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Nine Inch Nails - Year Zero Audio CD

A fair review of the Nine Inch Nails "Year Zero" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Nine Inch Nails reviews here, or go back to the Nine Inch Nails tabs.

Nine Inch Nails Band: Nine Inch Nails
Title: Year Zero
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Release Date: 2007-04-17
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Hyperpower! 2: The Beginning Of The End 3: Survivalism 4: The Good Soldier 5: Vessel 6: Me, I'm Not 7: Capital G 8: My Violent Heart 9: The Warning 10: God Given 11: Meet Your Master 12: The Greater Good 13: The Great Destroyer 14: Another Version Of The Truth 15: In This Twilight 16: Zero-Sum

Good, but Different
i am one insane NIN fan. i will admit i was dissapointed with this at first, but it grew on me. i have been trying to collect everything by them!but anyway this album is OK for the most part. different but still good.


2007 Nine Inch Nails CD
Sort of more raw sounding than the With Teeth record. Good record, interesting sounds, unusual songs as well. All in all, a record worth checking out if you like NIN, or even if you don't.


Disappointing
Well, it's not. I always try to take glowing reviews with a grain of salt, but every previous NIN album has been good enough (and With Teeth, carrying alot of production value) that I took it on faith that this album would be a "masterpiece". The lack of live instruments leave the whole work sounding flat. I tried to listen to it straight through but found myself getting bored and skipping the last minute of several tracks. There's certainly some cool rhythms here, and I suspect it would be much more engrossing live or at least played loud in a large room that's alive, but on headphones it's nothing special. I'll give the remixed release a shot since the big empty spaces in this album seem to need something.


Zero Impulse Control
This is why Year Zero is by far Trent Reznor's worst album. I once heard that a good artist is everywhere in their art, but seen nowhere. I'm simply bewildered by the positive reviews, by fans and critics (although Rolling Stone has a record of "bad call" reviews, praising junk and bashing what becomes classics). None of them have convinced me otherwise; the Angst Emperor wears no clothes.

In almost every corner of this album, you can hear Trent trying. Not being as he was with all of his previous albums, but trying. Skipping through each forgettable track, you can actually see him sitting at the computer, trying this or that beat or sound with this or that rhythm, topped off with "concept" protest lyrics. You know, the Bush is Teh Evil, Greedy Capitalistz, OMG Religulous Right themes as already done by Pearl Jam, Radiohead, Neil Young, Green Day and virtually every punk band existing in 2004.

I just never thought he would be this typical. Year Zero Effort comes from the same man who did Downward Spiral, Fragile, Broken, and Pretty Hate Machine. For each, the electronic hooks were only artistic tools of industrial rock brilliance, with powerful lyrics that cut into one's emotions in a way nothing else did. They were quality over quantity, as he took the time to develop each song. This one is full of digital whims and impulses conveyed as a serious yet artsy analysis of society and government that just ends up as one big iMess.

Okay, specifics. [Track X] is just beat, loop, beat with melodramatic lyrics. [Track Y] has this crazy digital stuff and a thinly-veiled rant about Bush. [Track Z] is okay because it has a few seconds of pretty piano, but otherwise is just some noises and beats on repeat.

On the positive side, the heat-sensitive disc is fun to play with (but I just had to sell it after about three listens). Okay, fine. . . Hyperpower starts interesting, Survivalism is infectious, My Violent Heart is kinda cool, In This Twilight has a good atmosphere, and Zero Sum has a decent chorus. So I guess I can't quite give it Year Zero Stars.

Ghosts and Slip more or less fell into the same artistic hole, but at least they were improvements. Ghosts wasn't trying to be Genius Creative Protest Album v58. 0 and Slip didn't sound like it was thrown together on an Apple in a week. Please Trent, remember what you are.


Year Zero
Worthy of standing beside other cds such as The Fragile, Downward Spiral and Wish Teeth. Another actually solid NIN album.


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