Give it up for the big JC

[SnoopDog]

Ok here's deal, it just occured to me.

Johnny Cash is the greatest.

I only so far knew 'I've Been Everywhere', a version of 'Bridge Over Troubled Water' and 'Hurt' by him. I absolutely LOVE all three songs especially 'Hurt'. It's pure musical genious. Yet, I never discovered more of him. Recently I got a copy of the 'Dawn Of The Dead' - DVD (Remake, and by the way, a superb movie) and in the intro there is his song 'Man Comes Around' playing. And it's also an absolutely great song.

So now I know how wonderful the big JC was and still is. So I decided to go into my local CD store and try to find a good best-of album or something like that from him.

Does anyone share my admiration, does anyone know a good best-of-CD by Jhonny or another one of his albums that is worth bying ???

Snoopy

 

[Liar]

I like Johnny Cash. But he absolutely destroyed "Hurt".

 

[doormouse]

"I've been everywhere, man...

I've been everywhere...."

Sorry... but maybe it's my age, but if he's the greatest, wouldn't we remember more than those four words?

 

[poohlive]

I've heard from Johnny Cash fans that Hurt is absolutely one of his best songs to date.
And, I've also heard that Nine Inch Nails fans think Johnny's Cash's Hurt is the absolute worse rendition of that song to date.

I think, considering that most NIN fans believe that NIN did it better than Johnny, i really want their CD that has the song. Anyone know what it is? I'd love to get it.

I do like Johnny, I don't have an admiration for him, but I did really like Hurt (never heard the original, so I'll probably hate it once I do, but for now, I like it). He had a career that spanned over 50 years, you've got to give it up for someone dedicated like that. He's the Sinatra of country western, lol.

 

[Liar]

I've heard from Johnny Cash fans that Hurt is absolutely one of his best songs to date.
And, I've also heard that Nine Inch Nails fans think Johnny's Cash's Hurt is the absolute worse rendition of that song to date.

I think, considering that most NIN fans believe that NIN did it better than Johnny, i really want their CD that has the song. Anyone know what it is? I'd love to get it.

It's on the album The Downward Spiral.

I'm not really a NIN fan. That's basically the only decent record they have done to this day, and the only one I have bothered to buy. But still, I can't see how Cash fans think Hurt is one of his best songs. I mean, it's not even his - he have actually written a whole battery of great songs himself.

I mean, it's a cool idea, and it shows a lot of cojones on JCs part to do a cover of a song by an industrial goth punk shock value band that nine times out of ten makes Marilyn Manson seem about as harmless as a smurf. In that light, the factor that he didn't do a very good cover, isn't as important.

#L

 

[minsue]

Re: Re: Give it up for the big JC

I like Johnny Cash. But he absolutely destroyed "Hurt".

Oh, I disagree. I liked his version, though NIN's is superior, but Cash's video for Hurt was beautiful.

 

[Guest]

Other greats by Johnny:

Witchita Lineman

Fulsome Prison Blues

I walk the line

And of course:

Boy Named Sue.

He was also part of the Outlaws with Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson and Chris Kristopherson.

Biggest hit there was Ghost Riders in the Sky

 

[Guest]

I've heard from Johnny Cash fans that Hurt is absolutely one of his best songs to date.

Unfortunately he won't be making any more in the future.

 

[dr_mabeuse]

Johnny Cash was one of the great singers/performers in American popular music. As far as I know, he’s the only musician to be inducted into the Rock Hall of Fame, the Country Hall of Fame, and the Songwriter’s Hall of Fame. Though I’m not big on country music, I grew up with Johnny Cash. Most of his songs crossed over from C&W to pop, and he was unique in the level on honesty and sensitivity he brought to a song. One of the few bass voices in pop music.

Not many people know that Johnny Cash broke into pop music doing rockabilly at the same time and place as Elvis and Roy Orbison at the Sunn Studios in Memphis. In that regard he was one of the founding fathers of rock-and-roll, but he was never really a rock singer. He was always too mature, even as a kid.

He fought a lot of devils in his life: drug addiction and religious doubts, arrests and career setbacks, but he managed to incorporate all his personal suffering into his music, and he hung himself out in his best songs. Way back in the 60’s he was the first country star to come out against Viet Nam, and he adopted the persona of the man-in-black. They say that he was very aware that he shared his initials with Jesus, and there was always a kind of existential spirituality in his best music. Not the treacly syrup of an Elvis hymn, but something honest and impassioned. He had a sinner’s voice and a believer’s fervor.

Since his death there’s been at least one compilation of his greatest hits available. I think if you just googled on him you’d find plenty of stuff.

---dr.M.

 

[R. Richard]

He was also part of the Outlaws with Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson and Chris Kristopherson.

Biggest hit there was Ghost Riders in the Sky

I would politely disagree. 'Highwayman' in 1985 was the hit from the group.

 

[Guest]

I would politely disagree. 'Highwayman' in 1985 was the hit from the group.

Sorry, My mistake. You are correct.

 

[SnoopDog]

Out of curiosity I just listened to NIN's 'Hurt' and I think it sucks. Sorry, but what Johnny did with it is far better. Just like most of his cover-versions.

Snoopy

 

[Colleen Thomas]

Johnny Cash was great, my dad's favorite singer. Ring of Fire is a good one, if you haven't heard it.

His music was powerful, spoke to people, and was aided by his guitarist, Luther Perkins. You never hear his name much, but his virtuoso performances on the guitar were a big part of the "sound" that was Johnny Cash in som eof his greatest songs.

My personal favs are Fulsome Prison blues, Ring of Fire and I walk the line.

-Colly

 

[dr_mabeuse]

Well, "Boy Named Sue" wasn't his finest moment.

But hell, even the Beatles had their "Mr. Moonlight".

---dr.M.

 

[CrazyyAngel]

Out of curiosity I just listened to NIN's 'Hurt' and I think it sucks. Sorry, but what Johnny did with it is far better. Just like most of his cover-versions.

Snoopy

I am listening to it right now ... and actually its not that much different from JC's version. Its nice ...

CA

 

[Boota]

I like both versions equally. A good song is a good song is a good song. Johnny Cash didn't murder it. He did it Johnny Cash style. The words actually seem to mean more coming from Johnny Cash. The video JC did was very powerful. For all the angst Trent Reznor works to project he can't compete with JC's life. To me, it is almost like Reznor wrote the song with Cash in mind. I know he didn't, but it fits perfectly.