― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Sunday, 5 June 2005 03:05 (eighteen years ago) link
― latebloomer: Pain Don't Hurt (latebloomer), Sunday, 5 June 2005 03:26 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 5 June 2005 04:27 (eighteen years ago) link
fragile is a fucking dope album
― max, Tuesday, 29 July 2008 03:20 (fifteen years ago) link
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
― max, Tuesday, 29 July 2008 03:21 (fifteen years ago) link
OTM ^
― stephen, Tuesday, 29 July 2008 03:56 (fifteen years ago) link
The THX-1138 sample that Downward Spiral leads off with is classic in itself.
― Myonga Vön Bontee, Tuesday, 29 July 2008 04:31 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.nin.com/strobelight/
Nine Inch Nails - Classic or Dud Funny Or Not?
― Zeno, Wednesday, 1 April 2009 19:29 (fifteen years ago) link
i laffed, especially because of the chris cornell dis aspect
― The-Steen (some dude), Wednesday, 1 April 2009 19:40 (fifteen years ago) link
I'm beginning to wonder if there's going to be some sort of set piece on the forthcoming tour.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 1 April 2009 20:01 (fifteen years ago) link
ilx needs to make STROBE LIGHT a reality
― Beatrix Kiddo, Wednesday, 1 April 2009 20:46 (fifteen years ago) link
I see where you are going with this.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 1 April 2009 20:49 (fifteen years ago) link
who's up for "coffin on the dancefloor"?
― baaderonixx, Wednesday, 1 April 2009 21:01 (fifteen years ago) link
Thread for potential further follies:
"ilx needs to make STROBE LIGHT a reality"
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 1 April 2009 21:07 (fifteen years ago) link
strobelight funny, ILX strobelight would not be funny
anyone try putting in their email to see if they get more lols delivered?
― IRL Consequences by Godley & Creme (sic), Wednesday, 1 April 2009 22:31 (fifteen years ago) link
especially because of the chris cornell dis aspect
Yes. And especially because I entered my email addy. I got got.
― tits akimbo (kenan), Wednesday, 1 April 2009 22:41 (fifteen years ago) link
trent_reznor
I may have to actually write "pussygrinder"! Anybody have Sheryl Crow's #?12 minutes ago from TweetDeck
― prins tuomas (The Reverend), Thursday, 2 April 2009 03:31 (fifteen years ago) link
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
― billstevejim, Thursday, 2 April 2009 03:36 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― Zeno, Thursday, 2 April 2009 03:42 (fifteen years ago) link
unlike the chris cornell album, strobeline could theoretically have been pretty good!
― iatee, Thursday, 2 April 2009 03:44 (fifteen years ago) link
or strobelight
― iatee, Thursday, 2 April 2009 03:45 (fifteen years ago) link
ok, chris cornell sucks...but it's as if NIN's last albums were a masterpieces or something
― Zeno, Thursday, 2 April 2009 03:48 (fifteen years ago) link
You clearly have not heard the chris cornell album. The special ed kids are making fun of it.
― tits akimbo (kenan), Thursday, 2 April 2009 05:59 (fifteen years ago) link
I suppose it is that old, yes.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 21 October 2009 03:25 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.empireonline.com/news/story.asp?NID=28262
Apologies if this has already been discussed, there's a million nin threads.
― rhythm fixated member (chap), Sunday, 4 July 2010 21:38 (thirteen years ago) link
Beginning at 4:00. Has anyone noticed the similarity?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVU00zallHg
― Shin Oliva Suzuki, Monday, 3 December 2012 11:09 (eleven years ago) link
Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay
http://www.vulture.com/2013/02/nine-inch-nails-will-tour-this-year.html
As promised, Trent Reznor is bringing Nine Inch Nails back, though with a brand-new lineup. "The band is reinventing itself from scratch and will be comprised of Eric Avery, Adrian Belew, Alessandro Cortini, Josh Eustis, Ilan Rubin, and me," according to Reznor's statement. The arena tour kicks off this fall in the U.S. and goes international in 2014. More details (presumably with an album announcement?) to come, he says.
!!!! Eric Avery
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 25 February 2013 16:40 (eleven years ago) link
Josh Eustis of Telefon Tel Aviv!
― ☠ ☃ ☠ (mh), Monday, 25 February 2013 16:45 (eleven years ago) link
although I guess Adrian Belew is really the most notable? pretty crazy addition, there
― ☠ ☃ ☠ (mh), Monday, 25 February 2013 16:46 (eleven years ago) link
EricAveryEricAveryEricAvery
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 25 February 2013 16:53 (eleven years ago) link
yeah and Belew too! i'm v excited
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 25 February 2013 16:54 (eleven years ago) link
It isn't crazy at all! That's him on guitar on "Mr. Self Destruct," check the credits. Two of them have been buds for a long while now.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 25 February 2013 17:00 (eleven years ago) link
just me being ageist, I guess. Didn't expect anyone born before 1950 to get added to Reznor's tourist roster in 2013!
― ☠ ☃ ☠ (mh), Monday, 25 February 2013 17:01 (eleven years ago) link
that's the best part of this for me, happy for him.
― queeple qua queeple (Jordan), Monday, 25 February 2013 17:08 (eleven years ago) link
I am fearful that Nine Inch Nails "reinventing itself from scratch" with a slew of new musicians involved will approximate Guns N' Roses with just Axl Rose and we'll get another "Chinese Democracy." But maybe not since unlike the Gunners, Nine Inch Nails always was about Trent Reznor and never really felt like a collaborative project.
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Monday, 25 February 2013 17:13 (eleven years ago) link
well, also Trent has worked with most of these people at one point or another over the past 20 years
― This beat is TWEENCHRONIC (DJP), Monday, 25 February 2013 17:16 (eleven years ago) link
Trent's always played mix n'match with his touring band, so this isn't any kind of deathknell for NIN.
GNR/Chinese Democracy is a whole different kettle of rotten, indedible fish.
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 25 February 2013 17:20 (eleven years ago) link
can't wait for the NIN version of "Big Electric Cat"
― :C (crüt), Monday, 25 February 2013 17:22 (eleven years ago) link
Two things:
1) Chinese Democracy is a really good album, fuckyoushutup.
2) Adrian Belew is one of the worst things to ever happen to a guitar.
― 誤訳侮辱, Monday, 25 February 2013 17:25 (eleven years ago) link
NIN live has been all hired guns, doubly so in the 2000s
― ☠ ☃ ☠ (mh), Monday, 25 February 2013 17:30 (eleven years ago) link
all the live shows I saw in the 2000s were killer so he could hire circus animals at this point and I wouldn't bat an eyelid.
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 25 February 2013 17:31 (eleven years ago) link
i was all 'uh huh' about this until i saw that it happened because reznor was working with belew on musical ideas
― : ; : (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 25 February 2013 20:29 (eleven years ago) link
now i won't sleep until i hear something
― : ; : (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 25 February 2013 20:30 (eleven years ago) link
One way or another I will finally see NIN live on this tour
― Raymond Cummings, Monday, 25 February 2013 22:49 (eleven years ago) link
1) Chinese Democracy is a really good album, fuckyoushutup.2) Adrian Belew is one of the worst things to ever happen to a guitar.
Double wrong.
Has NIN ever made it an entire tour with the same line-up? Dude is always changing things and replacing people. Also, they have always been awesome live.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 25 February 2013 23:06 (eleven years ago) link
Also, anyone who does not think Belew a good fit has not heard latter-day Crimson.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gQ1aAaV2H0
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 25 February 2013 23:08 (eleven years ago) link
I don't really think anything compares with the shitshow that was Axl Rose in the last twenty years but suffice to say, give Trent a little more credit than this
― frogbs, Monday, 25 February 2013 23:09 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, Trent - is it OK if I call him Trent? - has yet to disappoint or give less than 100%. Unlike Axl, who gives what Axl wants to give, and certainly does not give a shit.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 25 February 2013 23:17 (eleven years ago) link
yeah and even though Trent disbanded NIN he was *productive* in the time that NIN has been away. The same cannot be said for Axl's looong hiatus of indecision and paranoia. Until Trent holes up in a mansion with a piano and no output for 5+ years I think we're good
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 25 February 2013 23:53 (eleven years ago) link
This has to be among the statements that I've disagreed with the most in ILM history.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Monday, 25 February 2013 23:57 (eleven years ago) link