Johnny Cash... LMFAO

[Blisterz]

Originally posted by MRT144
the man is cool until he covers songs that were great to begin with. its just like, "why did he have to do that"

You are least right about one thing, the songs were great without cash, but WITH cash the song are so great their original owners should call Johnny up and say "thanks John for showing me how my song was suppost to sound, I promise to try harder next time".

[Blisterz]

And yes I admit Hurt is not as great as it could be. But with his condition "autonomic neuropathy" and the fact the he keeps getting pneumonia so bad that it almost shuts down his lungs, his voice is not at it's greatest.

[Imran Siddiqui]

the man is cool until he covers songs that were great to begin with. its just like, "why did he have to do that"

Aretha Franklin covered a great song in "R-E-S-P-E-C-T" by Otis Redding. Do you ask yourself why did she have to do that?

That's the point of a cover, taking a great song, and doing it your way.

Cash is amazing with his covers. NIN's "Hurt" was good, but Cash's is GREAT!

[chequita guevara]

Johnny Cash makes me want to get drunk and fight.

[BustaMike]

Hey, originally I just said I thought the covers were funny. I didn't say they were particularly good or bad (though on many I am leaning more toward bad). Then you guys said something along the lines of "well we should rough up BustaMike so he sees that Johnny Cash is the greatest artist ever."

Hurt is mediocre, IMO. The NIN version is much better, though I can understand the appeal of Cash's version. His cover of In My Life is much much worse than the original, but again I can kind of see how people could like it. Then we get to Rusty Cage. This cover is a travesty. He took an incredible song, switched all the timing to 4/4, and destroyed the good guitar part by replacing it with something an imbecile could write. How anyone could like this is beyond me.

to Cash

[Imran Siddiqui]

Then you guys said something along the lines of "well we should rough up BustaMike so he sees that Johnny Cash is the greatest artist ever."

Learn to take a joke .

Cash's covers are wonderful, fantastic, and amazing. His cover of Hurt is on of the best, if not the best, covers of all time. It is simply unbelievable. Johnny is simply and always will be 'The man in black'.

[Alexander's Horse]

Mrs Horse and I should have played this at our wedding

JACKSON
(Billy Ed Wheeler - Gaby Rogers)

« © '65 Quartet Music »



[ duet with June Carter ]

We got married in a fever hotter than a pepper sprout

We've been talkin' bout Jackson ever since the fire went out

Cash:

I'm goin' to Jackson I'm gonna mess around

Yeah I'm goin' to Jackson look out Jackson town

Carter:

Well go on down to Jackson go ahead and wreck your health

Go play your hand you big talkin' man make a big fool of yourself

Yeah go to Jackson go comb your hair and I'm gonna snowball Jackson see if I care

Cash:

Well when I breeze into that city people gonna stoop and bow

All them women gonna make me teach 'em what they don't know how

I'm goin' to Jackson you turn loose my coat

I'm goin' to Jackson goodbye that's all she wrote

Carter:

When they laugh at you in Jackson and I'll be dancin' on the pony keg

When I'll lead you round town like a scalded hound

With your tail tucked between your legs

Yeah I'll go to Jackson you big talkin' man

And I'll be waitin' in Jackson behind my Japan fan

Duet:

Now we got married in a fever hotter than a pepper sprout

We've been talking bout Jackson ever since the fire went out

Cash:

I'm goin' to Jackson and that's a fact

Yeah I'm goin' to Jackson ain't never comin' back

Duet:

We got married in a fever hotter than a pepper sprout

[Blisterz]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui
[q]

Learn to take a joke .

Who's joking?

[Blisterz]

Originally posted by BustaMike
Hey, originally I just said I thought the covers were funny. I didn't say they were particularly good or bad (though on many I am leaning more toward bad). Then you guys said something along the lines of "well we should rough up BustaMike so he sees that Johnny Cash is the greatest artist ever."

Hurt is mediocre, IMO. The NIN version is much better, though I can understand the appeal of Cash's version. His cover of In My Life is much much worse than the original, but again I can kind of see how people could like it. Then we get to Rusty Cage. This cover is a travesty. He took an incredible song, switched all the timing to 4/4, and destroyed the good guitar part by replacing it with something an imbecile could write. How anyone could like this is beyond me.

to Cash

Everyone has their right to an opinion, there is nothing wrong with saying that you don't like a song. I just don't like you calling the cover "funny". It's a powerfull song about adiction and depression (both things that he knows well, and why he liked the song). It is also one of the last time June Carter was seen on video alive. So the cover is anything but "funny".

[Dis]

in fact I just heard this song (hurt) the other day on the tv show Boston Public. I had heard rusty cage before.

But anyways it is an interesting version. I like Johnny Cash. The only country I can stand- much of it has to do with his image. The version I had he doesn't say crown of ****- he says crown of thorns. I don't like that change though. But the song still moves me as does NIN's version. Although I still like NIN's version a little bit better. They strike me as needle users more than Johnny Cash for some reason . But Johnny is a hard drinker- I'm sure he's been through his bouts of pain.

[SlowwHand]

Johnny is a hard everythinger.

[cinch]

Diss:

They strike me as needle users more than Johnny Cash for some reason . But Johnny is a hard drinker- I'm sure he's been through his bouts of pain.

Yeah, but Cash was a major druggie back in his younger years, too. He and Jennings were crazy into the chemicals, if I recall.

[Dis]

hmm I wonder what he was into. He's lived the hard life no doubt. He definately has the qualifications to sing that song . Now if the Dixie chicks or some other pampered young country star sung that song it would be different.

[Dis]

funny story I heard by Reznor. It seems Trent got all upset when he heard a stripper in a strip club somewhere in american was doing her dance to the song Hurt

I can't think of a worse song to dance to. Amazing.

I can understand why Trent was upset.

[Dis]

listening to 13 now. I can't say I like Cash's version better. I'm a big Danzig fan though . While the lyrics seem to fit Cash, the song's rythym doesn't sound right when Cash does it. He changes much of the song's music and pace around. To a lesser extent he does this with rusty cage as well. And for the same reason I do like Soundgarden's a little bit better. But Cash's versions are interesting.

But I do think Cash did a great job with hurt. He got the pace and tempo of the song right. And it gives me the same kind of feel that NIN's versions does.