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Faceplams: He's still working on the essay or whatever to go with the vinyl.Originally Posted by sheepdean
Real Hippie Asshole
He's still working on the essay or whatever to go with the vinyl.
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That'd be sweet. With additional reworkings as well of course.
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No activity from Trent at all (on twitter, instagram or apple connect). Where has he gone?????
God is an American
The office? His kids' school?
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Probably taking that break that he promised himself he would take back in 2009.
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I was in a rather twisted mood yesterday after work, and so I decided to watch The Broken Movie. Yeah…
A couple of questions for some of you longtime nin fans out there. When you first saw The Broken Movie back in the 90’s (or whenever) what were your initial thoughts about it? Also, what are your thoughts on it now 20+ years later?
Saul Williams fan.
I had first seen it as a shitty quality YouTube video and freaked out, even though I had read the synopsis from NINwiki. Then, I saw the DVD version and I said, "yeah, this actually ain't so bad", until I got to the Gave Up part. ...Yeah...
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The Gave Up part really does take the cake, doesn’t it. To this day it looks a little too real.
The Downward Spiral was gritty, dark, and sad, but the Broken movie was flat out franticly brutal and grisly. I wonder, at the time they conceived it if they were being loosely inspired by something like the Skinny Puppy - Worlock video? I wonder what Trent thinks about that period, looking back now.
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My best friend bought me a bootleg vhs copy for my 17th birthday (1995) that a local record store had. We were so excited to watch it. We got to the end and were like "uh well, that was weird."
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I only got to see it after Trent leaked the DVD version. I found it to be disturbing, but not to the point where I wanted to look away, and I thought the video for Happiness In Slavery (which I had never seen before) was very well done.
Saul Williams fan.
It amazes me (and scares me) that Year Zero keeps being a prophetic album. It had predicted government surveillance of the public (drones), terrorist attacks (in the YZ timeline, terrorists had attacked the Oscars ceremony), and Parepin could be an allegory for today's addiction to "sedative" social media. And no, I'm no conspiracy theory nutjob. Heck, even Trent himself had said it:
Today, Reznor sees an America slipped way beyond Year Zero. "It was meant to be a cautionary 'Watch what's going to happen'," he says, "but it's kind of past that now. Watching Bush embarrass America [back then], things were changing at such a pace that it felt like they weren't even trying to hide it any more. Any trust you might have of the government, or the illusion that big business isn't running everything and really everything's a scam to conduct the brilliant manipulation of lots of uneducated people in America … that was gone."
His initial optimism about Obama seems to have evaporated, too. "The day he was elected really felt like: 'I can't believe that just happened.' Jump ahead a few years and … I know one person can't change everything and it's the system that's broken, but the [Edward] Snowden shit that we're finding out about now, is this a surprise to anybody? But no one will do anything about it. We just had banks rip us off, bankrupt the country. Who went to jail for that? Who's accountable for that? Whatever changed about that? Nothing. [Year Zero] has come true. And nobody's doing anything about it, nobody cares. Some people speak up, but only when convenient. Complaining about it on social media isn't gonna change anything."
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Was recently watching bits of the Tension video. Wow, Trent really nailed it on In Two. He really dug his voice into the performance on those shouts, and it sounds great. I hadn’t appreciated that in the past for some reason. His sustained groan during the outro felt a bit odd to me though.
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Man, I wish Trent would break the silence soon. Hopefully at the end of the year or early 2016.
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I suspect a Merry Christmas post upcoming.
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"Here's a Hesitation Marks wallpaper pack we promised you! Merry Christmas!"
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I can't get out of bed in the morning without playing NIN to jump start me. Which is why I hope new music is somewhere on the horizon. I'm building up a tolerance to HM already.
Josh Wink was on HLAH
Anything you don't have that could give you a boost? There's always rare tracks and remixes
Or, do what I did when I first felt that way, and dive into everything Trent's produced/worked on, you'll find some pretty amazing stuff
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I've been looping every CD except Broken. I've looped some of the unreleased stuff, too. Seems like I've covered just about everything. Those HM demos sound so badass they really have me craving something new.
Josh Wink was on HLAH
There's always something to miss, it can be worth checking out some of the deep cuts (like Illum Tangendo, the authorised vocal version of A Warm Place) or Liar, the Reptile demo which is better. Amd I'm assuming you have the easy ones, Purest Feeling, Ghosts 37&38 etc
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here's a question for the ultimate diehards...Did TR record new vocals for this remix? I always assumed he had but would like confirmation
Josh Wink was on HLAH
I think he used an alternative vocal take, as opposed to a new recording - but I'd agree it sounds like a different source
bastard from blue city
The Opal mix is dated November 1990 on the sleeve, so I would bet on a re-recording, but you never know. I didn't even know the HLAH maxi was split into "extended" and "edit" sides until the other day. :/
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Anybody here randomly insert F-bombs in NIN lyrics where they're absent? I've recently caught myself doing that in the chorus of certain songs (especially HM): 'Fucking copy of a copy of a!' or 'I fucking came back haunted!' Yes, I just can't (fucking) help myself sometimes. The songs are that fucking good.
Real Hippie Asshole
I hope you read the guide on Proper Fuck Placement first.
This might belong in the confessions thread, but I always cringe at Reptile live when Trent does that "Please... Don't... Hurt.... Me" part. Hella cheesy, and that's coming from someone who loves and defends PHM from start to finish.
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Has anyone ordered the mystery grab bag from the store?
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Ordered it but haven't received it yet.
Coffee BREAK!
Yes.
I also picked up one and got the same items but yours may vary depending on your shirt size. :-D
Jesus I love that distressed tee. I now have four!
Down, but not out.
Exactly, that's what also came across my mind as well.
http://www.theninhotline.net/meatpers/html/mp000405.htm
It's kind of funny that you've mentioned that. I didn't even think about it all until somebody pointed out Chris Vrenna's reaction to that part of Reptile in the Woodstock 1994 performance around the 4:33-4:41 mark of this video on YouTube.
Last edited by Halo Infinity; 12-08-2015 at 08:40 AM.
she/her/hers
i think chris' reaction is actually 1) re-securing his in-ear-monitors and 2) rolling his eyes at trent hitting the "me" off-time.
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Re: f-bombs
I usually place them where Trent does at live shows.
"This world never gave me a chance. Mother fucker gonna have to pay"
"Your fucking world, that is"
...and so on.
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