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Originally Posted by badmunchkin
no wants to hear this, but Johnny Cash is overrated and his cover of that song is waaay overrated - it's funny, about 5 years ago liking Johnny Cash wasn't cool at all and now he has all this street cred 'cuz of the film and Rick Rubin. He wrote repetitive rockabilly music - Rick Rubin's production is the only thing responsible for making him sound current or "edgy"
He was a good lyricist, I'll give him that, but that song was a NIN classic - and a cover can never remotely stand up to the original  |
Cash never went out of style. Not once. You just dont get the reason his version got so much popularity. His voice is warbly, he was knocking at deaths door. Im from Nashville and we heard about it everytime he was at Baptist hospital battling Pnemonia. I remember 3 or 4 times they didnt think he would make it, and at least one time was prior to cutting that album and making that video. There is a reason it was so popular, and you are missing it.