After 4-5 listens, I'm starting to love Saul's album. The complexity in which it was designed is very cool, and Saul's poetry and delivery are top notch. It's definitely an album that grows on you. "Banged And Blown Through", "Skin Of A Drum", "WTF!", "Convict Colony", "Raised To Be Lowered", "No One Ever Does" and the cover of "Sunday Bloody Sunday" are all magnificent. I can't help but notice how similar Saul's vocals are to Trent's in "Banged And Blown Through". Trent must be doing back-up vocals.
I was thinking that very same thing. But for the whole album. There are hints of Trent-influence (from now on, called NINfluence hehe) in Saul's delivery of vocals.
quoted for great justice. hes probably waiting for the multitracks for great destroyer to come out on the dvd or digital download. i think we're all waiting for those. oh and btw. Y34RZ3R0R3M1X3D has leaked.
Okay, here we go again. The lowpoints on Y34RZ3R0R3M1X3D were few and far between, but I'd have to say the remixes that let me down the most were Survivalism, Vessel, and Me, I'm Not. I like the Survivalism remix, but the problem I have with it is that we heard it when the song came out as a single. Vessel sounded too much like the album version, I found, and Me, I'm Not never built up to anything in the 14 minutes that it ran. My personal favorites on this album would have to be Gunshots By Computer, The Great Destroyer, My Violent Heart, Another Version Of The Truth, In This Twilight, and Zero-Sum.
Quoted for extreme justice. I was disappointed to see the Tardusted remix of Survivalism. I was expecting something new! The Pirate Robot Midget version of My Violent Heart makes me smile in how funky it is. The Great Destroyer sounds so sad, very self-loathing. I like that spin on it. Another Version of the Truth scared the bejesus out of me when I first heard it. I like Ladytron's Beginning of the End, especially how it ends like Closer. I found that amusing. The Faint's Meet Your Master is pretty rad. All in all, its pretty decent. I'm going to buy it for the multitracks, but otherwise, I'm content with my illegal download.
So I finally was able to listen to my Year Zero CD in an actually decent car stereo, and I fell in love with the CD again.
lol yeah that tends to happen. oh man. now im going to be bored unless SHAPER MAKES MORE FUCKING REMIXES. *pout*
The "Me I'm Not" remix is very bad. Other than that, it's a really great remix album. Fave remix? The Great Destroyer. I love what Alessandro did with it.
I love it lol. The remix album is shit, I hate the entire thing besides The Great Destroyer, which owns. All the other stuff sucks complete ass IMO and I think Year Zero is a masterpiece
HYPERPOWER! is amazing, but I don't like Saul all over it. I'm not really a fan of these remixes at all honestly I was kinda let down. But anyway, so this is Year Zero part 2? Or will there be another CD? I hope NIN tours the USA sometime with that CD since they missed it entirely except Hawaii for this Year Zero.
Year Zero 2 is being worked on as we speak. Now, see, I'm surprised so many people like the TGD remix, I think that its amazing, but I'm open to weird changes as a Music Major in school. Otherwise, I would have found that odd. Anywho, Amazon had 30 second samples up of the album, so you could have heard it before you downloaded it, so you weren't let down or anything.
Year Zero II is supposed to be out sometime in 2008. Adrian Belew of King Crimson fame (as well as working on previous NIN albums, The Downward Spiral and The Fragile) posted in his blog today that Reznor called him and asked him to work on new Nine Inch Nails music with him. Also, according to CX KiDTRONiK (friend of Saul Williams and Trent Reznor), NIN and Williams are supposed to tour together in 2008. Including the USA. As for Year Zero Remixed... meh. Gunshots By Computer, The Great Destroyer, In This Twilight and Meet Your Master are the only ones I'm crazy about. Zero-Sum is THE Nine Inch Nails song to me, so for it to be on this remix album (and butchered, IMO) is a goddamn shame.
The Great Destroyer remix is great. And it's a real destroyer. In fact it is a great distroyer of all other remixes in the world.
please tell me you're joking. Madina Lake should NEVER have covered March of the Pigs. lets compare that video to the actual: [youtube]bCjpyPqwXNA[/youtube] let's take into consideration that i give all the credit in the world to the drummer in ML. i could never drum MOTP. HOWEVER. Madina Lake's vocalist is too weird for the song. His screams are too high pitched which just makes it sound plain ole stupid. Not to mention that weird attempt at a vibrato which would totally not go with the song anyways. I'd rather listen to Flyleaf's cover of "Something I Can Never Have" than listen to ML's cover of MOTP. However, even though everyone on ETS thinks the LP version of Wish sucks, I like it :]
That's not really fair though. That is a professional recording, the other was from some kids cellphone in a moshpit. I thought Nathan's vocals fit well personally. EDIT: Also, you don't have to recreate the original song for a cover to be good...