best ever johnny cash song · Music Discussion

king leonidas senior member

best ever johnny cash song

so what do you think is the best ever johnny cash song? my personal favourite is the man comes aound. or maybe i hung my head.

snowultra Member

my favorite is hurt, and i love the video also. the guy must have had a great life.

chillmeistergen Restricted

Originally posted by snowultra
my favorite is hurt, and i love the video also. the guy must have had a great life.

Not really a Johnny Cash song as it was a cover of a NIN song. My favourite is folsom prison blues.

ragesRemorse Senior Member

one piece at a time captures the lighter side of cash for me. which is the side i prefer...not the drugged out man in black side

Impediment Endless

I always loved Cry, Cry, Cry, Get Rhythm and Folsom Prison Blues from his early days at Sun Recordings. If you mean later work, American Recordings is one of my most favorite albums ever.

doan_m Senior Member

Originally posted by snowultra
my favorite is hurt, and i love the video also. the guy must have had a great life.

funny thing about that. A month or so ago, i've heard some people at the dollar store talking about Cash, saying that he bummed the Hurt lyrics off of Nine Inch Nails. Me? I don't know what to believe.

chillmeistergen Restricted

It was a cover of Hurt by NIN, it's not just a rumour someones made up.

Victor Von Doom Latverian Diplomat

Originally posted by doan_m
funny thing about that. A month or so ago, i've heard some people at the dollar store talking about Cash, saying that he bummed the Hurt lyrics off of Nine Inch Nails. Me? I don't know what to believe.

Maybe you should look into things for yourself rather than choosing which of various accounts to believe.

The song is by NIN. It's a cover.

doan_m Senior Member

Originally posted by Victor Von Doom
Maybe you should look into things for yourself rather than choosing which of various accounts to believe.
The song is by NIN. It's a cover.

You will note that I said this before:

I don't know what to believe.

Which thus implies that without the direction of where belief is headed, that for the time being i choose not to believe anything at all until proof is directed towards me. I couldn't be bothered finding it out myself since its not something that i considering glaringly important to find out about.

Alpha Centauri Restricted

I'd say it's pretty important who you credit musical work to.

-AC

chillmeistergen Restricted

You have been posting in, and checking up on a thread about the best Johnny Cash song, in which you mentioned Hurt. In the time taken to do that, in which you have wasted people's time, by telling us what you have heard from people in shops; you could have easily looked it up on the internet.

Bardock42 Junior Member

Good job that we all know who wrote Hurt, but lets also point out that "I Hung My Head" is a Sting cover, shall we?

doan_m Senior Member

Originally posted by chillmeistergen
You have been posting in, and checking up on a thread about the best Johnny Cash song, in which you mentioned Hurt. In the time taken to do that, in which you have wasted people's time, by telling us what you have heard from people in shops; you could have easily looked it up on the internet.

And guess which one is by far the simpler of the two options? That's right, that would be the option which I have already chosen to type in this thread. Is that not such a simple concept to grasp? And if you bother to read any of my post as well you will notice that I said this:

I couldn't be bothered finding it out myself since its not something that i considering glaringly important to find out about.

Ignorance is just getting far too redundant at this point.

Alpha Centauri Restricted

The ignorance is in you not thinking for yourself.

-AC

doan_m Senior Member

Originally posted by Alpha Centauri
The ignorance is in you not thinking for yourself.
-AC

Wrong. The choice of not choosing to find the information for the sake of the self is not an act of dependency but an act of choice. Surely, if i actually gave a damn I would indeed look for itself much like i look for any information that i actually bother myself to be interested in. In the case of Johnny Cash and the origins of the song Hurt, the choice that i made was not to look for myself but rather simply post here and make a mention of rumors that I heard as an aside. Thus, all my action was indeed an action of independent thought contrary to what you said.

chillmeistergen Restricted

Which was pretty needless, if you'd actually read the thread you'd have seen the post I made, absolutely ages ago.

Originally posted by chillmeistergen
Not really a Johnny Cash song as it was a cover of a NIN song. My favourite is folsom prison blues.

doan_m Senior Member

Originally posted by chillmeistergen
Which was pretty needless, if you'd actually read the thread you'd have seen the post I made, absolutely ages ago.

Yet the hearsay came far before what I saw what you typed, and it felt far more compelling to make a statement and continue to construe the "cover song" issue that is present in this thread.

Arcade Fire My Last Title Was Queer

This is pointless and off-topic. He wasn't sure about it, and since you can't trust everything on the internet, he simply posted "I don't know what to believe." He was ignorant, so what? All you have to do is say "Yes, NiN did write that song." and leave it at that.

chillmeistergen Restricted

That's exactly what I did.

Victor Von Doom Latverian Diplomat

I heard that's what you did, but I can't be bothered to scroll up and check.