Even Deeper-thevoid99's Look at NIN # 2
Dec 03 '01
The Bottom Line Trent Reznor talks to Alternative Press about the future, Tapeworm, the DVD, Radiohead, and 'Nsync.
As of November 6, 2001, I declared myself as the Unofficial Nine Inch Nails (NIN) Spokesman for Epinions.com. This column will be focused solely on recent big news on NIN and its leader Trent Reznor. As being one of the more well-known music critics at Epinions.com and a devoted NIN fan, I decide to write a column that will focus on recent news and the current status of NIN. This and more upcoming columns on this band will be told from a true NIN fan’s point of view. This is not a column that is praising neither Reznor nor his band but more of a response to his upcoming plans for the future.
Signed,
Steven Flores aka thevoid99
Even Deeper, thevoid99’s Look at NIN # 2: Reznor talks to Alternative Press and Reveals Little About The Future.
In my last column, I revealed an upcoming story about Trent Reznor’s interview with Alternative Press talking about his future. When I picked the issue last week, what I found out was he revealed very little than what he revealed a month earlier to MTV News. What he talked about besides his future is the status of his NIN side project Tapeworm, the band Radiohead, his upcoming live DVD, and his recent attendance to a ‘Nsync show earlier this year in his home of New Orleans. Usually, Reznor’s interviews with Alternative Press always made the cover story (he’s been on the cover a record eight times so far including this issue) and are a huge piece whenever he talks about something big. This time however as the leading figure in the 2002 Most Anticipated Albums list, he doesn’t make a big deal about his upcoming future or his new album (which I think will be released in 2003).
In the start of his interview with Jason Pettigrew, Reznor talks about his upcoming DVD (release date: January 22, 2002) and the technological innovations he put into making the DVD with Official NIN Website webmaster/director Rob Sheridan. Using digital cameras and Apple I-Mac computers for editing, Reznor and Sheridan wanted to give NIN fans who hadn’t been to the Fragility v 2.0 U.S. Tour (including myself in which I’m still kicking myself in the *ss for that) a chance to feel like they went to the concert along with digital surround sound. Pettigrew also thanked Reznor for omitting the song “Down In It” from the live album and DVD and Reznor was like “Wait, you didn’t get the right version of that”. Reznor omitted that song because it didn’t mean anything to him anymore since he wrote that song at 21 in early 1987. I think it was a smart move for Reznor since that song has been played dozens of times and I have that song on a couple of live bootlegs.
As the interview continues, Pettigrew talked to Reznor saying, “You don’t seem like the kind of person who would be at an arena concert unless you were the attraction” and Reznor said. “Incorrect”. Reznor revealed to Pettigrew by saying “Why, not long ago, you could have seen me enjoying the sights and sounds of ‘Nsync at the Superdome in New Orleans”. My first response was “No!!!!! Damn you, Damn you Trent! You’ve f*cking lost it” but I hadn’t finished reading the interview and found out is opinion at the concert while Pettigrew asked if he got a hummer from Britney Spears. He said the show was boring because of its overblown production and how he compared it to bad Rob Zombie concert since it was theatrical and had no point at all. I think the reason he went to that concert was because he took his niece and nephew to the show since his niece is probably a ‘Nsync fan.
Pettigrew then asked about an earlier NIN documentary titled “Closure”, released in late 1997, as an end of a chapter in NIN’s history and the new live album/DVD Reznor said is an end to another chapter in the NIN history book. Reznor also talked about maturing as an artist and trying to find new things not for himself as an artist but other things on his personal life. Another subject Reznor talked about was the band Radiohead who released two albums that were both uncommercially accessible to the record-buying public and yet, both albums went to the top spots on the charts and sold well. Reznor praised Radiohead and their label Capitol Records for taking that chance to sell uncommercial records and the fact that Capitol Records supported Radiohead for taking a bold chance to the recording industry. Reznor said that was in large contrast to “The Fragile” in which after a couple of weeks on the charts where it went from a debut spot at # 1 to dropping fast to # 13 and so on, Interscope Records bailed on Reznor and focused on artists that are likely to move units rather than taking chances.
Reznor also talked the new music he was making but he also said he wasn’t sure if the new music will be his next direction so the “Still” disc from the upcoming deluxe version of “And All That Could Have Been” live album might not be his next move. Then there was the subject of the NIN side-project Tapeworm. Since 1996, Reznor and NIN band mates Danny Lohner and Charlie Clouser started the side-project with various singers like Pantera’s Phil Alselmo, former Helmet singer/guitarist Page Hamilton, and Tool/A Perfect Circle frontman Maynard James Keenan. The project, again, was delayed because Reznor had been working on the DVD while Clouser did a touring stint as a keyboardist for Alec Empire of Atari Teenage Riot and Danny Lohner did remix work with Telefon Tel Aviv. At the end of the interview, Reznor is happy about making music again and being in a clearheaded level so he can do it right again.
The issue also featured a review of the new live album by Jason Pettigrew where he compared the album to such live records as Ministry’s “In Case You Didn’t Feel Like Showing Up” live EP, and the new Radiohead live EP “I Might Be Wrong”. Unfortunately, the version Pettigrew reviewed didn’t feature the “Still” disc, which I don’t think he received so there was nothing revealed about the music of “Still”. While NIN is in the top of the 2002 list, Alternative Press also included a list of upcoming albums from artists like AFI, Bouncing Souls, David Bowie, Marilyn Manson, ICP, Chemical Brothers, A Perfect Circle, Dandy Warhols, Beck, Weezer, Queens of the Stone Age, and THE WORST BAND IN THE WORLD L___ B_____. There was also a list like every issue of Alternative Press in recent years that are the 10 Essential Albums. For this issue, it’s the 10 Essential Albums… To Leave Off Your Shopping List this year. So as I close this second edition of Even Deeper, I will return with the column next month to talk about the third chapter in NIN’s history. In the meantime, here are the 10 Essential Albums To Leave Off Your Shopping List:
1. Anything by Anthrax
2. Mariah Carey-Glitter
3. The Cult-Beyond Good & Evil
4. Daft Punk-Alive 1997
5. Jamiroquai-A Funk Odyssey
6. Nickelback-Silver Side Up
7. No One-self titled
8. Barbara Streisand-Christmas Memories
9. Billy Bob Thorton-Private Radio
10. Tricky-Blowback.
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