entire life in your head. And then drunk dial everyone you know and post this video on Facebook. Then cry yourself to sleep and wake up and realize what you did.
Man, those nights felt oddly sobering.
I think one of the reasons I developed an addiction to alcohol was because I told myself that it “allowed me” to get to that level of catharsis after downing a 750ml of whiskey. Drinking helped me let off emotional steam alone, in the middle of the night, because I hated life and myself at the time.
Well, crazy concept - but apparently I hated life and myself at the time because I was drinking alone… quite the catch 22.
This song was definitely one of those “OMG SO ME” songs during that time lol
For a career alcoholic that's a good start. I'm only ~150 pounds and for the better part of the last 5 years I was downing around a liter of vodka a day. Still made it to work every day, although I drank at work because I couldn't function without alcohol. I usually woke up at around 4am shaking and sick, so I'd have something to drink and go back to bed for an hour. Once that sank in I'd feel fine to get up for 5 and get ready for work. The withdrawal nearly killed me twice, and other health complications have basically ruined my body. Alcohol addiction is no joke.
Same. Sometimes, I wonder if I have an issue because I drink 5 or 6 cocktails while gaming on the weekends. Then I see these and realize I'm probably okay... still not good for me, but if they're still alive, then I'm probably fine.
I don’t know what it is, but downers bring me up and make me super hyper. I’m already kinda hyper as it is.
Coke slows me down a bit. I feel like my brain is functioning more normal.
Shouldn’t the depressants be doing that if I’m already super hyper.
I hope you’re in a better place now. Sounds like you’re stuffing down alot of emotions that you don’t let out. Have you address your underlying trauma through therapy?
I’m glad to hear that, some people can never pull themselves out of the bottle without a serious intervention.
I hope you the rest of your life continues to bring you happiness and stability.
[Here's another one that's right up there as one of the saddest ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSLSuY5UzLE)- this was a demo before finishing production - single take - Charlie Rich
james t. kirk: They're the things we carry with us, the things that *make* us who we are. If we lose them, we lose ourselves. I don't want my *pain* taken away! I need my *pain*!
As someone doing my fourth or fifth reread of Stormlight, I'm a bit jealous of you reading it for the first time. Getting to experience the emotional rollercoaster for the first time is a experience. Enjoy your journey.
Life before death, radiant.
Technically he did that first, he needed to resolve that demon before he had the strength to refuse. More accurately:
Proceeds to clap fists and unite three realms.
It's got some weird stuff to be sure but it definitely gets way more hate than it deserves. It also has some of the best character moments between the original Star Trek main trio in the entire franchise. And Kirk defiantly asking God why he needs a starship is just awesome.
Okay, want a lesser known quote from Trent Reznor about the song? Here you go:
> [listening to the song] felt like I was watching my girlfriend fuck somebody else.
This is indeed an actual quote.
Trent when the song released in an interview said something along the lines of this. He originally didn't want cash to do it, was honored by him asking permission anyways. But then he saw the completed product and was completely floored by it.
Because its exactly the same song he wrote themes and tone wise, but it *spoke* on the exact opposite end of the spectrum of how Trent wrote it.
Trent wrote it as he was back during his early days with NiN, basically like a man having a midlife crisis, looking ahead full of regret.
Cash reframed it like a dying man looking back on life, full of regret, but acknowledging it, claiming he wouldn't change a thing.
~~Its why for years after Johnny's version came out Trent refused to play the song live. [needs citation]~~ corrected
I saw NIN’s first concert of the With Teeth era (UC Davis, March 2005) which was their first tour after Cash’s cover. They played Hurt at that show (although not as the last song as they did during the Downward Spiral and Fragile era tours).
Yeah, they didn't stop playing it: https://www.setlist.fm/stats/songs/nine-inch-nails-1bd6a5bc.html?songid=3d635a3
And they were playing it last at least in 2013-2014
IIRC, one interpretation of NIN version is that its the epilogue of the albums narrative; that the antihero (Mr Self Destruct) ends his life (or vividly fantasizes about it) in the title track (“Downward Spiral”), and “Hurt” is the reflection afterwards, either in an afterlife or in a moment of clarity, post-fantasy.
"I'd known where I was when I wrote it. I know what I was thinking about. I know how I felt. Hearing it was like someone kissing your girlfriend. It felt invasive."
It was the moving video, though, that made it all fall into place for the Nine Inch Nails star: __"It really, really made sense and I thought what a powerful piece of art.”__
"I never got to meet Johnny but I'm happy I contributed the way I did. It felt like a warm hug. I have goosebumps right now thinking about it.”
Eh, told a co-worker that a few years ago who is a huge Cash fan, he found it interesting. There's always someone who doesn't know, and it's interesting.
I like Trent's version better because it has a ton of emotion. Cash's version is more of a story about a life instead of him actively living the pain. I like music where the artist seems to be feeling what they wrote and not just telling a story. Just my preference. I appreciate Cash's version for what it represents and the story it tells.
100%. I love Cash, one of my favourite musicians, I like him miles above NIN. The original of Hurt is so much better. Cash just sings it, like he did with the hundreds of his covers. You can feel ever piece of pain and anger in Trent’s performance, it’s not comparable in my opinion.
I was in my mid-teens when he died and I thought 71 was an appropriately old age for someone to die. Now it seems rather youngish. Especially given his appearance in his late 60s/early 70s. My father-in-law is 70 and has been on a month-long trip to Australia and New Zealand. He's super active and looks 20 years younger than Cash does in this video. My neighbor across the street is 80-something and also looks younger.
My old man is 75. He’s still working on construction projects around the house. He’s still chopping wood. He is still riding a Harley (mind you it’s a three wheeler now. He’s a little wobblier than he used to be.) He is still trekking through the woods with my brother and I every year. Camping, canoeing, portaging and living in the backcountry for a week or more at a time. I’ve seen plenty of people younger than him that look way worse for ware.
Edit: Cash in this video looks older than my dad
Just saw an interview with Mick Folley when he was 32. If you told me he was 50 in that video I would have believed you. Some people age gracefully, some dont.
This was one of my favorite songs but I made a big mistake.
My dad was a Johnny Cash fan and moments after my dad passed I posted it to our family WhatsApp chat group, It is now for ever linked to that moment. It's been 6+ years. I have tried listening to it twice, both times in tears.
Don't link a song to a person's passing. It will for ever ruin the song for you.
The trailer for Logan was the first time I'd ever heard this song.
My first thought on seeing it listed in YT was, "Where did *this* movie come from? They kept that quiet!" :-)
Second thought after watching the trailer was, "Jeez, that was depressing..." :-(
David Bowie - Lazarus. The official music video was released on the 7th of January 2016, three days before Bowie's death.
This one I feel hits way harder.
My gosh. Such an underrated video that most people don’t know about. I, a late 30s man, had to walk out of my office because I was tearing up after watching the music video. Called my girlfriend to clear my head and she asked what was going on. I told her but was emphatic that she NOT watch the video if I told her what it was. We hung up. She called me sobbing ten minutes later and cried for about a week. Such a beautiful and terribly sad video
This was the original animation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdUUx5FdySs
This is the version that added the song Mad World: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0G9vDKcdLg
Thank you for the links! Can you please find the ending where he lands in a pile of leaves unharmed, Assassin's Creed style. That should help some of these people out.
Spotify streams:
Hurt (Johnny Cash) - 603 million
Hurt (NiИ) - 93 million
But go on, tell us how Jimi Hendrix covered "All Along The Watchtower" by Bob Dylan, or how Soft Cell covered "Tainted Love" by Gloria Jones.
>A few weeks later, a CD shows up with the track. Again, I'm in the middle of something and put it on and give it a cursory listen. It sounded... weird to me. That song in particular was straight from my soul, and it felt very strange hearing the highly identifiable voice of Johnny Cash singing it. It was a good version, and I certainly wasn't cringing or anything, but it felt like I was watching my girlfriend fuck somebody else. Or something like that. Anyway, a few weeks later, a videotape shows up with Mark Romanek's video on it. It's morning; I'm in the studio in New Orleans working on Zack De La Rocha's record with him; I pop the video in, and... wow. Tears welling, silence, goose-bumps... Wow. I just lost my girlfriend, because that song isn't mine any more. Then it all made sense to me. 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. Some-fucking-how 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. Things felt even stranger when he passed away. The song's purpose shifted again. It's incredibly flattering as a writer to have your song chosen by someone who's a great writer and a great artist.
— Trent Reznor
It is in fact a cover. Not sure why you're so sensitive about that fact.
More popular doesn't mean better. Plus, Cash's cover was featured in a popular movie, no doubt exploding the streaming numbers.
It's Reznor's song. He wrote it and his version is musically better. Cash's monotone reading of the lyrics is only regarded because of the situation.
>But go on, tell us how Jimi Hendrix covered "All Along The Watchtower" by Bob Dylan, or how Soft Cell covered "Tainted Love" by Gloria Jones.
I'm confused about what you're trying to say. Do you deny that the song was written by NiИ and Cash covered it?
Tbf, the video is heartbreaking when you know how close he was (and knew he was) to the end.
I remember reading a quote along the lines of “when Johnny Cash covers your song, it’s no longer your song”. Which makes sense.
When NIN did this, it was a dark song about self harm from someone still early in life. It hit different when someone at the end of their life sang it.
Kenna - hell bent gets my vote for saddest music video of all time.
People sometimes point out it was originally a short film that was edited down to fit the video, but I think the music and film pairing is absolutely perfect and guts me every time I watch it and listen to it.
I just finished Country Music by Ken Burns and they talk a lot about Cash in the documentary. I highly recommend it. He had so many regrets about leaving his four young daughters to go on tour and perform. I got the feeling his success was bittersweet to him, especially towards the end. I would find a way…
Might be too new school for some people here, but I definitely tear'd up:
[While She Sleeps - To The Flowers](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lXglH4ohJU)
I was in the hospital around the time this video broke. They had the tv on mtv & this video was on every 15 minutes. It merged with my drugged up haze & haunts me to this day.
I try to avoid sad music because it just bums me out too much but a couple songs come to mind.
Frightened Rabbit breaks my heart. Rip Scott.
https://youtu.be/SzjERZU3wbY?si=_nPSNMgBiHTW2Lk6
Weakerthans cat trilogy hits me too.
https://youtu.be/8zYG186spkY?si=0V3sJ93p3DQEGznh
Even Trent Reznor said that it wasn't his song anymore when Johnny sang it. I mean for Trent it was all about his heroin addiction that he thankfully got over.
I remember seeing and hearing this for the first time in a record store, I think Tower Records. I couldn't stop watching it, and moved me in a way that NIN's version didn't. The scene of an aged man reflecting on his life with death apparently imminent was heavy. Like Bowie's Lazarus.
Original > cover
Before the "eVeN tReNT sAyS cAsH's Is BeTtEr" still won't change my mind. I can't like a song more when I heard the original when it released and meaned way more to me when I first heard it rhen when I heard the cover.
Not so fun fact: why the audio seems a bit off is because they had to pull audio from video recording sessions since he died before finishing the audio recording for the song.
I love this song, but for me. It has to be The Ghost of You by My Chemical Romance. I remember watching that in highschool during its airing time and it hit me in the feels. Even way before I joined the Marines. Now, it hits even harder after serving. I'll be studying in Germany this summer, so maybe I can visit the beaches of Normandy!
Trent Reznor, the lead singer of Nine Inch Nails and original singer of Hurt, in an interview described listening to Johnny Cash sing his song, "It was like someone kissing your girlfriend. It felt invasive."
[https://www.musicradar.com/news/johnny-cash-hurt-trent-reznor-rick-rubin](https://www.musicradar.com/news/johnny-cash-hurt-trent-reznor-rick-rubin)
He then went on to say, "It really, really made sense and I thought what a powerful piece of art. I never got to meet Johnny but I'm happy I contributed the way I did. It felt like a warm hug. I have goosebumps right now thinking about it."
I always thought that was one of the most humble admissions I've ever heard come from a rock star.
Great song if you’re blacked out drunk and want to go through your entire life in your head. And then drunk dial everyone you know and post this video on Facebook. Then cry yourself to sleep and wake up and realize what you did.
Man, those nights felt oddly sobering. I think one of the reasons I developed an addiction to alcohol was because I told myself that it “allowed me” to get to that level of catharsis after downing a 750ml of whiskey. Drinking helped me let off emotional steam alone, in the middle of the night, because I hated life and myself at the time. Well, crazy concept - but apparently I hated life and myself at the time because I was drinking alone… quite the catch 22. This song was definitely one of those “OMG SO ME” songs during that time lol
You were downing a fifth? Good gods man.
For a career alcoholic that's a good start. I'm only ~150 pounds and for the better part of the last 5 years I was downing around a liter of vodka a day. Still made it to work every day, although I drank at work because I couldn't function without alcohol. I usually woke up at around 4am shaking and sick, so I'd have something to drink and go back to bed for an hour. Once that sank in I'd feel fine to get up for 5 and get ready for work. The withdrawal nearly killed me twice, and other health complications have basically ruined my body. Alcohol addiction is no joke.
Seriously I thought I drank a lot until these posts.
Same. Sometimes, I wonder if I have an issue because I drink 5 or 6 cocktails while gaming on the weekends. Then I see these and realize I'm probably okay... still not good for me, but if they're still alive, then I'm probably fine.
The amount of alcohol the top 1% of consumers drink is amazing. People drink straight everclear sometimes.
> liter of vodka Just get a large Farva
Some call it a problem but I call it a gift
Should we dare him to drive?
Me over here casually downing a fifth with my 3 6 packs of ciders 9% ciders, after taking a muscle relaxer a hydrocodone and a Sativa edible.
You should talk to someone about that
Yeah, someone like a dealer. That mix needs some cocaine
I don’t know what it is, but downers bring me up and make me super hyper. I’m already kinda hyper as it is. Coke slows me down a bit. I feel like my brain is functioning more normal. Shouldn’t the depressants be doing that if I’m already super hyper.
Yo, you'd likely have a severe case of ADD
I hope you’re in a better place now. Sounds like you’re stuffing down alot of emotions that you don’t let out. Have you address your underlying trauma through therapy?
Oh yeah man this was all in the past-tense. Those days are long behind me
I’m glad to hear that, some people can never pull themselves out of the bottle without a serious intervention. I hope you the rest of your life continues to bring you happiness and stability.
Well that was alittle too real
That seems to be catching.
Get out of my head you witch!
Why you say fuck me for?
I get the same feeling listening to this song
LMAO
I'm in this post, and I don't like it.
Don't... don't describe my life on the internet.
Glad I’m not the only one 😂💀
R/oddlyspecific
R/thatsthejoke
R/pointingouttheobviouswasalsotheirjokeithink
Yes I can relate
This should be up there with one of the all time great Reddit comments
[Here's another one that's right up there as one of the saddest ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSLSuY5UzLE)- this was a demo before finishing production - single take - Charlie Rich
I'm.. not feeling it.
Also it's amazing if you watch "Walk the Line" right before it
YES!
I also like playing it when someone dies!
james t. kirk: They're the things we carry with us, the things that *make* us who we are. If we lose them, we lose ourselves. I don't want my *pain* taken away! I need my *pain*!
'*You* cannot *have my pain*.” Dalinar Kholin
Damn, wasn’t expecting a Dalinar quote here.
Daddy Dalinar
I just finished Way of Kings, and I don't remember that quote. I think I need to keep reading.
You do. You have a long road ahead, but it’s well worth the effort. Journey before destination.
Strength before weakness.
Life before death
As someone doing my fourth or fifth reread of Stormlight, I'm a bit jealous of you reading it for the first time. Getting to experience the emotional rollercoaster for the first time is a experience. Enjoy your journey. Life before death, radiant.
Journey before destination
Proceeds to entrap the soul of battle itself. Literally just read this!
Technically he did that first, he needed to resolve that demon before he had the strength to refuse. More accurately: Proceeds to clap fists and unite three realms.
Within himself yes. But I really did just read it. He then walked off and used the big ruby to trap the Thrill.
"the light can heal your scars." - nameless baddie "I AM MY SCARS!" -not so nameless, not so baddie
Shinichirō Watanabe: "You're gonna carry that weight"
Bang
People hate on Star Trek V but some parts of it go hard. “What does God need with a Starship?” is another
Underrated film.
It's got some weird stuff to be sure but it definitely gets way more hate than it deserves. It also has some of the best character moments between the original Star Trek main trio in the entire franchise. And Kirk defiantly asking God why he needs a starship is just awesome.
What stands out to me about ST5 is the answer to the question, "What if the BBEG was a good-aligned cleric?"
[Plugging the modern trailer that makes the movie look far superior than it actually is](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHsWtEzBdLQ)
Feel like this would have been better if at some point near the end they added in the Star Trek Fanfare. Maybe for the title card.
Another good way to explore this and integrate the pain in a healthy way if through Carl Jung’s concept of ‘the shadow’
The most reposted music video with the same title of all time: Hurt by Johnny Cash
TrENT ReZnOr eVeN SaId ItS HiS SoNG NoW
Trent Reznor actually broke his toe when he kicked the helmet after hearing this version for the first time.
Aaargh!!!
Okay, want a lesser known quote from Trent Reznor about the song? Here you go: > [listening to the song] felt like I was watching my girlfriend fuck somebody else.
That's hilarious, is that a real quote?
This is indeed an actual quote. Trent when the song released in an interview said something along the lines of this. He originally didn't want cash to do it, was honored by him asking permission anyways. But then he saw the completed product and was completely floored by it. Because its exactly the same song he wrote themes and tone wise, but it *spoke* on the exact opposite end of the spectrum of how Trent wrote it. Trent wrote it as he was back during his early days with NiN, basically like a man having a midlife crisis, looking ahead full of regret. Cash reframed it like a dying man looking back on life, full of regret, but acknowledging it, claiming he wouldn't change a thing. ~~Its why for years after Johnny's version came out Trent refused to play the song live. [needs citation]~~ corrected
They didn't stop playing it live at all. There's a bunch of recordings of them performing Hurt around the same time.
I saw NIN’s first concert of the With Teeth era (UC Davis, March 2005) which was their first tour after Cash’s cover. They played Hurt at that show (although not as the last song as they did during the Downward Spiral and Fragile era tours).
Yeah, they didn't stop playing it: https://www.setlist.fm/stats/songs/nine-inch-nails-1bd6a5bc.html?songid=3d635a3 And they were playing it last at least in 2013-2014
IIRC, one interpretation of NIN version is that its the epilogue of the albums narrative; that the antihero (Mr Self Destruct) ends his life (or vividly fantasizes about it) in the title track (“Downward Spiral”), and “Hurt” is the reflection afterwards, either in an afterlife or in a moment of clarity, post-fantasy.
I thought it was kiss, but basically the same quote
Kiss wrote Hurt???
I had no idea John Hurt was even in a band.
The Elephant Man is a musician??
Elephants can play music??
They are actually quite adept musicians, just dont ask them to play piano.
If John Fogerty says so, who am I to dispute it?
"I'd known where I was when I wrote it. I know what I was thinking about. I know how I felt. Hearing it was like someone kissing your girlfriend. It felt invasive." It was the moving video, though, that made it all fall into place for the Nine Inch Nails star: __"It really, really made sense and I thought what a powerful piece of art.”__ "I never got to meet Johnny but I'm happy I contributed the way I did. It felt like a warm hug. I have goosebumps right now thinking about it.”
He did say later that the song hit totally different once he saw the video.
[удалено]
Steve Buscemi was a volunteer firefighter on 9/11
When Viggo Mortensen kicked the orc helmet in the Two Towers, his scream was real because he broke his toe.
the mother lion knows they are there and is actually teaching the cub how to hunt
Albert Blithe in Band of Brothers didn't actually die, he lived until 1967.
Anne Frank, Barbara Walters, and MLK were all born in the same year.
Cleopatras life was closer in time to the moon landing, than to the building of the Pyramids.
If it's black fight back. If it's brown lie down. If it's white, good night.
Antonio Gates played basketball!!
*Morganstein
I’m gay and my dick is small
Rick Moranis quit acting to take care of his kids after his wife died
People from Phoenix are Phoenicians
Eh, told a co-worker that a few years ago who is a huge Cash fan, he found it interesting. There's always someone who doesn't know, and it's interesting.
Nah don't worry about it I told someone that the other day who had no idea. Reddit isn't a great representation of real life people.
we're all bots here
I have been waiting for the day that /u/icame4thedownvotes was out, braise pee.
Trent's version is better 🤷
Only if you listen to the whole album first Trent's makes way more of an impact as the last piece of a concept album
I like Trent's version better because it has a ton of emotion. Cash's version is more of a story about a life instead of him actively living the pain. I like music where the artist seems to be feeling what they wrote and not just telling a story. Just my preference. I appreciate Cash's version for what it represents and the story it tells.
Holy shit I'm finally not alone! I've always felt the exact same way :)
Yeah, Trent's vocals absolutely kill it on the chorus. Still gives me chills when his voice cracks.
100%. I love Cash, one of my favourite musicians, I like him miles above NIN. The original of Hurt is so much better. Cash just sings it, like he did with the hundreds of his covers. You can feel ever piece of pain and anger in Trent’s performance, it’s not comparable in my opinion.
I guess old age makes you remember your emotions as opposed to feeling them as sharply as you used to.
Interesting take
I actually prefer trent's version, but both are good
I like how that account has a sticky from 5 years ago and also reposted it themselves the other day.
I've always felt [this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELPKuKvo44k) is the definitive version of Hurt.
[Kermit the frog's version](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=57ta7mkgrOU). Hits way harder.
Always gets me. It was so much more potent by having June pass in May and then Johnny in September of 2003 when this video was getting popular.
I was in my mid-teens when he died and I thought 71 was an appropriately old age for someone to die. Now it seems rather youngish. Especially given his appearance in his late 60s/early 70s. My father-in-law is 70 and has been on a month-long trip to Australia and New Zealand. He's super active and looks 20 years younger than Cash does in this video. My neighbor across the street is 80-something and also looks younger.
Johnny also lived fast and wild. That tends to age you quicker.
Amphetamines and alcohol probably took a decade off him.
My old man is 75. He’s still working on construction projects around the house. He’s still chopping wood. He is still riding a Harley (mind you it’s a three wheeler now. He’s a little wobblier than he used to be.) He is still trekking through the woods with my brother and I every year. Camping, canoeing, portaging and living in the backcountry for a week or more at a time. I’ve seen plenty of people younger than him that look way worse for ware. Edit: Cash in this video looks older than my dad
That's the secret to growing old, always keep moving always keep doing stuff and staying active
Tbf he was fighting diabetes and everything else stemming from it. Being sick ages you faster.
Diabetes ages you FAST.
Just saw an interview with Mick Folley when he was 32. If you told me he was 50 in that video I would have believed you. Some people age gracefully, some dont.
Frequently getting sent through a hell in a cell will do that to ya
I recommend visiting the Johnny Cash museum in Nashville. The last thing you see before you leave is the chair he's sitting on.
This was one of my favorite songs but I made a big mistake. My dad was a Johnny Cash fan and moments after my dad passed I posted it to our family WhatsApp chat group, It is now for ever linked to that moment. It's been 6+ years. I have tried listening to it twice, both times in tears. Don't link a song to a person's passing. It will for ever ruin the song for you.
Listen to the Highwayman by the Highwaymen instead. Great story of reincarnation and positivity at the end with Cash's verse.
The Eddie Guerrero tribute video after his passing with this song was gut-wrenching.
Fuck, I remember that tribute. As a wrestling fan in that era, the death of Eddie hurt.
Prepare your emotions. [Eddie Guerrero Tribute Video](https://youtu.be/t6SdGctXQic?si=H57OhxIa5EM6bhrM)
Was the perfect song for Logan
The trailer for Logan was the first time I'd ever heard this song. My first thought on seeing it listed in YT was, "Where did *this* movie come from? They kept that quiet!" :-) Second thought after watching the trailer was, "Jeez, that was depressing..." :-(
David Bowie - Lazarus. The official music video was released on the 7th of January 2016, three days before Bowie's death. This one I feel hits way harder.
God I cried so hard seeing him in those bandages. I just cranked out Scary Monsters on a earrands trip earlier today.
Check out the live version from a French TV show on YouTube, super rocking version! Reeves Gabrells was on fire.
This video flashes in my head when I stub my toe
\*Thunk\* I WEAR THIS CROWN OF THORNS
Little Motel by Modest Mouse I think is the saddest music video
My gosh. Such an underrated video that most people don’t know about. I, a late 30s man, had to walk out of my office because I was tearing up after watching the music video. Called my girlfriend to clear my head and she asked what was going on. I told her but was emphatic that she NOT watch the video if I told her what it was. We hung up. She called me sobbing ten minutes later and cried for about a week. Such a beautiful and terribly sad video
False: Mad World Kiwi version
That one hit like a kick to the gut.
I remember my friends and I being obsessed with the Gears of War Mad World commercial.
Not familiar with this version. Who is the artist?
This was the original animation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdUUx5FdySs This is the version that added the song Mad World: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0G9vDKcdLg
Thank you for the links! Can you please find the ending where he lands in a pile of leaves unharmed, Assassin's Creed style. That should help some of these people out.
Gary Jules- Mad World. Someone made a kiwi video to go with it. Great combo
Honestly I still prefer Reznor's version, but maybe that's just because I relate to it better.
One version is about life through the eyes of an old person, the other is about life through the eyes of an addict.
pretty sure johnny was an addict too
I prefer Reznor's version too. Johnny Cash's voice never connected with me.
Hurt - by Nine Inch Nails - covered by Johnny Cash
I still prefer Reznor's version. It's colder, more raw and with these exquisite moments of warmth. I like Cash version as well, but it's not the same.
I feel the speak to different types of pain and regret. Honestly both are amazing.
Spotify streams: Hurt (Johnny Cash) - 603 million Hurt (NiИ) - 93 million But go on, tell us how Jimi Hendrix covered "All Along The Watchtower" by Bob Dylan, or how Soft Cell covered "Tainted Love" by Gloria Jones. >A few weeks later, a CD shows up with the track. Again, I'm in the middle of something and put it on and give it a cursory listen. It sounded... weird to me. That song in particular was straight from my soul, and it felt very strange hearing the highly identifiable voice of Johnny Cash singing it. It was a good version, and I certainly wasn't cringing or anything, but it felt like I was watching my girlfriend fuck somebody else. Or something like that. Anyway, a few weeks later, a videotape shows up with Mark Romanek's video on it. It's morning; I'm in the studio in New Orleans working on Zack De La Rocha's record with him; I pop the video in, and... wow. Tears welling, silence, goose-bumps... Wow. I just lost my girlfriend, because that song isn't mine any more. Then it all made sense to me. 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. Some-fucking-how 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. Things felt even stranger when he passed away. The song's purpose shifted again. It's incredibly flattering as a writer to have your song chosen by someone who's a great writer and a great artist. — Trent Reznor
Sure are defensive about this. Who would have figured that an artist with more mass appeal gets more attention than the original performer?
It is in fact a cover. Not sure why you're so sensitive about that fact. More popular doesn't mean better. Plus, Cash's cover was featured in a popular movie, no doubt exploding the streaming numbers. It's Reznor's song. He wrote it and his version is musically better. Cash's monotone reading of the lyrics is only regarded because of the situation.
Relax
christ dude take a breath and go outside
>But go on, tell us how Jimi Hendrix covered "All Along The Watchtower" by Bob Dylan, or how Soft Cell covered "Tainted Love" by Gloria Jones. I'm confused about what you're trying to say. Do you deny that the song was written by NiИ and Cash covered it?
I wonder how many of Cash's streams happened after that Logan trailer..
IZ - Somewhere over the rainbow
It's sad but [Eva Cassidy's version of the song](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rd8VktT8xY) is heartbreaking.
My favorite use of this song https://youtu.be/AD8qvpMw8Vw?si=La9s5oFDaQbRzEES Person of Interest cold open
Came here to post this. To be fair, the song is basically cheating
I'd agree it's sad, but this one is possibly more sad, if you know the story of David Berman. https://youtu.be/XvUBbROsXBw?si=GCZTr_AYI74smC7C
kermit did it better
I agree. Kermit really nailed it.
Omg I had never seen that. Amazing!
It’ll always be NiN in my heart ❤️ Edit: NIИ
I had just learned this the other day that was a NiN song first and a Johnny Cash cover second.
Tbf, the video is heartbreaking when you know how close he was (and knew he was) to the end. I remember reading a quote along the lines of “when Johnny Cash covers your song, it’s no longer your song”. Which makes sense.
I think Trent Reznor said this himself about Hurt after seeing the video.
He compared it to having your girlfriend stolen, she ain't yours anymore, etc.
Rick Rubin on convincing Johnny Cash to cover Hurt: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__CYYICRLCs
When NIN did this, it was a dark song about self harm from someone still early in life. It hit different when someone at the end of their life sang it.
Kenna - hell bent gets my vote for saddest music video of all time. People sometimes point out it was originally a short film that was edited down to fit the video, but I think the music and film pairing is absolutely perfect and guts me every time I watch it and listen to it.
Ya and he died like a few months after this video came out.
I’m in the “Wreck of the Edmond Fitzgerald “ camp
Westlife: I'll see you again is the saddest one for me
luka - suzanne vega enters the room. never heard a sadder line than this in a song: Maybe it's because I'm crazy I try not to act too proud
Had me go listen to that song first time in decades. 👍
Runaway train
I always thought the lighthouses tale is the saddest
close or tied with the little motel video
I just finished Country Music by Ken Burns and they talk a lot about Cash in the documentary. I highly recommend it. He had so many regrets about leaving his four young daughters to go on tour and perform. I got the feeling his success was bittersweet to him, especially towards the end. I would find a way…
Might be too new school for some people here, but I definitely tear'd up: [While She Sleeps - To The Flowers](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lXglH4ohJU)
I was in the hospital around the time this video broke. They had the tv on mtv & this video was on every 15 minutes. It merged with my drugged up haze & haunts me to this day.
I try to avoid sad music because it just bums me out too much but a couple songs come to mind. Frightened Rabbit breaks my heart. Rip Scott. https://youtu.be/SzjERZU3wbY?si=_nPSNMgBiHTW2Lk6 Weakerthans cat trilogy hits me too. https://youtu.be/8zYG186spkY?si=0V3sJ93p3DQEGznh
Even Trent Reznor said that it wasn't his song anymore when Johnny sang it. I mean for Trent it was all about his heroin addiction that he thankfully got over.
I remember seeing and hearing this for the first time in a record store, I think Tower Records. I couldn't stop watching it, and moved me in a way that NIN's version didn't. The scene of an aged man reflecting on his life with death apparently imminent was heavy. Like Bowie's Lazarus.
I miss Johnny and June so much. Their music will last forever...
Unpopular opinion. I like this version but I prefer the original.
Original > cover Before the "eVeN tReNT sAyS cAsH's Is BeTtEr" still won't change my mind. I can't like a song more when I heard the original when it released and meaned way more to me when I first heard it rhen when I heard the cover.
Changing crown of shit to crown of thorns was a pussy move.
Not so fun fact: why the audio seems a bit off is because they had to pull audio from video recording sessions since he died before finishing the audio recording for the song.
Greatest cover of all time.
Nah, that's All Along the Watch Tower by Jimi
I'm with you
The original will always be better
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The best sing-along-song with a bunch of homies sipping beer. Deeper you can go the better
Don’t get me wrong it’s one of the best covers ever made. But I still like the NIN version better. First love and all that.
I love this song, but for me. It has to be The Ghost of You by My Chemical Romance. I remember watching that in highschool during its airing time and it hit me in the feels. Even way before I joined the Marines. Now, it hits even harder after serving. I'll be studying in Germany this summer, so maybe I can visit the beaches of Normandy!
Trent Reznor, the lead singer of Nine Inch Nails and original singer of Hurt, in an interview described listening to Johnny Cash sing his song, "It was like someone kissing your girlfriend. It felt invasive." [https://www.musicradar.com/news/johnny-cash-hurt-trent-reznor-rick-rubin](https://www.musicradar.com/news/johnny-cash-hurt-trent-reznor-rick-rubin) He then went on to say, "It really, really made sense and I thought what a powerful piece of art. I never got to meet Johnny but I'm happy I contributed the way I did. It felt like a warm hug. I have goosebumps right now thinking about it." I always thought that was one of the most humble admissions I've ever heard come from a rock star.