Is anybody anticipating Nine Inch Nails

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I quite like the single 'The Hand That Feeds'

anybody heard the whole thing yet?

― Hari A$hur$t (Toaster), Monday, 11 April 2005 20:26 (twenty years ago)

The first time I heard the single I said "Oh, Trent liked the Rapture's album, too." But I'm gonna buy the damn thing anyway.

― pdf (Phil Freeman), Monday, 11 April 2005 20:29 (twenty years ago)

"The Hand that Feeds" reminded me of something that should have been on the Tomb Raider soundtrack or something like that....seemed pretty standard-fare NIN, except maybe a little more dancey (in a 90s kinda way)...I like the short little squelchy, noisy synth bridge halfway through, wish that was the whole song.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Monday, 11 April 2005 20:34 (twenty years ago)

I'm quite happily waiting.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 11 April 2005 20:36 (twenty years ago)

I don't think that it's going to be great, but I'm looking forward to hearing it anyway.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 11 April 2005 20:36 (twenty years ago)

Matt OTM. that bridge is great.

― Al (sitcom), Monday, 11 April 2005 20:38 (twenty years ago)

new single is horrid

― charleston charge (chaki), Monday, 11 April 2005 20:40 (twenty years ago)

The main guitar chord riff sounds a little like the one from "fight song" by Marilyn Manson.

― Hari A$hur$t (Toaster), Monday, 11 April 2005 20:44 (twenty years ago)

I'm retracting my previous positive opinion of the single. I don't think its horrid, but it got old really, really fast. I kind of feel bad for Trent. Dude seems to be genuinely excited about his record when its probably going to get shit-canned by everyone upon release.

― jason., Monday, 11 April 2005 21:11 (twenty years ago)

I'm currently downloading track 13 of the album. At snails pace on dial up. But i'm excited to hear what a non-single track sounds like.

― Hari A$hur$t (Toaster), Monday, 11 April 2005 21:13 (twenty years ago)

dudes in roling stone comparing it to PIL and Gang of 4. shit i mean thats pretty lame....

― charleston charge (chaki), Monday, 11 April 2005 21:15 (twenty years ago)

How do you mean?

I love both of those bands.

― Hari A$hur$t (Toaster), Monday, 11 April 2005 21:27 (twenty years ago)

Well

"Right Where It Belongs" (track 13)

is alright on first listen. It kind of sounds like Stina Nordenstam. Very Odd. Might work well in the context of the album

― Hari A$hur$t (Toaster), Monday, 11 April 2005 21:49 (twenty years ago)

im just tired of PIL/ Gof4 comparisons.

― charleston charge (chaki), Monday, 11 April 2005 21:50 (twenty years ago)

Oh yeah, i agree with you there. It's a comparison i really really do not get in this instance.

― Hari A$hur$t (Toaster), Monday, 11 April 2005 21:55 (twenty years ago)

you know, there's one song called "getting smaller" which i thought for *sure* would be the single - it's real lean, cacaphonous, punky - it screams "comeback! track!" the one they went with instead pales in comparison.

― PeopleFunnyBoy (PeopleFunnyBoy), Monday, 11 April 2005 22:09 (twenty years ago)

has it actually leaked yet, then?!

we saw them a couple of weeks ago and they were *amazing*, one of the best gigs i've ever been to.

― toby (tsg20), Monday, 11 April 2005 22:16 (twenty years ago)

im just tired of PIL/ Gof4 comparisons.

Depends on which PiL and which Go4.

Comparing NIN to Flowers Of Romance and Mall respectively wouldn't be shocking.. (neither would it be too flattering, at least for the latter half of the equation.)

― donut debonair (donut), Monday, 11 April 2005 22:17 (twenty years ago)

"getting smaller" was floating around a filesharing service by its lonesome, but it is from the new record.

i wanted to get tickets for the NY show, but they sold out during *presale*.

― PeopleFunnyBoy (PeopleFunnyBoy), Monday, 11 April 2005 22:18 (twenty years ago)

i want more brooding soundscapes not big arena rock shit. someone lock trent up with brian eno and limited gear.

― kephm, Monday, 11 April 2005 23:33 (twenty years ago)

I was just listening to Flowers of Romance today.. total brilliance. I am very curious about this new record. I like the single more than I did on first listen & apparently TR has been listening to a lot of DFA stuff as well as the early 80's dance punk.

I'd totally go see a show but can't afford/get tix right now. But I guess they'll be on tour a while, so maybe later.

I expect Pitchfork will shit-can the album because most of their writers were probably well into NIN in their teenage years and have to be like "NOO! MUST REJECT!" :)

― daria g (daria g), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 01:57 (twenty years ago)

I also think With Teeth is a really funny title, in a good way. Kind of wry.

― daria g (daria g), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 01:59 (twenty years ago)

After seeing them live, I'm all over the new album...and I'd say if you've half a mind to see future shows, do it, because if the warm-up shows are any indication they'll at least be giving you your money's worth. I'm digging the new single, and I'm hoping the new album will deliver the goods...I'd hate for the single to be the strongest track, etc. I *really* like the video too...nice to see him without all the bells and whistles.

― VegemiteGrrl (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 02:02 (twenty years ago)

the single sounds like Reznor singing over a corny ReBirth preset.

― Amon (eman), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 02:10 (twenty years ago)

Well, the March of the Pigs video was minus all the bells and whistles, unless you count copious amounts of makeup, and shiny pants. Surreptitiously watching 120 Minutes at like age fifteen and seeing that, it warped my fragile little mind. And it scared my cat! It did!

I'll probably go. I saw them in 1994 early in the Spiral tour before "Closer" blew up, which was a treat, and for much of it I even stopped fretting about not being sufficiently gothX0r to be there. But fuck that, T-Rez is a geek from a shitty small town, too.

― daria g (daria g), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 02:45 (twenty years ago)

That was one thing about the concert recently...it felt like 1993...hordes & swarms of decked-out goths, barely any jeans to be seen, it was kind of cool. But I still reacted the same way...'damn, I should've gothed up a little more'...

― VegemiteGrrl (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 04:15 (twenty years ago)

I heard the album at a listening party. It was alright I guess.

― The Brainwasher (Twilight), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 04:16 (twenty years ago)

yeah i went one of those listening parties in atlanta with my friend who's a MASSIVE fucking NIN nerd (and i'm a pretty sad diehard fan so that's saying something), the album sounded alright but i couldn't hear it well because the sound in the club was abysmal. plus i was drunk. i really like 'getting smaller', but the 'hand that feeds' is meh.

im going to see em live in may though, yee! then autechre a week later, so i'm psyched.

― latebloomer: strawman knockdowner (latebloomer), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 05:28 (twenty years ago)

To answer the thread question, yes, but I haven't heard the single.

― Raymond Cummings (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 11:04 (twenty years ago)

Hmm, I wasn't a nerd enough to drive to the next city to attend a listening party.. shoot, though, I'm gonna regret not getting tix to one of the early shows if that's the vibe. Gaggles of gothlings everywhere. I never see them any more. Where do they hide?

― daria g (daria g), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 13:02 (twenty years ago)

Goth clubs.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 13:12 (twenty years ago)

I saw a little bit of the single's video the other day. This is the first NIN single I've heard that I haven't immediately liked; in fact, it really irritated me.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 13:35 (twenty years ago)

Sounds like goth disco to me.
Still, I wish I could have gotten tickets to the show.

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 14:40 (twenty years ago)

right where it belongs is the best of the leaked tracks so far. it sounds a lot like the more ambient material on "still," which is the direction I wanted him to go with this album.

― jason., Tuesday, 12 April 2005 15:29 (twenty years ago)

This is the first NIN single I've heard that I haven't immediately liked; in fact, it really irritated me.

yeah, the chorus is especially irritating!

what i've heard of the rest of the album sounds decent, though i'll reserve judgement 'til i hear it in its entirety, of course.

― latebloomer: strawman knockdowner (latebloomer), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 15:43 (twenty years ago)

i really like "the line begins to blur"

anticipation level raised to ORANGE

― Hari A$hur$t (Toaster), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 13:18 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, I like that one too. A lot. Sludgy and doom-y.

― daria g (daria g), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 13:58 (twenty years ago)

Its leaked now. I was gonna ysi, but it was takin foreva. Heres a torrent link instead:

http://tracker.piratbyran.org/torrents-details.php?id=3316739

― jason., Thursday, 14 April 2005 21:58 (twenty years ago)

Unfortunately on dialup i can't get it :(

i have the song 'only' though. It's really good.

― Hari A$hur$t (Toaster), Thursday, 14 April 2005 22:13 (twenty years ago)

what the hey, I gotta write a paper anyways:
http://s48.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0LJASC5EUTG9H2KYM65I1JGCG9
http://s37.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2DD6U177QPSCB1PLBFCKZRKJ3V
http://s21.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=034FNS92YGD1W3GNLK53Y6TEFN

more to come.

― jason., Thursday, 14 April 2005 22:17 (twenty years ago)

PLEASE COME BACK PROG LOVIN, ADRIAN BELEW USING, COOL AMBIENT TEXTURES TRENT. YOU WERE SLIGHTLY AHEAD OF YOUR TIME AND WE FORGIVE YOU. PLZ DO NOT RELEASE RICHARD DIVINE SOUNDING WACKNESS OR PRETTY HATE MACHINE BACKWARDS THINKING SHIT.

― charleston charge (chaki), Thursday, 14 April 2005 22:18 (twenty years ago)

Jason...words cannot express how much i love you for those links.

so i will mash the keyboard instead

l.gpu.;;/ikppp;.bg;.juyfu;i/ub'

― Hari A$hur$t (Toaster), Thursday, 14 April 2005 22:19 (twenty years ago)

im skipping over the already leaked tracks. everyone who wants em should have them by now:

http://s7.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1O2XD8VN0N7FX3TVE5AQK3VYV9
http://s12.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0JZWNP4JJUESF25FNI4009JZPZ
http://s20.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=13LLYX371YION2MMZWQ200BHL7
a-with-a-tee-thuh

― jason., Thursday, 14 April 2005 22:37 (twenty years ago)

this is taking so long on dial up but oh so worth it. Thanks again jason.

this is an official WITH TEETH ALL NIGHTER

― Hari A$hur$t (Toaster), Thursday, 14 April 2005 22:41 (twenty years ago)

thanks jason!

― latebloomer: strawman knockdowner (latebloomer), Thursday, 14 April 2005 22:49 (twenty years ago)

http://s8.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=09NN5L26YHWAO24KZKWZ53LI9V
http://s20.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0EPO7HHIIP86O1HLLTJRV50HT8
http://s6.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=26SCTPAYPEI473J55BVQO7NOKM

― jason., Thursday, 14 April 2005 22:54 (twenty years ago)

http://s18.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0PLWTL5IYRVI308SLDET1JGOVB

That'll be it.

― jason., Thursday, 14 April 2005 22:55 (twenty years ago)

"Only" is the "trent

― mike h. (mike h.), Friday, 15 April 2005 02:17 (twenty years ago)

nine inch nails - "with baby teeth"

― harshaw (jube), Friday, 15 April 2005 04:48 (twenty years ago)

I'm missing four tracks :(

if someone would gmail/yousendit or AIM me these i would be very grateful

*The Collector
*Love Is Not Enough
*Every Day Is The Same
*Beside You In Time

― Hari A$hur$t (Toaster), Friday, 15 April 2005 09:11 (twenty years ago)

Skipping 110 messages at this point... Click here if you want to load them all.

i take it you've heard the new QotSA then...

Yes. Well, not many times, but I've listened to it in record shops over and over, trying to figure out why I should care, and it's not grabbing me. Josh Homme's vocals strike me as too carefully mannered. Whereas SOTD are just so over the top insane they're brilliant. The QotSA was actually on when I went to the shop today and bought With Teeth (which does indeed sound a LOT better on disc).

It was funny, I was also buying a Boredoms record when I went to buy the NIN, and indie record shop guy kind of looks at me, and looks down, and is like.. "uh, are you a Boredoms fan?" And I start babbling about how much I like Pop Tatari and Chocolate Synthesizer much to my regret, because I ought to have put on my raging lunatic hat and been like OMG T-REZ RULES TEH WORLD. Just for kicks. Yes I am in yr record store and I am not cool!

― daria g (daria g), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 23:40 (twenty years ago)

I listened to The Downward Spiral today and I do declare that this new one is not a good album

― fcussen (Burger), Thursday, 5 May 2005 00:07 (twenty years ago)

i was bored at best buy so i picked this up and i have to say it does sound a lot better than the mp3's. after listening to it a few times i really, really like it but not as much as "the fragile"

― Aerodynamic (Aerodynamic), Saturday, 7 May 2005 17:38 (twenty years ago)

This review I found is hilarious!

http://www.theninhotline.net/meatpers/mp_050305.html

― Josh in Chicago (Josh in Chicago), Sunday, 8 May 2005 04:23 (twenty years ago)

That is truly ridiculous.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 8 May 2005 04:26 (twenty years ago)

ROFFLEZ

http://www.stereogum.com/archives/001458.html

― daria g (daria g), Sunday, 8 May 2005 04:55 (twenty years ago)

I do like the extended explanation about why the CD packaging is the way it was. It gets a bit "WE'RE GOING TO CHANGE THE WORLD MAN" towards the end but hey.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 8 May 2005 04:58 (twenty years ago)

oh wow. that 'hand that feeds' v. 'ghostbusters' mashup at stereogum is cruel, cruel, cruel. and accurate.

― milton parker (Jon L), Sunday, 8 May 2005 05:19 (twenty years ago)

this is a bad record

― kyle (akmonday), Sunday, 8 May 2005 06:06 (twenty years ago)

:-(

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 8 May 2005 06:19 (twenty years ago)

I bought it today and I'm loving it. Okay maybe it's not experimental & it's entirely within his comfort zone, it's not Broken or Pretty Hate Machine...though a lot of the beats on this one are hearkening back to those days, methinks...anyhoo what I was getting at is dammit, he's good at this, and I'm cool with him playing in the sandbox for as long as he wants. I'm a little bemused by the out and out bad reviews, because I'm just not hearing anything bad on here.

I love the beat on the title track, btw.

― VegemiteGrrl (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 8 May 2005 06:25 (twenty years ago)

http://www.tinymixtapes.com/musicreviews/n/nine_inch_nails.htm

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Sunday, 8 May 2005 06:26 (twenty years ago)

Yeowch. What a meanie...

― VegemiteGrrl (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 8 May 2005 06:41 (twenty years ago)

"Shit sandwich" 2k5

― latebloomer: the rebel sound of grits and bacon (latebloomer), Sunday, 8 May 2005 06:49 (twenty years ago)

now really...

― VegemiteGrrl (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 8 May 2005 06:50 (twenty years ago)

the review i mean.

― latebloomer: the rebel sound of grits and bacon (latebloomer), Sunday, 8 May 2005 08:07 (twenty years ago)

I haven't listened to NIN in more than passing since I was 15-16 (not for any other reason than I drifted away from the indistrial stylee when I was in my late teens). I'm planning on buying the album once I get paid this weekend. Would a used copy of "The Fragile" be worth picking up, too? I only remember hearing"Starfuckers, Inc." from it, which I liked at the time, but that's been like six years ago.

Trent, when walking his dogs around the Garden District (where he lived) of New Orleans, would pretend to talk on his cell phone so no one would talk to him. What a dick.

I do this too when I'm walking around sometimes. And I'm not even famous! I just hate strangers.

― sugarpants: baby's face on football! (sugarpants), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 18:34 (twenty years ago)

The Fragile has some pretty worthwhile material on it. If you can get it cheap, go for it. I'm a totally casual fan and there's a bunch of good, underrated songs on that record. I was listening to a lot of NIN for the first time in ages just recently, and I was really impressed by a lot of the music on the record in particular.

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 19:05 (twenty years ago)

That's why I was considering buying it; I think it would be easy to get my hands on, and it always seems like it's the underrated/"disappointing" releases yield the most treats. I will take that as a recommendation. :D

Also — now that I've admitted that I fake phone conversations, how did people know that Trent was doing that? Does that mean people know when I'm doing it?! ON NOES

― sugarpants: baby's face on football! (sugarpants), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 19:46 (twenty years ago)

He has been tracking your every move.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 19:55 (twenty years ago)

two weeks pass...

Well, whudathought - this is actually very good! Or maybe I'm just having an anticipated nostalgia crisis...

― The Emancipation of Baaderonixx (KERERU 4 LIFE!) (Fabfunk), Monday, 30 May 2005 14:50 (twenty years ago)

four weeks pass...

Worst album of the year

― Brett Hickman (Bhickman), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 15:23 (twenty years ago)

I broke down and bought this and I really enjoy it! I even like "The Hand That Feeds" now!.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 15:51 (twenty years ago)

Tour dates announced with QOTSA, no idea when tix go on sale but I for one will be in line for the Arco show here at Sac. YAY!

― VegemiteGrrl (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 16:43 (twenty years ago)

That's an odd-ass double bill.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 16:45 (twenty years ago)

I broke down and bought this and I really enjoy it! I even like "The Hand That Feeds" now!.

-- The Ghost of Dan Perry (djperr...), June 28th, 2005.

yeah that song kinda grew on me, too. still don't like the chorus, though.

trent put up the new single 'only' as files to remix for garageband, ableton live, pro tools and acid. i made a remix in ableton live, and programmed the drums in Reason using the samples provided in the download.

http://s50.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2UV6EP4BN7EVU0ZYAU2Y1KIQU3

― latebloomer: now with 20% less cetacean content (latebloomer), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 16:53 (twenty years ago)

xpost - Not completely, they're both on the same corporate monolith via Interscope.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 16:53 (twenty years ago)

DFA1979 is also playing a few shows with NIN/QOTSA

― The Brainwasher (Twilight), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 16:57 (twenty years ago)

OMFG

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 16:59 (twenty years ago)

That's even yet still more odder.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 16:59 (twenty years ago)

Braindead here, requesting more information: what's DFA1979?

I guess it is an odd double bill. I got excited because I like both of them, even if QOTSA is sans-Nick & Josh is kind of a show pony.

― VegemiteGrrl (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 17:09 (twenty years ago)

DFA1979 = Death from Above 1979. Great few records (bass & drums & lots of high pitched yelling like Jeff Buckley on crack). Best heard and not seen. Once I saw them (on Conan O'Brien of all places), my opinion of them dropped several fathoms.

Fun records, though.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 17:10 (twenty years ago)

Hmm. They sound equal parts cool / not cool. I guess I'll find out in September, eh?

But I'm still primarily excited about NIN, because that warm-up show in Davis was a-mazing.

― VegemiteGrrl (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 17:22 (twenty years ago)

The song "With Teeth" is fucking outstanding.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 30 June 2005 13:12 (twenty years ago)

That it is.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 30 June 2005 13:15 (twenty years ago)

My fave is still 'All teh Love'

― Baaderonixx le Belge (Fabfunk), Thursday, 30 June 2005 13:23 (twenty years ago)

"Beside You In Time" - k-PWNAGE

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 30 June 2005 13:26 (twenty years ago)

Everytime I hear "Bite the Hand that Feeds", I expect to hear an announcer come on say, "Angelina Jolie....IS.....Lara Croft, Tomb Raider", then cut to a motorcycle jumping out of an explosion.

This is OTM and completely awesome.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 30 June 2005 13:28 (twenty years ago)

I really like the little synth breakdown in 'Hand that Feeds', which somehow reminds me of the moog solo on the Cure's 'End of the World'

― Baaderonixx le Belge (Fabfunk), Thursday, 30 June 2005 13:31 (twenty years ago)

five months pass...

Any reassessments?

― Klaus Darko (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 19:05 (twenty years ago)

It hasn't left my stereo since it came out, but since June my stereo has been where I accidentally forgot it.. halfway across the country. oops! So I don't know, but I think Ned is right about Trent staying within fairly strict parameters here and it's kind of a shame that he does that, because I do see how some of Fragile is weirdly lots more interesting. more open.

― d g (daria g), Thursday, 15 December 2005 02:23 (twenty years ago)

two months pass...

2006 Summer US tour: Nine Inch Nails + Bauhaus (+ TV On The Radio on the first leg)

― StanM (StanM), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 13:00 (twenty years ago)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 13:29 (twenty years ago)

Typical, though -- they're playing Irvine around when I was planning on being out of town up in Seattle. Hmmm.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 13:31 (twenty years ago)

I DO NOT UNDERSTAND THE LACK OF A NEW ORLEANS SHOW. BOSSIER CITY WTF

― adam (adam), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 14:22 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...

Although it looks like I should make the Irvine show after all now, which is good. Meantime, as for the recent Every Day Is Exactly the Same EP, the DFA mix of "The Hand That Feeds" turns out to be just all right (I mean, it's good and all, but it's clearly them from ten miles off), but the Photek mix of same frickin' kills.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 13 May 2006 21:49 (nineteen years ago)

(Although now it seems like the Irvine show is off the schedule? Fiddlesticks. But maybe this means I can make the Legendary Pink Dots show instead...or alternately, maybe I can leave later for my trip and catch Radiohead? HMMM.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 13 May 2006 21:51 (nineteen years ago)

one year passes...

Easily his wekest album this, though "All the Love in the World" is a belter. The moment when the almost joyous piano riff bursts out of the gloom is exhilarating.

― chap, Sunday, 3 February 2008 16:57 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, the sudden transition to piano house was kind of o_O in a good way. The first two singles from this are still as awes as awes comes. But those are pretty the only three songs I can manage to give a damn about.

― The Reverend, Sunday, 3 February 2008 17:55 (eighteen years ago)

I liked the singles too!

― stephen, Sunday, 3 February 2008 20:30 (eighteen years ago)

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