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“Hurt” is a song written by Trent Reznor, first released on Nine Inch Nails’ 1994 album The Downward Spiral. In 2002,

Hurt was covered by Johnny Cash to critical acclaim; it was one of Cash’s final hit releases before his death.

Reznor’s comments after seeing the video of the Cash version of his song were:

“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. 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.” Here is a link to the Johnny Cash video cover.

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alienlac wrote:
yesterday evening

yeah, this is a fine song...........

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dazmusic wrote:
Saturday evening

this is a mighty good version,i know JC made it he's own but this is on par and trent wrote it :) they're both brilliant :)

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suaveslav wrote:
last week

Singing the chorus with the rest of the audience at a NIN show is an amazing experience.

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judobowie wrote:
11 days ago

the thing with cover verisons is that 95% of the time you'll prefer the version you heard first because sub consciously you'll log the first hearing as how the song is meant to sound. Personally I prefer the original because i heard it first and to me theres a kind of true junkie emotion that gives this song a feeling that no cover can re create peace out x

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Braveshell wrote:
14 days ago

Having heard (and seen the great vid as well) Cash's version is a close run thing... both have stacks of emotive power in the delivery. Cash's is that tad more poignant when we know he was not far from passing on when he recorded it and was expressing a lifetime of emotion through this song. Great song though... hits the spot!

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egg1111115 wrote:
15 days ago

honestly i was fucking freaked out at the end when it just...exploded

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Huzliputz wrote:
21 days ago

Johnny Cash's ist besser :-P

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keithster12 wrote:
22 days ago

Both versions are great! Everyone happy?

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smiley-1 wrote:
last month

this song is just perfect - i also love the cash version. i know tori amos did this one too, but never complete, right?

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theatmosphere wrote:
last month

Prefer this version if I'm honest, there's more despair in the vocal delivery of Trent. Still like the Cash version tho.

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cable_guy wrote:
last month

I thought that Cash'es version is the original, but i fail! Great song.

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black-annis wrote:
last month

it never fails to bring me down. thanks, Trent.

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gero_kelio wrote:
last month

tonight to drink to it.

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Philthehippy wrote:
last month

I love both versions. Cash was saying goodbye. Trent breaks his soul a little everytime he sings it.

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ChristeleL wrote:
last month

Just to add a little something: there is a lot of emotion in Cash's cover, as this was the last song he's recorded before dying out of pain, as he'd lost his wife...

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Metallimaster wrote:
last month

Cash Cover Owns This Piece Of NIN Shit.

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zaraki38 wrote:
last month

hauntingly epic and epicly haunting

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emmax1991 wrote:
last month

I actually hate Cash's cover of this. With a passion. There is so little emotion in it compared to this one.

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campkillgemma wrote:
last month

I definatly prefer this than Cashs cover, makes me get chills.

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always_peng wrote:
last month

If I could start again, a million miles away, I would keep myself, I would find a way...amen Trent

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