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Ah man, that static right before Mr. Self Destruct, awesome.Originally Posted by Krazy
When they used to do Dead Souls --> Help Me --> Happiness, also awesome.
I would've loved to hear how they did the 3 part Broken set/encore during that 1995 club tour. Shit, I would've loved to hear anything at all from that tour.
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I watched that one yesterday too, well done. It's been 15 years since I've seen the movie had to refresh what the pictures at the end meant. I was originally looking for an EDIETS vs One Hour Photo that I thought existed but ran into those instead.
Throbbing Member
Probably doesn't qualify, but the Paris '09 Illan's birthday 50 cent in da club/closer mix where they roll into Physical was pretty epic.
Thanks to @ninlive for rejuvenating that memory.
Last edited by ekrekel; 04-04-2018 at 01:26 PM.
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This performance from the NINJA KC show in '09 is pretty damn epic.
xScott
The Hate Intro is another good one (and favorite of mine).
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The cake and frosting flying off his hair when he starts playing is a nice touch.
Throbbing Member
The problem isn't that Everything is poppy - I have a huge soft spot for Trent's poppier side (and really a vast majority of NIN's output has a noticeable degree of pop in its DNA). This includes All the Love in the World, which I think is one of the more adventurous openers to a NIN release, but I'm a bit less enthused with Every Day Is Exactly the Same. It's a pretty straightforward, just kind of 'there' track and for my money, the studio version of Love Is Not Enough through EDIETS is probably the weakest section on With Teeth.
For me, there's a couple big problems with Everything - like how the bass / guitar lines for the verses are just so boring musically - but none that overshadows the abysmal vocals. It may be the single worst use of Trent's voice in any of his music and I say this as someone who (surprise surprise) absolutely loves his vocals. Like the choruses? Not bad. But his delivery during the verses is so unbelievably grating and cringe-worthy, it's like a parody of the worst traits of pop-punk music. And maybe that's what he was going for, using the construct of this buoyant music to display an unearned, obnoxious arrogance built on weak foundations, but musically it's just irritating and I feel like whatever he may have been TRYING to do, the reception of the track and his resulting disenchantment with it (or how people felt about it) indicates pretty clearly that it didn't work.
I half suspect Branches/Bones recycled the drumline from Everything because he was unwilling to let whatever potential he saw in it musically go to waste, but it could just be a coincidence.
Throbbing Member
Branches/Bones still kicks my ass, what an opening.
Dis-member
THAT.... is my biggest issue with Branches/Bones. I recall hearing it for the first time and just thinking “you gotta be fucking kidding, more percussion that sounds like weak HM tracks?”
Le sigh.
Active Member
I think it’s lame that Everything never once got busted out live since that could have been a great chance to try something diffedsnt with if and different with it, and it’s the only HM song to never be played in any capacity since they used Eatsr of Dreams as a Pinion-style intro. That snippet of rehearsal audio sounded great.
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I never saw the rehearsal vid, maybe his vocals aren’t up for it live? His voice cracks in the studio version in the opening line.
Regardless I don’t think the majority of fans are missing it.
Flaccid Member
Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't that just a slightly modified version of Slate (off Purest Feeling demo)?
Active Member
Nope. It's something else completely.
Active Member
That's fucking cool. Never heard that before. Thanks!
Throbbing Member
Is there a page or any info for this on NINWiki? Couldn't find it on the Rare NIN Songs or Instrumentals page and had never heard or heard of it before. Thanks!
Active Member
There doesn't appear to be. I'd be curious to know where the vocal sample came from.
Active Member
Everything about that video is amazing. That intro is epic, and that's with average sound and in a club. Picture him tweaking that sonically & coming out to that on the types of stages he plays now. Would sound massive and stir the crowd into as much of a frenzy as is still possible considering how old most of us are now.
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It might possibly be from the same disc of field recordings that the from HLAH are from.
Active Member
I was more referring to the "I told you not to do this. Give me the gun." bit, but yeah, you may be right about that.
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"motherfucker, I need someone to hold onto" - wow, never heard that one. And the distortion at the end of TL is pretty fucking cool as well. I want a NIN show now that revisits all of Trent's eras.
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I’d love see a performance of “The Becoming” that transitions into “Somewhat Damaged.”
Stubby Member
The Fragile Deviations 1 album inspired me to check out other instrumental versions to appreciate them in a new light. These are my favorites. It’s pretty cool to hear the little nuances you regularly miss under the vocal track!
Capital G
Closer
Every Day is Exactly the Same
All The Love In The World
Throbbing Member
I found an instrumental of Last taken from Rock Band. It's just as awesome
God is an American
This one?
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When someone tells me they think “Closer” is too vulgar:
[PLAYS “BIG MAN WITH A GUN.”]
Stubby Member
I have been doing a "poem a day" challenge to help me get over some emotional trauma. Still in the early phases, and I'm not typically a poet, but it's been fun to scrap together random ideas. Today, I found myself writing about Trent. I felt like sharing, and reading more writing if anyone else has ever done the same.
The Gift of the Road Trip
In the 90s, you said that when your fullest sense of the world
Comes from what’s programmed and
Beamed down to your dusty, isolated, small town television set,
The implicit message is that none of what appears on the screen
Could ever really be
“For you”;
None of its images or stories
None of its places or people
Not even its sound
Could ever be things you truly
“move with.”
I’ve always known you were right
And I learned on my own that
When you can never feel part of the outside
Resentment
Becomes a comfort
And your four walls
A dead womb.
Teenaged, I watched you clear all the light from a screen.
Your dark silhouette and the slow pull of your hand
Cloaked the vibrant terror behind you in erasure’s dark curtain,
Until once again you emerged
To invert twilight into dawn.
The dopamine drip made my limbs quiver and shake and move
Even long after you said goodnight to the ghouls
and your sound disappeared
Between the red rocks.
Ten years later, I passed your childhood town
Unexpectedly:
A spot in the road called Mercer, in Pennsylvania,
Pop. 1,911.
I stopped to see the
Gravel roads and boarded up houses,
The suspicious stares and a red brick school building;
The gas stations like the ones everywhere else and
Large confederate flags in Northern lawns.
It was an atrophied place, lit by the glow of television.
I laughed at my reflection
I got the hell out
I moved with a world
Active Member
Hey Trent: Lindsey Buckingham is a free agent now. Just saying....
Stubby Member
Further Down the Chain?Hey Trent: Lindsey Buckingham is a free agent now. Just saying....
Second Hand That Feeds News?
God is an American
You Make Discipline Fun
Not That Funny Anymore
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