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2giga2dweebish t1_ixwq2sm wrote

I'll be honest - while I do get the appeal of Cash's performance, I prefer the sheer desolate, angry sound of NIN. It's very special as a closer to the Downward Spiral, and the other version is just a cover... a very good cover, but a cover nonetheless.

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confrita OP t1_ixwrl3c wrote

Of course, for me the original version it's an amazing closer track of an amazing album. Cash's cover just works better as an isolated song for me

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queensnyatty t1_ixww17d wrote

Same words but one is about a young man’s heroin addiction and the other about an old man with a lifetime of regrets.

Depending on your life experience one or other might resonate with you more.

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JedExi t1_ixxetjy wrote

Hurt isn't just about heroin addiction wat

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queensnyatty t1_ixxkhqg wrote

🎼The needle tears a hole, the old familiar sting.

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JedExi t1_ixxo61t wrote

One line in the song doesn't mean the song is centered around it. Hurt is the epilogue to the Downward Spiral, the song before features the protagonist's suicide. Heroin isn't the only problem he had.

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dpman48 t1_ixzn5b1 wrote

Johnny cash also struggled with addiction (amphetamines, alcohol and sedatives). Wouldn’t be surprised if there was heroin as well. But many of his lifetime of regrets are related to the same things we associate the original recording with.

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Strang3rs_Inside t1_iy02qa6 wrote

So Trent Reznor didn’t do heroin there buddy.

He was an alcoholic and cocaine addict. He got sober after accidentally snorting heroin which he believed was cocaine.

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YoshimiUnicorns t1_ixy6nsz wrote

That's true, but even if it's just a cover it hits even harder than NIN's version ever could when you consider Cash pretty much sang it as a closer to his life, and all the loss and regret that came with it. Trent's version is a story, Johnny's is a memoir

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