ringfinger is pretty sick tho
― adam, Friday, 24 July 2015 01:41 (eight years ago) link
ahhhhhhhhhhMOTHERFUCKER!
― how's life, Friday, 24 July 2015 01:46 (eight years ago) link
Head like a hole, hands down.
Love 105 played down in it to death in the early 90s, quite sick of it and don't want to hear it again
― LimbsKing, Friday, 24 July 2015 04:12 (eight years ago) link
Love this record lots. Went with "Down In It."
They probably spent $100 on the video and it looks and sounds dated but I still adore both it and the track.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrrEo3hZABU
And everything I never liked about you is kinda seeping into me resonated with me in many a relationship ever since I first heard Trent sing it.
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Friday, 24 July 2015 04:20 (eight years ago) link
My instinct says Terrible Lie, but I might go for Sanctified so it's not forgotten.
― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Saturday, 25 July 2015 17:11 (eight years ago) link
he started playing sanctified again live on the 2013 tour and it was greaaaaat.
― extremely lag∞n postings voice (slothroprhymes), Saturday, 25 July 2015 17:15 (eight years ago) link
NIN would be great if Trent didn't sing.
― brotherlovesdub, Saturday, 25 July 2015 17:29 (eight years ago) link
Yeah I increasingly agree with that, lyrics and vox are far and away the weakest part of the package.
― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Saturday, 25 July 2015 18:09 (eight years ago) link
foom foom chuffchuff............................................. psssssssssssssshhhhhhhhfoom foom chuffchuff............................................. psssssssssssssshhhhhhhh
― ledge, Saturday, 25 July 2015 19:54 (eight years ago) link
Head Like A Poll... come on!
― Doran, Saturday, 25 July 2015 20:08 (eight years ago) link
I love how this album is like a who's-who of hip producers c. this time. Flood, John Fryer, Keith LeBlanc, Adrian Sherwood.
Also: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHLSiIVxjUs
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 25 July 2015 20:53 (eight years ago) link
I heard this album the first time because my girlfriend's roommate was like, "This guy my mom used to babysit put out an album." She ended up with the promo copy that was sent to her mom, because her mom was all, "That's ... nice, Trent. Good for you!" So then when "Head Like a Hole" showed up on 120 Minutes, we were all excited. "It's that guy!" Which probably explains why that's still my favorite NIN song. I had a fifth-party sense of investment in his success. Then he got crazy famous and I didn't feel like he needed me cheering him on anymore.
― something totally new, it’s the AOR of the twenty first century (tipsy mothra), Saturday, 25 July 2015 21:36 (eight years ago) link
lyrics and vox are far and away the weakest part of the package.
At least he worked on the Ringfinger demo a bit longer:
(Twist twist twist) it can go a little deeper(Twist twist twist) I'm wearing these chains(Twist twist twist) you make it hurt real good(Twist twist twist) I love the pain
(I only know this from hearing it coming out of someone's tent at a music festival some twenty years ago)
― ledge, Saturday, 25 July 2015 21:57 (eight years ago) link
Yeah, at the moment I'm thinking that it's possibly between 'Sin' and 'Something I Can Never Have' for me, but man, this is a seriously good record.― You’re being too simplistic and you’re insulting my poor heart (Turrican), Friday, July 24, 2015 12:36 AM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― You’re being too simplistic and you’re insulting my poor heart (Turrican), Friday, July 24, 2015 12:36 AM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Ended up voting for 'Something I Can Never Have', since 'Sin' and 'Head Like A Hole' are already getting a lot of love!
― You’re being too simplistic and you’re insulting my poor heart (Turrican), Sunday, 26 July 2015 01:02 (eight years ago) link
'something i can never have' is what sticks for me from this album, the guy i knew who turned me on to nin was a huge depeche mode fan and this seems like a really good fake depeche mode song.
― balls, Sunday, 26 July 2015 01:11 (eight years ago) link
Yeah, I can see why Depeche Mode fans would take to Nine Inch Nails, particularly this album.
― You’re being too simplistic and you’re insulting my poor heart (Turrican), Sunday, 26 July 2015 01:16 (eight years ago) link
The video has its own bizarre history.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gV8yQc0m7g
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 26 July 2015 01:37 (eight years ago) link
I voted for Sin, but That's What I Get is my secret favorite song on the album.
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 26 July 2015 04:58 (eight years ago) link
― brotherlovesdub, Saturday, July 25, 2015 10:29 AM (12 hours ago)
what? NO!
― the late great, Sunday, 26 July 2015 05:53 (eight years ago) link
this album is 9/10 classic tracks ... just listened to it twice and the only one i managed to cross of the list was "terrible lie"
― the late great, Sunday, 26 July 2015 05:56 (eight years ago) link
*cross off
― the late great, Sunday, 26 July 2015 05:57 (eight years ago) link
hearing "Closer" in Magic Mike XXL made me realize that whatever its limitations, Trent's voice has a very specific value that I don't think it would be helpful for NIN to shed
― the naive cockney chorus (Simon H.), Sunday, 26 July 2015 07:31 (eight years ago) link
just listened to it twice and the only one i managed to cross of the list was "terrible lie"
I'm surprised that anyone would rank "Terrible Lie" last!
I voted "Down In It" for sentimental reasons, it's the first NIN song I ever heard. I still love it, but many other songs get to me in a more personal way.
I just read Daphne Carr's 33 1/3 book on PHM, it was easily my favourite of the series (at least out of the five or six that I've read).
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Sunday, 26 July 2015 07:45 (eight years ago) link
yeah, you're right, i don't know what i was thinking. 10/10 classic album.
― the late great, Sunday, 26 July 2015 08:18 (eight years ago) link
Went for Ringfinger. Just love how unassuming it is at the beginning and then it hits you
― octobeard, Sunday, 26 July 2015 18:27 (eight years ago) link
I actually don't mind Trent's voice, but agree that the lyrics are probably the weakest part of the package.
― You’re being too simplistic and you’re insulting my poor heart (Turrican), Sunday, 26 July 2015 20:54 (eight years ago) link
Ringfinger
― latebloomer, Monday, 27 July 2015 22:32 (eight years ago) link
i love trent's voice, his lyrics have been terrible forever but their awfulness vacillates between charming and distracting
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Monday, 27 July 2015 23:49 (eight years ago) link
It's a lot of fun to play "predict the rhyme" with him - I don't think I've ever been wrong.
― the top man in the language department (誤訳侮辱), Tuesday, 28 July 2015 00:22 (eight years ago) link
I got the re-mastered version of this with the Get Down Make Love cover tacked on at the end. It slays, can't believe I've never heard it.
― circa1916, Tuesday, 28 July 2015 00:59 (eight years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Friday, 31 July 2015 00:01 (eight years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Saturday, 1 August 2015 00:01 (eight years ago) link
it comes down to this
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Monday, 12 December 2022 23:21 (one year ago) link
your kiss
your fist
frankly the gayest album ever made by a straight(? idk trent's life) guy
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Monday, 12 December 2022 23:23 (one year ago) link
pretty straight machine
― the late great, Monday, 12 December 2022 23:57 (one year ago) link
that doesn't mean anything, just a dumb pun.
fwiw i totally agree with you. on the other hand pretty much all 80s / 90s industrial music seems fairly queer to me, though i wonder how much of that is just down to the prevalence of bdsm imagery
― the late great, Tuesday, 13 December 2022 00:00 (one year ago) link
+ inevitably getting homophobic abuse in junior high and high school for listening to industrial music, new wave and/or techno!
― the late great, Tuesday, 13 December 2022 00:02 (one year ago) link
that weirdly hit close to home
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 13 December 2022 01:32 (one year ago) link
Trent's ickiness over his own lust (and the objects of it) on this album maps very neatly onto the traumas of adolescent queer desire overlaid with internalised homophobia.
― Tim F, Wednesday, 14 December 2022 01:00 (one year ago) link