Favorite Cash? (1 Viewer)

[Ron Swanson]

I can't say I always loved Johnny Cash's music. It was just always kind of on as background music but never in focus for me growing up. In fact, the first time I really recall hearing "Ring of Fire" was a cover by a friend's punk band when I was a teenager. The second time I heard it was Social D's version. Johnny was third.

I've since grown to love most of his catalog. In that spirit, what's your favorite Johnny Cash song? Here's mine:

Tennnesee Flat Top Box

 

[arrow1]

Big Iron

 

[Andy Dufresne]

The One On The Right Is On The Left

 

[opensourcebeer]

Sunday Morning Come Down

 

[Keerock]

Not a big fan of cash for the last few years, but when I do use it, I prefer the Jackson. Benjamin is a close second.

 

[psychobillies]

Sunday Morning Come Down

He was so good playing cover songs. This is one of my favorites, and I'm not a big Springsteen guy at all.

 

[ignatiusjreilly]

I also came to him later in life. I also think in the '70s and '80s his sound got too bloated; Rick Rubin really helped him get back to his roots.

So many songs that I love, but in terms of the mood it puts me in, I'd have to say "Flesh and Blood". Every summer we spend a couple weeks in rural Maine, and that song captures exactly what I love so much about the experience. (I actually had a plan to sing that song to my wife as I proposed to her during a hike, but the timing didn't really work so I just asked her)

 

[ignatiusjreilly]

Not a big fan of cash for the last few years, but when I do use it, I prefer the Jackson. Benjamin is a close second.

Jackson is awesome

 

[rockaction]

"Bird On A Wire"

A Leonard Cohen song.

I have no idea why, but it's the first one in my head and the most memorable, so I'll go with it.

 

[ignatiusjreilly]

Sunday Morning Come Down

He was so good playing cover songs. This is one of my favorites, and I'm not a big Springsteen guy at all.

Can't talk about JC covers without mentioning "Hurt"

 

[rockaction]

I actually had a plan to sing that song to my wife as I proposed to her during a hike, but the timing didn't really work so I just asked her

I think . . . I think without even knowing the lyrics that it's probably for the best your timing caught a hiccup.

 

[-OZ-]

So many great songs from the Man.

I’ve been everywhere was the first song I heard of his, at least that I remember, that made me a fan.

 

[ignatiusjreilly]

I actually had a plan to sing that song to my wife as I proposed to her during a hike, but the timing didn't really work so I just asked her

I think . . . I think without even knowing the lyrics that it's probably for the best your timing caught a hiccup.

Yeah, I had a plan that in retrospect would never have worked

 

[The General]

Not a huge fan but like this one among a few others : The Man Comes Around

 

[rockaction]

Yeah, I had a plan that in retrospect would never have worked

It's the whole word "flesh" and the phrase "flesh and blood" that's throwing me here. Unless you're awash in typical Biblical usage, they're jarring words for a modern woman to hear in a romantic sense. That's all I was trying to say without really delving into it.

 

[nirad3]

Jackson, with June.

 

[Ron Swanson]

Not a huge fan but like this one among a few others : The Man Comes Around

I loved the collab with Lou Reed, "Waiting for the Man to Come Around."

 

[ignatiusjreilly]

Yeah, I had a plan that in retrospect would never have worked

It's the whole word "flesh" and the phrase "flesh and blood" that's throwing me here. Unless you're awash in typical Biblical usage, they're jarring words for a modern woman to hear in a romantic sense. That's all I was trying to say without really delving into it.

Oh, I never even thought of that. I can guarantee you that wouldn't have been an issue, because my wife never pays attention to lyrics. (For the first dance at our wedding, she proposed an Amy Winehouse song that she liked and I was like, "Um, that song is about a breakup.")

It was more that there was no way for me to randomly start singing to her in the middle of a hike without her saying, "What are you doing? Are you about to propose?"

 

[ignatiusjreilly]

For those with young kids, he put out a children's album with some real bangers: Nasty Dan, One and One Make Two, I Got a Boy and His Name Is John, etc

 

[Snoopy]

Oh Boy, Sue me

 

[Mister CIA]

Sunday Morning Come Down

For sure my favorite.

 

[Mister CIA]

Also,

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[Corporation]

I was going to post Hurt, which is easily my favorite song of his. Even Trent Reznor said "It's not my song anymore, it's his"

Here's another good one, cool video as well: God's Gonna Cut You Down

 

[jamny]

Big fan...too many to pick the best. Maybe Sunday Morning.
Hurt really is hard to listen to sometimes.

 

[The Z Machine]

Big fan of the currency of Mozambique, the meticais.

 

[General Malaise]

Sunday Morning Come Down

He was so good playing cover songs. This is one of my favorites, and I'm not a big Springsteen guy at all.

Yeah, his covers are terrific. My favorite cover of his is Rowboat, which is a really obscure Beck song that he wrote in 20 minutes because he booked a session with a pedal-steel guitar player but didn't have any songs holstered. So he just came up with it and when Beck opened for Cash in '95 in LA, he must have heard it and it resonated. The version by Cash is just beautiful, man.

 

[Brownsfan]

Sunday Morning Come Down

While I like this song, his studio version came out when the use of strings was popular and I don't like the way the music contradicts the lyrics. I prefer the author Kristofferson on this one.
i am a fan of most of the American Recordings, When The Man Comes Around or his cover of Solitary Man are probably my favorites.

 

[Cowboysfan8]

I can't say I always loved Johnny Cash's music. It was just always kind of on as background music but never in focus for me growing up. In fact, the first time I really recall hearing "Ring of Fire" was a cover by a friend's punk band when I was a teenager. The second time I heard it was Social D's version. Johnny was third.

I've since grown to love most of his catalog. In that spirit, what's your favorite Johnny Cash song? Here's mine:

Tennnesee Flat Top Box

I imagine you’ve heard it before , but just in case you haven’t , you should check out Roseanne’s version. One of my favorite country songs

 

[Major]

Folsom Prison Blues is my tried and tested favorite. Him and Dylan were hip hop before it took shape.

Enjoying the Tennessee Flat Top Box track you posted. First time hearing it. Love that guitar riff and progression during the bridge.

 

[rockaction]

My favorite cover of his is Rowboat

I really dig this song. I thought I was the only one that singled it out given Cash's other tracks off of the Def American/American recordings.

 

[the moops]

Cold hard

 

[ignatiusjreilly]

I was going to post Hurt, which is easily my favorite song of his. Even Trent Reznor said "It's not my song anymore, it's his"

Bill Simmons has a whole theory that the Wallflowers were never the same after they brought Bruce on stage to perform "One Headlight" with them; they should have just declared it would be his song going forward

 

[Dr_Zaius]

I'm not a superfan or anything, but I do like a lot of his stuff. Hard to pick one, but I'll throw out one unmentioned thus far : One Piece at a Time. Fun little story song.

 

[Ron Swanson]

I can't say I always loved Johnny Cash's music. It was just always kind of on as background music but never in focus for me growing up. In fact, the first time I really recall hearing "Ring of Fire" was a cover by a friend's punk band when I was a teenager. The second time I heard it was Social D's version. Johnny was third.

I've since grown to love most of his catalog. In that spirit, what's your favorite Johnny Cash song? Here's mine:

Tennnesee Flat Top Box

I imagine you’ve heard it before , but just in case you haven’t , you should check out Roseanne’s version. One of my favorite country songs

That's actually what prompted me to start this thread. I heard her cover today for the first time. It was fantastic.

 

[nirad3]

I'm not a superfan or anything, but I do like a lot of his stuff. Hard to pick one, but I'll throw out one unmentioned thus far : One Piece at a Time. Fun little story song.

Probably my #2 pick. Good one.

 

[Leroy Hoard]

I'm not a superfan or anything, but I do like a lot of his stuff. Hard to pick one, but I'll throw out one unmentioned thus far : One Piece at a Time. Fun little story song.

Probably my #2 pick. Good one.

In terms of story/novelty songs, much better than Boy Named Sue.

 

[3C's]

Folsom Prison Blues

 

[ignatiusjreilly]

I'm not a superfan or anything, but I do like a lot of his stuff. Hard to pick one, but I'll throw out one unmentioned thus far : One Piece at a Time. Fun little story song.

Probably my #2 pick. Good one.

In terms of story/novelty songs, much better than Boy Named Sue.

Yeah, but ABNS has the single greatest line in the history of lyrics: "Kicking and a-gouging in the mud and the blood and the beer."

 

[psychobillies]

I'm not a superfan or anything, but I do like a lot of his stuff. Hard to pick one, but I'll throw out one unmentioned thus far : One Piece at a Time. Fun little story song.

Psychobilly Cadillac

 

[psychobillies]

Sunday Morning Come Down

He was so good playing cover songs. This is one of my favorites, and I'm not a big Springsteen guy at all.

Yeah, his covers are terrific. My favorite cover of his is Rowboat, which is a really obscure Beck song that he wrote in 20 minutes because he booked a session with a pedal-steel guitar player but didn't have any songs holstered. So he just came up with it and when Beck opened for Cash in '95 in LA, he must have heard it and it resonated. The version by Cash is just beautiful, man.

I had no idea that was a Beck song. My dad loved that song and I doubt he knew either.

 

[skol asylum]

His version of Hurt is incredibly powerful.

 

[Don Quixote]

Before clicking in the thread, I was thinking, well, there’s Johnny Cash, Norm Cash, Dave Cash…

But I’ll go a bit chalk with “Ring of Fire.”

 

[Ministry of Pain]

$2 bills are my favorite cash, I always keep a couple in my wallet

 

[Desert_Power]

Folsom Prison Blues

This and the cover of Hurt are in their own tier IMO. I think he is underrated a bit overall.

 

[Zow]

Forget what it’s called but the one about shooting the random guy.

ETA: I Hung My Head

 

[TheAristocrat]

As talked about above, the Hurt cover and video is devastatingly awesome. His delivery shows great understanding and awareness of his past with exceptional acceptance. It's brutal and gentle at the same time a short while before he passes.

 

[PIK95]

Kash and Grab

 

[Ilov80s]

Jackson, with June.

Without a doubt my favorite

 

[Ilov80s]

Well now, we got married in a fever
Hotter than a pepper sprout
We've been talkin' 'bout Jackson
Ever since the fire went out

 

[Dr. Octopus]

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