Hurt is a song written and performed by an Industrial Rock/Metal band called Nine Inch Nails (NiN). It is actually a little misleading to call NiN a band because it is a one man band! Trent Reznor the multi-instrumentalist usually records all parts of a song himself. He does travel with a live band of 4-5 members when in concert because unfortunately he does not have 10 hands to play everything at the same time. He could maybe if he had though. No question about it. I personally regard him VERY high as a musician. To me he is like A.R.Rahman when it comes to versatility and layering. Recently he also started composing OSTs for Hollywood movies (The Social Network, Girl with the Dragon Tattoo) and even won an Oscar for The Social Network.
I went to a NiN concert recently and was blown over by the perfection with which all songs were performed (also the insane LED lights!). As a part of the encore Reznor sang this song and I immediately wanted to try it on my cajon experiment. There is also a Johnny Cash version of this song. There is some argument over whether this song was first performed by Reznor or Cash. It does not matter to me though. Both are great versions and convey different feelings. Watch out for a loud bang near the end ;). Here it is:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htmKZKR7oyc
The following is the LIVE version. This is similar to the concert I went to. Taken by somebody sometime in 2013 so it has to be the same tour:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVT3p6SaUbw
This is actually a little bit difficult to play percussion to because it looks like Reznor is playing the song without even a metronome to have a balladish/acoustic feel to the song. However as the song progresses it falls into a nice periodic time signature and the beats make more sense. Here is mine with the beats, again there is a loud bang at the end:
I went to a NiN concert recently and was blown over by the perfection with which all songs were performed (also the insane LED lights!). As a part of the encore Reznor sang this song and I immediately wanted to try it on my cajon experiment. There is also a Johnny Cash version of this song. There is some argument over whether this song was first performed by Reznor or Cash. It does not matter to me though. Both are great versions and convey different feelings. Watch out for a loud bang near the end ;). Here it is:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htmKZKR7oyc
The following is the LIVE version. This is similar to the concert I went to. Taken by somebody sometime in 2013 so it has to be the same tour:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVT3p6SaUbw
This is actually a little bit difficult to play percussion to because it looks like Reznor is playing the song without even a metronome to have a balladish/acoustic feel to the song. However as the song progresses it falls into a nice periodic time signature and the beats make more sense. Here is mine with the beats, again there is a loud bang at the end:
