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Posted: 1/24/2013 11:23:48 PM EDT
Nine Inch Nails or Johnny Cash?
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Quoted: ROFL.Quoted: Cash. Utterly and unequivocally . Cash. NIN are just singing a song and to be honest it sounds a bit Juvenile and angst-ridden. Cash on the other hand gave a performance that frankly, bared his soul. Guess you don't know much about NIN or the background of the guy who wrote it. |
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Cash. Utterly and unequivocally . Cash. NIN are just singing a song and to be honest it sounds a bit Juvenile and angst-ridden. Cash on the other hand gave a performance that frankly, bared his soul. Because of the changes that Johnny Cash made it turned it into a redemption song, as with his last song "Ain't No Grave" speaks of the resurrection after the second coming of Jesus. At the end of his life Johnny Cash had basically become born-again, and that is reflected in many covers he did and his last album. The NIN version is a song not of angst but of a person still heading for rock bottom and realizing that their life is garbage, hence the title of the album "The Downward Spiral". The Downward Spiral is basically one long story of someone coming to terms with addiction, contemplations of suicide, and regrets. Both Trent Reznor and Johnny Cash were in two different places in life concerning both renditions. |
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Quoted: Quoted: ROFL.Utterly and unequivocally . Cash. NIN are just singing a song and to be honest it sounds a bit Juvenile and angst-ridden. Guess you don't know much about NIN or the background of the guy who wrote it. Yup. He had his demons too. Just like Cash. During the five years following the release of The Downward Spiral (1994), Reznor struggled with depression, social anxiety disorder, and the death of his grandmother, who raised him. During this period of intense grief, Reznor began abusing alcohol and other drugs. He eventually became addicted to alcohol and heroin. |
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I love them both.
I particularly like this one that Trent did:
That's a great version. Love them both. |
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Cash, uncontested, and I like NIN a lot.
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NIN are just singing a song and to be honest it sounds a bit Juvenile and angst-ridden. Just singing a song that he, not they, he, wrote. 
Granted I prefer NIN's harder songs, although I enjoy "something I can never have". |
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Cash. Utterly and unequivocally . Cash. NIN are just singing a song and to be honest it sounds a bit Juvenile and angst-ridden. Cash on the other hand gave a performance that frankly, bared his soul. I was trying to come up with the words to describe it but...this. Cash is like a man on his deathbed confessing all of his sins and regrets in life. Much more heartfelt and sorrowful given the subject matter. |