It had the impossible job of following up The Fragile so there's no way that it could have ever met people's expectations at the time. I agree, it's a great record.
I agree, it's a great album but not really that underrated. It got good reviews but wasn't as ground breaking as the fragile or earlier stuff. I'm not a hardcore NIN fan but to me the most underrated album is Hesitation Marks. Some great songs on there even though it's nothing like the old stuff.
Whilst “[With Teeth]” isn’t my favourite NIN record it has some of my favourite songs from them and “Beside you in time” is absolutely amazing in how it starts off as a bit repetitive then just unleashes into this absolute beast of a song near the end and every time I listen too it, I just get hyped so much by the drums.
I remember interviews saying he literally used all 64 tracks available (that was a new thing at the time) on some Downward Spiral songs. Just mics left open in the Manson house picking up creepy noise, wind, road noise from the highway, random distortion and bleed-throughs, layered and layered. I think of that album as Trent's "Dark Side of the Moon", just experimenting with the newest available technology, then "The Fragile" was his "The Wall" (Bob Ezrin-produced, of course). "Pretty Hate Machine" seems so bare-bones next to those. "Broken" seemed like he was just figuring out how to better capture more live instruments, then "Fixed" was him tearing "Broken" apart with new technology on his own. I miss great concept albums in rock being a regular thing. Kind of the main drawback to new listeners, I think, is not experiencing full albums when every song was specifically designed to enhance every other part of the album. The way "Antichrist Superstar" has some great singles, but taken as a whole is a total Bowie-esque "rock opera".
@@SamantherPanther I actually looked it up again (20 year old memories aren't so reliable), and I should've said Sharon Tate's house, called Le Pig Studio. Some of MM's "Portrait of an American Family" was recorded there too. Trent said he didn't put much thought into it and none of the "Pig" lyrics had anything to do with the location, it was just a cheap place to rent, due to the bad history. Sharon Tate's sister accused him of glorifying the murders, and he became severely depressed thinking "Is that what people think I'm about?" He took the front door when he left, and put it on his own Nothing studio. Sort of a fucked up memento of misconception.
I hope this is a rabbit hole. 'Somewhat Damaged' 'Even Deeper' 'La Mer' 'Ripe (With Decay)' '10 Miles High' Really anything off 'The Fragile' Or then 'Mr Self Destruct', 'Ruiner' or 'Reptile' - Downward Spiral '32' - Ghosts "Right Where It Belongs' - With Teeth
Same, but it was so instinctual, I didn't think to distill it down to why. (Because Geebz and NIN both rule, of course). Evidently, there are some like-minded people out there.
Trent has scored quite a few movies through the years. "Natural Born Killers" and "Lost Highway" would be the early ones. He also contributed to some video games. Together with Atticus, he has scored quite a few movies and documentaries lately (last 10 years or so)...."Social Network", "Girl with the Dragon Tattoo", "Soul" and many others. The music on the soundtracks is just as engaging and beautiful as the music he released as NIN.
I listened to the Quake soundtrack for almost a year. That first track was rough though, the data track for the game files, had to always immediately skip it or be hit with loud high pitch screeching .
I enjoyed hesitation marks, but the light show on the tour blew me away when I saw it live. Luckily, one of the shows is on CZcams and put out by vevo.
Trent Reznor is the man. He does all the instruments, vocals, all the synth work, the recording, mixing, pre/post production, the arrangements, and writing himself. Met him one time in Minneapolis, MN at a recording studio I was visiting.
You absolutely nailed how the synths can be transposed into guitars. That's what happens in their live performances. I'd love to see you check out NIN's The Frail/The Wretched. They're usually my favorites of Trent's work, depending on my mood.
I remember very clearly when this came out, because I was a teenager who grew up in a very staid and religious household, and this music was cathartic for me. I found my own voice academically and philosophically during this time, and this music gave me a way to “act out” my anger and big emotions, which were not acceptable in my parent’s house. This is the music that kept me alive as a teenager. 💖
Life long fan from the first time hearing the "Pretty Hate Machine" album when it came out. Also came from the background you described and attended Christian school. I even used lyrics for daily writing assignments in English class : ) I also can't express how true your last sentence holds true for me as well.
Absolutely agree with your last sentence. I found NIN with Broken, about the same time that The Downward Spiral came out. I was 15. It was totally life changing and definitely has kept me alive through quite a few dark times. Even a NIN concert helped me start recovering from PTSD.
I know nothing about music theory, but there is a channel on CZcams by a lady named ixi and she breaks down NIN music. Super interesting stuff whether you're a NIN fan, or into music theory, or both.
I was going to recommend ixi, she is amazing. My friend was going to talk to her about some of the stuff she does, he toured with Manson on the Downward Spiral tour so he got to see a lot of the stuff happening behind the scenes and such during NIN's sets and before and after shows and pick the brains of the musicians during the tour as well.
Exactly. Wish people would recommend that song more than this and others like Hand That Feeds. Even something from Year Zero would at least be more interesting to listen to and break down.The only reason I would tell people to listen to this is because it's more accessible.
This album was on endless replay for me while my marriage disintegrated. This song in particular just so perfectly gave shape to what I was experiencing. Funny thing is, listening to it now gives me such peace, when it could have become something that reminded me of the pain I went through back then. Pretty amazing how much an album can have such impact on you. I think it also speaks volumes about how powerful Trent Reznor's work is.
Trent Reznor and NIN were most prominent in their career during the 90s with the releases of The Downward Spiral (1994) and The Fragile (1999), with the latter being the album with the song you previously reacted to called “we’re in this together”. The album that this song is on With Teeth was released in 2005.
Trent is trying to break free from the song itself, the monotony is pressing down on him from every instrument…. His screams are like him pounding the walls or pushing his head through the stretchy rubber windows.
I think the most impressive audio engineering on this album is the otherwise quiet and simple "right where it belongs". Love the effect at the end, when the EQ changes (especially on the voice) and everything opens up, with a cheering audience fading in.
This song has shaken me out of apathy more than once & is one of my favorites for that reason. And I highly recommend 'Mantra' by Sound City Players; a killer combination of Reznor, Grohl & Homme. Listening to that song looking out over the Grand Canyon changed my life. Much Love Geebz & as always, thanks for sharing! *Note - Upon a gummie & some introspection, I have realized that whenever I appear to be stuck in a rut this song always seems to show up out of the aether. Thank you for facilitating this transformation. Be awesome my friend*
LOTS of passionate nin fans out there! Consider me one! Geebz you should also check out his side project with his wife. And check out live performance. Killer. 😎👍🔥❤️
He is a master of making a dark and heavy sounds into a pop type of song.. you can even hear Prince on some of his stuff. The fragile is his masterpiece
To me it's Trent's voice that makes it all work. I like how he enunciates every word like he does with "day" and makes it sound dissonant that you highlighted.. If It was any other voice it wouldn't move me the same.
Great choice !! You should try "Copy of A" that is a really interesting song, all about the build up and "atmosphere" made with different layouts of synths, great song to react to Keep going the good work! Greetings from France
Lifelong NIN/Reznor fan here: This is a cool and relatable NIN song and I LOVED how they used it in the bullet-bending movie Wanted (2008). I think the most sonically interesting song on With Teeth by far is "Right Where It Belongs". Check it out!
This song is in my top 10 songs I've heard in my life. Lyrical masterpiece and a great display of malaise and mundane life and really suits a tender chapter in my life.
Thank you for covering more NIN! Please react to some of his earlier work - Wish, Head Like A Hole or The Perfect Drug. I think you'd appreciate hearing a different era of his discography. Thank you, Geebz!
My best friend never really clicked with NIN like I did until a few weeks ago and we were gaming to my Nails mix. A lot of "Oh wow this is actually really good" comments. Better late than never, right?
This song is brilliant to me. I used it to get over social awkwardness by singing this song on karaoke in social settings. Love the way you broke the song down.
Jesus, SO much NIN for you to look into... I would love to hear you're impression of some of Trent's earlier stuff, i.e. anything from The Downward Spiral (the whole thing is a journey from start to finish), or maybe the Broken or Fixed EPs (Wish is a classic NIN banger)... And yes, he blew up with NIN in the nineties and then moved on to do many different things as a musician/composer thereafter
I’d love to see you do something less well known from The Fragile, like “The Great Below” or an instrumental like “The Mark Has Been Made,” or maybe go back to the Downward Spiral and check out the layers and industrial sounds on “Reptile.”
this song became my theme song in my head during the beginning of the pandemic.. this album has an interesting "why it was finally made" background i will take to my grave, but it was a much appreciated (& underrated) release after so much time since his 1999 album.. would love to hear your musical breakdown of the same album's opening track: "All The Love In The World".. i love how he purposely breaks the "expected final measure" in what first was assumably a 4/4 tempo song in its first half.. thanks for your reaction & musical composition analysis!
Love your breakdowns! NIN music is the whole universe in itself, just like Tool. Trent started in the industry with NIN, but already in the mid-90's he was involved in the movies (the song Burn for Natural Born Killers, for example, and then Lost Highway. David Lynch and Reznor are good friends). From the very beginning with NIN, he was taking that metal approach and combine it with experimental electronic sounds, which was quite unique thing in the Grunge years, and after that his music was constantly changing and evolving. When I was a teenager, NIN was my absolute faforite band, because it opened the whole new musical doors for me, I was amazed by them and how unusual this music was. and I'm still amazed by Trent's genius and what he's doing to this day. I strongly suggest to listen to these two albums: The Downward Spiral (1994) and The Fragile (1999). NIN is soooo much more when you listen to the whole story told in the album. These two are Reznor's magnum opuses, and like you said, they are cutting edge masterpieces, with all these complex layers of sound and everything. I'd be very interested to see you breakdown some of the songs from these albums! For example, Just Like You Imagined, which has mindblowing performance by David Bowie's pianist Mike Garson, or The Great Below.
I've been a huge NIN fan for the last 27 years and yet still find myself hearing details the song I've never heard before even after god knows how many listens . You dont get that with many if any other bands .
I’ve been a fan of NIN for like 7 years and still every time I listen to his songs I hear new layers, it’s like a new experience every time they never get old
That last chorus with the layered vocals is almost like a montage in a film where it’s one locked off shot of a person in a room but then different periods of their time are all superimposed on each other.
Their Hesitation Marks album has a crazy amount of layering and weird instruments and sounds. Check out their song All Time Low! One of my favs from it. Its very groovy and funky
I believe he has 2 Oscars now for his soundtrack work. he's created over 20 eps, and lps combined. and the broken cd is my favorite. but its almost a tie with everything he's done.
This song spoke to me when I was working at a national insurance company, stuck in a half-cubicle day in and day out. The job eventually took me to a really dark place but this song kind of conveys the darkness inherent in stagnation and repetition. I like the analysis pointing out the repetition of the arrangement. Also, obligatory request for Starset. "Ricochet" preferred, but any of their songs will do. Their breakout song was "My Demons".
NIN has so many amazing songs, hard to even recommend any. I'd love to hear your thoughts on something like Mr. Self Destruct, one of their older ('94), heavier songs.
NIN / Trent Reznor provide so much to learn about music and how to put songs together. He's a genius with this stuff and I've been listening since the Downward Spiral for that very reason. One of my all time favorite albums from start to finish is The Fragile, it's a double album and the entire thing is an experience!
I LOVED that record. I will say I think my favorite is the slip actually. 1,000,000 and head down are 2 of the nastiest NIN songs out there. I will say tho that the masterpiece is the fragile and I remember being a teenager listening to downward spiral and was completely baffled at how those sounds were achieved. One of my all time favorite songs is somewhat damaged. That’s song slays
I remember seeing them in Boston when they were on their With Teeth Tour. Amazing show !!! Superb showmanship and the whole atmosphere was energy. I will never forget it !!!!
Trent produced the Natural Born Killers soundtrack after being asked permission to use a couple tracks . The album which is phenomenal, is such a great representation of the movie. Awwwright 🤙
Trent is one of my all-time favourite composers. Massively influential on my own musical composition. If you are going to explore more, please do some earlier stuff. Examples would be The Perfect Drug, the cover of Dead Souls from The Crow soundtrack, Down In It, March of the Pigs, and A Warm Place.
Album came out in early 2000s. I’m an all music fan, from early classical Chopin, to Folk, Rock, R&B, Pop, not huge on Country & Western. My son turned me on to NIN in the 1990s they can switch things around so amazingly. Check out “A minute to Breathe” Video & Lyrics. Trent is pretty amazing. I think “Good Soldier” really speaks to the 20 year war lyrics. Another good album is Fragile. Have fun!
I gave this to a work mate as a Christmas present. A few days later he told me it was probably one of the best albums he had ever heard. Came to a NIN show with me and a few others not long after.
For the "last 30 days" programming... Would love for you to do more NIN. Here are some that I think you could really sink your teeth into: "Right Where it Belongs" (also from With Teeth), "The Background World" (
It's so awesome to see someone that finds things he does so randomly awesome like I do. Like I'm not just that random weirdo that's like a little kid all giddy saying "you hear that!? you hear that!?" Most of his stuff takes a TON of listens to catch it all. Headphones are the only way to savor every morsel
Reznor (NIN) was the composer for the video game, Quake, the original 1996 version. Quake is a milestone in gaming, his ambient contributions were and are still amazing. I ripped an old copy of the game sound track and still have it in my playlist. Hawai´i Nō Ka ´Oi
I truly love your videos deconstructing audio engineering. PLEASE listen to NIN “Just Like You Imagined”. What a soundscape! Aloha to you, from Florida.
The song that introduced me to the musical genius that Trent Reznor is. First heard it on the movie Wanted and immediately got hooked on. Something about the song struck a chord with me as a 14 year old.
2010's "The Social Network" was his real first movie/composing that he did. His NIN music has been in movies going back to 1987. NIN had release 7 albums by 2010 including "With Teeth".
Every morning I wake up, feed the cats, & make coffee. I also frequently score it with "I believe I can see the future, 'cause I repeat the same routine."
One of my favorite bands going all the way back to Pretty Hate Machine. Trent is a musical genius. He gets me in the feels, as the kids apparently say. This song is on the soundtrack for the movie Wanted. Every time I watch it, I spend the next few hours revisiting his catalog.
I bought some AKG K240 cans. Love them! Listen at 7:45 to the vocals. They are on the right and seem behind you. At 8:38 he's right back in front. Cool engineering!
I think With Teeth is a pretty underrated album, so many bangers on there.
It had the impossible job of following up The Fragile so there's no way that it could have ever met people's expectations at the time. I agree, it's a great record.
I agree, it's a great album but not really that underrated. It got good reviews but wasn't as ground breaking as the fragile or earlier stuff.
I'm not a hardcore NIN fan but to me the most underrated album is Hesitation Marks. Some great songs on there even though it's nothing like the old stuff.
Whilst “[With Teeth]” isn’t my favourite NIN record it has some of my favourite songs from them and “Beside you in time” is absolutely amazing in how it starts off as a bit repetitive then just unleashes into this absolute beast of a song near the end and every time I listen too it, I just get hyped so much by the drums.
It’s my second favorite after The Fragile, I think it’s incredible
I didn't really like With Teeth until I heard live versions of some of the songs. Now it's one of my favorites.
The noise is always purposeful. Trent Reznor is a layering master.
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I remember interviews saying he literally used all 64 tracks available (that was a new thing at the time) on some Downward Spiral songs. Just mics left open in the Manson house picking up creepy noise, wind, road noise from the highway, random distortion and bleed-throughs, layered and layered. I think of that album as Trent's "Dark Side of the Moon", just experimenting with the newest available technology, then "The Fragile" was his "The Wall" (Bob Ezrin-produced, of course).
"Pretty Hate Machine" seems so bare-bones next to those. "Broken" seemed like he was just figuring out how to better capture more live instruments, then "Fixed" was him tearing "Broken" apart with new technology on his own.
I miss great concept albums in rock being a regular thing. Kind of the main drawback to new listeners, I think, is not experiencing full albums when every song was specifically designed to enhance every other part of the album. The way "Antichrist Superstar" has some great singles, but taken as a whole is a total Bowie-esque "rock opera".
@@ju4408 comments like yours are important, love this info
@@SamantherPanther I actually looked it up again (20 year old memories aren't so reliable), and I should've said Sharon Tate's house, called Le Pig Studio. Some of MM's "Portrait of an American Family" was recorded there too.
Trent said he didn't put much thought into it and none of the "Pig" lyrics had anything to do with the location, it was just a cheap place to rent, due to the bad history. Sharon Tate's sister accused him of glorifying the murders, and he became severely depressed thinking "Is that what people think I'm about?" He took the front door when he left, and put it on his own Nothing studio. Sort of a fucked up memento of misconception.
*AGREED..!* He's even inspired plenty of the instrumentals I've made throughout the years..! 😍
Trent Reznor is, simply put, a musical genius.
*Indubitably..!* 💜
Clicked as soon as I saw Key of Geebz and NIN in the same title
I hope this is a rabbit hole.
'Somewhat Damaged'
'Even Deeper'
'La Mer'
'Ripe (With Decay)'
'10 Miles High'
Really anything off 'The Fragile'
Or then 'Mr Self Destruct', 'Ruiner' or 'Reptile' - Downward Spiral
'32' - Ghosts
"Right Where It Belongs' - With Teeth
SAME
Same, but it was so instinctual, I didn't think to distill it down to why. (Because Geebz and NIN both rule, of course). Evidently, there are some like-minded people out there.
*#lolz*
Fun fact: Dave Grohl contributed to the drums and percussion on this album.
Dave Grohl always pops up somewhere!
It's the only time he was payed for studio work. All other times he just did it for free, like with Tenacious D and QotSA.
@@northofnashira2575 and best of all Killing Joke
@@WanderingWriter I know right! Didn’t he pop up in the new Bill and Ted? Haha
@@duggiedug9148 I haven't seen the new Bill and Ted but I wouldn't put it past him
Trent has scored quite a few movies through the years. "Natural Born Killers" and "Lost Highway" would be the early ones. He also contributed to some video games. Together with Atticus, he has scored quite a few movies and documentaries lately (last 10 years or so)...."Social Network", "Girl with the Dragon Tattoo", "Soul" and many others. The music on the soundtracks is just as engaging and beautiful as the music he released as NIN.
I listened to the Quake soundtrack for almost a year. That first track was rough though, the data track for the game files, had to always immediately skip it or be hit with loud high pitch screeching .
Didn't he do something for the movie seven?
@@whitejosh444 one of the Closer remixes was used during the intro credits in the movie...but it didn't appear on the soundtrack.
@@coolhandchunk oh gotcha
@@coolhandchunk I always thought the song at the ending credits always sounded like a nine inch nail songs but no it is David Bowie
I’d like to hear your break down of “Copy of a” there’s a lot going on in tha at track as well, all layered and all purposeful. Trent is a genius.
This would be awesome to see.
I enjoyed hesitation marks, but the light show on the tour blew me away when I saw it live. Luckily, one of the shows is on CZcams and put out by vevo.
@@gregsunderland6394 i saw it live as well, was the best concert I ever saw
@@philipgroves4186 It was so good. It's one of my top three best of all-time concerts.
Yes I agree so much the album and the live show were amazing!
Trent Reznor is the man. He does all the instruments, vocals, all the synth work, the recording, mixing, pre/post production, the arrangements, and writing himself. Met him one time in Minneapolis, MN at a recording studio I was visiting.
You absolutely nailed how the synths can be transposed into guitars. That's what happens in their live performances.
I'd love to see you check out NIN's The Frail/The Wretched. They're usually my favorites of Trent's work, depending on my mood.
So much YES
I remember very clearly when this came out, because I was a teenager who grew up in a very staid and religious household, and this music was cathartic for me. I found my own voice academically and philosophically during this time, and this music gave me a way to “act out” my anger and big emotions, which were not acceptable in my parent’s house. This is the music that kept me alive as a teenager. 💖
Life long fan from the first time hearing the "Pretty Hate Machine" album when it came out. Also came from the background you described and attended Christian school. I even used lyrics for daily writing assignments in English class : )
I also can't express how true your last sentence holds true for me as well.
Wow I had the same childhood!
Absolutely agree with your last sentence. I found NIN with Broken, about the same time that The Downward Spiral came out. I was 15. It was totally life changing and definitely has kept me alive through quite a few dark times. Even a NIN concert helped me start recovering from PTSD.
I know nothing about music theory, but there is a channel on CZcams by a lady named ixi and she breaks down NIN music. Super interesting stuff whether you're a NIN fan, or into music theory, or both.
I love ixi's channel. So glad youtube recommended it to me.
@@familiarsting4108 Speak of the devil... new video today😁
Nothing more sexy than a woman that plays piano.
I was going to recommend ixi, she is amazing. My friend was going to talk to her about some of the stuff she does, he toured with Manson on the Downward Spiral tour so he got to see a lot of the stuff happening behind the scenes and such during NIN's sets and before and after shows and pick the brains of the musicians during the tour as well.
Underrated album, my favorite track is "the Line Begins to Blur" super haunting.
For a more energetic, noisy, and... raw NIN song, try March of the Pigs.
Exactly. Wish people would recommend that song more than this and others like Hand That Feeds. Even something from Year Zero would at least be more interesting to listen to and break down.The only reason I would tell people to listen to this is because it's more accessible.
@@muzikkification have you watched music breakdowns by ixi music? She did analyse mostly "The Downward Spiral" songs including Marc of the pigs
KMFDM
90's techno declined by the goth kids
"For a more energetic, noisy, and... raw".
That is Daft Punk.
@@tonyb7615 Love KMFDM. Had tickets to see them with Ministry and Front Line Assembly last year, but concert got canceled.
This album was on endless replay for me while my marriage disintegrated. This song in particular just so perfectly gave shape to what I was experiencing. Funny thing is, listening to it now gives me such peace, when it could have become something that reminded me of the pain I went through back then. Pretty amazing how much an album can have such impact on you. I think it also speaks volumes about how powerful Trent Reznor's work is.
Trent Reznor and NIN were most prominent in their career during the 90s with the releases of The Downward Spiral (1994) and The Fragile (1999), with the latter being the album with the song you previously reacted to called “we’re in this together”. The album that this song is on With Teeth was released in 2005.
You forgot Broken. If you know the history there, then you know why.
@@harbinger_9152 last thing we want is Key of Geebz reacts to the Broken Movie lol
Also his first album sober
@@CraigKeidel what a change in his output and artistic vision after getting clean
@@Stfugb2s Absolutely. It took me a while to "get" Year Zero but man The Great Destroyer...
Trent is trying to break free from the song itself, the monotony is pressing down on him from every instrument….
His screams are like him pounding the walls or pushing his head through the stretchy rubber windows.
I think the most impressive audio engineering on this album is the otherwise quiet and simple "right where it belongs". Love the effect at the end, when the EQ changes (especially on the voice) and everything opens up, with a cheering audience fading in.
This song has shaken me out of apathy more than once & is one of my favorites for that reason. And I highly recommend 'Mantra' by Sound City Players; a killer combination of Reznor, Grohl & Homme. Listening to that song looking out over the Grand Canyon changed my life. Much Love Geebz & as always, thanks for sharing!
*Note - Upon a gummie & some introspection, I have realized that whenever I appear to be stuck in a rut this song always seems to show up out of the aether. Thank you for facilitating this transformation. Be awesome my friend*
LOTS of passionate nin fans out there! Consider me one! Geebz you should also check out his side project with his wife. And check out live performance. Killer. 😎👍🔥❤️
Such a great recommendation! 💖
How To Destroy Angels. Excellent music, for sure! 🤘
He is a master of making a dark and heavy sounds into a pop type of song.. you can even hear Prince on some of his stuff. The fragile is his masterpiece
To me it's Trent's voice that makes it all work. I like how he enunciates every word like he does with "day" and makes it sound dissonant that you highlighted.. If It was any other voice it wouldn't move me the same.
Dave Grohl handled the drums on this track amongst others. I’ve been a NIN fan since 1990 and “With Teeth” is one of my favorite albums by Trent
This album came out when I was in high school ~2005, yes it was very cutting edge
Great choice !! You should try "Copy of A" that is a really interesting song, all about the build up and "atmosphere" made with different layouts of synths, great song to react to
Keep going the good work! Greetings from France
Lifelong NIN/Reznor fan here: This is a cool and relatable NIN song and I LOVED how they used it in the bullet-bending movie Wanted (2008). I think the most sonically interesting song on With Teeth by far is "Right Where It Belongs". Check it out!
Yes! My top track on that album. Definitely do it, Geebz!
Yep, my fave NIN song too, underrated.
"The Becoming" should be next pretty please
This!
Ixi Music does incredibly in depth analyses of NIN songs :) Here's her breakdown of The Becoming: czcams.com/video/J5-Y8Iv0W1g/video.html
Yes yes yes please!
This song is in my top 10 songs I've heard in my life. Lyrical masterpiece and a great display of malaise and mundane life and really suits a tender chapter in my life.
How about a reaction to "La Mer" from the NIN Fragile album. One of my favourites.
That’s refreshing. I don’t hear people say that about that song often, it’s a beautiful kind of haunting song.
This song and "only" are amazing. They seem so simple but crazy complex and artistic beyond measure.
Thank you for covering more NIN! Please react to some of his earlier work - Wish, Head Like A Hole or The Perfect Drug. I think you'd appreciate hearing a different era of his discography. Thank you, Geebz!
One of my favorite NIN songs. ❤
Once you get hooked on nine inch nails you're hooked for life!
One of the best NIN songs made in my opinion.
Not a huge NIN fan, but every time one of their songs come on, I never turn it off.
My best friend never really clicked with NIN like I did until a few weeks ago and we were gaming to my Nails mix. A lot of "Oh wow this is actually really good" comments. Better late than never, right?
This song is brilliant to me. I used it to get over social awkwardness by singing this song on karaoke in social settings. Love the way you broke the song down.
I'd recommend songs from "The Downward Spiral" or "Pretty Hate Machine" for decomposition.
Eraser or Reptile or The Downward Spiral
*Yes..!* 🤟
Jesus, SO much NIN for you to look into... I would love to hear you're impression of some of Trent's earlier stuff, i.e. anything from The Downward Spiral (the whole thing is a journey from start to finish), or maybe the Broken or Fixed EPs (Wish is a classic NIN banger)... And yes, he blew up with NIN in the nineties and then moved on to do many different things as a musician/composer thereafter
I’d love to see you do something less well known from The Fragile, like “The Great Below” or an instrumental like “The Mark Has Been Made,” or maybe go back to the Downward Spiral and check out the layers and industrial sounds on “Reptile.”
Somewhat Damaged off of The Fraglile by NIN. Personal favorite.
this whole album is unreal, unique and will never be topped for the turn of the era alternative music. Album of the decade before the decade began.
When you listen to this album you can see why Trent cites Gary Numan as a major influence, the disonance and isolation within the songs
This has always been my favorite song by NIN. thank you
this song became my theme song in my head during the beginning of the pandemic.. this album has an interesting "why it was finally made" background i will take to my grave, but it was a much appreciated (& underrated) release after so much time since his 1999 album.. would love to hear your musical breakdown of the same album's opening track: "All The Love In The World".. i love how he purposely breaks the "expected final measure" in what first was assumably a 4/4 tempo song in its first half.. thanks for your reaction & musical composition analysis!
With Teeth is one of my favorite NIN albums. Solid from start to finish.
One of my favorite songs ever
Love your breakdowns! NIN music is the whole universe in itself, just like Tool. Trent started in the industry with NIN, but already in the mid-90's he was involved in the movies (the song Burn for Natural Born Killers, for example, and then Lost Highway. David Lynch and Reznor are good friends). From the very beginning with NIN, he was taking that metal approach and combine it with experimental electronic sounds, which was quite unique thing in the Grunge years, and after that his music was constantly changing and evolving. When I was a teenager, NIN was my absolute faforite band, because it opened the whole new musical doors for me, I was amazed by them and how unusual this music was. and I'm still amazed by Trent's genius and what he's doing to this day.
I strongly suggest to listen to these two albums: The Downward Spiral (1994) and The Fragile (1999). NIN is soooo much more when you listen to the whole story told in the album. These two are Reznor's magnum opuses, and like you said, they are cutting edge masterpieces, with all these complex layers of sound and everything.
I'd be very interested to see you breakdown some of the songs from these albums! For example, Just Like You Imagined, which has mindblowing performance by David Bowie's pianist Mike Garson, or The Great Below.
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I've been a huge NIN fan for the last 27 years and yet still find myself hearing details the song I've never heard before even after god knows how many listens . You dont get that with many if any other bands .
I’ve been a fan of NIN for like 7 years and still every time I listen to his songs I hear new layers, it’s like a new experience every time they never get old
Dissonance, tri tones, flat seventh,and ninths… that’s kind of where Trent excels, is exploring those not-so beautiful chords.
Always brightens up my day to see my favourite reactor's decomposition to my favourite band 🔥
That last chorus with the layered vocals is almost like a montage in a film where it’s one locked off shot of a person in a room but then different periods of their time are all superimposed on each other.
My favorite nin song
Their Hesitation Marks album has a crazy amount of layering and weird instruments and sounds. Check out their song All Time Low! One of my favs from it. Its very groovy and funky
I love how this song is so bleak and yet geebz is so positive, wishing us a killer day. 😂 Thanks geebz.
I believe he has 2 Oscars now for his soundtrack work. he's created over 20 eps, and lps combined. and the broken cd is my favorite. but its almost a tie with everything he's done.
And a Grammy for best country recording 😂
@@jametowne and he was sampled on that pop song Old Town Road which won awards as well
Yessss!!! Love NIN so much and am so happy you chose this song!
This song spoke to me when I was working at a national insurance company, stuck in a half-cubicle day in and day out. The job eventually took me to a really dark place but this song kind of conveys the darkness inherent in stagnation and repetition. I like the analysis pointing out the repetition of the arrangement.
Also, obligatory request for Starset. "Ricochet" preferred, but any of their songs will do. Their breakout song was "My Demons".
One of my all time favorites
Your physical and facial expressions while you were listening added an invaluable dimension to this song for me.
NIN has so many amazing songs, hard to even recommend any. I'd love to hear your thoughts on something like Mr. Self Destruct, one of their older ('94), heavier songs.
NIN / Trent Reznor provide so much to learn about music and how to put songs together. He's a genius with this stuff and I've been listening since the Downward Spiral for that very reason. One of my all time favorite albums from start to finish is The Fragile, it's a double album and the entire thing is an experience!
Love this song
I LOVED that record. I will say I think my favorite is the slip actually. 1,000,000 and head down are 2 of the nastiest NIN songs out there. I will say tho that the masterpiece is the fragile and I remember being a teenager listening to downward spiral and was completely baffled at how those sounds were achieved. One of my all time favorite songs is somewhat damaged. That’s song slays
So stoked that you reacted to my favorite NIN song 🖤
For your 'older bands' list: Jane's Addiction - 3 Days
For your 'small bands' list: Moron Police - Captain Awkward
one more vote for 3 days, a classic people still sleep on.
@@NARISHMA42 Agree- and hope he does the live Kettle Whistle version. It’s somehow better than the studio version.
Oh god, 3 Days. ... yes, please. All now, with wings.
@@jzeke1712 I'd prefer the studio version. I don't like the mix and quality of the Kettle Whistle live version. To each their own though 😁
Three Days is my favorite Jane's song. Puts me in a beautiful trance.
There is no love and there is no pain. ❤
I remember seeing them in Boston when they were on their With Teeth Tour. Amazing show !!! Superb showmanship and the whole atmosphere was energy. I will never forget it !!!!
It’s hard to listen to NIN without going on a nostalgia trip.
Hell yeah Geebz, this track is phenomenal. One of my favorites off this record.
I love watching geebz' reaction when this electronic glitch tone came up as the piano intro softly plays and then BAM
Trent produced the Natural Born Killers soundtrack after being asked permission to use a couple tracks . The album which is phenomenal, is such a great representation of the movie.
Awwwright 🤙
Trent is one of my all-time favourite composers. Massively influential on my own musical composition. If you are going to explore more, please do some earlier stuff. Examples would be The Perfect Drug, the cover of Dead Souls from The Crow soundtrack, Down In It, March of the Pigs, and A Warm Place.
More NIN!! They have so many fantastic songs!! And all that could have been would be a great song
One of my favourite NIN songs
Weird but true, NIN was an 80's band once. Trent's got a lot of experience working with synth.
Album came out in early 2000s. I’m an all music fan, from early classical Chopin, to Folk, Rock, R&B, Pop, not huge on Country & Western. My son turned me on to NIN in the 1990s they can switch things around so amazingly. Check out “A minute to Breathe” Video & Lyrics. Trent is pretty amazing. I think “Good Soldier” really speaks to the 20 year war lyrics. Another good album is Fragile. Have fun!
Must be one of my favorite songs by them, i always joke about how this song was inspired by me. Lol
Awesome as always, Geebz
My favorite nine inch nails song
I gave this to a work mate as a Christmas present. A few days later he told me it was probably one of the best albums he had ever heard. Came to a NIN show with me and a few others not long after.
dude i would love to see you do more videos on nine inch nails stuff, theres like 30+ years of albums to choose from.
YES!!! NIN!!!!
NINE INCH NAILS - JUST LIKE YOU IMAGINED!!!
Hug from Argentina. I saw you drink mate! from where?!
For the "last 30 days" programming... Would love for you to do more NIN. Here are some that I think you could really sink your teeth into: "Right Where it Belongs" (also from With Teeth), "The Background World" (
It's so awesome to see someone that finds things he does so randomly awesome like I do. Like I'm not just that random weirdo that's like a little kid all giddy saying "you hear that!? you hear that!?" Most of his stuff takes a TON of listens to catch it all. Headphones are the only way to savor every morsel
The track that is the reason why i'm a nin fan for 16 years now.
NIN is incredible. There is so much great music to check! Please do more NIN!
Reznor (NIN) was the composer for the video game, Quake, the original 1996 version. Quake is a milestone in gaming, his ambient contributions were and are still amazing. I ripped an old copy of the game sound track and still have it in my playlist. Hawai´i Nō Ka ´Oi
I truly love your videos deconstructing audio engineering.
PLEASE listen to NIN “Just Like You Imagined”. What a soundscape!
Aloha to you, from Florida.
The song that introduced me to the musical genius that Trent Reznor is. First heard it on the movie Wanted and immediately got hooked on. Something about the song struck a chord with me as a 14 year old.
Trent Reznor is a classically trained piano player…his keys are so original! Love your channel
2010's "The Social Network" was his real first movie/composing that he did. His NIN music has been in movies going back to 1987. NIN had release 7 albums by 2010 including "With Teeth".
I love this song from the great Trent Reznor. Awesome, thx for your hard work!! It’s a pleasure watching your videos!
This is my theme song to 2020
Every morning I wake up, feed the cats, & make coffee. I also frequently score it with "I believe I can see the future, 'cause I repeat the same routine."
NIN is just master editing and sound production. Its very special. Treat and NIN nice job. ty for review
One of my favorite bands going all the way back to Pretty Hate Machine. Trent is a musical genius. He gets me in the feels, as the kids apparently say.
This song is on the soundtrack for the movie Wanted. Every time I watch it, I spend the next few hours revisiting his catalog.
Can't wait for more NIN, one of my favorites.
Trent is a genius!!!
What an intro, love this tune. Thanks Geebz!
KoRn time baby! BALL TOUNGE!!
I bought some AKG K240 cans. Love them! Listen at 7:45 to the vocals. They are on the right and seem behind you. At 8:38 he's right back in front. Cool engineering!