Roughly a year after Year Zero -- a year marked by lots of sniping with his record company first about their clueless promotion then devolving into a tirade about their general uselessness -- Trent Reznor broke free of Interscope/Universal and became a free agent, releasing music where and when he wanted. To celebrate his freedom he released the four-part Ghosts, a clearinghouse of 36 instrumentals all created during the years he crafted Year Zero. It should come as no great surprise that Ghosts then plays like a sketchbook, a place where Reznor jotted down sounds and textures that flitted across his mind and then either took them no further, or decided to spin them into something entirely new for the full album. These aren't songs, they're seeds, and they (appropriately) aren't even graced with titles; they're all dubbed "Ghosts," parts one through 36, and if Reznor didn't spend enough time crafting them into proper songs, don't feel too bad if you don't spend enough time with Ghosts to sort through them, picking out which fragments are powered by a clenched electro beat and which are glassy ambient shards. Even fanatics might be hard-pressed to give Ghosts such a careful listen as it's simply not meant to be so closely observed. It's meant to be taken as surface, perhaps skimmed for samples, but generally to be used as mildly unsettling mood music -- a specialty of Reznor's, to be sure, but he's better and scarier when his ideas are more finely honed than they are here.
October is the month when I sometimes put on ghost parties, inviting a group of friends together for an evening of ghost stories. Candles flicker inside grinning pumpkins. In a dark corner, a hooded ghoul sits propped in a chair. Some of the stories are macabre and disturbing, others melancholy and filled with pathos. Nine Inch Nails has recorded a set of instrumental "ghost stories" titled Gho...
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Artist: Nine Inch NailsAlbum: Ghosts I-IVClick here to downloaddownload 1 Ghosts I mp3download 2 Ghosts I mp3download 3 Ghosts I mp3download 4 Ghosts I mp3download 5 Ghosts I mp3download 6 Ghosts I mp3download 7 Ghosts I mp3download 8 Ghosts I mp3download 9 Ghosts I mp3download 10 Ghosts II mp3download 11 Ghosts II mp3download 12 Ghosts II mp3download 13 Ghosts II mp3download 14 Ghosts II mp3do...
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So, it's here if you want to read it, but I don't recommend it.http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/49274-ghosts-i-ivNot that I care whether he recommends the actual album or not... And not that the album was even the subject of most of the review. By discussing the album's distribution model and his own base hang-ups Tom manages to distract from whatever valid opinion he might ...
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Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor recently hailed their group's upcoming tour as possibly one of the best ever. Reznor exalted his group, or this version of Nine Inch Nails,in a blog drenched in much praise and enthusiasm for his comrades. Excerpts from the group's official web site below:"I am proud to announce the final personnel lineup of NINE INCH NAILS for the foreseeable future. We've...
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Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor has criticised the unconventional release of Radiohead’s album ??In Rainbows??, leveling claims of insincerity on the part of the Britsh mega-stars.Reznor said in an interview with ABC: "What they (Radiohead) did was a cool thing. But if you look at what they did, though, it was very much a bait and switch to get you to pay for a MySpace-quality stream. The.
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Today NIN confirmed summer tour dates in North America which kicks off their world tour in July. According to their press release, Trent Reznor, Alessandro Cortini and Josh Freese are joined by Robin Finck and new addition Rich Fownes. They'll be performing material from the recently released Ghosts I-IV plus music from the entire NIN catalogue.Trent Reznor:http://www.youtube.com/user/ninoffi...
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Photo by Christoper Chan Only a few more days now until 2008 draws to a close. This year my old faithfully mp3 player died, I had to swallow my pride and use an iPod after dissin' it for years, I saw what will likely be the best concert of my life, continued raving about Trent like the NIN fanboy I am, discovered Nerdcore, spent even less time working thanks to thesixtyone.As a year-end wrap u...
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Not all of us were lucky enough to join Mr. Suarez at Webster Hall this past Sunday to watch Nine Inch Nails perform The Downward Spiral in its entirety as part of their farewell tour (Which I don’t really believe is a farewell tour anymore than the countless Ozzy or Rolling Stones farewell tours were [...]
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Speaking of Chris Cornell’s epic fail…You may remember that Trent Reznor took a shot at Cornell over Twitter last month. Not content to leave “Fuck You” enough alone, Reznor has now launched what is pretty much the funniest, if not most convincing, April Fool’s prank of the year, offering an alleged download of a new [...]
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*sniff sniff* what's that smell? no, it's not the decaying corpse of bret michaels (can someone please take out the trash?), it's the fetid stench of the riaa slowly rotting from the inside out and topside down. thank you, trent, for not only being fucking hott and stirring my sick, twisted, b/d fantasies, but for flying the "fuck you" flag high over the crumbling ivory towers of Big Music.
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Randomly through the weirdworld blog (of all places) I found out that Nine Inch Nails has a new album! I don't know how I didn't hear of it until now. I've purchased the digital version (for $5) and I'm currently reloading my inbox every 5 seconds until the download link shows up. You have no idea how excited I am. I've been looking forward to more instrumental music from NIN since falling ...
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This is unbelievable!The NIN Hotline: Ultra-Deluxe Edition Sold OutAll 2500 ultra-deluxe editions of Ghosts (at $300 a pop)have sold out. That's $750,000 worth of profit in less than a week (not including CD or digital download sales) for an album that Trent secretly released without telling anyone.I would say this makes for a pretty good argument for his 'alternative distribution' method.
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From leftsetz.comYou might think Massive Attack is a band, but to me it's when you get listed at DIGG and netizens from all over the globe start hitting your server, trying to access the vaunted information, and your server slows to a crawl and then crashes.Turns out there's a solution. You've got to tweak the software on your machine. But when this happened to me, I had no idea what was goin...
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Ghosts I-IV is a two hour collection instrumentals divided into 4 volumes -- the first of which is available for free here: http://ghosts.nin.com/main/order_optionsNIN instrumentals. Not much else needs to be said, it's a given that they're probably gonna be sweet - and they are. All the sounds are typical of NIN. Except one, the guitar sound in track 5... this surfer/western/spy (clean w/ chor...
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From Zeropaid.comEMI may just be the record label that pulls the music industry kicking and screaming into the 21st century. After being acquired by private equity from Terra Firma in the middle of last year it was quick to slash jobs and cut costs associated with the old physical media distribution model. It then subsequently questioned not only the practice of suing its own customers, but in ...
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Nine Inch Nails released the "Pay What You Want" Ghosts I-IV digital EP quietly, without mainstream press or an ad campaign. But word got out and spread quickly. The album was uploaded to NIN.com on March 2nd with the option to download or order physical copies. By March 5th, all 2500 copies of the "Ultra-Deluxe" edition were completely sold out (despite the $300 price tag!) According to a ...
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October is the month when I sometimes put on ghost parties, inviting a group of friends together for an evening of ghost stories. Candles flicker inside grinning pumpkins. In a dark corner, a hooded ghoul sits propped in a chair. Some of the stories are macabre and disturbing, others melancholy and filled with pathos. Nine Inch Nails has recorded a set of instrumental "ghost stories" titled Gho...
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So, it's here if you want to read it, but I don't recommend it.http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/49274-ghosts-i-ivNot that I care whether he recommends the actual album or not... And not that the album was even the subject of most of the review. By discussing the album's distribution model and his own base hang-ups Tom manages to distract from whatever valid opinion he might ...
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| 28 28 Ghosts IV |
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