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This may sound like NIN 101 (sounds like a college course many of us would be stampeding towards), but has he ever explained why he chose a band name for something that was eventually his?
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Beg your pardon ?
You mean, why Nine Inch Nails instead of Trent Reznor and the Nails ? Probably because he still envisioned it as a band ? Or because he's been forward-thinking about that name, as it has been stated numerous times before, and he envisioned it way cooler to have a good name and a great logo. Maybe he even thought it might give him some leeway in case he decided to distance himself from what NIN is, which is, in hindsight, what he does now with the film score works... There's a difference between the artist and the outlet. NIN remains a rock band, letting Reznor do whatever Reznor wants.
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Ask The Streets, Iron & Wine, Foo Fighters, Bright Eyes, Aphex Twin, Get Cape Wear Cape Fly, The The...Originally Posted by onthewall2983
It's a combination of marketing and artistic license, in Trent's case I think he just liked the sound of it. Or maybe didn't want to be known as "that bloke who sounds like a heater"
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Oh god, that may just be it...
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Is there an easy way to still get the high resolution WAV version of The Slip? The official method doesn't work anymore.
Also, was there an Apple lossless download originally?
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I got a random Nine Inch Nails Question. I noticed that Trent has used a particular 3 chord chord progression in at least three of his songs. The progression is heard in the chorus of these songs: The Beginning of the End, The Big Come Down, and Came Back Haunted.
Has anyone noticed that? I wonder if Trent does it on purpose or what because it's kind of funny. I guess with all the music he's made and by sticking to 3 or 4 chord progressions, there's only so much variation you can put in without sounding weird.
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Well, back in June 2013 you could see a surprising number of people crying about how "he totally lost it" and CBH is the same recycled pop crap melody as almost every song since The Hand That Feeds, so you might be onto something.
Does someone know those 3 chords? I'd love to learn 'em. If they're easy. It's been six years since I got my first guitar but I still suck at it.
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Yes. https://archive.org/details/NineInch...Slip24bit96khz
Yes. https://web.archive.org/web/20080523...theslip/signup
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Thank you for the high res version! The reason I was actually asking was that I tried the official Slip link but it doesn't work for me -- when I enter the code after getting the email, it doesn't take me anywhere, just keeps asking for the code. But I found the Apple Lossless version in my archives anyway.
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A lot of NIN songs are really formulaic when you break down the pieces. But so is a lot of pop music (I'm looking at you, I-IV-V). The special NINgredient (I'll show myself out) has always been the presentation.
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One way you could find the chords would be to play F# D# and A# one after the other. Those notes are the root notes or bassline to each chord. Of course the key to each song I listed is different so you could obviously start with a different note as long as the intervals between the three are the same.
I'll add that I found another song with it too: Metal or The Metal. (Can't remember)
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From 1999 to 2007 the RHCP released three singles -- all first singles from a new album -- that used the exact same chord progression in the chorus. Vastly different songs, too. Sometimes things just work.
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this came up a week or so, too. I'm going to try to get the original alac files up onto archive.org.
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So is a lot of a lot of music.
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did you Vote for NIN?: http://www.cleveland.com/music/index...l#pd_a_8339106
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You posted that in NIN Spotting (where it had already been posted). Plus...
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Does anybody know what font is being used in all of the 2014 show adverts? Like such?
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http://www.npr.org/2014/09/25/350948...ure-soundtrack
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There has been a release with new music by Trent every year since 1986. He doesn't hibernate.
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Which years are you bringing into question, I don't really want to list 30 years of releases
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Yes, of course. Trent doesn't just release music on albums - take into account being in other bands, collaborations with other artists, singles, remixes, soundtracks and random crap, there has been non stop music since 1986. There's much more to TR than just NIN dearie.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nine_In...ls_discography
Or do you count every other NIN album as "elevator music" too?
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Something im really interested in, when it comes to my favorite albums, is the order of which the songs were written. As a songwriter myself, ive noticed how a lot of songs you write have a peice of the previous, or is somewhat influenced or affected by the song you wrote previous to it. Or you learn a new way to do something and all other songs after that utilize newfound skill. The tone/feel/concept of an album can completely be changed by one song. I would LOVE to know the order of each song that was written, for every nine inch nails album. Does anyone have anything concrete?
What i remember hearing- Head like a hole was last for PHM, right? Love is not enough first for WT? Only last for WT? Everything last for HM? I am probably wrong about all....
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Agreed! I kind of wish that albums came with something equivalent to the "director commentaries" that come with movies*. There's always tiny bits and pieces that you can dig up from interviews and social media, but it'd be nice to have it all there officially. (And by "nice" I mean I'd pay for it.) I know that kind of very detailed information about different takes and recording schedule is available for The Beatles (unofficially), but I don't know about any other group.
About your theories, wasn't Everything written prior to most of the songs on HM since it was made for the (unreleased) best of album?
* EDIT: I know there's that iTunes exclusive "in Conversation with" track, but I mean more like track-by-track details.
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I believe Satellite and Everything were the first couple that kicked off HM (mainly Satellite). The WT stuff shouldn't be terribly hard to dig up, since there are a lot of notes on that from Trent when it was still Bleedthrough. Can't remember which off WT was the first to get recorded, but it is documented somewhere. Not sure if you'll get much beyond first and last tracks tho.
Would be a great AMA-type question, if Trent himself can remember (seems like he'd have a sharp enough memory to recall most of it, since I'm sure each track was pretty significant to him).
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Older post...
It went even further than that. The video for Deep was supposedly a reference to the car accident; Trent's way of exorcising old demons.
Also, in support of his "outrage at God", he decided to work with David Bowie, who played Pontius Pilate in The Last Temptation Of Christ.
Uh huh, yeah...
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I remember during Ghosts era Trent said that there were more Ghosts to come. Do you think that some of these Ghosts made their way into any of the TSN, TGWTDT or GG soundtracks? I mean, obviously Trent didn't foresee that he was going to score movies at that time but I just can't help wondering what Trent was alluding to when he said that there were more Ghosts to come.
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Probably that he/Atticus/Alan enjoyed the process of making I-IV, and liked the prospect of taking another crack at it. I imagine the soundtrack work serviced that inclination.
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Ghosts had a rule though - one track in one day. That is in essence what Ghosts is, in theory you could have Ghosts with vocals, if they matched the framework
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I'm not questioning you as I'm certain you're right, but what was it between 2002 and 2005?
2003 might be Peter Gabriel, but what was 2004? Wait, the TDS reissue. Never mind, nothing to see here, apparently.
WAIT WHAT WAS IT IN 1998
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