With you with The Grateful Dead, but against you with Kate Bush. I remember watching her on SNL and thinking, “Wow!” She’s like a singing performance artist (in a good way 
). I still listen to her and she floats me back to my carefree college days.
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First album was brilliant. Loved the whole exploration of control as a concept.
Second album perfected this. A classic.
Third album, it’s really getting a little stale. Maybe find a new theme to play with?
Fourth album: Are you even trying any more?
Fifth album: You know, there are some really good therapists that might be able to help you.
Albums 6-8: smh. Get some help, Trent. People are worried about you.
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Not sure what number would apply, but I absolutely loved Ghosts. As far as NIN goes, Broken is my guilty pleasure— best lil’ charge of industrial-pop songcraft released in the 90s, in my 'pinion.
And then there’s Hesitation Marks, which inexplicably includes gems like ‘Satellite’ amidst trainwrecks like ‘Everything’ and skip-the-sleep-meds-boring dreck like the aptly titled ‘Disappointed’.
No, I haven’t heard that one. I read a while back that there was an instrumental album, so maybe that’s the one. Only one of theirs I have is “Fixed”, the Broken remixes.
That leaves me conflicted, because industrial music was my first musical love, but I find most pop to be unbearably manipulative and grating. And by “industrial”, I mean what people now refer to as “noise”, such as TG, SPK, IoS, Merzbow, etc (what I grew up with). The closest thing to industrial-pop I enjoy is probably Foetus, but even then, only when I am in a certain mood.
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What a terrible song.
Perhaps the only decent song on that album is One After 909 - perhaps because that’s the only one where they seem to be having any fun. Get Back is ok too despite Paul’s folksy American sounding delivery. I find the title track to be horribly overrated with the main redeeming part being Billy Preston’s keyboard work.
The less said about Phil Spector’s treatment of the material, the better.
I remember watching the Let it Be documentary and George was trying to show his ideas for I Me Mine (another pretty bad song) and John and Paul were basically like “yeah whatever that’s nice” and blew him off. The whole album just reeks of “let’s just get this shit over with”.
As I said before at least they managed to set aside their substantial egos and follow up Let it Be with a real classic album in Abbey Road.
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Actually, between Liz Phair and Liza Loeb, I’d go for Lisa Loeb… But I’m a fan of folky stuff anyways.
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I love Kate Bush and don’t like the Dead much, so only half a pitchfork here!
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I really like Pretty Hate Machine and The Downward Spiral is not a bad album, I don’t think.
I went to an early tour of NIN 2nd album maybe? It was so long ago now. They put on a good show. I lucked out and scored a free floor ticket (yay being friends with a radio DJ, he had normal seats with his girl so I got his up front ticket), Anyway I went mostly to see Jim Rose as that was the opening act and Front 242 was supposed to be an opener as well but bailed. It was fun to be the only one not getting grossed out by Jim Rose and friends and I was sad Mr. Lifto was not allowed to do his full act, stupid prudish midwest.
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A friend of mine went to see some industrial band in the early 90s (maybe it was Skinny Puppy) and NIN opened up for them (this was way before he get big) and she said they destroyed their instruments within like 3 or 4 songs! When I saw NIN, it was when he was on tour with David Bowie… he didn’t destroy anything.
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He’s a good a instrumentalist.
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Lol. Lately I’ve been listening to both top 40 and Tuvan throat singing. Where does that put me?
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Lemmy isn’t as important - or as good - as David Bowie.
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(1+ ∞)/2 : )
eta: Rainer von Vielen combines pop, hip hop, electronica and throat singing - he’s at the same time level 1 and level ∞. He calls the style “bastard pop”.
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If Lemmy was so tough - how come he’s dead?!?
Lemmy doesn’t deserve an element named after him.
For f#@k’s same - no musician deserves an element named after then. What about Mandela, or Hawking, first?
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It stinks that this is what it took for Bowie to stop putting out albums.
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I’m not quite sure what you mean there. I’m sorry that he’s gone, but I’m glad it took death to stop him putting out albums. I mean, I don’t love his new music, but it’s worthwhile happening.
