weirdly, Pilgrimage is the track i enjoy hearing the most of this these days.
― AKA Thermo Thinwall (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 14 October 2015 19:46 (eight years ago) link
There are 3-4 songs I really like but honestly if I'm gonna listen to NIN now it's gonna be either The Slip or Hesitation Marks.
― the top man in the language department (誤訳侮辱), Wednesday, 14 October 2015 19:57 (eight years ago) link
our Hesitation Marks, I hope
― twunty fifteen (imago), Wednesday, 14 October 2015 19:58 (eight years ago) link
well full disclosure, the album I actually LISTEN to the most is Year Zero Remixed
― I Am Curious (Dolezal) (DJP), Wednesday, 14 October 2015 20:09 (eight years ago) link
I haven't really listened to Hesitation Marks since it first came out.
― Turrican, Wednesday, 14 October 2015 20:25 (eight years ago) link
this is really my favorite nin album. a 9-track edit of hesitation marks would also be a contender
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Wednesday, 14 October 2015 20:31 (eight years ago) link
i was v disappointed by every successive nin album bc i really just want him to build on his instrumental work on this record. ghosts was v inadequate as that goes
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Wednesday, 14 October 2015 20:32 (eight years ago) link
I should also relisten to With Teeth sometime
― I Am Curious (Dolezal) (DJP), Wednesday, 14 October 2015 20:35 (eight years ago) link
'Right Where It Belongs' probably one of my favourite Nine Inch Nails tracks, when all's said and done.
― Turrican, Wednesday, 14 October 2015 20:37 (eight years ago) link
last two tracks on with teeth are incredible
rest of it ehh
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Wednesday, 14 October 2015 20:40 (eight years ago) link
last time i saw them live the year zero tracks were kinda the best part of the set tbh, feel like that record is undersung
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Wednesday, 14 October 2015 20:41 (eight years ago) link
Oh definitely, partially because "Survivalism" doesn't really work as a single but is incredible in context
Also the remix album really opens up a lot of that album's magic; I liked the original a LOT more after playing the remix album to death
― I Am Curious (Dolezal) (DJP), Wednesday, 14 October 2015 20:47 (eight years ago) link
The whole concept album/weirdo marketing stunts/hey-there's-gonna-be-an-HBO-show! thing really hurt Year Zero as an album. But the only song I really remember being a good song is "Survivalism."
xpost
― the top man in the language department (誤訳侮辱), Wednesday, 14 October 2015 20:49 (eight years ago) link
"the great destroyer" and "in this twilight" are two of his best songs
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Wednesday, 14 October 2015 20:51 (eight years ago) link
"The Great Destroyer" is fucking incredible on the remix album, which is what opened the original up for me:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRjOM59pduQ
this reminds me that I never did check out modwheelmood
― I Am Curious (Dolezal) (DJP), Wednesday, 14 October 2015 21:00 (eight years ago) link
I still think that the heat sensitive CD art on Year Zero is pretty neat... on CD players where you can see the CD as it's spinning, you can see it gradually change colour as it plays.
― Turrican, Wednesday, 14 October 2015 21:08 (eight years ago) link
that "great destroyer" remix is great. turns it into a normal song lol
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Wednesday, 14 October 2015 21:10 (eight years ago) link
all versions of the great destroyer live remixed original and otherwise are dope as hell
sometimes i think zero is my absolute favorite but i do have way too much downward spiral angst nostalgia to not adore it
― slothroprhymes, Wednesday, 14 October 2015 21:14 (eight years ago) link
The instrumental/alt version of the Fragile up on Apple Music is worth a listen, the instrumental version of With Teeth not so much.
― Vernon Locke, Thursday, 15 October 2015 01:39 (eight years ago) link
The instrumental/alt version of the Fragile up on Apple Music is worth a listen
Listening now and enjoying it, but definitely one for the fans. Don't think someone who didn't know the songs quite well already would get much out of it.
― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Thursday, 15 October 2015 11:19 (eight years ago) link
Listening to this for only the third or fourth time ever (private session turned on in spotify so the discover playlist doesn't get the wrong idea). Disc 1 sounds in parts very Downward Spiral redux, but less intricate. Some classic angry Trent but my days of angry Trent appreciation are long behind me, I'm mostly digging the later quieter tracks although I do appreciate the machines that sound like guitars that sound like machines chewed up and spread between two intact machines that sound like guitars that sound like machines, and "the clouds will part and the sky cracks open and god himself will reach his fucking arm through just to push you down, to hold you down" is an A+ lol. We're in This Together I already knew was fucking immense. Disc 2 up next...
― ledge, Thursday, 15 October 2015 13:00 (eight years ago) link
Disc 2 may be more to your taste, it tends more towards quiet/tripped-out Trent.
― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Thursday, 15 October 2015 13:04 (eight years ago) link
Sounds to me like it tends more towards funky Trent! RHCP rather than Parliament funky obv, but still. Nah disc 1 is the winner here, I would save We're in This Together, Just Like You Imagined, Even Deeper, La Mer, & The Great Below, maybe Into The Void and Complication from disc 2.
― ledge, Thursday, 15 October 2015 15:19 (eight years ago) link
I really like I'm Looking Forward to Joining You (or whatever it's called) and The Big Comedown from disc 2, but they took a while to grow on me.
Also check out the 'Still' version of the The Day the World Went Away, it's gorgeous and miles better than the album mix.
― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Thursday, 15 October 2015 15:23 (eight years ago) link
My (Right) surprise "oh I should play this more" tracks were "The Mark Has Been Made" and "I'm Looking Forward To Joining You, Finally"
― I Am Curious (Dolezal) (DJP), Thursday, 15 October 2015 16:10 (eight years ago) link
Into the Void doesn't get enough love (only one vote here!), love the groove and the million-Trent final chorus
― the naive cockney chorus (Simon H.), Thursday, 15 October 2015 16:31 (eight years ago) link
There's also that bit at the start the instrumental break which sounds like the song is being sucked into a wormhole then spat out backwards.
― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Thursday, 15 October 2015 16:33 (eight years ago) link
My 15 track edit I made many moons ago I recently unearthed. Some had custom transitions. Definitely interested in revisiting this and putting together a leaner cut closer to 10-12 songs in the same vein as the other examples above.
01 the way out is through02 the day the world went away03 somewhat damaged04 into the void05 just like you imagined06 the fragile07 the frail08 the big come down09 complication10 the mark has been made11 10 miles high12 pilgrimage13 underneath it all14 la mer15 the great below
― octobeard, Wednesday, 20 April 2016 06:08 (eight years ago) link
I'm finally relistening to this and large chunks of Right are actually good, but "Starfuckers, Inc" is such a bad song that if I play the whole thing in sequence, I end up not enjoying anything that comes after it because I'm mad that I listened to it.
― this iphone speaks many languages (DJP), Friday, 14 July 2017 20:32 (six years ago) link
"starfuckers inc" is one of my favorite songs to sing at karaoke. it is still bad
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Friday, 14 July 2017 20:37 (six years ago) link
it is SO BAD
― this iphone speaks many languages (DJP), Friday, 14 July 2017 20:54 (six years ago) link
I am greatly enjoying DJP livetweeting listening to the entire NIN discography.
― Mr. Snrub, Friday, 14 July 2017 21:34 (six years ago) link
Aw, thanks!
― this iphone speaks many languages (DJP), Friday, 14 July 2017 21:53 (six years ago) link
Not everything on this record hits the mark, but I still really like it - the highlights are still quite strong.
― The Anti-Climax Blues Band (Turrican), Friday, 14 July 2017 21:58 (six years ago) link
it's hard to believe starfucker exists on the same album as the frail/the wretched
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 14 July 2017 22:01 (six years ago) link
Listening to it today, it is definitely too much of a good thing; I was severely running out of steam by the end of (Right) even though in the abstract I was enjoying most of what I heard. Also, it is 100% criminal that "Starfuckers, Inc" made it onto the album because I strongly suspect the end of (Right) wouldn't feel like such an unholy slog if you skipped over that thing shitting into your ears.
― this iphone speaks many languages (DJP), Friday, 14 July 2017 22:02 (six years ago) link
In the abstract of how you see yourself?
*a With Teeth joke, I'll see myself out*
― The Harsh Tutelage of Michael McDonald (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 14 July 2017 22:08 (six years ago) link
Take that to the With Teeth poll thread, mister
― this iphone speaks many languages (DJP), Friday, 14 July 2017 22:12 (six years ago) link
"Starfuckers" is super out of place on the album, but I like it in the same way I like Andrew WK. Big, fun and dumb. I like when Trent undercuts his usual seriousness with playfulness, though this song does it a bit... unsubtly
― Vinnie, Saturday, 15 July 2017 01:09 (six years ago) link
i don't actually remember the last time i listened to the fragile straight through. shouts out to the piano solo in "just like you imagined" which i completely forgot about
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Saturday, 15 July 2017 22:01 (six years ago) link
there's some superb piano on this album imo
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 15 July 2017 22:39 (six years ago) link
Yeah, the lengthy coda of We're in This Together is gorgeous.
― chap, Sunday, 16 July 2017 15:08 (six years ago) link
enya should cover "the great below"
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Sunday, 16 July 2017 17:30 (six years ago) link
i guess this is still my favorite nin record. even my one-disc digest of this record kinda proves it should be two discs (i agonized over cutting "pilgrimage," "i'm looking forward to joining you finally," and "please")
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Monday, 17 July 2017 12:41 (six years ago) link
incidentally it's
the way out is throughsomewhat damagedthe day the world went awaythe frailthe wretchedwe're in this togetherthe fragilejust like you imaginedinto the voidthe mark has been madethe big come downunderneath it allla merthe great below
about as long as the downward spiral in this configuration
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Monday, 17 July 2017 12:44 (six years ago) link
No Even Deeper smh.
― chap, Monday, 17 July 2017 12:45 (six years ago) link
yeah srsly
― imago, Monday, 17 July 2017 12:57 (six years ago) link
Even the less good songs mostly have some textures and atmospheres I would miss. This is one of my favourite sounding albums.
― jmm, Monday, 17 July 2017 13:29 (six years ago) link
"Even Deeper" is a slog imo
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Monday, 17 July 2017 13:31 (six years ago) link
you're a slog
― this iphone speaks many languages (DJP), Monday, 17 July 2017 13:34 (six years ago) link