The Beast in Me

"The Beast in Me" is a song from Nick Lowe's 1994 album The Impossible Bird. The song was originally recorded by Lowe’s former father-in-law Johnny Cash on his American Recordings album, also in 1994. A live version of the song by Cash appears on his 2005 DVD Live at Montreux 1994. A live version by Lowe appears on his 2004 live album Untouched Takeaway.

Covers

Year	Singer/Group	Album	Comments
1998	Trevor Harrison (as “Eddie Grundy”)	The World of Eddie Grundy	previously appeared on the various artists compilation album Doing It Right in 1996
1998	Martin Sexton	The American
1994	Johnny Cash		American Recordings
2006	Jim Byrnes (actor)	House of Refuge
2007	Remate	No Land Recordings
2007	Marc Vincent	Secrets of a Bedroom Artist
2008	Martin Kitcher Band	Eyes to the Left
2008	Mark van den Berg	Sings the Hits of Johnny Cash	tribute album to Johnny Cash
2011	Skeggs	Shades of Cash	tribute album to Johnny Cash
2011	Mark Lanegan	The Hangover Part II: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
2011	Willie Carmichael	Patched and Pulled Together
2011	Farrell Spence	Song for the Sea
2012	Christoph Mauz and Die Blue Birds	Nua Wegn Ihr	as "Des Viech in Mia"
2012	The Vaccines	Please Please Do Not Disturb

Appearances in other media

The Lowe studio version of the song features over the closing credits of the pilot episode of US television show The Sopranos. The song features on the commercially available soundtrack CD. Johnny Cash's version also appears in the 2011 film The Hangover: Part II but Mark Lanegan did a version for the soundtrack.

Melwood Cutlery's version of the song features over the closing credits of Project Grizzly, a 1996 National Film Board documentary about Canadian inventor, Troy Hurtubise and his quest to create a suit in which to meet a Grizzly Bear.