I seem to remember him writing some really shitty things about The Fragile and the Fragility shows. Not that this is a "Gettim boys!" kind of statement, but if he was pissy about NIN before and gave them a good review this time around, save for the "For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever and ever. Amen NIN still sounds angsty" (which is a really lame critique, IMHO.)

How could you forget the following nugget of hilarity:

"Hey! Get your hand off his keyboard, bunghole!"

Honestly, these critics - as always - are all over the place. This guy says, "Trent Reznor breaks no new ground sonically with NIN's 'With Teeth.' but he makes up for it lyrically," then Iv'e read twice as many reviews that says musically, With Teeth is great but that it lacks lyrical depth. I just can't take what critics say seriously, 'cause even if their perceptions aren't being swayed the popular media and what they think will help line theri pockets more, then what they think is still just opinion. And honestly, a LOT of people just like to hate NIN.

He said shitty things about the Fragility 2.0 tour, yes. But, he said mostly favorable things about The Fragile. See Slate from October 19, 1999.

I have a list of about five critics I like (my favorite one died), and that is, of course, remembering that they're CRITICS, after all. I don't always agree with DeRogatis, but he's not a big asskisser, either. (Well, 'cept maybe with Bangs.)

Shit, he probably was drunk off his ass. It's a sick, sad world.

As for rock critics.. I have hung out with a few and we did not get along, because they wanted to play the guru handing down judgments from on high every time the subject of music came up. I don't like the number rating and letter grading and list making practices, at all. There are some critics who are more open-minded and generous than that, of course, and I try to pay attention to them instead..

You're right.

Reminds me of a time I had dinner with a music critic (husband of a composer friend of mine). . . .he displayed the exact behavior you outlined.

Unlucky for him, I was at a point in my life where I got real bitchy when irritated.

He got a wee tongue lashing.

Apologies if it's already been posted.
Rolling Stone magazine gave WT 3 1/2 stars out of 5. (They gave TDS and TF 4 back when.) I was pissed. The review was catty. I'm paraphrasing; I read this quickly in Barnes and Noble. Something about it took five years to write the music, and a few hours to write the lyrics. And 'he gets his lyrics off fan messageboards'. And something about THTF being a ready made canned single 'see, I can write a hit too'. And something about teen angst. Despite all this and the obvious fact the reviewer was desperately trying NOT to like WT, he eventually, begrudgingly, admitted it was good.

i saw a commercial last night on vh1 or mtv or something that advertised the new album as "in stores now"

I saw an ad in a newspaper the other day for a band called:

BLEEDING THROUGH (www.purevolume.com/bleedingthrough)

Could this be the reason Trent didnt go with BLEED THROUGH?

90 hours until I have my lovely CD of With Teeth

If there ever were a conspiracy such as this floating about, it would be because of Garbages new album "bleed like me"

I was thinking about that albums title also.

Maybe Trent should've named the new album:

With_Bandaid

in today's NY Daily News,the gossip columnist writes about Trent's Spin comments that the Fragile "Tanking" drove Trent to a suicidal path.

(I'm getting so tired of Trent talking shit about the Fragile.What if WT also only sells 850,000 copies?And without the good reviews and grammy nomination?Its not 1994 anymore.)

link

article in rolling stone online about scalping - includes mention of nine inch nails concerts selling on scalping website for over $400, and a small pic.

I think a lot of these "columnist" seem to be taking his comments and just running with them - exagerating them to make for a more exciting (exciting=$$$) read. Also, on Trent's "shit talking" of The Fragile, a lot of people have mentioned this lately especially in the thread called I'm Tired of Two Things. Here's my view on why Reznor seems negative about The Fragile from this thread. I think it's probably just difficult for him to listen to it right now.

I agree with you and it's the reason I really don't like the Spin article.

Especially the whole Fragile record sales triggered a downward spiral lean.

It's annoying and quite misleading. Bad shit did occur around that time. . . but not because the record didn't sell what the label wanted it to.

That said. . Spin still thinks somehow. . . that distorting the facts makes for a more interesting story ($) when the real facts are interesting enough.

The Rock Sound interview was quite good on the other hand.

On Xfm London they previewed some track from With Teeth on the Music Response show, the DJ who presents it Ian Camfield has THTF in his current top 5.


www.xfm.co.uk

This is very good news. I'm excited. With a good/interesting video, Only could be a huge hit. The Closer of 2005. Although Trent's whole thing about going back to basics with his videos only seems to have lasted for one clip.

Well, he needed some excuse for canning an already-existing video shoot, right? I guess he couldn't have just said that the GNN video sucked.