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.
It's amazing what Johnny Cash did with a song that came off as self-indulgent whinging when Reznor performed it.
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