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Johnny Cash

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  • #32
    johnny osbourne
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,017 ✭✭✭johnny osbourne


    ****, i made such a holy show of myself last night, i rang up my evil-auntie and got into a row with her, but it was a long time coming, better it's all out in the open now


  • #33
    Taco Chips
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 565 ✭✭✭Taco Chips


    Are there people who loathe Johnny Cash? Just curious since the OP said "love him or loathe him". I would have thought he's one of the most revered musicians there is.


  • #34
    Bullocks
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,905 ✭✭✭Bullocks


    Seainin Airgead , not a bad lad


  • #35
    Bullocks
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,905 ✭✭✭Bullocks


    johnny osbourne wrote: »
    ****, i made such a holy show of myself last night, i rang up my evil-auntie and got into a row with her, but it was a long time coming, better it's all out in the open now

    Less family gatherings for you now , think will she leave ya anything in the will


  • #36
    NachoBusiness
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,389 ✭✭✭NachoBusiness


    I liked Johnny Cash before his music became tarnished by hipster popularity. I'm sure the response will be that music doesn't change because of who likes it, but I disagree. It taints it.

    It's like Mic Christopher's Hey Day. Guinness went and sucked the soul out of it for me and I'll always hate them for that. Not so much that I'll stop drinking the stuff mind, but enough that I'll shake my fist at them whenever I'm driving down James's St.


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  • #37
    NachoBusiness
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,389 ✭✭✭NachoBusiness


    I liked Johnny Cash before it became 'cool' to like him. His music has been tarnished by hipster popularity. I'm sure the response will be that music doesn't change because of who likes it, but I disagree. It taints it.

    It's like Mic Christopher's Hey Day. Guinness went and sucked the soul out of it for me and I'll always hate them for that. Not so much that I'll stop drinking the stuff mind, but enough that I'll shake my fist at them whenever I'm driving down James's St.


  • #38
    GerB40
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,047 ✭✭✭GerB40


    catallus wrote: »
    He's already dead!

    That's one for the "obvious things I only just realised" thread!

    Hah don't worry pal, last year someone broke the news to me that Barry White died.. In 2003.....


  • #39
    Un Croissant
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,052 ✭✭✭Un Croissant


    The Man Comes Around.


  • #40
    gg2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,082 ✭✭✭gg2


    I LOVE JONNY CASH! My dads favourite singer so his music has always been played in the house. So talented and such a big handsome man. This is my all time favourite
    http://youtu.be/_YVYczqD2b8
    I read his biography a few years back and don't recall him speaking of being rejected by his dad... Maybe something that was dramatised for the movie?
    He was one sh1t cool mother ****r


  • #41
    SuperGrover
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 991 ✭✭✭SuperGrover


    Some singers have a voice that can lift up a song and deliver it. Luke Kelly. Edith Piaf.
    And Johnny Cash.

    His cover of In My Life is beautiful...

    http://youtu.be/K6oPHBeoB-w


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  • #42
    sh1tstirrer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,485 ✭✭✭sh1tstirrer


    He tried to get Sandy Kelly into the cot, fact.


  • #43
    zanador
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 505 ✭✭✭zanador


    NachoBusiness wrote: »
    I liked Johnny Cash before it became 'cool' to like him. lt.

    Ironic post is ironic


  • #44
    Badly Drunk Boy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 7,422 ✭✭✭Badly Drunk Boy


    Back in the early 90's, I bought my first Johnny Cash CD, in Tower Records for £1.99. '20 Toe-Tapping Greats". You won't have yer Jessie Js or Adeles coming up titles like that!






    (Yeah, I know it was only the record companies, but still...)


  • #45
    sh1tstirrer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,485 ✭✭✭sh1tstirrer


    eternal wrote: »
    Anyone see Walk the Line. That was not bad and it showed the constant rejection he suffered from his father.

    Phoenix was able to sing cash"s songs better than cash himself.


  • #46
    Menas
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,318 ✭✭✭✭Menas


    That song Hurt is what they will play at my funeral. Along with 'Celebration' by Kool and the Gang.


  • #47
    Mesrine65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,949 ✭✭✭Mesrine65




  • #48
    ShagNastii
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,735 ✭✭✭ShagNastii


    Has to be "The Chicken in Black".

    Hilarious AND catchy.


  • #49
    kingtiger
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,758 ✭✭✭kingtiger


    Love some of Johnnys stuff, but his gospel songs just aren't for me

    very interesting man though


  • #50
    DainBramage
    Closed Accounts Posts: 212 ✭✭DainBramage


    I like Johnny Cash, its nearly heresy to say you don't.

    But I've rarely seen a deceased musician who's back catalogue has been so comprehensively milked to bits, Tower records had a stand with at least 20 different compilations of his greatest hits/live tunes.


  • #51
    Sir Osis of Liver.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,820 ✭✭✭Sir Osis of Liver.




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  • #52
    parttime
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 282 ✭✭parttime


    When its springtime in alaska. Oh yeah.
    One of my mums favorites. Listening and singing to his music for 35 years. Honestly do not know one person who doesn't like at least one of his songs


  • #53
    GerB40
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,047 ✭✭✭GerB40


    SuperGrover wrote: »
    Some singers have a voice that can lift up a song and deliver it. Luke Kelly. Edith Piaf.
    And Johnny Cash.

    His cover of In My Life is beautiful...

    http://youtu.be/K6oPHBeoB-w

    Lyrically I think In My Life is one of the best songs ever written but I always found The Beatles version a bit too poppy.. Johnnys cover is perfect. His voice adds the melancholy that the words needed.


  • #54
    MagicIRL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,902 ✭✭✭MagicIRL


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyfCTZB6Nrk


  • #55
    Tearin It Up
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 449 ✭✭Tearin It Up


    There was a comment on the first page that Johnny Cash is the only country they can listen too.

    Yeah, them and hundreds more when he became cool.

    I don't get it. Why just like one in country music?

    There's way more in country music that is absolutely brilliant if people gave it a listen to.

    Merle Haggard
    George Jones
    George Strait
    Dare I say it, Garth Brooks


  • #56
    eternal
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 8,867 ✭✭✭eternal


    sh1tstirrer wrote: »
    Phoenix was able to sing cash"s songs better than cash himself.

    He was great. Reminds me of The Doors film in that respect.


  • #57
    Whispered
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,772 ✭✭✭✭Whispered


    Tearin It Up wrote: »
    There was a comment on the first page that Johnny Cash is the only country they can listen too.

    Yeah, them and hundreds more when he became cool.

    I don't get it. Why just like one in country music?

    There's way more in country music that is absolutely brilliant if people gave it a listen to.

    Merle Haggard
    George Jones
    George Strait
    Dare I say it, Garth Brooks

    You skipped Willie nelson :)


  • #58
    NachoBusiness
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,389 ✭✭✭NachoBusiness


    Love me a bit of Dolly.

    Country and techno is a great old mix.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sn27UVjg9E


  • #59
    eternal
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 8,867 ✭✭✭eternal


    Crazy Heart film and soundtrack. Fantastic.


  • #60
    Santa Cruz
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,126 ✭✭✭Santa Cruz


    NachoBusiness wrote: »
    Love me a bit of Dolly.

    Country and techno is a great old mix.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sn27UVjg9E
    I loved that CD Dolly Partons Greatest Hits


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  • #61
    Red Kev
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,793 ✭✭✭Red Kev


    I read his autobiography about 7 years go. Re-read some of it last year.

    Always read it in his warm soft Arkansas voice, a voice that rivals Morgan Freemans for the warmness in it.


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