Isn't this about 3 or 4 years old?
That shouldn't have been framed as a question. I know the answer.
Did you guys hear? President Bush wants to go to war against Iraq now, and he hasn't even gotten bin Laden. I mean wtf right?
You can date the video by June Carter's appearance, if nothing else. Funny how putting the words in the mouth of a dying, religious 70-year-old music legend makes Trent Reznor sound like a much more meaningful songwriter than he actually is.
I vividly remember when this video first appeared. I was living in Cleveland, and my roommates and I came across it while flipping channels. We all fell silent. It was an intense experience.
You can date the video by June Carter's appearance
She had already died when the video was made, I'm pretty sure. All the stuff with her is archive footage.
I agree with #5. Two musical experiences have had that effect on me via the radio - this song, and System of a Down's "Chop Suey".
June Carter Cash died in May of 2003, and American IV was released in 2002. I'm pretty sure the video was recorded while June was still alive.
I had somehow missed seeing it before now. Thank you.
Anyone linking to that other video will be slowly boiled
I'm sensing that this is directed at me.
10: Does he mean the other, much more hilarious, cover of Hurt?
It's not actually that funny. Haha, good concept, okay, bored now.
It's not actually that funny.
You must be a feminist or something.
Feminist, self-loathing man, slut. I'm a jack of all trades.
Both Cash and K's covers lack a certain orgasmic resolution that Reznor's version has on the line "I would find a way".
Plus, I find it amazingly hypocritical and borderline blasphemous for a Christian to bowdlerize "crown of shit" into "crown of thorns" (i.e. Trent says "I'm kind of like Christ and I have a potty mouth"; Cash says "I don't hold with that potty mouth business, which makes me more Christlike than Trent.")
Speaking of legends, my friend who is visiting had a celebrity sighting: Ron Jeremy.
Sadly, she didn't ask him to sign her boobs.
14 makes me want to hold up a lighter.
14 makes me appreciate, perhaps more concretely than ever before, how very thankful I am that webcams and youtube and all that nonsense didn't really exist when I was a teenager. "There but for the grace of God..."
Sifu's YouTube technique is unstoppable. 21 totally wins.
I meant 20. I haven't yet watched 21.
I can see that Sifu is doing a lot of law-related learning today.
Why would I be learning anything law related? I haven't been arrested in several years.
20 is one of the greatest things I've ever seen on YouTube.
Funny how putting the words in the mouth of a dying, religious 70-year-old music legend makes Trent Reznor sound like a much more meaningful songwriter than he actually is.
Hmph. Reznor's hardly Dylan, but man, do I get tired of the praise for this cover, and the video. Never did anything for me, and I felt embarrassed for Cash on top of it.
Second 17.
The cover's incredible, so's the video, and hurrah for youtube.
I think Cash's cover of Will Oldham's "I See a Darkness" was better yet, but that's unsurprising.
I recall reading that Rick Rubin changed the "crown of shit" lyric to "crown of thorns" before he suggested the cover to Cash. A little deflating.
If Cash had covered an Iron and Wine song or Calexico, I could crawl even further into my own navel, seeking an import-only Pipettes single I read about on Pitchfork. Sufjan Stevens would be a bridge too far.
Johnny Cash covering The Decembrists covering Donovan.
35: Rubin probably just anticipated Cash being all "I don't think this is appropriate." Surprisingly sensitive, considering he's used to hanging around the likes of Slayer and Glenn Danzig.
38: I always figured Glenn Danzig for a fussy, miniature priss.
A friend of a friend apparently was once interviewing Glenn for a local alt-weekly; for some reason, he was staying with his mother in Joisey at the time (I think maybe he had given up his lease when he went on a European tour?), and she said that the interview was twice interrupted by Danzig and his mother having a fight about whether Glenn would mow the lawn.
Well, yeah. Relatedly, there's that great video out there (thanks again Youtube, lots of profanity) of the lead singer of an opening band decking Danzig backstage. It's really amusing, seeing Danzig trying to be all "who do you think you're talking to?"
It reminded me of the scene in Dead Man, where the kid bounty hunter is all "fuck you!" and the psycho gunslinger, surprised, says "fuck me? fuck you!" and shoots him dead. Man, what a great movie.
Danzig does take care of his body, though. What a back.
From wiki:
"Cash relapsed into addiction after a serious abdominal injury in 1983 caused by an unusual incident in which he was kicked and critically wounded by an ostrich he kept on his farm."
Maybe that's what the song's about.
Man, what a great movie.
And how.
That song and that video each make me want to cry every damn time.
Apropos of the man in black, his old house just went down in a burning ring of fire!
40: Love that. Related: A friend who was living in New Orleans was preparing for a big (pre-Katrina) hurricane—buying some water, batteries, and the like. At the grocery store, she saw Trent Reznor, who also appeared to be stocking up. He was pushing a cart spilling over with bags of Cheetohs.
Every time I saw Trent Reznor at a bar in NOLA, he was stoned/high out of his effing mind.
I used to work with a woman who not only had gone to high school with Trent Reznor, but had been his date to the prom their junior year. Or claimed to have, anyway, and I didn't have any reason to think she was making it up.
a woman who not only had gone to high school with Trent Reznor
Ah, part of the rural Northeast's brain drain.
I am looking forward anxiously to watching these videos when I have free time tonight. In the meantime might I recommend (to anyone who has not been reading my blog of late, and/or not following the links therein) these two videos:
Birds in Perspex -- I think this song is absolutely divine; and Andy Metcalf has a very nice bass solo here.
So You Think You're in Love introduced by a tool.
You don't have a blog, Clownae.
Perhaps I don't... but The Modesto Kid has!
Clownaesthesiologist, would you happen to be a galoot? A glance at TMK's blog suggests that may be the case.
'Deed I am, though a bit on the quiescent side currently. I posted for a long time on Badger Pond's Neanderthal Forum and then WoodCentral's Hand Tools board, under my real name Jer/emy Osn/er. Are you a hand tool woodworking enthusiast, and might I know you from one of those sites?
Ooh -- now I'm looking at your site. Cool!
Huh, funny, a teacher at my high school was well known for having dated him in back in high school. That boy got around, for a band nerd.
Thanks, I have been out of the shop for the winter so my progress has been a bit slow, so not many updates of late. (It gets damn cold here and I do not have heat out in the garage.) You might have come across me on old tools but I am pretty sporadic in my posting. Mostly a lurker there and I have been slacking off on my lurking of late, too much to do.
But the summer is coming, I hear...
Cash covered a Danzig song too, y'know, on the first American album.
I saw Danzig opening for some other band in about 1987 -- Metallica, maybe? -- and even our 14/15 year old selves could tell the man was a dick.
WHO THE FUCK HASN'T ALREADY SEEN THIS?!?!?!?!?!
(...okay... calm... calm....)
Have you heard Michelle Shocked, Adam?
Have you heard Michelle Shocked
You guys are mean and unfair.
Glenn Danzig lives down the street from me. I have no first hand knowledge about him, but I think he owns three houses all in a row. Each of them is kept in a state of shocking decrepitude.
The Johnny Cash video is old, but maybe the Kermit cover has supplemented it in such a way as to make it new and relevant again. Indeed, I find that now I can hardly bear to watch the Cash video without wanting to laugh a little, to dispel my feelings of discomfort.