Official Nine Inch Nails Thread

Dean · Jul 31, 2008

I was listening to El-P's last album again earlier. Trent's vocal on Flyentology is pretty king. Just thought I'd say.

minuteforce · Jul 31, 2008

That interview was ... informative. Ha. Now, even I don't know whether I'm being sarcastic there or not.

Rachel · Aug 3, 2008

HOLY FUCK VIDEOS ARE UP.

AND I CAN POST PICTURES WHEN I GO FRIDAY BECAUSE THEY ARE ALLOWING CAMERAS.

FUCK YES.

enjoy the beauty that is THE GREATER GOOD:

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this makes me excited for friday!

minuteforce · Aug 5, 2008

Wait, they actually bother playing that song live? Well, it's alright, but it's easily my least favourite song on the album.

Harlz · Aug 5, 2008

Yeah it'd hardly be on my list of songs I'd want in the setlist.

Rachel · Aug 6, 2008

the_chemist said: ↑

Wait, they actually bother playing that song live? Well, it's alright, but it's easily my least favourite song on the album.
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I'm more OMG-ing at the screen.

esaul17 · Aug 6, 2008

Just back from seeing in them in Toronto. Brilliant show, awesome visual display.

Rachel · Aug 8, 2008

OH GODDAMNIT.

8.08.2008: Worcester show postponed
We regret to announce that due to illness, the Worcester show originally scheduled for Friday, August 8th at the DCU Center has been postponed. The band is sincerely sorry for the last minute announcement, but unfortunately Trent's recurring throat ailment has left him unable to perform.

We are currently working to confirm a rescheduled date. Please hold on to your tickets, as they will be honored on the new date. Watch nin.com for updates, we will post information about the rescheduled date as soon as it is confirmed.

Thank you very much for your understanding.
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good thing is, figuring out the dates...

the only other postponed show right now is Minneapolis for the 25th of November. 26th they will be travelling. 27th is Thanksgiving. 28th...Worcester?

THAT WOULD MEAN A NIN CONCERT ON ANOTHER FRIDAY AND ON MY MOTHERFUCKING 18TH BIRTHDAY TO TOP IT OFF.

FUCK YES.

$pvcxGhxztCasey · Aug 9, 2008

Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails has been in talks in with HBO about making a two-season maxi-series out of "Year Zero," the dark future tale that Reznor has chronicled in his music as well as in a celebrated Alternate Reality Game (ARG) with the same title that was created by 42 Entertainment.

"It's the most exciting thing on the horizon, it's the thing that when I wake up in the morning it makes me say, 'God it would be cool if that happened," Reznor told me this week while sitting backstage before a Nails concert in Toronto. "This is my grand ambition. Will it happen? I don't know. It was fun sitting and telling [the HBO] guys and watching them shake their head and having writers on board and producers that are in to it. It's been a fun thing."

"Year Zero" began (as so many things do in the music of NIN) from a place of negative emotion and sonic experimentation. Reznor was increasingly outraged by the geopolitical situation during the Bush years and he wanted to channel that fury into music, but he was loath to drift into the limiting lexicon of protest lyrics.

"How could I express what I was feeling in a way that didn't sound like bitching about George Bush? I mean, you know, I love Neil Young but I didn't want to listen to that record, really," he said, referring to the singer-songwriter's "Living with War." "My reaction to that kind of record is, 'We know this. It's obvious.'"

"So it started with me trying to write it as a piece of fiction. I was thinking, 'It could be the worst idea ever in the world but, if it doesn't work, it doesn't have to come out.' I started by writing a kind of world bible about what life would be like around 15 or 20 years from now if things continue on the same path. I spent a few weeks filling it in with the events that could lead to this kind of time and place. Then as an experiment I started writing songs about people in this place and from different points of view."

The problem was the music was compelling and powerful, but it was more about sensation than story.

"I had a record that would make sense to me but no one else would ever know what it was because there was no narrative. It's modular, its a collection of snapshots. These were glimpses of a place. Maybe with liner notes I could communicate some of it, but how do you get liner notes in 2007?"

He considered a graphic novel. "That was the route we were going to go with initially. We talked to a different companies about releasing it. But it didn't feel quite right. We thought about a film, but that has a different timetable and too many people need to say yes. That wouldn't line up right. then I started thinking about how I could make it really interactive, something you experience rather than something you read."

Reznor remembered reading about 42 Entertainment and their deeply layered ARG for the Steven Spielberg film "A.I." He met with them and the result was a truly amazing through-the-looking-glass creation on-line, shaped by the 42 team working closely with the rock star and his art director, Rob Sheridan. "It's ahrd to explain it," Reznor said, and he's right. But the best way to get your head around it is through the nifty (and entertaining) case-study presentation that you can find here.

Reznor was delighted with the result. "It was probably the most fun thing I've done." Now he wants to finish the story he started and do it across a range of media.

"I just pitched it to HBO two weeks ago in L.A. It went great. Ideally, we're trying to get them to do a two-year limited series. I prefer that over a film. We would have a second ARG tying into the second album and ties into the series and they all happen together with a budget needed to pull that all off. There would be a tour down the road. The record completes the story, the ending that no one knows. I know what happens. I knew when I started it. And it's not what people think. "

-- Geoff Boucher
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http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/herocomplex/2008/08/trent-reznor.html

Do. Want.

Rachel · Aug 9, 2008

Doctor Manhattan said: ↑

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/herocomplex/2008/08/trent-reznor.html

Do. Want.
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This news has cheered me up immensely.

Since Trent has promised the people of Worcester MA that he "owes us", perhaps the hints of ARG # 2 shall begin?

Since he knew from the get go what is going to happen, perhaps he got the story line together and just needs to make the actual music. And since he can pump out a record in relatively a month now, who knows.

ARG IN WORCESTER?!

Hopeful thinking, yes. But goddamn, I am happy that I have HBO.

minuteforce · Aug 9, 2008

Oh, sh*t! It might be really happening!

Harlz · Aug 9, 2008

Oh God yes... Please!

Rachel · Aug 15, 2008

The new nin.com forums launch today, courtesy of Rob Sheridan.

rob_sheridan said:

Hello everyone, it's Rob from nin.com. With everything that's been going on, the process of upgrading the official site has taken far longer than we'd hoped, but the good news is our developers are about ready to launch a public beta of the first wave of new features for nin.com. Since we're launching a new public community, I wanted to get the information out to this forum in addition to The Spiral. I'll be posting the URLs for the public beta in this thread as soon as they're ready. In the meantime, here's a brief introduction to what's going to be happening with the site:

What you'll have access to shortly are the first pieces of a very ambitious vision of nin.com that is going to take a while to come together, but will ultimately be incredibly cool. Here's some info:

PROFILES: Your new nin.com profile is a customizable page with a modular design, allowing us to easily add new profile features as nin.com grows. Aside from the usual editable information and photo, your profile can currently display remixes you've contributed and rated at remix.nin.com, and will eventually display photos, videos, blog posts, which shows you've attended or plan to attend, and a lot more.

FORUMS: We're starting a brand new forum from scratch - a public forum, unlike the private Spiral boards. It ties in seamlessly with your profiles and the rest of nin.com, unlike the clunky double-login at The Spiral. We've stripped the forum of almost everything except basic functionality, so it's a nice clean environment for discussion - I'm sure we'll eventually add some more bells and whistles as the community grows, but for now we're going to keep it simple and see how it goes.

CHAT: Our developers have set up an IRC server that can be accessed through any IRC client of your choice, or through a great Flash frontend that displays profiles and avatars from nin.com. The server is locked to nin.com's user database, assuring a unified community with the rest of the site, and also assuring that if a band member decides to drop in there, you'll know it's them.

This is all just the beginning. The next phase of the site is an expanded tour database which will allow you to post photos and videos for specific shows, past and present, which can be tagged and rated by the community. You'll be able to see which other users attended past shows, or are planning to attend future shows. Eventually everything around the site will begin to be united with tags and wiki entries, using a non-linear database that lets you have an experience like this one: You click on a past tour date. Amidst photos, videos, and reviews for that show, you also see a set list and other wiki information. You click on Terrible Lie in the set list. You then see wiki information for Terrible Lie, including lyrics and release notes, and you can also see every show that Terrible Lie was ever performed at, and every video of Terrible Lie live that's been contributed to the site. From there you could browse every forum post that mentioned Terrible Lie, or see all the remixes of Terrible Lie from the remix site. That's just an example, and it's a long way off, but you get the idea.

All of this is going to be achieved through aggregation of data from pre-existing services, like Flickr and YouTube. When we launch the photo section, you'll associate your nin.com account with your Flickr account (we'll probably have support for other photo services, as well). Then, if you took photos at a specific show, check that show's unique ID on nin.com and tag all your Flickr photos with that unique ID. Those photos will then show up in nin.com's tour database, posted by your nin.com username. Although hosted by Flickr, the photos will be displayed in nin.com's shell, and will be separately rated, tagged, and commented by the nin.com community. Videos and blog entries will work more or less the same way. This allows us work seamlessly with popular services you probably already use, and to display an unlimited amount of content on nin.com without the nightmare of huge bandwidth costs or developing proprietary technologies. In the end, we're envisioning the ultimate resource for Nine Inch Nails media and information on the internet - most of it created, organized, and rated by the fan community. This is of course a monumental task for our small team of developers, so you're going to see the site develop bit by bit over time - but each upgrade will bring a host of new features to play with.

One more thing: We need some new moderators for both chat and the forums. If you're interested, send me a PM with some information about yourself, your nin.com username, and whether you're interested in forums or chat. If there is someone you think would make a great moderator, nominate them by PMing me their username on this board, and why you think they'd be great. We're looking for responsible, mature, fair individuals who want to help keep the new community organized, peaceful, and running smoothly.

Watch this thread for the link to the beta forums once they're open! Also, please keep this information contained within this community and The Spiral for now - as in, don't quote this on your blogs or other sites. We want to keep the beta launch at least somewhat contained until we get all the bugs worked out. Thanks!
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thread is here

Rachel · Aug 16, 2008

and we're up with the beta!

if you have a spiral or remix.nin.com account, you can go log in already

Dean · Sep 5, 2008

I hear Boris are touring with them. That's pretty awesome.

dragon ninja · Sep 5, 2008

Oh shite, really? That's CRAZY. I just heard 'Pink' a couple weeks ago in a record store and bought it on a whim, then listened to it all the way on the road trip to St. Louis to see NIN. WOW.

Dean · Sep 5, 2008

http://forum.nin.com/bb/read.php?18,23994#msg-23994

dragon ninja · Sep 6, 2008

Cool. Except I was planning on seeing them again in Council Bluffs on Nov 26, and that date is missing. Uh oh. I hope it's Boris on that date.

Edit/ Ah they edited the tour page. I'll be seeing Boris. AWESOME.

$pvcxGhxztCasey · Sep 6, 2008

holy shit.

Dean · Sep 6, 2008

Next time NIN tour here they ought to bring Boris then as well.

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