General Music Chat

I forgot about Cash's version of Hurt, but I listened to it a couple of times last night. That is a heck of an interpretation of a song, in fact I think Cash's version is better "to me" than NIN.

I know what you mean. Cash's version is powerful. And you KNOW he was singing from a personal place, right down to the drug addiction.

Thanks is hugely due also, to the genius of famed producer Rick Rubin, who suggested the song to Cash. Here's what Reznor (NIN founder & writer of Hurt) had to say about Cash's covering his song...

"I pop the video in, and wow… Tears welling, silence, goose-bumps… Wow. 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."


You said you "listened" to the song. I hope it was while seeing the video for it. If not, you will be blown away seeing Cash performing it even more. The imagery is powerful, like a tormented autobiography of Cash. The video was recorded in Cash's home...

http://youtube.com/watch?v=SmVAWKfJ4Go

Don't Worry Be Happy

"Like A Virgin" by Madonna. I always tear up when I hear it. It's sad that anybody would go out and buy that piece of sh*t. Later...your sarcastic friend fisherman bob

Cash's "Hurt" makes you want to cry, case in point. A job well done and probably yet another mile marker that will outlast him for the next century at least.

Don't Worry Be Happy

LOL

Nazareth - "Heart's Grown Cold" about watching a friend dying from drug addiction.

Can't forget the ole truck drivin' / CB radio days

Teddy Bear by Red Sovine about a young paraolegic boy whose Dad had promised to take him out in the 18 wheeler. His Dad ended up getting killed in a crash and all he had was a CB radio to keep him company 'cause his Mom was working all the time now...basically

Roses For Moma - C. W. McCalls - About a guy making excuses not to go visit his Mother but stops in a flower shop to send her some roses on her B-day. There is a little boy in the shop crying 'cause he'd promised his Mom roses for her B-day and he didn't have the money for them. The boy says he hasn't seen Moma in a year but talks to her everyday etc. etc. so the guy buys the roses for the boy's Mom and heads out of town. As he leaving town he sees the little boy in an old graveyard, he has a change of heart and decides to take the roses to Mom in person.


One more song: "He Stopped Loving Her Today" - George Jones

I'm done!

David Lee Roth doing "Jump" with a bluegrass band on David Letterman.

It just doesn't get any sadder than that.

Oh wow, I had almost forgotten that Irminsul. Please do nto remind me again, that made me ill to see Dave sink that low.

ugghhh my gut. I think I have been shot. lol

I would have to put in "He Stopped Loving her Today" George Jones

Oh? Why do you say that?

That is a classic, I watch it once a year. But that's not just a Nigelism; in the Baroque period that was considered the saddest of all the minor keys.

one by u2
november rain by guns
every rose by poison
somethin to believe in by poison
this aint a love song by bon jovi
in a darkened room by skidrow
no turnin back by sebaztian

The saddest song that I have ever heard is probably The Scientist by Coldplay, I am not talking necessarily about the lyrics (I do not know them all), I am talking about the music itself. It has a very sad sound to it. However, I love Coldplay.