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My Empire of Podzols

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you know you're old when you're salty about kids thinking the cover version is the original
- 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.
  
  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.
  
  Johnny Cash always nailed covers. He makes songs I thought were average sound great, and you believe every word he sings.
  
  He's out and said it's Johnny's song now.
  
  Unpopular opinion: His versions of One and Rusted Cage are better than the originals.
- 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.
  
  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
  
  it happens like that sometimes. see also jimi's all along the watchtower.
  
  Reznor is on record saying it's cash's song now so op is only mostly wrong :)
  
  Reznor wrote that song
  
  That's the important part.
- Right? Like damn, I know that was a good cover but have we already forgotten it was a NiN song?
- I love Fallen Kingdom. Who the fuck is Coldplay?
Perhaps Tent Reznor thought the same.
- I agree, kind of annoying that the person that wrote the song doesn't get credited for what was said.
  
  In fairness I do believe Johnny somehow managed to do it better, but credit where credit is due.
- *Trent Reznor's camp brother.
  
  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.
Vermiculture is a perfectly legitimate hobby and I'm not weird because of it!!!
- Do you know all the words? Those would be vermiculture vernacular.
And now I need to go cry.

Thanks op
- Because you're upset at the meme implying Johnny Cash wrote the song, right?
  
  Speaking of covers, Trent Reznor does a great cover of this song. Almost as good as Cash's!
  
  Yeah this is what irked me.
Considering how much the Cash version changed the meaning and vibe of the song, yeah this is canon now.
Who is his Swedish friend though?

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