Just enjoy both versions. Themes in common, but substantial differences too. I used to prefer Cash's cover but I've come round to this. Cash's version is simpler (not a bad thing) but the discordant bits of this song are incredible. Cash's version conveys sorrow and regret perfectly. It's much neater. Trent's original is deliberately messy and paints a picture of hopelessness and mental degeneration. Both very powerful. Maybe one resonates more with you than the other. Maybe neither do. Such is life.
Exactly it’s the same for the studio version of this song and the live version in this video. The studio version while still a powerful rendition it’s lacking the punch because they can do multiple takes if needed to get everything perfect. With the live version we see here it’s in one take so Reznor can kinda think back and visualize the mindset he was in when writing the song and tap into it. It’s a lot more raw emotion than the studio version. Same goes for the Cash cover. It was just him and a guitar on the track. As you listen to the song you can hear the pain in his voice and you can almost visualize that he is reflecting on his life as he sings. In the video Cash seems like he is about to break down and that adds to the rawness of the song. It was almost like Cash knew he would pass away soon.
If you think this version is sad watch the cover johnny cash did like right before he died I swear when you watch that music video it's like he knew he was about to die
The deepest song I have listened in my entire life. Year after year are still the same powerful emotions and thoughts. NIN's music is breathtaking without a doubt.
@@johncook9392 Mad wold by Gary Jules is an amazing deep track...the fact (edit: he) wrote it before facebook, twitter, and social media in general... Oscar Wilde nailed it here...enough said. Lovely track.
Right now, there are people all over the world who are just like you. They're either lonely, they're missing somebody, they're depressed, they're hurt, they're scarred from the past, they're having personal issues no one knows about, they have secrets you wouldn't believe. They wish, they dream and they hope. And right now, they are sitting here reading these words, and I'm writing this for you so you dont feel alone anymore. Always remember, don't be depressed about the past, don't worry about the future, and just focus on today. If today's not so great don't worry! Tomorrow's a new chance. If you are reading this, be sure to share this around to make others feel better. Have a nice day. :)
Basically I am 30 years old, had tons of potential but squandered it all, I have been an opiate (and now heroin) addict for the netter part of a decade, but I’ve always needed something to feel “normal”, and like I fit in and feel comfortable with people. Well basically now I finally have an ok job that could lead somewhere, but I am fucking it up with my addiction, I can’t quit because it’s the only real thing on my resume. But I’m just so depressed, my best friend died three years ago, and other than my mom I have no family I am close with. I ruined all my old friendships but one and he is far away. I just feel like I had a shot in life but I blew it and that’s just how life goes sometimes and I should just give up.. idk
I love both versions a lot, but after listening to them both I think that I like the original NIN version because of the eerie, discordant tune in the background. It creates a more frazzled and broken atmosphere than the somber, composed sound that Cash has. Cash has a great voice and beautiful singing, but the unsettling and jarring sound behind Trent's is really what I find best for the lyrics. What a beautifully crafted, sorrowful song.
To all the Trent vs Johnny Cash arguments.... They both felt this song. Yes, Trent wrote it, but both of them do an outstanding performance with it. Both have an obvious strong connection with the words. If you know anything about either of them, you know its true.
+Phillip Betts I think the style in which they sing it is very different, Trent sings in the now - he regrets the things he's done recently. Johnny sounds very much like he sings like he regrets a lifetime, things that have happened over years. Probably just an age thing, but that's how it feels to me, Trent's version sounds like he has hope of changing, Johnny's sounds like it's too late to change.
+Phillip Betts Personally I think Johnny's vocals completely ruin the song. The way Trent sings just makes this song. Something Johnny's vocals just couldn't recreate.
This is literally one of the best songs ever written. Trent is able to transport so many emotions when he is singing it on stage - unbelievable. He got through it all and shows us how it felt. Blows me away every time.
I Love Johnny cash’s cover of this song as much as Trent’s original, because they’re both equally powerful, in different ways. But, honestly, Trent’s version hits me a lot harder. When I hear Johnny cash’s version, it feels so solemn, yet hopeful and triumphant. But Trent’s version just crushes you and cuts you deep down in your soul. The way Trent barely whispers through the first verse as if he’s on the verge of completely breaking down, coupled with the dissonance of the first chord perfectly conveys the darkness and hopelessness of his state of mind, that makes that pain palpable, and the way he expresses it in his lyrics you could almost FEEL the hopelessness he’s feeling. Then when he plays the brighter chords of the chorus, it’s as if he’s fighting to hold on for a reason to live or like he desires to change. And when he starts belting it’s like he’s crying for help and in desperation. Every time I listen to it, I cry because to me it feels like someone out there understood exactly how dark, miserable, self hating, and lonely I feel sometimes like Im not alone in my sadness and the vulnerability he bears feels like a gesture of solidarity and empathy.
Me too, I personally love the musical arrangements of this song so much too one of the best with the crescendo and the distorted sounds one of the best displaying this kinds of feeling
"I never got to meet Johnny but I'm happy I contributed the way I did. It felt like a warm hug. For anyone who hasn't seen it, I highly recommend checking it out. I have goose bumps right now thinking about it." - Trent Reznor in regards to Johnny Cash Hurt video.
Both versions are awesome! Trent was thrilled to have a legend like Johnny Cash cover his song. Both have different depressing feelings about them . NIN version is about giving up sadly and the finding a new lease on life while Cash's version is a life reflection and regret and facing the end of his life. Sadly this was his last ever release while he was alive. Reply
To all those comparing Cash's cover of this to this, let me tell you something. Whilst they might be the exact same song, the two versions are very, very different. Both mean something to the separate artists. Johnny brought a melancholy and even more harrowing feel to the song. They are both very, very different pieces of music, equally as good. I might not be much of a Nine Inch Nails fan, but this is a masterpiece, and so is Johnny's version.
I love this band, such a talented guy and this song has always been one of my favourites, at some of my darkest moments I've played this and it has helped me immensely.
Thanks Trent Reznor. Really, thank you man. This song means a lot. I love you. Thank you for making this music. I can't possibly tell you what this music means to me. It helps my life every single day. Thanks Trent! I love you brother
Jiri Krewinkel every now and then we find the internet idiot, flopping around aimlessly, disagreeing facts and proving opinions, or just plain abstractly agreeing. :P
this is the version addicts hear, they still see themselves but are far from that person... Johnnys is what they feel at the end of their life/addiction, what they hear their families singing at their funeral.
Beautiful. Nice to see someone is capable of hearing the relevance in both versions rather than just tear one down to build the other one up. Both matter.
Justmiss jamey Johnny Cash was an addict for part of his life he didn’t have the same booming voice when he did this song as he did when he was younger. It was also one of the last songs he recorded and the last video he made before he passed away.
@@PrincessNinja007 The original Nine Inch Nails hurt is about how much you hurt yourself with your addiction and how much your life went to crap. Johnny Cash is about how not only you hurt others but also how you hurt yourself by how you feel regretful about the mistakes that you made in the past.
Me in my teens: This song is just so true to my life Me in my 20's: God this song is cringy I was such a cringy teen Me in my 30's: This song is just so true to my life
It is a testament to Trent's undeniable brilliance as a song writer that he can write a song that can evoke so much emotion, be it him who is singing or Johnny, both versions hit like a freight train, and stay with the listener for an age after.
You guys need to remember. This version is about drug addiction. Cash's about the lost of a love one. Please respect each one for the difference they bring
But is it really? I'd say it's about a man sub-combing to the voices in earlier songs of the album and killing himself and still not getting rid of him. Sure, "The needle tears a hole" sounds like its referencing drugs, but i think it's a metaphor for lost memories. Listen to the whole downward spiral and then think again about the lyric meaning.
sub-combing? you absolute moron. I don't think anyone is going to listen to your opinion when you type shit like "sub-combing" - this song is 100% about heroin. Don't hurt yourself thinking.
So I’ve been emotional throughout my life... And through the differing things I’ve loved this song has returned countless times. When you realise something is great beyond understanding.
hurt is so beautiful and dark, a song that totally resonates with me and many many people I would imagine, we all suffer pain for different reasons a true gem
Hurt will always be your song because it stopped me from self harming myself until I wrote a poem that helped me not do it. Even though Johnny Cash's version is good he wouldn't have been able to recreate it without you. Don't ever forget that fact. ☮️♥️🙏🏾
You want to know what music is? Jonny cash covering nine Inch nails. that is music. Hurt is complete as a musical piece now. I have a new 2018 goal, to learn this musical piece in any musical instrument. I don't care of the version. NIN and Jonny cash, both are genius. I won't be a moron to choose between the two. I just wanna learn this song and, in the process, make my own version of this musical masterpiece. \m/
THE original! Who composed snd writes has always more credits IMO. Covers can sound very good or better, but the feelings, melody comes from the author. Great NIN song, great Cash cover. I had to write this! Thank you Internet!
I saw this in concert Smirnoff center at the time in dallas tx like back im the early 2000s and it was the shit. Like a savage. Now it's the gexa energy center. Looks just like the very same preformance. It may not be but talk about some hardcore flash backs and memories. My groovy bruhs of music. Much love yall rock.
I feel like us young people appeal more to the Johnny Cash version but as we go through life and experience it we understand and appreciate this version more
I'm 16 and I prefer this version, but I can appreciate Johnny Cash's version as well. Also, I think what you said could be applied to both versions but more to Johnny's. He applied the song to the end of his life. He's looking back on his life and regretting things that he's done.
Im 28 Ive always preferred this version but Cashs is deeply depressing because he had so many deep regrets and he passed away shortly after recording the song. To be at the end of your life and haunted by your decisions and of course impossible to undo them and only having the clarity when its too late
I hurt myself today To see if I still feel I focus on the pain The only thing that's real The needle tears a hole The old familiar sting Try to kill it all away But I remember everything What have I become My sweetest friend Everyone I know Goes away in the end And you could have it all My empire of dirt I will let you down I will make you hurt I wear this crown of shit Upon my liars chair Full of broken thoughts I cannot repair Beneath the stains of time The feelings disappear You are someone else I am still right here What have I become My sweetest friend Everyone I know Goes away in the end And you could have it all My empire of dirt I will let you down I will make you hurt If I could start again A million miles away I will keep myself I would find a way
The slight change he did in melody of the chorus destroys me: Album version: You could (E) have (F#) it all (D) Live version: You could (E) have (F#) it (C#) all (D) The way his voice slides from the high F# down to the C# and up to D... holy shit
Love you Trent Reznor, you're a man after my own heart, you're music is a master piece of meaning, purpose, and the shit of this earth, I have never found such passion in music as what you put forth, and for that you are my favorite artist, the day your art dies will be a dark day indeed. Thank you for everything
People who are here because 1.Nine Inch Nails Fans 2.Random People 3.Haters 4.Wedding Squanchers Ending at Rick and Morty Season 2 5.Sung by Johnny Cash 6.Marvel's Logan Trailer
You do know what brought me here! Starts with "H" > wish I never walked that road. Its so hard to walk with a big weight on your feet. Working on it and that song kind of helps. Why OH why. Please take care and wish me luck>> I am very hopeful and I do have everything going for me. I think Jonny Cash version might be better for me>>Maybe.
Staraptor is ugly! I agree with you I could give less than two shits about Rick and Morty it was actually Johnny Cash's version that brought me here and I think that Johnny Cash's version is better, I'm sorry if that offends or makes me heretical a
I love the way that Trent drags out the line “I am still right here” accompanied by a pregnant pause in the instrumentation right before going straight back into the pre-chorus in this performance. Really helps drive home those feelings of desolation and abandonment.
Beautiful description… I never noticed until a recent interview his use of a type of white noise in songs. The way they made it years ago is funny. I think he discusses it in the Song Exploder series. You can still feel his pain when he is listening to himself singing Hurt.
Every time I get goosebumps, a lump in my throat and I fight back tears with this song. This is just so emotionally striking! (Johnny's version NEVER does thàt for me and never will.)
23 years ago I entered the room of my best friend, and he was on the floor with hundred of broken old pictures at his side and his wrists cutted down with a lot of blood surrounding him. In the room sounding this song in repeat mode so everytime it ended started again and again. He was lucky, I was able to cover his wounds and go to the hospital. Finally he recovered and this is just a bad remember. But after that day, his depressing song became my depressing song for sad days. So I can remember all the shitty days of my life hearing this lines.
I'm glad your friend made it. We all go through hell in different ways. And this song reflects a scary number of ways it can happen. Hurt is a part of living, and I'm glad your song isn't over.
To those who say Johnny Cash didn't create this song that is true but I say go compare the average views and upvotes on each version. Nine Inch Nails even said Johnny Cash made a much better version because it suits his dark style of music which generally reflects the hard life he has led. Nine Inch Nails version 1mil to 3mil views Johnny Cash version - Most videos I see easily have 5mil up to 20mil views or higher and thats not even factoring in the surge in popularity from the Logan(aka Wolverine 3) movie.
its just because NiN is an underground band, underground music style, hard to like. NiN is just unusual. Johhny cash have more reach than NiN. The hurt version of the original album makes sense because it tells a linear story of suicide. You want something more obscure than that?
Glenn A so what you are saying is Johnny cash is better because of the view count? So that logic drake and psy are better than most bands. Johnny cash made an incredible rendition, which I feel is the better of the two, but the Nin is so much more twisted and dark.
Don't try to compare the quality of either. They are completely different songs, which is more accurately what Rezner said in "it's not my song anymore." They take different tones and are about different sequences, only sharing themes of loneliness and regret. The difference in views and likes is more understandable when you consider Cash's popularity over NIN. And if you think popularity=quality, you're mistaken. Don't try to compare these songs.
Amazing work. A timeless piece of art. Really love NIN and also other dark styles of music from acts like Gary Numan, Tool, Chelsea Wolfe, Massive Attack, Portishead, Allflaws
Nunya Bisnuss That’s exactly why it’s a reference to the crucifixion story from the Bible. The Roman soldiers placed a crown of thorns on the head of Jesus Christ as a way to mock him and degrade him. That’s why in the Johnny Cash version it was changed to “CROWN OF THORNS”.
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The Nine Inch Nails version is the pain of living and the Jonny Cash version is the pain of it all going away. Both are amazing!
+jack miller that might be the best explanation of this debate I have ever heard. Perfect.
relliM kcaJ That's a really profound and fitting way to put it
which one wrote the song ?
The Nine Inch Nails version is the original, so Trent wrote it.Johnny's version is the cover, although it's equally amazing.
Radd Thank you so much
30 years later and this song still puts a lump in my throat,
It's incredible how one song becomes two entirely different songs, both equally brilliant, when performed by two different artists. Pure art.
YES ! ADDICTION, AND THE PAIN OF (LIFE )
Amen you all know
Bravo YOU NAILD IT
Just enjoy both versions. Themes in common, but substantial differences too. I used to prefer Cash's cover but I've come round to this. Cash's version is simpler (not a bad thing) but the discordant bits of this song are incredible. Cash's version conveys sorrow and regret perfectly. It's much neater. Trent's original is deliberately messy and paints a picture of hopelessness and mental degeneration. Both very powerful. Maybe one resonates more with you than the other. Maybe neither do. Such is life.
Your analysis and comparison of both renditions of this song deserve more than two up votes. Thank you.
Exactly it’s the same for the studio version of this song and the live version in this video. The studio version while still a powerful rendition it’s lacking the punch because they can do multiple takes if needed to get everything perfect. With the live version we see here it’s in one take so Reznor can kinda think back and visualize the mindset he was in when writing the song and tap into it. It’s a lot more raw emotion than the studio version. Same goes for the Cash cover. It was just him and a guitar on the track. As you listen to the song you can hear the pain in his voice and you can almost visualize that he is reflecting on his life as he sings. In the video Cash seems like he is about to break down and that adds to the rawness of the song. It was almost like Cash knew he would pass away soon.
Well said
I used to prefer the Johnny Cash cover but I now prefer this. They both project different emotions. Very powerful song.
I love both as well but this one just a little more
The pain and emotion in his voice is haunting and that's why this song is so memorable..
I agree. My only problem with this version of the song is that something about the instrumentals feel off
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Not for me we got in a wreck and a buddy died. Thst song was playing. Make me cry. I love that song.
If you think this version is sad watch the cover johnny cash did like right before he died I swear when you watch that music video it's like he knew he was about to die
Paul Miller So Sorry for your Loss. Sometimes you need to cry.
The deepest song I have listened in my entire life. Year after year are still the same powerful emotions and thoughts. NIN's music is breathtaking without a doubt.
Agree. While I think Mad World is a deep song (or at least deeper than its given credit for), Hurt is the deepest song I've ever heard in my life....
@@johncook9392 Mad wold by Gary Jules is an amazing deep track...the fact (edit: he) wrote it before facebook, twitter, and social media in general... Oscar Wilde nailed it here...enough said. Lovely track.
Probably one of the most beautiful, sweetest and saddest songs ever written.....
Right now, there are people all over the world who are just like you. They're either lonely, they're missing somebody, they're depressed, they're hurt, they're scarred from the past, they're having personal issues no one knows about, they have secrets you wouldn't believe. They wish, they dream and they hope. And right now, they are sitting here reading these words, and I'm writing this for you so you dont feel alone anymore. Always remember, don't be depressed about the past, don't worry about the future, and just focus on today. If today's not so great don't worry! Tomorrow's a new chance. If you are reading this, be sure to share this around to make others feel better. Have a nice day. :)
every day isnt great... :'(
Thanks man
I'm still depressed anyway
But your words made me feel better
horridshrimp2k37 that is some really good advice , thank you so much
Plz free Rick Sanchez
Basically I am 30 years old, had tons of potential but squandered it all, I have been an opiate (and now heroin) addict for the netter part of a decade, but I’ve always needed something to feel “normal”, and like I fit in and feel comfortable with people. Well basically now I finally have an ok job that could lead somewhere, but I am fucking it up with my addiction, I can’t quit because it’s the only real thing on my resume. But I’m just so depressed, my best friend died three years ago, and other than my mom I have no family I am close with. I ruined all my old friendships but one and he is far away. I just feel like I had a shot in life but I blew it and that’s just how life goes sometimes and I should just give up.. idk
I invested money in buying front row tickets for a show on this tour and I have to tell you it was the greatest concert I have ever experienced.
Invested? Spent more likely
Trent Reznor is a genius! Such a beautiful song that never gets old no matter how many times you listen to it. 🖤🖤🖤
Everytime I need a push to cry and clean my chest of the pain rheough my tears I come here. What a song.
His evolution of this song over 25 years is exquisite.
It sounds so clear and fresh and faithful.
I love both versions a lot, but after listening to them both I think that I like the original NIN version because of the eerie, discordant tune in the background. It creates a more frazzled and broken atmosphere than the somber, composed sound that Cash has. Cash has a great voice and beautiful singing, but the unsettling and jarring sound behind Trent's is really what I find best for the lyrics.
What a beautifully crafted, sorrowful song.
Exactly
Agreed
My heart goes out to him. He must have been through so much pain to be able write such painful songs.God bless him
Trent Reznor wrote the song
For a man who's songs that have been covered a million times to cover one of your songs must have been the greatest compliment to Trent.
I cant describe what this song makes me feel. It is just an amazing piece of art.
To all the Trent vs Johnny Cash arguments.... They both felt this song. Yes, Trent wrote it, but both of them do an outstanding performance with it. Both have an obvious strong connection with the words. If you know anything about either of them, you know its true.
could I get a source on that or is it made up?
+Phillip Betts I think the style in which they sing it is very different, Trent sings in the now - he regrets the things he's done recently. Johnny sounds very much like he sings like he regrets a lifetime, things that have happened over years.
Probably just an age thing, but that's how it feels to me, Trent's version sounds like he has hope of changing, Johnny's sounds like it's too late to change.
+KSKR UK that's an amazing description, thank you
+LipJobby source?
+Phillip Betts Personally I think Johnny's vocals completely ruin the song. The way Trent sings just makes this song. Something Johnny's vocals just couldn't recreate.
This is literally one of the best songs ever written. Trent is able to transport so many emotions when he is singing it on stage - unbelievable. He got through it all and shows us how it felt. Blows me away every time.
literally not the best
@@swatmaster492STFU HATER HE LITERALLY WROTE THE SONG
@@swatmaster492and if you don't believe me look it up on Google "Who wrote hurt the song"
I Love Johnny cash’s cover of this song as much as Trent’s original, because they’re both equally powerful, in different ways. But, honestly, Trent’s version hits me a lot harder. When I hear Johnny cash’s version, it feels so solemn, yet hopeful and triumphant. But Trent’s version just crushes you and cuts you deep down in your soul. The way Trent barely whispers through the first verse as if he’s on the verge of completely breaking down, coupled with the dissonance of the first chord perfectly conveys the darkness and hopelessness of his state of mind, that makes that pain palpable, and the way he expresses it in his lyrics you could almost FEEL the hopelessness he’s feeling. Then when he plays the brighter chords of the chorus, it’s as if he’s fighting to hold on for a reason to live or like he desires to change. And when he starts belting it’s like he’s crying for help and in desperation. Every time I listen to it, I cry because to me it feels like someone out there understood exactly how dark, miserable, self hating, and lonely I feel sometimes like Im not alone in my sadness and the vulnerability he bears feels like a gesture of solidarity and empathy.
Jesus loves you, he will give you love in your Heart!!
@@adriendekleva8359 go back to your psych ward
Me too, I personally love the musical arrangements of this song so much too one of the best with the crescendo and the distorted sounds one of the best displaying this kinds of feeling
The original is NIN, from the Downward Spiral album in the 90s. Johnny Cash covered it at the end of his life. No discussion. Trent is the writer.
Thomas Culerier but just like with hendrix, he covered a song and it become much better. fk in hendrix case its consoder one of the best songs ever..
Apis Cashes version is not beter than this in any point.
Vojta Kacmar you are right its not better its superior
Apis opinions
The lead of NIN said he prefers cashes version.
Logan's Movie, Johnny Cash's voice, Reznour's lyrics. Perfect. Simply perfect.
Sérgio Morbiolo well said
Sérgio Morbiolo lmao you got a beard like wolverine
Nin is so cool in letting Johnny Cash sing their song.
I really appreciate it.
This song still gives me goosebumps... I freaking Love it...
"I never got to meet Johnny but I'm happy I contributed the way I did. It felt like a warm hug. For anyone who hasn't seen it, I highly recommend checking it out. I have goose bumps right now thinking about it." - Trent Reznor in regards to Johnny Cash Hurt video.
"So, what are you in for?"
".....Everything."
*Cries*
WHAT I HAVE I BECOME MY SWEETEST FRIEENNDDD EVERYONE I KNOW GOOEEESSS AWAYY IN THE END.
I know, I cri
this hurts.
the agony
Both versions are awesome! Trent was thrilled to have a legend like Johnny Cash cover his song. Both have different depressing feelings about them . NIN version is about giving up sadly and the finding a new lease on life while Cash's version is a life reflection and regret and facing the end of his life. Sadly this was his last ever release while he was alive.
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Great comment! thx
To all those comparing Cash's cover of this to this, let me tell you something.
Whilst they might be the exact same song, the two versions are very, very different. Both mean something to the separate artists. Johnny brought a melancholy and even more harrowing feel to the song. They are both very, very different pieces of music, equally as good. I might not be much of a Nine Inch Nails fan, but this is a masterpiece, and so is Johnny's version.
Well said....
Very well said...
Perfect song bad live trent not on form
Well Paid
But it is Trent that wrote this masterpiece.
I got into NIИ because of this song. It feels relatable of how I usually feel. Easily one of the best songs by them.
RIP Club Penguin...
Your forever in our hearts
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This song was written for Mr.Trent Reznor and covered for Johnny Cash,David Bowie and Pearl Jam.Respect!!!
Saw it live in reading 07. Didn’t appreciate, now I do!
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I love this band, such a talented guy and this song has always been one of my favourites, at some of my darkest moments I've played this and it has helped me immensely.
Thanks Trent Reznor. Really, thank you man. This song means a lot. I love you. Thank you for making this music. I can't possibly tell you what this music means to me. It helps my life every single day. Thanks Trent! I love you brother
It's amazing when you find the music that speaks to your soul....its like the most powerful magic there is
True. This is a song I'll never be able to live without. So honest and poignant. This and Cash's cover. Just love it beyond words.
This guy makes beautiful music, love this song. Andy, hope life is better for you my man.
I bet you could make your own music.
Johnny cash has been covered by almost every musician at least once.
It must've been an honour when these guys heard cash's cover
Trent's reaction is in an interview somewhere.
Reznor composed Hurt, Cash covered it.
MrOinkyPoinky that's what he said
Jiri Krewinkel every now and then we find the internet idiot, flopping around aimlessly, disagreeing facts and proving opinions, or just plain abstractly agreeing.
:P
equalibrioception jack pitman I'll take "just plain abstractly agreeing" because I misinterpreted what you wrote and jumped to a conclusion. My bad.
this is the version addicts hear, they still see themselves but are far from that person... Johnnys is what they feel at the end of their life/addiction, what they hear their families singing at their funeral.
Beautiful. Nice to see someone is capable of hearing the relevance in both versions rather than just tear one down to build the other one up. Both matter.
Cash version is awful. Voice too was wobbly and not powerful enough with finding the graceful dark balance this song needs and deserves
This song is about how you hurt yourself, Johnny Cash is about how you hurt others
Justmiss jamey Johnny Cash was an addict for part of his life he didn’t have the same booming voice when he did this song as he did when he was younger. It was also one of the last songs he recorded and the last video he made before he passed away.
@@PrincessNinja007 The original Nine Inch Nails hurt is about how much you hurt yourself with your addiction and how much your life went to crap. Johnny Cash is about how not only you hurt others but also how you hurt yourself by how you feel regretful about the mistakes that you made in the past.
This track is beautiful. If you can't appreciate both interpretations then more fool you. I love them both.
Me in my teens: This song is just so true to my life
Me in my 20's: God this song is cringy I was such a cringy teen
Me in my 30's: This song is just so true to my life
30TH LIKE ON MY 30TH YEAR ON THIS LIFE, COULD NOT AGREE MORE.
😂 Its the circle of life
Maybe in our 40s we’ll look back on our cringey 30s 🤷🏽♂️
This is what I hate about people in their 20s. They think every song about suicide is cringe even if the song is mature.
@@philipx7784 Yeah, probably, and then our 50's roll around and we're back to loving NIN.
This song gets better every time he performs it, I swear!
I see Trent’s version as being about the agonizing pain of drug addiction. He sings this with so much feeling..makes me cry every time.
Trents version? You mean trents original.
This IS Trent's song. Johnny Cash couldn't handle the original- changed crown of shit to crown of thorns.
This is deeper than a endless hole. So much feel in it. And love it.
If this is not played in my funeral, i'm not coming.
Haha, nice one!
are you really that horrible a person? because the lyrics aren't exactly uplifting.
@@Conn30Mtenor Neither are funerals
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get someone to make a contraption . If they don't play this song, a friend presses a button that makes you just jump up and walk away :D
This is a drug,which helps me survive, Thank you Trent.You saved my life man..
You can just feel the hurt in his voice and the discharge of emotions in his voice. Raw honesty.
Best live performance of Hurt I've ever seen yet. Epic.
It is a testament to Trent's undeniable brilliance as a song writer that he can write a song that can evoke so much emotion, be it him who is singing or Johnny, both versions hit like a freight train, and stay with the listener for an age after.
You guys need to remember. This version is about drug addiction. Cash's about the lost of a love one. Please respect each one for the difference they bring
Really?!
But is it really? I'd say it's about a man sub-combing to the voices in earlier songs of the album and killing himself and still not getting rid of him. Sure, "The needle tears a hole" sounds like its referencing drugs, but i think it's a metaphor for lost memories. Listen to the whole downward spiral and then think again about the lyric meaning.
sub-combing? you absolute moron. I don't think anyone is going to listen to your opinion when you type shit like "sub-combing" - this song is 100% about heroin. Don't hurt yourself thinking.
Hold on guys. Let's all settle down here and agree to disagree
Really? JUST about drug addiction? You really need to understand more...
And that's the WAAAAYYYY the news goes!
I can’t believe that I’ve been able to witness this live at Red Rocks, CO three times!! Trent is the man
So I’ve been emotional throughout my life...
And through the differing things I’ve loved this song has returned countless times.
When you realise something is great beyond understanding.
This song is beautiful and tell the story of my past which I overcame
"He's not coming back, is he.."
"...No."
Mike Leslie still hits me in the feels!
@@grumlindsay8157 Me too. One of the greatest moments from Rick And Morty.
Inmate : What are you in for?
Rick Sanchez : Everything... 😪
I was so happy when they used this
Right in the feels bruhh 😣
Both versions give me shiver, and goosebumps! So real
hurt is so beautiful and dark, a song that totally resonates with me and many many people I would imagine, we all suffer pain for different reasons a true gem
Just wow! I'm sure I'm listening to the song for the 500th time. But I always have goosebumps like the first time!!!
this song makes me cry everytime. trent thank you
Wonderful!"Hurt"one of the most beautiful lyric ever.Thanks Trent Reznor♡
Hurt will always be your song because it stopped me from self harming myself until I wrote a poem that helped me not do it. Even though Johnny Cash's version is good he wouldn't have been able to recreate it without you. Don't ever forget that fact. ☮️♥️🙏🏾
You want to know what music is?
Jonny cash covering nine Inch nails. that is music. Hurt is complete as a musical piece now.
I have a new 2018 goal, to learn this musical piece in any musical instrument. I don't care of the version. NIN and Jonny cash, both are genius. I won't be a moron to choose between the two. I just wanna learn this song and, in the process, make my own version of this musical masterpiece. \m/
Any success? It's a pretty easy song technically.
You know, for the longest time I thought Johnny Cash wrote hurt. Huge respect to both artists for a simple, yet powerful song
Did you learn???
I’m glad I listened to the NIN version before the cash version.
Saaaaaaame there's something in nin version thay I can't put a name at.
yeah so you know that the second one was better
Sparna music doesn’t works like sports do, dummie.
what do you mean?
He says music is fucking subjective just as beauty
best valentine's song ever
27 and I now know I'll never get rid of the nightmares that paralyzed my brain continuously for so many years. Feels weird listening to this again.
Amazing. Original and best. Trent is the man.
THE original! Who composed snd writes has always more credits IMO. Covers can sound very good or better, but the feelings, melody comes from the author. Great NIN song, great Cash cover. I had to write this! Thank you Internet!
I'd like to see Thom Yorke cover this
That would be amazing!
That s good idea
Omfg yes
he should be. im tired of replaying his cover of wonderwall
Awesome sounding. Please, Thom.
Man, I saw them at MSG on12/8/94 for the Downward Spiral Tour and they are just as amazing as they were at that show. That was an experience.
This song made me cry so damn much
THIS is my favorite song of all time.
johnny cash did it better!
+Aliki riddle so gtfo This is Nine Inch Nails bitch
+Bunz, y'all ehm maybe Your Mother
+Martin Vojak i didnt say this was bad, i just said johnny cash did it better !
+Aliki riddle You can't compare them. They both performed it in completely different ways
When I came here:
2013:Subscriptions
2014: For Nine Inch Nails
2015: Rick and Morty
2016: Election
2017: Logan
2018: Depression
Deeply concerned that 2018 depression isn't followed by a 2019 update
Smallville too
2018: for Caroll Danvers t-shirt too
Dude I joke a lot about everything but are you okay Bro? Give us a update :)
will you come back here for 2020?? :D
I saw this in concert Smirnoff center at the time in dallas tx like back im the early 2000s and it was the shit. Like a savage. Now it's the gexa energy center. Looks just like the very same preformance. It may not be but talk about some hardcore flash backs and memories. My groovy bruhs of music. Much love yall rock.
This is one of the best songs ever written
I feel like us young people appeal more to the Johnny Cash version but as we go through life and experience it we understand and appreciate this version more
Couldnt have said it better
They both appeal to two very different types of pain; both equally prevalent throughout life.
I'm 16 and I prefer this version, but I can appreciate Johnny Cash's version as well. Also, I think what you said could be applied to both versions but more to Johnny's. He applied the song to the end of his life. He's looking back on his life and regretting things that he's done.
Im 28 Ive always preferred this version but Cashs is deeply depressing because he had so many deep regrets and he passed away shortly after recording the song. To be at the end of your life and haunted by your decisions and of course impossible to undo them and only having the clarity when its too late
Very true. In my late 30s, starting to come around to this version suddenly.
I hurt myself today
To see if I still feel
I focus on the pain
The only thing that's real
The needle tears a hole
The old familiar sting
Try to kill it all away
But I remember everything
What have I become
My sweetest friend
Everyone I know
Goes away in the end
And you could have it all
My empire of dirt
I will let you down
I will make you hurt
I wear this crown of shit
Upon my liars chair
Full of broken thoughts
I cannot repair
Beneath the stains of time
The feelings disappear
You are someone else
I am still right here
What have I become
My sweetest friend
Everyone I know
Goes away in the end
And you could have it all
My empire of dirt
I will let you down
I will make you hurt
If I could start again
A million miles away
I will keep myself
I would find a way
The slight change he did in melody of the chorus destroys me:
Album version:
You could (E) have (F#) it all (D)
Live version:
You could (E) have (F#) it (C#) all (D)
The way his voice slides from the high F# down to the C# and up to D... holy shit
People are going to hate the comments on every song with this title for at least a year and a half.
Man does this song hit you in the feels.
Nine Inch Nails: Is this all there is?
Johnny Cash: This is all there is.
Love you Trent Reznor, you're a man after my own heart, you're music is a master piece of meaning, purpose, and the shit of this earth, I have never found such passion in music as what you put forth, and for that you are my favorite artist, the day your art dies will be a dark day indeed. Thank you for everything
People who are here because
1.Nine Inch Nails Fans
2.Random People
3.Haters
4.Wedding Squanchers Ending at Rick and Morty Season 2
5.Sung by Johnny Cash
6.Marvel's Logan Trailer
Hotdog Sunday Hangover 3
4 and 5
Hotdog Sunday I'm actually here from Dylan Klebold he use to listen to this song.
FOX's Logan Trailer****
1 & 6 for me.
You do know what brought me here! Starts with "H" > wish I never walked that road. Its so hard to walk with a big weight on your feet. Working on it and that song kind of helps. Why OH why. Please take care and wish me luck>> I am very hopeful and I do have everything going for me. I think Jonny Cash version might be better for me>>Maybe.
Me too. Keep ur head up. The words express exactly how I feel with my addiction it's crazy. Good luck !
christoph lieding ....should have listened to Nancy. just say no.
Am I the only one here because NIN is amazing?
nope
man, I'm just here.
bahamut24 No I am here for the same reason
Nope
bahamut24 In fairness, Rick and Morty probably wouldn't have used this awesome song to begin with, if NIN wasn't awesome.
Trent gets better with age, so much passion & emoting in his performances. Plus he’s still gorgeous
"What are you in for?"
"Everything..."
Staraptor is ugly! I agree with you I could give less than two shits about Rick and Morty it was actually Johnny Cash's version that brought me here and I think that Johnny Cash's version is better, I'm sorry if that offends or makes me heretical a
I'm not staring at you, I am taking your mugshot
the likes were 420, i was the 421th.... well, time to blaze it
The best episode for this season ..i loves this TV Show
I cried in that scene
I bet there's a lot of people in the crowd thinking that is a cover
That is so true. But Cash's version and Trent's are both perfect. They both feel it so much but in different ways.
I love the way that Trent drags out the line “I am still right here” accompanied by a pregnant pause in the instrumentation right before going straight back into the pre-chorus in this performance. Really helps drive home those feelings of desolation and abandonment.
Beautiful description… I never noticed until a recent interview his use of a type of white noise in songs. The way they made it years ago is funny. I think he discusses it in the Song Exploder series. You can still feel his pain when he is listening to himself singing Hurt.
Both versions of this song gives me a lump in my throat, Like an arrow straight to the heart, a fellow human being, struggling with addiction. 😢
Nine Inch Nails, Johnny Cash and Hildegard von Blingin' - three amazing interpretations, love them all
no need to include the third
"He isn't coming back.... Is he..?"
*"No..."*
I'm Sorry Rick. Maybe next season....
+Leon And now we wait a year and a half.
+StudioInkblot One must take time to sow seeds before one can reap the crop
+Leon FUCKING YEAR. Second best series of all serials, i've watched. But fucking year. I'll die awaiting next season.
+StudioInkblot or longer!
+Leon Don't remind me.. i haven't processed all of this yet
Every time I get goosebumps, a lump in my throat and I fight back tears with this song. This is just so emotionally striking! (Johnny's version NEVER does thàt for me and never will.)
good god this song fit so well to the finale
if you're here because of logan and you're new to NIN, I'm jealous- listen to everything.
Love this song, love you Trent!
This track kept me out of damnation and saved me in a time I needed it. Thank you Trent.
This song had no meaning to me before Rick and Morty. Now it gives me the chills everytime. Dammit, Birdperson NOOOOOOOOOOOO!
birdperson nooooooooo!!!!! lol
I'm Jerry Smith, and I love sucking big, sweaty [bleep] And licking disgusting furry testicle sacks
"What are you in for?" "Everything " 😔
Goosebumps... every time...
Who is human that cannot relate? Even if you're not an addict... Pain is pain is pain...
Love is love is love... Johnny Cash cover is amazing
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Proof real artists are not dead.
23 years ago I entered the room of my best friend, and he was on the floor with hundred of broken old pictures at his side and his wrists cutted down with a lot of blood surrounding him. In the room sounding this song in repeat mode so everytime it ended started again and again. He was lucky, I was able to cover his wounds and go to the hospital. Finally he recovered and this is just a bad remember. But after that day, his depressing song became my depressing song for sad days. So I can remember all the shitty days of my life hearing this lines.
I'm glad your friend made it. We all go through hell in different ways. And this song reflects a scary number of ways it can happen. Hurt is a part of living, and I'm glad your song isn't over.
To those who say Johnny Cash didn't create this song that is true but I say go compare the average views and upvotes on each version. Nine Inch Nails even said Johnny Cash made a much better version because it suits his dark style of music which generally reflects the hard life he has led.
Nine Inch Nails version 1mil to 3mil views
Johnny Cash version - Most videos I see easily have 5mil up to 20mil views or higher and thats not even factoring in the surge in popularity from the Logan(aka Wolverine 3) movie.
its just because NiN is an underground band, underground music style, hard to like. NiN is just unusual. Johhny cash have more reach than NiN.
The hurt version of the original album makes sense because it tells a linear story of suicide. You want something more obscure than that?
I like this version better. Feels more authentic to me.
Glenn A so what you are saying is
Johnny cash is better because of the view count?
So that logic drake and psy are better than most bands.
Johnny cash made an incredible rendition, which I feel is the better of the two, but the Nin is so much more twisted and dark.
Don't try to compare the quality of either. They are completely different songs, which is more accurately what Rezner said in "it's not my song anymore." They take different tones and are about different sequences, only sharing themes of loneliness and regret. The difference in views and likes is more understandable when you consider Cash's popularity over NIN. And if you think popularity=quality, you're mistaken. Don't try to compare these songs.
Amazing work. A timeless piece of art.
Really love NIN and also other dark styles of music from acts like
Gary Numan, Tool, Chelsea Wolfe, Massive Attack, Portishead, Allflaws
When I first heard the song I though "crown of shit" was "crown of shame". Now I sing "crown of shame" because it fits me better
Nunya Bisnuss That’s exactly why it’s a reference to the crucifixion story from the Bible. The Roman soldiers placed a crown of thorns on the head of Jesus Christ as a way to mock him and degrade him. That’s why in the Johnny Cash version it was changed to “CROWN OF THORNS”.