Teflon Billy
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Ok, it's been awhile since i've done this, and by "done thisn" I mean "Posted drunk".
I'm listening to Johnny Cash mp3's here and am just really vcoming to terms with what a great talent this guy was (and what a huge effect his music had on my life)
I'm listening to "The Man Comes Around", which seems to be a collection of my least-favorite class of song: The Stunt cover
I'm sure your pretty familiar with the stunt cover...a band covers a really unlikely song (Think of ICP's version of "Get down tonight or Pat Boone's version of Enter Sandman) and with a liberal application of irony, hilarity enues.
It looks like Johnny was being set up to do these...he covers Depeche Mode, Soundgarden, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds and others and....they are fantastic. Kim Thayil from Soundgarden is on record as saying that Cash's version of "Rusty Cage" is the definitive version of the song and I have to kind of agree.
His version of Ninine inch nail's "Hurt" took a goth teen whine-fest and made it the last howl of a man who feels he has wasted much of his life. It moved my girlfriend to tears the first time we saw the video.
Johnny Cash went toe-to-toe with irony and irony
ing blinked!
The man, throughout his entire career, seemed entirely immune to irony, people took "I'm the Man In Black" seriouly, despite the dfact that it was a relatively simple song about the merits of looking oout for thoe weaker than yourself.
A freind of Fusangite's (a seminarian) was quoted the day Cash died as saying "Well, there goes the last christian that the whole world respects"
We played his version of "We'll meet again" at my grandma's wake.
I used to be able to sing all of the cities listed in "I've been everywhere"
I've got nothing else to say...Thank goodness for an off-topic forum
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I'm listening to Johnny Cash mp3's here and am just really vcoming to terms with what a great talent this guy was (and what a huge effect his music had on my life)
I'm listening to "The Man Comes Around", which seems to be a collection of my least-favorite class of song: The Stunt cover
I'm sure your pretty familiar with the stunt cover...a band covers a really unlikely song (Think of ICP's version of "Get down tonight or Pat Boone's version of Enter Sandman) and with a liberal application of irony, hilarity enues.
It looks like Johnny was being set up to do these...he covers Depeche Mode, Soundgarden, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds and others and....they are fantastic. Kim Thayil from Soundgarden is on record as saying that Cash's version of "Rusty Cage" is the definitive version of the song and I have to kind of agree.
His version of Ninine inch nail's "Hurt" took a goth teen whine-fest and made it the last howl of a man who feels he has wasted much of his life. It moved my girlfriend to tears the first time we saw the video.
Johnny Cash went toe-to-toe with irony and irony
ing blinked! The man, throughout his entire career, seemed entirely immune to irony, people took "I'm the Man In Black" seriouly, despite the dfact that it was a relatively simple song about the merits of looking oout for thoe weaker than yourself.
A freind of Fusangite's (a seminarian) was quoted the day Cash died as saying "Well, there goes the last christian that the whole world respects"
We played his version of "We'll meet again" at my grandma's wake.
I used to be able to sing all of the cities listed in "I've been everywhere"
I've got nothing else to say...Thank goodness for an off-topic forum
Click the thumbnail below
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), the amazing thing about that cover (and how representative of his body of work it is) is that, even though only one word in the entire song is changed, the song took on a completely different meaning when he sang it. He could take the very personal pain of something like heroin addiction (as expressed in the original NIN recording) and universalize it to express the pain of looking back from the end of a wasted life. It's actually a lot easier as an artist to communicate personal experience and pain than to dramatize something universal, and he was really frighteningly good at that.
