Top 10 Cash :p

[Guest Angry Baboon]

POST

1: Big River

2: Man in Black

3: Down there by the train

4: Understand your Man

5: Man Comes Around

6: I walk the Line

7: Everybody's trying to be my baby

8: Folsom Prison Blues

9: Ballad of Ira Hayes

10: Ring of Fire

REPLY

[Hobo]

1) I See A Darkness

2) Southern Accents

3) Highywayman

4) Hurt

5) Man In Black

6) Pocahontas

7) As Long As The Grass Shall Grow (with June Carter)

8) Before My Time

9) Let The Train Blow The Whistle

10) Casey's Last Ride

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11) Big River

12) San Quentin

13) Darling Companion (with June Carter)

14) I Won't Back Down

15) Solitary Man

16) Tear Stained Letter

17) Worried Man (with Willie Nelson)

18) Bird On A Wire

20) Redemption Song (with Joe Strummer)

21) Cry, Cry, Cry

Edited October 26, 2004 by The Lonesome Hobo

[Cactus Drags]

Ring of Fire should be higher.

[apsham]

In no particular order, my favorite Cash's are:

Hurt

Ring Of Fire

Man In Black

I Walk The Line

I've Been Everywhere

Before My Time

Edited October 31, 2004 by Apple Shampoo

[Fitzy]

Why do people like Johnny Cash's version of Hurt? I find it to be horrible. Nine Inch Nails' "Hurt" is far better than that.

Edited October 26, 2004 by Fitzy

[Underage Politician]

1) I Got Stripes

2) Don't Take Your Guns To Town

3) Man In Black

4) Folsom Prison Blues

5) Boy Named Sue

6) Ring of Fire

7) Luther Played The Boogie Woogie

8) Hey Porter

9) Cry, Cry, Cry

10) Big River

[Guest Wrestling_Man]

Why do people like Johnny Cash's version of Hurt? I find it to be horrible. Nine Inch Nails' "Hurt" is far better than that.

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[apsham]

Why do people like Johnny Cash's version of Hurt? I find it to be horrible. Nine Inch Nails' "Hurt" is far better than that.

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Because there's way more emotion and meaning to it. His voice is more than enough to make it better in my mind.

[tristy]

The song just fits Cash more, I think. And this is coming from an AVID nine inch nails fan.

Top 10:

1. My Old Faded Rose

2. Cocaine Blues

3. Going To Memphis

4. Don't Take Your Guns To Town

5. We'll Meet Again

6. A Boy Named Sue

7. I Walk The Line

8. Desperado

9. Folsom Prison Blues

10. One

[Hobo]

The song just fits Cash more, I think.

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I couldn't agree more with that, as an AVID Cash fan. Johnny Cash at the time he recorded the song was suffering from so many different problems, including diabetes and athsma(sp) as well as only having 40% vision (if you look at the When The Man Comes Around album cover when you take out the CD it shows the lyrics sheet for "So Lonesome I could cry" the font on the sheet is very large and he also wore glasses). Personally I think that the end of Hurt sums up Johnny Cash at that point (If I could start again/a million miles away/ I could keep myself I would find away). Paraphrasing (I think) Roseanne Cash talking about that song...it wasn't all of who he was at the end but it part of who he was.

My top ten Cash changes every day lol. I think I'll make another.

1) Anthem '84

2) Death And Hell

3) Delia's Gone

4) Folsom Prison Blues

3) Train Of Love

4) One Piece At A Time

5) Two Timin' Woman

6) Unchained

7) Wanted Man

8) Starkville City Jail

9) Like A Soldier

10) Southern Accents

[GhostMachine]

1. Folsom Prison Blues

2. Don't Take Your Guns To Town

3. I Walk The Line

4. Boy Named Sue

5. Hurt

6. Delia's Gone

7. Ballad Of Ira Hayes (man, its been a looooong time since I've heard that one)

8. Ring Of Fire

I'm having trouble picking a #9 and #10, because there's too many good songs to choose from.

He did a pretty good version of Ghostriders In The Sky, btw.

[Guest BacknBlackHoez]

1. Cassius Clay (Muhammed Ali)

2. Cash Murda Click

3. Cash Money Millionares

4. Chris Cash

all i can think of now.

[Hobo]

1. Cassius Clay (Muhammed Ali)

2. Cash Murda Click

3. Cash Money Millionares

4. Chris Cash

all i can think of now.

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[apsham]

1. Cassius Clay (Muhammed Ali)

2. Cash Murda Click

3. Cash Money Millionares

4. Chris Cash

all i can think of now.

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What....the.....fuck?

[Skummy]

Why do people like Johnny Cash's version of Hurt? I find it to be horrible. Nine Inch Nails' "Hurt" is far better than that.

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Because there's way more emotion and meaning to it. His voice is more than enough to make it better in my mind.

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I half agree with you there, although I'm still undecided on which version I prefer. Personally, I think Johnny Cash sings it with *less* emotion than Trent Reznor, but somehow makes that work. Whereas Reznor sings "I hurt myself today, to see if I still feel" as if he's about to break down and cry, Cash sings it as a matter of fact statement, as if it's nothing unusual, and saying that he's accepted the state he's in. Personally I find which version I prefer depends on the situation, though.

I'm not going to list my favourite Johnny Cash songs, because it's an impossible task.

[tristy]

Trent always sounds like he's going to cry doing a song.

Case in point:

Something I Can Never Have off of Still.

[Skummy]

Trent always sounds like he's going to cry doing a song.

Case in point:

Something I Can Never Have off of Still.

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Not meaning to drag this into a NIN discussion, but that's a beautiful song, the acoustic version even moreso, but saying he *always* sounds like he's going to cry is a bit much, he's not exactly weeping his way through Head Like A Hole, Physical or Starfuckers Inc., is he?

[tristy]

Yes.

Nah, I meant on live versions of songs, actually. You know, the slower songs. Like Hurt, SICNH, Piggy, etc.

Meh.

Edited October 31, 2004 by Tristof Kitler

[Guest Wrestling_Man]

Now the other day on the radio I heard some band do a cover of "Ring of Fire" and it was pretty good, I think Johnny would've liked it. Does anybody know who did that song?

[DMN in the House]

The Ballad of Ira Hayes.

Call him drunken Ira Hayes, he won't answer anymore, not the whiskey drinkin' Indian, nor the Marine that went to war.

Just a great song.

[Skummy]

Now the other day on the radio I heard some band do a cover of "Ring of Fire" and it was pretty good, I think Johnny would've liked it.  Does anybody know who did that song?

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That could have been anyone...Social Distortion? The Mavericks? Frank Zappa? Siobhan Fahey? George Canyon? Blondie? Tito & The Tarantulas? Dwight Yoakam? Elvis Costello? Dick Dale?

A little more information could come in handy.