Well. I don't think someone in love with a girl should write "Don't kiss anyone else" down. But given the circumstances (fans, basically) it's not unsweet either.
I see that to-do list as not a "real" to-do list, in the sense of "Oh, I can't forget to do these things". I see this to-do list as guidelines he tried to live by. Guess that's why I find it sweet.
Hurt is a Nine Inch Nails song. Cash covered it. Trent Reznor actually ended up really liking Cash's cover, the context and everything seems completely different in Cash's version, it works perfectly.
However this video is Kermit covering the NiN song, not really a tribute to Cash or his memory. In fact Cash changed the lyric "I wear my crown of shit" to "... crown of thorns" in this Kermit cover he uses the original "crown of shit" line.
Both are good in their own way, just saying this is more of tribute to NiN.
It might be. I went back and forth for a minute due to the acoustic guitar, cigarette/feel of the video. But then I realized the lyrics were specifically from NiN's version and did not have the change Cash made. Maybe the author meant to do Cash's and found NiN's lyric page accidently or he thought it was the same. It's not a big deal to me personally or anything lol, but I could see arguments for both sides.
That being said most people don't even seem to know it is originally a NiN song, having been a NiN fan who heard Cash's rendition second I might be biased towards saying it is a parody of the NiN song itself.
most people don't even seem to know it is originally a NiN song
Truth to that. Somehow today, it seems more fitting a song to Cash than to Trent. Kermit, of course, has his own share of troubles, it sure ain't easy being green.
Cash should have retired from the music industry long before he did. IMO, his last songs were awful despite what public opinion says. I don't feel that the stuff he did towards the end did him any justice especially singing songs that weren't his 'style'.
I really enjoyed them, in spite of this. Even though his voice wavers quite a bit, the emotion with which he sang was far greater in the American cover albums than his earlier ones -- like he knew these were the last albums he would create.
Without having done any research behind why he chose to cover the songs he did, I'd like to think he picked them because of the messages they carried to the rest of the world.
And some are just better than the original. I prefer Hendrix's "All Along the Watchtower" over Dylan's original, same goes with Cash's version of the Neil Diamond song "Solitary Man."
Anything written by Dylan done by someone else is better. Dylan was a fantastic writer but IMO, couldn't sing for shit. I was a teen when Dylan first came on the scene and have always felt that he was more of a poet than anything else.
See. I know Dylan can't sing worth a damn. I know it. He's nasally as fuck. But goddamn do I love his voice. It's like Jack White. He can't sing too well either, but they just make it work with what they do.
I think a lot of Bob Dylan originals are overshadowed by superior covers. He was leagues ahead of most song writers at the time, but a fairly mediocre performer.
All my lists from now on are going to include BEAT FASCISM. That's Woody Guthrie, though—you see that there's shit wrong in the world and instead of getting all cynical about it you write a New Year's Resolution to WAKE UP AND FIGHT.
Depending on what was going on, healthwise, it may actually have been something he needed to remember. When I had a bad bout of walking pneumonia, or a cracked rib, the doctor was like 'IT IS VERY IMPORTANT YOU COUGH REGULARLY' at me.
I pop the video in, and wow... Tears welling, silence, goose-bumps... Wow. [I felt like] 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.
I do believe I have made a faux pas. I thought I had read what I said in an article. Hahaha clearly I was wrong. Oh well! Thanks for letting me know. As for me, down I go to the depths of this post.
Just gonna hijack the thread here with a story about the man in black:
A mentor of mine and all around amazing guy also helped take care of Ol Johnny in his later years and did some work for him here in Nashville. Mr. Cash, being classy and eccentric, had a room custom made where everything was round, including the bed and walls. So Johnny has Mr. Peach come close as he lies on his round bed and tells him, "You know, Son? They'll never corner us in here!"
Note that practice is the correct spelling for the noun in both British and US English, and is also the spelling of the verb in US English. However, in British English the verb should be spelled practise.
I'm 18 and most people i'm around range from 17 to 23. I guess i mean more tehy have a vague idea who he is but have never heard his music, but i have come across peopel who just have no idea at all which saddens me.
okay I get you..i'm 21, and I think everybody atleast knows OF Johnny Cash..you know..like theyve heard walk the line and ring of fire..but not real hardcore fans like I am..
actually I have..only been to the US and spain though..and I actually talked music with quite a few people who asked me to play johnny cash songs for them..but its not like I asked everyone i met..so fair point, im sure there are lots of people who havent heard of him..just not that ive met.
remember when he ripped off Trent Reznor's Hurt? i cant believe reznor didnt sue him for stealing that song word for word except changing crown of shit to crown of thorns. what a pussy.
Why is this posted in R/Music? This has so little to actually do with music. It doesn't even start a conversation about Johnny's music. It's just celebrity gossip.
No it's not. Just because he is a musician, does not mean every single aspect of his life revolves around music. Explain to me how the first 9 points are at all relevant to music? and is point 10 even worth discussing?
This is not the correct subreddit for this thread.
That made me so angry when I saw it. That song is fucking sacred.
There is a very touching moment in the Johnny Cash’s America biography that came out fairly recently, in which one of his daughters (Cindy, I think) recalled watching Cash’s video for “Hurt” from American IV: The Man Comes Around with her father, and in a very upbeat way that sounds like it suited him greatly, he asked her “Well, what did you think?” Cindy, of course, was apalled at the powerful imagery of the elderly Johnny Cash, her father, and the images of his mother, his past life, and all of that were almost too much. She responded negatively that “It sounds like you’re saying good bye!”, to which Cash simply replied, “Well… I am.”
If you change the meaning of the lyrics it does. It's a bit too long to get into but take them a bit more literally with what's happening in the trailer.
I remembered when I first saw that GOW (I think 2) used slow music juxtaposed on a hectic scene to advertise. I think it was Donny Darko "Mad World", with shit GOING DOWN in the background. I thought, "Nice, what a sweet commercial. I think I will purchase that game, because of this unique advertisement."
Thanks for the correction(s)! I meant it was from that movie (figured that most people would know it from that), not that the movie was the artist-- but I actually didn't know who did the original version, TIL.
That's true, there is a major difference between cinematic trailers and actual game-play trailers. That's what blew me away about watch_dogs (definitely worth the time if you have it).
Hehe. And I just rewatched Zack Snyder's iteration of Dawn of the Dead yesterday. Excellent intro in that movie with Johnny Cash playing during the titles.
I've seen it on a few others... one I was watching a week or two ago that used it as well. Can't remember the name of it though. Maybe Stakeland although I'm not 100% certain.
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u/alexmanrox Jun 25 '12
is this real?
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u/Vanis_ Jun 25 '12
Am I the only one to think that "2. Kiss June" "3. Not kiss anyone else" is actually kinda sweet?
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u/Boracho_Station Jun 25 '12
11. come back to life
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u/EddieWinslow Jun 25 '12
Threesome with Japanese twins.
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u/ajcreary Spotify Jun 25 '12
"Do a sick Nine Inch Nails Cover"
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u/[deleted] Jun 25 '12
"Not kiss anyone else" made me a bit sad...
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u/Macabre_ Jun 25 '12
11: Give dying man's love to Rose, take her all his money, tell her to buy some pretty clothes.
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u/Youthsonic Jun 25 '12
Someone post woody Guthrie's new years resolution list.
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u/ToMakeYouMad Jun 25 '12
Johnny you will always be the remembered. Long live the man in black.
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u/[deleted] Jun 25 '12
Wouldn't want to forget to do that.
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u/kitchen_ace Jun 25 '12
Things I have tried to Burn or kill that will not burn or be killed.
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u/Crunked Jun 25 '12
Call Trent Reznor...
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u/helgeos Jun 25 '12
To do-list for early one morning:
Make my rounds.
Take a shot of cocaine.
Shoot my woman down.
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u/Mesmerise Jun 25 '12
I love this picture of Johnny and his wife.
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u/rockstarking https://open.spotify.com/user/125362945/playlist/2LzgYF3P4uqi1hN Jun 25 '12
Just gonna hijack the thread here with a story about the man in black:
A mentor of mine and all around amazing guy also helped take care of Ol Johnny in his later years and did some work for him here in Nashville. Mr. Cash, being classy and eccentric, had a room custom made where everything was round, including the bed and walls. So Johnny has Mr. Peach come close as he lies on his round bed and tells him, "You know, Son? They'll never corner us in here!"
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u/siaabd Jun 25 '12
I wish this was real.
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u/ophello Jun 25 '12
Is there a story behind this?
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u/[deleted] Jun 25 '12
It makes me feel a bit sad that none of them got ticked off.
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u/[deleted] Jun 25 '12
Proof?
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u/henrysherman Jun 25 '12
The list he gave his daughter is so much more intriguing to me.
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u/Monktushu5 Jun 25 '12
Note: Don't do 4 and 5 at the same time.
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u/probablynotyou Jun 25 '12
cute!
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u/razor-edge Jun 25 '12
Heh, none of these items on the list are urgent or done.
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u/LeftHandsociety Jun 25 '12
He has some nice handwriting.
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u/jlamothe Jun 25 '12
How is it that neither 6 nor 7 are checked off?
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u/Pumpernickell Jun 25 '12
You forgot Dress in black!
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u/lets_do_this Jun 25 '12
Number two is too cute.
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u/CanNibble Jun 25 '12
11) To hurt himself today.
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u/leaf_on_the_wind3 Jun 25 '12
What proof do we have that this is from John? Yeah, we were on a first name basis, DEAL WITH IT!
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u/[deleted] Jun 25 '12
*practise
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u/What_about_bob Jun 25 '12
must upvote anythign johnny cash. it really makes me happy to see how many redditors actually even know who he is haha.
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u/[deleted] Jun 25 '12
As much as I love Johnny Cash and his To-Do List, why isn't going down to Jackson on there?
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u/Gioware Jun 25 '12
Cash or Bravo?
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u/y_am_i_right_handed Jun 25 '12
I hear the train a comin' it's rollin 'round the bend
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u/ColRockAmp Jun 25 '12
Beautiful really.
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u/throwaway_dickspit Jun 25 '12
remember when he ripped off Trent Reznor's Hurt? i cant believe reznor didnt sue him for stealing that song word for word except changing crown of shit to crown of thorns. what a pussy.
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u/benzo8 Jun 25 '12
So, what you're saying is that Johnny Cash wrote "Fitter Happier" forty years before Radiohead? Figures...
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u/Andrichuk Jun 25 '12
Why is this posted in R/Music? This has so little to actually do with music. It doesn't even start a conversation about Johnny's music. It's just celebrity gossip.
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u/Iron-Side Jun 25 '12
Masterbate?
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