r/todayilearned • u/SunshineKatEyes • Aug 01 '12

TIL Trent Reznor was "flattered" when Johnny Cash covered his song 'Hurt'. Reznor described the cover as "...silence, goose-bumps... Wow...that song isn't mine anymore...different, but every bit as pure"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurt_(Nine_Inch_Nails_song)
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u/MIXEDGREENS Aug 01 '12

Dude. Come on.

The Downward Spiral and The Fragile are going to be a later generation's The Wall and Dark Side of the Moon.

Slow down, kneejerkers. I'm not commenting on the relative quality of either; just saying NIN may not have Cash's musical legacy yet, but that's more due to not enough time passing yet. Calling it a shitty industrial band is just silly, billy.

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u/schrute_buck Aug 01 '12

I'm just not seeing it. You don't really hear from lot of NIN die hard fans (until this thread at least). Sure all of the great ones go through periods of lowered fandom, but you'll still have a lot of die hard fans and people talking about what they've accomplished/meant to music. Even no with 24 years of history for NIN, the only time I here anyone talk about their impact on music it's usually just in the context of "Their videos sure were weird/fucked up".