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thisizusername t1_j2bvsp2 wrote

Reply to comment by tune4jack in Your Hottest Music Take by PhillyCSpires

You don’t have to Like Johnny Cash’s Hurt, but you are required to think it’s better that the original and the best cover of all time.

He stripped away all the annoying innovation and boiled it down to spoken word. If that isn’t excellence, I don’t know what is.

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GlueForSniffing t1_j2d61lu wrote

It is an amazing cover and song . . . but . . .

Florence + The Machine - " I Don't Wanna Know ( Mario Winan ) "

Florence + the Machine - " Oh Darling ( The Beatles ) "

KIMBRA - " Plain Gold Ring " ( Nina Simone )

Annie Lennox - " Under Pressure " ( Queen x Bowie )

Aretha Franklin - " Natural Woman " ( Carole King )

I mean . . . it has some competition. More than I could name.

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thisizusername t1_j2emkvf wrote

Thanks, I’ll check these out.

My post was a reference to the fact that every time there is a post about covers, the first person to write Johnny cash hurt gets an automatic 10,000 upvotes. Its pretty good I guess, but I think it’s worse than the original.

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JedExi t1_j2fd498 wrote

That's my take on Hurt basically. I feel the best part about Cash's version is the music video which I think is phenomenal. But the cover itself doesn't work for me, especially next to the original.

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circus4fools_u_me t1_j2exh1l wrote

As someone who loved the last song of the epic album The Downward Spiral for twenty years before Cash covered it, I can confidently say that no it is not automatically better

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