Aint No Right

incidently, Death Grips' first mixtape/album featured 'Up the Beach' *first song*:

https://soundcloud.com/deathgrips/death ... ry-mixtape

saw the tour last night at jones beach. trent's set was similar to his tension tour stuff i saw in october minus the backup singers. it was solid as always with a great version of Sanctified. i wish trent did more from downward spiral for the 20th anniversary but i guess he has to include some different stuff for people who havent seen him.

i was impressed by soundgarden, i was expecting worse after hearing about chris cornell's voice. he sounded good, better than perry for sure. i was happy i got a chance to see them.

has anyone else caught this tour?

farrellgirl99 wrote:saw the tour last night at jones beach. trent's set was similar to his tension tour stuff i saw in october minus the backup singers. it was solid as always with a great version of Sanctified. i wish trent did more from downward spiral for the 20th anniversary but i guess he has to include some different stuff for people who havent seen him.

i was impressed by soundgarden, i was expecting worse after hearing about chris cornell's voice. he sounded good, better than perry for sure. i was happy i got a chance to see them.

has anyone else caught this tour?

I gave thought, mostly because of Soundgarden whom I've only seen once before at the 2nd Lolla back in '92. I've been occasionally checking the NIN setlists and comments about this tour and it really seems they are on auto-pilot now... same old encores, same basic setlists, just nothing that I haven't seen done better in past tours. AFAIC, NIN peaked on the farewell tour in '09 and they're now in Rolling Stones, Fleetwood Mac, etc territory still putting on competent shows but trading on past glories. The final... nail in the coffin is the fact Trent's ignoring many of his harder rocking guiter-based tunes. It's another once-favorite band I'll take a pass on this year.

Pandemonium wrote:

farrellgirl99 wrote:saw the tour last night at jones beach. trent's set was similar to his tension tour stuff i saw in october minus the backup singers. it was solid as always with a great version of Sanctified. i wish trent did more from downward spiral for the 20th anniversary but i guess he has to include some different stuff for people who havent seen him.

i was impressed by soundgarden, i was expecting worse after hearing about chris cornell's voice. he sounded good, better than perry for sure. i was happy i got a chance to see them.

has anyone else caught this tour?

I gave thought, mostly because of Soundgarden whom I've only seen once before at the 2nd Lolla back in '92. I've been occasionally checking the NIN setlists and comments about this tour and it really seems they are on auto-pilot now... same old encores, same basic setlists, just nothing that I haven't seen done better in past tours. AFAIC, NIN peaked on the farewell tour in '09 and they're now in Rolling Stones, Fleetwood Mac, etc territory still putting on competent shows but trading on past glories. The final... nail in the coffin is the fact Trent's ignoring many of his harder rocking guiter-based tunes. It's another once-favorite band I'll take a pass on this year.

Yeah I agree with the setlist. I'm usually impressed by his setlists and his affinity for changing atleast 5 or so songs every night, but from what I've seen on this tour he's only switching out a few and the ones that are switched are from newer albums.

Since I saw the Tension tour, I would have been happy with only 1 song from Hesitation Marks (or atleast different songs like I Would For You or In Two instead of Copy of A/Came Back Haunted).

There wasn't a single song from The Fragile which was super lame.

Pandemonium wrote: NIN peaked on the farewell tour in '09

Agreed. That tour was amazing. It was just "fuck you, here's our best stuff!"

farrellgirl99 wrote:
There wasn't a single song from The Fragile which was super lame.

Agreed. Best NIN album, no songs played?

Trent's voice is totally hoarse, so he can't scream any of his old songs, so he tries to cover it up with mellow songs (and the lame excuse that "we're artists now, check out this tambourine solo!") and light shows.

I probably won't ever see NIN again unless it's at a festival I am attending to see someone else. Trent will just never put on those magically awesome shows he used to. Mostly because he can't physically do it. But he's still charging 100 bucks a ticket anyway. Not cool. I don't care about current light technologies that much.

This is awesome. Insane, but awesome.

http://consequenceofsound.net/2014/12/f ... show-ever/

farrellgirl99 wrote:This is awesome. Insane, but awesome.

http://consequenceofsound.net/2014/12/f ... show-ever/

Crap. No way to download individual shows? I'd love to have the Fragility shows I saw.

hokahey wrote:

farrellgirl99 wrote:This is awesome. Insane, but awesome.

http://consequenceofsound.net/2014/12/f ... show-ever/

Crap. No way to download individual shows? I'd love to have the Fragility shows I saw.

yes way to download individual shows. Eg: http://www.ninlive.com/shows/2009/20090509.html

Each source is there with an individual zip file to download.. enjoy..

The TOOLDriveProject is similar but individual shows aren't available for download.. Still, a shit-tonne of TOOL shows is awesome!!!!

Just saw this on the Gang of Four page on Facebook. I wasn't sure if I should post this here, or in an Eric Avery thread or the Gary Numan thread. I decided this NIN thread would be best.

Anyway...

For those who may not know "Anthrax" is a Gang of Four song.

A ‪#‎ThrowbackThursday‬ to when Nine Inch Nails, Gary Numan, Eric Avery of Jane's Addiction, Mike Garson and HEALTH covered "Anthrax" in LA. This song made it's way to America and the furthest corners of the planet 35 years ago - and it can still baffle a promoter not paying attention.

Sept 8, 2009 - Henry Fonda Theater

http://www.avclub.com/article/hip-canad ... :1:Default

The National Post wasn’t thrilled, writing, “The group’s most famous songs, ‘Hurt’ and ‘Closer (F— You Like an Animal),’ are thematically appropriate, given what the province’s taxpayers are going to feel during the next four years.”

farrellgirl99 wrote:http://www.avclub.com/article/hip-canad ... :1:Default

The National Post wasn’t thrilled, writing, “The group’s most famous songs, ‘Hurt’ and ‘Closer (F— You Like an Animal),’ are thematically appropriate, given what the province’s taxpayers are going to feel during the next four years.”

That's funny! I wouldn't mind getting one of those shirts or the Notley Crue.

Big Nine Inch Nails news today. In one week, on 12/22, they release a new EP called "Not The Actual Events" initially as a download-only format with vinyl and possible CD versions out next Spring. Word is, it is a *lot* more aggressive sounding then anything Reznor's done since perhaps The Fragile.

Which leads to maybe even better news for early 2017 - NIN will be releasing vinyl reissues of Broken, The Downard Spiral and The Fragile on vinyl exactly replicating the original album configurations such as the bonus 7" single for Broken and the different track list on The Fragile over 3 LPs. Although The Downward Spiral is been in print on vinyl for years, The Fragile and Broken (and Fixed) have been out of print on vinyl since their respective issues in the 90's and command very high prices on the collector's market.

Finally, there will be a completely new 4 LP limited version of The Fragile containing several unreleased tracks, remixes and the entire album sans vocals. Digital downloads for all 4 albums will be available 12/22.

http://www.nin.com/

Already pre-ordered the ep.

I don't have a record player, so vinyl doesn't do anything for me. So the Fragile 4-lp set will be released digitally? I misunderstood and thought it was a vinyl-only release, which bummed me out. Awesome if its digital or cd too.

Edit: Oh I see, the 4-lp vinyl comes with a digital download. Now I guess I have to spend $80 on this right now Christmas present to myself

excellent news. Just the other day I thought about Trent and that it seemed he wouldn't live up to his promise about NIN and 2016

Unreleased Fragile songs is the best part obviously

Here's hoping for some 'teeth' with this one, since Hesitation Marks was so fucking toothless.

Just out....a bit of Wild Thing on benzos hook sampling?

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/ ... ht-w457444

not feeling it

Has music production in the last few years just fucking lost it's mind? That was the worse Nin track I've heard. Hands down. Stop chasing trends folks.

hate the vocals....music ok

I've now listened to it 3-4 times and it's definitely not growing on me. What a mess. Wtf is Trent thinking? Vocals buried with noise combined with a couple of boring riffs here and there. And this is the single?!

Good video.

I'm sure there's a flock of goths discussing how it touches them like no other music does.

His musical ideas continue to baffle me, for the most part.

Lazy, unimpressive effort.

Apparently Navarro plays on Burning Bright

And The Idea of You features Dave Grohl on drums

It's not the best thing Trent has ever done, but it's certainly getting back near the right track.

If any of these songs had been on With Teeth or Year Zero, they wouldn't have been out of place. And since those were the last two albums of his that I actually enjoyed, I'm ok with this EP.

2.5/5 stars

That might go up to 3 stars once I listen a few more times, but it won't go any lower.

I've only heard the single so far but i liked it