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i’ve always felt sort of indifferent towards The Cure and never really bothered to check them out. but after listening to Trent’s speech, i figured i’d check out “The Head On the Door” and “Pornography” and uhhh yeah, i love them both.

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This could probably use it’s own gothic thread but ah well

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Oh, okay. I thought this was the NIN thread, and for the longest time I was staring at this, thinking, what am I looking at and why? But yeah, this is goofy.

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Between Captain Marvel and this business, guess Trent’s in that stage of pop culture integration.

I wonder what the kids think of NIN, anyway. Right now the act’s as old as… what was hep in 1959, anyway? Elvis? When did Buddy Holly’s plane crash?

Ah, in 1959. Well, okay then.

Elvis debuted nationally in 1956, looks like. Holly (with the Crickets): 1957.

So, like. This stuff seemed positively ancient, like from another era of the world, when I was in school. But it’s comparable to the release of PHM. Of course, the media landscape was different then.

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some of my students like NIN but generally the stuff that was most popular, ie Downward Spiral, PHM etc. if they’re aware of it at all, that is.

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So more like the British Invasion.

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I guess I should count it lucky it took this long to reach this kind of nerd culture point.

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Good gravy. That’s, uh. So I guess that’s from Black Mirror, then?

EDIT: Yes. Okay.

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And there’s more.

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I was searching through a thrift store and picked this up for a laugh, and put it in my car’s cd player much to the dismay of my companion

it’s even worse than you probably imagined. it’s by an australian band who also released a silverchair parody under the name silverpram (a joke which won’t make sense outside of australia, i think)

turns out it had a music video but i didn’t post it because of the constant shots of animal butts

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This was frickin’ everywhere in the late '90s. It seemed to fill NIN sections in record shops like so much spam mail, even sometimes being inexplicably shrink-wrapped to a more desirable release, like Fixed or Closer to God.

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The Quake throughline reaches 2000s nostalgia.

THE SCORE WILL BE AVAILABLE IN THREE UNIQUE VOLUMES, RELEASED AT STRATEGIC TIMES OVER THE ROLLOUT OF THE SERIES. THE ONLY PHYSICAL MEDIA WILL BE 180G VINYL.

CREATED IN COLLABORATION WITH THE SHOW’S WRITERS, EACH LP FEATURES THE SCORE FROM ACADEMY AWARD WINNERS TRENT REZNOR AND ATTICUS ROSS, AS WELL AS ARTWORK AND PACKAGING EXCLUSIVE TO THIS VINYL RELEASE THAT EXPLORES THE CULTURE OF WATCHMEN AMERICA AND PROVIDES REVEALING INSIGHTS INTO THE SAGA’S MYTHOLOGY AND MYSTERIES.

VOLUME 1 IS AVAILABLE 11/4
VOLUME 2 IS AVAILABLE 11/25
VOLUME 3 IS AVAILABLE 12/16

VINYL PRE-ORDERS ARE AVAILABLE NOW.

DIGITAL AND WIDER IN-STORE VINYL RELEASE FOR EACH VOLUME WILL BE AVAILABLE SHORTLY AFTER THE ABOVE DATES.

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Apparently someone (likely Reznor himself, knowing how these things go) took the time to back up all the content of remix.nin.com to archive.org before the site went down in 2016. Which means the all-time greatest NIN remix is more accessible than ever before.

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They flooped “Home” in between “Sunspots” and “The Line Begins to Blur”…

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It’s weird because, it makes “Home” sound like an extended appendix to “Sunspots.”

It’s hard to tell with the equipment I’ve got now, but it feels like it’s easier to pick stuff apart with this album than it used to be. Like there’s better dynamic range and separation and balance going on. I also appreciate that the drum machine in “Only” sounds, to my ear, even more rinky-tink than before.

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