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I always liked the GnR cover
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same, but there's still a generational loss of .. something? soul?
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I think any cover worth making is going to have its own twist on it, and that's not necessarily generational. Lots of people love Johnny Cash's cover of Hurt, but I contend that in the context of the record, The Downward Spiral, the original is far more meaningful (but I can't deny that Johnny Cash gave it a new meaning that spoke to others in a new way). Covers can and should mean something different but related to other people.
The video I posted was the 1988 Ritz performance when Guns N Roses had a single album that propelled them from heroin-junkie adjacent to superstars. It feels appropriate to take a melancholy song and make it almost triumphant (at least in the moment).
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YOU ARE CORRECT.
the downward spiral is PERFECT and Hurt is the culmination of a fugue of failure, pain, addiction and suicidal tendency. it's the last song (we've heard TDS where the narrator imagines shooting himself -- everything is blue in this world; the deepest shade of mushroom blue) and so the song Hurt just HURTS in every correct place. it's naked and raw and it's BETTER THAN anything that anyone could cover. I do like Cash's cover and the Mark Romanek or whomever video made it something different, but they made it something different and it ignores all the songs that came before it.
i do not want this.
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Finally, someone else with a correct opinion on this. Have a good night, chad.
I also found The Slip highly overlooked and nobody acknowledges it.
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The slip might be the last good NIN we ever get. i can't ask Trent for more-- i was 13 when i found NIN and his music made me pay attention to music in the first place. i only listend to whatever my mom had on the radio before that and didn't even like music. but i saw Closer just before Woodstock 94 and i begged and pleaded my mom to buy me the cable box sub to watch the whole thing, and i watched it as a 13 year old
i will never forget woodstock 94; it was amazing in every fricking way for all the music i got clued into.
nine inch nails turned me onto music, and then i found pixies, and then i found all the nothing artists (Prick, yoooooooooo; kevin mcmahon you got done dirty) and i found so many others, industrial and otherwise, and now i have a protective and also weird embarrassment about nine inch nails. i want to pretend i love PWEI This is the Hour... This is This better than PHM, but that's an obviously lie. i know PHM, Broken, TDS, and Fragile back to front and front to back.
i love that Trent gave me music, even if i long since stopped caring about what he's doing.
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