Track of the Week: Hurt (ReAct Now)

In the first of what I'm thinking should be a weekly thing to entice people to read my shit, I'm going to start posting a new song for download every Monday, hopefully a good one that will stick with you through the week.

This week's download is a live version of the Nine Inch Nails song, "Hurt." (For the record, I will slay the next dumbass who thinks that the Johnny Cash version is the original. Reznor wrote the original "Hurt" that came out in 1994 and Cash's cover didn't come out until 2002 - check here or here, fuckwad.) The version you're downloading was performed solo by NIN front man Trent Reznor at a Hurricane Katrina benefit concert called ReAct Now. Anyone that knows me knows what an enormous NIN fan I am, and this stripped-down, piano-and-vocals-only version of "Hurt" is hands down my favorite version of the song. It's really quite beautiful. There's also a video of the performance on YouTube.

»Download: Trent Reznor - Hurt (ReAct Now).mp3