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Year Zero is one of my favs. Always.
Just tickles my balls!
I also live for the types of shit Trent is doing.Originally Posted by HWB
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Are all NIN's digital WAV downloads now 48k/24bit now? I checked nin.com but didn't see the info posted on what the digital download options were for the new releases. If I remember correctly, was the explanation for that: Fincher's team uses 48k/24bit so Trent and Atticus felt they probably didn't need any higher resolution than what Fincher's team needed?
Thanks!
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Yeah, they're all 24/48. Trent's official word was that 24/48 sounded better than higher resolutions. No real explanation given.
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I think, even for the listener, 96 could technically sound worse without the right equipment?
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All vinyl DE downloads among other examples (Girl With the Dragon Tattoo USB, etc.) are at 96kHz despite almost all of them being recorded lower. With Teeth is the only one I recall offhand that seems to have been recorded at 96.
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Cool! Thanks to everyone who responded.
Squeal like a pig.
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Eh. Back in the day you needed special sound cards to play certain audio, but that hasn't been a problem in literal decades. I can't think of a reason that it would actually sound worse, but I got out of the industry years and years ago, so I'm super rusty on my facts. Maybe I'm forgetting something.
This one is interesting. So, technically all of the releases since TSN have been 96kHz despite being recorded at 48. That's because they were still mastered at 96, so the finalized files were also at 96. There are no frequencies above what can be rendered at 48, but the resolution of any effect added during mastering will be at 96.
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Most of my life Something I can never have, and Hurt haven't really spoken to me. I wasn't bothered by the songs, I just realized that despite being a massive NIN fan, these songs just didn't rip my heart out. (For some reason Another version of the truth was sufficient for that.)
And then in 2019, I was packing things to move back to the US when I had Closure on casually, and Hurt came on, and I felt my heart ripped out when I heard the lyrics, "I will let you down." I guess it took 25 years of shit to pile on in that moment.
And now, almost 1.5 years later...the Still version of SICNH hits way too damn hard.
I guess I had never yet been put to that moment where the hope is lost, and it's never going to happen.
Last edited by Magnetic; 12-05-2020 at 11:33 AM.
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What happens if you listen to Leaving Hope right after that?
Just tickles my balls!
Bad Witch - “FUCK US”
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I like the song, but it doesn't overwhelm me.
Predictable as fallout.
I was thinking "OH FUCK", myself.
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Hesitation Marks: Fuck Yes
Not the Actual Events: Fuck No
Add Violence: Fuck {loop: repeat 52}
Bad Witch: Fuck Everything
Ghosts V: Fuck lyrics.
Ghosts VI: Fuck.
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Pretty Hate Machine - Fuck love
Broken - Fuck YOU
The Downward Spiral - Fuck life
The Fragile - Fuck me
With_Teeth - Fuck solipsism
Year Zero - Fuck the government
Ghosts I-IV - Fuck lyrics
The Slip - Fuck isolation
Hesitation Marks - Fuck depression
Not The Actual Events - Fuck recovery
Add Violence - Fuck reality
Bad Witch - Fuck humanity
Ghosts: Together - Fuck COVID
Ghosts: Locusts - FUCK COVID
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Ghosts: Locusts - WE'RE FUCKED
All I want for Christmas is an Instrumental copy of "Big Man With A Gun"
Last edited by Strohbie; 12-07-2020 at 07:11 PM.
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This is PERFECT.
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After not listening to NIN (except casually during Spotify sessions) much recently, I woke up a few days ago with a melody in my head. Thinking I was clever, I messed around with it on the piano.
Turns out it was In This Twilight.
Soundtrack to my dreams, despite not having heard it for a while. That's good writing.
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Okay, I am sure that six different people must have brought this up before now, but in case that isn’t true, this just blew my mind:
Meet Your Master is essentially an expansion on the themes of Head Like a Hole and it specifically references it. This is clearly intentional. Genius. Didn’t get this until dozens of listens into it.
Bow down in position
Against the polished steel
This is something different
You'll like the way this feels
No time for asking questions
No time for wondering
We've heard enough from you now
We've heard everything
We're going to play a new game
You'll put on this blindfold
You'll do what we tell you
You'll do as you're told
Used to be the leader
Now comes the time to serve
Maybe we show some mercy
Maybe you get what you deserve
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Bow down in position
Against the polished steel
This is something different
You'll like the way this feels
No time for asking questions
No time for wondering
We've heard enough from you now
We've heard everything
We're going to play a new game
You'll put on this blindfold
You'll do what we tell you
You'll do as you're told
Used to be the leader
Now comes the time to serve
Maybe we show some mercy
Maybe you get what you deserve
This is clearly intentional. Genius.
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Not sure if this is the right thread for this, but being random NIN related, figured I’d share it here.
So, I got married last night! And my wife got me a pretty cool gift. She knows how big my fandom on NIN is, but she is also not a fan of all, doesn’t care for it at all! But she managed to find a really cool NIN related gift for me, without it being totally obvious.
There’s this artist, Melissa McCracken, she has Synesthesia, which is a condition where you can _see_ sound as colours, and she paints songs how she’s sees them.
She has one for La Mer
https://shop.bluegalleryonline.com/products/la-mer
I find this absolutely incredible. It’s abstract, but mesmerizing. Here’s how it looks framed
For her not being a NIN fan at all, and knowing nothing about them, she knocked it out of the park with this!
The artist also has one for 1 Ghosts 1 as well.
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Har har. Seriously, I'm not just picking out random words. It's not just the verbiage that is connected, "bow down... get what you deserve", it is thematically connected. It is talking about those in authority, who feel they are so powerful, being forced to face the consequences for what they have done to others.
It's clearly self-referential. Intentionally so.
Squeal like a pig.
Not sure if anyone caught this first time around but Jesus fuck that headline
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How have I never noticed before that Trent whispers "Fuck it... Fuck it... Fuck it..." a bunch of times in the middle of Wish when it all slows down for a moment?
Or it could be "forget", but "fuck it" feels more on-brand for Broken.
Last edited by sketchymagpie; 12-21-2020 at 09:23 AM.
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He's actually saying "I want to, but I can't turn back, but I want to"
Just tickles my balls!
“Hey pig”?
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i have listened to nin for over 10 years and i just now came to the realization that The Day the World Went Away has no drums. heard the song a million (1,000,000) times and never really thought about this aspect until just now.
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Which is funny b/c that's one of the first thoughts I had when I first heard in 1999. But maybe being there for the anticipation of that first song from the record before it came out led to deeper analysis.
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i guess i was always so enthralled with the guitars and chants that i never noticed that there were no drums, because the song really doesn't need them. but good point, being a more recent fan by comparison i could see a lack of percussion being a much more noticeable thing.
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