The Bluemoon Song Cup 2023

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Round 3/M18
The Rolling Stones - Gimme Shelter
v
Johnny Cash - Hurt
 
The Cash version, especially with the video is a wonderfully poignant song and think it was recorded not long before he died.

Liked the NIN version but was blown away when I first heard the Cash version.

Gimme Shelter is a great song but it's met its match here for me
 
I’ve never been quite the Stones fan — I’m not sure why. As with Dylan and Springsteen, I respect them and can see why they’re hyper popular and beloved but musically they all have a rash of songs that for whatever reason don’t ring my chimes. But they also have a few that do, and for the Stones, this is one of them. However, if Cash wins I can understand that too. Personally I prefer “I Walk The Line”.
 
bluesince76 said:
The Cash version, especially with the video is a wonderfully poignant song and think it was recorded not long before he died.

Liked the NIN version but was blown away when I first heard the Cash version.

Gimme Shelter is a great song but it's met its match here for me
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I think Trent Reznor's own view pretty much nails it....

"Rick Rubin has been a friend for a long time, and he called me asking how I felt about Johnny covering "Hurt." I was flattered, but frankly, the idea sounded a bit gimmicky to me. I really didn't put much thought into it, as I was working on something at the time and was distracted. A few weeks later, a CD shows up with the track. Again, I'm in the middle of something and put it on and give it a cursory listen. It sounded... weird to me. That song in particular was straight from my soul, and it felt very strange hearing the highly identifiable voice of Johnny Cash singing it. It was a good version, and I certainly wasn't cringing or anything, but it felt like I was watching my girlfriend fuck somebody else. Or something like that. Anyway, a few weeks later, a videotape shows up with Mark Romanek's video on it. It's morning; I'm in the studio in New Orleans working on lack De La Rocha's record with him; I pop the video in, and... wow. Tears welling, silence, goose-bumps... Wow. I just lost my girlfriend, because that song isn't mine anymore. Then it all made sense to me. It really made me think about how powerful music is as a medium and art form. I wrote some words and music in my bedroom as a way of staying sane, about a bleak and desperate place I was in, totally isolated and alone. Some-fucking-how that winds up reinterpreted by a music legend from a radically different era/genre and still retains sincerity and meaning, different but every bit as pure. Things felt even stranger when he passed away. The song's purpose shifted again. It's incredibly flattering as a writer to have your song chosen by someone who’s a great writer and a great artist."
 
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