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NIN - The Slip
Music is pretty crappy most of the time. I don't like making a big deal about it... but I am a big fan of NIN. Trent Reznor has been singing about how much he hates the world and himself for nearly twenty years and I cannot get enough of it - though it has spawned enough rip-offs that give me douche chills. Small price to pay to have more new stuff from this man and his accomplices.
Another reason I HAVE to review this album... it's FREE. I am a HUGE Internet-as-distribution-model championeer (if that is a word). And at the moment, the only way you can get this album is on the Internet and you can't pay for it even if you want to.
"999,999" is a pretty big number and also the title of the opener. Basically just a mood-inducer. You need to get yourself into the NIN frame of mind to enjoy an entire album of it and this track does the trick.
"1,000,000" is one more than 999,999. Great up-tempo ROCK song. Honestly, it sounds I should be in the Matrix Reloaded highway chase with this song on. If I put this in my car stereo, I am going to break the law. Period.
"Letting You" is like industrial punk music. It is also a good case for putting a distortion pedal on your bass guitar, though not the strongest song on the album.
"Discipline" is another one of those dark pop/dance masterpiece dance songs Mr. Reznor puts together. Like the recent years' "Only" and "Capital G," one of those songs you want to get up and do Thriller zombie dances to. I am really big into dance music (a fact most people who know me would probably never guess) and I'm really into industrial music... so this is a logical pick from the album for me.
"Echoplex" is pretty nifty. Reminds me of an extremely messed-up verson of the darker recent Chris Cornell material. Not to say Trent Reznor has the voice of Chris Cornell (and also not to say Chris Cornell has the dementia that makes Trent Reznor who he is). Kind of has a bit of a post-grunge sound to it, though. And I dig me some grunge and what came after it.
"Head Down" has a bit of an angry hip-hop feel mixed in with a haunting melody for a chorus. The break down is just an example of why trying to make messy noise is a fun venture. Ends with an almost African-sounding bass-driven dessert.
"Lights in the Sky" is my second favorite song on this album (behind Discipline). Seems like a song about knowing things have gone sour but not letting go and not stopping whatever efforts you make to make things right. Sounds like a lot going on in the world right now to me. It's haunting and it's beautiful.
"Corona Radiata" acts as an extention to "Lights" and reminds me of Chrono Trigger. There is always something on an NIN album that reminds me of Chrono Trigger. Because I am a geek.
"The Four of Us are Dying" reminds me of Metal Gear Solid - again, I am a geek.
"Demon Seed" brings the album to a close and is kind of out of place to me. It sounds like a track that should have been mid-way through the album. Not really a big finish. Or a beautiful finish. After two tracks of pretty awesome mood music, I would really want to pull something huge out of my butt for the end that sums up the whole album both in lyrical content and in sound. But the damn album is free, perhaps that was the statement.
"I can give my crap away because I am not bound to a record deal. Fuck you."
Another reason I HAVE to review this album... it's FREE. I am a HUGE Internet-as-distribution-model championeer (if that is a word). And at the moment, the only way you can get this album is on the Internet and you can't pay for it even if you want to.
"999,999" is a pretty big number and also the title of the opener. Basically just a mood-inducer. You need to get yourself into the NIN frame of mind to enjoy an entire album of it and this track does the trick.
"1,000,000" is one more than 999,999. Great up-tempo ROCK song. Honestly, it sounds I should be in the Matrix Reloaded highway chase with this song on. If I put this in my car stereo, I am going to break the law. Period.
"Letting You" is like industrial punk music. It is also a good case for putting a distortion pedal on your bass guitar, though not the strongest song on the album.
"Discipline" is another one of those dark pop/dance masterpiece dance songs Mr. Reznor puts together. Like the recent years' "Only" and "Capital G," one of those songs you want to get up and do Thriller zombie dances to. I am really big into dance music (a fact most people who know me would probably never guess) and I'm really into industrial music... so this is a logical pick from the album for me.
"Echoplex" is pretty nifty. Reminds me of an extremely messed-up verson of the darker recent Chris Cornell material. Not to say Trent Reznor has the voice of Chris Cornell (and also not to say Chris Cornell has the dementia that makes Trent Reznor who he is). Kind of has a bit of a post-grunge sound to it, though. And I dig me some grunge and what came after it.
"Head Down" has a bit of an angry hip-hop feel mixed in with a haunting melody for a chorus. The break down is just an example of why trying to make messy noise is a fun venture. Ends with an almost African-sounding bass-driven dessert.
"Lights in the Sky" is my second favorite song on this album (behind Discipline). Seems like a song about knowing things have gone sour but not letting go and not stopping whatever efforts you make to make things right. Sounds like a lot going on in the world right now to me. It's haunting and it's beautiful.
"Corona Radiata" acts as an extention to "Lights" and reminds me of Chrono Trigger. There is always something on an NIN album that reminds me of Chrono Trigger. Because I am a geek.
"The Four of Us are Dying" reminds me of Metal Gear Solid - again, I am a geek.
"Demon Seed" brings the album to a close and is kind of out of place to me. It sounds like a track that should have been mid-way through the album. Not really a big finish. Or a beautiful finish. After two tracks of pretty awesome mood music, I would really want to pull something huge out of my butt for the end that sums up the whole album both in lyrical content and in sound. But the damn album is free, perhaps that was the statement.
"I can give my crap away because I am not bound to a record deal. Fuck you."
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Permalink Reply by Naveed Kovalchuk on -
NIN give me douche chills too and i don't even know what that means
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Permalink Reply by Peter Coffin on -
Douche chills is when you hear/see something that makes you embarrassed to have heard/seen it. And you think "whoever did this is a douche."
NIN ripoffs give me douche chills. But NIN is great.
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Permalink Reply by Naveed Kovalchuk on
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i enjoy their quake soundtracks
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Permalink Reply by Jamie on -
So, when you say "Peter Coffin is a Douche" are you trying to give people "douche chills"?
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Permalink Reply by Naveed Kovalchuk on
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how dare you.
PROSTRATE YOURSELF BEFORE PETER
huh?
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Permalink Reply by Jamie on
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Uhh....castrate? I don't have a prostate or anything to castrate.... I could find some fruit to hack up into little bits if that will make you feel better :)
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Permalink Reply by Peter Coffin on
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I am all kinds of confused...
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Permalink Reply by Naveed Kovalchuk on
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prostRate. it is a body position that implies submission. essentially, bow before peter and show you are humble.
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