In addition to this, has there ever been any more discussion via official sources about the album cover? Why the red line sort of glitches once it reaches the head on the cover?
https://www.nin.wiki/The_Slip
The stuff Rob mentions is very interesting in the artwork section (I think I added that there a while ago).
Also, did anyone from the camp ever mention why Letting You has the ARG flag? Was it a track originally intended for YZ?
^ Cheers!
I wouldn’t want Trent to be my dad and yell at me if I accidentally deleted a key part of a new song:
Hard to believe Sin is in the top 10 most played live songs as of right now. It feels like a rarity when it’s played!
Sorry for the triple post, but this just came to my head like 10 seconds ago while I was trying to fall asleep.
@piggy - you know how The Frail has the same piano coda/melody whatever as The Fragile? Am I slow or has this been pointed out before? -
The Frail
The Fra(g)il(e)
Intentional?
Top 20 may be cool for someone like Nickelback or Nirvana (*crowd gasps), but since there are something like 200 unique songs played live, it'd be cool to get a top 50 view of this same data. First reactions:
- Amazing to me that BMWAG was the #4 TDS track for the first ~88 TDS era shows. I wish I got to see one of them.
- Funny to watch DII fall off a cliff after TF. Yeet!
- Seeing TL and Sin droop hurts my soul. Starting a show with them back to back is the stuff of dreams. Please bring them back!
Do they cite how they've compiled the data? I presume NINtourHISTORY is still active & @Cameo's HIH page has some great research.
I'm hoping we get a larger tour of North America later this year or next year. I'd like to see NIN live one more time, at least, having missed out since Hesitation Marks.
I was in a basic music introduction class that I was taking for a credit in college and we started discussing leitmotifs and I was like, "so that's what Trent was doing on The Fragile!"
I wonder if Aphex Twin got the “bbm-bbm-dsh” idea of At The Heart Of It All from the Closer the video, with the heart making that same “dsh” sound each time it beats?
My understanding is that Aphex Twin didn't actually remix the tracks he did on FDTS, but sent original tracks instead since he wasn't a big fan.
It is quite a rarity when it's played now. It got a big boost on the front end from being played at practically every show through 2000. Happiness in Heresy has some good visualization of the songs being played over the years:
https://happinessinheresy.com/songs-...t-played-live/
^ That’s pretty cool.
Any petty grievances about songs anyone has? For me, no matter how hard I try, I still struggle to hear the word “chipping” in Last.
Also, I like how on the album version of With Teeth (title track) Trent went with the (slightly altered line so it didn’t match the song title) of “the lines begin to blur”. But all live versions I’ve heard have him say “the line begins to blur”.
/rant
I’m on a roll…
Has TR ever made it apparent why he tends to favour “Reptile” as a song to do with other artists? Bowie, Numan, Murphy…
no idea, but my guess would be that it shows off vocals really well and its somewhat slow paced which both are quite common in all of those people’s music
OMG, I think I was hearing "slipping" twice as well. That's crazy!
Given the pandemic and how depressed everyone has been by it, TR should totally open the first show of 2022 with Everything into Deep just to fuck with us.
I was watching the edited performance of Happiness In Slavery from Woodstock, the one that was dubbed/remixed because I was trying to find a performance to show someone and I get why it was remixed or whatever they did but fuck me the video editing bugs me. The lack of continuity between edits like one shot of Trent suddenly having a guitar then the next cut it’s gone just irk me so much.
I wonder why TR decided just to call Physical Physical and dropped the (You’re So) from the original track name?
Morrissey did a similar thing with “Some Say (I Got Devil)” and his version is just “Some Say I Got Devil”.
I’ve often wondered why artists do that.