van HellSing on 5/3/2008 at 14:42
Didn't know about that. I do know however that SAW vol 2 is one of Reznor's favourite albums.
Jason Moyer on 5/3/2008 at 19:43
I think SAW2 is one of everyone's favorite albums. :D
SubJeff on 5/3/2008 at 21:43
Word
N'Al on 5/3/2008 at 22:31
Well, I went ahead and bought it.
Downloaded the tracks and have listened to most of them now. This is definitely TR's Selected Ambient Works 2, i.e. pretty damn good, but not the kind of music you'd stick on at a dinner party, that's for sure.
scumble on 12/3/2008 at 10:20
Conversely, dinner party music probably isn't that interesting...
I think I've run through it two or three times now, and I reckon these are the highlights for me, though I can happily listen through the whole thing.
3 (album gets into gear), 7 (guitar mangling over crunchy beat), 9 (chilled graceful piano), 11 (string orchestra eaten by machine), 13 (peaceful, soothing), 14 (robot rhythm section plays with drunk guitarists), 16 (computer with robotic hands kidnaps Eddie van Halen), 17, 24 (stop chasing me), 28 (quiet banjo), 29 (funk bassist broke the piano), 31 (mental distorted bitcrushed almost-parody of heavy metal), 32 (hypnotic), 35
Overall it's pleasing to see such a lot of variety on an album. Perhaps the most interesting work I've listened to for a while.
Marecki on 12/3/2008 at 18:56
I finally found time to carefully listen to Ghosts I yesterday and to be honest, I don't like it any more than I like all other NIN tracks I've listened to so far, which is not much. Even so, I am definitely going to buy the basic full version - I don't think we cannot afford Reznor's attempt at sticking it to labels prove unsuccessful... * goes to look for his online credit card *
doctorfrog on 14/3/2008 at 15:18
A quickie while I'm at work:
Trent Reznor compares his offering to Radiohead's in an interview.
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http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080313-reznor-says-radiohead-offering-insincere-industry-inept.html)
Quote:
Reznor is referring to Radiohead's release of "In Rainbows" as lossy 160kbps (max) MP3 downloads, which many would argue are sub-par when compared to DRM-free offerings from Amazon and iTunes Store (both of which offer 256kbps DRM-free music). Furthermore, Radiohead's album is also no longer offered as a digital download, as the band openly stated that they were still going to rely on traditional labels and distribution channels for the rest of In Rainbows' sales.
I think NIN deserves a good deal of credit for really putting thought into their offering. The $5 package offers lossy and lossless versions, all complete with appropriate mp3 tags, and each track has its own album art pre-set, plus wallpapers and other stuff. Total class act for a digital distro.
I like both groups about the same, so I'm not picking favorites, but NIN appears to have upped the ante.
Also, the Ghosts album comes across as a Whitman's sampler to me so far. All good stuff, but pretty short and without a lot of staying power. But then, I've been into 6 minute minimum ambient snore tracks lately.
scumble on 14/3/2008 at 15:52
Shortness isn't necessarily a bad thing. It's almost like a set of variations on a style. I am a person who likes instrumental music and detail in the production, so it appeals to me more than a lot of popular music which is heavily reliant on words for variation, or standard song structures for the usual form.
piano-sam on 18/3/2008 at 00:23
check out Things Falling Apart or Everything Falls Apart, or whatever. It's the sixteenth cd he released and so it says "Halo 16" on it in small letters in the back usually. It's a lot of percussion, and techno stuff, but with piano keyboard, and violin tossed in with a lot of complexity ("layers", i've come to call it).
I got my hands on Ghosts. I'ts alright. I only listening to it once, and with With Teeth I had to listen to it ~3 times to appreciate it fully. Just put it in for round 2. Certainly worth the 10 dollars, or whatever, but I've spoiled myself with piracy. I'll send him 10 dollars in the mail or something.
