Cradle Robbing?

[42]

Okay, I just heard Jonny Cash covering a Nine Inch Nails song on Smallville. At the end of the episode, apparently it really is on Jonny Cash's new album. I'm just befuddled.

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

yeah, that's been out for a long time. They were being anoying about it at work a few months ago.

[fuzzyoctopus]

The music video is excellent.  It won a VMA too, didn't it?

(I don't really like NIN, so I like Cash's cover much much better)

[Spriggan]

no it only got nominated for a VMA, didn't win it.

[fuzzyoctopus]

Sorry, you're wrong.  It won best cinematography


http://www.rapnewsdirect.com/News/0-202-256826-00.html

[Gemm: Rock & Roll Star; Born to Rock]

Isn't that Cash guy dead? Or was it some other old guy. I gorfet.

[42]

I rarely leave the realm of heavy punk metal rock so I obviously do not keep up on these things. But why would Cash choose to cover NIN. I can't even picture him listening to NIN. It's like my parents listening to Sum 41 or something. I'm also torn as to which I like better, though I think I lean a little towards the NIN version.

[stacer]

Johnny Cash did recently die. He was 70-something; it was complications from diabetes. I think the words of the song were entirely appropriate for a man of his age, with his disease deteriorating and him knowing that death was around the corner. All the music stations were talking about it as a retrospective song. In fact, much more appropriate than for NIN, who I haven't listened to since the captain of my dance team in high school made us work out to them.   Yeah, they're really dance music...

[Mad Dr Jeffe]

Johnny Cash covered the song because he felt he could understand  the songs themes of loss and addiction. In many ways the song is a tribute to his wife who died a year before he did. His most recent album was planned to more accesible for a younger more contemporay audience who he felt he had something to say before he shuffeld off his mortal coil. I think its funny that artists can raid the Crypt "Where oh Where Can my Baby be", All Along the Watchtower" and so on but Robbing the Cradle seems weird.

[fuzzyoctopus]

Jeffe, I totally agree with you.

I will also never forget the look on my husband's face the first time he heard Cash's version of the song, (since he was a NIN fan back in his angsty teen days)

[42]

Well, I tend to think that the older generation gives to the next generation, not the other way around.

Course, when you get really old, you kind of have to live off of the next generation (being your own kids or someone elses). So I kind of wonder, what Trent Reznor's parents think of Cash using their child's contribution to culture?

[fuzzyoctopus]

Trent Reznor has parents?

My gosh, I wonder what they're like....

[Mad Dr Jeffe]

Well as a fan of the Man in Black and NIN I can truely say I love both songs. Trents version, is so subded and passive that it makes you wonder if he does regret his heorin addiction, making the song a semi Ironic commentery on the pains of addiction, as one of NINs quieter songs it helps define the rage and anger in other tracks and focuses it inward. Cash's version is soulful and almost pained, it sounds like I imagined Hemingway to be, and has the sound of a old man who has nothing left in his life but his pain. Both versions stir up feelings inside of me that arn't easy to explain, and that im glad I can explore.