Trent Reznor DIGG Interview
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- caspar_v0
& back on topic - it's worth checking out the video about the NIN iphone app too:
http://blog.wired.com/underwire/…
quite something when you see it fully in action in that video.
- caspar_v0
yeah, he did do heroin for the record. i was at the show that got canclled in london because he'd OD'd. also listen to 'love is not enough' on his 'sober album' with_teeth. it's all about needles & veins, no question. also the title track uses metaphors commonly associated with heroin, not so much coke.
- Jnr_Madison0
Via twitter from himself:
"Stumbled across a personal fave I haven't heard for a while.
http://blip.fm/trent_reznor "- far & away one of my all time favourite nails tracks. i remember buying the TDTWWA single & listening to this track over & over. must have been 1998/9. ah, good times.caspar_v
- ukit0
I get a kick out of this tune, it sounds almost like Human League or something
- SoulFly0
I just called Trent, he said to tell you guys he's not a junkie.
- BonSeff0
i am an old school fan and dropped off - dont keep up with his releases, i think the last one was with teeth, before that was broken or fixed.. but what i really enjoyed was is take on innovation, and how marketing completely fucks it up and rules the game. his best example was the segment about the video game pitch. and then also about live concerts and his thoughts about charging and what not.. fuck man. he gets it. its all about the experience of a live show. you cant emulate that online.. at all. only at a show can you feel the music, and see the artist's chops put to the fire to perform. i really did dig that exchange.
- airey0
hey, anyone else like the fragile? it was my favourite things too but seems to cop the most negativity for being pompous and over produced? if any double cd deserved that then surely that fucking 'melancholy ' smashing pumpkins thing deserves that. i mean i loved both cds of the fragile but a lot of double-releases can be filed under quantity over substance.
- i get paid $10 for every time i write the word 'that' apparently...airey
- fragile probably could have been better as a single album. but that stuff was the peak of his artform.emukid
- the fragile is fucking brilliantscarabin_net
- morilla0
I also like how he has set standards for himself. Like when he is talking about working with Maynard. Expecting anything coming from those 2 to be a "10". And if it is not, it won't be released.
- emukid0
at the risk of being flogged and other kinds of sexual torture, i think the best NIN album was the Fragile. and my second favorite NIN album is The Slip.
- BonSeff0
i enjoyed that
- ukit0
It is cool that he is exploring new ways to release stuff but honestly his earlier work for the labels was much more interesting and creative than the Year Zero album.
- moveinspace0
Nice link scarabin. Pretty good interview.
- airey0
i don't agree. it's just it's worth pointing out that the rise in his creativity has been out of the ashes of recovery.
it's an important thing to note, especially in a creative realm. if i had a dollar for every 'creative' - be it music, design, artist - that has said you need drugs to push the creative envelope i'd be rich.
i know 2 people that became heroin users due to a fascination with burroughs and cobain (this was around '93) and that isn't as unique a sad story as you'd think.
i think reznor is a great role model for creativity and positive living. it doesn't need to be 'straight-edge' (a la minor threat) but certainly the argument of drugs and creative endevour is less and less there thanks christ.
the thing is that heroin seems to be labelled as the 'junkie' drug whereas coke is more accepted as just an addicition. personally i think you're a junkie either way. i'd read in quite a few places and interviews that reznor had overdosed from heroin in london. that's important as if you can kick heroin and then become a better person than you were before it's a good example for anyone else on the gear. makes a change from a few people i know that kicked it that complain that no high is ever as good.
just my 2 cents.
- ETM0
Its painful seeing how quickly QBN threads deteriorate, not oven past teh first page. Reznor touches on some interesting and relevant topics and it becomes an argument on what drug he was addicted to and a few youtube vids.
*hangs head- I tried bringing it back around. Oh well.morilla
- i'm just happy there aren't any lolcats yetscarabin_net
- i am sorry i didn't live up to your expectationsemukid
- as a dealer, drugs interest me. and it bothers me when people confuse their shitemukid
- kinda like when people say all designers are retards. i bet that is offensive to you folkemukid
- morilla0
I would be a little intimidated interviewing him. Same goes for Maynard.