Anya ,'Touched'
There's a lady plays her fav'rite records/On the jukebox ev'ry day/All day long she plays the same old songs/And she believes the things that they say/She sings along with all the saddest songs/And she believes the stories are real/She lets the music dictate the way that she feels.
Trent's interviewed on the Romanek collection of videos about it. He wasn't furious, but he wasn't that moved by the song hearing it in audio for the first time. It was seeing the video that made him really get how right it was.
I just read a Rolling Stone article on it, too. I'd heard that second or fiftieth hand, and wanted to see what Trent had said.
Oh my. I was sad already, and then watched the Hurt video. When he closes the piano at the end and sort of lovingly strokes the wood. sniffle
I suspect most Goths just dream of being dark as Cash, truly.
Since I heard the duet with Cash and Strummer on Redemption Song I can't stand to listen to the Mescaleros version sans Cash.
Opening act? Milla Jovovich. No lie. And despite coming across as a complete whack-nut, she had one of the most beautiful voices I've ever heard. And made some very interesting songwriting choices.
Agreed! I have her album and it's actually quite good. Somewhere between Kate Bush and Sarah McLachlan.
Exactly. Hm. I wonder if youtube can hook me up...
Johnny Cash's version of Hurt makes Trent Reznor sound like he was singing about happiness and puppy dogs and sunshine and rainbows.
My roommate is scrambling for food-or-state-related music for her annual NYE party: [link]
If anyone is around and feels like helping.
Interesting article on why the brain holds onto music so well. [link]
For his first experiment he came up with an elegant concept: He stopped people on the street and asked them to sing, entirely from memory, one of their favorite hit songs. The results were astonishingly accurate. Most people could hit the tempo of the original song within a four-percent margin of error, and two-thirds sang within a semitone of the original pitch, a level of accuracy that wouldn’t embarrass a pro.
"When you played the recording of them singing alongside the actual recording of the original song, it sounded like they were singing along," Dr. Levitin said.
Cool... but note that the participation was voluntary in that study -- all the people who would run away if you asked them to sing presumably ran away.