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From:
ugly and mean
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The soul that creates ,
Date:
Thu, 16 Aug 2001 15:55:17 -0700 (PDT)
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Re: [idm] NIN?
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quoted 7 lines What NIN album is timeless??> What NIN album is timeless?? > All of them, Nine Inch Nails is a timeless "band" > Trent Reznor is a timeless artist. > I imagine that years from now you'll see him and NIN > in the hall of fame, and you'll see NIN viewed as a > playing a major role in what music will be like in > maybe 10-20 years.
I have to chime in here. I used to be a pretty big NIN fan 10 years ago, but listening to most of his stuff now, "timeless" is not the word that comes to mind. Pretty Hate Machine was retro sounding by the time Downward Spiral came out. Downward Spiral's music is great, but the lyrics and angstful singing is retro now (at least in electronic music. The term "timeless" in reference to art has always meant, to me, that time doesn't age a particular work of art because it wasn't trendy or easy to replicate to begin with. Trent made some great music, but he used it as a tool to make his terrible tone deaf singing and utterly shitty lyrics seem legitimate and deep. That's just my opinion of course, and I still do break out the old NIN cd when I'm in the mood for a little retro trip back to my late teens/early 20s. I suppose some of the stuff on his remix E.P.s could be considered timeless in the way you guys are using the term. ===== check out my station on Live365 - over 8 hours worth of early 90's chill-out, IDM, dub and more at: http://www.live365.com/stations/278479 check out my homepage at: http://www.skack.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger http://phonecard.yahoo.com/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org