kamui Posted September 15, 2003 Report Share Posted September 15, 2003 Says limbo: Where do you find these sites with all these song texts? very easy, just enter the name of the song and/or singer and "lyrics" into google. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kamui Posted September 15, 2003 Report Share Posted September 15, 2003 Says limbo: Hi Sayjann, he had health problems, that may explain it. And did a lot of drugs for a long time. His last video is quite fantastic, filled with many symbols and scenes from his life. The video is past and present, but noch much of a future, more a "memento mori". He must have foreseen his death, sitting at a table filled with dishes which looks like a baroque dutch still life, with fruits, fish e.g.. At the end he spills a glas of wine over the table, unable to hide the shivering of his hand. I always hated country music, but the last song is very impressive. It's actually a cover version from Nine Inch Nails: "Hurt" I hurt myself today to see if I still feel I focus on the pain the only thing that's real the needle tears a hole the old familiar sting try to kill it all away but I remember everything what have I become? my sweetest friend everyone I know goes away in the end you could have it all my empire of dirt I will let you down I will make you hurt I wear my crown of thorns on my liar's chair full of broken thoughts I cannot repair beneath the stain of time the feeling disappears you are someone else I am still right here what have I become? my sweetest friend everyone I know goes away in the end you could have it all my empire of dirt I will let you down I will make you hurt if I could start again a million miles away I would keep myself I would find a way RIP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sayjann Posted September 15, 2003 Report Share Posted September 15, 2003 "Where do you find these sites with all these song texts?" the video was a good one and i enjoyed seeing it. it had some good images from his past and one of the better videos in recent times. but being a fan of NIN,i am surprised,i never realised it was one of Trent's songs?. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kamui Posted September 15, 2003 Report Share Posted September 15, 2003 I don't know from which NIN album, but here is a review from Rolling Stone : Johnny Cash Makes 'Em Hurt Video leaves Reznor, viewers speechless While scouting locations for his video of Johnny Cash's cover of the Nine Inch Nails song "Hurt," director Mark Romanek visited the House of Cash museum in Nashville. "It had been closed for a long time," says Romanek. "The place was in such a state of dereliction. That's when I got the idea that maybe we could be extremely candid about the state of Johnny's health -- as candid as Johnny has always been in his songs." The result is one of the most intense and affecting videos in memory. Romanek, known for his work with Madonna and on Fiona Apple's "Criminal," combined archival shots of the Man in Black riding trains and entertaining prisoners with new footage of the seventy-year-old Cash at home, with no effort made to hide his age or frailty. Cash's producer, Rick Rubin, sent a copy of the video to NIN's Trent Reznor. "We were in the studio, getting ready to work -- and I popped it in," Reznor says. "By the end I was really on the verge of tears. I'm working with Zach de la Rocha, and I told him to take a look. At the end of it, there was just dead silence. There was, like, this moist clearing of our throats and then, 'Uh, OK, let's get some coffee.'" The "Hurt" video is getting airplay on VH1 and MTV2, and the song has been added to the playlist of the influential Los Angeles radio station KROQ. "I don't think any of us expected anything to come of this video on any commercial level," says Romanek, a longtime Cash fan who begged Rubin to let him direct "Hurt," even offering to shoot it for free. "If you know you're about to see a video, your expectations are pretty low. So I think that's what grabs people: Mortality is a very unusual topic for this medium. But I ascribe most of the power to the Johnny Cash-ness of it all." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Man at Work Posted September 16, 2003 Report Share Posted September 16, 2003 Says limbo: Where do you find these sites with all these song texts? I remember them by heart and having nothing to do in my office I just wrote them down for all you folks! No realy, here it is: http://www.lyriks.de/lyriks/ See you in Samui (30 days to go!!!!!) MaW Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Man at Work Posted September 16, 2003 Report Share Posted September 16, 2003 Says kamui: And did a lot of drugs for a long time. Well that was in the 60s! If one lives another 30some years after a short but hefty drug career, that would bring the anti-drug-campaign in serious argumentative troubles. Drugs are bad news, really bad news , but JC (through the love and guidance of June Carter-Cash) seems to have gotten over it! (Boy o Boy, my grammar is bad this morning!) CU MaW Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Man at Work Posted September 18, 2003 Report Share Posted September 18, 2003 Says torneyboy: Hi 1500 songs 500 albums More than that: He has recorded more than 1,500 songs and they can be found on about 500 albums, counting only American and European releases. More of his albums (45) remain in print today than most artists ever make. He is the youngest person ever chosen for the Country Music Hall of Fame and the only performer ever selected for the Country and Rock Music Hall of Fame, until 1998, when Elvis Presley was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame. He has placed 48 singles on the Billboard Hot 100 Pop charts, about the same number as the Rolling Stones and the Beach Boys. He has tallied more Pop hit singles than Barbra Streisand, Michael Jackson (including his Jackson 5 hits), the Four Seasons, David Bowie, the Supremes, Elton John, Billy Joel, Kenny Rogers, the combined totals of Art Garfunkel, Paul Simon and Simon & Garfunkel, Martin Gaye, B.B. King, Roy Orbison, Kool & the Gang, Linda Ronstadt. Diana Ross, the combined total of all of the Osmond Family, Jerry Lee Lewis and the combined total of Lionel Richie and the Commodores. He has won 11 Grammys, the most recent include the 1999 Lifetime Achievement Award and the 2002 shared Grammy for Best Country Album. Two of his Grammys came for writing liner notes, for his At Folsom Prison album and Bob Dylan's Nashville Skyline record. Cash's 1987 Grammy came through his participation in The Class Of '55 recordings with the late Roy Orbison, Carl Perkins and Jerry Lee Lewis. The project represented a rebirth of "The Million Dollar Quartet" recordings featuring Cash, Perkins, Lewis and the late Elvis Presley and, interestingly enough, it predated Orbison's participation in The Traveling Wilburys. He has had chart success as a solo artist, as part of a duet, as the leader of a trio, and as a part of the award-winning Highwayman quartet. Long before the term "concept album" was coined, Cash created such thematically unified albums Ride This Train (1960), Blood, Sweat, & Tears (1963), Bitter Tears (1964). and Johnny Cash Sings Ballads Of The True West (1965). People forget just how hot Johnny Cash was, when his sales career was at its zenith. In the fall of 1969, Johnny Cash was the hottest act in the world, selling around 250,000 albums per month of his Folsom Prison and San Quinten albums. At that time, he was even outselling the Beatles. As Rich Kinezie observed it Country Music magazine 10 years ago, Cash "strengthened the bonds between folk and country music so that both sides saw their similarities as well as their differences. He helped to liberalize Nashville so that it could accept the unconventional and the controversial and he did as much as anyone to make the 'outlaw' phenomenon possible." As host of The Johnny Cash Show on ABC-TV (1969-1971), he served up 60 hours of prime-time TV, which featured performers like Bob Dylan, Stevie Wonder, Linda Ronstadt, Ray Charles, Neil Young, James Taylor, Neil Diamond, Joni Mitchell, Gordon Lightfoot, Kenny Rogers, Roy Orbison, Hank Williams Jr., Dennis Hopper, Judy Collins, Charley Pride, the Oak Ridge Boys, Patti Page and Merle Haggard, most rarely seen on TV back then. His 1975 autobiography Man in Black has so far sold around 1.5 million copies, about 300,000 in hardcover. He is one of the very few people in the history of music to sell more than 50 million records. He has placed at least two singles on the Country charts for 38 consecutive years, including an amazing 25 hits between 1958 and 1960. He produced and co-scripted a movie about the life of Jesus, Gospel Road, and filmed it in Israel. The film was distributed by Billy Graham's organization and is still in great demand today. He has starred in four additional theatrical films including one of the last great westerns, A Gunfight, with Kirk Douglas. In addition, he has been a featured star in seven TV movies including The Pride Of Jessee Hallam, a hard-hitting, poignant story of one man's struggle against illiteracy. The show has proven to be a valuable tool in the battle against illiteracy. He has posted over 130 hits on the Billboard Country singles chart, more than anyone in history, except George Jones. (Discounting duets by both men, Cash's total exceeds Jones.) He has won over two dozen songwriting awards from BMI; two of his songs, Folsom Prison Blues and I Walk The Line have earned million-performance citations from BMI. Over a hundred acts have recorded Cash's I Walk The Line. He has toured extensively for 38 years on a scope far beyond the normal tour bus routine of U.S. honky-tonks, state fairs, and showrooms. Hundreds of thousands of fans in Japan, Australia, New Zealand and throughout Europe have seen The Johnny Cash Show. He has toured in Vietnam and throughout the U.S. State Department, he has appeared in concert in many Eastern European nations such as Hungary, Poland and Czechoslovakia. He has fathered four daughters (Rosanne, Tara, Cindy and Kathy) and a son (John Carter), all of whom have performed with him at one time or another. In addition, Rosanne has become one of our country music's top singer-songwriters. Cash's influence on younger musicians in the Rock/Pop field is as strong a it was in the 60's: A group of European musicians last year released Til Things Get Brighter, an album 100% composed of Johnny Cash covers by such acts as Michelle Shocked and Marc Almond. In addition, fresh recordings of Cash classics like I Still Miss Someone and Big River have recently been made by Stevie Nicks and the Beat Farmers. He is a featured guest soloist on U-2's album ZOOROPA. His last three albums earned him Grammy Awards: American Recordings Best Folk Album 1994 Unchained - Best Country Album 1998 and Solitary Man - Best Country Male Vocal Performance 2000. Cash received the most coveted of Grammy award for Lifetime Achievement in 1999. Cash was honored with a Kennedy Center Award in December of 1996. Despite country music stations refusing to play his newer music, Cash and American Recordings were honored with Country Music Television-Europe's #7 Video of the Year for Rusty Cage, and Playboy Magazine honored Cash with the 1998 Music Poll Winner "Hall of Fame" Award. MaW Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Torneyboy Posted September 18, 2003 Author Report Share Posted September 18, 2003 Hi MW :bow: Thanks a great review of his music and awards...happy to see the ""stones"" in the lists. I think many rock music lovers liked his music...fresh and a good deep voice. didn''t know about the hall of fame and some other information..thanks..amazing sales figures btw... How many artists these days doing anything like that..nil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Man at Work Posted September 18, 2003 Report Share Posted September 18, 2003 Hi torneyboy, there is an easy reason for this: Not too many artist around. Just a bunch of computers. The so called TECHNO-Folks are even covering easy-listening-stuff from the 60s to get some material to blast the ears off these poor extasy-figures! To bad that you find this kind of music more and more in the GOGOs.... (now wasn't that an elegant swing back to the toppic of Thailand and Sanuk ?) MaW BTW: I did not write that stuff about Johnny myself, but found it on http://www.johnnycash.com/. MaW Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sayjann Posted September 18, 2003 Report Share Posted September 18, 2003 his duet with Dylan on 'Girl From The North Country' is one of my favourite songs. reminds me of a girl i knew in LOS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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