Nine Inch Nails is just a bad band that fills most of their songs with needless noise, a fact that almost ruins their original version of Hurt. They also threw in a completely pointless and distracting "shit" just to put it in. It completely takes away my sympathy which the singer has been trying so hard to garner and makes him sound like someone who can't ever talk without swearing.
So I don't think anyone else will be surprised to hear that I think the best version of this song belongs to Johnny Cash. When Trent Reznor sings this song it doesn't sound sincere. I know it is because I know he had a lot of problems but that does not translate over to the song. In Cash's version I not only feel is pain and desperation but also his loneliness. The NIN version makes you want to just walk by and ignore this person who is having problems, they don't deserves your time all they are doing is complaining about how no one likes me as the play bad music. On Cash's version tough his deep voice and sorrowful acoustic picking makes you want to reach out and help him, but the backing strings and piano hits also makes him unapproachable which is all the more heartbreaking.
Some people say that you need sloppiness in music to keep it "real", "soulful", and "powerful". Well Johnny Cash sure proved that one wrong with this little cover.
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