Perhaps Tent Reznor thought the same.
My Empire of Podsols
Submitted 8 months ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
https://mander.xyz/pictrs/image/463f5709-1e13-405d-9e86-ea1529b81279.jpeg
Comments
str82L@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Crazyslinkz@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I agree, kind of annoying that the person that wrote the song doesn’t get credited for what was said.
str82L@lemmy.world 8 months ago
In fairness I do believe Johnny somehow managed to do it better, but credit where credit is due.
erusuoyera@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
*Trent Reznor’s camp brother.
str82L@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I have been in an all out war with autocorrect over the last 24 hours. Appear to have lost that particular skirmish without even realising it.
leisesprecher@feddit.org 8 months ago
Vermiculture is a perfectly legitimate hobby and I’m not weird because of it!!!
moistclump@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Do you know all the words? Those would be vermiculture vernacular.
Donjuanme@lemmy.world 8 months ago
And now I need to go cry.
Thanks op
gofsckyourself@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Speaking of covers, Trent Reznor does a great cover of this song. Almost as good as Cash’s!
thetreesaysbark@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Yeah this is what irked me.
Jax@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Considering how much the Cash version changed the meaning and vibe of the song, yeah this is canon now.
NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 8 months ago
Who is his Swedish friend though?
solsangraal@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
you know you’re old when you’re salty about kids thinking the cover version is the original
Anticorp@lemmy.world 8 months ago
That said, Cash absolutely fuckin nailed that cover. I think it’s way more emotional than the original. I’m sure Trent was proud as fuck at what Cash did to his song.
GunValkyrie@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I know it’s not a popular opinion but I don’t think Johnny cash understood Trents original meaning of the song and turned it into a self aggrandizing song. Especially the change from “I wear this crown of shit” to “I wear this crown of thorns”.
It just doesn’t hit like the NIN version which clearly came from a very personal place.
Diddlydee@feddit.uk 8 months ago
Johnny Cash always nailed covers. He makes songs I thought were average sound great, and you believe every word he sings.
Raiderkev@lemmy.world 8 months ago
He’s out and said it’s Johnny’s song now.
OlinOfTheHillPeople@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Unpopular opinion: His versions of One and Rusted Cage are better than the originals.
Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 8 months ago
I’m old enough to have bought Downworld Spiral on release day, and I think Reznor wrote that song for Cash. It just took him and the the rest of us 20 years to realize it.
huf@hexbear.net 8 months ago
it happens like that sometimes. see also jimi’s all along the watchtower.
solsangraal@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
there are tons of covers that i love better than the original (if i like the original at all). just one example is lacuna coil’s enjoy the silence
the_post_of_tom_joad@hexbear.net 8 months ago
Reznor is on record saying it’s cash’s song now so op is only mostly wrong :)
lolcatnip@reddthat.com 8 months ago
That’s the important part.
xantoxis@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Right? Like damn, I know that was a good cover but have we already forgotten it was a NiN song?
MindTraveller@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
I love Fallen Kingdom. Who the fuck is Coldplay?