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Johnny Cash Among Top Covers For NIN's Hurt

10/30/2014
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(TeamRock Radio) Johnny Cash's version of Nine Inch Nails track Hurt has been named one of the best-ever covers of all time. It gained more votes in a BBC poll than covers by the Stranglers, Jimi Hendrix, Jeff Buckley, Joe Cocker and Muse - although the Pet Shop Boys' version of Always On My Mind was voted number one.

Cash recorded Hurt for 2002 album American IV: The Man Comes Around, produced by Rick Rubin. NIN mainman Trent Reznor admitted in 2008 that he'd had reservations over allowing his "most personal song" to be remade.

He said: "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."

But when he saw the video, "it really, really made sense - 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."

Check out the top 10 and Cash's version of the song here.

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