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Chillin' Villain · Joined: 13 Mar 2003 Location: Goo Row

All promotion tactics and concept albumry aside, anyone who's heard it care to weigh in? I just bought it yesterday and gave it a couple listens, and it's growing on me. Trent hasn't completely jumped the shark quite yet, but I'm not so sure about the Green Day-esque turn to political lyrics in the last two NIN albums. Does this happen to all rockers after they hit forty and lay off the drugs? Anyways, good percussion, noisy guitars, and a little playing around with editing and synth stuff. No big leaps like Downward Spiral/Fragile or anything, but I'm happy with it. I listen to "The Warning" and "Zero Sum" a lot, and "Hyperpower!" is my favorite NIN album-opener since "Mr. Self-Destruct" (on DS.)

Haha... Last time I wrote on a NIN thread (when "With Teeth" came out) I ended up planning and carrying out a trip to Osaka for the show with a couple Dave's posters. One might still be around...

seoulsucker · Posted: Fri Apr 27, 2007 10:18 pm Post subject:

NIN albums are like green bananas. Takes awhile for them to ripen. Every album I've purchased has gotten a "meh" response from me at first, then 6 months later it's the only thing I'm listening to.

Chillin' Villain · Joined: 13 Mar 2003 Location: Goo Row

VanIslander · Posted: Sat Apr 28, 2007 3:33 am Post subject:

I first heard NIN in an old church converted into a dance club in Detroit in late 1994, it was the "i wanna *beep* you like an animal, ... from the inside" lyrics of Closer, from The Downward Spiral album, and I was INSTANTLY mesmerized by this futuristic, scarily nihilistic and dangerous sounding music (I was in Detroit after all, and the acoustics and ambience of a church no less, seemed almost satanic cultish) but I didn't listen to them again until I came to Korea nearly a decade later and picked up a double cassette of The Fragile. Have to say I haven't gotten fully into it, but it is growing a little on me, as I've listened to it once a year for three years and indeed it sounds a bit better each time, but nothing like the initial wow of hearing Closer back '94.

How are their latest two albums (With Teeth, Year Zero) compared to their earlier stuff?

kalak · Joined: 06 Mar 2007 Location: dublin

Hollywoodaction · Joined: 02 Jul 2004

I liked Downward Spiral...but I was totally turned off to their music by the outpouring of support direct at Trent Reznor by his fans --which I found out was mostly high school and middle school girls-- when his dog died (I mean, come one. It's not as if he had lost an arm in a car accident or his parents had died in a freak accident at Christmas time). Listening to their music felt a bit too high school for me from then on.