Song #5 on the Popdose Top 100 Covers list is “Hurt”, originally by Nine Inch Nails and covered by Johnny Cash.
Such a powerful song, and you can really feel what Trent Reznor is singing. Now here’s the Man In Black:
Wow. Now that’s what they had in mind when the idea of music videos was first conceived. The imagery…”haunting” isn’t a strong enough word. Cash sings a cover of “Bridge Over Troubled Water” on the same album as “Hurt”, and I’ve said before that when he voices lines like “And pain is all around/Like a bridge over troubled water/I will lay me down” you really believe him, because you know he’s lived it. That goes double for this song. A truly amazing achievement, a defining achievement for the end of his career as the Popdose writer says.
There are some songs that can’t be sung by twenty somethings. It’s not the years, it’s the milage.
But, Kermit The Frog’s version should not be totally neglected…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57ta7mkgrOU