Quote:
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  |
Repetitive rockabilly music? Johnny Cash revolutionized music and helped shape it to what it is today. To classify Johnny Cash under one genre shows ignorance and a complete lack of knowledge when it comes to his music. I can only assume you've heard maybe a couple of his songs to come to this conclusion.
The one thing that made Cash so special was that he wasn't part of any genre. He could do Rock & Roll, Country, Blues, Gospel, and just about every other genre out there. He was even considered the Godfather of Gangsta Rap. Country music is popular and mainstream largely in part to what Johnny Cash did.
His entire career featured him going outside the box in his music. He switched genres, broke the molds of what people felt country music should be, wrote lyrics that people had never heard before. That is what made him edgy, not covering some Nine Inch Nails song.