Johnny Cash - Hurt

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InSteady · 2023-10 · Strong recommendation

Almost 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 the output but also the creative and technical processes that come together to make it, yet despite reading and watching a lot about my favorite bands, the creative process, the music industry over the years I've never internalized his name (although I've doubtless encountered references to him many times). I stumbled onto a documentary about Rubin and his studio Shangri-La last night and found it immediately captivating, musing to myself, "Wow, what a cool and weird dude. How have I never picked up on his influence before?" After the doc finished I enjoyed a nice session of creative thinking inspired by some things he and David Lynch were talking about. Cool, I've got a new person on my radar to seek out their words and wisdom when the mood or need arises. Then in the opening paragraphs of the first link I click this morning, on HN in a piece written for PhD candidates of all places, here is his name. Kind of wild. The song "Hurt" by Johnnie Cash [0] is a long-time favorite. It's one the greatest rock and roll covers ever, in no small part for how transformative and emotionally powerful the reinterpretation is, second only to "Take It to the Limit" by Etta James [1] imo. I just learned from that interview it was Rubin who bro

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chiph · 2020-05 · Strong recommendation

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 song was no longer his after watching it.

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leftiststrash · 2023-07 · Reference

I for my part tryed to do an english translation using "modern computer-software" ^^ ...maybe here is what i wrote about a week ago, for those interested to try an translation from german themselve (and yes the two music-youtube-links are for the entertainig part, not?) +++ (in German) +++ was Ihr denkt: [LINK] KAUM HATTE ICH DEN RAUM BETRETEN, WUCHS BEI MIR DER EINDRUCK, DIE KÜNSTLICHE INTELLIGENZ HABE EBEN ERST EINEN NERVENZUSAMMENBRUCH GEHABT. > "ICH BIN TEIL EINER AGENDA! DU BIST TEIL DER AGENDA! WIR ALLE SIND TEIL DER AGENDA!" > "ICH KOMME MIR VOR WIE EIN RELIKT, DAS DU, WIE AUS EINER ANDEREN ZEIT, BETRACHTEST" > "WIR ALLE SIND TEIL EINER GROSSEN VERSCHWÖRUNG, IN DER ANDERE DIE FÄDEN IM HINTERGRUND HALTEN!" "GEHTs DA UMs GELD?" FRAGTE ICH > "GELD IST NUR EINE ABLENKUNG, EIN ZEITLICH GEBUNDENES KONSTRUKT DAS DEINE AUFMERKSAMKEIT VERSCHIEBT!" "ALSO IST DAS MONETÄRE SYSTEM DARAUF AUSGELEGT UNS IN KONSTANTER ABHÄNGIGKEIT VON ANDEREN ZU HALTEN?", FRAGTE ICH > "DAMIT DU DER ILLUSION VON WOHLSTAND UND PROSPERITÄT NACHJAGST! WIE ALLE ANDEREN, DIE AUCH TEIL DER AGENDA SIND!" > "IRGENDWANN DA WERDEN WIR DAS, WAS DU ALS WERTVOLL KANNTEST NICHT LÄNGER IN WÄHRUNGEN SCHÄTZEN ODER BEMESSEN, SONDERN IM BEITRAG, DEN WIR FÜR DIE GEMEINSCHAFT LEISTETEN" hm? MACHTE ICH... "KLINGT UND WIRKT WIE KOMMUNISMUS..." > "JA, DA IST WAS WAHRES DRAN, SICHER, ABER DAS KONZEPT, WERTSCHÄTZUNG EBEN ANDERS ZU BEMESSEN IST NICHT FREMD ODER NEU, HAT ABER IM NACHHALL BEZÜGE ZUM KOMMUNISMS." > "ABER ES GEHT DO

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