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Not sure if it's been brought up before, but the chorus of Getting Smaller sounds a lot like the chorus of Pixies - Planet of Sound. They're both extremely similar songs in structure but the chorus is really obvious. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sq2ZTg5-9KI Planet of sound. ~ :25 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8W8BK8WXgU Getting smaller. ~ :40
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Oct 12, 2014 23:06
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If we're playing this game that gives me another chance to post the winning combo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJ51kW684FM&t=11s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEqZkglTVYE&t=10s
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Oct 13, 2014 17:43
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Al Cu Ad Solte posted:This is definitely my favorite Warm Place remix as well. I'm sure it's just another lovely fan-remix, there used to be tons of them.
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Is This a Clip From a Trent Reznor Score or a Household Appliance? http://www.vulture.com/2014/10/quiz-trent-reznor-score-or-household-appliance.html?mid=twitter_vulture 18/22 You might need to turn off ad block to play
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Dr Tran posted:Is This a Clip From a Trent Reznor Score or a Household Appliance? This seems fun but it won't let me past the first answer. I don't use adblock or any such thing.
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SacrificialGoat posted:This seems fun but it won't let me past the first answer. I don't use adblock or any such thing.  The concept is hilarious and I want to see the whole thing.
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Oct 14, 2014 03:37
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I was able to get through it all. Got a perfect score. The dead give away is the appliances are recorded in a way lower quality.
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GuavaMoment posted:If we're playing this game that gives me another chance to post the winning combo: I'd love to hear the story of how this was discovered.
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Oct 14, 2014 07:13
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TheJoker138 posted:I was able to get through it all. Got a perfect score. The dead give away is the appliances are recorded in a way lower quality. 
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Oct 14, 2014 07:16
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GuavaMoment posted:If we're playing this game that gives me another chance to post the winning combo: Oh my god I cannot ever disassociate these, now.
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Oct 14, 2014 08:38
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echronorian posted:Oh my god I cannot ever disassociate these, now. I remember Trent saying in an interview that he has to get "in the mood" to write stuff with spooky lighting and drapes. I hope that going on youtube and searching for "Halloween videos" is also part of his artistic process.
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Can anyone fill me in on why Trent seems to talk about pigs and troughs starting with Broken, TDS and continuing on into The Slip? Does it have something to do with the Tate mansion that he used to record in?
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Oct 14, 2014 19:39
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Negative_Kittens posted:Can anyone fill me in on why Trent seems to talk about pigs and troughs starting with Broken, TDS and continuing on into The Slip? Does it have something to do with the Tate mansion that he used to record in? It is because pigs are really cool animals that are smart and cute.
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Oct 14, 2014 19:43
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Maybe he got arrested in the early 90s.
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Oct 14, 2014 19:45
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Negative_Kittens posted:Can anyone fill me in on why Trent seems to talk about pigs and troughs starting with Broken, TDS and continuing on into The Slip? Does it have something to do with the Tate mansion that he used to record in? "Subjects for a NIN Song" is a really short list.
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Oct 14, 2014 21:26
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Periodiko posted:"Subjects for a NIN Song" is a really short list. 1. Pigs 2. George W. Bush  3. Being sad about a girl 4. Being horny for a girl 5. My arms, and how they flip flop
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Oct 14, 2014 21:28
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TheJoker138 posted:1. Pigs 
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Oct 14, 2014 21:36
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The Fragile is almost entirely "coming off cocaine/fighting cocaine addiction/my friends are high on cocaine and I'm jelly/I'm high on cocaine and they are jelly" songs with the most obvious being The Big Come Down and the least obvious being The Wretched.
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You make it sound like The Fragile is a concept album about being the Rock N Roll Clown from Metalocalypse, which would be kind of awesome honestly. Which Fragile kind of already is to many people.
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echronorian posted:The Fragile is almost entirely "coming off cocaine/fighting cocaine addiction/my friends are high on cocaine and I'm jelly/I'm high on cocaine and they are jelly" songs with the most obvious being The Big Come Down and the least obvious being The Wretched. Most of those could be read as "I am depressed about a girl...a girl named cocaine!" and "I'm horny for a girl...a girl named cocaine!" though. So I stand by my original list 
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TheJoker138 posted:Most of those could be read as "I am depressed about a girl...a girl named cocaine!" and "I'm horny for a girl...a girl named cocaine!" though. So I stand by my original list http://southpark.cc.com/clips/154133/replace-darling-baby-with-jesus
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TheJoker138 posted:Most of those could be read as "I am depressed about a girl...a girl named cocaine!" and "I'm horny for a girl...a girl named cocaine!" though. So I stand by my original list If we're being that vague though you've described like 90% of pop music.
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The songs about girls on fragile are all "we're cokeheads, we're keeping it a secret." I think reznor was and still is really ashamed of some of his habits which is pretty clear when you consider his vague lyricism (a staple of his song writing)and reluctance to speak in detail in interviews, etc. I think you could see his lyricism as an attempt to be accessable by writing in general terms, or you could say he's bad at writing lyrics. Personally, I think both of these are symptoms of him being a distant person, with all the songs he wrote on the fragile being about him recognizing he has a problem that makes him weak. Hint: the album is called The Fragile. Then a few years later we get ripped, clean living Trent branching out and keeping busy. I think his song subjects have gotten waaaay more varied. With Teeth, as an album title, is aggressive and dominant. Very differenfrom any of his prior albums. ( Broken, the downward spiral, they're all sort of submissive and sound like an overwhelmed person. ) I see year zero as reznor refusing to write a single song from his own perspective, while keeping his personal attitudes. He projects his own frustration onto fictional characters. Instead of depressed Trent you get a depressed soldier. Instead of a vague suicide song you get a song about societal suicide. The title Year Zero refers to the year this fictional world ends as much as it refers to the moment Trent Reznor really got conscious about songwriting. Prior to that album it was all inward, with little thought and more about the feeling, setting a stage sort of with vague imagery. Since YZ I think he's written his best lyrics by not letting the subject be his own life, and instead projecting his opinions onto others. Donovan Trip fucked around with this message at 17:37 on Oct 15, 2014 |
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I always thought it was really interesting that almost all of his lyrics especially from PHM through TDS are "I/you" lyrics where the "you" is always a rather vague entity that ranges from someone in a relationship with him to someone who is an authority figure. But in one song, the becoming, he actually addresses someone by name: "Annie, hold a little tighter I might just slip away" Apparently Annie was an old college girlfriend of his but I found it odd that its the only time he ever referred to the subject of a song by name that I can think of (though I guess Capital G is obviously about Bush)
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Earwicker posted:I always thought it was really interesting that almost all of his lyrics especially from PHM through TDS are "I/you" lyrics where the "you" is always a rather vague entity that ranges from someone in a relationship with him to someone who is an authority figure. But in one song, the becoming, he actually addresses someone by name: "Annie, hold a little tighter I might just slip away" He's actually said that Capital G was about greed, but Bush. I don't know how much I believe him, though.
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TheJoker138 posted:He's actually said that Capital G was about greed, but Bush. I don't know how much I believe him, though. Well the guy unfurled giant banners with GWB's face on it behind the band while playing The Hand That Feeds, so he obviously has no qualms about naming names when it comes to politics. I took Capital G not so much as a jab at Bush in the literal sense, but more about the idea of Bush and the other politicans like him. Then again it could be his way of trying to prevent the song from dating itself (like the second half of Al Jourgensen's catalogue will ten years from now). Al Cu Ad Solte posted:This is definitely my favorite Warm Place remix as well. Speaking of Doom 3, I've heard there are a few mods that (partially) restore the sounds effects and music Reznor was working on before he dropped out. Anyone try them and know if they're worth a shot? Quake still sounds great and Reznor should take a break from creating academy award winning film scores and make some more video game boom boom shooty noises.
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Wild T posted:Speaking of Doom 3, I've heard there are a few mods that (partially) restore the sounds effects and music Reznor was working on before he dropped out. Anyone try them and know if they're worth a shot? Quake still sounds great and Reznor should take a break from creating academy award winning film scores and make some more video game boom boom shooty noises.
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NIN's Austin City Limits performance that they recorded last year with the Tension lineup is re-airing on PBS tomorrow night (10/18) at 9pm EST / 8 Central. Although if you won't be available to watch it at that time, I have a YouTube link to the whole performance in the OP.
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Just popping in to read what's new. Finishing up our move to the new house....hey touched my original copy of PHM and Spiral tonight for the first time in at least....10 years? They've been boxed up and I am setting up a shelf of CDs and records at this place. I've been playing the remastered PHM and the 10th aniv edition of Spiral for years. I think my copy of Fragile, at least its packaging, still smells like weed from the late '90s. I've been listening to Marks during the move, and its kind of grown on me. I always did like With Teeth..even if its only sort-of enjoyed by many nin fans.
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The fragile is so strange, because the first disc is like three quaters of a really great album. And then it kinda loses me at some point. It's also, as pointed out, really overtly Cocaine: Hell of a drug - the Album. And so much of it is throat destroying it's no surprise a lot of it isn't played any more.
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LordPants posted:It's also, as pointed out, really overtly Cocaine: Hell of a drug - the Album. I don't think this is true. Trent was clean for awhile and then relapsed really hard after he had a single drink to celebrate it debuting at number one.
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Leon Einstein posted:I don't think this is true. Trent was clean for awhile and then relapsed really hard after he had a single drink to celebrate it debuting at number one. I don't really see how that contradicts the album being about drugs.
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There are certainly songs on The Fragile that are about drugs but I don't really see how the album is a cohesive whole that is really "about" any one thing. That's one of it's weaker points IMO.
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I agree, i enjoy the Fragile though as a double album, its a bit weak in spots. I definitely listen to 'Left' more than 'Right'. Then again, Starfuckers isn't one of my favorite songs. I like Day The World Went Away, We're in This Together, The Fragile, The Wretched, Lamir, and The Great Below all more than Starfuckers. That's just me though.
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Ya I really don't think the album is "overtly" about Cocaine. Some tracks, but certainly not how some people want to pigeon hole it. Look at songs like We're In This Together Now and the title track, amongst others. He's also openly stated some songs were about specific people like The Day The World Went Away being about a grandparent dying. I mean his lyrics are vague and of course you can impose your own interpretation onto them. But to just pigeon hole it as an album entirely about cocaine is dumb.
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I remember reading Trent saying the reason there's so many instrumentals is because of writers block due to addiction. Am I imagining this? Or am I just not remembering right?
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Mishaco posted:I agree, i enjoy the Fragile though as a double album, its a bit weak in spots. Nah man it's not just you, no one likes Starfuckers
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Pilgrimage is about a late night mission after you find out your regular dealer is tapped
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I would have much preferred 'And All That Could Have Been' on Fragile over Starfuckers. SF was fine as a B-Side on the World Went Away single. I would have much preferred 'And All That Could Have Been' on Fragile over Starfuckers. SF was fine as a B-Side on the World Went Away single. There it was just a fun and fine song.
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