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Sales Rank: 153
Category: Music
Artist: Johnny Cash
Publisher: Mercury Records Ltd (London)
Studio: Mercury Records Ltd (London)
Manufacturer: Mercury Records Ltd (London)
Label: Mercury Records Ltd (London)
Format: Enhanced
Media: Audio CD
Running Time: 60 minutes
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.4 x 4.9 x 0.4
UPC: 766482070947
EAN: 0044007735626
ASIN: B00008YJBL
Release Date: April 14, 2003
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| Tracks:
| • | The Man Comes Around | | • | Hurt | | • | Give My Love To Rose | | • | Bridge Over Troubled Water | | • | I Hung My Head | | • | First Time Ever I Saw Your Face | | • | Personal Jesus | | • | In My Life | | • | Sam Hall | | • | Danny Boy | | • | Desperado | | • | I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry | | • | Tear Stained Letter | | • | Streets Of Laredo | | • | We'll Meet Again | | • | Big Iron | | • | Hurt |
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Amazon.co.uk Review
On first thought, the idea of the Man in Black recording such covers as "Bridge over Troubled Water", "Danny Boy" and "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" might seem odd, even for an artist who's been able to put his personal stamp on just about everything. But The Man Comes Around, which also draws on Cash's original songs as well as those by Nine Inch Nails ("Hurt"), Sting ("I Hung My Head") and Depeche Mode ("Personal Jesus"), may be one of the most autobiographical albums of the 70-year-old singer-songwriter's career. Nearly every tune seems chosen to afford the ailing giant of popular music a chance to reflect on his life, and look ahead to what's around the corner. From the opening track--Cash's own "The Man Comes Around", filled with frightening images of Armageddon--the album, produced by Rick Rubin, advances a quiet power and pathos, built around spare arrangements and unflinching honesty in performance and subject. In 15 songs, Cash moves through dark, haunted meditations on death and destruction, poignant farewells, testaments to everlasting love, and hopeful salutes to redemption. He sounds as if he means every word, his baritone-bass, frequently frayed and ravaged, taking on a weary beauty. By the time he gets to the Beatles' "In My Life", you'll very nearly cry. Go ahead. He sounds as if he's about to, too. --Alanna Nash
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A bleak picture January 7, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I bought this only having seen the video for 'Hurt' - one of the most moving pieces of film I've ever seen.
I have this picture in my head every time I listen to this CD - a broken-down church on the prairies, with The Man in Black walking slowly away from it as the setting sun sets the sky afire.
And then there's the range of songs. They're the sound of a broken-down, doubting preacher - the cheerfully apocalyptic opening track captures some of the blood and fire that is there, under the surface in every track, but too often it's a memory, and Cash's voice is filled with the sadness of a man who remembers what he was and knows he has fallen from what he was.
That's not to say that this is a hopeless, bleak CD. There is hope here, there is loves and there is strength in these songs that refuse to give up, that refuse to be cowed by the years. There is even Cash's humour.
Great.
The Johnny Cash Album To Own August 15, 2007
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
I own all the Johnny Cash American Recordings and have listened a great deal to them all. All 5 albums are good, although my least favorites are the first and last ones. Of the whole lot, still, this is the one to take to a desert island.
A Man Comes Around is recorded at a time Cash's health is getting worse. One senses the urgency in delivering the tunes and yet having the strength and power to fulfill such a mission. As on Unchained and Solitary Man, Cash took many cover songs and made them his own. Cases in point are songs like U2's One and Tom Petty's I Won't Back Down. On this album Cash really pushed the envelope, taking even very well known classics and making them, for those who hear them, in a sense his own.
The power is evident on the opening title track in which Cash melds together quotations from the bible forming a coherent song about the approaching hand of death; he obviously means business. The following track, Hurt, is, of all things, a Nine Inch Nails cover in which Cash changed the lyrics slightly. The vocal in the song makes it so poignant that the original songwriter has admitted (in a complementary way) that Cash basically stole it from him and made it his own. What follows are mostly eclectic covers done in a tender and yet forceful manner. There is not a single weak tune on it, no need for a remote control for this one. The scaled down version of Bridge Over Troubled Water is worth paying special note to, the text comes much more to life as opposed to the more produced version done by Simon & Garfunkel.
This album is among only a handful of albums released during the last 10 years I rate, from start to finish, as being close to perfection. If you want something more than a Johnny Cash compilation, this is the one to pick.
Simply one of the best April 15, 2007
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
Johnny Cash is simply one of the great artists of the all time. Almost anything he has done is great but towards the later part of his life he has produced some of the most honest, painfull, heartfelt and raw recordings of any artist ever. His interpretation of such a diverse choice of other artists work lends them a freshness that must make each songwriter proud. Not a dud among them and if you have never been into Johnny Cash before then these recordings are a great place too start.
Incredible, emotional, unmissable April 3, 2007
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Let me start this review by stating I am a metalhead, most of my collection is made up of bands putting out beatdowns and heavy riffs but this album has got to be the prize of my collection and its raw emotion puts it there.
This album is the music and words of a old man who knows he is dying and has very little time left in this world and this comes across in every note which makes this an incredibly moving and emotional listen.
The album is mainly covers which are every bit if not in most cases better than the originals. Personal Jesus, A Bridge Over Troubled Water and the incredible Hurt are the highlights for me and I challenge anyone not to be moved to tears watching the video for Hurt.
Get this album from this great man - Johnny Cash R.I.P
Wow. Johnny Cash RIP. March 11, 2007
7 out of 8 found this review helpful
I'd never really bothered to listen to much of JC's music before today, I'd kind of always assumed it was sort of dull nothing-y country music from the bits I'd heard. But this morning I got this sudden urge to listen to a 'perfect' song that really, really moved me and so spent half the day looking on the itunes store for something really emotional - and found Hurt. I think it's the only time a song has actually moved me to properly crying, not just welling up but crying-crying!, that hasn't been part of a film. Well obviously it was in Walk the Line but usually I need to be watching the film at the same time for it to move me to the extent of tears. It's just stunning; I can't believe I've overlooked JC for so long! So I looked at this album and immediately knew I had to buy it, and that it would become one of the most amazing albums I own. It is. This is real music, and I cried on and off the whole way through thinking about how the world has lost such a remarkable musical genius. My particular favourites are Hurt and a cover of The Beatles' In My Life, however each and every track is spellbinding. If you don't cry at least once over Hurt, well -where is your heart! Particularly if you watch the video of it too, now that is just mindblowing. I can't put into words how moving this album is - just buy it and see. Don't be prejudiced just because it's old and the kind of thing your parents would listen to, I'm so glad I found this album today and can tell it will be a favourite for a very long time.
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