THE VIDEO SHELF · music cover
Johnny Cash - Hurt
The official music video for Johnny Cash's cover of Nine Inch Nails' Hurt, from his American Recordings era, filmed late in his life. It is a stark, emotional performance of the song.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN commenters hold it up as one of the greatest cover versions ever, so powerful that Trent Reznor said the song was no longer his.
This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.
Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- JohnnyCashVEVO
- Topic
- music cover
- Format
- music
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 4
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2020–2023
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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Man. I miss Johnny Cash. His cover of NIИ's Hurt is so powerful. June Carter (his wife) died a few months after filming the video, and that just broke his heart. Johnny followed her less than six months later. [VIDEO] Trent Reznor admitted that the …
chiph on Hacker News · 2020-05
In I’ve Consed Every PairAlmost completely unrelated to the article, but I figure a few of you prospective PhD candidates could use a mental break anyway, so here goes. Had a nice Baader-Meinhof moment from the article. I have been obsessed with music from a young age, not just …
InSteady on Hacker News · 2023-10
In Advice for Prospective PhD Students
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