What are you listening to, right now................
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Was reading the story of how the song came together
Trent Reznor talks Johnny Cash
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In a recent interview with a British newspaper, Reznor spoke in depth about the Cash version of Hurt:
"I'd been friends with Rick Rubin for several years. He called me to ask how I'd feel if Johnny Cash covered Hurt. I said I'd be very flattered but was given no indication it would actually be recorded.
"Two weeks went by. Then I got a CD in the post. I listened to it and it was very strange. It was this other person inhabiting my most personal song.
"I'd known where I was when I wrote it. I know what I was thinking about. I know how I felt. Hearing it was like someone kissing your girlfriend. It felt invasive".
It was the moving video, though, that made it all fall into place for the Nine Inch Nails star: "It really, really made sense and I thought what a powerful piece of art.
"I never got to meet Johnny but I'm happy I contributed the way I did. It felt like a warm hug. For anyone who hasn't seen it, I highly recommend checking it out. I have goose bumps right now thinking about it.
"Having Johnny Cash, one of the greatest singer-songwriters of all time, want to cover your song, that's something that matters to me. It's not so much what other people think but the fact that this guy felt that it was worthy of interpreting.
"He said afterwards it was a song that sounds like one he would have written in the '60s and that's wonderful".
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and, linked to my other post, i have spent the last couple of days listening to Powderfinger. This is still my favourite
And this is the go-to track if you are doing karaoke in Aus, and want the crowd to sing with you
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Powderfinger are awesome and I always recall my London years when I listen to them. Odyssey number 5 took all the plaudits, but I always preferred internationalist. A muso mate calls them a 4 year band, as he reckons that a 4 year old could play all their music - it's that simple. Never stopped oasis getting as big as they did, that.
Saw them live at Shepherds Bush one Saturday - quality concert.
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@mariner4life said in What are you listening to, right now................:
and, linked to my other post, i have spent the last couple of days listening to Powderfinger. This is still my favourite
First time I'd seen that subject-tracking camera effect. Really good clip.
The other track off that album that I liked was Love Your Way. There was some good stuff on Vulture Street - probably the album of theirs that was most "rock".
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Back in my early teens my mates and I used to love thrashing Ian Dury and the Blockheads 'New Boots and Panties'. It was considered a rather 'rude' and naughty record in those days, quite subversive and (rightly) we concentrated on the lyrics - Sex and Drugs and Rock'n'Roll - Wake up and make love to me - Plaistow Patricia - Billericky Dicky. While the songs were fucken brilliant lyrically, I seem to have totally missed just how good the Blockheads were in backing them up.
This clip is the one off Tv special in '99 about 9 months before Ian died (notice him being helped on stage).
Norman Watt-Roy is an awesome bassist and Chaz Jankel plays top funk-punk guitar. "Spasticus Autisicus" is a great funk track behind (what I now understand as) very ground breaking lyrics -Anyway, I know you 90s bogans out there probably won't get it but I'm glad I rediscovered this and as the thread title goes it is 'what I'm listening to right now'
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@Crucial Stiffs Live Stiffs was the one that really grabbed my attention although I also had NB&P.
Great era for Brit rock. A shit load of the "punk" successes had actually been around for 5 or 6 years in the pub rock scene learning their craft. Although Dury was calling more on music hall than Brinsley Schwarz.
I arrived in UK about 12 mths later and walked right into a really vibrant live scene.Bands like Clash, Jam etc were still playing relatively small gigs
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My 8 year old's favourite song right now
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@MajorRage That guy on the guitar at the end... is he, um, you know, dead?
