Random NIN Thoughts

[Khrz]

Never understood why there's 5-10 seconds of near silence between "wish" and "last" since they fit together so well...

Silence ? SILENCE ? BLASPHEMY !!!!

[PhoenixML]

awesome idea! what's your sequence?

End of left:
No You Don't
Adrift (instead of La Mer)
The Great Below
AATCHB

Right is where the magic is at :
The Way Out is Through
La Mer / Into The Void / Slipping Away
Where Is Everybody
The Mark Has Been Made (minus the intro of 10 Miles High)
10 Miles High
Please
Appendage
The Great Collapse (works well here)
Starfuckers
Complications
The New Flesh
Deep (it's just an excuse to listen to this track even if it's not from The Fragile, and Left side is quite self sufficient)
I'm Looking Forward...
The Big Come Down
Underneath It All
Ripe with Decay

[jmtd]

Silence ? SILENCE ? BLASPHEMY !!!!

"near" silence

[eversonpoe]

"near" silence

i always thought it was to trick people into turning it up louder to try to hear what the hell it is and then scare the shit out of them when last actually starts.

[Scarlet Siren]

I might give this sequence a try and give it a listen to it at work tomorrow.

La Mer/ITV/Slipping Away - Me too

Thanks for sharing.

[Leviathant]

I might give this sequence a try and give it a listen to it at work tomorrow.

La Mer/ITV/Slipping Away - Me too

Thanks for sharing.

One time I mixed together WITT --> La Mer --> Into the Void --> Slipping Away. I think I tried putting complication in front of WITT, but that didn't work as well as mixing the rest of them together. I wonder if I still have that MP3 kicking around.

[seasonsinthesky]

One time I mixed together WITT --> La Mer --> Into the Void --> Slipping Away. I think I tried putting complication in front of WITT, but that didn't work as well as mixing the rest of them together. I wonder if I still have that MP3 kicking around.

why Complication?

i bet it'd sound fantastic with JLYI in front — it ends in similar distortion crackles as the start of WITT.

do share if you find it!

[fillow]

My mix had Adrift before La Mer

[kercyx]

Mine too ! ( just search "Into the Void (Megamix) " on remix.nin.com for the ones interested )

[Leviathant]

why Complication?

The guitar at the very beginning of We're In This Together is playing a melody that's very close to what's played at around 0:55 in Complication.

[Scarlet Siren]

One time I mixed together WITT --> La Mer --> Into the Void --> Slipping Away. I think I tried putting complication in front of WITT, but that didn't work as well as mixing the rest of them together. I wonder if I still have that MP3 kicking around.

why Complication?

i bet it'd sound fantastic with JLYI in front — it ends in similar distortion crackles as the start of WITT.

do share if you find it!

I second this! Please share it if you manage to dig it up.

Mine too ! ( just search "Into the Void (Megamix) " on remix.nin.com for the ones interested )

ITV is my favourite song, very likely to be the most played song on iTunes.... I'll be sure to give this a listen!

[jmtd]

I wan't my new NIN t-shirt. I wonder when they'll ship.

[mfte]

Anyone remember when the follow up to Downward Spiral was going to be a funk/hiphop record?

[eversonpoe]

Anyone remember when the follow up to Downward Spiral was going to be a funk/hiphop record?

see: "Even Deeper," & "Where Is Everybody?"

i've always heard elements of both of those genres in the fragile.

[pukkelpop]

see: "Even Deeper," & "Where Is Everybody?"

i've always heard elements of both of those genres in the fragile.

eeeeeurrrrrhhmm

[Scarlet Siren]

see: "Even Deeper," & "Where Is Everybody?"

i've always heard elements of both of those genres in the fragile.

I always thought WIE and ITV have really good grooves to them

[BenAkenobi]

Collaboration with Ice Cube taught him ...things.

[NotoriousTIMP]

So I've been listening to YZ for the past day or two and I'm pleasantly surprised at how well it's held up over the years. Currently on The Great Destroyer and I forgot how awesome this song is. I am now slowly starting to build up excitement for the upcoming tour

[jmtd]

TGD has grown on me. When it first came out I couldn't believe it. I just couldn't understand it, the kick drum sounded straight out of some happy hardcore, I didn't think it belonged in a NIN tune. I think I've musically matured a bit since then. However, I've never been able to listen to YZ as a coherent album. Perhaps due to the ARG and playing the leaked tracks much more often than the others, and having my emotional memory of them tied up in the excitement of the time. Also I feel a bit cheated that we hardly saw any YZ tracks live in the uk, particularly MYM and ITT. I had a lot doing on in 2007...

[Trains]

^ Great, great record. I still love everything about it even after all this time, potentially my favorite NIN record. I have fond memories of getting sucked into the world and the story, reading the ARG sites and following the discussions here. I still get excited when I listen to The Good Soldier, sounds so different from what we're used to from NIN, especially back then.

[Max Leo]

see: "Even Deeper," & "Where Is Everybody?"

i've always heard elements of both of those genres in the fragile.

All the rumors for that album had some truth in them. It was said that it would have elements of hip-hop, trip-hop, drum&bass, funk, tons of electronics and no guitars. Trent ultimately added guitars everywhere, but you can notice many of the influences that Trent and others had been talking about for years regarding the new album.

I remember how Trent specifically said that his next album would be a mix of Prince and Aphex Twin, and nobody would like it. XD You can notice the funk in songs like ITV or WIE, but in my opinion the "Aphex Twin+Prince" track is "The Big Come Down".

[ZeroisGreg]

All the rumors for that album had some truth in them. It was said that it would have elements of hip-hop, trip-hop, drum&bass, funk, tons of electronics and no guitars. Trent ultimately added guitars everywhere, but you can notice many of the influences that Trent and others had been talking about for years regarding the new album.

I remember how Trent specifically said that his next album would be a mix of Prince and Aphex Twin, and nobody would like it. XD You can notice the funk in songs like ITV or WIE, but in my opinion the "Aphex Twin+Prince" track is "The Big Come Down".

Wow, I need to find that quote from TR about sounding like AT and PR in TF. I'd also like to think that TR especially likes "The Big Come Down" from that album.

[ZeroisGreg]

just had a random thought. Since the music industry is still being re-shaped, has TR ever considered doing a track-at-a-time like work on one track, then put it out in low quality to preview and then sell it. Then get feedback and work on another track and so on a so forth.

[BRoswell]

Great idea. Trent puts the track out there, a third of the fans bitch about how it sounds nothing like *insert favorite album here*, a third of them praise the hell out of it without giving any specific thoughts on it, and the final third attempt to give some sort of advice, but everyone says different things and none of them can come to a consensus. Trent stops involving his fans in the song creation process after one song. The end.

[elevenism]

i got into nin when broken came out, and i LOVE, i mean absolutely LOVE YZ.
I never understood why other people didn't.
and good god i love the drums on even deeper, eversonpoe, and yes it DOES have hip-hop elements.
these are random thoughts so it fits in the thread, right?

[ItsJustDave]

Is it just me, or does the NIN fan community just seem a lot more negative/curmudgeon-ey than 8-4 years ago (the time between With Teeth's release and the Wave Goodbye tour).

Even before CBH/Hesitation Marks was even announced or the reveal of new tour/ticket prices it felt like most people would rather he just not do anything ever again...or was it the same before and I'm just viewing the past through rose-colored glasses?

It's been like this forever. People bitched when Broken came out. And every release since. NIN fans are typically either bitter assholes whose expectations can never be met or "yes men".

I'm over generalizing here, but the point remains.

[Promethean]

Anyone wanna comment on how liberally Kanye West is borrowing from the NIN playbook? It's being mentioned in most of the reviews of 'Yeezus'. It has to be pretty career affirming for TR to have someone that a lot of people consider to be THE pop artist of the era be so influenced by you.

[GavinCollins420]

The Great Destroyed blows my shit up every time.

[ZeroisGreg]

Great idea. Trent puts the track out there, a third of the fans bitch about how it sounds nothing like *insert favorite album here*, a third of them praise the hell out of it without giving any specific thoughts on it, and the final third attempt to give some sort of advice, but everyone says different things and none of them can come to a consensus. Trent stops involving his fans in the song creation process after one song. The end.

Well I was serious so I can't tell if you're being sarcastic but it reads that way. The one track at-at-a-time idea might work...I think. After about 12 or 14 tracks maybe the fans could build their own album and sequencing?

[AgentofChaos]

just had a random thought. Since the music industry is still being re-shaped, has TR ever considered doing a track-at-a-time like work on one track, then put it out in low quality to preview and then sell it. Then get feedback and work on another track and so on a so forth.

Ask Billy Corgan how that plan played out.