new NIN video

[Barbed Wire Kiss]

distorting a Wham CD ain't gonna make it sound good..

No, but it could make it sound better

[Lawnmower Of The Damned]

Jerome Dillon is still on drums for the live show, though on the album the drums were a split between Jerome and Dave Grohl, and obviously Trent Reznor still on vocals.

Then we have Jeordie White on bass (Still of A Perfect Circle as far as I know and formerly known as Twiggy Rimirez of Marilyn Manson), Arron North on guitar (Formerly of Icarus Line) and Alessandro Cortini on synths (Formerly of ModWheelMood).

[Barbed Wire Kiss]

Jerome Dillon is still on drums for the live show, though on the album the drums were a split between Jerome and Dave Grohl, and obviously Trent Reznor still on vocals.

Then we have Jeordie White on bass (Still of A Perfect Circle as far as I know and formerly known as Twiggy Rimirez of Marilyn Manson), Arron North on guitar (Formerly of Icarus Line) and Alessandro Cortini on synths (Formerly of ModWheelMood).

Now I guess then the guy I vaguely recognised must have been Jeordie. I hope he had plenty of input as he co-wrote plenty of my fav MM tunes.

I'm sure Trent was saying around the time of the live album he had his perfect line up then.

[Lawnmower Of The Damned]

From what I recall of Mr. Manson's largely questionable autobiography, Trent and Jeordie were very good friends during the recording of Antichrist Superstar. However, due to the timing of his joining the band I'd say the album was mostly written by the time he joined.

Still, I'm always happy to see the (in my opinion) most talented member of Marilyn Manson off and doing things with the man (Trent) who made Antichrist Superstar the best (in my opinion) Marilyn Manson album.

Still, I can't imagine it would be easy to stay sober around Twiggy...

[Barbed Wire Kiss]

I have agree with Antichrist Superstar being MM'S best album, and looking at the credits on sleevenotes it seems Twiggy co-wrote the music on most of the tracks, even taking the credits for 3 of them.

Interestingly Trent, as well co-producing, co-wrote and played on a couple of the tracks, had others from the NIN circle helping out on production and engineering, making it a bit of NIN side project. Not that Mazzer would agree with that

[Just Float]

Why is it that in every post about NIN people critisize Trent for every little thing he does. A common thing people complain about is fake angst. Isn't everything in etertainment fake? It's all an act so why complain about angst. People being happy in there videos are pretending to be happy for the video, so comaplain about fake happiness. If anyone hasn't read any interviews with the band it is all an act. That's the point. It's like a movie. It doesn't have to be real.

[ResonantOrder]

From what I recall of Mr. Manson's largely questionable autobiography, Trent and Jeordie were very good friends during the recording of Antichrist Superstar. However, due to the timing of his joining the band I'd say the album was mostly written by the time he joined.

Still, I'm always happy to see the (in my opinion) most talented member of Marilyn Manson off and doing things with the man (Trent) who made Antichrist Superstar the best (in my opinion) Marilyn Manson album.

Still, I can't imagine it would be easy to stay sober around Twiggy...

From what I understood, Reznor picked this band because of the sobriety of the members. Jeordie's been clean for a while now-hence his exit from manson.

I was hoping Reznor would give in and let go of the more corporate aspects of nin, but it looks now like that will never happen. The song may not be that great, but it blows the hell out of everything on radio. If I was forced to listen to radio, this is what I'd want to hear.

As far as the 'fake emotion' goes, Ogre has even admitted that the new skinny puppy is 'entertainment'.

[Lawnmower Of The Damned]

Well, in a recent interview by german music mag "Sonic Seducer" Reznor had this to say about radio friendliness:

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It has now been five years: in fall of 1999 the last work by NIN appeared. The double album "Fragile" was an enticing milestone in the history of rock, just like its predecessor, the 1994 masterwork "The downward spiral." Note: fans of the ingenious Trent Reznor have always had to work on their patience. But now (one can hardly believe it), the dry spell is coming to an end, for on May 8 the legendary master will release a new studio album: it will be called "With Teeth" and will present thirteen new treasures of the high school of industrial songwriting. At the very least, one can confidently assume that – unfortunately I am not yet perfectly certain, since the record company has initially chosen to release only a five track cassette as a sneak preview. But the tape is enough, even if Trent himself, as you'll read, does not really approve of this approach. And this small annoyance shouldn't prevent a first conversation with the industrial wizard. And so I had him on the line—from which he disappeared during my first few questions. Technical difficulties. One has to be patient...

A few minutes later, he's back, and I politely repeat my statement, which of course was about those five tracks. Whereupon Trent Reznor got a little annoyed and expressed his astonishment that the whole album wasn't available; and he asked for the track listing. "Whoever made this song selection did not, in my eyes, necessarily have the best idea. First of all, I find it annoying, that only five of thirteen pieces are presented, because we're talking about an album, that should be seen as a whole. On top of that, these five titles represent the radio-friendly Top Five, which do not contain all of my personal favorites. In other words: you haven't heard the best stuff."

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In 1999 The Fragile came out, and it was a bit of a flop in terms of sales. The album was brilliant in my eyes, but the general public just didn't get it. Obviously the majority of people buying NIN albums are going to be buying based on radio singles, and if the singles aren't accessable enough then Reznor could end up with another brilliant album that won't sell.

If album sales get too poor then NIN will simply be dumped by the label and we won't get any more albums. If I have to put up with 2 or 3 pop-ish songs to get 10 great songs then so be it. Don't judge the new album based on the singles. Trent himself said that the singles are not representative of the best work on the album.