Have you ever heard the phrase "love like Johnny and June" his wife June Carter Cash passed away and he soon passed as well basically of a broken heart. He had fought health problems for years but without her, he gave up
The concept is well-known in health circles. In the case of death in older hetero couples that have a traditional lifestyle. If the woman dies first the man will die shortly after while if the man dies first the woman will often live for a long time. This is all in addition to the sadness of losing someone you have known and cared for for a long time.. The reason is far more pragmatic than romantic. The man has little in the way of practical skills, he's often unable to cook, do laundry, etc. Being able to lift heavy things has few applications in everyday life, cooking, cleaning, and laundry do. Because he has few practical skills his physical health will trend downward as he's eating and living worse, in addition, the toll on his mental health will accelerate this decline. Because she has all the practical skills she can maintain her way of life as her age and physical state allow for. For her, the toll on her mental health is just a period that she'll hopefully be able to get through.
9 nich nails wrote this song “Hurt” is a compelling testament to the ongoing power of music. Originally written by Trent Reznor and released by Nine Inch Nails on the 1994 album Downward Spiral, the song was brilliantly reimagined by Johnny Cash and producer Rick Rubin (Def Jam records, etc.)
Thank God somebody said it I've seen so many people react to this thinking Jonny cash wrote I I love Jonny cash and I love that Trent said its his song now but do some research if you're going to do a reaction
@@user-yu7ku5sk2q - WTH are you two on about? "So many people" seem to comment without even watching the video... All you needed to do was watch until 6:50 (the first min of the song) to hear B.P. stop the video and literally make the point that this was indeed a N.I.N. song as he even included the fact the Reznor wrote it. No research needed. The funny part is that if this had been a reaction to something like Ren's Jenny and Screech trilogy, people would SH%T themselves if he had done "research" and ruined the bombshell ending for himself. Reactions are "first time listens"... Learn the details (or read them in the comments) later if something was missed.
To me the Johnny Cash remake is powerful but heartbreaking. He had success and riches, but they were overshadowed by so much guilt and regret. And he knew he was nearing the end of his life and couldn’t change any of it. It’s a tragic goodbye. I still love the NIN version. It hits you on a different emotional level. You can feel the pain in both, but thankfully Trent was able to make changes in his life.
As I see it the NiN version is about a young man who currently can see no way forward in life due to his decisions. Johnny Cash's version is about an old man who with the benefit of hindsight can see that many of the decisions he took while he was happy with them at the time ultimately led his lived life to become of little value in the end and now he's feeling the consequences.
Rockers need to check out the NIN version. Then the Cash version becomes more emotional. Rick Rubin asked him to try it. Cash thought it was too dark and scary. Then they demoed it for him and he realized how much related to it and how he'd perform it. Trent and Cash both geniuses. It's such an emotional song because it was so personal even Trent was freaked out to hear Cash sing it. Said it was like seeing someone kissing your girlfriend. But then the flattery kicked in and he realized it's a different song in Cash's voice. Trent's was more about suicide and drugs. Cash's is more about the end of a life's journey. So its just so deep. And no one ever did deep better than Johnny Cash.
I did read that about it too. NIN version was very in-the-moment personal, while Cash's was reflecting on the past and what he'd survived. Both of them dealt with drug use and I think it was only when he read the lyrics that Cash decided to do the song. Both are their own beast and both are great in their own way, but Cash's version really resonates with a lot more people, I think.
Nobody will ever be as high as Johnny Cash sitting under a tree eating a birthday cake 😅 r.i.p to a legend.. I also appreciate jelly roll going out and kind of being with the new Johnny Cash and putting on a concert at a prison
Great reaction. One thing most reactors miss in my opinion is the very last few moments of the video. The moment when he closes the cover on the keys of the piano. That in itself is a powerful statement summarizing the lyrics and his life by saying without words, "It's over". Thanks for the great reaction.
Best ever episode of Columbo is when Johnny Cash is the preacher lady's boyfriend who ends up murdering her and ends up getting pestered by Colombo one of the scenes in the videos from that
When his daughter heard this she told him it soubded like he was saying goodby and he said "I am". At the time I think he meant more that it would be his last album before retiring completely. Unfortunately it really did become his goodbye to everyone. His wife June died 3 months after they filmed this. Johnny followed her 4 months later.
Frank Sinatra didn't write "My Way" or any of his songs. But he owned it, just like Johnny Cash didn't write this song, but he owned it. Another case of this would be Prince's song "Nothing Compares 2 U" ... even a Prince song can be owned by another artist, which is what Sinéad O'Connor did when she sang it - she owned it. GREAT REACTION GUYS!
Trent Reznor sang the song from the standpoint of a young man who thought his life was finished. Johnny sang it as an old and frail man who _knew_ it was.
Love your content. A small correction: Frank Sinatra didn´t actually write "My Way". Paul Anka wrote the lyrics especially for Frank Sinatra. The original song is french "Comme d'habitude"
I hope you're ok. I'm 55 times can be challenging but the tough times will pass and things will get better, step by step they will improve, hang in there. Best wishes from Ireland.
Dude I tear up every time in this video when I see June standing looking at Johnny on the steps in this video knowing Johnny died 4 months after she did.
Here is the story of how this came about; In 2002, Trent Reznor had released three albums with his industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails. The second LP was 1994’s The Downward Spiral, a gruelling concept album that tells the story of a character’s descent into darkness. The finale is Hurt: a brutal depiction of self-loathing and emotional numbness that begins “I hurt myself today / To see if I still feel.” When Cash appeared on U2’s 1993 album Zooropa providing vocals for the track The Wanderer, he came to the attention of producer Rick Rubin, who was looking for acts for his American Recordings label. Rubin had sent the song to Cash before, but the veteran musician couldn’t hear beyond the industrial noise and anguished howl that featured in the original. “I think it was hard for him to hear it,” Rubin told Rolling Stone. “So I sent him the lyrics. I said, ‘Just read the lyrics. If you like the lyrics, then we'll find a way to do it that will suit you’.” Cash was convinced by Rubin's belief in the song and agreed to try recording it at the producer's home in LA. The musician was suffering from autonomic neuropathy brought on by diabetes and by the time he recorded Hurt, his health was failing. “There were times when his voice sounded broken,” said Rubin. Instead of being a song about a young individual on the downward spiral to self-destruction, Cash interpreted the lyrics as a man at the end of his life. The result is heartbreaking as the veteran musician sings in a quavering, emotional voice: “If I could start again / A million miles away / I would keep myself / I would find a way.” The video was shot in bitterly cold weather in Nashville in February 2003. Three months later, June Carter Cash, the musician’s wife of 35 years, died. You see her in the stairs in the video. And his Mother in the photo. Johnny Cash himself died on 12 September 2003, just under a year after the release of American IV. The album was the first Johnny Cash studio LP to achieve Gold status in the US for more than thirty years. It introduced the legendary singer to new generations of listeners.
You have to talk about Rick Rubin in the context of this song. It was he who convinced JC that he must cover 'Hurt'. It was his idea to make one more record to Johnny Cash, and they did it. JC did not want a new record then.
Well that worked out well. I'm pretty sure God had a hand in that coordination. The Big Guy has been known to move the needles. It looks so perfect. It feels so perfect. 🙄😇💫🌌😊
I'm going to propose a musical trifecta - "God Will Cut You Down". This is a very old American Folk song, everyone has recorded their own cover, it seems. But there are three notable versions. Odetta Holmes - An American Blues/Jazz singer popular in the 50s and 60s, called the "Voice of the Civil Rights Movement". Her version was outstanding, but very minimalistic. Johnny Cash - He covered it a few years after Odetta, and his version is often regarded as the definitive version. The instrumentation he added made it incredible. Many mistakenly believe this is a Cash original, he brought the song to people in a very different demographic who had never heard it before. Marylin Manson - I don't care what anyone says, despite the shocking persona and heavy sound to some of his more popular music, he is perhaps the most talented Blues artist of our generation. Yes, you read that right, "Blues", lol. People are skeptical of that, which is fair, but if you aren't familiar with his catalogue, it would be easily missed, as those aren't the songs he's generally known for. But when he goes for Blues sound, holy shit... It's the same song, a classic, but in three wildly different styles, spanning about 60 years of music. The meaning seems to transform with each of them. It's a fairly short song, so if you want a reaction video, run those back to back, people's minds will be blown.
As I understand it, Cash was one of Reznor's heroes, and he considered it an honor to let his hero do his song. Well, it's one thing to be 20 something and trying to repair your life. It's another to be 80 and unable to do a dang thing. Reznor was right when he said, "It's not my song any more."
"Hurt" is a song by American industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails from its second studio album, The Downward Spiral (1994), written by Trent Reznor. It was released on April 17, 1995, as a promotional single from the album. This is a cover. Reznor heard it and said that it wasnt his song anymore. It was Johnny Cash's now.
It's like watching a father trying to teach a son who just doesn't get it. Don't give up BP. You're doing God's work. The Fairy Voice Mother does a very emotional reaction to this song.
I hurt myself today to see if I still feel. I hit myself in the thumb with a hammer the other day. It hurt like crazy I just thought to myself I am alive.
The NIN version is just as passionate. The song is from 1994. It's coming from a completely different place, a young man stuck in addiction and regret. But that's the beauty of the lyrics, because Johnny's version brings you to the end of a life, with past addiction and regret . they both mean something.
Trent says he does and Bruce Willis says Die Hard isn’t a Christmas movie. They are both wrong lol. Says me. I love Cash and his version but Trent’s versions are still my favorite.
Reznor is showing respect. But nobody will ever convince me that Cash's shaky voice version is "better" than the screaming passion Trent put into his original creation. @@AdamBazille
It actually a Nine Inch Nails song that Jonny cash did this cover off. It awesome I love both versions. Jonny Cash voice is epic with this song. Nine Inch Nails one is more like you being so hurt by someone that you just feel self destructive. Jonny Cash buys that spin on it that just makes it tug at you in completely different way. Same song just done so completely different.
Johnny Cash's rendition of Hurt by Nine Inch Nails has a similar effect to Disturb's Sound of Silence by Simon and Garfunkel Both versions of each song are good but the differing versions bring out different themes to the song, evoke different emotions.
Something that don’t get mentioned really is how much powerful Johnny can make something with just a simple guitar and piano. I could be wrong but pretty much think that all he used in this version. This is why Johnny regraded as one of the greatest he didn’t need a lot to tell a story and move people.
You have me wondering what you would think of Canadian Legend Leonard Cohen’s album You Want It Darker which was released shortly after his death. It was his goodbye album.
Black One of his children, Roseanne Carter Cash, who is also a singer, was asking her father, "are you saying goodbye in this song?" Johnny replied back, "yes" Video was recorded in February of 2003. Then his wife, June, who looked on the stairs died in May of 2003. With his health issues plus, heartbreak by losing his love, Johnny died in Sept. of 2003.
The singers sometimes write the song they are singing. But neither Johnny Cash on Hurt nor Frank Sinatra on My Way had a part in writing the song. They made it sound like they did.
Andiroo is my favorite guest by far. So young, but so insightful. Makes me think my kids might actually have a good future. We'll see, but I'm hopeful.
Speaking of original version. Well Reznor sings about his own problems in life and Cash about his. I think it is a beauty of masterpiece that everyone can use same lyrics yet put so many different senses to it.
Interesting that your friend is so emotionally mature. The development and maturation of the prefrontal cortex occurs primarily during adolescence and is fully accomplished at the age of 25 years. In other words, it’s not until around age 25 that you really understand that stupid stunts and behavior can cause death.
Folsom Prison Blues is most definitely worth listening to; he actually performed it live at San Quentin. Johnny Cash was an amazing man, and honestly there are just so many from him that are must listens. His life is such an interesting story, so if you ever have the time or inclination, look it up.
Johnny Cash was suffering from autonomic neuropathy brought on by diabetes and by the time he recorded Hurt, his health was failing. Johnny Cash covered the song Hurt for his album, American IV: The Man Comes Around. Three months later, after Hurt was released June Carter Cash, the musician's wife of 35 years, died, after which Johnny Cash passed away on September 12, 2003, just under a year after the release of his album American IV: The Man Comes Around. Johnny Cash's wife, June Carter Cash is seen alongside him in the music video for Hurt. The Music video for Hurt was filmed at the House Of Cash which doubled as a Museum for his musical career and was closed to the public for years because of the lack of visitors. Johnny's old home/museum was falling apart it was in such a state of dereliction and filming there would be a candid way to show Johnny's life and health struggles late in his life and it was a great place to show Johnny's mental baggage on top of a deep, and intense song. The video itself amplified the themes of the song's bleak outlook on life and the sad inevitability of death themes of regret and joylessness of possessions as Johnny's house and museum of lifetime achievements crumbled and fell around him. It was the perfect heart-wrenching backdrop for an already intensely sad song the video included as many symbolic moments as possible. Showing off a lavish/Decadence feast with only Johnny around to eat it with many clips of Johnny's early career placed close together throughout the video for contrasting effect. He's cracked platinum records along with his pouring away red wine. Pouring one out refers to “the act of pouring a liquid (usually an alcoholic beverage) on the ground as a sign of reverence for friends or relatives that have passed away. It also can symbolize the Holy Spirit Wine traditionally is the central symbol for transformation. Nature often holds up a mirror so we can see more clearly the ongoing processes of growth, renewal, and transformation in our lives. Wine is a mirror held up to nature. Closing a piano lid showing the end of his career/life tragically the song itself embodied an omen of what was to come when June is seen standing over Johnny and June's death 3 months after the music video was released would recontextualize the music video as it looks as if June is watching over Johnny from above in the video. Four years after the passing of Johnny Cash his dilapidated home the House Of Cash which doubled as a Museum in which he lived for 30 years burned to the ground which eerily Symbolises the music video for Hurt.
Can you imagine the weight on a persons shoulder, of being a legend while you live and breath🤔 and knowing folks will still know of you many many years after your death
Another moving 'last song' would be Lazarus by David Bowie. He was aware of his limited time, and saw his last album, Blackstar, as his epitaph. It was released 2 days before he passed.
Check out Producer Rick Ruben's stories about helping and coaching Johnny through the times of June's death and Johnny's diabetic disease and blindness which Cash would eventually succumb to. "My Way" was a French tune that Paul Anka wrote the english lyrics and was covered by many artists including Elvis Presley and Sid Vicious (The Sex Pistols).
This was his goodbye a reflection of his life I was only a few years old when Cash passed away but I listened to his music heavily growing up and still do as a 25 year old.
I think it hits harder when you have lost people and almost yourself. Almost everyone in my life has died from drug addiction/ODs. I nearly lost myself countless times but somehow survived and the guilt threw me back in the cycle of just hoping every time would be the last time. That I’d fade blissfully into nothingness and the pain would finally end. I have 4 years clean and it’s still a daily struggle. I just want to let others know that it’s not impossible even though it seems that way. ❤
FYI, Frank Sinatra didn't write "My Way". He is credited as a co-writer of 4 songs ("My Way" is not one of them) but who knows how much (if anything) he actually contributed to those 4 songs. Sometimes a recording artist doesn't contribute anything to the writing of a song but manages to get his/her name in the songwriting credits just so they can get a share of the writer royalties.
I'm 73 and Cash's singing of this song that covers a lifetime increases the meaning. Seeing him walk around the house he grew up in, his wife June Carter looked at him from the staircase,, when he closed the lid to his piano was the last time he played it. When he showed the DVD to Roseanne, she said "It sounds like you're saying goodbye." He replied, "I am." June died just a couple of months after this, and Johnny died a few more months.
First time I heard this song it was the opening music played over the intro scenes of Person of Interest (S3 E9) and it hit me in the feels hard enough it made it into my top 100
Can you do the song My Ding a Ling by Chuck Berry I really wanna see your reaction to it people please help me with getting this up there for him to see
The only problem with this song is many youngsters start out with Hurt without finding out how he got here. Start out with early Johnny and listento it first.
This is such a great song! You should do the original version by Nine Inch Nails too. They are very different songs, even though they have the same lyrics. Johnny Cash's version is an older man coming toward the end of his life, singing about regret. Trent Reznor's version is a young man struggling with depression and addiction. I would do a live version. Trent closes every show with this song.
Yeah, I loved the original NIN version when it came out, but Johnny Cash took it to a whole other level in his cover. Let's be honest, the coolest aspect is that Cash in his old age was still listening to contemporary music in wildly different genres. That's a true musician. So many get stuck in their own sound and style, especially as they get older. It's very common for younger musicians to cover the music of the older generation, as that's what they grew up with, but you very rarely see the reverse. Cash was 70 years old when this was recorded. How many 70 year olds would consider industrial metal as anything other than noise, even now, 22 years later? But Cash was always well ahead of his time.
@@Arkryal I agree that it's awesome he was listening to current music. His cover of Rusty Cage by Soundgarden is great too. I think his cover of Hurt is amazing, but it's a whole different vibe/mood/perspective, so I think which version you prefer depends on your own frame of reference and perspective, as well as style preferences.
Oh, NiN covers Johnny Cash's Hurt? Just kidding - both versions definitely have a totally different vibe and take to them. I heard Trent's version way before Johnny covered it. But I do agree with Trent, Johnny just somehow took ownership of the song. From what I read at the time, Trent was very against it until he heard it.
@@JohnSheehan72 Haha! He didn't like it until he saw the video. There is a youtube video with him talking about it in an interview. I can't post the link here, but if you search, it's called "Trent Reznor says he "dismissed" Johnny Cash's cover of Hurt the first time he heard it" I think both versions are amazing.
You need to react to some of the performances by the supergroup The Highwaymen (consisting of Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Johnny Cash and Kris Kristofferson). I would suggest the following songs: The Highwayman, City of New Orleans, Silver Stallion, Me and Bobby McGee, Sunday Morning Coming Down, Desperadoes Waiting for a Train, The Last Cowboy Song, Loving Her Was Easier Than Anything I'll Ever Do Again, Big River, A Boy Named Sue, Folsom Prison Blues, and Riders in the Sky.
9 inch nails performance ahs absolutely different vibe and story behind the song...both touch something inside of you bit at different levels at least for me
June Carter his wife passed while the album was in post production and he past just a few month later making it even more incredible.
Have you ever heard the phrase "love like Johnny and June" his wife June Carter Cash passed away and he soon passed as well basically of a broken heart. He had fought health problems for years but without her, he gave up
June, with an assist from her Mother Maybelle and Jesus, saved his life.
Yes it was only a few months between their passing.
The concept is well-known in health circles. In the case of death in older hetero couples that have a traditional lifestyle. If the woman dies first the man will die shortly after while if the man dies first the woman will often live for a long time.
This is all in addition to the sadness of losing someone you have known and cared for for a long time..
The reason is far more pragmatic than romantic. The man has little in the way of practical skills, he's often unable to cook, do laundry, etc. Being able to lift heavy things has few applications in everyday life, cooking, cleaning, and laundry do.
Because he has few practical skills his physical health will trend downward as he's eating and living worse, in addition, the toll on his mental health will accelerate this decline.
Because she has all the practical skills she can maintain her way of life as her age and physical state allow for. For her, the toll on her mental health is just a period that she'll hopefully be able to get through.
9 nich nails wrote this song “Hurt” is a compelling testament to the ongoing power of music. Originally written by Trent Reznor and released by Nine Inch Nails on the 1994 album Downward Spiral, the song was brilliantly reimagined by Johnny Cash and producer Rick Rubin (Def Jam records, etc.)
Thank God somebody said it I've seen so many people react to this thinking Jonny cash wrote I I love Jonny cash and I love that Trent said its his song now but do some research if you're going to do a reaction
@@user-yu7ku5sk2q - WTH are you two on about? "So many people" seem to comment without even watching the video...
All you needed to do was watch until 6:50 (the first min of the song) to hear B.P. stop the video and literally make the point that this was indeed a N.I.N. song as he even included the fact the Reznor wrote it. No research needed.
The funny part is that if this had been a reaction to something like Ren's Jenny and Screech trilogy, people would SH%T themselves if he had done "research" and ruined the bombshell ending for himself. Reactions are "first time listens"... Learn the details (or read them in the comments) later if something was missed.
@@user-yu7ku5sk2qBP literally said those exact word in this very video. Did you even watch the reaction?
@Defiance-77 I really like black Pegasus watch all the time and yes in my opinion he had no idea Jonny cash didn't write that song
@@user-yu7ku5sk2q - Well you didn't watch THIS time because BP literally TOLD YOU who wrote this song. How is this so difficult?
To me the Johnny Cash remake is powerful but heartbreaking. He had success and riches, but they were overshadowed by so much guilt and regret. And he knew he was nearing the end of his life and couldn’t change any of it. It’s a tragic goodbye.
I still love the NIN version. It hits you on a different emotional level. You can feel the pain in both, but thankfully Trent was able to make changes in his life.
As I see it the NiN version is about a young man who currently can see no way forward in life due to his decisions.
Johnny Cash's version is about an old man who with the benefit of hindsight can see that many of the decisions he took while he was happy with them at the time ultimately led his lived life to become of little value in the end and now he's feeling the consequences.
The way closes his piano, like a coffin. Chills. Another great reaction. I like this kid. My son was born in 2000 as well. It's so convenient. 40!
I can recall my grandfather doing that motion over keyboards.... it makes this hit hard for me.
Rockers need to check out the NIN version. Then the Cash version becomes more emotional. Rick Rubin asked him to try it. Cash thought it was too dark and scary. Then they demoed it for him and he realized how much related to it and how he'd perform it. Trent and Cash both geniuses. It's such an emotional song because it was so personal even Trent was freaked out to hear Cash sing it. Said it was like seeing someone kissing your girlfriend. But then the flattery kicked in and he realized it's a different song in Cash's voice. Trent's was more about suicide and drugs. Cash's is more about the end of a life's journey. So its just so deep. And no one ever did deep better than Johnny Cash.
I did read that about it too. NIN version was very in-the-moment personal, while Cash's was reflecting on the past and what he'd survived. Both of them dealt with drug use and I think it was only when he read the lyrics that Cash decided to do the song. Both are their own beast and both are great in their own way, but Cash's version really resonates with a lot more people, I think.
Johnny Cash was asked to cover this, but he really didn't want to at first, then he did
Originally a Nine Inch Nails song.
Nobody will ever be as high as Johnny Cash sitting under a tree eating a birthday cake 😅 r.i.p to a legend.. I also appreciate jelly roll going out and kind of being with the new Johnny Cash and putting on a concert at a prison
Andy is wise for his age, yes. And very articulate. That's why we love his reactions.
40!
Great reaction. One thing most reactors miss in my opinion is the very last few moments of the video. The moment when he closes the cover on the keys of the piano. That in itself is a powerful statement summarizing the lyrics and his life by saying without words, "It's over". Thanks for the great reaction.
Best ever episode of Columbo is when Johnny Cash is the preacher lady's boyfriend who ends up murdering her and ends up getting pestered by Colombo one of the scenes in the videos from that
And I think he did a great job. One of my favorite episodes
When his daughter heard this she told him it soubded like he was saying goodby and he said "I am". At the time I think he meant more that it would be his last album before retiring completely. Unfortunately it really did become his goodbye to everyone.
His wife June died 3 months after they filmed this. Johnny followed her 4 months later.
Frank Sinatra didn't write "My Way" or any of his songs. But he owned it, just like Johnny Cash didn't write this song, but he owned it. Another case of this would be Prince's song "Nothing Compares 2 U" ... even a Prince song can be owned by another artist, which is what Sinéad O'Connor did when she sang it - she owned it. GREAT REACTION GUYS!
The shot of him pouring the wine onto the table goes harder than it has any right to. What a legend. Rip
Trent Reznor sang the song from the standpoint of a young man who thought his life was finished. Johnny sang it as an old and frail man who _knew_ it was.
That was the last time he touched a piano. His old friend.
Check out David Bowie's Lazarus, it's in the same vein as this song at the end of his life.
Love your content. A small correction: Frank Sinatra didn´t actually write "My Way". Paul Anka wrote the lyrics especially for Frank Sinatra. The original song is french "Comme d'habitude"
The original song
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"Comme d'habitude" was written by Jacques Revaux and Gilles Thibault.
Dude, I'm 53 going through the hardest struggle of my life.
I hope you're ok. I'm 55 times can be challenging but the tough times will pass and things will get better, step by step they will improve, hang in there. Best wishes from Ireland.
Dude I tear up every time in this video when I see June standing looking at Johnny on the steps in this video knowing Johnny died 4 months after she did.
Here is the story of how this came about;
In 2002, Trent Reznor had released three albums with his industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails. The second LP was 1994’s The Downward Spiral, a gruelling concept album that tells the story of a character’s descent into darkness.
The finale is Hurt: a brutal depiction of self-loathing and emotional numbness that begins “I hurt myself today / To see if I still feel.”
When Cash appeared on U2’s 1993 album Zooropa providing vocals for the track The Wanderer, he came to the attention of producer Rick Rubin, who was looking for acts for his American Recordings label.
Rubin had sent the song to Cash before, but the veteran musician couldn’t hear beyond the industrial noise and anguished howl that featured in the original. “I think it was hard for him to hear it,” Rubin told Rolling Stone. “So I sent him the lyrics. I said, ‘Just read the lyrics. If you like the lyrics, then we'll find a way to do it that will suit you’.”
Cash was convinced by Rubin's belief in the song and agreed to try recording it at the producer's home in LA. The musician was suffering from autonomic neuropathy brought on by diabetes and by the time he recorded Hurt, his health was failing. “There were times when his voice sounded broken,” said Rubin.
Instead of being a song about a young individual on the downward spiral to self-destruction, Cash interpreted the lyrics as a man at the end of his life. The result is heartbreaking as the veteran musician sings in a quavering, emotional voice: “If I could start again / A million miles away / I would keep myself / I would find a way.”
The video was shot in bitterly cold weather in Nashville in February 2003. Three months later, June Carter Cash, the musician’s wife of 35 years, died. You see her in the stairs in the video. And his Mother in the photo.
Johnny Cash himself died on 12 September 2003, just under a year after the release of American IV.
The album was the first Johnny Cash studio LP to achieve Gold status in the US for more than thirty years. It introduced the legendary singer to new generations of listeners.
Paul Anka wrote “My Way” and Frank made it famous. Elvis sang it too, I believe. Johnny Cash sings with such feeling. 😢
Jacques Revaux and Gilles Thibault wrote the original song that Paul Anka based "My Way" on.
You have to talk about Rick Rubin in the context of this song. It was he who convinced JC that he must cover 'Hurt'. It was his idea to make one more record to Johnny Cash, and they did it. JC did not want a new record then.
Well that worked out well. I'm pretty sure God had a hand in that coordination. The Big Guy has been known to move the needles. It looks so perfect. It feels so perfect. 🙄😇💫🌌😊
Yes props to Rick Rubin
I'm going to propose a musical trifecta - "God Will Cut You Down".
This is a very old American Folk song, everyone has recorded their own cover, it seems. But there are three notable versions.
Odetta Holmes - An American Blues/Jazz singer popular in the 50s and 60s, called the "Voice of the Civil Rights Movement". Her version was outstanding, but very minimalistic.
Johnny Cash - He covered it a few years after Odetta, and his version is often regarded as the definitive version. The instrumentation he added made it incredible. Many mistakenly believe this is a Cash original, he brought the song to people in a very different demographic who had never heard it before.
Marylin Manson - I don't care what anyone says, despite the shocking persona and heavy sound to some of his more popular music, he is perhaps the most talented Blues artist of our generation. Yes, you read that right, "Blues", lol. People are skeptical of that, which is fair, but if you aren't familiar with his catalogue, it would be easily missed, as those aren't the songs he's generally known for. But when he goes for Blues sound, holy shit...
It's the same song, a classic, but in three wildly different styles, spanning about 60 years of music. The meaning seems to transform with each of them. It's a fairly short song, so if you want a reaction video, run those back to back, people's minds will be blown.
If you react to Cash I will watch. And that song deserves an eternal "WOW!".
Immediately after you recognized, Trent Reznor wrote the song you both talked about how Johnny Cash wrote it right before he died 😂
You need to checkout Sunday Morning Coming Down. It’s a definitive song of Johnny’s recorded during the drug years and written by Kris Kristofferson.
As I understand it, Cash was one of Reznor's heroes, and he considered it an honor to let his hero do his song. Well, it's one thing to be 20 something and trying to repair your life. It's another to be 80 and unable to do a dang thing. Reznor was right when he said, "It's not my song any more."
"Hurt" is a song by American industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails from its second studio album, The Downward Spiral (1994), written by Trent Reznor. It was released on April 17, 1995, as a promotional single from the album.
This is a cover. Reznor heard it and said that it wasnt his song anymore. It was Johnny Cash's now.
It's like watching a father trying to teach a son who just doesn't get it. Don't give up BP. You're doing God's work. The Fairy Voice Mother does a very emotional reaction to this song.
I hurt myself today to see if I still feel. I hit myself in the thumb with a hammer the other day. It hurt like crazy I just thought to myself I am alive.
The hardest thing to do is to forgive but it's the best thing that you can do for yourself.
The NIN version is just as passionate. The song is from 1994. It's coming from a completely different place, a young man stuck in addiction and regret. But that's the beauty of the lyrics, because Johnny's version brings you to the end of a life, with past addiction and regret . they both mean something.
Remember when he redid this 20 years ago! Loved Nine Inch Nails but Johnny owns this song now.
No he doesn't.
@@Vampagan Trent Rezner says he does to. Ill take his word for it.
Trent says he does and Bruce Willis says Die Hard isn’t a Christmas movie. They are both wrong lol. Says me. I love Cash and his version but Trent’s versions are still my favorite.
Reznor is showing respect. But nobody will ever convince me that Cash's shaky voice version is "better" than the screaming passion Trent put into his original creation. @@AdamBazille
It actually a Nine Inch Nails song that Jonny cash did this cover off.
It awesome I love both versions.
Jonny Cash voice is epic with this song.
Nine Inch Nails one is more like you being so hurt by someone that you just feel self destructive.
Jonny Cash buys that spin on it that just makes it tug at you in completely different way.
Same song just done so completely different.
Fact check: Sinatra didn't write My Way. He recorded it at age 53, about 30 years before he died.
Johnny Cash's rendition of Hurt by Nine Inch Nails has a similar effect to Disturb's Sound of Silence by Simon and Garfunkel
Both versions of each song are good but the differing versions bring out different themes to the song, evoke different emotions.
I believe this was produced by Rick Rubin
His beloved wife June Carter Cash died ( complications from surgery) four months before Johnny did. They were married in 1968.
Something that don’t get mentioned really is how much powerful Johnny can make something with just a simple guitar and piano. I could be wrong but pretty much think that all he used in this version. This is why Johnny regraded as one of the greatest he didn’t need a lot to tell a story and move people.
You are a MAN! MUCH RESPECT.
Did NOT know andi and i are within the same month in age. Damn, i'm slacking.
You have me wondering what you would think of Canadian Legend Leonard Cohen’s album You Want It Darker which was released shortly after his death. It was his goodbye album.
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One of his children, Roseanne Carter Cash, who is also a singer, was asking her father, "are you saying goodbye in this song?" Johnny replied back, "yes" Video was recorded in February of 2003. Then his wife, June, who looked on the stairs died in May of 2003. With his health issues plus, heartbreak by losing his love, Johnny died in Sept. of 2003.
The singers sometimes write the song they are singing. But neither Johnny Cash on Hurt nor Frank Sinatra on My Way had a part in writing the song. They made it sound like they did.
This reaction from both of you guys is... brilliant, hopeful and inspiring! BRAVO!!&!
Andiroo is my favorite guest by far. So young, but so insightful. Makes me think my kids might actually have a good future. We'll see, but I'm hopeful.
As far as retrospective songs go. This one and Johnny Paycheck "old violen" are two of the deepest.
A song worth watching is Gary Numan - My name Is Ruin (live at Brixton academy) a new rabbit hole for you ;)
He performed it closer to about a year before he passed. The original singer now says it belongs to Johnny.
Life is very short you’ll be old before you know it .make the best of it . Know matter what you acquire in your life you’re not taking it when you die
I always thought this song was about drugs “The needle tears a hole, that old familiar sting” and regret… a lot of regret “I will make you hurt.” 😢
This song is one of those that stop time for me. Great reaction.
This song gets VERY serious VERY quickly
The discussion about predicting your death in song reminds me of of Kurdt Cobain singing I Hate Myself and Want to Die shortly before taking his life.
Speaking of original version. Well Reznor sings about his own problems in life and Cash about his. I think it is a beauty of masterpiece that everyone can use same lyrics yet put so many different senses to it.
This is a masterpiece. I tear up every time I listen to it
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They played this, on full rotation, with Nirvana, Alice In Chains, Soundgarden, etc. on MTV, before it collapsed.
Interesting that your friend is so emotionally mature. The development and maturation of the prefrontal cortex occurs primarily during adolescence and is fully accomplished at the age of 25 years. In other words, it’s not until around age 25 that you really understand that stupid stunts and behavior can cause death.
The last handful of albums Cash released were produced by Rick Rubin, who talked Cash into doing Hurt.
Folsom Prison Blues is most definitely worth listening to; he actually performed it live at San Quentin. Johnny Cash was an amazing man, and honestly there are just so many from him that are must listens. His life is such an interesting story, so if you ever have the time or inclination, look it up.
I heard that was the last time that Johnny Cash ever played on a piano.
Johnny Cash was suffering from autonomic neuropathy brought on by diabetes and by the time he recorded Hurt, his health was failing. Johnny Cash covered the song Hurt for his album, American IV: The Man Comes Around.
Three months later, after Hurt was released June Carter Cash, the musician's wife of 35 years, died, after which Johnny Cash passed away on September 12, 2003,
just under a year after the release of his album American IV: The Man Comes Around. Johnny Cash's wife, June Carter Cash is seen alongside him in the music video for Hurt.
The Music video for Hurt was filmed at the House Of Cash which doubled as a Museum for his musical career and was closed to the public for years because of the lack of visitors.
Johnny's old home/museum was falling apart it was in such a state of dereliction and filming there would be a candid way to show Johnny's life and health struggles late in his life and it was a great place to show Johnny's mental baggage on top of a deep, and intense song.
The video itself amplified the themes of the song's bleak outlook on life and the sad inevitability of death themes of regret and joylessness of possessions as Johnny's house and museum of lifetime achievements crumbled and fell around him.
It was the perfect heart-wrenching backdrop for an already intensely sad song the video included as many symbolic moments as possible.
Showing off a lavish/Decadence feast with only Johnny around to eat it with many clips of Johnny's early career placed close together throughout the video for contrasting effect. He's cracked platinum records along with his pouring away red wine.
Pouring one out refers to “the act of pouring a liquid (usually an alcoholic beverage) on the ground as a sign of reverence for friends or relatives that have passed away.
It also can symbolize the Holy Spirit Wine traditionally is the central symbol for transformation.
Nature often holds up a mirror so we can see more clearly the ongoing processes of growth, renewal, and transformation in our lives. Wine is a mirror held up to nature.
Closing a piano lid showing the end of his career/life tragically the song itself embodied an omen of what was to come when June is seen standing over Johnny
and June's death 3 months after the music video was released would recontextualize the music video as it looks as if June is watching over Johnny from above in the video.
Four years after the passing of Johnny Cash his dilapidated home the House Of Cash which doubled as a Museum in which he lived for 30 years burned to the ground which eerily Symbolises the music video for Hurt.
Can you imagine the weight on a persons shoulder, of being a legend while you live and breath🤔 and knowing folks will still know of you many many years after your death
Another moving 'last song' would be Lazarus by David Bowie. He was aware of his limited time, and saw his last album, Blackstar, as his epitaph. It was released 2 days before he passed.
This is a brilliant work of art by an uncompromising artist!
When Johnnys daughter, Rosanne, heard the song she turned to her dad and said 'it sounds like you're saying goodbye' he said "yeah, I am." He knew.
If we could all start again.........
I hung my head.
8:33 to touch on that going back through Linkin Park's discography after losing Chester hits different, because it sounds like a cry for help.
Check out Producer Rick Ruben's stories about helping and coaching Johnny through the times of June's death and Johnny's diabetic disease and blindness which Cash would eventually succumb to.
"My Way" was a French tune that Paul Anka wrote the english lyrics and was covered by many artists including Elvis Presley and Sid Vicious (The Sex Pistols).
Young man knows his shit! Good review guys
Happy Happy 24th Birthday 🎊🎂
This is Johnny near the end. "The Man In Black" was Johnny at the peak of his power, performed on his own TV show. Both are powerful.
This was his goodbye a reflection of his life I was only a few years old when Cash passed away but I listened to his music heavily growing up and still do as a 25 year old.
Hits deep and hard.
his voice was so haunting but yet very enjoyable my favorite is Ring of Fire
I think it hits harder when you have lost people and almost yourself. Almost everyone in my life has died from drug addiction/ODs. I nearly lost myself countless times but somehow survived and the guilt threw me back in the cycle of just hoping every time would be the last time. That I’d fade blissfully into nothingness and the pain would finally end.
I have 4 years clean and it’s still a daily struggle. I just want to let others know that it’s not impossible even though it seems that way. ❤
If you ever have a couple hours to spare, watch Walk The Line, a movie about his life. You’ll understand a lot more about the man in black.
FYI, Frank Sinatra didn't write "My Way". He is credited as a co-writer of 4 songs ("My Way" is not one of them) but who knows how much (if anything) he actually contributed to those 4 songs. Sometimes a recording artist doesn't contribute anything to the writing of a song but manages to get his/her name in the songwriting credits just so they can get a share of the writer royalties.
I'm 73 and Cash's singing of this song that covers a lifetime increases the meaning. Seeing him walk around the house he grew up in, his wife June Carter looked at him from the staircase,, when he closed the lid to his piano was the last time he played it. When he showed the DVD to Roseanne, she said "It sounds like you're saying goodbye." He replied, "I am." June died just a couple of months after this, and Johnny died a few more months.
He's no longer knocking on my door...... I've opened the door and we're staring eye to eye...
Andy is so cute. Do yourself a favor and go rock with him. Cute boy, interesting young man. Peace. 👍👍👍
The song my way by Sinatra was lyrically written by Paul Anka. Oddly enough David Bowie wrote the lyrics to the music first but was not excepted.
First time I heard this song it was the opening music played over the intro scenes of Person of Interest (S3 E9) and it hit me in the feels hard enough it made it into my top 100
Have you done "when the man comes around"? That's a pretty good tune.
So glad to see young folks knowing and understanding their history. Much love out to those who don't turn their back on their elders!
I like "The man in black." I have worn black for years.
Definitely another absolute masterpiece of a last work.
Can you do the song My Ding a Ling by Chuck Berry I really wanna see your reaction to it people please help me with getting this up there for him to see
Listen to: Johnny Cash, Boy named Sue
The only problem with this song is many youngsters start out with Hurt without finding out how he got here. Start out with early Johnny and listento it first.
This is such a great song! You should do the original version by Nine Inch Nails too. They are very different songs, even though they have the same lyrics. Johnny Cash's version is an older man coming toward the end of his life, singing about regret. Trent Reznor's version is a young man struggling with depression and addiction. I would do a live version. Trent closes every show with this song.
Okay, sounds like you've already heard it. Andy, you should check out the NIN version. I like both, but prefer it.
Yeah, I loved the original NIN version when it came out, but Johnny Cash took it to a whole other level in his cover.
Let's be honest, the coolest aspect is that Cash in his old age was still listening to contemporary music in wildly different genres. That's a true musician. So many get stuck in their own sound and style, especially as they get older. It's very common for younger musicians to cover the music of the older generation, as that's what they grew up with, but you very rarely see the reverse. Cash was 70 years old when this was recorded. How many 70 year olds would consider industrial metal as anything other than noise, even now, 22 years later? But Cash was always well ahead of his time.
@@Arkryal I agree that it's awesome he was listening to current music. His cover of Rusty Cage by Soundgarden is great too. I think his cover of Hurt is amazing, but it's a whole different vibe/mood/perspective, so I think which version you prefer depends on your own frame of reference and perspective, as well as style preferences.
Oh, NiN covers Johnny Cash's Hurt? Just kidding - both versions definitely have a totally different vibe and take to them. I heard Trent's version way before Johnny covered it. But I do agree with Trent, Johnny just somehow took ownership of the song. From what I read at the time, Trent was very against it until he heard it.
@@JohnSheehan72 Haha! He didn't like it until he saw the video. There is a youtube video with him talking about it in an interview. I can't post the link here, but if you search, it's called "Trent Reznor says he "dismissed" Johnny Cash's cover of Hurt the first time he heard it"
I think both versions are amazing.
Johnny Cash when the man comes around
You need to react to some of the performances by the supergroup The Highwaymen (consisting of Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Johnny Cash and Kris Kristofferson). I would suggest the following songs: The Highwayman, City of New Orleans, Silver Stallion, Me and Bobby McGee, Sunday Morning Coming Down, Desperadoes Waiting for a Train, The Last Cowboy Song, Loving Her Was Easier Than Anything I'll Ever Do Again, Big River, A Boy Named Sue, Folsom Prison Blues, and Riders in the Sky.
I love your discussions and connections you make in your reactions.
Johnny Cash, so in love with his wife that he followed her to heaven through music. "I would find way!"
Johnny did have an addiction in his life! His wife June stuck by him through all of it!
9 inch nails performance ahs absolutely different vibe and story behind the song...both touch something inside of you bit at different levels at least for me
you really should do Delia's gone by Johnny cash one of my favorites
Johnny Cash also did a cover of Soundgarden's Rusty Cage.