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Ravi,

Are the songs like ones on "Pretty Hate Machine"? I think that's Trent's "poppiest" album to date. It's a bit dated, but it's still one of my favorites.

PHM and The Fragile are my two favs of his, so if this new one is more in that direction as opposed to TDS, which to me is his worst, I should like it.

PHM and The Fragile are my two favs of his, so if this new one is more in that direction as opposed to TDS, which to me is his worst, I should like it.

Based on the three tracks out there, if they're representative of the whole, they're more like his track "Deep" on the Tomb Raider soundtrack.

In other words, it's nothing at all like PHM or The Fragile If I had to pick a track on The Fragile to compare them to, I guess I'd have to pick... "No You Don't." But "No You Don't" is not that much like any of the new tracks, and IMO at least, "No You Don't" is better (though by no means one of my highlights from The Fragile).

But even if the three tracks out there are the final versions of the songs, that's still only three out of 13. In other words, nearly 80% of the album hasn't been heard yet. It could be great.

Not trying to rub it in to those who were trying to get tickets but didn't. Somehow a buddy of mine managed to get 4 for the 19th show in Philly. We both struck out during the pre-sale. When they went on sale to the public my buddy went to a ticket master booth in a mall and I stayed on line. I struck out again online but my buddy was first in line. Like I said he got 4 tickets and by the time his transaction was done they had sold out. Nobody else in line got tickets.

I haven't heard any of the releases of the new material. I was kinda bummed after reading some of the posts in this thread. I saw them in 2000 for the first time and thought they were excellent.

I agree %100 with Engine Joe's description of the new tracks. They're essentially a lot like 'Deep', which imo is total crap. I had actually forgotten that track existed until my friend told me he found the new tracks to suck like Deep.

Let me put it this way. I have the three tracks on my hard drive, but I have not been enticed, ever, to listen to them again.

Let's just hope the remaining tracks that are unheard are good.


I wonder if he may be releasing a crap album as another attempt to get out of Interscope Records and start his own thing? Who knows...

You don't happen to have just one spare of that group of four tickets for 5/19, do you? Please

Sorry Zarak. I think the group of 4 that I'm going with are pretty committed to going. Although one of my friend's claimed that he has seen pairs of NIN tickets for the Philly show going for $350 a pair. Any higher and he might sell all our tickets!
I haven't heard any of the new tracks yet...I'm kind of scared to. Are they really that bad?

I haven't heard any of the new tracks yet...I'm kind of scared to. Are they really that bad?

No. They aren't gut-wrenchingly awful or wretched. Please don't get overexcited about it. They're just...uninspired sounding. A little dry on ideas. Not up to standards.

Let me put it this way - if it wasn't so very obviously Trent's voice, the songs would be completely interchangable with music by any number of bands in the genre. They lack distinction.

Go ahead, track the mp3s down and give them a listen. They're probably not as bad as you're afraid they are. Though I would be surprised if you really liked them.


Brief tangent: Trent's complaint about people getting a "bad first impression" of the new music because they're supposedly low-quality mp3s strikes me as a bit of a smokescreen. One of the three tracks, sure - ripped from the radio, it's pretty lo-fi. The other two though are 320 kbps mp3s, and thus really just barely shy of CD-audio quality. So long as they're final versions of the songs, that's as good (or as bad) as they get.

well said Engine Joe (about the mp3's being good quality).

rdwarn, i can email you the tracks.
email me from an address that can take large attachements
ravimontreal@yahoo.ca

I figured that would be the response, but I had to try. If someone backs out for some reason, put me first on your wait list