Tuesday, July 30, 2013
Children's Choir Covers Crystal Castles
Every now and then, someone does a cover of a song that so surpasses the original in some manner, that the cover ends up being considered the definitive version. A good example would be Johnny Cash's cover of NIN's "Hurt". It was always a beautiful song, but there is such a poignancy and genuine-ness to Cash's version, it's hard to appreciate the original as much after you hear it.
What we have here is a children's choir doing a stunning a cappella rendition of Crystal Castles' "Untrust Us". The results are so beautiful, I broke out in goosebumps when the lyrics came in. As far as I am concerned, this song now belongs to the Capital Children's Choir. Crystal Castles wrote it, but these kids made it their own.
(The original song, for your reference:)
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That was seriously cool!
That was awesome! That choir teacher is the coolest music teacher ever! Though I have to disagree regarding the Cash version of "Hurt" being more genuine...Trent's version will always be the best version in my eyes.
In regard of "Hurt", I really can't agree with you Tom. Trent's vocals are raw, he genuinely sounds pained, a true NIN classic. Johnny Cash's version makes me cringe, I just can't listen to it.
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