SurfaceAgentX2Zero
4:49 Fri Aug 4
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I don't listen to albums all the way through as much as I used to.
One of the few that I do regularly do that with is American IV: The Man Comes Around.
15 songs, almost all about death, love lost or both and yet still somehow uplifting. It's an album that could probably only have been recorded by a man who had just lost his wife/life partner and knew his own death was imminent.
Wonderful stuff.
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Swiss.
3:55 Fri Aug 4
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Walk The Line is a great film
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ray winstone
12:44 Fri Aug 4
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It took me weeks to get over the fact he didn't write Boy Named Sue.
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webby25
9:50 Fri Aug 4
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The Closing Medley at San Quentin is just brilliant.
Standard of musicians, no fancy equipment and the atmosphere of the prison setting- top stuff.
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neilalex
12:53 Fri Aug 4
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Sure, they're Trent Reznor's but Cash made that song his own as Reznor freely admitted. 'Hurt' done by Cash is sublime.
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Eerie Descent
12:49 Fri Aug 4
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' Every word he sang is full of pain and longing which is why 'Hurt' works so well. You can hear how much he wants to die and be in heaven with June'
I personally can never fully immerse like that when the words are not originally from the singers own mind.
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chajonbubble
12:43 Fri Aug 4
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a real talent, kept pushing boundaries until the end.
Walk the Line is a film well worth seeing
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Mr. Burns
11:12 Thu Aug 3
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Have you been to his museum in Nashville Huff?
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Huffers
10:36 Thu Aug 3
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150/250 of my most played songs are his. The best in my opinion.
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Your mum
10:30 Thu Aug 3
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THE best autobiography out there!
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Keep dreaming
9:42 Thu Aug 3
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The mans a legend. His voice are is pitch perfect in my head
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DukeofDevo
8:10 Thu Aug 3
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How many times does ' When the man comes around' get used on film soundtracks?
Surprised The Walking Dead haven't purloined it
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Swans Of Never
3:56 Thu Aug 3
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The Mercy Seat is brilliant.
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Lily Hammer
3:42 Thu Aug 3
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I like most of what I've heard, especially the last few albums where he covered some then comtemporary artists, but I'm more a Woody Guthrie man.
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Far Cough
3:37 Thu Aug 3
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Haha, Stoat, he even has Bo Diddley's guitar
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The Stoat
3:33 Thu Aug 3
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Clever mash up by Puddles Pity Party (you'll all be singing it later) ;-)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bfPwtUTP4k
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Saul Bollox
2:29 Thu Aug 3
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I've just been to the bog for a Johny Cash
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chim chim cha boo
2:20 Thu Aug 3
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I absolutely love Johnny Cash.
When I was a kid my paddy Pal's parents (who were pikey cunts) loved him so naturally I hated everything they liked. So I chucked him in the mental bin with Elvis Presley (who I still don't like).
Live at Folsom Prison is one of the greatest live albums of all time and right through his career he came up with fantastic songs. Great lyrics too. Stuff like fighting his dad in 'A Boy Named Sue' with 'well I've fought bigger, harder men, I just can't quite remember when. He kicked like a mule and bit like a crocodile '.
The real genius of the man was the stuff he recorded in the ten months after his wife, June Carter Cash, died. Every word he sang is full of pain and longing which is why 'Hurt' works so well. You can hear how much he wants to die and be in heaven with June. Songs like 'When the man comes around' almost dare you NOT to believe in God- even a cynical Godless bastard like me.
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ted fenton
1:57 Thu Aug 3
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I play Hurt on my guitar at least once a week ....I love it sad as it is !!!!!!
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