C/D--Nine Inch Nails

Obviously it's his intensity more than anything that gets to people.

You know, that could be. My head's nowhere near at the same place it was when I listened to Downward Spiral day in day out, thank goodness. In the interim between that and The Fragile I went and discovered postmodern irony disease and now I can't seem to un-discover it, so I just can't relate to the stuff in the same way - although I still have a lot of empathy & fondness for Reznor and would totally invite him over for a cup of tea. I think my trouble with NIN is that Reznor seems to think good art is always honest, and to equate 100% honesty with a fairly limited scope of feelings and emotions, 99% of which are negative.. But you can be honest and be goofy and funny, and anyway, good art is not necessarily created in a really loud confessional. Maybe I sound like Captain Obvious saying that but it wasn't at all obvious to me when I first got into NIN.

I think Trent should ditch the whole industrial alternagoth shtick altogether and just write pop music, which is clearly his calling.

Isn't the goth shtick on the way out, though? Perhaps there should be a restraining order taken out against all goths in the vicinity of T-Rez so the rest of us could have some nice pop tunes.

It's one of my favourites this year. I don't understand the hate it got.

I like that! I'm into chanted mantras or something.

WITH-A TEETH-A!

Y'know, like Mark E. Smith.

Title track was my favorite thing on there for a long while.

I think there are elements of humor in his later work too Jess (at least Broken and The Downward Spiral - I haven't actually followed Trent beyond that). I think his hardest and loudest tracks are often also the funniest (intentionally).

...Or, at least, I have to assume that there is something kinda self-knowing about lyrics like:

"Big time, hard luck/bad luck, FIST FUCK!/Don't think you're having all the fun/you know me, I HATE EVERYONE!"

or

"Shove it up INSIDE! SURPRISE! LIES!"

fragile is a fucking dope album

Reznor can definitely be guilty at times of overusing the same tricks, but that wasn't the problem on the Fragile for me! If anything the problem was that he awkwardly tacked on those 'predictable' pop song structures to songs that didnt work in that way. The best tracks on the Fragile by far are the instrumentals, and it would have been great if he had released an entirely (or almost entirely instrumental) album.

Overall, I still like the Fragile a lot despite its flaws.

-- latebloomer: AKA Sir Teddy Ruxpin, Former Scientologist (latebloomer), Sunday, March 27, 2005 9:20 PM (3 years ago) Bookmark Link

this post features a great summation sentence, its like a book report

OTM ^

The THX-1138 sample that Downward Spiral leads off with is classic in itself.

http://www.nin.com/strobelight/

Nine Inch Nails - Classic or Dud Funny Or Not?

i laffed, especially because of the chris cornell dis aspect

I'm beginning to wonder if there's going to be some sort of set piece on the forthcoming tour.

ilx needs to make STROBE LIGHT a reality

I see where you are going with this.

who's up for "coffin on the dancefloor"?

Thread for potential further follies:

"ilx needs to make STROBE LIGHT a reality"

strobelight funny, ILX strobelight would not be funny

anyone try putting in their email to see if they get more lols delivered?

especially because of the chris cornell dis aspect

Yes. And especially because I entered my email addy. I got got.

trent_reznor

I may have to actually write "pussygrinder"! Anybody have Sheryl Crow's #?
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Okay.. I totally expected this thread bump to be about the Digg Dialog with Trent Reznor thing, but since no one's posted about it here's the link..

http://digg.com/dialogg/Trent_Reznor?FC=UATDTR1

NIN laughing at chris cornell - is like the kid who got beat up at school is beating up another kid who got beaten up at school.

unlike the chris cornell album, strobeline could theoretically have been pretty good!

or strobelight

ok, chris cornell sucks...but it's as if NIN's last albums were a masterpieces or something

You clearly have not heard the chris cornell album. The special ed kids are making fun of it.

I suppose it is that old, yes.

http://www.empireonline.com/news/story.asp?NID=28262

Apologies if this has already been discussed, there's a million nin threads.

Beginning at 4:00. Has anyone noticed the similarity?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVU00zallHg