nine inch nails - year zero

[grady]

more leakage, this time in london with a video on the usb drives for survivalism, now being dispersed via upload sites etc.

[the mongoose]

Originally Posted by grady

more leakage, this time in london with a video on the usb drives for survivalism, now being dispersed via upload sites etc.

Crazy ass video.....Click

[grady]

I was surprised it took this long, but here is a little write up on the Year Zero phenomenon in the The New Yorker.

link

[dubman]

i get the impression that in recent years most people would've preferred to ignore this guy since, you know, he wasnt saying anything worth hearing and was still angry about it.
so it's going to be a little while and take a lot of quality work to get people interested in NIN being relevant in anyway again.

which i hope is all in progress right now.

[joethelion]

yea - I've been telling people about this whole deal, as I find it pretty damn cool

you know - moving beyond just setting up phone numbers like Radiohead, or just putting up some streaming audio files on the internet

but as soon as I mention NIN... I always get a bit of a funny look

[dubman]

so i went to a listening party for this thing.

its kind of interesting that in being so beat heavy, the only interesting thing he does, besides throw down with some loud shit, is what he does with the squelches of noise that pretty much have a running theme throughout the album.
not anything mindblowing, but used to really good rhythmic effect.
this is what with teeth should have been, and i understand how that album needed to exist before this one, but people wouldnt question his ability to gut punch the audience if he had folowed up the fragile with this one instead. still the distorted angry pop tune, but still feels much more like NIN and not a xerox.
he's not doing anything new, he's just developing it much tighter.
so the album is good. only a couple of filler tracks, and the good news is that they sound like filler tracks because it's not as active or urgent as the other songs, not because they're actively bad. the greater good was a quasi-instrumental with no movement, and "the warning" was boring. there were a couple where i froze and look at my friends a bit going "oh.... that's good" like on vessel (i think) and the great destroyer. there another one where it kinda chugged along on its robust thing until it let fly with this squall that sounded like an elephant. it was rad.

but yeah, the key word here is robust. those drums are guns, and while they may be unwieldly and not really dynamic, it's all the noise behind it that propel their momentum. it flirts a little dangerously with making me think of the industry's really horrid ides of what cyberpunk sounded like in 1997, but reznor good enough to safely avoid it. it really is just stripped down so much that it reminded a few people of pretty hate machine.

i'm leaving out a lot of tracks because honestly my memory is kinda shit to begin with and i spent about 5 hrs after being totally stoned, but i clearly remember that it's at the very least a decent album, and might get better on home listening justbecause you can have all that squallid shit to yourself and not echoing all over the place.
so far, avoiding the excitement and "oh yea" factor of a new album and really just facing it squarely, i'd give it a 7/10
but really on terms of the actual entertainment and fun i'm going to get out of this makes it actually a solid 8/10.

i'm happy.

[dubman]

so i went to a listening party for this thing.

its kind of interesting that in being so beat heavy, the only interesting thing he does, besides throw down with some loud shit, is what he does with the squelches of noise that pretty much have a running theme throughout the album.
not anything mindblowing, but used to really good rhythmic effect.
this is what with teeth should have been, and i understand how that album needed to exist before this one, but people wouldnt question his ability to gut punch the audience if he had folowed up the fragile with this one instead. still the distorted angry pop tune, but still feels much more like NIN and not a xerox.
he's not doing anything new, he's just developing it much tighter.
so the album is good. only a couple of filler tracks, and the good news is that they sound like filler tracks because it's not as active or urgent as the other songs, not because they're actively bad. the greater good was a quasi-instrumental with no movement, and "the warning" was boring. there were a couple where i froze and look at my friends a bit going "oh.... that's good" like on vessel (i think) and the great destroyer. there another one where it kinda chugged along on its robust thing until it let fly with this squall that sounded like an elephant. it was rad.

but yeah, the key word here is robust. those drums are guns, and while they may be unwieldly and not really dynamic, it's all the noise behind it that propel their momentum. it flirts a little dangerously with making me think of the industry's really horrid ides of what cyberpunk sounded like in 1997, but reznor good enough to safely avoid it. it really is just stripped down so much that it reminded a few people of pretty hate machine.

i'm leaving out a lot of tracks because honestly my memory is kinda shit to begin with and i spent about 5 hrs after being totally stoned, but i clearly remember that it's at the very least a decent album, and might get better on home listening justbecause you can have all that squallid shit to yourself and not echoing all over the place.
so far, avoiding the excitement and "oh yea" factor of a new album and really just facing it squarely, i'd give it a 7/10
but really on terms of the actual entertainment and fun i'm going to get out of this makes it actually a solid 8/10.

i'm happy.

[EuroZeroZero]

hey thanks for putting up your thoughts. based on what youre saying my interest is a little more piqued.

[beh]

Originally Posted by dubman

so i went to a listening party for this thing.

haha, Slim's last Wed night, huh? I was outside, stopped by on my way home from work, didn't want to wait in the 150+ person line at 7:20... was alone and didn't know if my flatemate would show up nor when. so I went home, well, actually to the bar.

I've never been to a listening party, would have been my first. can I ask, what was the experience like?

I abosultely love their new live DVD "Beside You in Time". great memories.

looking forward to the new album and tour.

bh

[dubman]

as far as experience goes, it was terrible.

scattered people everywhere, and my friends tried to get in on the dancing to the more conducive tracks, but everyone else just wasnt having it, and i succumbed to shame.

the album itself was played very loud and was pretty much the only enjoyable thing of the night. plus the dinky lil' poster.