Glacial Erratics

Like me, Eric seems to be slightly behind the buzz curve, but perhaps that's just a filtering mechanism. Taste in action.    (00009W)

Anyway, he points out a video of Johnny Cash doing the Nine Inch Nails tune Hurt. It's a very poignant rendition, switching between scenes of a young and striding Cash and an old and obviously worn Cash. It's good. Worth a look and listen.    (00009X)

The differences, for me, between the Cash version and the NIN version are quite striking. I'm a long time fan of the NIN version. It's my closet maudlin depressed and angry emotional facilitation song. Closet because I get the impression that only posers feel emotional affinity with NIN songs.    (00009Y)

In the NIN version there's a supressed violence that threatens to bust out; perhaps with some glee at finally being free.    (00009Z)

In the Cash version the violence is still there, but it's like an almost broken dog, cornered, needing a way out.    (0000A0)

Or maybe it is none of that and both of them are just cool songs and we should leave it at that. Playing critic is probably more fun though.    (0000A1)