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NIN
Talking About Nothing with
Trent ReznorI
pee
standing up, just like everyone else. That's what I was doing when you
knocked on the door. My gosh did I shake his hand? I can't remember...
Trent Reznor insists he is a normal guy. He doesn't hang from the
rafters
dur- ing the daylight hours he spends them in a recording studio playing
with musical instruments, electronics, and noises. Even so, he has an
atypical
persona, expressed first in his music, and then in the brutal and
disturbing
imagery of his videos and photos. His previous residence the
now-demolished
Tate mansion adds to his strange image. (He kept the front door as a
souvenir.)
Armed with these bits and pieces of the sole musician who makes up Nine
Inch Nails, a person's imagination can go wild. The video for Happiness
banned almost everywhere for its scenes of graphic mutilation his dark,
brooding good looks his hair, clothing, and pale skin all make it
obvious
that he's not normal. He probably doesn't do everyday things like the
rest
of us. Eating and sleeping, for instance... let alone the business of
his
opening line... Although he is small in stature, Reznor is larger than
life in music, on stage (the surprise hit of the first Lollapalooza) and
to his fans. He is quite animated, and has a sarcastic wit. He takes his
work quite seriously, though. For the new Nine Inch Nails album The
Downward
Spiral, he worked again with co-producer Flood of U2 and Depeche Mode
fame.
Flood, who also copro- duced the first two NIN albums (Pretty Hate
Machine
and Broken), shares Reznor's work ethic. We really work, explains
Reznor.
It's not a party. He is a true fan and music tinkerer type person.
Before
the interview, Reznor suggested that I listen to The Downward Spiral at
least five times, ...to let it digest properly. I must have listened to
it ten times, and another twenty since, and it still hasn't completely
digested. The Downward Spiral has many sonic textures and
characteristics
that industrial music and Trent Reznor aren't known for. He enlisted the
talents of human musicians Adrian Belew on guitar and Stephen Perkins on
drums for a track each. Uniqueness and risk-taking are very important to
him, and he has taken chances with this album. The track A Warm Place
has
no vocals. While songs such as Heresy are as icy and electronic as ever,
Hurt has a warmly human feel. Lyrically it is classic Reznor: I hurt
myself
today, to see if I still feel/I focus on the pain, the only thing that's
real.... The Broken album was filled with the outrage that was generated
over the course of several years of bitter legal battles with TVT
Records,
the first home of Nine Inch Nails. Although still filled with musical
fury,
Reznor seems much more content with his present situation. Listening to
this album, I can understand why he likes and respects the musicians he
has collaborated with and signed to his own label, nothing, and why his
demeanor is so contented. Trent Reznor's third album is the upward
spiral
of pop music's most interesting tinkerer.
