Random NIN Questions

[GibbonBlack]

Funny. If the name is a grammatically/mechanically correct phrase, then it's neither of those. If you're talking about nails that are nine inches long, it'd be written "nine-inch nails". If you're talking about nine nails that are an inch long, you'd write "nine one-inch nails". Unless people call one-inch nails "inch nails".

Wait, so what's the name mean?

[Joy Prevention Hotline]

So nin.com now sells only download versions in music section. Makes me wonder: what other releases could realistically appear there? H/M and G/G must feel kinda lonely

That's weird — I was there just a week or so ago hoping to find the semi-deluxe Ghosts and was disappointed that they only had the standard CD release for sale. Now even that is MIA.

[Brad]

Wait, so what's the name mean?

Nothing, it sounded cool and looked good as a logo

[GibbonBlack]

Nothing, it sounded cool and looked good as a logo

are you sure it's not the length of the nails used to crucify Jesus?

[sheepdean]

are you sure it's not the length of the nails used to crucify Jesus?

100% certain, that was made up by crazy fans who wanted NIN to be satanist so it would make their mums really mad.

[butter_hole]

Nine inches seems too long for a crucifixion. You'd only need about five inches tops wouldn't you?

[sheepdean]

Nine inches seems too long for a crucifixion. You'd only need about five inches tops wouldn't you?

Crucifixion nails were roughly 10-12cm (about 4-5 inches), so yeah.

[butter_hole]

i went to a few... in my other life.

[m15a]

Inches were shorter back then.

[sheepdean]

Inches were shorter back then.

Technically true, but only by a few millimetres :P

[m15a]

Technically true, but only by a few millimetres :P

Yeah, but millimeters were *way* longer.

[Substance242]

Wait, why are you sure these "nails" are the iron things, couldn't they be the growing things on our fingers?

[GibbonBlack]

100% certain, that was made up by crazy fans who wanted NIN to be satanist so it would make their mums really mad.

Yeah I know, I hoped the emoticon would show I was just messing

Wait, why are you sure these "nails" are the iron things, couldn't they be the growing things on our fingers?

Well now I don't know what to believe

[Ryan]

So what's the latest NIN news generally speaking? I've been out of the loop. What's next on the schedule? New HTDA most likely? Or something else hinted at?

[sheepdean]

So what's the latest NIN news generally speaking? I've been out of the loop. What's next on the schedule? New HTDA most likely? Or something else hinted at?

Trent vaguely hinted at a NIN album being worked on, Rob and Mariqueen made vague hints on twitter a few months back about HTDA, TFDE still due 2009. So the usual no one knows anything, but fuck if we can't speculate.


And Atticus has 3 more scored films (Crocodile Gennadiy, Love and Mercy and Triple Nine) coming out this year, if you're into score news.

[BRoswell]

Trent vaguely hinted at a NIN album being worked on, Rob and Mariqueen made vague hints on twitter a few months back about HTDA, TFDE still due 2009. So the usual no one knows anything, but fuck if we can't speculate.

There's also that Jean Michel Jarre tribute album that Trent worked on that's supposed to be coming out TBD.

[EndlessLoveless]

If TR said the nails in nin were always fingernails in his mind, i would be upset.

[ZootZap]

If TR said the nails in nin were always fingernails in his mind, i would be upset.

In my mind they have always been fingernails! Up to now I didn't realize that in your language nails and fingernails are the same word...
... as it is the same in German language!!

But "rusty" nails never came to my mind. How could I be so nailed up ....all the years!

[m15a]

Oh, just thought of another interpretation. "Nails" could be used as a verb and "Nine Inch" could be a proper noun.

. . . Just being thorough.

[Joy Prevention Hotline]

Which then raises the question: who is this guy named Nine Inch and what (or whom) is he nailing?

[GibbonBlack]

Which then raises the question: who is this guy named Nine Inch and what (or whom) is he nailing?

Nine Inch is his porn name. And he is me

[m15a]

" . . . The hammer is my penis."

[Joy Prevention Hotline]

Nine Inch is his porn name. And he is me

[citation needed]

[EndlessLoveless]

I know HLAH was written towards the end of PHM but when i was younger, i always thought it was a reference to the lyric "nail me up against the wall". I never once thought fingernails.

[telee.kom]

So, today I learned about Jubilee. Aaron North's band of 2008 and the story got pretty dark really quickly. I mean I know he had some serious mental health issues I read a pretty depressing interview with him in 2013, but I never knew he had a band and Trent even collaborated with Maynard on one song. So apart from those two singles, whatever happened to that EP for members? Did anybody hear it?

http://whitegreyblack.tumblr.com/pos...rs-only-record

[m15a]

I know HLAH was written towards the end of PHM but when i was younger, i always thought it was a reference to the lyric "nail me up against the wall". I never once thought fingernails.

And Ringfinger has "You just left me nailed here. Hanging like Jesus on his cross." I'm guessing those lyrics were written after Trent came up with the name, too.

BTW, here's a quote about the name of the band:

i was going through a bunch of a variety of sources and had a bunch of things down and mixed 50 names to go through and after realizing they were all shitty, that just kinda popped into my head. two weeks later i still liked it, so we just went with it. as far as any significance, i just like it because it looked good in print, pretty powerful and had a bit of, could be taken as a sexual overtone, or a religious overtone, which to me at the time was a theme the band was about.

I didn't know he mentioned intentional sexual or religious overtones.

[virushopper]

So, today I learned about Jubilee. Aaron North's band of 2008 and the story got pretty dark really quickly. I mean I know he had some serious mental health issues I read a pretty depressing interview with him in 2013, but I never knew he had a band and Trent even collaborated with Maynard on one song. So apart from those two singles, whatever happened to that EP for members? Did anybody hear it?

http://whitegreyblack.tumblr.com/pos...rs-only-record

It never came out. I believe that post is the last from Aaron. I have talked to Erik Andrews (Coming Home Records and "partner" of W/G/B) and he didn't offer much about it either.

But, here's a pro shot video of Jubilee on tour:


(Yep, I shamelessly plugged a video I uploaded on YouTube)

[Wolfkiller]

What is being said in the middle of Kinda I Want To? Sounds like "I've got... nobody!"

[sick among the pure]

What is being said in the middle of Kinda I Want To? Sounds like "I've got... nobody!"

I always though it was "help me!"

[Little_Dreamer]

What is being said in the middle of Kinda I Want To? Sounds like "I've got... nobody!"

I'm pretty sure it's the "I used to be somebody" part from Down In It.