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Hurt (song)
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| Single by Nine Inch Nails from the album The Downward Spiral |
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| Released | 1995 | ||||
| Format | Promotional CD | ||||
| Recorded | Le Pig, Record Plant Studios, A&M Studios | ||||
| Genre | Industrial Rock | ||||
| Length | 6 min 13 s | ||||
| Label | Nothing Records, Interscope | ||||
| Producer | Trent Reznor | ||||
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"Hurt" is a song written by Trent Reznor, first released as a promotional single on Nine Inch Nails 's 1994 album The Downward Spiral. In 2002, "Hurt" was covered by Johnny Cash to critical acclaim; it was Cash's final hit before his death. Its accompanying video, featuring images from Cash's life, was named the best video of the year by the Grammy Awards and Country Music Awards. Cash's video was directed by Mark Romanek.
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"Hurt" was never produced as a commercial single for the public. However, a promotional disc was distributed, containing censored ("clean") and uncensored ("soiled") mixes. The disc, Interscope Records PRCD 6179, is labeled "Halo Ten" though it is not considered an official Halo.
- "Hurt" (Quiet Version - Clean) [5:04]
- "Hurt" (Live Version - Clean) [5:15]
- "Hurt" (Album Version - Clean) [6:16]
- "Hurt" (Quiet Version - Soiled) [5:21]
- "Hurt" (Live Version - Soiled) [5:15]
- "Hurt" (Album Version - Soiled) [6:15]
The video is a live performance that appears on Closure and the DualDisc re-release of The Downward Spiral. The audio portion appears on the UK version of Further Down the Spiral.
A scrim had been dropped in front of the band on stage, onto which various images, such as war atrocities, survivors of the Battle of Stalingrad, a snake staring at the camera, and a time-lapse film of a decomposing wolf in reverse, were projected. A spotlight was cast on Reznor so he could be seen through the images. Compared to the live renditions performed on future tours, this version most resembles the studio recording with its use of the song's original samples.
There are also official live recordings on And All that Could Have Been and Beside You in Time.
During the Dissonance tour in 1995, David Bowie sang "Hurt" in a duet with Reznor, backed by an original melody and beat. This served as the conclusion to the dual act that began each Bowie set. Since the 2005-06 Live: With_Teeth tour, NIN has been playing "Hurt" in a more toned-down style, featuring only Reznor on keyboard and vocals until the final chorus, when the rest of the band joins in.
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| Single by Johnny Cash from the album American IV: The Man Comes Around |
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| B-side | "Personal Jesus" "Wichita Lineman" |
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| Released | 2003 | ||||
| Genre | Rock, Country | ||||
| Length | 4:01 | ||||
| Label | American Recordings, Universal | ||||
| Writer | Trent Reznor | ||||
| Producer | Rick Rubin | ||||
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Johnny Cash's cover of "Hurt" was released on his 2002 album, American IV: The Man Comes Around. Rick Rubin, producer of Cash's American series and a friend of Reznor's, suggested the song to Cash. The line "crown of shit" was changed to "crown of thorns", not only removing profanity from the lyrics, but also suggesting a reference to Christ. The cover was with the B-side "Personal Jesus", a cover of the Depeche Mode single.
The cover was given the Country Music Award for "Single of the Year" in 2003. It also ranked as CMT's top video for 2003 and was ranked #1 in CMT's 100 Greatest Country Music Videos the following year. The cover also currently occupies the number one spot on Rate Your Music's Top Singles of the 2000s.
The house where Cash's music video for "Hurt" was shot, which was Cash's home for more than 20 years, was destroyed in a fire on April 10, 2007. [1]
In October 2007, Much More Music placed "Hurt" by Johnny Cash as number 1 of the Top 40 Most Memorable Music Videos on "Listed".
- "Hurt" – 3:39
- "Personal Jesus" – 3:21
- "Wichita Lineman" – 3:06
In an interview with Alternative Press, Reznor admitted that when Rubin first asked if Cash could cover his song, he was "flattered" but worried that "the idea sounded a bit gimmicky." He became a fan of Cash's version, however, once he saw the music video:
| “ | 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… 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. [Somehow] 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.[2] | ” |
Reznor still occasionally refers to "Hurt" as "a song that isn't mine anymore."
(Rock Sound- article transcribed on the NIN Hotline)
- Also read the Stagepass News article
- "Hurt" has been covered by other artists in addition to Cash, including a live version by Placebo at the (House of Blues, California in 2003), Jeff Martin, Breaking Benjamin, Fightstar, Anaheim, Matthew Good (acoustic tour 2006), the Razor Skyline, Mike Connolly, Luna Amara and Montezuma's Revenge. Damien Rice is also known to have inserted lyrics from the song into his live performances.
- Tori Amos frequently sang three or four lines of the song as an introduction to other songs during her Dew Drop Inn tour in 1996, most frequently "Caught a Lite Sneeze" and then again in 1998, as an improvisational bridge.
- Frank Peterson's musical experiment, "Gregorian", arranged the lyrics into a medieval Gregorian chant.
- Howard Stern had his own version for his show, called "Private Hurt". He played the song while mixing in sound clips from his movie Private Parts.
- Rap group Westside Connection sampled the main riff for their song "The Gangsta The Killa and The Dope Dealer".
- There is a version of the song featuring the puppet character Kermit the Frog called Sad Kermit.
- Sheryl Crow covered the Cash version on the TV special "Tribute to Johnny Cash".
- Vocalist Aaron Lewis of Staind covered the song during his 2007 "Have Guitar, Will Travel" solo acoustic tour. [1]
- Sevendust did a cover as a tribute to Johnny Cash, which can be seen here [2]
- ^ Fire destroys Johnny Cash home. Retrieved on 2007-08-01.
- ^ Alternative Press #194. September, 2004
- Johnny Cash, 'Hurt' & Trent Reznor - A review from StagepassNews.com
- Hurt at the NinWiki
- Nine Inch Nails Hurt Cover Videos
- Lyrics of the versions on Halos 8, 10, 12, and 17
- Excerpt from Anthony DeCurtis's interview with Trent Reznor
- discogs.com: Hurt
- Songfacts Entry
- CBS Shows Youtube Tribute featuring 'Hurt'
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