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If we're gonna talk about cover versus the original, how can you NOT talk about "Hurt" originally by Nine Inch Nails and then completely DEMOLISHED by Johhny Cash's cover.
NiN's original:
[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KR4DjYczINM"]Nine Inch Nails - Hurt (VEVO Presents) - YouTube[/ame]
Johnny Cash's cover:
[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vt1Pwfnh5pc"]Johnny Cash - Hurt HD 720p - YouTube[/ame]
Heck even Reznor said the following about the way Cash sang it:
"I pop the video in, and wow... Tears welling, silence, goose-bumps... Wow. [I felt like] I just lost my girlfriend, because that song isn't mine anymore... 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. [Somehow] 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."
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