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Was Nine Inch Nails better or worse before Trent Reznor stopped doing drugs?
Trent Reznor, the once one man band on Nine Inch Nails began his music career when he was rather heavy into drugs. From his addiction we were brought such brilliance as Broken, The Downward Spiral, and Pretty Hate Machine. Trent is still pushing out albums sometimes with a band accompaniment but also without the drugs more recent albums such as With Teeth and Year Zero. Was he better with or without the drugs?
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I like all of what Trent has been involved in musically. "Suck" from his collaboration with the collaborative band Pigface being one of my favorite songs. In the credits for the song on the inside of the album cover it says, where other songs list musicians and vocalists.., "Whatever Trent wants.. really" I truly enjoy his individualistic music.. it is the selfish music of an drug user.. a drug addict.
I bought the album "Pretty Hate Machine" in 1989 when I was 18 years old and my addiction was in its infancy .. I could really connect with the music and lyrics.. one of my favorite songs then.. and now ...is "Down In it". Today I see that this song is the light at the end of the tunnel that we addicts see when we in the back back back of our minds first suspect that we have a problem.. not that we are going to deal with it.. but we can see it.. and just do not care.
I feel my life of addiction has nearly paralleled Trent's and in this empathetic love of his music I find that I enjoy to watch the progression of his disease as told through his music. This leads me to, because I myself am sober today as well, to like the newer songs more because I can hear that he is doing better but I feel if I were still getting high I would not see things the same way.. I would rebel against the sober Trent and not enjoy his newer music as much or even at all.
So to me personally I like all of his music, the new stuff more so than the old because I am happy he is sober .. if he were not he likely would not be alive.. I am happy another addict is alive and doing so well with the career that they were pursuing during their addictive years.. That is not a common case, many of us have to change careers and seek new ways of earning money.. addiction asking us to give everything away and we with conviction doing so effortlessly.
This song as well.. "The Becoming" another one that indicates the soullessness of the man, the addict, the Trent Reznor.. is another piece of music that then was accurate description of him both inside and out and now is only a distant memory of who he used to be and that makes me happy.. which is against the basic grain of the theme of NIN and all of the other music done by this troubled artist.
I'll bet he has been through the "Becoming" twice.. once for bad and once for good and it is in the combinations of this experience that we get the music we get from him so in this I find that I love all of the music he has made so far.
From "The Becoming"
"It won't give up, it wants me dead, God damn this noise inside my head"
And then the track from 2008... "The Slip" (we've all had'em) and "Discipline" (we all find it)
I bought the album "Pretty Hate Machine" in 1989 when I was 18 years old and my addiction was in its infancy .. I could really connect with the music and lyrics.. one of my favorite songs then.. and now ...is "Down In it". Today I see that this song is the light at the end of the tunnel that we addicts see when we in the back back back of our minds first suspect that we have a problem.. not that we are going to deal with it.. but we can see it.. and just do not care.
I feel my life of addiction has nearly paralleled Trent's and in this empathetic love of his music I find that I enjoy to watch the progression of his disease as told through his music. This leads me to, because I myself am sober today as well, to like the newer songs more because I can hear that he is doing better but I feel if I were still getting high I would not see things the same way.. I would rebel against the sober Trent and not enjoy his newer music as much or even at all.
So to me personally I like all of his music, the new stuff more so than the old because I am happy he is sober .. if he were not he likely would not be alive.. I am happy another addict is alive and doing so well with the career that they were pursuing during their addictive years.. That is not a common case, many of us have to change careers and seek new ways of earning money.. addiction asking us to give everything away and we with conviction doing so effortlessly.
This song as well.. "The Becoming" another one that indicates the soullessness of the man, the addict, the Trent Reznor.. is another piece of music that then was accurate description of him both inside and out and now is only a distant memory of who he used to be and that makes me happy.. which is against the basic grain of the theme of NIN and all of the other music done by this troubled artist.
I'll bet he has been through the "Becoming" twice.. once for bad and once for good and it is in the combinations of this experience that we get the music we get from him so in this I find that I love all of the music he has made so far.
From "The Becoming"
"It won't give up, it wants me dead, God damn this noise inside my head"
And then the track from 2008... "The Slip" (we've all had'em) and "Discipline" (we all find it)
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I personally am a huge fan of the band Nine Inch Nails, and think Trent Reznor
is plain a simple a genius. Now about him being better or worse, with out the drugs is a little hard to say. First I guess with all artists they think that drugs will help you look deeper in your mind and your soul, and figure out things that are not very plain to see. On the other hand things like that come naturally when you are just a great artist. Drugs I think make people more emotional which help with creating very emotional songs or any type of art, but when you have talent it is not needed. This was an awesome question, I look forward to seeing all of the answers this one gets!
is plain a simple a genius. Now about him being better or worse, with out the drugs is a little hard to say. First I guess with all artists they think that drugs will help you look deeper in your mind and your soul, and figure out things that are not very plain to see. On the other hand things like that come naturally when you are just a great artist. Drugs I think make people more emotional which help with creating very emotional songs or any type of art, but when you have talent it is not needed. This was an awesome question, I look forward to seeing all of the answers this one gets!
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We are all fortunate to have an artistic and musical window into the mind and heart of an addict with Trent.. if one listens closely enough all of it is there for the looking.. well, listening but when were are listening closely to Trent we are looking at a pretty honest depiction of the struggles he has suffered from and lived through.
I was never even addicted to drugs and I agree with every word. I always loved The Great Below, and adore the newer Leaving Hope.. but I have yet to find a NiN song I do not like.