blackbyrd2: Over at nin.com, there is a free downloa

Blackbyrd (

blackbyrd2) wrote,
@ 2008-05-08 18:02:00

Over at nin.com, there is a free download of NIN's new album The Slip.
Having downloaded and listened to it, (it being my very first NIN album,) I think it is now safe to say what we've all suspected for years, but which he has adamantly denied.

Jason is a hippy.

That's right, you stoner. NIN is obviously the new generation's heir to Pink Floyd, with music best listened to after a bowlful. Over a third of this new album is obvious psychedelica, and the remaining bit is every bit in line with some of PF's better rock tunes, with a new era edge to it.
One of the psychedelic tracks, Corona Radiata, even evokes the original intro music for Welcome to the Machine with it's haunting, throbbing subbeat and whispered voices.

While I enjoyed the album, it's clear that this type of music could easily obtain cult status among the stoner crowd. Hence, Jason is clearly a stoner. Or he ought to be. And it's a small step from stoner to filthy hippy. :P

(I'm going to feel extremely silly if this has actually been the case all this time, and Jason's various denigrating references to filthy hippies has all been ironic self-deprecation.)

If you don't know who Jason is, you won't get the joke, so you can just ignore this.

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	ajollypyruvate 2008-05-09 01:23 am UTC (link)
	It all makes so much sense now! (Reply to this)(Thread)

	blackbyrd2 2008-05-09 01:42 am UTC (link)
	We only slander the ones we love, you know. ;) (Reply to this)(Parent)

	faux_pseudo 2008-05-09 01:29 am UTC (link)
	This stuff is mildly psychedelic compared to some of the remixes of the earlier stuff. Fixed (halo 6) is loaded with stuff that can get you high. (Reply to this)

	thewrongcrowd 2008-05-09 01:50 am UTC (link)
	You would also probably like Year Zero, NIN's last before The Slip, which was said to be some of his more accessible music since The Downward Spiral. I'm by no means a music critic, but I see Reznor as being equally descended from Hendrix. But then, what do I know, I'm a dirty hippie. ;) (Reply to this)

	nolawitch 2008-05-09 01:53 am UTC (link)
	NIN is always better to listen to when high. I could listen to Pretty Hate Machine four or five times if I had enough ganga. Yeah, you right about Jason, man. Who else but a hippy would wear that goofy-assed hat? (Reply to this)

nin_man
2008-05-09 10:10 am UTC (link)

You take that back! I don't reek of patchouli, I can't play the guitar, I don't have any sort of facial hair, I have a job, and I think John Lennon was a great big ol' loser. That's right, I said it, and no hippy could ever say that without bursting into tie-dyed flames!

Okay, so maybe I smoked three or four tons of the good stuff back in high school, but does that make me a stoner, or just a guy taking advantage of freely offered refreshment? And maaaaaybe a lot of NIN was listened to back then, perhaps by me, perhaps by someone else who happened to be in the room. But what does that prove? Nothing, that's what, it's all circumstantial evidence and you can't convict me of hippydom on such shaky grounds. And even if - even IF - we all agreed that nothing enhanced the experience quite like throwing NIN's sixth release, 'Fixed', on repeat, does that make me a hippy? Hell no! We weren't in anyone's basement, for starters, and we weren't using headphones, and it was totally on CD and hippies only listen to their music on vinyl. And if anyone was wearing anything made from hemp, it was probably because it was cheap and affordable, which is really important to high school students.

Did I ever protest something? Yeah, sure, who hasn't? But it wasn't anything like protesting a war, because that is the domain of hippies, even if it did take the form of a sit-in, but that doesn't make me a hippy either. No way, if there had been a large enough crowd of them, I would have protested hippies for sure! So I can't be one. Nyah.

I actually haven't listened to the whole album yet. I downloaded it the day it came out, and I've only heard Discipline, and that on the radio. I'm hoping it's better than Year Zero was. The one before this, Ghosts, is partially available for free on the website and it's about as different from what I've heard of this one as you can get, but it's still very, very good. If you want something to listen to while enhanced, I would think Ghosts is your better choice. But I wouldn't know about that because I am not a got-damn hippy.

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	blackbyrd2 2008-05-09 12:52 pm UTC (link)
	Well, color me silly. O_o (Reply to this)(Parent)

	I respectfully disagree about your facial hair comment nin_wife 2008-05-14 02:23 pm UTC (link)
	I've seen the pictures of you in high school and there was definitely a moustache. You are lucky I saw the pictures after the knot was tied... shivers Come to think of it, you were rocking a fuzzy growth this past weekend at Darlington. Hmmmmm... (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	Re: I respectfully disagree about your facial hair comment nin_man 2008-05-14 02:24 pm UTC (link)
	YOU SAID YOU WOULD NEVER TELL ANYONE ABOUT THAT! (Reply to this)(Parent)

Respectfully disagree:

cdennismoore
2008-05-09 11:20 am UTC (link)

"NIN is obviously the new generation's heir to Pink Floyd, with music best listened to after a bowlful."

I'm about the most anti-pot person you can find, and I love NIN. Although I do think the new album is a bit lame in comparison to previous ones.

Reznor's become the poster-child for the angry, disgruntled youth, but after a while it becomes schtick and we're starting to wonder, "You're rich and famous and damn near a legend by now--what do you have to be pissed off about?"

Last year's YEAR ZERO was an amazing and welcome departure and hopefully he continues to explore the false limits of music. I know a lot of people were disappointed in GHOSTS I-IV, but at least it wasn't the same old same old.

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Re: Respectfully disagree:

blackbyrd2
2008-05-09 10:55 pm UTC (link)

You're never going to get anywhere being all respectful and shit. ;)

I would never seriously pigeonhole a band from a single album, especially one with such a huge catalog. Having said that, there is a lot of psychedelica involved in this album.

Pink Floyd is also eminently listenable without pot, but I had to make the joke. There's close to a decade of history with Jason. It's a tradition of sorts to pick on him for something.
After all, we don't want him to feel neglected. :D

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	drderanged 2008-05-09 07:38 pm UTC (link)
	See... you need to put that last line/disclaimer at the TOP of the post. ;) (Reply to this)(Thread)

	blackbyrd2 2008-05-09 10:48 pm UTC (link)
	Well, I DID want to point people at the free music, too. :) (Reply to this)(Parent)

	He hates hippies? naruki_oni 2008-05-11 10:10 am UTC (link)
	Shit, I thought he was one, and I've met him. Took me a solid week of showers to get rid of the stink. (Reply to this)

	nin_wife 2008-05-14 02:19 pm UTC (link)
	He got me listening to the stuff and I am a tree-hugging environmentalist. Hmmm, maybe now I see the connection. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	blackbyrd2 2008-05-14 04:45 pm UTC (link)
	See? See?? Damned hippy. (Reply to this)(Parent)

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