It's amazing what Johnny Cash did with a song that came off as self-indulgent whinging when Reznor performed it.high_castle said:Hurt - Johnny Cash. Yes, it was originally a Trent Reznor song, but Cash's version makes it about a man who reaches the end of his life and looks back on all he's lost. Very sad, very beautiful.
I'm going to go with "Strange Fruit", remarkable both as poetry and for its historical social impact. Siouxsie & the Banshees did a great modern cover, set as a funeral march.
-- Alex