trent reznor

Trent Reznor is Nine Inch Nails: producer, lyrics, instruments, etc. He is the most emotionally impacting industrial/gothic music artist I've ever listened to with his debut album from 1989, Pretty Hate Machine. People often complain that this album annoys them with how winey he is, but they speak only in ignorance. Trent Reznor's turning his poetry journal into songs to deal with the feelings of pain, emptiness, and betrayel that ex-girlfriend, Annie, left him with. Music artists aren't so bold as to wear their hearts upon their sleeves and the few that do only dissapoint us with the fact that they don't have anything to say. Trent Reznor, however, soley revitalize theme and poetry within the industrial/gothic music of the nineties, like Laibach and Die Krupps before him. Trent Reznor comes from a mixed background of tastes in music with David Bowie, Queen, Kiss, Prince, Adam Ant, Gary Numan, Lou Reed, Iggy Pop, etc. His distaste for American record companies and commercialism led him to start Nothing Records. This has allowed him to heavily support the most popular industrial/gothic bands, like Marilyn Manson, P.W.E.I., Pig (collaborator with KMFDM), Revolting Cocks, Rammstein, Smashing Pumpkins (don't ask), etc. I used to only like Classic rock bands and only got into Nine Inch Nails, because they were special guests for David Bowie. Before that, I was shocked to hear "hurt" for the first time on a radio station. I was like: "What the hell is this?" I never heard such an impacting, thought-provoking song on the alternative rock station and I like it. One evening I saw "closer" on a video station, followed by the "hurt" video. I was blown away by the imagery and I still maintain that "closer" is the most artistic music video ever. This spark of interest led me to buy, the critically acclaimed third Nine Inch Nails album from 1994, The Downward Spiral. I thought it was a hideous collection of repeticious noise. When I had concert tickets for the Nine Inch Nails and David Bowie concert, I knew was going to have to get more familiar with NIN's work. I tried listening to it again and finally after a couple of spins, I started to tolerate the songs more. Pretty Hate Machine was borrowed from someone and liked immediately, but still wasn't impacting me, emotionally. Soon as Trent Reznor hit the stage the night of the concert, Nine Inch Nails and everything they represented made sense. Trent wasn't to be taken seriously with his vulgar shock rock, because in the end, it's all about rock n roll. That's not to say that his pain and suffering is not to be taken seriously, that's where the emotional impact sets in. The Outside tour of 1995 was the last Nine Inch Nails tour. Rumors are now circilating that in the fall of 1998, the new Nine Inch Nails album will be released with a subsequent tour. To paraphrase Trent Reznor about his new album: "It's going to piss everyone off, because it's unlike anything I've ever done before. I'm doing an old Prince album." [ Back | AdamNa+ion ]