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Johnny Cash did a good job with "Hurt"
I think it's differently good but still prefer the original. I think there's something more compelling in the arrangement and orchestration of the original.
Trent Reznor himself admitted that it’s Cash’s song now.
And Cash had been skeptical about covering it.
Good for anyone who likes that version, but I could never get into it. It is okay, but will always pale in comparison to the raw emotions of the original, in my opinion.
I dunno, I think Cash is just as rawly emotional, it's just a different expression of a slightly different emotion. Reznor is expressing bleak despair in the midst of a Downward Spiral of self abuse, Cash is expressing bleak regret bearing the weight of decades of decisions.
Maybe it's just because I have a soft spot for old, tough men expressing vulnerability, but
hits way more raw coming from an old guy.
Cash's version has the same emotion but it's coming from a completely different place.
NiN has Something I Can Never Have for the feels. Give Johnny's ghost this one.
I recently learned that the guitar on the original is actually a synth, blew my mind
Social Distortion did a good job with Johnny Cash.
Also Johnny Cash with "The Mercy Seat"
It's a toss up between Cave and Cash for me. Both are fantastic songs.
Pretty much any song he covered ended up being the definitive version.
Mercy seat and In my life are masterpieces in the original but his renditions are immaculate. It's something about his low emotion, speaking from a position of looking back at the events rather than being emotional and in them like the originals.