God is an American
Criterion is releasing 4K UHD versions of Gregg Araki's "teen apocalypse trilogy" including The Doom Generation, which has NIN on the soundtrack. Check out the pack shot, there's a lyric from "Terrible Lie" prominently displayed on the back of the disc holder:
https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/75...alypse-trilogy
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this person should not feel stupid when none of us have noticed this. i love it.
https://www.reddit.com/r/nin/s/KB5S9xJpSD
Just tickles my balls!
Holy crap… scroll down further to the person noticing it also resembles the AIR flag, and the “stars” match up…Originally Posted by sweeterthan
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I don't know if this has been spotted yet, a short documentary "Fight Like Hell" uses a handful of songs from Ghosts: V
what a bunch of morons.
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Not sure if this was posted previous, if so I missed it. In the new 'Beetlejuice Beetlejuice', there's a scene with Jenny Ortega in the attic of a boy and they're listening to vinyl. 'Broken' is on full display at the front of the stack.
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New Xiu Xiu record (which is fantastic) was inspired by a lot of the production choices from The Downward Spiral.
John Congleton mixed the album. He’s a record producer, mix engineer, a good friend of mine, and someone I’ve learned a lot from about music from a technical and philosophical standpoint. A couple years ago, I was doing a short course about experimental music for Atlas Obscura. For part of the course, I was interviewing different musicians. I was interviewing John and asked him which records particularly inspired him. One of them was Nine Inch Nails’ Downward Spiral. I asked him what he loved about it, and he said it seemed like every musical decision was iconoclastic. It is such a weird record and completely baffling to me how it became a Top 40 record. There’s some jams on there but a lot of it’s super brutal, pure noise, and the subject is pretty hideous and unforgiving. It’s constantly unrooting scriptures.
The idea of iconoclasm and musical ideas wasn’t something I’d really thought of until John mentioned it. Being consciously fearless about unraveling something aesthetic almost ruins it. It becomes nonspontaneous and then accidentally institutionalized because you have decided, “I am the coolest kid on the block because I have destroyed this idea”. But at the same time, being afraid to destroy ideas completely ruins the possibility of doing something bold enough to be meaningful.
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That particular lyric is a Charlie Manson quote. Not sure if TR was deliberately referencing Manson
God is an American
Not quite a quote, but possibly a paraphrase (the original lyric in CM's song "Eyes of a Dreamer" was: "is the world as sad as it seems?"), but it very well could have been a deliberate reference.
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Yes, this is AI generated, but this is pretty damn funny and kind of catchy too.
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also could be taken from Throbbing Gristle track The Old Man Smiled https://genius.com/Throbbing-gristle...-smiled-lyrics
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