Holy balls, this is next-level. This is something I can use to cheer myself up when I'm sad or angry. I could not stop laughing each time the "Pussygrinder" chorus came in.
Holy balls, this is next-level. This is something I can use to cheer myself up when I'm sad or angry. I could not stop laughing each time the "Pussygrinder" chorus came in.
Not only has this have to be the best pay off to a joke ever, but the album actually kind of rocks! I'd like to think Trent did this, but it doesn't matter. Bravo to whoever took the time to do this!
Black T-Shirt. Wow.
The way the lyrics were isolated to fit each song title is amazing. That opening line of "Pussygrinder."
The intro skit can be used as opener for the shows and would fit perfectly. just play it and imagine a full arena, lights out and a lot of crazy people...
The only thing that, to me, says this isn't TR is the way they mashed up words to create the song titles in there. Some of them are a stretch, and it's probably the only part of the whole thing that didn't need to be there. It's definitely a fun listen. Outro using Flyentology was pretty unexpected and great. I think one of my favorite tracks is Feel Like Being Dead Again, if you had never heard those songs, you'd never know it wasn't supposed to be that way.
So I finally sat and listened to the entire album tonight and I am surprised at how well some of these songs actually work. Even though a part of me sees some of these mashups as pure blasphemy, I do want to thank whomever is responsible for the amusing hour of my life that I will never get back. Honestly though, great gag and I'm sure T and A got a few chuckles out of seeing their joke take on a whole new life.
Had a movie and drinks night at a friend's the other night. Topic of new Rammstein video and album came up, we watched Deutschland. Conversation veered to NIN. Slyly put on Pussygrinder.
Watching the faces around me move from uncertainty to confusion to outright laughter and applause, as well as mortified begs for it to stop from a huge fan who absolutely loves NIN and needs to be able to take it seriously was wonderful, to say the least.
I'm kind of alarmed at how well The Big Come Down and Burn work so well together. I really hope Trent's cool with this.
Well, you're welcome.
Obviously, although I used every trick possible to keep things secret, while reaching a certain level of audio quality (remixing, arranging, production tricks...) and even suggest this idea could be linked to NIN, I can tell now this album is "fan made".
I wonder if TR and AR got to listen to it. If Sheryl Crow was able to hear it,
The publicity part of it (involving mailings to media, creating an email account and then a Twitter account, a PR job in the end) was almost as fun as producing and mixing the mashup themselves, even though I thought the impact would be a bit wider than the NIN fanbase which was very enthusiastic, as expected.
That's exactly the kind of reaction I love to hear about, I wish I could witness it myself.
That track might be my favourite of all even if the vocoded vocals are the ones which worked the least among all. Even Jay-Z rapping/stuttering "Everybody's doing it" works better.
Last edited by seed9; 04-10-2019 at 04:37 PM.
While I can't post a link per site rules (copyright material), a certain non-torrent download site specializing in new album releases has Strobe Light featured in it's Electronic section.
So it's time for revelations, it was me all along.
Kudos, dude. I have just about all of your mashup albums, not just the NIN themed ones, so i'm pretty familiar with your style, heh.
holy fuck this is just fun ;D
As someone asked me the details for each mashup, here's a list, I don't think I forgot anything.
All the "original" vocal bits ("Strobe Light" from the intro skit, plus song titles) were obtained through a special vocoder effect applied over my own vocal takes recorded in a friend's studio. Coincidentally, that friend worked with Justin Timberlake's Say Something video as a sound engineer about a year ago, he's very talented and I just robbed him from about two hours of his precious time during a last minute vocals recording session -- the first one I made being on that side of the microphone --.
Anyway here are the rest of the details for each track : I
01 Intro Skit
02 Everybody's Doing ItCode:instrumental : Puff Daddy - Victory (NIN remix instrumental) spoken bits : Trent Reznor himself, Nardwuar, Eminem, Howard Stern, Richard Patrick, Jonathan Davis, more or less known people mentioning NIN on YouTube and podcasts (I failed to find David Bowie mentioning NIN, whereas I spent hours listening to interviews of him from the 90s)
Code:instrumental : The Day The World Went Away (instrumental versions, Deviations and Quiet) acapellas : NIN - Beside you in Time, U2 - Beautiful Day, Jay-Z - Takeover (cut up of lyrics from the same song), Coldplay - Fix You
03 Black T-Shirt
Code:instrumental : Into the Void acapella + synth : Terrible Lie
04 Pussygrinder
Code:instrumental : Head like a Hole acapellas : Echoplex & Sheryl Crow - All I Wanna Do
05 Coffin on The Dancefloor
Code:instrumental : The Hand That Feeds acapellas : Discipline, Survivalism & All the Love in the World
06 This Rhythm Is Infected
Code:instrumental : Wish acapella : March of the Pigs
07 Slide To The Dark Side
Code:instrumental : The Big Comedown acapellas : Burn & Meet your Master
08 Even Closer
Code:instrumental : Even Deeper acapellas : Closer, Even Deeper, Lights in the Sky, Justin Timberlake - Pair of Wings, Tool - Schism, Parabola & Vicarious
09 On The List (She's Not)
Code:instrumental : Reptile acapella : Love is not Enough
10 Clap Trap Crack Slap
Code:instrumental : Only with "Acid Dance" drums remodeled acapellas : Head Down, The Warning, My Violent Heart samples : Sanctified, Fetty Wap - Trap Queen, old cartoons soundbanks
11 Laid, Paid and Played
Code:instrumental : Starfuckers acapellas : Every Day is Exactly the Same, Ministry - TV II, Black Eyed Peas - I Gotta Feeling & Pump it
12 Feel Like Being Dead Again
Code:instrumental : Dead Souls (Joy Division cover) acapella : Sanctified
13 Still Hurts
Code:instrumental : Hurt acapellas : How to Destroy Angels - Strings and Attractors, Alicia Keys and Jack White - Another Way to Die
14 Outro Skit
Code:instrumental : El-P - Flyentology acapellas : You Know What You Are
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I'm surprised the "I'm gonna go make withdrawal" part from the deep video didn't make an appearance in one of the skits
it runs even ... "CLOSER!"
Just finally listened to this. Previously thought it was just a dickroll title.
Gotta say it’s a helluva mashup! Really enjoy it
I livestreamed the whole album on YouTube for its first birthday.