Reznor didn't interact with the audience much – probably because all of the visuals – but the show was still amazing.

People evolve and change, and life goes on. If Trent was still in the same place he was when writing “God is dead”, then he would be too.

Go see them perform live. I’ve seen some of the big names, and NIN at the Brixton Academy was the best. The performance was solidly NIN, the stage show was brilliant, with clear sound and stunning lights, and the mix of the new and old material flowed fantastically.

echoplex isn’t as good, but still a good song.

and the third and final track i heard from the nin.com website, letting you… well… that was quite bad.

Artists need to stop kissing the butts of music industry executives that just want to be deep throated first and sue the downloaders second because he thinks he deserved another $200,000 car in his driveway.

I’m dowloading the album now. I have no high hopes for enjoyment, but the viral marketing this created should be the new business model artists need to look towards for future revenue streams.

Trent’s album ‘Year Zero’ points you in a nice direction of where this album is headed idealogically much in the same way ‘The Slip’ reflects the previous ‘Ghosts’ album. He is experimenting…afterall this is Halo 27. He only has about 7 or 8 offical releases. The others…like this one, are likely just experiments. This one he happen to just give away.

Personally, I like the direction Trent Reznor is headed. If you have any doubts…perhaps look up the internet movie ‘Zeitgheist’ on youtube. http://youtube.com/results?search_query=zeitgeist
If you can’t find it there…because it is always being removed, go to google video.

This album is more than just music…it is a battle hymn.

Peace

Now, back on topic : The Slip. Yes, TDS was probably a better album. But this is basically the third album coming out in the last 14 months. If Reznor would take another 5 years to work on an album, like he did when making the Fragile, then maybe it would be less flawed. And sure, quality over quantity, but honestly, I don’t think Reznor is still working in order to please his audience. He’s making his music, and he’s having a great time while doing so (Ghosts I-IV is a recorded jam session, a curiosity in the NIN Genre as Reznor said himself – and well, The Slip, it’s FREE !!!!)

This isn’t about a die-hard fanbase, or people sucking up. It’s about the artist, and he’s having fun, and playing around, and sharing the outcome with us. And I’m sure he really doesn’t give a rats ass if you people like it or not.

Some of the last album ghosts was very nice but this is almost 99% crap and probably the worst album I’ve ever heard.

No its not that Im some fan boy , its just the song writing / lyrics are crap and its sound like the rest is just filled in to make up for it..

Discipline is prob 7 / 10

but the rest 2- 3 / 10

This album sounds more like a fuck you than thank you to fans

Year Zero was available to download completely for free, but I went out and bought it anyway because I had to get the feeling of With Teeth out of my ears, and I guess I also wanted to support my favorite artist and hold the tangible album in my hands.

It was great, and what made that album even better was that it was a concept album and inspired a lot of people out there to play that weird alternate reality website maze, searching for secret clues and figuring out this big conspiracy. It inspired so many people out there to get the AIR logo tattoo’ed on their arms, to fill Deviantart with fanart, to get people out there to really percieve the world as an alternate reality.

There should be another one of those. Year Zero told a great story and Capital G was so goofy and bouncy that it’s great to listen to with friends. Year Zero ended on a cliffhanger, so we all thought there was going to be a sequel or a prequel to it. Everyone isn’t really feeling so hot for 2 hours of instrumental odyssey or twelve random songs put together. We want Year Zero again. That was the album that let everyone know NIN still cared about something, had a pulse, had opinions, felt something, made you want to get off the couch and actually try to fix yourself. It was motivational, it had a strong message.

So please, Trent Reznor, for the children, make Year 0ne.

How on earth did you manage to make it all the way through an album review without a single comment on the lyrics? Do you imagine that artists just open up a dictionary, dump out some random words into a vocal track and call it a day?

Oh, wait, I forgot… coherent meaning in entertainment is “so last-decade”… we don’t care about that any more, right?

As for the rest of you yahoos…

Huri: He’s never disappointed me, either.

joss: word.

Irh, arjiana, alex O’Connor, jewishjake, Sad State, Metatron, jose, raovq, steve, and Vincent: I’m sorry you suffer from terminally poor taste. Hate to be the one to have to break it to you, but… okay, no I’m not.

Politics Apocalypse: You’re a shameless sucker of Satan’s c0×0r. Do that elsewhere — preferably behind closed doors.

Will, Jackie, tien, Kaej, zac, Zeric, A-ZBuckeye, Jonathan, and ombor: nice to know I’m not the only one paying attention!

Anon: you make probably the most damning point against the nay-sayers here. Trent does have the last laugh. And that gives you the last word.

(and on another note — I can’t believe people are bitching about getting a FREE record. how about some gratitude?)

For the record I don’t hate NIN. Like I said, The Fragile and The Downward Spiral are truly great albums. Bands do grow old and tire out and run out of ideas musically. Yes what Trent is doing to change the landscape of the current music listening model is innovative, but the music seems to have suffered as a result of Trent being too preoccupied with trying to challenge the industry.

PS – I wonder if trent released and album of random fart loops, how many NIN fans would hail it as an ‘artistic master-piece’.

Well, I just want to say this: I bought Zeitgeist by Smashing Pumpkins, and then I found The Slip and downloaded it. The Slip reminded me more of In Rainbows, which I thought Radiohead did a great job on. Especially considering that it was free to download as well (although I did pay about $24.00 for it).

The thing I noticed very quickly is that MUSIC THAT DOESN’T SUCK is being given away for free. Meanwhile, the formerly good bands are now putting out awful music and expecting you to pay for it.

So, to reiterate: If you see good music out there, snap it up… Chances are, it will stand up to repeated plays and possibly become integrated into the background of your daily life. By contrast: if you see an album that costs 14.99… RUN!!! More likely than not, it will suck out loud, you will feel cheated, and you’ll never trust the concept of paying for music again, which means that you probably won’t even give my albums the once-over. Due to the bad rap DRM and traditional music business models, I have to ROT in a CONVENIENCE STORE every damn day of my life instead of getting paid to do what I love, which is making music and being compensated for my creativity.

To that end, it’s probably too late for me. That said, I wish the rest of you luck (or the closest thing to it), and urge you to make music for the artistic value of it, and NOT THE MONEY.

Thanks,

Pram Maven