When David Lynch teams up with Nine Inch Nails, it’s crazy clown time in disturb-o-rama.
Check it out and let us know what you think!
NOTE: This video has been identified by Epilepsy Action to potentially trigger seizures for people with photosensitive epilepsy. Also, an alien mutant-baby shows up. Viewer discretion is advised.
it’s a bit too shaky.. but the track is still holding up… how about a slo-mo version of the video.
Indeed. There are interesting images, but the constant assault of flickering is just annoying and does not support the music. I’ll listen to the song again, but have no interest in subjecting myself to the video again.
Nice, very eraserhead, good return to form.
I am highly offended by alien mutant-babies. Luckily the seizure I had prevented me from seeing it.
I miss skinny pissed off at the world Trent Reznor. Every artist has their right to reinvent themselves, but this sounds like a mix of How to Destroy Angles and the last NIN album mashed up. Just not the edge musically and the “say what we all feel” type of lyrics from earlier works.
horribly boring
I’d say “I like your old stuff better than your new stuff” but your new stuff sound too much like your old stuff!
And that video is boring!
Come on Trent, you can do better than this!
How does this sound like his old stuff? How does this sound like Pretty Hate Machine? Or Broken? Or The Downward Spiral?
Come on, that track sounds like it has been pulled straight from “Pretty Hate Machine”!
Sure sounds like it came from “Pretty Hate Machine” to me as well, I wonder what everyone else was listening too.
Sounds nothing like anything on PHM, even the remastered edition.
Meh.
Thought it was Quintin Terantino for a minute there.
Unpopular opinion warning!
I love the ‘new’ NIN sound. There are elements of every era and most importantly it’s immediately identifiable as nine inch nails and nothing else. I played this track for a 50 year old producer I know and within 20 seconds he said “someone is trying really hard to rip off nine inch nails”. In a way he’s right, if you think about it.
Also, I really hope T-Rez continues releasing multi-track packs, because I really want to see how this one was built.
Actually, I’ve heard a lot of people share that opinion. The unpopular opinion would probably be closer to my opinion that he lost all of his talent long ago and now he is just trying to show off his vintage analog instruments.
Did you also like Trent Reznor when that was the unpopular opinion? That may be a clue to why his earlier works resonate so much with you…
Saying an artist “should” sound a certain way is ridiculous. Listen to it. Do you like it? If not, move on. If you just want to re-live your teen-aged glory days go listen to PHM. I think this is a very modern approach to the NIN sound. A whole new audience of kids is going to love it. All of you old guys forget that there is a young audience with the same needs you had at their age for angsty, yet danceable music. Plus how long is a person supposed to be mad at the world….? It’s probably pretty hard to stay angry all the time with all that money and fame.
I’m not a huge NIN fan… I don’t buy all of his releases… I’ve never seen him live…. But I respect his right to make his music sound the way he wants it to.
I don’t care what you guys say, this song is well produced (again, the Soundcloud version destroys it) and it has a great hook. If you want to listen to angry industrial music, go listen to some of my favorites like Combichrist, Suicide Commando, KMFDM, Front Line Assembly, etc.
And everyone seems to be basing their opinion of what the album might sound like based on one track. Yeah, that’s fair! I’m not a NIN fanboy, but I do own some CDs–Broken, The Downward Spiral/Further Down the Spiral, The Fragile, a few of the CD5s, plus I own the video box set. I downloaded The Slip when it was offered for free, and I listened to Year Zero out of the library.
I’ve never been to a NIN concert, although I tried to see the Pretty Hate Machine tour when he was touring clubs, and I was only 18, and they required you to be 21.
Don’t want to burst your little bubble there, but you sound exactly like fanboy to me!
Nope, definitely not a fanboy. If so, I’d own all the albums regardless of how I felt about them, plus the How to Destroy Angels stuff which I’m lukewarm on. I’ve hated most of what I’ve heard of Ghosts I-IV. I wasn’t a big fan of The Fragile, and I didn’t like With Teeth. Like I said, I’ve never been to a show, which I’m sure is great, but I’m not into paying arena fees to see any band, except for U2, which I once saw for $60. I don’t have a NIN tattoo, bumper sticker, or t-shirt.
If there is an electronic industrial/EBM/synthpop act that I will gladly admit to being a fanboy of, it’s Europe’s VNV Nation. I firmly believe that the light does shine out of singer/songwriter Ronan Harris’s rather large ass, and I’ve seen the touring band six times.
Nothing new, but I don’t mind more of the same because I like his sound. Did anybody notice the similarities with ‘The hand that feeds’? If you’re familiar with the song, trying singing the lyrics over the more melodic parts.
this whole thread is a pretty hate machine.
rough crowd
No kidding… Synthtopia is starting to feel like YouTube…. at least as far as the comments section goes.
Well, at least people can spell, and aren’t seriously insulting each other on here that much–yet. Are people sometimes mean, and hard to please? Yes, some are. There are definitely lines in the sand that have been drawn, with little compromise i.e. The die-hard analog guys vs. the iPad crowd.
I agree that there is definitely a lack of intelligence and/or sophistication amongst many YouTube posters. This is a problem of not just YouTube, but many sites who have comments sections. There are so many people (probably kids) who jump to use homophobic slurs to insult each other. And many comment sections on various media sites have a lot of closeted racists.
What if I’m simply tired of songs that talk about being haunted, angry, messed-up and/or considering my facial skin as a potential lampshade? Music is part of how I get AWAY from that crap. Trent and his various collaborators are great sound designers, but songs about going mad in various ways leave me about as cold as “Get Lucky,” heh heh. How about a little more music that’s somewhere BETWEEN those extreme poles? Why does any band have to have just ONE sound, anyway? Cancer of the marketing gland, probably.
I think it was Teddy Pendergrass who said singers who used too much vibrato didn’t have enough confidence in the strength of their own voices. Its only IMO, but sparse dance beats and distorto musics both seem as if they’re trying to obscure their lacks. I’m not into NIN because I prefer not have my face yelled in, but I’m still going to follow what they do with Adrian Belew onboard for a tour. My restlessness doesn’t change the fact that NIN has good chops and Adrian will up everyone’s game.
The great thing about anything NIN does from now on will benefit and suffer from PHM. I’m just happy Trent keeps making music for all of us to critique. The brutal honesty is just simply that everyone here that has made a comment combined could only hope to achieve something even close to the career they have had. Frankly mine or your opinion really does not factor in to NIN’s decision in any of their creative process. PHM was loved and hated by critics when it came out. And as far as ‘screaming in my face’, it sounded better than my parents at the time so I was and am still all about it.
Who knows, maybe the next album will blow away PHM and then all the critics will be left standing with their cocks in their hands;)
This video is better than the first video. But the song hasn’t got any better. And what’s with the gasmask child fairy? Lynch is losing it.
I would have never guessed that a forum for people interested in synths and whatnot would be so incredibly critical and judgmental of someone who was consistently worked with them for the last 25 years. Am I the only one that doesn’t put the “theme” or lyrical content at the forefront? I’m listening for interesting sounds and compositions. And what’s with all of the personality dissection? Synth-Pop-Trent vs. Angry Trent vs. Post-Rehab-Muscle-Neck-Trent vs. Brian-Eno-Trent etc…etc…etc… Who gives a shit?
Honest question here…
What exactly would make you guys happy? Another TDS? Another Broken? Another PHM?
Something completely and utterly unrecognizable as NIN?
I’m guessing the answer for some of you would be simply aptly “nothing”.
hey stay cool…
just wait for the album to come out to judge
In my opinion, this is one of the better tracks he’s made in quite some time.
Isn’t David Lynch the crazy head that tries to turn everybody into meditating monkey-milking zombie-cows? aka Transcendental Meditation…
The Monkey-Milking Zombie-Cows? Now THERE’S a band.
How about Emerson, Lake & Sasquatch?
there’s never been anything genuine with NIN, it’s a a try-hard “i’m unhappy” hollywood version of soft cell, depeche mode, throbbing gristle and brian eno. the arranging and microscopically detailed production was great though, can’t deny that. but I wonder what my life would have been without listening to it as a teenager… probably better.