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https://www.nin.wiki/index.php?title=Talk:A_Drowning&diff=30106
Talk:A Drowning
2010-05-06T02:40:24Z
<p>Aeontriad: New page: this song goes well right before the song "Lights in the Sky". similar ambiance and theme (i.e. drowning). "Lights" seems to be Trent's response to "A Drowning".</p>
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<div>this song goes well right before the song "Lights in the Sky". similar ambiance and theme (i.e. drowning). "Lights" seems to be Trent's response to "A Drowning".</div>
Aeontriad
https://www.nin.wiki/index.php?title=Talk:Antichrist_Superstar&diff=22655
Talk:Antichrist Superstar
2008-08-28T21:40:28Z
<p>Aeontriad: </p>
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<div>didn't reznor destroy the oringal tracks for the album? [[User:Aeontriad|Aeontriad]] 14:40, 28 August 2008 (PDT)</div>
Aeontriad
https://www.nin.wiki/index.php?title=Talk:Antichrist_Superstar&diff=22654
Talk:Antichrist Superstar
2008-08-28T21:40:18Z
<p>Aeontriad: New page: didn't reznor destroy the oringal tracks for the album?</p>
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<div>didn't reznor destroy the oringal tracks for the album?</div>
Aeontriad
https://www.nin.wiki/index.php?title=Talk:Discipline&diff=22040
Talk:Discipline
2008-07-25T21:50:41Z
<p>Aeontriad: </p>
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<div>Hey, are we gonna mention the video on nin.com?<br />
Cuz there were references to the ARG towards the end, and it cuts off the end of the song.<br />
and also, the multitrack version goes an extra 30-40 seconds, because it doesn't fade out.<br />
Are these mentionable?<br />
[[User:Armac|Armac]] 18:03, 28 April 2008 (PDT)<br />
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The video is NOT official, there's no call to mention it any more than Meathead's other videos. And as there is no multitrack "version", it's not really applicable to be added IMO. [[User:Sheepdean|Sheepdean]] 03:23, 29 April 2008 (PDT)<br />
:I agree and disagree at the same time. Although it's unofficial, it should probably still have a mention somewhere in the article that [[The Meathead Perspective]] did a video for it. Same for [[Every Day Is Exactly The Same|EDIETS]]. --[[User:Tony|Tony]]<sup>[[User_talk:Tony|converse!]]</sup> 13:34, 29 April 2008 (PDT)<br />
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Sorry, i was not aware that the video was unofficial, but as for the multitrack version. What i was referring to was the extended outro containted in the multitrack. There IS a difference. [[User:Armac|Armac]] 21:30, 29 April 2008 (PDT)<br />
:Wait. I'm not questioning your intelligence here, but you ''seriously'' thought that the animated video of Nine Inch Nails waving their shirts in the air while Josh Freese wears a Devo hat and Alessandro Cortini wears American Indian memorabilia... was official? --[[User:Tony|Tony]]<sup>[[User_talk:Tony|converse!]]</sup> 13:50, 30 April 2008 (PDT)<br />
::Oh, and I don't think the fact that the radio version fades and the multitrack one doesn't deserves a spot in the Wiki article - I don't really see who would benefit from knowing that information. But if you want, go ahead - it couldn't hurt :-) --[[User:Tony|Tony]]<sup>[[User_talk:Tony|converse!]]</sup> 13:52, 30 April 2008 (PDT)<br />
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Actually, and quite unfortunately i did. I've never seen the meathead things, and i thought they were just screwing around. Feel free to question my intelligence. shoulda guessed that NIN would never dress like the men at work.[[User:Armac|Armac]] 19:41, 30 April 2008 (PDT)<br />
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To be honest I wasn't aware it wasn't official at first either. I had never heard of "meathead" and the link was on the NiN page so its surely not an unforgivable mistake? In any event I think the fact that Trent was obviously amused enough to draw attention to it makes the vid worth at least a mention.[[User:Honestmistake|Honestmistake]] 06:31, 8 May 2008 (PDT)<br />
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I'm not sure if anyone else noticed, but Trent seems to have a couple "false starts" at the begninning of the song when he starts singing. Being that Trent is known for being a perfectionist, I don't see this as being an accident. There may be no meaning to it, but it is worth mentioning. [[User:Aeontriad|Aeontriad]]<br />
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== Lyrics ==<br />
<br />
I know I'll catch flak for this, but would anyone agree the lyrics may or may not suggest Reznor is commenting on his change of style, starting with ''With_Teeth'', towards a less overtly aggressive musical style that will forever be attributed to ''The Downward Spiral''? I know many fans have criticized his new direction and to me, Reznor's "Discipline" sounds like a musing on his own music. Include this into the Wiki without potentially insulting either the band or the fans would be difficult however. [[User:D Boland|D Boland]] 12:58, 7 May 2008 (PDT)<br />
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::I see your point and it makes sense, but I really don't think the music is any less aggressive as it was on previous releases, but rather a different approach. As far the the subject matter of the song, only Trent can tell us what it's really about. [[User:Aeontriad|Aeontriad]]<br />
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== Artwork ==<br />
<br />
If you turn the shape a certain way, it resembles the star portion or the AIR flag. [[User:Aeontriad|Aeontriad]]<br />
:How can a lowercase 'd' shaped arrangement of squares resemble a star? [[User:Armac|Armac]] 16:16, 22 May 2008 (PDT)<br />
::NO! Not shaped like the star. Shaped like the section that CONTAINS the star. Don't be a fool. [[User:Armac|Armac]] 16:19, 22 May 2008 (PDT) (still)</div>
Aeontriad
https://www.nin.wiki/index.php?title=The_Slip&diff=22027
The Slip
2008-07-24T21:52:36Z
<p>Aeontriad: </p>
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<div>[[Image:The_slip.jpg|thumb|200px|Halo 27: ''The Slip'']]<br />
'''''The Slip''''' (also known as '''''[[Halo numbers|Halo 27]]''''') is the eighth and latest studio album from [[Nine Inch Nails]]. It was released as a free download on May 5, 2008, and contains the previously released Web-only singles "[[Discipline]]" and "[[Echoplex]]."<br />
<br />
The album is available for download in a variety of formats, including MP3, lossless FLAC and high-quality WAV files. When playing the MP3 files in an MP3 player a different piece of artwork is displayed for each song, [[The_Photography_of_Ghosts_I%E2%80%93IV|as was the case with]] ''[[Ghosts I–IV]]''.<br />
<br />
==Formats==<br />
===Downloads===<br />
*High-quality MP3s (87 mb), encoded with LAME at V0, fully tagged.<br />
*FLAC lossless (259 mb)<br />
*FLAC high definition 24/96 (942 mb), better-than-CD-quality 24bit 96kHz audio<br />
*M4A Apple Lossless (263 mb)<br />
*High definition WAVE 24/96 (1.2 gb), better-than-CD-quality 24bit 96kHz audio<br />
<br />
The FLAC, M4A and WAVE formats are distributed via torrents through tracker.nin.com. All formats include a PDF file with artwork and credits, all songs include individual track art and lyrics embedded. All files are 100% DRM-free.<br />
<br />
===Physical product===<br />
''The Slip'' will be available as a physical product in CD and vinyl formats. The 6 panel digipak will be limited to 250,000 pieces worldwide, each individually numbered, and will include a DVD of NIN performing five live tracks from ''The Slip'' at rehearsals, a 24-page booklet, and an exclusive sticker pack. The CD is to be released July 22, 2008 in the US and Canada, and released July 21, 2008 in the UK and Europe.<br />
<br />
Originally, the physical product was intended to be released on July 22, 2008 in the US, Canada, and Japan as a numbered, CD/DVD package, limited to 250,000 units with the UK, Europe, and Australian unnumbered editions to be released on July 21, 2008, with the same content as the North American and Japanese editions. It is not known at this time why the decision was made for the numbers produced to be reduced.<br />
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The double gatefold vinyl release contains one 180-gram LP and a 24-page booklet. Unlike the CD release, the vinyl is not numbered. It will be released in the US and Canada on august 5th, 2008, and in the UK and Europe on August 4th, 2008.<br />
<br />
On July 16, 2008, [[Trent Reznor]] posted two images of the physical product on nin.com. The post was entitled "The Beginning and the End." The first image shows him holding two copies of the album, hiding his face behind them. The second image shows the backs of both CDs. The one in back reads 1/250,000 and the one in front reads 250,000/250,000.<br />
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The Limited Edition CD comes with three 4" x 4"stickers and each depict one of the 10 illustrations for the songs, aside from Demon Seed which does not appear to have had its artwork released as a sticker. It also seems that none of the stickers have the red lines.<br />
<br />
The cover of the insert is a new piece of artwork that depicts several light gray lines on a dark background (the same color as the one for 1,000,000). Five lines, two on the ends and three in the middle, all travel straight downward from the top edge to the bottom. Two more lines, in between the three middle and two outside, on each side, start straight downward, then slant inward, then travel straight downward parallel to the other lines before they would intersect the ones in the middle.<br />
<br />
====Third Disc & 11th Track====<br />
There was some confusion about the physical release, mostly due to information on Amazon.com (US) and other online retailers. The product description indicated the release included three discs which were rumored to include an unreleased or “hidden disc” of unreleased studio tracks entitled “The Take Over”. Later on, the track listing on the site was updated to show 11 tracks. The 11th track was entitled “Slip”. <br />
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All of this was clarified as rumor and error when the official release information was posted on July 21, 2008 at [http://theslip.nin.com/physical/ theslip.nin.com/physical]<br />
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==Track Listing==<br />
#"[[999,999]]" - 1:25<br />
#"[[1,000,000]]" - 3:56<br />
#"[[Letting You]]" - 3:49<br />
#"[[Discipline]]" - 4:19<br />
#"[[Echoplex]]" - 4:45<br />
#"[[Head Down]]" - 4:55<br />
#"[[Lights In The Sky (song)|Lights In The Sky]]" - 3:29<br />
#"[[Corona Radiata]]" - 7:33<br />
#"[[The Four Of Us Are Dying]]" - 4:37<br />
#"[[Demon Seed]]" - 4:59<br />
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Full length: 43:45<br />
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==DVD Track Listing==<br />
#"1,000,000"<br />
#"Letting You"<br />
#"Discipline"<br />
#"Echoplex"<br />
#"Head Down"<br />
<br />
Full Length: 21:17<br />
<br />
==Album Credits==<br />
*Written by Trent Reznor<br />
*Performed by Trent Reznor, [[Josh Freese]], [[Robin Finck]] and [[Alessandro Cortini]]<br />
*Produced by Trent Reznor, [[Atticus Ross]] and [[Alan Moulder]]<br />
*Mixed by Alan Moulder<br />
*Programmed by Atticus Ross<br />
*Engineered by [[Michael Tuller]], Atticus Ross and Alan Moulder<br />
*Mastered by Brian Gardner at Bernie Grundman Mastering, Hollywood, California<br />
<br />
*Room tuning: Steve “Coco” Brandon<br />
*Art direction: [[Rob Sheridan]] and Trent Reznor<br />
*Cover styling: Amy Hall<br />
*Hair: Cori Bardo<br />
<br />
*Project coordination: [[Brett Bachemin]]<br />
*Assistance: Alynn Dotson<br />
*Management: Rebel Waltz<br />
*Business management: William Harper and Michael Walsh for Gelfand, Rennert & Feldman<br />
*Legal: Gary Stiffelman and David Byrnes<br />
*World wide booking: Marc Geiger for William Morris Agency<br />
*Press [us]: Steve Martin (Nasty Little Man)<br />
*Press [uk]: Frances McCahon (RMP)<br />
<br />
*The Null Corporation Europe: Didi Parlevliet<br />
*Published by: Form And Texture (ASCAP)<br />
*Label: The Null Corporation<br />
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© 2008 NIN<br />
<br />
<br />
*Thank you: Bob Morelli, Alan Becker, Danny Buch and everyone at Red; Digidesign; Elena Dickstein and Preferred Travel; Jeffrey Ehrenberg and Vintage King; Jeffrey Jorton and Native Instruments; Paul J. Cox Studio Systems; Phillip Scholes and SSL; Rockit Cargo; Roger Cordell and Big City Music; Ross Garfield and Drum Doctors; Shawn Cleary and Analogue Haven; Shivaun O’Brien and Sound City Studios; Sudjam; Topspin Media Inc.; West L.A. Music<br />
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*Thank you (continued): Bruno Bondanelli, Candy Soo, Chris Whitemyer, Christina Lum, Craig Johnston, David Phillips, Irina Volodarsky, Jeff Davis, Jeff Masud, Jessica Trento, John Coleman, Josh Smith, June Munsinger, Karen Ciccone, Kelly Jao, Marie Lewis, [[Rich Fownes]], Ross Rosen, Shamal Ranasinghe, Sherri Durrell, Tamar Levine, Zia Modabber<br />
<br />
This album is licensed under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/ Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike license]. <br />
<br />
More information: [http://creativecommons.org/ www.creativecommons.org]<br />
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Video Content: <br />
*nine inch nails live: Alessandro Cortini, Robin Finck, Josh Freese, Justin Meldal-Johnsen, Trent Reznor<br />
<br />
*Produced by Michael Angelos<br />
*Directed and edited by Rob Sheridan<br />
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*[[Letting You]], [[Head Down]], and [[Discipline]] mixed by Blumpy<br />
*[[1,000,000]] and [[Echoplex]] mixed by Ken Andrews at Red Swan Studios<br />
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*Production Manager: Mark Demarais<br />
*Director of Photography: Simon Thirlaway<br />
*Camera Operators: Simon Thirlaway, Rob Sheridan, Hilton Goring, Dan Bombell, Ethan McDonald<br />
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*Mastered by Tom Baker at Precision Mastering, Hollywood, CA<br />
*DVD media services by Broadness, NYC.<br />
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[[http://www.nin.com/ www.nin.com]]<br />
<br />
==Release==<br />
Prior to the album's release, a message was posted on [[nin.com]], simply stating "2 weeks!". The previous time the same message had been posted on the site had been to forbear the release of ''Ghosts I-IV''. Two tracks, "Discipline" and "Echoplex", were also released through radio and the internet respectively, both containing the message "go to www.nin.com May 5" in their ID3 tags. <br />
<br />
On May 5th, nin.com was updated with the title [[Halo numbers|Halo 27]] and a link to [[theslip.nin.com]] with the message:<br />
"(thank you for your continued and loyal support over the years - this one’s on me)"<br />
<br />
The album site requires a password to be submitted where the link to the download page can be sent to. The site itself states:<br />
"as a thank you to our fans for your continued support, we are giving away the new nine inch nails album one hundred percent free,<br />
exclusively via nin.com."<br><br />
"we encourage you to remix it, share it with your friends, post it on your blog, play it on your podcast, give it to strangers, etc." <br />
[[Multitracks]] for the songs were then posted for download from [[remix.nin.com]]<br />
<br />
According to a [http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/20818072/nin_release_free_album_online Rolling Stone article], the album was finished May 4th and sent to Sudjam, the company that manages nin.com, at 9:30 p.m. for a midnight release.<br />
<br />
In a [[nin.com]] update on June 26th, 2008, it was reported that since the album's release on May 5th, 2008, over 1,400,000 people had downloaded ''The Slip'' from theslip.nin.com. That number represents individual people, and excludes multiple downloads from the same order. <br />
<br />
== Relation to Year Zero ==<br />
Like ''[[Ghosts I-IV]]'', the release of ''The Slip'' came as a surprise to most fans, who were expecting the next release to be a "''Year Zero 2''". Trent Reznor has indicated in interviews since the release that a ''[[Year Zero]]'' sequel was still in the works.<br />
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It remains unclear what portions, if any, of ''The Slip'' should be considered as canon in the Year Zero storyline. Aside from from [[Art Is Resistance]] logo in the artwork for "Letting You", there are no clear direct references characters or events in Year Zero. Many of tracks do share similar themes, such as abuse of power ("Letting You"), an avatar of destruction ("Demon Seed"), submission to authority ("Head Down"), imprisonment ("Echoplex") and the appearance of entities in the sky ("Lights In The Sky"). Other songs, however, like "1,000,000" and "Discipline", seem completely unrelated and feature more "traditional" NIN themes of personal turmoil.<br />
<br />
==Miscellanea==<br />
The high quality wave download torrent includes a subdirectory named "The Slip art", containing JPEG images. However, the file "02-1000000.jpg", has an incorrect file extension. This is actually an Adobe Photoshop CS3 (Macintosh version) file with a single layer and no significant meta information attached.<br />
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There also seems to be a mistake in the wave files; The track "The Four Of Us Are Dying" is mistitled "Demon Seed" and vice versa.<br />
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The final page of the PDF gives credit to "(c) 2008 niin." This appears to be a typographical error.<br />
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Audiophile message board [http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php Hydrogen Audio] noticed mastering errors on the 24/96 high-def WAVs, which was followed by posters "ningineer" and "treznor" who wrote that they had recontacted the mastering studio and released the WAVs in addition to high-def FLACs.[http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=63086] On May 15th the nin.com Halo 27 blog post was edited with the message: ''"Some friends at hydrogenaudio pointed out an error with the high resolution WAVE files we didn't catch. The corrected files are now posted along with high resolution FLAC files as well. If you're interested in these, simply re-download the new files. Sorry for the hassle!"''<br />
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A Google Earth KML file representing downloads of ''The Slip'' according to geographic region was made available from nin.com on June 26th, displaying over 1,400,000 downloads (not including multiple downloads) that had come from theslip.nin.com.<br />
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==External Links==<br />
*[http://theslip.nin.com theslip.nin.com]<br />
*[http://www.ilike.com/artist/Nine+Inch+Nails Streaming audio at iLike]<br />
*[http://theslip.nin.com/physical/ theslip.nin.com/physical]<br />
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[[Category:NIN Discography]]</div>
Aeontriad
https://www.nin.wiki/index.php?title=999,999&diff=22026
999,999
2008-07-24T21:50:46Z
<p>Aeontriad: </p>
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<div>{{expand}}{{song<br />
| title=999,999<br />
| album=''[[The Slip]]''<br />
| length=1:25<br />
| versions=999,999<br />
| live=[[Lights In The Sky Tour]]<br />
}}[[Image:999999.jpg|thumb|200px|Artwork accompanying the MP3 file]]<br />
<br />
'''''"999,999"''''' is the first track from the [[Nine Inch Nails]] album ''[[The Slip]]''. It is primarily an instrumental, with some brief whispered clips of words and spoken vocals at the end. The song's title and instrumental nature may suggest a reference to the ''[[Ghosts I–IV]]'', and the transition with the song [[1,000,000]] into the new style of ''The Slip''. The accompanying artwork seems to be made of six '9's, three of which are facing down, with their tails merging with the tails of the '9's facing upward. The three facing upward '9's could also be in fact '6's, that could very well tie this first track with the last, ''[[Demon Seed]]''.<br />
<br />
The artwork for the sticker from the CD/DVD release is the same as the digital release, but with the red lines omitted. <br />
<br />
==Appearances==<br />
===Halos===<br />
*''[[The Slip]]''<br />
<br />
==Versions==<br />
===999,999===<br />
<br />
This is the original album version.<br />
<br />
==Live==<br />
This song was used as intro at the dress rehearsal show of [[Lights In The Sky Tour]].<br />
<br />
==Lyrics==<br />
<br />
While the song is an instrumental, a short vocal can be heard at the end:<br />
<br />
How did I slip into (this)?<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
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[[Category:NIN Songs]][[Category:NIN Instrumentals]]</div>
Aeontriad
https://www.nin.wiki/index.php?title=999,999&diff=22025
999,999
2008-07-24T21:50:30Z
<p>Aeontriad: </p>
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<div>{{expand}}{{song<br />
| title=999,999<br />
| album=''[[The Slip]]''<br />
| length=1:25<br />
| versions=999,999<br />
| live=[[Lights In The Sky Tour]]<br />
}}[[Image:999999.jpg|thumb|200px|Artwork accompanying the MP3 file]]<br />
<br />
'''''"999,999"''''' is the first track from the [[Nine Inch Nails]] album ''[[The Slip]]''. It is primarily an instrumental, with some brief whispered clips of words and spoken vocals at the end. The song's title and instrumental nature may suggest a reference to the ''[[Ghosts I–IV]]'', and the transition with the song [[1,000,000]] into the new style of ''The Slip''. The accompanying artwork seems to be made of six '9's, three of which are facing down, with their tails merging with the tails of the '9's facing upward. The three facing upward '9's could also be in fact '6's, that could very well tie this first track with the last, ''[[Demon Seed]]''.<br />
<br />
The artwork for the sticker from the CD/DVD release is the same as the digital release, but with the red line omitted. <br />
<br />
==Appearances==<br />
===Halos===<br />
*''[[The Slip]]''<br />
<br />
==Versions==<br />
===999,999===<br />
<br />
This is the original album version.<br />
<br />
==Live==<br />
This song was used as intro at the dress rehearsal show of [[Lights In The Sky Tour]].<br />
<br />
==Lyrics==<br />
<br />
While the song is an instrumental, a short vocal can be heard at the end:<br />
<br />
How did I slip into (this)?<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
[[Category:NIN Songs]][[Category:NIN Instrumentals]]</div>
Aeontriad
https://www.nin.wiki/index.php?title=Letting_You&diff=22024
Letting You
2008-07-24T21:49:25Z
<p>Aeontriad: </p>
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<div>{{expand}}{{song<br />
| title=Letting You<br />
| album=''[[The Slip]]''<br />
| length=3:50<br />
| versions=Letting You <br> Letting You (Live At Rehearsals)<br />
| live=[[Lights In The Sky Tour]]<br />
}}[[Image:Lettingyou.jpg|thumb|200px|Artwork accompanying the MP3 file]]'''"Letting You"''' is the third track on the Nine Inch Nails album ''[[The Slip]]''. A noisy and fast-paced song, it is somewhat similar to "[[You Know What You Are]]" from ''[[With Teeth (halo)|With Teeth]]'' and "[[March of the Pigs (halo)|March Of The Pigs]]" from ''[[The Downward Spiral (halo)|The Downward Spiral]]'', but also contains similarities to "[[Hyperpower!]]" and "[[The Good Soldier]]".<br />
<br />
The artwork is a vertically oriented [[Art Is Resistance]] emblem that can also be seen as the letters L and Y. The song can be interpreted as a protest song, similar to "[[The Hand That Feeds (song)|The Hand That Feeds]]," from 2005's ''[[With Teeth (halo)|With Teeth]].'' The artwork and subject matter of the lyrics may suggest a connection to Year Zero. <br />
<br />
The artwork for the sticker from the CD/DVD release is the same, but with the red line omitted. <br />
<br />
==Appearances==<br />
===Halos===<br />
*''[[The Slip]]''<br />
<br />
==Versions==<br />
===Letting You===<br />
This is the original album version.<br />
<br />
===Letting You (Live At Rehearsals)===<br />
<br />
This version of the song was released online via [[nin.com]] and PitchforkTV. It was filmed and recorded in the band's rehearsal space in mid 2008 and directed by [[Rob Sheridan]]. It also features on The Slip, on a DVD of rehearsal footage.<br />
<br />
==Live==<br />
This song was played on [[Lights In The Sky Tour]]<br />
<br />
==Lyrics==<br />
<br />
<br />
The sky is painted black<br />
The smoke pours out the stack<br />
One hand upon your heart<br />
One hand behind your back<br />
You train us how to act<br />
You keep the fear intact<br />
The imminent attack<br />
Everything is right on track<br />
<br />
And we are letting you get away<br />
We are letting you get away with it<br />
<br />
Upon our plates to feed<br />
The dying left to bleed <br />
How much we really need<br />
Your politics of greed<br />
The cancer takes ahold<br />
The wolf is in the fold<br />
Our destiny’s been sold<br />
We do just what we’re told<br />
<br />
And we are letting you get away<br />
We are letting you get away with it<br />
<br />
Your armies filled with hate<br />
Believing your charade<br />
Begin to suffocate<br />
For us it’s far too late<br />
<br />
And we are letting you get away<br />
We are letting you get away with it<br />
<br />
==External Links==<br />
*[http://www.nin.com/lettingyou.html "Letting You:" Live From Rehearsals]<br />
<br />
[[Category: NIN Songs]]</div>
Aeontriad
https://www.nin.wiki/index.php?title=1,000,000&diff=22023
1,000,000
2008-07-24T21:47:41Z
<p>Aeontriad: </p>
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<div>{{expand}}{{song<br />
| title=1,000,000<br />
| album=''[[The Slip]]''<br />
| length=3:56<br />
| versions=1,000,000 <br> 1,000,000 (Live At Rehearsals)<br />
| live=[[Lights In The Sky Tour]]<br />
}}[[Image:1000000.jpg|thumb|200px|Artwork accompanying the MP3 file]]<br />
"1,000,000" is the second track of the Nine Inch Nails album ''[[The Slip]].'' The work fits directly onto the end of "[[999,999]]," and seems to bridge the two styles of the albums ''[[Ghosts I–IV]]'' and ''[[The Slip]].'' The accompanying artwork is constructed of a '1' and six '0's. Also the one could possibly be a person slipping off the edge of a building, represented by the stack of zeroes. This would coincide with the lyrics. The artwork also resembles, like the artwork for the track "Discipline", the part of the Art is Resistance logo with the star.<br />
<br />
In the Limited Edition CD/DVD insert, there are two red lines in the artwork, one originating in the center of the bottom box on the left, and one originating in the middle box on the right. Both lines continue straight downward and off the page.<br />
<br />
The song shares a similair pattern, build-up and sound to "[[The Collector]]," notably how the songs begin, each with a drumming intro and following with a string instrument ("The Collector" had a bass while "1,000,000" has a guitar) which then leads into the lyrics.<br />
<br />
<br />
==Appearances==<br />
===Halos===<br />
*''[[The Slip]]''<br />
==Versions==<br />
<br />
===1,000,000===<br />
This is the original album version.<br />
<br />
===1,000,000 (Live At Rehearsals)===<br />
<br />
This version of the song was released online via [[nin.com]] and PitchforkTV. It was filmed and recorded in the band's rehearsal space in mid 2008 and directed by [[Rob Sheridan]]. It also features on The Slip, on a DVD of rehersal footage.<br />
<br />
==Live==<br />
This song made its live debut on the dress rearsal show of [[Lights In The Sky Tour]].<br />
<br />
==Lyrics==<br />
Kind of hard<br />
Hard to see<br />
When you crawl<br />
On your hands and your knees<br />
With your face<br />
In the trough<br />
Wait your turn<br />
While they finish you off<br />
Don’t know when it started<br />
Don’t know how<br />
Should have found out<br />
Should have happened by now<br />
Got these lines<br />
On my face<br />
After all this time<br />
And I still haven’t found my place<br />
<br />
I jump from every rooftop<br />
So high so far to fall<br />
I feel a million miles away <br />
I don’t feel any thing at all<br />
<br />
I wake up<br />
On the floor<br />
Start it up again<br />
Like it matters anymore<br />
I don’t know<br />
If it does<br />
Is this really all<br />
That there ever was?<br />
Put the gun <br />
In my mouth<br />
Close your eyes<br />
Blow my fucking brains out<br />
Pretty patterns<br />
On the floor<br />
That’s enough for you<br />
But I still need more<br />
<br />
I jump from every rooftop<br />
So high so far to fall<br />
I feel a million miles away <br />
I don’t feel any thing at all<br />
<br />
==External Links==<br />
*[http://www.nin.com/1000000.html "1,000,000:" Live From Rehearsals]<br />
[[Category: NIN Songs]]</div>
Aeontriad
https://www.nin.wiki/index.php?title=1,000,000&diff=22022
1,000,000
2008-07-24T21:46:55Z
<p>Aeontriad: </p>
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<div>{{expand}}{{song<br />
| title=1,000,000<br />
| album=''[[The Slip]]''<br />
| length=3:56<br />
| versions=1,000,000 <br> 1,000,000 (Live At Rehearsals)<br />
| live=[[Lights In The Sky Tour]]<br />
}}[[Image:1000000.jpg|thumb|200px|Artwork accompanying the MP3 file]]<br />
"1,000,000" is the second track of the Nine Inch Nails album ''[[The Slip]].'' The work fits directly onto the end of "[[999,999]]," and seems to bridge the two styles of the albums ''[[Ghosts I–IV]]'' and ''[[The Slip]].'' The accompanying artwork is constructed of a '1' and six '0's. Also the one could possibly be a person slipping off the edge of a building, represented by the stack of zeroes. This would coincide with the lyrics. The artwork also resembles, like the artwork for the track "Discipline", the part of the Art is Resistance logo with the star.<br />
<br />
In the Limited Edition CD/DVD insert, there are two red lines in the artwork, one originating in the center of the bottom box on the left, and one originating in the middle box on the right. Both lines continue straight downward and off the page.<br />
<br />
The song shares a similair pattern, build-up and sound to "[[The Collector]]," notably how the songs begin, each with a drumming intro and following with a string instrument ("The Collector" had a bass while "1,000,000" has a guitar) which then leads into the lyrics.<br />
<br />
The artwork for the physical release booklet has two red lines. The one of the left starts at the lower left 0 and goes down, the one on the right starts at the middle right 0 and goes down.<br />
<br />
==Appearances==<br />
===Halos===<br />
*''[[The Slip]]''<br />
==Versions==<br />
<br />
===1,000,000===<br />
This is the original album version.<br />
<br />
===1,000,000 (Live At Rehearsals)===<br />
<br />
This version of the song was released online via [[nin.com]] and PitchforkTV. It was filmed and recorded in the band's rehearsal space in mid 2008 and directed by [[Rob Sheridan]]. It also features on The Slip, on a DVD of rehersal footage.<br />
<br />
==Live==<br />
This song made its live debut on the dress rearsal show of [[Lights In The Sky Tour]].<br />
<br />
==Lyrics==<br />
Kind of hard<br />
Hard to see<br />
When you crawl<br />
On your hands and your knees<br />
With your face<br />
In the trough<br />
Wait your turn<br />
While they finish you off<br />
Don’t know when it started<br />
Don’t know how<br />
Should have found out<br />
Should have happened by now<br />
Got these lines<br />
On my face<br />
After all this time<br />
And I still haven’t found my place<br />
<br />
I jump from every rooftop<br />
So high so far to fall<br />
I feel a million miles away <br />
I don’t feel any thing at all<br />
<br />
I wake up<br />
On the floor<br />
Start it up again<br />
Like it matters anymore<br />
I don’t know<br />
If it does<br />
Is this really all<br />
That there ever was?<br />
Put the gun <br />
In my mouth<br />
Close your eyes<br />
Blow my fucking brains out<br />
Pretty patterns<br />
On the floor<br />
That’s enough for you<br />
But I still need more<br />
<br />
I jump from every rooftop<br />
So high so far to fall<br />
I feel a million miles away <br />
I don’t feel any thing at all<br />
<br />
==External Links==<br />
*[http://www.nin.com/1000000.html "1,000,000:" Live From Rehearsals]<br />
[[Category: NIN Songs]]</div>
Aeontriad
https://www.nin.wiki/index.php?title=Discipline&diff=22021
Discipline
2008-07-24T21:44:20Z
<p>Aeontriad: </p>
<hr />
<div>{{song<br />
| title =Discipline<br />
| album =[[The Slip]]<br />
| length =4:30<br />
| versions =Discipline<br />
| live =[[Lights In The Sky Tour]]<br />
}}[[image:discipline.jpg|thumb|''Discipline Track Art'']]'''"Discipline"''' is the latest single from [[Nine Inch Nails]], and is the fourth track on Halo 27, [[The Slip]]. It contains a beat reminiscent of "[[Only (song)|Only]]" from 2005's ''[[With Teeth (halo)|With Teeth]]'' and the lyrics seem to have a sado-masochistic overtone.<br />
<br />
The song was released to radio stations simultaneously around 2:30pm EST on April 22, 2008, being mastered only the day before, and was then made available as a free download via the official Nine Inch Nails website. When downloaded, it comes with track art and a note found in the comments box of the song info saying "Go to [[nin.com|www.nin.com]] on May 5", which was the release date of the then-unannounced album ''[[The Slip]]''. The lyrics are also contained.<br />
<br />
"Discipline" is the first radio single from NIN since becoming an independent recording act, following their final release under a major record label, 2007's ''[[Y34RZ3R0R3M1X3D]].'' Due to the advertisement and short notice of the release, the song was posted on YouTube almost immediately after release.<br />
<br />
When downloading the song from [http://discipline.nin.com discipline.nin.com], the process involves submitting an email address and a zip/postal code, opening the email and clicking the download link, then putting the token code into the website after clicking the link. A .zip file is automatically downloaded once the token and link have registered. In addition, the multitrack files can be found at [[Remix.nin.com|remix.nin.com]].<br />
<br />
The track art resembles a lowercase d. The shape also resembles the portion of the [[Media:800x600.jpg|Art is Resistance logo]] that contains the star. <br />
<br />
For the physical release booklet, the red line on the Discipline artwork continues over to the opposite lyrics page crossing over the phrase "I cannot help myself".<br />
<br />
==Appearances==<br />
===Halos===<br />
*''[[The Slip]]''<br />
<br />
==Versions==<br />
===Discipline (MP3 download version)===<br />
The original download version is 4:29 in length and fades out at the end.<br />
<br />
===Discipline (Album version)===<br />
The version on ''The Slip'' is 4:19 and starts to fade out at the end, but then abruptly cuts off as it segues into [[Echoplex]].<br />
The full-quality, .WAV format download is 4:34 and fades out slower and to a more complete silence than the MP3 version.<br />
<br />
===Discipline (Multitrack Combined version)===<br />
The version available at [[remix.nin.com]] in the form of seperate multitracks is 5:08 when combined, and does not fade out. Instead, the outro continues until abruptly coming to a halt.<br />
<br />
===Discipline (Live At Rehearsal)===<br />
This version of the song was filmed and recorded in the band's rehearsal space in mid 2008 and directed by Rob Sheridan. It features on The Slip, on a DVD of rehersal footage.<br />
<br />
==Lyrics==<br />
Am I still tough enough?<br />
Feels like I’m wearing down<br />
Is my viciousness<br />
Losing ground?<br />
Am I taking too much<br />
Did I cross a line<br />
I need my role in this<br />
Very clearly defined<br />
I need your discipline<br />
I need your help<br />
I need your discipline<br />
You know once I start I cannot help myself<br />
<br />
And now it's starting up<br />
feels like I'm losing touch<br />
Nothing matters to me<br />
Nothing matters as much<br />
I see you left a mark<br />
Up and down my skin<br />
I don't know where I end<br />
And where you begin<br />
I need your discipline<br />
I need your help<br />
I need your discipline<br />
You know once I start I cannot help myself<br />
Once I start I cannot stop myself<br />
<br />
==External Links==<br />
*[http://discipline.nin.com/ Official Discipline download page]<br />
<br />
[[Category:NIN Songs]]</div>
Aeontriad
https://www.nin.wiki/index.php?title=The_Slip&diff=22020
The Slip
2008-07-24T21:42:23Z
<p>Aeontriad: </p>
<hr />
<div>[[Image:The_slip.jpg|thumb|200px|Halo 27: ''The Slip'']]<br />
'''''The Slip''''' (also known as '''''[[Halo numbers|Halo 27]]''''') is the eighth and latest studio album from [[Nine Inch Nails]]. It was released as a free download on May 5, 2008, and contains the previously released Web-only singles "[[Discipline]]" and "[[Echoplex]]."<br />
<br />
The album is available for download in a variety of formats, including MP3, lossless FLAC and high-quality WAV files. When playing the MP3 files in an MP3 player a different piece of artwork is displayed for each song, [[The_Photography_of_Ghosts_I%E2%80%93IV|as was the case with]] ''[[Ghosts I–IV]]''.<br />
<br />
==Formats==<br />
===Downloads===<br />
*High-quality MP3s (87 mb), encoded with LAME at V0, fully tagged.<br />
*FLAC lossless (259 mb)<br />
*FLAC high definition 24/96 (942 mb), better-than-CD-quality 24bit 96kHz audio<br />
*M4A Apple Lossless (263 mb)<br />
*High definition WAVE 24/96 (1.2 gb), better-than-CD-quality 24bit 96kHz audio<br />
<br />
The FLAC, M4A and WAVE formats are distributed via torrents through tracker.nin.com. All formats include a PDF file with artwork and credits, all songs include individual track art and lyrics embedded. All files are 100% DRM-free.<br />
<br />
===Physical product===<br />
''The Slip'' will be available as a physical product in CD and vinyl formats. The 6 panel digipak will be limited to 250,000 pieces worldwide, each individually numbered, and will include a DVD of NIN performing five live tracks from ''The Slip'' at rehearsals, a 24-page booklet, and an exclusive sticker pack. The CD is to be released July 22, 2008 in the US and Canada, and released July 21, 2008 in the UK and Europe.<br />
<br />
Originally, the physical product was intended to be released on July 22, 2008 in the US, Canada, and Japan as a numbered, CD/DVD package, limited to 250,000 units with the UK, Europe, and Australian unnumbered editions to be released on July 21, 2008, with the same content as the North American and Japanese editions. It is not known at this time why the decision was made for the numbers produced to be reduced.<br />
<br />
The double gatefold vinyl release contains one 180-gram LP and a 24-page booklet. Unlike the CD release, the vinyl is not numbered. It will be released in the US and Canada on august 5th, 2008, and in the UK and Europe on August 4th, 2008.<br />
<br />
On July 16, 2008, [[Trent Reznor]] posted two images of the physical product on nin.com. The post was entitled "The Beginning and the End." The first image shows him holding two copies of the album, hiding his face behind them. The second image shows the backs of both CDs. The one in back reads 1/250,000 and the one in front reads 250,000/250,000.<br />
<br />
The Limited Edition CD comes with three 4" x 4"stickers and each depict one of the 10 illustrations for the songs, aside from Demon Seed which does not appear to have had its artwork released as a sticker. It also seems that none of the stickers have the red lines.<br />
<br />
The cover of the insert is a new piece of artwork that depicts several light gray lines on a dark background (the same color as the one for 1,000,000). Five lines, two on the ends and three in the middle, all travel straight downward from the top edge to the bottom. Two more lines, in between the three middle and two outside, on each side, start straight downward, then slant inward, then travel straight downward parallel to the other lines before they would intersect the ones in the middle.<br />
<br />
====Third Disc & 11th Track====<br />
There was some confusion about the physical release, mostly due to information on Amazon.com (US) and other online retailers. The product description indicated the release included three discs which were rumored to include an unreleased or “hidden disc” of unreleased studio tracks entitled “The Take Over”. Later on, the track listing on the site was updated to show 11 tracks. The 11th track was entitled “Slip”. <br />
<br />
All of this was clarified as rumor and error when the official release information was posted on July 21, 2008 at [http://theslip.nin.com/physical/ theslip.nin.com/physical]<br />
<br />
==Track Listing==<br />
#"[[999,999]]" - 1:25<br />
#"[[1,000,000]]" - 3:56<br />
#"[[Letting You]]" - 3:49<br />
#"[[Discipline]]" - 4:19<br />
#"[[Echoplex]]" - 4:45<br />
#"[[Head Down]]" - 4:55<br />
#"[[Lights In The Sky (song)|Lights In The Sky]]" - 3:29<br />
#"[[Corona Radiata]]" - 7:33<br />
#"[[The Four Of Us Are Dying]]" - 4:37<br />
#"[[Demon Seed]]" - 4:59<br />
<br />
Full length: 43:45<br />
<br />
==DVD Track Listing==<br />
#"1,000,000"<br />
#"Letting You"<br />
#"Discipline"<br />
#"Echoplex"<br />
#"Head Down"<br />
<br />
Full Length: 21:17<br />
<br />
==Album Credits==<br />
*Written by Trent Reznor<br />
*Performed by Trent Reznor, [[Josh Freese]], [[Robin Finck]] and [[Alessandro Cortini]]<br />
*Produced by Trent Reznor, [[Atticus Ross]] and [[Alan Moulder]]<br />
*Mixed by Alan Moulder<br />
*Programmed by Atticus Ross<br />
*Engineered by [[Michael Tuller]], Atticus Ross and Alan Moulder<br />
*Mastered by Brian Gardner at Bernie Grundman Mastering, Hollywood, California<br />
<br />
*Room tuning: Steve “Coco” Brandon<br />
*Art direction: [[Rob Sheridan]] and Trent Reznor<br />
*Cover styling: Amy Hall<br />
*Hair: Cori Bardo<br />
<br />
*Project coordination: [[Brett Bachemin]]<br />
*Assistance: Alynn Dotson<br />
*Management: Rebel Waltz<br />
*Business management: William Harper and Michael Walsh for Gelfand, Rennert & Feldman<br />
*Legal: Gary Stiffelman and David Byrnes<br />
*World wide booking: Marc Geiger for William Morris Agency<br />
*Press [us]: Steve Martin (Nasty Little Man)<br />
*Press [uk]: Frances McCahon (RMP)<br />
<br />
*The Null Corporation Europe: Didi Parlevliet<br />
*Published by: Form And Texture (ASCAP)<br />
*Label: The Null Corporation<br />
<br />
© 2008 NIN<br />
<br />
<br />
*Thank you: Bob Morelli, Alan Becker, Danny Buch and everyone at Red; Digidesign; Elena Dickstein and Preferred Travel; Jeffrey Ehrenberg and Vintage King; Jeffrey Jorton and Native Instruments; Paul J. Cox Studio Systems; Phillip Scholes and SSL; Rockit Cargo; Roger Cordell and Big City Music; Ross Garfield and Drum Doctors; Shawn Cleary and Analogue Haven; Shivaun O’Brien and Sound City Studios; Sudjam; Topspin Media Inc.; West L.A. Music<br />
<br />
*Thank you (continued): Bruno Bondanelli, Candy Soo, Chris Whitemyer, Christina Lum, Craig Johnston, David Phillips, Irina Volodarsky, Jeff Davis, Jeff Masud, Jessica Trento, John Coleman, Josh Smith, June Munsinger, Karen Ciccone, Kelly Jao, Marie Lewis, [[Rich Fownes]], Ross Rosen, Shamal Ranasinghe, Sherri Durrell, Tamar Levine, Zia Modabber<br />
<br />
This album is licensed under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/ Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike license]. <br />
<br />
More information: [http://creativecommons.org/ www.creativecommons.org]<br />
<br />
Video Content: <br />
*nine inch nails live: Alessandro Cortini, Robin Finck, Josh Freese, Justin Meldal-Johnsen, Trent Reznor<br />
<br />
*Produced by Michael Angelos<br />
*Directed and edited by Rob Sheridan<br />
<br />
*[[Letting You]], [[Head Down]], and [[Discipline]] mixed by Blumpy<br />
*[[1,000,000]] and [[Echoplex]] mixed by Ken Andrews at Red Swan Studios<br />
<br />
*Production Manager: Mark Demarais<br />
*Director of Photography: Simon Thirlaway<br />
*Camera Operators: Simon Thirlaway, Rob Sheridan, Hilton Goring, Dan Bombell, Ethan McDonald<br />
<br />
*Mastered by Tom Baker at Precision Mastering, Hollywood, CA<br />
*DVD media services by Broadness, NYC.<br />
<br />
[[http://www.nin.com/ www.nin.com]]<br />
<br />
==Release==<br />
Prior to the album's release, a message was posted on [[nin.com]], simply stating "2 weeks!". The previous time the same message had been posted on the site had been to forbear the release of ''Ghosts I-IV''. Two tracks, "Discipline" and "Echoplex", were also released through radio and the internet respectively, both containing the message "go to www.nin.com May 5" in their ID3 tags. <br />
<br />
On May 5th, nin.com was updated with the title [[Halo numbers|Halo 27]] and a link to [[theslip.nin.com]] with the message:<br />
"(thank you for your continued and loyal support over the years - this one’s on me)"<br />
<br />
The album site requires a password to be submitted where the link to the download page can be sent to. The site itself states:<br />
"as a thank you to our fans for your continued support, we are giving away the new nine inch nails album one hundred percent free,<br />
exclusively via nin.com."<br><br />
"we encourage you to remix it, share it with your friends, post it on your blog, play it on your podcast, give it to strangers, etc." <br />
[[Multitracks]] for the songs were then posted for download from [[remix.nin.com]]<br />
<br />
According to a [http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/20818072/nin_release_free_album_online Rolling Stone article], the album was finished May 4th and sent to Sudjam, the company that manages nin.com, at 9:30 p.m. for a midnight release.<br />
<br />
In a [[nin.com]] update on June 26th, 2008, it was reported that since the album's release on May 5th, 2008, over 1,400,000 people had downloaded ''The Slip'' from theslip.nin.com. That number represents individual people, and excludes multiple downloads from the same order. <br />
<br />
== Relation to Year Zero ==<br />
Like ''[[Ghosts I-IV]]'', the release of ''The Slip'' came as a surprise to most fans, who were expecting the next release to be a "''Year Zero 2''". Trent Reznor has indicated in interviews since the release that a ''[[Year Zero]]'' sequels was still in the works.<br />
<br />
It remains unclear what portions, if any, of ''The Slip'' should be considered as canon in the Year Zero storyline. Aside from from [[Art Is Resistance]] logo in the artwork for "Letting You", there are no clear direct references characters or events in Year Zero. Many of tracks do share similar themes, such as abuse of power ("Letting You"), an avatar of destruction ("Demon Seed"), submission to authority ("Head Down"), imprisonment ("Echoplex") and the appearance of entities in the sky ("Lights In The Sky"). Other songs, however, like "1,000,000" and "Discipline", seem completely unrelated and feature more "traditional" NIN themes of personal turmoil.<br />
<br />
==Miscellanea==<br />
The high quality wave download torrent includes a subdirectory named "The Slip art", containing JPEG images. However, the file "02-1000000.jpg", has an incorrect file extension. This is actually an Adobe Photoshop CS3 (Macintosh version) file with a single layer and no significant meta information attached.<br />
<br />
There also seems to be a mistake in the wave files; The track "The Four Of Us Are Dying" is mistitled "Demon Seed" and vice versa.<br />
<br />
The final page of the PDF gives credit to "(c) 2008 niin." This appears to be a typographical error.<br />
<br />
Audiophile message board [http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php Hydrogen Audio] noticed mastering errors on the 24/96 high-def WAVs, which was followed by posters "ningineer" and "treznor" who wrote that they had recontacted the mastering studio and released the WAVs in addition to high-def FLACs.[http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=63086] On May 15th the nin.com Halo 27 blog post was edited with the message: ''"Some friends at hydrogenaudio pointed out an error with the high resolution WAVE files we didn't catch. The corrected files are now posted along with high resolution FLAC files as well. If you're interested in these, simply re-download the new files. Sorry for the hassle!"''<br />
<br />
A Google Earth KML file representing downloads of ''The Slip'' according to geographic region was made available from nin.com on June 26th, displaying over 1,400,000 downloads (not including multiple downloads) that had come from theslip.nin.com.<br />
<br />
==External Links==<br />
*[http://theslip.nin.com theslip.nin.com]<br />
*[http://www.ilike.com/artist/Nine+Inch+Nails Streaming audio at iLike]<br />
*[http://theslip.nin.com/physical/ theslip.nin.com/physical]<br />
<br />
[[Category:NIN Discography]]</div>
Aeontriad
https://www.nin.wiki/index.php?title=User:Aeontriad&diff=21937
User:Aeontriad
2008-07-23T20:21:58Z
<p>Aeontriad: </p>
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<div>ae·on·tri·ad (n)<br />
<br />
1. A collection of three indefinitely long periods of time.<br />
<br />
I consider myself an artist, photographer, tinkerer, and thinker. There is not much to be said beyond that.<br />
<br />
<br />
http://www.myspace.com/aeontriad<br />
<br />
http://aeontriad.deviantart.com<br />
<br />
http://aeontriad.deviantart.com/art/The-Aeontriad-Theory-11668434<br />
<br />
The Slip 46,063/250,000</div>
Aeontriad
https://www.nin.wiki/index.php?title=Talk:The_Slip&diff=21936
Talk:The Slip
2008-07-23T20:20:46Z
<p>Aeontriad: </p>
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<div>Whilst the credits are to NIIN, I would assume a typo and on here we should put in the correct spelling. [[User:Sheepdean|Sheepdean]] 07:28, 5 May 2008 (PDT)<br />
:This is what I thought too, the audio files' comment tags read "(c) 2008 nin". [[User:Mobytoss|Mobytoss]] 09:53, 5 May 2008 (PDT)<br />
::okay; i changed it back [[User:Tocz|Tocz]] 10:47, 5 May 2008 (PDT)<br />
:::I felt this was still noteworthy, so I've added it to the miscellanea section. [[User:M0de l3d|M0de l3d]] 22:34, 13 May 2008 (PDT)<br />
<br />
Hey, this album's message seems to convey a possible breakup in nine inch nails. I mean, look at both the page for "the four of us are dying". Also, the album is called "The Slip".<br />
I dunno, feel free to expand.<br />
<br />
If NIN broke up, I'd be very worried, as there's only one member.[[User:Sheepdean|Sheepdean]] 17:19, 6 May 2008 (PDT)<br />
<br />
But four members worked on this album.<br />
<br />
Doubt it has anything to do with the "band" breaking up. It's most likely about Year Zero and personal reflection. [[User:Velvolver|Velvolver]] 20:55, 6 May 2008 (PDT)<br />
<br />
<br />
=Alien Abduction=<br />
<br />
This whole albums about the year zero story, and then eventually talks about alien abduction. Seriously, I'll explain more later [[User:Velvolver|Velvolver]] 21:13, 6 May 2008 (PDT)<br />
<br />
The hand on the cover art is probably The Presence. Also, the album itself seems to be a sort of interlude between Year Zero and what's coming after,<br />
like a calm before the storm. The "Lights in the Sky" lyrics remind me of the christian idea of the rapture, and the album itself up to that track could be viewed as characters<br />
portrayed in the Year Zero story line who are left behind by The Presence (or what the presence signified) to a world void of meaning. The big event happened, and these people<br />
were not part of it. Their struggle to come to terms with this situation in expressed in a variety of painful perspectives that all seem to meld into one resolved perspective<br />
at the end of the album. The song "The Great Destroyer" from Year Zero foreshadows this character portrayed in "Demon Seed", a person with "the infinite potential... to murder everything".<br />
So, if the Presence = the Rapture, then I'm assuming The Great Destroyer/Demon Seed = the Antichrist. Like Trent Reznor's version of the apocalypse.<br />
<br />
The Presence symbol (signifying the hand of God/Fate, or whatever) on the cover of The Slip would be that hand pulling the author behind the various characters on Year Zero<br />
and The Slip (literally, Trent Reznor, but in the same way that the hand represents "the Presence"{God, Fate, or whaterver} the author would represent the self{or soul, ego, identity, etc.})<br />
back into one underlaying identity, Resolved to destroy what's left of the world. <br />
<br />
That's my guess, anyway.<br />
<br />
Also, the art for "The Four Of Us Are Dying" looks like 4 isometric zeros, like the numeric representation of the year zero.<br />
<br />
=Image files=<br />
<br />
What's with the extra bar at the bottom of all the artwork files for ''[[The Slip]]''? The only place they seem to appear is on the wiki (ie. they're not in the PDF of the embedded images in the MP3s)? It's most notable on [[Lights In The Sky]] and [[The Four Of Us Are Dying]].<br />
<br />
This is most likely a glitch produced when they were posted, but I also noticed it. It almost looks like the top of the image repeated at the bottom. [[User:Aeontriad|Aeontriad]] 03:25, 15 May 2008 (PDT)<br />
<br />
== A Theory ==<br />
<br />
This was posted in the main article and I thought it would be better on this Discussion page.--[[User:Leo3375|leo3375]] 11:45, 13 May 2008 (PDT)<br />
<br />
===Potential Year Zero Concept===<br />
Although not officially stated, the concept seems to show certain events which happen to the main characters in the year zero universe. Below are some potential meanings to certain songs:<br />
<br />
====1,000,000====<br />
This song could be about a person who has been lead to believe something and realised it was all just a lie, so he has become over eccentric with the idea and decided he no longer wants to believe anything, he feels more alive now he is no longer restrained, at the same time he feels like he has to destroy himself because he has no meaning.<br />
<br />
====Letting You====<br />
How the fictional government are controlling its people but the people are to afraid to do anything about it. Another part of the song shows how the soldiers they are training believe they are fighting for liberty but they only seem to be fighting for the same lost cause as their leaders.<br />
<br />
====Discipline====<br />
This song resembles one specific person who seems to believe he is doing something wrong, or is being told he is doing wrong, so he should be disciplined. This could also resemble certain torture techniques the government use on prisoners (much like in the movies), which in turn, forces them to think they are doing something wrong when in fact they aren't.<br />
<br />
====Echoplex====<br />
This song is from the eyes of someone who is being held captive, how he is going crazy and is starting to believe he can see everything, most likely because of a lack of the fictional parepin which helps repress feelings of control. It also seems like he is slowly being forgotten about and nobody is going to rescue him from his cage.<br />
<br />
====Head Down====<br />
This song resembles somebody talking to themselves, trying not to get caught for something they have done wrong, with feelings of people watching him at all times, waiting for him to slip up.<br />
<br />
====Lights In The Sky====<br />
This seems to show a couple, which are more than likely a part of the resistance. One of them (Most Likely The Male) may have had a chance to escape the carnage the government is creating, but wont leave the other due to feelings for eachother.<br />
<br />
====Corona Radiata====<br />
This song is a little bit more curious, as the corona radiata are several protective layers surrounding ova or unfertilized egg cells, responsible with supplying the ova or egg cell with protein. This could mean the couple from lights in the sky are expecting or dont know the female is pregnant, possibly with the demon seed, as the red line in the image is connected to the artwork for demon seed. the song also begins with a more muffled sound much like you are listening from the inside of the womb, and gradually gets clearer and clearer.<br />
<br />
====The Four Of Us Are Dying====<br />
This songs artwork is not directly linked to the demon seed, much like lights in the sky, this means they are not being affected by the seed for the reason shown below. It could also show the main characters of the plotline dying out, ushering in the new era and the demon seed.<br />
<br />
====Demon Seed====<br />
This could be from the point of view of the child the girl is bearing only older, perhaps an orphan wants to find out more about their parents, only to find they were killed as part of a government resistance, this child would then decide to carry on what there parents started and take down the government, creating a new resistance. This is the theory on how the artwork for demon seed is connected to everything on the album apart from the potential resistance members, it never knew its family, yet it is able to change the course of everything else which is happening in the universe around it. (Also, the artwork for Demon Seed, when rotated counterclockwise, looks like 0001, the year after year zero. bethehammer)<br />
<br />
<br />
These are only speculative theories and have not been officially stated.<br />
<br />
== Artwork ==<br />
<br />
Does the red line tie in to the vocals at all? Because the songs with vocals have red lines, but I think (I haven't checked) the instrumentals don't have red line artwork.<br />
<br />
Probably not, as corona radiata has a red line and it's an instrumental, and lights in the sky does not have a red line, and it's a vocal track (bethehammer)<br />
<br />
Moved the two above posts down to this section. [[User:Aeontriad|Aeontriad]]<br />
<br />
I'm curious to see if the artwork holds any hidden meaning. I was thinking about seeing if the images could be aligned a certain way so that the red lines connect (though I haven't found the time to do this myself). I also found it curious that some of the images have a darker background than the others.<br />
<br />
== ''Year Zero'' Tie-In? ==<br />
<br />
I've started putting songs from ''The Slip'' in between songs from ''Year Zero'' and so far have found that some of the songs fit very well together.<br />
<br />
For example: 'The Good Soldier' fades really well into 'Echoplex' and 'Vessel' fits into the theme that follows in 'Head Down' and then 'Me, I'm Not'. I've also noticed that the background ambiance in 'Another Version Of The Truth' is very Similar to 'Corona Radiata'.<br />
<br />
I'm still moving songs around to find a good mix...and I may throw in songs from ''Ghosts I-IV'' to see if there is another connection. [[User:Aeontriad|Aeontriad]] 5/18/08<br />
<br />
== Third Disc? ==<br />
<br />
I emailed Amazon.com in regards to the listing of 3 discs.<br />
<br />
Comments:The product info lists this product as having 3 discs. The artist's website http://feeds.nin.com/ninNews describes the product as the follwing "The Slip will be available in an individually numbered 2 disc, 6 panel digipak..." I just wanted to get some clarification on this so I know what I'll be getting. Thank you for your time.<br />
<br />
Amazon.com: I understand that it is listed as 2 disc, 6 panel digipak in other website and it is listed as 3 discs on our website. The only information we can give you about a particular CD is what is displayed on the detail page for that particular music title.<br />
<br />
On many detail pages, in addition to the artist and recording label, you'll also find links to track listings, reviews, customer comments, a biography of the artist, a list of musical influences, and other CDs by that artist. All of these links appear in the left-hand margin.<br />
<br />
We understand that, unless you already know something about the CD, you may occasionally need more information than we have available to make a purchasing decision.<br />
<br />
Our editorial staff is constantly increasing the amount of information we provide about each item in our music store. We invite you to add to this information by submitting customer reviews for your favorite (or not-so-favorite) CDs.<br />
<br />
Further, if the CD is not you intended to buy, you can always return to us within 30 days for the full refund.<br />
<br />
If you have any further questions please visit our help pages for more information.<br />
<br />
[[User:Aeontriad|Aeontriad]] 07:57, 3 July 2008 (PDT)<br />
<br />
== The Slip only 2 disk! ==<br />
<br />
Amazon.com has changed the number of disks to 2. I sthis the correct number or is this a diversion tactic with the release so close?<br />
:Not from what I see:<br />
Product Details<br />
<br />
* Audio CD (July 22, 2008)<br />
* Original Release Date: July 22, 2008<br />
* Number of Discs: <b>3</b><br />
* Format: Limited Edition<br />
* Label: The Null Corporation<br />
* ASIN: B001B71NOI<br />
* In-Print Editions: Music Download<br />
* Amazon.com Sales Rank: #23 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)<br />
<br />
It still says 3 on .com [[User:Sheepdean|Sheepdean]] 05:55, 16 July 2008 (PDT)<br />
<br />
Just checked, Look:<br />
Product details<br />
<br />
Audio CD (28 Jul 2008) <br />
Number of Discs: 2 <br />
Label: The Null Corporation <br />
ASIN: B001B71NOI <br />
Average Customer Review: <br />
7 Reviews <br />
5 star: (4) <br />
4 star: (3) <br />
3 star: (0) <br />
2 star: (0) <br />
1 star: (0) <br />
<br />
See all 7 customer reviews... <br />
<br />
<br />
(7 customer reviews) <br />
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 52 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)<br />
Popular in these categories:<br />
::Seems that different Amazon sites have different information. Either they're correcting each page seperatly or smoething's afoot. [[User:Sheepdean|Sheepdean]] 05:55, 16 July 2008 (PDT)<br />
:::I'm sure that when people start getting their physical copies the information here will be clarified.--[[User:Leo3375|leo3375]] 08:33, 16 July 2008 (PDT)<br />
::::I just noticed that amazon.com was updated to show 2 discs now, but I did notice an 11th track entitled "Slip". We should probably wait to update the main page until this 11th track can be confirmed. [[User:Aeontriad|Aeontriad]] 14:40, 18 July 2008 (PDT)<br />
<br />
== Physical Product Confusion ==<br />
<br />
I'd like to suggest that we condense the confusion over the 3rd disc and 11th track into one section. Since the release info was made offical on http://theslip.nin.com/physical/ there should be no reason to keep all of the rumor stuff, possibly simplify it down to include just minor details over the confusion. [[User:Aeontriad|Aeontriad]] 14:34, 22 July 2008 (PDT)<br />
<br />
== Ths Stickers ==<br />
<br />
I finally got my physical copy (#7,154!), and I noticed that the artwork on the stickers differs slightly from the artwork in the book. Notably, it's missing all of the red. The three stickers I got were for [[999,999]], [[Letting You]] and [[The Four Of Us Are Dying]]. The first two's artwork in the book has red lines. These are missing from the stickers. Did others get different stickers? And are others' stickers also missing the red? --[[User:Mr z|Mr z]] 07:33, 23 July 2008 (PDT)<br />
:Alot of people have said this, can you upload your stickers for comparison on the website?[[User:Sheepdean|Sheepdean]] 08:08, 23 July 2008 (PDT)<br />
:I got #46,063 and stickers for 999,999, Letting You, and The Four of Us Are Dying as well. My stickers also do not have the red lines. I also noticed that in the booklet,the artwork for 1,000,000 has 2 red lines as opposed to none in the digital artwork. All the other artwork appears the same. The line on the Discipline artwork continues over to the lyrics crossing over the phrase "I cannot help myself" [[User:Aeontriad|Aeontriad]] 13:20, 23 July 2008 (PDT)</div>
Aeontriad
https://www.nin.wiki/index.php?title=The_Slip&diff=21913
The Slip
2008-07-22T21:48:18Z
<p>Aeontriad: </p>
<hr />
<div>[[Image:The_slip.jpg|thumb|200px|Halo 27: ''The Slip'']]<br />
'''''The Slip''''' (also known as '''''[[Halo numbers|Halo 27]]''''') is the eighth and latest studio album from [[Nine Inch Nails]]. It was released as a free download on May 5, 2008, and contains the previously released Web-only singles "[[Discipline]]" and "[[Echoplex]]."<br />
<br />
The album is available for download in a variety of formats, including MP3, lossless FLAC and high-quality WAV files. When playing the MP3 files in an MP3 player a different piece of artwork is displayed for each song, [[The_Photography_of_Ghosts_I%E2%80%93IV|as was the case with]] ''[[Ghosts I–IV]]''.<br />
<br />
==Formats==<br />
===Downloads===<br />
*High-quality MP3s (87 mb), encoded with LAME at V0, fully tagged.<br />
*FLAC lossless (259 mb)<br />
*FLAC high definition 24/96 (942 mb), better-than-CD-quality 24bit 96kHz audio<br />
*M4A Apple Lossless (263 mb)<br />
*High definition WAVE 24/96 (1.2 gb), better-than-CD-quality 24bit 96kHz audio<br />
<br />
The FLAC, M4A and WAVE formats are distributed via torrents through tracker.nin.com. All formats include a PDF file with artwork and credits, all songs include individual track art and lyrics embedded. All files are 100% DRM-free.<br />
<br />
===Physical product===<br />
''The Slip'' will be available as a physical product in CD and vinyl formats. The 6 panel digipak will be limited to 250,000 pieces worldwide, each individually numbered, and will include a DVD of NIN performing five live tracks from ''The Slip'' at rehearsals, a 24-page booklet, and an exclusive sticker pack. The CD is to be released July 22, 2008 in the US and Canada, and released July 21, 2008 in the UK and Europe.<br />
<br />
Originally, the physical product was intended to be released on July 22, 2008 in the US, Canada, and Japan as a numbered, CD/DVD package, limited to 250,000 units with the UK, Europe, and Australian unnumbered editions to be released on July 21, 2008, with the same content as the North American and Japanese editions. It is not known at this time why the decision was made for the numbers produced to be reduced.<br />
<br />
The double gatefold vinyl release contains one 180-gram LP and a 24-page booklet. Unlike the CD release, the vinyl is not numbered. It will be released in the US and Canada on august 5th, 2008, and in the UK and Europe on August 4th, 2008.<br />
<br />
On July 16, 2008, [[Trent Reznor]] posted two images of the physical product on nin.com. The post was entitled "The Beginning and the End." The first image shows him holding two copies of the album, hiding his face behind them. The second image shows the backs of both CDs. The one in back reads 1/250,000 and the one in front reads 250,000/250,000.<br />
<br />
The Limited Edition CD comes with three 4" x 4"stickers and each depict one of the 10 illustrations for the songs.<br />
<br />
====Third Disc & 11th Track====<br />
There was some confusion about the physical release, mostly due to information on Amazon.com (US) and other online retailers. The product description indicated the release included three discs which were rumored to include an unreleased or “hidden disc” of unreleased studio tracks entitled “The Take Over”. Later on, the track listing on the site was updated to show 11 tracks. The 11th track was entitled “Slip”. <br />
<br />
All of this was clarified as rumor and error when the official release information was posted on July 21, 2008 at [http://theslip.nin.com/physical/ theslip.nin.com/physical]<br />
<br />
<br />
==Track Listing==<br />
#"[[999,999]]" - 1:25<br />
#"[[1,000,000]]" - 3:56<br />
#"[[Letting You]]" - 3:49<br />
#"[[Discipline]]" - 4:19<br />
#"[[Echoplex]]" - 4:45<br />
#"[[Head Down]]" - 4:55<br />
#"[[Lights In The Sky (song)|Lights In The Sky]]" - 3:29<br />
#"[[Corona Radiata]]" - 7:33<br />
#"[[The Four Of Us Are Dying]]" - 4:37<br />
#"[[Demon Seed]]" - 4:59<br />
<br />
Full length: 43:45<br />
<br />
==DVD Track Listing==<br />
#"1,000,000"<br />
#"Letting You"<br />
#"Discipline"<br />
#"Echoplex"<br />
#"Head Down"<br />
<br />
Full Length: 21:17<br />
<br />
==Album Credits==<br />
*Written by Trent Reznor<br />
*Performed by Trent Reznor, [[Josh Freese]], [[Robin Finck]] and [[Alessandro Cortini]]<br />
*Produced by Trent Reznor, [[Atticus Ross]] and [[Alan Moulder]]<br />
*Mixed by Alan Moulder<br />
*Programmed by Atticus Ross<br />
*Engineered by [[Michael Tuller]], Atticus Ross and Alan Moulder<br />
*Mastered by Brian Gardner at Bernie Grundman Mastering, Hollywood, California<br />
<br />
*Room tuning: Steve “Coco” Brandon<br />
*Art direction: [[Rob Sheridan]] and Trent Reznor<br />
*Cover styling: Amy Hall<br />
*Hair: Cori Bardo<br />
<br />
*Project coordination: [[Brett Bachemin]]<br />
*Assistance: Alynn Dotson<br />
*Management: Rebel Waltz<br />
*Business management: William Harper and Michael Walsh for Gelfand, Rennert & Feldman<br />
*Legal: Gary Stiffelman and David Byrnes<br />
*World wide booking: Marc Geiger for William Morris Agency<br />
*Press [us]: Steve Martin (Nasty Little Man)<br />
*Press [uk]: Frances McCahon (RMP)<br />
<br />
*The Null Corporation Europe: Didi Parlevliet<br />
*Published by: Form And Texture (ASCAP)<br />
*Label: The Null Corporation<br />
<br />
© 2008 NIN<br />
<br />
<br />
*Thank you: Bob Morelli, Alan Becker, Danny Buch and everyone at Red; Digidesign; Elena Dickstein and Preferred Travel; Jeffrey Ehrenberg and Vintage King; Jeffrey Jorton and Native Instruments; Paul J. Cox Studio Systems; Phillip Scholes and SSL; Rockit Cargo; Roger Cordell and Big City Music; Ross Garfield and Drum Doctors; Shawn Cleary and Analogue Haven; Shivaun O’Brien and Sound City Studios; Sudjam; Topspin Media Inc.; West L.A. Music<br />
<br />
*Thank you (continued): Bruno Bondanelli, Candy Soo, Chris Whitemyer, Christina Lum, Craig Johnston, David Phillips, Irina Volodarsky, Jeff Davis, Jeff Masud, Jessica Trento, John Coleman, Josh Smith, June Munsinger, Karen Ciccone, Kelly Jao, Marie Lewis, [[Rich Fownes]], Ross Rosen, Shamal Ranasinghe, Sherri Durrell, Tamar Levine, Zia Modabber<br />
<br />
This album is licensed under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/ Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike license]. <br />
<br />
More information: [http://creativecommons.org/ www.creativecommons.org]<br />
<br />
Video Content: <br />
*nine inch nails live: Alessandro Cortini, Robin Finck, Josh Freese, Justin Meldal-Johnsen, Trent Reznor<br />
<br />
*Produced by Michael Angelos<br />
*Directed and edited by Rob Sheridan<br />
<br />
*[[Letting You]], [[Head Down]], and [[Discipline]] mixed by Blumpy<br />
*[[1,000,000]] and [[Echoplex]] mixed by Ken Andrews at Red Swan Studios<br />
<br />
*Production Manager: Mark Demarais<br />
*Director of Photography: Simon Thirlaway<br />
*Camera Operators: Simon Thirlaway, Rob Sheridan, Hilton Goring, Dan Bombell, Ethan McDonald<br />
<br />
*Mastered by Tom Baker at Precision Mastering, Hollywood, CA<br />
*DVD media services by Broadness, NYC.<br />
<br />
[[http://www.nin.com/ www.nin.com]]<br />
<br />
==Release==<br />
Prior to the album's release, a message was posted on [[nin.com]], simply stating "2 weeks!". The previous time the same message had been posted on the site had been to forbear the release of ''Ghosts I-IV''. Two tracks, "Discipline" and "Echoplex", were also released through radio and the internet respectively, both containing the message "go to www.nin.com May 5" in their ID3 tags. <br />
<br />
On May 5th, nin.com was updated with the title [[Halo numbers|Halo 27]] and a link to [[theslip.nin.com]] with the message:<br />
"(thank you for your continued and loyal support over the years - this one’s on me)"<br />
<br />
The album site requires a password to be submitted where the link to the download page can be sent to. The site itself states:<br />
"as a thank you to our fans for your continued support, we are giving away the new nine inch nails album one hundred percent free,<br />
exclusively via nin.com."<br><br />
"we encourage you to remix it, share it with your friends, post it on your blog, play it on your podcast, give it to strangers, etc." <br />
[[Multitracks]] for the songs were then posted for download from [[remix.nin.com]]<br />
<br />
According to a [http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/20818072/nin_release_free_album_online Rolling Stone article], the album was finished May 4th and sent to Sudjam, the company that manages nin.com, at 9:30 p.m. for a midnight release.<br />
<br />
In a [[nin.com]] update on June 26th, 2008, it was reported that since the album's release on May 5th, 2008, over 1,400,000 people had downloaded ''The Slip'' from theslip.nin.com. That number represents individual people, and excludes multiple downloads from the same order. <br />
<br />
== Relation to Year Zero ==<br />
Like ''[[Ghosts I-IV]]'', the release of ''The Slip'' came as a surprise to most fans, who were expecting the next release to be a "''Year Zero 2''". Trent Reznor has indicated in interviews since the release that a ''[[Year Zero]]'' sequels was still in the works.<br />
<br />
It remains unclear what portions, if any, of ''The Slip'' should be considered as canon in the Year Zero storyline. Aside from from [[Art Is Resistance]] logo in the artwork for "[[Letting You]]", there are no clear direct references characters or events in Year Zero. Many of tracks do share similar themes, such as abuse of power ("Letting You"), an avatar of destruction ("[[Demon Seed]]"), submission to authority ("[[Head Down]]"), imprisonment ("[[Echoplex]]") and the appearance of entities in the sky ("[[Lights In The Sky]]"). Other songs, however, like "[[1,000,000]]" and "[[Discipline]]", seem completely unrelated and feature more "traditional" NIN themes of personal turmoil.<br />
<br />
==Miscellanea==<br />
The high quality wave download torrent includes a subdirectory named "The Slip art", containing JPEG images. However, the file "02-1000000.jpg", has an incorrect file extension. This is actually an Adobe Photoshop CS3 (Macintosh version) file with a single layer and no significant meta information attached.<br />
<br />
There also seems to be a mistake in the wave files; The track "The Four Of Us Are Dying" is mistitled "Demon Seed" and vice versa.<br />
<br />
The final page of the PDF gives credit to "(c) 2008 niin." This appears to be a typographical error.<br />
<br />
Audiophile message board [http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php Hydrogen Audio] noticed mastering errors on the 24/96 high-def WAVs, which was followed by posters "ningineer" and "treznor" who wrote that they had recontacted the mastering studio and released the WAVs in addition to high-def FLACs.[http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=63086] On May 15th the nin.com Halo 27 blog post was edited with the message: ''"Some friends at hydrogenaudio pointed out an error with the high resolution WAVE files we didn't catch. The corrected files are now posted along with high resolution FLAC files as well. If you're interested in these, simply re-download the new files. Sorry for the hassle!"''<br />
<br />
A Google Earth KML file representing downloads of ''The Slip'' according to geographic region was made available from nin.com on June 26th, displaying over 1,400,000 downloads (not including multiple downloads) that had come from theslip.nin.com.<br />
<br />
==External Links==<br />
*[http://theslip.nin.com theslip.nin.com]<br />
*[http://www.ilike.com/artist/Nine+Inch+Nails Streaming audio at iLike]<br />
*[http://theslip.nin.com/physical/ theslip.nin.com/physical]<br />
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[[Category:NIN Discography]]</div>
Aeontriad
https://www.nin.wiki/index.php?title=The_Slip&diff=21911
The Slip
2008-07-22T21:45:20Z
<p>Aeontriad: </p>
<hr />
<div>[[Image:The_slip.jpg|thumb|200px|Halo 27: ''The Slip'']]<br />
'''''The Slip''''' (also known as '''''[[Halo numbers|Halo 27]]''''') is the eighth and latest studio album from [[Nine Inch Nails]]. It was released as a free download on May 5, 2008, and contains the previously released Web-only singles "[[Discipline]]" and "[[Echoplex]]."<br />
<br />
The album is available for download in a variety of formats, including MP3, lossless FLAC and high-quality WAV files. When playing the MP3 files in an MP3 player a different piece of artwork is displayed for each song, [[The_Photography_of_Ghosts_I%E2%80%93IV|as was the case with]] ''[[Ghosts I–IV]]''.<br />
<br />
==Formats==<br />
===Downloads===<br />
*High-quality MP3s (87 mb), encoded with LAME at V0, fully tagged.<br />
*FLAC lossless (259 mb)<br />
*FLAC high definition 24/96 (942 mb), better-than-CD-quality 24bit 96kHz audio<br />
*M4A Apple Lossless (263 mb)<br />
*High definition WAVE 24/96 (1.2 gb), better-than-CD-quality 24bit 96kHz audio<br />
<br />
The FLAC, M4A and WAVE formats are distributed via torrents through tracker.nin.com. All formats include a PDF file with artwork and credits, all songs include individual track art and lyrics embedded. All files are 100% DRM-free.<br />
<br />
===Physical product===<br />
''The Slip'' will be available as a physical product in CD and vinyl formats. The 6 panel digipak will be limited to 250,000 pieces worldwide, each individually numbered, and will include a DVD of NIN performing five live tracks from ''The Slip'' at rehearsals, a 24-page booklet, and an exclusive sticker pack. The CD is to be released July 22, 2008 in the US and Canada, and released July 21, 2008 in the UK and Europe.<br />
<br />
Originally, the physical product was intended to be released on July 22, 2008 in the US, Canada, and Japan as a numbered, CD/DVD package, limited to 250,000 units with the UK, Europe, and Australian unnumbered editions to be released on July 21, 2008, with the same content as the North American and Japanese editions. It is not known at this time why the decision was made for the numbers produced to be reduced.<br />
<br />
The double gatefold vinyl release contains one 180-gram LP and a 24-page booklet. Unlike the CD release, the vinyl is not numbered. It will be released in the US and Canada on august 5th, 2008, and in the UK and Europe on August 4th, 2008.<br />
<br />
On July 16, 2008, [[Trent Reznor]] posted two images of the physical product on nin.com. The post was entitled "The Beginning and the End." The first image shows him holding two copies of the album, hiding his face behind them. The second image shows the backs of both CDs. The one in back reads 1/250,000 and the one in front reads 250,000/250,000.<br />
<br />
The Limited Edition CD comes with three 4" x 4"stickers and each depict one of the 10 illustrations for the songs.<br />
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====Third Disc & 11th Track====<br />
There was some confusion about the physical release, mostly due to information on Amazon.com (US) and other online retailers. The product description indicated the release included three discs which were rumored to include an unreleased or “hidden disc” of unreleased studio tracks entitled “The Take Over”. Later on, the track listing on the site was updated to show 11 tracks. The 11th track was entitled “Slip”. <br />
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All of this was clarified as rumor and error when the official release information was posted on July 21, 2008 at http://theslip.nin.com/physical/<br />
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==Track Listing==<br />
#"[[999,999]]" - 1:25<br />
#"[[1,000,000]]" - 3:56<br />
#"[[Letting You]]" - 3:49<br />
#"[[Discipline]]" - 4:19<br />
#"[[Echoplex]]" - 4:45<br />
#"[[Head Down]]" - 4:55<br />
#"[[Lights In The Sky (song)|Lights In The Sky]]" - 3:29<br />
#"[[Corona Radiata]]" - 7:33<br />
#"[[The Four Of Us Are Dying]]" - 4:37<br />
#"[[Demon Seed]]" - 4:59<br />
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Full length: 43:45<br />
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==DVD Track Listing==<br />
#"1,000,000"<br />
#"Letting You"<br />
#"Discipline"<br />
#"Echoplex"<br />
#"Head Down"<br />
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Full Length: 21:17<br />
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==Album Credits==<br />
*Written by Trent Reznor<br />
*Performed by Trent Reznor, [[Josh Freese]], [[Robin Finck]] and [[Alessandro Cortini]]<br />
*Produced by Trent Reznor, [[Atticus Ross]] and [[Alan Moulder]]<br />
*Mixed by Alan Moulder<br />
*Programmed by Atticus Ross<br />
*Engineered by [[Michael Tuller]], Atticus Ross and Alan Moulder<br />
*Mastered by Brian Gardner at Bernie Grundman Mastering, Hollywood, California<br />
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*Room tuning: Steve “Coco” Brandon<br />
*Art direction: [[Rob Sheridan]] and Trent Reznor<br />
*Cover styling: Amy Hall<br />
*Hair: Cori Bardo<br />
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*Project coordination: [[Brett Bachemin]]<br />
*Assistance: Alynn Dotson<br />
*Management: Rebel Waltz<br />
*Business management: William Harper and Michael Walsh for Gelfand, Rennert & Feldman<br />
*Legal: Gary Stiffelman and David Byrnes<br />
*World wide booking: Marc Geiger for William Morris Agency<br />
*Press [us]: Steve Martin (Nasty Little Man)<br />
*Press [uk]: Frances McCahon (RMP)<br />
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*The Null Corporation Europe: Didi Parlevliet<br />
*Published by: Form And Texture (ASCAP)<br />
*Label: The Null Corporation<br />
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© 2008 NIN<br />
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*Thank you: Bob Morelli, Alan Becker, Danny Buch and everyone at Red; Digidesign; Elena Dickstein and Preferred Travel; Jeffrey Ehrenberg and Vintage King; Jeffrey Jorton and Native Instruments; Paul J. Cox Studio Systems; Phillip Scholes and SSL; Rockit Cargo; Roger Cordell and Big City Music; Ross Garfield and Drum Doctors; Shawn Cleary and Analogue Haven; Shivaun O’Brien and Sound City Studios; Sudjam; Topspin Media Inc.; West L.A. Music<br />
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*Thank you (continued): Bruno Bondanelli, Candy Soo, Chris Whitemyer, Christina Lum, Craig Johnston, David Phillips, Irina Volodarsky, Jeff Davis, Jeff Masud, Jessica Trento, John Coleman, Josh Smith, June Munsinger, Karen Ciccone, Kelly Jao, Marie Lewis, [[Rich Fownes]], Ross Rosen, Shamal Ranasinghe, Sherri Durrell, Tamar Levine, Zia Modabber<br />
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This album is licensed under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/ Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike license]. <br />
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More information: [http://creativecommons.org/ www.creativecommons.org]<br />
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Video Content: <br />
*nine inch nails live: Alessandro Cortini, Robin Finck, Josh Freese, Justin Meldal-Johnsen, Trent Reznor<br />
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*Produced by Michael Angelos<br />
*Directed and edited by Rob Sheridan<br />
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*[[Letting You]], [[Head Down]], and [[Discipline]] mixed by Blumpy<br />
*[[1,000,000]] and [[Echoplex]] mixed by Ken Andrews at Red Swan Studios<br />
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*Production Manager: Mark Demarais<br />
*Director of Photography: Simon Thirlaway<br />
*Camera Operators: Simon Thirlaway, Rob Sheridan, Hilton Goring, Dan Bombell, Ethan McDonald<br />
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*Mastered by Tom Baker at Precision Mastering, Hollywood, CA<br />
*DVD media services by Broadness, NYC.<br />
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[[http://www.nin.com/ www.nin.com]]<br />
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==Release==<br />
Prior to the album's release, a message was posted on [[nin.com]], simply stating "2 weeks!". The previous time the same message had been posted on the site had been to forbear the release of ''Ghosts I-IV''. Two tracks, "Discipline" and "Echoplex", were also released through radio and the internet respectively, both containing the message "go to www.nin.com May 5" in their ID3 tags. <br />
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On May 5th, nin.com was updated with the title [[Halo numbers|Halo 27]] and a link to [[theslip.nin.com]] with the message:<br />
"(thank you for your continued and loyal support over the years - this one’s on me)"<br />
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The album site requires a password to be submitted where the link to the download page can be sent to. The site itself states:<br />
"as a thank you to our fans for your continued support, we are giving away the new nine inch nails album one hundred percent free,<br />
exclusively via nin.com."<br><br />
"we encourage you to remix it, share it with your friends, post it on your blog, play it on your podcast, give it to strangers, etc." <br />
[[Multitracks]] for the songs were then posted for download from [[remix.nin.com]]<br />
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According to a [http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/20818072/nin_release_free_album_online Rolling Stone article], the album was finished May 4th and sent to Sudjam, the company that manages nin.com, at 9:30 p.m. for a midnight release.<br />
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In a [[nin.com]] update on June 26th, 2008, it was reported that since the album's release on May 5th, 2008, over 1,400,000 people had downloaded ''The Slip'' from theslip.nin.com. That number represents individual people, and excludes multiple downloads from the same order. <br />
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== Relation to Year Zero ==<br />
Like ''[[Ghosts I-IV]]'', the release of ''The Slip'' came as a surprise to most fans, who were expecting the next release to be a "''Year Zero 2''". Trent Reznor has indicated in interviews since the release that a ''[[Year Zero]]'' sequels was still in the works.<br />
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It remains unclear what portions, if any, of ''The Slip'' should be considered as canon in the Year Zero storyline. Aside from from [[Art Is Resistance]] logo in the artwork for "[[Letting You]]", there are no clear direct references characters or events in Year Zero. Many of tracks do share similar themes, such as abuse of power ("Letting You"), an avatar of destruction ("[[Demon Seed]]"), submission to authority ("[[Head Down]]"), imprisonment ("[[Echoplex]]") and the appearance of entities in the sky ("[[Lights In The Sky]]"). Other songs, however, like "[[1,000,000]]" and "[[Discipline]]", seem completely unrelated and feature more "traditional" NIN themes of personal turmoil.<br />
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==Miscellanea==<br />
The high quality wave download torrent includes a subdirectory named "The Slip art", containing JPEG images. However, the file "02-1000000.jpg", has an incorrect file extension. This is actually an Adobe Photoshop CS3 (Macintosh version) file with a single layer and no significant meta information attached.<br />
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There also seems to be a mistake in the wave files; The track "The Four Of Us Are Dying" is mistitled "Demon Seed" and vice versa.<br />
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The final page of the PDF gives credit to "(c) 2008 niin." This appears to be a typographical error.<br />
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Audiophile message board [http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php Hydrogen Audio] noticed mastering errors on the 24/96 high-def WAVs, which was followed by posters "ningineer" and "treznor" who wrote that they had recontacted the mastering studio and released the WAVs in addition to high-def FLACs.[http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=63086] On May 15th the nin.com Halo 27 blog post was edited with the message: ''"Some friends at hydrogenaudio pointed out an error with the high resolution WAVE files we didn't catch. The corrected files are now posted along with high resolution FLAC files as well. If you're interested in these, simply re-download the new files. Sorry for the hassle!"''<br />
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A Google Earth KML file representing downloads of ''The Slip'' according to geographic region was made available from nin.com on June 26th, displaying over 1,400,000 downloads (not including multiple downloads) that had come from theslip.nin.com.<br />
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==External Links==<br />
*[http://theslip.nin.com theslip.nin.com]<br />
*[http://www.ilike.com/artist/Nine+Inch+Nails Streaming audio at iLike]<br />
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[[Category:NIN Discography]]</div>
Aeontriad
https://www.nin.wiki/index.php?title=Talk:The_Slip&diff=21909
Talk:The Slip
2008-07-22T21:34:40Z
<p>Aeontriad: Physical Product Confusion</p>
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<div>Whilst the credits are to NIIN, I would assume a typo and on here we should put in the correct spelling. [[User:Sheepdean|Sheepdean]] 07:28, 5 May 2008 (PDT)<br />
:This is what I thought too, the audio files' comment tags read "(c) 2008 nin". [[User:Mobytoss|Mobytoss]] 09:53, 5 May 2008 (PDT)<br />
::okay; i changed it back [[User:Tocz|Tocz]] 10:47, 5 May 2008 (PDT)<br />
:::I felt this was still noteworthy, so I've added it to the miscellanea section. [[User:M0de l3d|M0de l3d]] 22:34, 13 May 2008 (PDT)<br />
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Hey, this album's message seems to convey a possible breakup in nine inch nails. I mean, look at both the page for "the four of us are dying". Also, the album is called "The Slip".<br />
I dunno, feel free to expand.<br />
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If NIN broke up, I'd be very worried, as there's only one member.[[User:Sheepdean|Sheepdean]] 17:19, 6 May 2008 (PDT)<br />
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But four members worked on this album.<br />
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Doubt it has anything to do with the "band" breaking up. It's most likely about Year Zero and personal reflection. [[User:Velvolver|Velvolver]] 20:55, 6 May 2008 (PDT)<br />
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=Alien Abduction=<br />
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This whole albums about the year zero story, and then eventually talks about alien abduction. Seriously, I'll explain more later [[User:Velvolver|Velvolver]] 21:13, 6 May 2008 (PDT)<br />
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The hand on the cover art is probably The Presence. Also, the album itself seems to be a sort of interlude between Year Zero and what's coming after,<br />
like a calm before the storm. The "Lights in the Sky" lyrics remind me of the christian idea of the rapture, and the album itself up to that track could be viewed as characters<br />
portrayed in the Year Zero story line who are left behind by The Presence (or what the presence signified) to a world void of meaning. The big event happened, and these people<br />
were not part of it. Their struggle to come to terms with this situation in expressed in a variety of painful perspectives that all seem to meld into one resolved perspective<br />
at the end of the album. The song "The Great Destroyer" from Year Zero foreshadows this character portrayed in "Demon Seed", a person with "the infinite potential... to murder everything".<br />
So, if the Presence = the Rapture, then I'm assuming The Great Destroyer/Demon Seed = the Antichrist. Like Trent Reznor's version of the apocalypse.<br />
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The Presence symbol (signifying the hand of God/Fate, or whatever) on the cover of The Slip would be that hand pulling the author behind the various characters on Year Zero<br />
and The Slip (literally, Trent Reznor, but in the same way that the hand represents "the Presence"{God, Fate, or whaterver} the author would represent the self{or soul, ego, identity, etc.})<br />
back into one underlaying identity, Resolved to destroy what's left of the world. <br />
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That's my guess, anyway.<br />
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Also, the art for "The Four Of Us Are Dying" looks like 4 isometric zeros, like the numeric representation of the year zero.<br />
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=Image files=<br />
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What's with the extra bar at the bottom of all the artwork files for ''[[The Slip]]''? The only place they seem to appear is on the wiki (ie. they're not in the PDF of the embedded images in the MP3s)? It's most notable on [[Lights In The Sky]] and [[The Four Of Us Are Dying]].<br />
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This is most likely a glitch produced when they were posted, but I also noticed it. It almost looks like the top of the image repeated at the bottom. [[User:Aeontriad|Aeontriad]] 03:25, 15 May 2008 (PDT)<br />
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== A Theory ==<br />
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This was posted in the main article and I thought it would be better on this Discussion page.--[[User:Leo3375|leo3375]] 11:45, 13 May 2008 (PDT)<br />
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===Potential Year Zero Concept===<br />
Although not officially stated, the concept seems to show certain events which happen to the main characters in the year zero universe. Below are some potential meanings to certain songs:<br />
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====1,000,000====<br />
This song could be about a person who has been lead to believe something and realised it was all just a lie, so he has become over eccentric with the idea and decided he no longer wants to believe anything, he feels more alive now he is no longer restrained, at the same time he feels like he has to destroy himself because he has no meaning.<br />
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====Letting You====<br />
How the fictional government are controlling its people but the people are to afraid to do anything about it. Another part of the song shows how the soldiers they are training believe they are fighting for liberty but they only seem to be fighting for the same lost cause as their leaders.<br />
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====Discipline====<br />
This song resembles one specific person who seems to believe he is doing something wrong, or is being told he is doing wrong, so he should be disciplined. This could also resemble certain torture techniques the government use on prisoners (much like in the movies), which in turn, forces them to think they are doing something wrong when in fact they aren't.<br />
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====Echoplex====<br />
This song is from the eyes of someone who is being held captive, how he is going crazy and is starting to believe he can see everything, most likely because of a lack of the fictional parepin which helps repress feelings of control. It also seems like he is slowly being forgotten about and nobody is going to rescue him from his cage.<br />
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====Head Down====<br />
This song resembles somebody talking to themselves, trying not to get caught for something they have done wrong, with feelings of people watching him at all times, waiting for him to slip up.<br />
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====Lights In The Sky====<br />
This seems to show a couple, which are more than likely a part of the resistance. One of them (Most Likely The Male) may have had a chance to escape the carnage the government is creating, but wont leave the other due to feelings for eachother.<br />
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====Corona Radiata====<br />
This song is a little bit more curious, as the corona radiata are several protective layers surrounding ova or unfertilized egg cells, responsible with supplying the ova or egg cell with protein. This could mean the couple from lights in the sky are expecting or dont know the female is pregnant, possibly with the demon seed, as the red line in the image is connected to the artwork for demon seed. the song also begins with a more muffled sound much like you are listening from the inside of the womb, and gradually gets clearer and clearer.<br />
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====The Four Of Us Are Dying====<br />
This songs artwork is not directly linked to the demon seed, much like lights in the sky, this means they are not being affected by the seed for the reason shown below. It could also show the main characters of the plotline dying out, ushering in the new era and the demon seed.<br />
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====Demon Seed====<br />
This could be from the point of view of the child the girl is bearing only older, perhaps an orphan wants to find out more about their parents, only to find they were killed as part of a government resistance, this child would then decide to carry on what there parents started and take down the government, creating a new resistance. This is the theory on how the artwork for demon seed is connected to everything on the album apart from the potential resistance members, it never knew its family, yet it is able to change the course of everything else which is happening in the universe around it. (Also, the artwork for Demon Seed, when rotated counterclockwise, looks like 0001, the year after year zero. bethehammer)<br />
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These are only speculative theories and have not been officially stated.<br />
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== Artwork ==<br />
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Does the red line tie in to the vocals at all? Because the songs with vocals have red lines, but I think (I haven't checked) the instrumentals don't have red line artwork.<br />
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Probably not, as corona radiata has a red line and it's an instrumental, and lights in the sky does not have a red line, and it's a vocal track (bethehammer)<br />
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Moved the two above posts down to this section. [[User:Aeontriad|Aeontriad]]<br />
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I'm curious to see if the artwork holds any hidden meaning. I was thinking about seeing if the images could be aligned a certain way so that the red lines connect (though I haven't found the time to do this myself). I also found it curious that some of the images have a darker background than the others.<br />
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== ''Year Zero'' Tie-In? ==<br />
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I've started putting songs from ''The Slip'' in between songs from ''Year Zero'' and so far have found that some of the songs fit very well together.<br />
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For example: 'The Good Soldier' fades really well into 'Echoplex' and 'Vessel' fits into the theme that follows in 'Head Down' and then 'Me, I'm Not'. I've also noticed that the background ambiance in 'Another Version Of The Truth' is very Similar to 'Corona Radiata'.<br />
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I'm still moving songs around to find a good mix...and I may throw in songs from ''Ghosts I-IV'' to see if there is another connection. [[User:Aeontriad|Aeontriad]] 5/18/08<br />
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== Third Disc? ==<br />
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I emailed Amazon.com in regards to the listing of 3 discs.<br />
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Comments:The product info lists this product as having 3 discs. The artist's website http://feeds.nin.com/ninNews describes the product as the follwing "The Slip will be available in an individually numbered 2 disc, 6 panel digipak..." I just wanted to get some clarification on this so I know what I'll be getting. Thank you for your time.<br />
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Amazon.com: I understand that it is listed as 2 disc, 6 panel digipak in other website and it is listed as 3 discs on our website. The only information we can give you about a particular CD is what is displayed on the detail page for that particular music title.<br />
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On many detail pages, in addition to the artist and recording label, you'll also find links to track listings, reviews, customer comments, a biography of the artist, a list of musical influences, and other CDs by that artist. All of these links appear in the left-hand margin.<br />
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We understand that, unless you already know something about the CD, you may occasionally need more information than we have available to make a purchasing decision.<br />
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Our editorial staff is constantly increasing the amount of information we provide about each item in our music store. We invite you to add to this information by submitting customer reviews for your favorite (or not-so-favorite) CDs.<br />
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[[User:Aeontriad|Aeontriad]] 07:57, 3 July 2008 (PDT)<br />
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== The Slip only 2 disk! ==<br />
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Amazon.com has changed the number of disks to 2. I sthis the correct number or is this a diversion tactic with the release so close?<br />
:Not from what I see:<br />
Product Details<br />
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* Audio CD (July 22, 2008)<br />
* Original Release Date: July 22, 2008<br />
* Number of Discs: <b>3</b><br />
* Format: Limited Edition<br />
* Label: The Null Corporation<br />
* ASIN: B001B71NOI<br />
* In-Print Editions: Music Download<br />
* Amazon.com Sales Rank: #23 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)<br />
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It still says 3 on .com [[User:Sheepdean|Sheepdean]] 05:55, 16 July 2008 (PDT)<br />
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Just checked, Look:<br />
Product details<br />
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Audio CD (28 Jul 2008) <br />
Number of Discs: 2 <br />
Label: The Null Corporation <br />
ASIN: B001B71NOI <br />
Average Customer Review: <br />
7 Reviews <br />
5 star: (4) <br />
4 star: (3) <br />
3 star: (0) <br />
2 star: (0) <br />
1 star: (0) <br />
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See all 7 customer reviews... <br />
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(7 customer reviews) <br />
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 52 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)<br />
Popular in these categories:<br />
::Seems that different Amazon sites have different information. Either they're correcting each page seperatly or smoething's afoot. [[User:Sheepdean|Sheepdean]] 05:55, 16 July 2008 (PDT)<br />
:::I'm sure that when people start getting their physical copies the information here will be clarified.--[[User:Leo3375|leo3375]] 08:33, 16 July 2008 (PDT)<br />
::::I just noticed that amazon.com was updated to show 2 discs now, but I did notice an 11th track entitled "Slip". We should probably wait to update the main page until this 11th track can be confirmed. [[User:Aeontriad|Aeontriad]] 14:40, 18 July 2008 (PDT)<br />
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== Physical Product Confusion ==<br />
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I'd like to suggest that we condense the confusion over the 3rd disc and 11th track into one section. Since the release info was made offical on http://theslip.nin.com/physical/ there should be no reason to keep all of the rumor stuff, possibly simplify it down to include just minor details over the confusion. [[User:Aeontriad|Aeontriad]] 14:34, 22 July 2008 (PDT)</div>
Aeontriad
https://www.nin.wiki/index.php?title=Talk:Head_Like_A_Hole_(halo)&diff=21891
Talk:Head Like A Hole (halo)
2008-07-21T21:46:48Z
<p>Aeontriad: </p>
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<div>=="Let's hear it for..."==<br />
Who says it's Kelly Ripa? -[[User:Heroicraptor|Heroicraptor]] 23:21, 3 March 2007 (PST)<br />
::The only information I can find that would even give a shred of support to this is that she was a regular on Dance Party USA from 1986-1992. The program was filmed in Primos, a suburb of Philadelphia. I suppose it's possible...[[User:Aeontriad|Aeontriad]] 14:46, 21 July 2008 (PDT)</div>
Aeontriad
https://www.nin.wiki/index.php?title=The_Slip&diff=21819
The Slip
2008-07-19T17:21:40Z
<p>Aeontriad: </p>
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<div>[[Image:The_slip.jpg|thumb|200px|Halo 27: ''The Slip'']]<br />
'''''The Slip''''' (also known as '''''[[Halo numbers|Halo 27]]''''') is the eighth and latest studio album from [[Nine Inch Nails]]. It was released as a free download on May 5, 2008, and contains the previously released Web-only singles "[[Discipline]]" and "[[Echoplex]]."<br />
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The album is available for download in a variety of formats, including MP3, lossless FLAC and high-quality WAV files. When playing the MP3 files in an MP3 player a different piece of artwork is displayed for each song, [[The_Photography_of_Ghosts_I%E2%80%93IV|as was the case with]] ''[[Ghosts I–IV]]''.<br />
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==Formats==<br />
===Downloads===<br />
*High-quality MP3s (87 mb), encoded with LAME at V0, fully tagged.<br />
*FLAC lossless (259 mb)<br />
*FLAC high definition 24/96 (942 mb), better-than-CD-quality 24bit 96kHz audio<br />
*M4A Apple Lossless (263 mb)<br />
*High definition WAVE 24/96 (1.2 gb), better-than-CD-quality 24bit 96kHz audio<br />
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The FLAC, M4A and WAVE formats are distributed via torrents through tracker.nin.com. All formats include a PDF file with artwork and credits, all songs include individual track art and lyrics embedded. All files are 100% DRM-free.<br />
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===Physical product===<br />
''The Slip'' will be available as a physical product in CD and vinyl formats. The 6 panel digipak will be limited to 250,000 pieces worldwide, each individually numbered, and will include a DVD of NIN performing five live tracks from ''The Slip'' at rehearsals, a 24-page booklet, and an exclusive sticker pack. The CD is to be released July 22, 2008 in the US and Canada, and released July 21, 2008 in the UK and Europe.<br />
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Originally, the physical product was intended to be released on July 22, 2008 in the US, Canada, and Japan as a numbered, CD/DVD package, limited to 250,000 units with the UK, Europe, and Australian unnumbered editions to be released on July 21, 2008, with the same content as the North American and Japanese editions. It is not known at this time why the decision was made for the numbers produced to be reduced.<br />
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The double gatefold vinyl release contains one 180-gram LP and a 24-page booklet. Unlike the CD release, the vinyl is not numbered. It will be released in the US and Canada on august 5th, 2008, and in the UK and Europe on August 4th, 2008.<br />
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On July 16, 2008 Trent posted two images of the physical product on nin.com. The post was entitled "The Beginning and the End". The first image shows Trent holding two copies of the album, hiding his face behind them. The second image shows the backs of both CDs. The one in back reads 1/250,000 and the one in front reads 250,000/250,000.<br />
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====Third Disc====<br />
On Amazon US, ''The Slip'' is described as having three discs. A user named as Ronaldo Jones posted under the discussion "Hidden Disc" that there is a third disc, a CD, with more studio tracks named "The Take Over". This is, however, just a rumour.<br />
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When asked to verify the product info, Amazon.com customer service replied with the following: "I understand that it is listed as 2 disc, 6 panel digipak in other websites and it is listed as 3 discs on our website. The only information we can give you about a particular CD is what is displayed on the detail page for that particular music title."<br />
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No further clarification was given. It is possible that they are counting the sticker pack as a disc. At some point, Amazon US was updated to show 2 discs.<br />
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The images posted on nin.com on July 16, 2008 show the label on the album which reads "limted edition CD + DVD". It is difficult to make out the smaller print, but it doesn't appear to give any further clues to a 3rd disc.<br />
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=====11th Track=====<br />
Amazon.com (US) shows the CD having 11 tracks in the track listed. The 11th track in entitled "Slip". This may be an error much like the apparent 3rd disc.<br />
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==Track Listing==<br />
#"[[999,999]]" - 1:25<br />
#"[[1,000,000]]" - 3:56<br />
#"[[Letting You]]" - 3:49<br />
#"[[Discipline]]" - 4:19<br />
#"[[Echoplex]]" - 4:45<br />
#"[[Head Down]]" - 4:55<br />
#"[[Lights In The Sky (song)|Lights In The Sky]]" - 3:29<br />
#"[[Corona Radiata]]" - 7:33<br />
#"[[The Four Of Us Are Dying]]" - 4:37<br />
#"[[Demon Seed]]" - 4:59<br />
<br />
Full length: 43:45<br />
<br />
==Album Credits==<br />
*Written by [[Trent Reznor]]<br />
*Performed by Trent Reznor, [[Josh Freese]], [[Robin Finck]] and [[Alessandro Cortini]]<br />
*Produced by Trent Reznor, [[Atticus Ross]] and [[Alan Moulder]]<br />
*Mixed by Alan Moulder<br />
*Programmed by Atticus Ross<br />
*Engineered by [[Michael Tuller]], Atticus Ross and Alan Moulder<br />
*Mastered by Brian Gardner at Bernie Grundman Mastering, Hollywood, California<br />
<br />
*Room tuning: Steve “Coco” Brandon<br />
*Art direction: [[Rob Sheridan]] and Trent Reznor<br />
*Cover styling: Amy Hall<br />
*Hair: Cori Bardo<br />
<br />
*Project coordination: [[Dancing Brett|Brett Bachemin]]<br />
*Assistance: Alynn Dotson<br />
*Management: Rebel Waltz<br />
*Business management: William Harper and Michael Walsh for Gelfand, Rennert & Feldman<br />
*Legal: Gary Stiffelman and David Byrnes<br />
*World wide booking: Marc Geiger for William Morris Agency<br />
*Press [us]: Steve Martin (Nasty Little Man)<br />
*Press [uk]: Frances McCahon (RMP)<br />
<br />
*The Null Corporation Europe: Didi Parlevliet<br />
*Published by: Form And Texture (ASCAP)<br />
*Label: The Null Corporation<br />
<br />
© 2008 NIN<br />
<br />
<br />
*Thank you: Bob Morelli, Alan Becker, Danny Buch and everyone at Red; Digidesign; Elena Dickstein and Preferred Travel; Jeffrey Ehrenberg and Vintage King; Jeffrey Jorton and Native Instruments; Paul J. Cox Studio Systems; Phillip Scholes and SSL; Rockit Cargo; Roger Cordell and Big City Music; Ross Garfield and Drum Doctors; Shawn Cleary and Analogue Haven; Shivaun O’Brien and Sound City Studios; Sudjam; Topspin Media Inc.; West L.A. Music<br />
<br />
*Thank you (continued): Bruno Bondanelli, Candy Soo, Chris Whitemyer, Christina Lum, Craig Johnston, David Phillips, Irina Volodarsky, Jeff Davis, Jeff Masud, Jessica Trento, John Coleman, Josh Smith, June Munsinger, Karen Ciccone, Kelly Jao, Marie Lewis, [[Rich Fownes]], Ross Rosen, Shamal Ranasinghe, Sherri Durrell, Tamar Levine, Zia Modabber<br />
<br />
This album is licensed under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/ Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike license]. <br />
<br />
More information: [http://creativecommons.org/ www.creativecommons.org]<br />
<br />
==Release==<br />
Prior to the album's release, a message was posted on [[nin.com]], simply stating "2 weeks!". The previous time the same message had been posted on the site had been to forbear the release of ''Ghosts I-IV''. Two tracks, "Discipline" and "Echoplex", were also released through radio and the internet respectively, both containing the message "go to www.nin.com May 5" in their ID3 tags. <br />
<br />
On May 5th, nin.com was updated with the title [[Halo numbers|Halo 27]] and a link to [[theslip.nin.com]] with the message:<br />
"(thank you for your continued and loyal support over the years - this one’s on me)"<br />
<br />
The album site requires a password to be submitted where the link to the download page can be sent to. The site itself states:<br />
"as a thank you to our fans for your continued support, we are giving away the new nine inch nails album one hundred percent free,<br />
exclusively via nin.com."<br><br />
"we encourage you to remix it, share it with your friends, post it on your blog, play it on your podcast, give it to strangers, etc." <br />
[[Multitracks]] for the songs were then posted for download from [[remix.nin.com]]<br />
<br />
According to a [http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/20818072/nin_release_free_album_online Rolling Stone article], the album was finished May 4th and sent to Sudjam, the company that manages nin.com, at 9:30 p.m. for a midnight release.<br />
<br />
In a [[nin.com]] update on June 26th, 2008, it was reported that since the album's release on May 5th, 2008, over 1,400,000 people had downloaded ''The Slip'' from theslip.nin.com. That number represents individual people, and excludes multiple downloads from the same order. <br />
<br />
== Relation to Year Zero ==<br />
Like ''[[Ghosts I-IV]]'', the release of ''The Slip'' came as a surprise to most fans, who were expecting the next release to be a "''Year Zero 2''". Trent Reznor has indicated in interviews since the release that a ''[[Year Zero]]'' sequels was still in the works.<br />
<br />
It remains unclear what portions, if any, of ''The Slip'' should be considered as canon in the Year Zero storyline. Aside from from [[Art Is Resistance]] logo in the artwork for "[[Letting You]]", there are no clear direct references characters or events in Year Zero. Many of tracks do share similar themes, such as abuse of power ("Letting You"), an avatar of destruction ("[[Demon Seed]]"), submission to authority ("[[Head Down]]"), imprisonment ("[[Echoplex]]") and the appearance of entities in the sky ("[[Lights In The Sky]]"). Other songs, however, like "[[1,000,000]]" and "[[Discipline]]", seem completely unrelated and feature more "traditional" NIN themes of personal turmoil.<br />
<br />
==Miscellanea==<br />
The high quality wave download torrent includes a subdirectory named "The Slip art", containing JPEG images. However, the file "02-1000000.jpg", has an incorrect file extension. This is actually an Adobe Photoshop CS3 (Macintosh version) file with a single layer and no significant meta information attached.<br />
<br />
There also seems to be a mistake in the wave files; The track "The Four Of Us Are Dying" is mistitled "Demon Seed" and vice versa.<br />
<br />
The final page of the PDF gives credit to "(c) 2008 niin." This appears to be a typographical error.<br />
<br />
Audiophile message board [http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php Hydrogen Audio] noticed mastering errors on the 24/96 high-def WAVs, which was followed by posters "ningineer" and "treznor" who wrote that they had recontacted the mastering studio and released the WAVs in addition to high-def FLACs.[http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=63086] On May 15th the nin.com Halo 27 blog post was edited with the message: ''"Some friends at hydrogenaudio pointed out an error with the high resolution WAVE files we didn't catch. The corrected files are now posted along with high resolution FLAC files as well. If you're interested in these, simply re-download the new files. Sorry for the hassle!"''<br />
<br />
A Google Earth KML file representing downloads of ''The Slip'' according to geographic region was made available from nin.com on June 26th, displaying over 1,400,000 downloads (not including multiple downloads) that had come from theslip.nin.com.<br />
<br />
==External Links==<br />
*[http://theslip.nin.com theslip.nin.com]<br />
*[http://www.ilike.com/artist/Nine+Inch+Nails Streaming audio at iLike]<br />
<br />
[[Category:NIN Discography]]</div>
Aeontriad
https://www.nin.wiki/index.php?title=The_Slip&diff=21813
The Slip
2008-07-18T21:46:23Z
<p>Aeontriad: </p>
<hr />
<div>[[Image:The_slip.jpg|thumb|200px|Halo 27: ''The Slip'']]<br />
'''''The Slip''''' (also known as '''''[[Halo numbers|Halo 27]]''''') is the eighth and latest studio album from [[Nine Inch Nails]]. It was released as a free download on May 5, 2008, and contains the previously released Web-only singles "[[Discipline]]" and "[[Echoplex]]."<br />
<br />
The album is available for download in a variety of formats, including MP3, lossless FLAC and high-quality WAV files. When playing the MP3 files in an MP3 player a different piece of artwork is displayed for each song, [[The_Photography_of_Ghosts_I%E2%80%93IV|as was the case with]] ''[[Ghosts I–IV]]''.<br />
<br />
==Formats==<br />
===Downloads===<br />
*High-quality MP3s (87 mb), encoded with LAME at V0, fully tagged.<br />
*FLAC lossless (259 mb)<br />
*FLAC high definition 24/96 (942 mb), better-than-CD-quality 24bit 96kHz audio<br />
*M4A Apple Lossless (263 mb)<br />
*High definition WAVE 24/96 (1.2 gb), better-than-CD-quality 24bit 96kHz audio<br />
<br />
The FLAC, M4A and WAVE formats are distributed via torrents through tracker.nin.com. All formats include a PDF file with artwork and credits, all songs include individual track art and lyrics embedded. All files are 100% DRM-free.<br />
<br />
===Physical product===<br />
''The Slip'' will be available as a physical product in CD and vinyl formats. The 6 panel digipak will be limited to 250,000 pieces worldwide, each individually numbered, and will include a DVD of NIN performing five live tracks from ''The Slip'' at rehearsals, a 24-page booklet, and an exclusive sticker pack. The CD is to be released July 22, 2008 in the US and Canada, and released July 21, 2008 in the UK and Europe.<br />
<br />
Originally, the physical product was intended to be released on July 22, 2008 in the US, Canada, and Japan as a numbered, CD/DVD package, limited to 250,000 units with the UK, Europe, and Australian unnumbered editions to be released on July 21, 2008, with the same content as the North American and Japanese editions. It is not known at this time why the decision was made for the numbers produced to be reduced.<br />
<br />
The double gatefold vinyl release contains one 180-gram LP and a 24-page booklet. Unlike the CD release, the vinyl is not numbered. It will be released in the US and Canada on august 5th, 2008, and in the UK and Europe on August 4th, 2008.<br />
<br />
On July 16, 2008 Trent posted two images of the physical product on nin.com. The post was entitled "The Beginning and the End". The first image shows Trent holding two copies of the album, hiding his face behind them. The second image shows the backs of both CDs. The one in back reads 1/250,000 and the one in front reads 250,000/250,000.<br />
<br />
====Third Disc====<br />
On Amazon US, ''The Slip'' is described as having three discs. A user named as Ronaldo Jones posted under the discussion "Hidden Disc" that there is a third disc, a CD, with more studio tracks named "The Take Over". This is, however, just a rumour.<br />
<br />
When asked to verify the product info, Amazon.com customer service replied with the following: "I understand that it is listed as 2 disc, 6 panel digipak in other websites and it is listed as 3 discs on our website. The only information we can give you about a particular CD is what is displayed on the detail page for that particular music title."<br />
<br />
No further clarification was given. It is possible that they are counting the sticker pack as a disc. At some point, Amazon US was updated to show 2 discs.<br />
<br />
The images posted on nin.com on July 16, 2008 show the label on the album which reads "limted edition CD + DVD". It is difficult to make out the smaller print, but it doesn't appear to give any further clues to a 3rd disc.<br />
<br />
==Track Listing==<br />
#"[[999,999]]" - 1:25<br />
#"[[1,000,000]]" - 3:56<br />
#"[[Letting You]]" - 3:49<br />
#"[[Discipline]]" - 4:19<br />
#"[[Echoplex]]" - 4:45<br />
#"[[Head Down]]" - 4:55<br />
#"[[Lights In The Sky (song)|Lights In The Sky]]" - 3:29<br />
#"[[Corona Radiata]]" - 7:33<br />
#"[[The Four Of Us Are Dying]]" - 4:37<br />
#"[[Demon Seed]]" - 4:59<br />
<br />
Full length: 43:45<br />
<br />
==Album Credits==<br />
*Written by [[Trent Reznor]]<br />
*Performed by Trent Reznor, [[Josh Freese]], [[Robin Finck]] and [[Alessandro Cortini]]<br />
*Produced by Trent Reznor, [[Atticus Ross]] and [[Alan Moulder]]<br />
*Mixed by Alan Moulder<br />
*Programmed by Atticus Ross<br />
*Engineered by [[Michael Tuller]], Atticus Ross and Alan Moulder<br />
*Mastered by Brian Gardner at Bernie Grundman Mastering, Hollywood, California<br />
<br />
*Room tuning: Steve “Coco” Brandon<br />
*Art direction: [[Rob Sheridan]] and Trent Reznor<br />
*Cover styling: Amy Hall<br />
*Hair: Cori Bardo<br />
<br />
*Project coordination: [[Dancing Brett|Brett Bachemin]]<br />
*Assistance: Alynn Dotson<br />
*Management: Rebel Waltz<br />
*Business management: William Harper and Michael Walsh for Gelfand, Rennert & Feldman<br />
*Legal: Gary Stiffelman and David Byrnes<br />
*World wide booking: Marc Geiger for William Morris Agency<br />
*Press [us]: Steve Martin (Nasty Little Man)<br />
*Press [uk]: Frances McCahon (RMP)<br />
<br />
*The Null Corporation Europe: Didi Parlevliet<br />
*Published by: Form And Texture (ASCAP)<br />
*Label: The Null Corporation<br />
<br />
© 2008 NIN<br />
<br />
<br />
*Thank you: Bob Morelli, Alan Becker, Danny Buch and everyone at Red; Digidesign; Elena Dickstein and Preferred Travel; Jeffrey Ehrenberg and Vintage King; Jeffrey Jorton and Native Instruments; Paul J. Cox Studio Systems; Phillip Scholes and SSL; Rockit Cargo; Roger Cordell and Big City Music; Ross Garfield and Drum Doctors; Shawn Cleary and Analogue Haven; Shivaun O’Brien and Sound City Studios; Sudjam; Topspin Media Inc.; West L.A. Music<br />
<br />
*Thank you (continued): Bruno Bondanelli, Candy Soo, Chris Whitemyer, Christina Lum, Craig Johnston, David Phillips, Irina Volodarsky, Jeff Davis, Jeff Masud, Jessica Trento, John Coleman, Josh Smith, June Munsinger, Karen Ciccone, Kelly Jao, Marie Lewis, [[Rich Fownes]], Ross Rosen, Shamal Ranasinghe, Sherri Durrell, Tamar Levine, Zia Modabber<br />
<br />
This album is licensed under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/ Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike license]. <br />
<br />
More information: [http://creativecommons.org/ www.creativecommons.org]<br />
<br />
==Release==<br />
Prior to the album's release, a message was posted on [[nin.com]], simply stating "2 weeks!". The previous time the same message had been posted on the site had been to forbear the release of ''Ghosts I-IV''. Two tracks, "Discipline" and "Echoplex", were also released through radio and the internet respectively, both containing the message "go to www.nin.com May 5" in their ID3 tags. <br />
<br />
On May 5th, nin.com was updated with the title [[Halo numbers|Halo 27]] and a link to [[theslip.nin.com]] with the message:<br />
"(thank you for your continued and loyal support over the years - this one’s on me)"<br />
<br />
The album site requires a password to be submitted where the link to the download page can be sent to. The site itself states:<br />
"as a thank you to our fans for your continued support, we are giving away the new nine inch nails album one hundred percent free,<br />
exclusively via nin.com."<br><br />
"we encourage you to remix it, share it with your friends, post it on your blog, play it on your podcast, give it to strangers, etc." <br />
[[Multitracks]] for the songs were then posted for download from [[remix.nin.com]]<br />
<br />
According to a [http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/20818072/nin_release_free_album_online Rolling Stone article], the album was finished May 4th and sent to Sudjam, the company that manages nin.com, at 9:30 p.m. for a midnight release.<br />
<br />
In a [[nin.com]] update on June 26th, 2008, it was reported that since the album's release on May 5th, 2008, over 1,400,000 people had downloaded ''The Slip'' from theslip.nin.com. That number represents individual people, and excludes multiple downloads from the same order. <br />
<br />
== Relation to Year Zero ==<br />
Like ''[[Ghosts I-IV]]'', the release of ''The Slip'' came as a surprise to most fans, who were expecting the next release to be a "''Year Zero 2''". Trent Reznor has indicated in interviews since the release that a ''[[Year Zero]]'' sequels was still in the works.<br />
<br />
It remains unclear what portions, if any, of ''The Slip'' should be considered as canon in the Year Zero storyline. Aside from from [[Art Is Resistance]] logo in the artwork for "[[Letting You]]", there are no clear direct references characters or events in Year Zero. Many of tracks do share similar themes, such as abuse of power ("Letting You"), an avatar of destruction ("[[Demon Seed]]"), submission to authority ("[[Head Down]]"), imprisonment ("[[Echoplex]]") and the appearance of entities in the sky ("[[Lights In The Sky]]"). Other songs, however, like "[[1,000,000]]" and "[[Discipline]]", seem completely unrelated and feature more "traditional" NIN themes of personal turmoil.<br />
<br />
==Miscellanea==<br />
The high quality wave download torrent includes a subdirectory named "The Slip art", containing JPEG images. However, the file "02-1000000.jpg", has an incorrect file extension. This is actually an Adobe Photoshop CS3 (Macintosh version) file with a single layer and no significant meta information attached.<br />
<br />
There also seems to be a mistake in the wave files; The track "The Four Of Us Are Dying" is mistitled "Demon Seed" and vice versa.<br />
<br />
The final page of the PDF gives credit to "(c) 2008 niin." This appears to be a typographical error.<br />
<br />
Audiophile message board [http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php Hydrogen Audio] noticed mastering errors on the 24/96 high-def WAVs, which was followed by posters "ningineer" and "treznor" who wrote that they had recontacted the mastering studio and released the WAVs in addition to high-def FLACs.[http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=63086] On May 15th the nin.com Halo 27 blog post was edited with the message: ''"Some friends at hydrogenaudio pointed out an error with the high resolution WAVE files we didn't catch. The corrected files are now posted along with high resolution FLAC files as well. If you're interested in these, simply re-download the new files. Sorry for the hassle!"''<br />
<br />
A Google Earth KML file representing downloads of ''The Slip'' according to geographic region was made available from nin.com on June 26th, displaying over 1,400,000 downloads (not including multiple downloads) that had come from theslip.nin.com.<br />
<br />
==External Links==<br />
*[http://theslip.nin.com theslip.nin.com]<br />
*[http://www.ilike.com/artist/Nine+Inch+Nails Streaming audio at iLike]<br />
<br />
[[Category:NIN Discography]]</div>
Aeontriad
https://www.nin.wiki/index.php?title=Talk:The_Slip&diff=21812
Talk:The Slip
2008-07-18T21:40:27Z
<p>Aeontriad: </p>
<hr />
<div>Whilst the credits are to NIIN, I would assume a typo and on here we should put in the correct spelling. [[User:Sheepdean|Sheepdean]] 07:28, 5 May 2008 (PDT)<br />
:This is what I thought too, the audio files' comment tags read "(c) 2008 nin". [[User:Mobytoss|Mobytoss]] 09:53, 5 May 2008 (PDT)<br />
::okay; i changed it back [[User:Tocz|Tocz]] 10:47, 5 May 2008 (PDT)<br />
:::I felt this was still noteworthy, so I've added it to the miscellanea section. [[User:M0de l3d|M0de l3d]] 22:34, 13 May 2008 (PDT)<br />
<br />
Hey, this album's message seems to convey a possible breakup in nine inch nails. I mean, look at both the page for "the four of us are dying". Also, the album is called "The Slip".<br />
I dunno, feel free to expand.<br />
<br />
If NIN broke up, I'd be very worried, as there's only one member.[[User:Sheepdean|Sheepdean]] 17:19, 6 May 2008 (PDT)<br />
<br />
But four members worked on this album.<br />
<br />
Doubt it has anything to do with the "band" breaking up. It's most likely about Year Zero and personal reflection. [[User:Velvolver|Velvolver]] 20:55, 6 May 2008 (PDT)<br />
<br />
<br />
=Alien Abduction=<br />
<br />
This whole albums about the year zero story, and then eventually talks about alien abduction. Seriously, I'll explain more later [[User:Velvolver|Velvolver]] 21:13, 6 May 2008 (PDT)<br />
<br />
The hand on the cover art is probably The Presence. Also, the album itself seems to be a sort of interlude between Year Zero and what's coming after,<br />
like a calm before the storm. The "Lights in the Sky" lyrics remind me of the christian idea of the rapture, and the album itself up to that track could be viewed as characters<br />
portrayed in the Year Zero story line who are left behind by The Presence (or what the presence signified) to a world void of meaning. The big event happened, and these people<br />
were not part of it. Their struggle to come to terms with this situation in expressed in a variety of painful perspectives that all seem to meld into one resolved perspective<br />
at the end of the album. The song "The Great Destroyer" from Year Zero foreshadows this character portrayed in "Demon Seed", a person with "the infinite potential... to murder everything".<br />
So, if the Presence = the Rapture, then I'm assuming The Great Destroyer/Demon Seed = the Antichrist. Like Trent Reznor's version of the apocalypse.<br />
<br />
The Presence symbol (signifying the hand of God/Fate, or whatever) on the cover of The Slip would be that hand pulling the author behind the various characters on Year Zero<br />
and The Slip (literally, Trent Reznor, but in the same way that the hand represents "the Presence"{God, Fate, or whaterver} the author would represent the self{or soul, ego, identity, etc.})<br />
back into one underlaying identity, Resolved to destroy what's left of the world. <br />
<br />
That's my guess, anyway.<br />
<br />
Also, the art for "The Four Of Us Are Dying" looks like 4 isometric zeros, like the numeric representation of the year zero.<br />
<br />
=Image files=<br />
<br />
What's with the extra bar at the bottom of all the artwork files for ''[[The Slip]]''? The only place they seem to appear is on the wiki (ie. they're not in the PDF of the embedded images in the MP3s)? It's most notable on [[Lights In The Sky]] and [[The Four Of Us Are Dying]].<br />
<br />
This is most likely a glitch produced when they were posted, but I also noticed it. It almost looks like the top of the image repeated at the bottom. [[User:Aeontriad|Aeontriad]] 03:25, 15 May 2008 (PDT)<br />
<br />
== A Theory ==<br />
<br />
This was posted in the main article and I thought it would be better on this Discussion page.--[[User:Leo3375|leo3375]] 11:45, 13 May 2008 (PDT)<br />
<br />
===Potential Year Zero Concept===<br />
Although not officially stated, the concept seems to show certain events which happen to the main characters in the year zero universe. Below are some potential meanings to certain songs:<br />
<br />
====1,000,000====<br />
This song could be about a person who has been lead to believe something and realised it was all just a lie, so he has become over eccentric with the idea and decided he no longer wants to believe anything, he feels more alive now he is no longer restrained, at the same time he feels like he has to destroy himself because he has no meaning.<br />
<br />
====Letting You====<br />
How the fictional government are controlling its people but the people are to afraid to do anything about it. Another part of the song shows how the soldiers they are training believe they are fighting for liberty but they only seem to be fighting for the same lost cause as their leaders.<br />
<br />
====Discipline====<br />
This song resembles one specific person who seems to believe he is doing something wrong, or is being told he is doing wrong, so he should be disciplined. This could also resemble certain torture techniques the government use on prisoners (much like in the movies), which in turn, forces them to think they are doing something wrong when in fact they aren't.<br />
<br />
====Echoplex====<br />
This song is from the eyes of someone who is being held captive, how he is going crazy and is starting to believe he can see everything, most likely because of a lack of the fictional parepin which helps repress feelings of control. It also seems like he is slowly being forgotten about and nobody is going to rescue him from his cage.<br />
<br />
====Head Down====<br />
This song resembles somebody talking to themselves, trying not to get caught for something they have done wrong, with feelings of people watching him at all times, waiting for him to slip up.<br />
<br />
====Lights In The Sky====<br />
This seems to show a couple, which are more than likely a part of the resistance. One of them (Most Likely The Male) may have had a chance to escape the carnage the government is creating, but wont leave the other due to feelings for eachother.<br />
<br />
====Corona Radiata====<br />
This song is a little bit more curious, as the corona radiata are several protective layers surrounding ova or unfertilized egg cells, responsible with supplying the ova or egg cell with protein. This could mean the couple from lights in the sky are expecting or dont know the female is pregnant, possibly with the demon seed, as the red line in the image is connected to the artwork for demon seed. the song also begins with a more muffled sound much like you are listening from the inside of the womb, and gradually gets clearer and clearer.<br />
<br />
====The Four Of Us Are Dying====<br />
This songs artwork is not directly linked to the demon seed, much like lights in the sky, this means they are not being affected by the seed for the reason shown below. It could also show the main characters of the plotline dying out, ushering in the new era and the demon seed.<br />
<br />
====Demon Seed====<br />
This could be from the point of view of the child the girl is bearing only older, perhaps an orphan wants to find out more about their parents, only to find they were killed as part of a government resistance, this child would then decide to carry on what there parents started and take down the government, creating a new resistance. This is the theory on how the artwork for demon seed is connected to everything on the album apart from the potential resistance members, it never knew its family, yet it is able to change the course of everything else which is happening in the universe around it. (Also, the artwork for Demon Seed, when rotated counterclockwise, looks like 0001, the year after year zero. bethehammer)<br />
<br />
<br />
These are only speculative theories and have not been officially stated.<br />
<br />
== Artwork ==<br />
<br />
Does the red line tie in to the vocals at all? Because the songs with vocals have red lines, but I think (I haven't checked) the instrumentals don't have red line artwork.<br />
<br />
Probably not, as corona radiata has a red line and it's an instrumental, and lights in the sky does not have a red line, and it's a vocal track (bethehammer)<br />
<br />
Moved the two above posts down to this section. [[User:Aeontriad|Aeontriad]]<br />
<br />
I'm curious to see if the artwork holds any hidden meaning. I was thinking about seeing if the images could be aligned a certain way so that the red lines connect (though I haven't found the time to do this myself). I also found it curious that some of the images have a darker background than the others.<br />
<br />
== ''Year Zero'' Tie-In? ==<br />
<br />
I've started putting songs from ''The Slip'' in between songs from ''Year Zero'' and so far have found that some of the songs fit very well together.<br />
<br />
For example: 'The Good Soldier' fades really well into 'Echoplex' and 'Vessel' fits into the theme that follows in 'Head Down' and then 'Me, I'm Not'. I've also noticed that the background ambiance in 'Another Version Of The Truth' is very Similar to 'Corona Radiata'.<br />
<br />
I'm still moving songs around to find a good mix...and I may throw in songs from ''Ghosts I-IV'' to see if there is another connection. [[User:Aeontriad|Aeontriad]] 5/18/08<br />
<br />
== Third Disc? ==<br />
<br />
I emailed Amazon.com in regards to the listing of 3 discs.<br />
<br />
Comments:The product info lists this product as having 3 discs. The artist's website http://feeds.nin.com/ninNews describes the product as the follwing "The Slip will be available in an individually numbered 2 disc, 6 panel digipak..." I just wanted to get some clarification on this so I know what I'll be getting. Thank you for your time.<br />
<br />
Amazon.com: I understand that it is listed as 2 disc, 6 panel digipak in other website and it is listed as 3 discs on our website. The only information we can give you about a particular CD is what is displayed on the detail page for that particular music title.<br />
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On many detail pages, in addition to the artist and recording label, you'll also find links to track listings, reviews, customer comments, a biography of the artist, a list of musical influences, and other CDs by that artist. All of these links appear in the left-hand margin.<br />
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[[User:Aeontriad|Aeontriad]] 07:57, 3 July 2008 (PDT)<br />
<br />
== The Slip only 2 disk! ==<br />
<br />
Amazon.com has changed the number of disks to 2. I sthis the correct number or is this a diversion tactic with the release so close?<br />
:Not from what I see:<br />
Product Details<br />
<br />
* Audio CD (July 22, 2008)<br />
* Original Release Date: July 22, 2008<br />
* Number of Discs: <b>3</b><br />
* Format: Limited Edition<br />
* Label: The Null Corporation<br />
* ASIN: B001B71NOI<br />
* In-Print Editions: Music Download<br />
* Amazon.com Sales Rank: #23 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)<br />
<br />
It still says 3 on .com [[User:Sheepdean|Sheepdean]] 05:55, 16 July 2008 (PDT)<br />
<br />
Just checked, Look:<br />
Product details<br />
<br />
Audio CD (28 Jul 2008) <br />
Number of Discs: 2 <br />
Label: The Null Corporation <br />
ASIN: B001B71NOI <br />
Average Customer Review: <br />
7 Reviews <br />
5 star: (4) <br />
4 star: (3) <br />
3 star: (0) <br />
2 star: (0) <br />
1 star: (0) <br />
<br />
See all 7 customer reviews... <br />
<br />
<br />
(7 customer reviews) <br />
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 52 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)<br />
Popular in these categories:<br />
::Seems that different Amazon sites have different information. Either they're correcting each page seperatly or smoething's afoot. [[User:Sheepdean|Sheepdean]] 05:55, 16 July 2008 (PDT)<br />
:::I'm sure that when people start getting their physical copies the information here will be clarified.--[[User:Leo3375|leo3375]] 08:33, 16 July 2008 (PDT)<br />
::::I just noticed that amazon.com was updated to show 2 discs now, but I did notice an 11th track entitled "Slip". We should probably wait to update the main page until this 11th track can be confirmed. [[User:Aeontriad|Aeontriad]] 14:40, 18 July 2008 (PDT)</div>
Aeontriad
https://www.nin.wiki/index.php?title=The_Slip&diff=21808
The Slip
2008-07-17T21:57:28Z
<p>Aeontriad: </p>
<hr />
<div>[[Image:The_slip.jpg|thumb|200px|Halo 27: ''The Slip'']]<br />
'''''The Slip''''' (also known as '''''[[Halo numbers|Halo 27]]''''') is the eighth and latest studio album from [[Nine Inch Nails]]. It was released as a free download on May 5, 2008, and contains the previously released Web-only singles "[[Discipline]]" and "[[Echoplex]]."<br />
<br />
The album is available for download in a variety of formats, including MP3, lossless FLAC and high-quality WAV files. When playing the MP3 files in an MP3 player a different piece of artwork is displayed for each song, [[The_Photography_of_Ghosts_I%E2%80%93IV|as was the case with]] ''[[Ghosts I–IV]]''.<br />
<br />
==Formats==<br />
===Downloads===<br />
*High-quality MP3s (87 mb), encoded with LAME at V0, fully tagged.<br />
*FLAC lossless (259 mb)<br />
*FLAC high definition 24/96 (942 mb), better-than-CD-quality 24bit 96kHz audio<br />
*M4A Apple Lossless (263 mb)<br />
*High definition WAVE 24/96 (1.2 gb), better-than-CD-quality 24bit 96kHz audio<br />
<br />
The FLAC, M4A and WAVE formats are distributed via torrents through tracker.nin.com. All formats include a PDF file with artwork and credits, all songs include individual track art and lyrics embedded. All files are 100% DRM-free.<br />
<br />
===Physical product===<br />
''The Slip'' will be available as a physical product in CD and vinyl formats. The 6 panel digipak will be limited to 250,000 pieces worldwide, each individually numbered, and will include a DVD of NIN performing five live tracks from ''The Slip'' at rehearsals, a 24-page booklet, and an exclusive sticker pack. The CD is to be released July 22, 2008 in the US and Canada, and released July 21, 2008 in the UK and Europe.<br />
<br />
Originally, the physical product was intended to be released on July 22, 2008 in the US, Canada, and Japan as a numbered, CD/DVD package, limited to 250,000 units with the UK, Europe, and Australian unnumbered editions to be released on July 21, 2008, with the same content as the North American and Japanese editions. It is not known at this time why the decision was made for the numbers produced to be reduced.<br />
<br />
The double gatefold vinyl release contains one 180-gram LP and a 24-page booklet. Unlike the CD release, the vinyl is not numbered. It will be released in the US and Canada on august 5th, 2008, and in the UK and Europe on August 4th, 2008.<br />
<br />
On July 16, 2008 Trent posted two images of the physical product on nin.com. The post was entitled "The Beginning and the End". The first image shows Trent holding two copies of the album, hiding his face behind them. The second image shows the backs of both CDs. The one in back reads 1/250,000 and the one in front reads 250,000/250,000.<br />
<br />
====Third Disc====<br />
On Amazon US, ''The Slip'' is described as having three discs. A user named as Ronaldo Jones posted under the discussion "Hidden Disc" that there is a third disc, a CD, with more studio tracks named "The Take Over". This is, however, just a rumour.<br />
<br />
When asked to verify the product info, Amazon.com customer service replied with the following: "I understand that it is listed as 2 disc, 6 panel digipak in other websites and it is listed as 3 discs on our website. The only information we can give you about a particular CD is what is displayed on the detail page for that particular music title."<br />
<br />
No further clarification was given. It is possible that they are counting the sticker pack as a disc. <br />
<br />
The images posted on nin.com on July 16, 2008 show the label on the album which reads "limted edition CD + DVD". It is difficult to make out the smaller print, but it doesn't appear to give any further clues to a 3rd disc.<br />
<br />
==Track Listing==<br />
#"[[999,999]]" - 1:25<br />
#"[[1,000,000]]" - 3:56<br />
#"[[Letting You]]" - 3:49<br />
#"[[Discipline]]" - 4:19<br />
#"[[Echoplex]]" - 4:45<br />
#"[[Head Down]]" - 4:55<br />
#"[[Lights In The Sky (song)|Lights In The Sky]]" - 3:29<br />
#"[[Corona Radiata]]" - 7:33<br />
#"[[The Four Of Us Are Dying]]" - 4:37<br />
#"[[Demon Seed]]" - 4:59<br />
<br />
Full length: 43:45<br />
<br />
==Album Credits==<br />
*Written by [[Trent Reznor]]<br />
*Performed by Trent Reznor, [[Josh Freese]], [[Robin Finck]] and [[Alessandro Cortini]]<br />
*Produced by Trent Reznor, [[Atticus Ross]] and [[Alan Moulder]]<br />
*Mixed by Alan Moulder<br />
*Programmed by Atticus Ross<br />
*Engineered by [[Michael Tuller]], Atticus Ross and Alan Moulder<br />
*Mastered by Brian Gardner at Bernie Grundman Mastering, Hollywood, California<br />
<br />
*Room tuning: Steve “Coco” Brandon<br />
*Art direction: [[Rob Sheridan]] and Trent Reznor<br />
*Cover styling: Amy Hall<br />
*Hair: Cori Bardo<br />
<br />
*Project coordination: [[Dancing Brett|Brett Bachemin]]<br />
*Assistance: Alynn Dotson<br />
*Management: Rebel Waltz<br />
*Business management: William Harper and Michael Walsh for Gelfand, Rennert & Feldman<br />
*Legal: Gary Stiffelman and David Byrnes<br />
*World wide booking: Marc Geiger for William Morris Agency<br />
*Press [us]: Steve Martin (Nasty Little Man)<br />
*Press [uk]: Frances McCahon (RMP)<br />
<br />
*The Null Corporation Europe: Didi Parlevliet<br />
*Published by: Form And Texture (ASCAP)<br />
*Label: The Null Corporation<br />
<br />
© 2008 NIN<br />
<br />
<br />
*Thank you: Bob Morelli, Alan Becker, Danny Buch and everyone at Red; Digidesign; Elena Dickstein and Preferred Travel; Jeffrey Ehrenberg and Vintage King; Jeffrey Jorton and Native Instruments; Paul J. Cox Studio Systems; Phillip Scholes and SSL; Rockit Cargo; Roger Cordell and Big City Music; Ross Garfield and Drum Doctors; Shawn Cleary and Analogue Haven; Shivaun O’Brien and Sound City Studios; Sudjam; Topspin Media Inc.; West L.A. Music<br />
<br />
*Thank you (continued): Bruno Bondanelli, Candy Soo, Chris Whitemyer, Christina Lum, Craig Johnston, David Phillips, Irina Volodarsky, Jeff Davis, Jeff Masud, Jessica Trento, John Coleman, Josh Smith, June Munsinger, Karen Ciccone, Kelly Jao, Marie Lewis, [[Rich Fownes]], Ross Rosen, Shamal Ranasinghe, Sherri Durrell, Tamar Levine, Zia Modabber<br />
<br />
This album is licensed under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/ Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike license]. <br />
<br />
More information: [http://creativecommons.org/ www.creativecommons.org]<br />
<br />
==Release==<br />
Prior to the album's release, a message was posted on [[nin.com]], simply stating "2 weeks!". The previous time the same message had been posted on the site had been to forbear the release of ''Ghosts I-IV''. Two tracks, "Discipline" and "Echoplex", were also released through radio and the internet respectively, both containing the message "go to www.nin.com May 5" in their ID3 tags. <br />
<br />
On May 5th, nin.com was updated with the title [[Halo numbers|Halo 27]] and a link to [[theslip.nin.com]] with the message:<br />
"(thank you for your continued and loyal support over the years - this one’s on me)"<br />
<br />
The album site requires a password to be submitted where the link to the download page can be sent to. The site itself states:<br />
"as a thank you to our fans for your continued support, we are giving away the new nine inch nails album one hundred percent free,<br />
exclusively via nin.com."<br><br />
"we encourage you to remix it, share it with your friends, post it on your blog, play it on your podcast, give it to strangers, etc." <br />
[[Multitracks]] for the songs were then posted for download from [[remix.nin.com]]<br />
<br />
According to a [http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/20818072/nin_release_free_album_online Rolling Stone article], the album was finished May 4th and sent to Sudjam, the company that manages nin.com, at 9:30 p.m. for a midnight release.<br />
<br />
In a [[nin.com]] update on June 26th, 2008, it was reported that since the album's release on May 5th, 2008, over 1,400,000 people had downloaded ''The Slip'' from theslip.nin.com. That number represents individual people, and excludes multiple downloads from the same order. <br />
<br />
== Relation to Year Zero ==<br />
Like ''[[Ghosts I-IV]]'', the release of ''The Slip'' came as a surprise to most fans, who were expecting the next release to be a "''Year Zero 2''". Trent Reznor has indicated in interviews since the release that a ''[[Year Zero]]'' sequels was still in the works.<br />
<br />
It remains unclear what portions, if any, of ''The Slip'' should be considered as canon in the Year Zero storyline. Aside from from [[Art Is Resistance]] logo in the artwork for "[[Letting You]]", there are no clear direct references characters or events in Year Zero. Many of tracks do share similar themes, such as abuse of power ("Letting You"), an avatar of destruction ("[[Demon Seed]]"), submission to authority ("[[Head Down]]"), imprisonment ("[[Echoplex]]") and the appearance of entities in the sky ("[[Lights In The Sky]]"). Other songs, however, like "[[1,000,000]]" and "[[Discipline]]", seem completely unrelated and feature more "traditional" NIN themes of personal turmoil.<br />
<br />
==Miscellanea==<br />
The high quality wave download torrent includes a subdirectory named "The Slip art", containing JPEG images. However, the file "02-1000000.jpg", has an incorrect file extension. This is actually an Adobe Photoshop CS3 (Macintosh version) file with a single layer and no significant meta information attached.<br />
<br />
There also seems to be a mistake in the wave files; The track "The Four Of Us Are Dying" is mistitled "Demon Seed" and vice versa.<br />
<br />
The final page of the PDF gives credit to "(c) 2008 niin." This appears to be a typographical error.<br />
<br />
Audiophile message board [http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php Hydrogen Audio] noticed mastering errors on the 24/96 high-def WAVs, which was followed by posters "ningineer" and "treznor" who wrote that they had recontacted the mastering studio and released the WAVs in addition to high-def FLACs.[http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=63086] On May 15th the nin.com Halo 27 blog post was edited with the message: ''"Some friends at hydrogenaudio pointed out an error with the high resolution WAVE files we didn't catch. The corrected files are now posted along with high resolution FLAC files as well. If you're interested in these, simply re-download the new files. Sorry for the hassle!"''<br />
<br />
A Google Earth KML file representing downloads of ''The Slip'' according to geographic region was made available from nin.com on June 26th, displaying over 1,400,000 downloads (not including multiple downloads) that had come from theslip.nin.com.<br />
<br />
==External Links==<br />
*[http://theslip.nin.com theslip.nin.com]<br />
*[http://www.ilike.com/artist/Nine+Inch+Nails Streaming audio at iLike]<br />
<br />
[[Category:NIN Discography]]</div>
Aeontriad
https://www.nin.wiki/index.php?title=The_Slip&diff=21807
The Slip
2008-07-17T21:53:02Z
<p>Aeontriad: </p>
<hr />
<div>[[Image:The_slip.jpg|thumb|200px|Halo 27: ''The Slip'']]<br />
'''''The Slip''''' (also known as '''''[[Halo numbers|Halo 27]]''''') is the eighth and latest studio album from [[Nine Inch Nails]]. It was released as a free download on May 5, 2008, and contains the previously released Web-only singles "[[Discipline]]" and "[[Echoplex]]."<br />
<br />
The album is available for download in a variety of formats, including MP3, lossless FLAC and high-quality WAV files. When playing the MP3 files in an MP3 player a different piece of artwork is displayed for each song, [[The_Photography_of_Ghosts_I%E2%80%93IV|as was the case with]] ''[[Ghosts I–IV]]''.<br />
<br />
==Formats==<br />
===Downloads===<br />
*High-quality MP3s (87 mb), encoded with LAME at V0, fully tagged.<br />
*FLAC lossless (259 mb)<br />
*FLAC high definition 24/96 (942 mb), better-than-CD-quality 24bit 96kHz audio<br />
*M4A Apple Lossless (263 mb)<br />
*High definition WAVE 24/96 (1.2 gb), better-than-CD-quality 24bit 96kHz audio<br />
<br />
The FLAC, M4A and WAVE formats are distributed via torrents through tracker.nin.com. All formats include a PDF file with artwork and credits, all songs include individual track art and lyrics embedded. All files are 100% DRM-free.<br />
<br />
===Physical product===<br />
''The Slip'' will be available as a physical product in CD and vinyl formats. The 6 panel digipak will be limited to 250,000 pieces worldwide, each individually numbered, and will include a DVD of NIN performing five live tracks from ''The Slip'' at rehearsals, a 24-page booklet, and an exclusive sticker pack. The CD is to be released July 22, 2008 in the US and Canada, and released July 21, 2008 in the UK and Europe.<br />
<br />
Originally, the physical product was intended to be released on July 22, 2008 in the US, Canada, and Japan as a numbered, CD/DVD package, limited to 250,000 units with the UK, Europe, and Australian unnumbered editions to be released on July 21, 2008, with the same content as the North American and Japanese editions. It is not known at this time why the decision was made for the numbers produced to be reduced.<br />
<br />
The double gatefold vinyl release contains one 180-gram LP and a 24-page booklet. Unlike the CD release, the vinyl is not numbered. It will be released in the US and Canada on august 5th, 2008, and in the UK and Europe on August 4th, 2008.<br />
<br />
On July 16, 2008 Trent posted two images of the physical product on nin.com. The post was entitled "The Beginning and the End". The first image shows Trent holding two copies of the album, hiding his face behind them. The second image shows the backs of both CDs. The one in back reads 1/250,000 and the one in front reads 250,000/250,000.<br />
<br />
====Third Disc====<br />
On Amazon US, ''The Slip'' is described as having three discs. A user named as Ronaldo Jones posted under the discussion "Hidden Disc" that there is a third disc, a CD, with more studio tracks named "The Take Over". This is, however, just a rumour.<br />
<br />
When asked to verify the product info, Amazon.com customer service replied with the following: "I understand that it is listed as 2 disc, 6 panel digipak in other websites and it is listed as 3 discs on our website. The only information we can give you about a particular CD is what is displayed on the detail page for that particular music title."<br />
<br />
No further clarification was given. <br />
<br />
==Track Listing==<br />
#"[[999,999]]" - 1:25<br />
#"[[1,000,000]]" - 3:56<br />
#"[[Letting You]]" - 3:49<br />
#"[[Discipline]]" - 4:19<br />
#"[[Echoplex]]" - 4:45<br />
#"[[Head Down]]" - 4:55<br />
#"[[Lights In The Sky (song)|Lights In The Sky]]" - 3:29<br />
#"[[Corona Radiata]]" - 7:33<br />
#"[[The Four Of Us Are Dying]]" - 4:37<br />
#"[[Demon Seed]]" - 4:59<br />
<br />
Full length: 43:45<br />
<br />
==Album Credits==<br />
*Written by [[Trent Reznor]]<br />
*Performed by Trent Reznor, [[Josh Freese]], [[Robin Finck]] and [[Alessandro Cortini]]<br />
*Produced by Trent Reznor, [[Atticus Ross]] and [[Alan Moulder]]<br />
*Mixed by Alan Moulder<br />
*Programmed by Atticus Ross<br />
*Engineered by [[Michael Tuller]], Atticus Ross and Alan Moulder<br />
*Mastered by Brian Gardner at Bernie Grundman Mastering, Hollywood, California<br />
<br />
*Room tuning: Steve “Coco” Brandon<br />
*Art direction: [[Rob Sheridan]] and Trent Reznor<br />
*Cover styling: Amy Hall<br />
*Hair: Cori Bardo<br />
<br />
*Project coordination: [[Dancing Brett|Brett Bachemin]]<br />
*Assistance: Alynn Dotson<br />
*Management: Rebel Waltz<br />
*Business management: William Harper and Michael Walsh for Gelfand, Rennert & Feldman<br />
*Legal: Gary Stiffelman and David Byrnes<br />
*World wide booking: Marc Geiger for William Morris Agency<br />
*Press [us]: Steve Martin (Nasty Little Man)<br />
*Press [uk]: Frances McCahon (RMP)<br />
<br />
*The Null Corporation Europe: Didi Parlevliet<br />
*Published by: Form And Texture (ASCAP)<br />
*Label: The Null Corporation<br />
<br />
© 2008 NIN<br />
<br />
<br />
*Thank you: Bob Morelli, Alan Becker, Danny Buch and everyone at Red; Digidesign; Elena Dickstein and Preferred Travel; Jeffrey Ehrenberg and Vintage King; Jeffrey Jorton and Native Instruments; Paul J. Cox Studio Systems; Phillip Scholes and SSL; Rockit Cargo; Roger Cordell and Big City Music; Ross Garfield and Drum Doctors; Shawn Cleary and Analogue Haven; Shivaun O’Brien and Sound City Studios; Sudjam; Topspin Media Inc.; West L.A. Music<br />
<br />
*Thank you (continued): Bruno Bondanelli, Candy Soo, Chris Whitemyer, Christina Lum, Craig Johnston, David Phillips, Irina Volodarsky, Jeff Davis, Jeff Masud, Jessica Trento, John Coleman, Josh Smith, June Munsinger, Karen Ciccone, Kelly Jao, Marie Lewis, [[Rich Fownes]], Ross Rosen, Shamal Ranasinghe, Sherri Durrell, Tamar Levine, Zia Modabber<br />
<br />
This album is licensed under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/ Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike license]. <br />
<br />
More information: [http://creativecommons.org/ www.creativecommons.org]<br />
<br />
==Release==<br />
Prior to the album's release, a message was posted on [[nin.com]], simply stating "2 weeks!". The previous time the same message had been posted on the site had been to forbear the release of ''Ghosts I-IV''. Two tracks, "Discipline" and "Echoplex", were also released through radio and the internet respectively, both containing the message "go to www.nin.com May 5" in their ID3 tags. <br />
<br />
On May 5th, nin.com was updated with the title [[Halo numbers|Halo 27]] and a link to [[theslip.nin.com]] with the message:<br />
"(thank you for your continued and loyal support over the years - this one’s on me)"<br />
<br />
The album site requires a password to be submitted where the link to the download page can be sent to. The site itself states:<br />
"as a thank you to our fans for your continued support, we are giving away the new nine inch nails album one hundred percent free,<br />
exclusively via nin.com."<br><br />
"we encourage you to remix it, share it with your friends, post it on your blog, play it on your podcast, give it to strangers, etc." <br />
[[Multitracks]] for the songs were then posted for download from [[remix.nin.com]]<br />
<br />
According to a [http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/20818072/nin_release_free_album_online Rolling Stone article], the album was finished May 4th and sent to Sudjam, the company that manages nin.com, at 9:30 p.m. for a midnight release.<br />
<br />
In a [[nin.com]] update on June 26th, 2008, it was reported that since the album's release on May 5th, 2008, over 1,400,000 people had downloaded ''The Slip'' from theslip.nin.com. That number represents individual people, and excludes multiple downloads from the same order. <br />
<br />
== Relation to Year Zero ==<br />
Like ''[[Ghosts I-IV]]'', the release of ''The Slip'' came as a surprise to most fans, who were expecting the next release to be a "''Year Zero 2''". Trent Reznor has indicated in interviews since the release that a ''[[Year Zero]]'' sequels was still in the works.<br />
<br />
It remains unclear what portions, if any, of ''The Slip'' should be considered as canon in the Year Zero storyline. Aside from from [[Art Is Resistance]] logo in the artwork for "[[Letting You]]", there are no clear direct references characters or events in Year Zero. Many of tracks do share similar themes, such as abuse of power ("Letting You"), an avatar of destruction ("[[Demon Seed]]"), submission to authority ("[[Head Down]]"), imprisonment ("[[Echoplex]]") and the appearance of entities in the sky ("[[Lights In The Sky]]"). Other songs, however, like "[[1,000,000]]" and "[[Discipline]]", seem completely unrelated and feature more "traditional" NIN themes of personal turmoil.<br />
<br />
==Miscellanea==<br />
The high quality wave download torrent includes a subdirectory named "The Slip art", containing JPEG images. However, the file "02-1000000.jpg", has an incorrect file extension. This is actually an Adobe Photoshop CS3 (Macintosh version) file with a single layer and no significant meta information attached.<br />
<br />
There also seems to be a mistake in the wave files; The track "The Four Of Us Are Dying" is mistitled "Demon Seed" and vice versa.<br />
<br />
The final page of the PDF gives credit to "(c) 2008 niin." This appears to be a typographical error.<br />
<br />
Audiophile message board [http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php Hydrogen Audio] noticed mastering errors on the 24/96 high-def WAVs, which was followed by posters "ningineer" and "treznor" who wrote that they had recontacted the mastering studio and released the WAVs in addition to high-def FLACs.[http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=63086] On May 15th the nin.com Halo 27 blog post was edited with the message: ''"Some friends at hydrogenaudio pointed out an error with the high resolution WAVE files we didn't catch. The corrected files are now posted along with high resolution FLAC files as well. If you're interested in these, simply re-download the new files. Sorry for the hassle!"''<br />
<br />
A Google Earth KML file representing downloads of ''The Slip'' according to geographic region was made available from nin.com on June 26th, displaying over 1,400,000 downloads (not including multiple downloads) that had come from theslip.nin.com.<br />
<br />
==External Links==<br />
*[http://theslip.nin.com theslip.nin.com]<br />
*[http://www.ilike.com/artist/Nine+Inch+Nails Streaming audio at iLike]<br />
<br />
[[Category:NIN Discography]]</div>
Aeontriad
https://www.nin.wiki/index.php?title=Talk:A_Violet_Fluid&diff=21796
Talk:A Violet Fluid
2008-07-16T21:45:43Z
<p>Aeontriad: </p>
<hr />
<div>I just came back to the site to double check to see if the albums were linked anywhere else... thanks for the grab... [[User:Jgrizzy89|Jgrizzy89]]<br />
<br />
== March of the Pigs mis-print? ==<br />
<br />
I thought it might be worth adding something about the misprint of the name in the March of the Pigs single, where the song was misprinted as 'A Violent Fluid'. I think this is something worth adding but I'm not sure how to add it and stick with the current conventions.<br />
<br />
Go ahead and try and edit yourself! As the front page says "Don't be shy" - if you make a mistake, we can always correct it... and dont forget to sign your posts with four tildas (~) [[User:Jgrizzy89|Jgrizzy89]] 18:19, 23 May 2007 (PDT)<br />
<br />
I must have gotten one of the mis-prints because I always thought the song was "A Violent Fluid"...until now. [[User:Aeontriad|Aeontriad]] 14:45, 16 July 2008 (PDT)</div>
Aeontriad
https://www.nin.wiki/index.php?title=A_Warm_Place&diff=21739
A Warm Place
2008-07-15T21:59:23Z
<p>Aeontriad: </p>
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<div>{{song<br />
| title = A Warm Place<br />
| album = ''[[The Downward Spiral (halo)|The Downward Spiral]]''<br />
| length = 3:22<br />
| versions =A Warm Place<br>A Warm Place (Natural Born Killers edit)<br>A Warm Place (illum tangendo)<br />
| live = N/A<br />
}}'''"A Warm Place"''' is the tenth track on ''[[The Downward Spiral (halo)|The Downward Spiral]].''<br />
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===Interpretation===<br />
"A Warm Place" is regarded as the turning point of the album. It is the only instrumental, discounting the practically inaudible spoken words at the beginning. Its tranquil and soothing nature highly contrasts with the other tracks on the album, which all contain loud and angry parts.<br />
<br />
The previous track, "[[Big Man With A Gun]]," is arguably the most chaotic on the album. The narrator asserts his power and domination over samples of tortured screams. The last instance of "[[nothing can stop me now]]" in the album is shouted, and this is perhaps his last straw (no pun intended). At just over a minute and a half, "Big Man With A Gun" suddenly collapses, and "A Warm Place" starts immediately.<br />
<br />
The narrator has begun a drastic change in point of view. He experiences a moment of clarity to truly consider his situation in a way unhindered by intoxicants, or perhaps enhanced by them. Backed by the melancholy piano tune, he realizes who he has become and what he has done. He had known subconsciously before, and he had voiced the varying attributes (the title of "[[The Becoming]]" being the most obvious example), but he had not yet come to grips with the real consequences of his character and actions, which differ from the extreme views he had expressed previously. "Warm" contrasts with the cold, indifferent quality of machines, which are sampled throughout the album. This "warm place" relate to the womb or to the rise in body temperature during intercourse, where life begins. A melody in "A Warm Place" is an inverted version of that used in "[[Closer]]" and "[[The Downward Spiral (song)|The Downward Spiral]]."<br />
<br />
With the breathing straw sounds at the end of "A Warm Place," it segues into the next song, "[[Eraser]]," which begins as an instrumental. The straw sounds possess a sort of nasty texture, designating a change in tone. The heavy percussion beats permeate throughout: this is the rhythm required by his train of thought. As more sound layers are added, the narrator becomes increasingly disturbed by what he had realized in "A Warm Place". He begins an inner-battle on the only consequences that matter now: what he should do next. He denies certain arguments and favours others, evident by the periodic addition of more layers of mocking guitars. Briefly, the instrumental calms down a bit, and he lists the obvious in minimalistic terms ("[''verb''] me... [''verb''] you"). At the end, he has chosen a strongly desire for an end to the dilemma ("kill me"). A remix of "Eraser" being called "Eraser (denial; realization)" is evidence of this.<br />
<br />
"A Warm Place" and "Eraser" may be considered two acts to one song, with the former being critical and necessary for the latter. When listening to the album, one should avoid skipping "A Warm Place" to abruptly listen to "Eraser."<br />
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==="Crystal Japan" resemblance===<br />
[[Trent Reznor]] has been accused of ripping off the theme of "A Warm Place" from [[David Bowie]]'s 1980 single "Crystal Japan". He did state that Bowie's album ''Low'' (1977) had the biggest influence in the making of ''The Downward Spiral,''[http://9inchnails.com/articles/articles.php?id=7] though ''Low'' does not contain "Crystal Japan." Some have claimed that what is heard is deceiving; that from a musical theory point of view, there exist significant differences between the structures of the two melodies.<br />
<br />
===Song Credits===<br />
*Production: [[Flood]] and Trent Reznor<br />
*Mixing Engineer: [[Alan Moulder]]<br />
<br />
==Appearances==<br />
===Halos===<br />
*''The Downward Spiral''<br />
*''[[Closure]]''<br />
<br />
===Soundtracks===<br />
*''[[Natural Born Killers Soundtrack|Natural Born Killers]]''<br />
<br />
"A Warm Place" was included on the soundtrack to the 1994 Oliver Stone film ''Natural Born Killers.'' In the movie itself, the song served as a backdrop to the showdown between Mickey Knox and Jack Scagnetti after the first part of the prison riot scene.<br />
<br />
==Versions==<br />
===A Warm Place===<br />
This version is on both ''The Downward Spiral'' and ''Closure.''<br />
<br />
===A Warm Place (Natural Born Killers edit)===<br />
This version is essentially the same as the album version, but is shorter. Also, the "straw" sounds that lead into "Eraser" has been edited out.<br />
<br />
===A Warm Place (illum tangendo)===<br />
This is the original version of the song with new vocals by Stella Katsoudas (aka [[wp:Stella Soleil|Stella Soleil]]), the lead singer and main force behind Sister Soleil, added on top. The song was recorded in 1999 for the soundtrack to the film ''Stigmata'' but was not included, allegedly due to a quarrel between Reznor and Billy Corgan, who produced the soundtrack. Previously, the song had never been officially released, although Katsoudas has used it in some ballet performances and the track surfaced on torrent sites. More recently, the track has been uploaded to [[remix.nin.com]] and is available for download.<br />
The added lyrics are:<br />
Water rolls down the skin like tiny beads <br />
Eyes close so that they might see <br />
Illum tangendo (touching him) <br />
This sun is a star in someone else's sky <br />
Illum tangendo (touching him)<br />
This moon is making someone cry <br />
Illum tangendo (touching him)<br />
<br />
<i>Note: "Illum Tangendo" is Latin for "Touching Him"</i><br />
<br />
==Live==<br />
"A Warm Place" has never been played live.<br />
<br />
==Sample==<br />
A barely audible message is heard layered under the track in the very beginning of the song (repeating approximately 6 times):<br />
The best thing about life<br />
Is knowing you put it together<br />
<br />
[[Category:NIN Songs]][[Category:NIN Songs Never Played Live]][[Category:NIN Instrumentals]]</div>
Aeontriad
https://www.nin.wiki/index.php?title=Talk:Only_(song)&diff=21512
Talk:Only (song)
2008-07-11T21:02:50Z
<p>Aeontriad: New page: Why do all the Richard X remixes say "coming soon"? If we need credits, I can see if I can dig them up and add them...~~~~</p>
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<div>Why do all the Richard X remixes say "coming soon"? If we need credits, I can see if I can dig them up and add them...[[User:Aeontriad|Aeontriad]] 14:02, 11 July 2008 (PDT)</div>
Aeontriad
https://www.nin.wiki/index.php?title=The_Line_Begins_To_Blur&diff=21511
The Line Begins To Blur
2008-07-11T20:55:29Z
<p>Aeontriad: </p>
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<div>{{song<br />
| title =The Line Begins To Blur<br />
| album =''[[With Teeth (halo)|With Teeth]]''<br />
| length =3:44<br />
| versions =The Line Begins To Blur<br>The Line Begins To Blur (''[[Beside You In Time (halo)|Beside You In Time]]'')<br />
| live = [[Live: With Teeth]] through present<br />
}}<br />
<br />
"'''The Line Begins To Blur'''" is the eleventh track on the 2005 release ''[[With Teeth (halo)|With Teeth]].'' It was originally going to be a single.<br />
<br />
The last three songs on ''With Teeth'' describe the protagonists views of the world and the way things are going in it, i.e., the way he would like things to be going. On this track, He expresses how what he believed, along with that which he believed in, is changing, shooting off in radical directions. He speaks as if it was destined to be this way, as if he saw it coming all along. This song, along with "[[Beside You In Time (song)|Beside You In Time]]" and "[[Right Where It Belongs]]" can almost be seen as a prequel to ''[[Year Zero]],'' as they speak about corruption in man's heart, and the world changing, revealing something not before seen ("The Line Begins To Blur" definitely seems to lead up to the Resistance Theory, and [[Trent Reznor]]'s struggle coping with a world that has completely devolved around him, as the chorus says, "As far as I have gone/I knew what side I'm on/But now I'm not so sure/The line begins to blur… ") All in all, a grungy set of verses coupled with a beautiful set of choruses and a harmonic ending combine to form a powerful and thought provoking piece of music.<br />
<br />
===Song Credits===<br />
*Live Drums: [[Dave Grohl]]<br />
<br />
==Appearances==<br />
===Halo Appearances===<br />
*''With Teeth''<br />
*''[[Beside You In Time (halo)|Beside You In Time]]''<br />
<br />
==Versions==<br />
===The Line Begins To Blur===<br />
This is the original album version.<br />
<br />
===The Line Begins To Blur (''Beside You In Time'')===<br />
This live version can be found on the ''Beside You In Time'' DVD.<br />
<br />
==Live==<br />
"The Line Begins To Blur" has been played live since the first leg of the [[Live: With Teeth]] tour in 2005.<br />
<br />
When played live, the chorus is changed from "I knew what side I'm on" to "To know what side I'm on." This is seen on ''Beside You In Time.''<br />
<br />
==Lyrics==<br />
There are things that I said I would never do<br />
There are fears that I cannot believe have come true<br />
For my soul is too sick and too little and too late<br />
And my self I have grown too weary to hate<br />
<br />
The more I stay in here<br />
The more it's not so clear<br />
The more I stay in here<br />
The more I disappear<br />
As far as I have gone<br />
I knew what side I'm on<br />
But now I'm not so sure<br />
The line begins to blur<br />
<br />
Is there somebody on top of me?<br />
I don't know, I don't know<br />
Isn't anybody stopping me?<br />
I don't know, I don't know<br />
Well I'm trying to hold my breath<br />
Just how far down can I go?<br />
I don't know, I don't know<br />
I don’t know<br />
<br />
As I lie here and stare<br />
The fabric starts to tear<br />
It's far beyond repair<br />
And I don't really care<br />
As far as I have gone<br />
I knew what side I'm on<br />
But now I'm not so sure<br />
The line begins to blur<br />
<br />
[[Category: NIN Songs]]</div>
Aeontriad
https://www.nin.wiki/index.php?title=Getting_Smaller&diff=21510
Getting Smaller
2008-07-11T20:53:50Z
<p>Aeontriad: </p>
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<div>{{song<br />
| title =Getting Smaller<br />
| album =''[[With Teeth (halo)|With Teeth]]''<br />
| length =3:35<br />
| versions =Getting Smaller<br />
| live =[[Live: With Teeth]]<br />
}}"'''Getting Smaller'''" is the ninth track on the 2005 release ''[[With Teeth (halo)|With Teeth]].'' Many NIN fans feel that the lyrics address [[Trent Reznor]] coming back from his addictions a humbled person.<br />
<br />
===Song Credits===<br />
*Live drums: [[Dave Grohl]]<br />
<br />
==Appearances==<br />
===Halos===<br />
*''With Teeth''<br />
<br />
===Video Games===<br />
*''Tony Hawk's Project 8''<br />
<br />
==Versions==<br />
===Getting Smaller===<br />
This is the only version currently available.<br />
<br />
==Live==<br />
"Getting Smaller" has been played live since the first leg of the [[Live: With Teeth]] tour in 2005.<br />
<br />
==Lyrics==<br />
Getting a little erratic here<br />
And I don’t know who to trust<br />
I guess they got a way of reading my mind<br />
I guess I got to adjust<br />
I got my arms that flip flop flip flop flip<br />
I got my head on a spring<br />
Well I thought I got you on my side<br />
I haven’t got fucking anything<br />
<br />
I'm just a face in the crowd<br />
Nothing to worry about<br />
Not even trying to stand out<br />
I'm getting smaller and smaller and smaller<br />
And I have nothing to say<br />
It's all been taken away<br />
I just behave and obey<br />
I'm afraid I am starting to fade away<br />
<br />
Can kind of see out the cracks<br />
When I press up to the wall<br />
I'm not looking to stand up real high<br />
I'd be happy to crawl<br />
I think I'm losing my grip<br />
But I can still make a fist<br />
You know I still got my one good arm<br />
That I can beat—I can beat myself up with<br />
<br />
I'm just a face in the crowd<br />
Nothing to worry about<br />
Not even trying to stand out<br />
I'm getting smaller and smaller and smaller<br />
And I have nothing to say<br />
It's all been taken away<br />
I just behave and obey<br />
I'm afraid I am starting to fade away<br />
<br />
Hey and for what it is worth<br />
I really used to believe<br />
That maybe there's some great thing<br />
That we could achieve<br />
And now I can't tell the difference<br />
Or know what to feel<br />
Between what I've been trying so hard to see<br />
And what appears to be real<br />
<br />
My world is getting smaller every day<br />
Hey hey hey hey<br />
And that's OK<br />
<br />
[[Category: NIN Songs]]</div>
Aeontriad
https://www.nin.wiki/index.php?title=The_Perfect_Drug_(song)&diff=21509
The Perfect Drug (song)
2008-07-11T20:52:18Z
<p>Aeontriad: </p>
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<div>{{song<br />
| title =The Perfect Drug<br />
| album =''[[Lost Highway Soundtrack]]''<br />
| length =5:42<br />
| versions =The Perfect Drug<br>The Perfect Drug ([[Meat Beat Manifesto]])<br>The Perfect Drug ([[Plug]])<br>The Perfect Drug ([[Nine Inch Nails]])<br>The Perfect Drug ([[Spacetime Continuum]])<br>The Perfect Drug ([[The Orb]])<br>The Perfect Drug (Aphrodite)<br />
| live =N/A<br />
}}'''"The Perfect Drug"''' was written and recorded for the ''[[Lost Highway Soundtrack]]'' in 1997.<br />
<br />
===Song Credits===<br />
*Writing and performance: [[Nine Inch Nails]]<br />
*©1996 Leaving Hope Music Inc/TVT Music (ASCAP) administered by Leaving Hope Music Inc., D. Lohner/Wish It Away (ASCAP), C. Clouser/Hypercube Music/Warner Tamerlane Music (BMI), C. Vrenna<br />
*Production: [[Trent Reznor]]<br />
*Mix: [[Alan Moulder]]<br />
*Engineering: [[Dave "Rave" Ogilvie]]<br />
*Assistance: Brian Pollack<br />
<br />
==Appearances==<br />
===Halos===<br />
*''[[The Perfect Drug (halo)|The Perfect Drug Versions]]''<br />
*''[[We're In This Together (halo)|We're In This Together]]''<br />
*''[[Into The Void (halo)|Into The Void]]''<br />
<br />
===Video Games===<br />
*''Rock Band'' (available for download)<br />
<br />
===Other===<br />
*''[[Lost Highway Soundtrack]]''<br />
<br />
==Versions==<br />
===The Perfect Drug===<br />
This is the original version that can be found on the ''Lost Highway'' soundtrack as well as some versions of ''The Perfect Drug Versions'' and the ''[[We're In This Together (halo)|We're In This Together]]'' single. The version on the ''We're In This Together'' single is several seconds longer than the previous release, without the abrupt ending.<br />
<br />
===The Perfect Drug ([[Meat Beat Manifesto]])===<br />
This remix is almost a dub mix: it is very light on lyrics and emphasizes the percussion beat of the song. The word "annihilate" is added at some points and leads this remix out of the breakdown and into the ending portion. "The only lyrics in this version are "And I want you" and "You are the perfect drug."<br />
<br />
===The Perfect Drug ([[Plug]])===<br />
Incorporating dream-like synths and a danceable rhythm, this remix is notable for its synth rendition of the opening strains of the song. The last few lyrics of the first verse are used, "You are the perfect drug" is heard at the breakdown, and vocal instrumentation has been added. "Take me with you" is repeated at the end of this remix.<br />
<br />
===The Perfect Drug ([[Nine Inch Nails]])===<br />
This remix begins with Reznor whispering "You are the perfect drug." The vocals are distorted a bit in this intro. A dance beat and wind are added over the vocals. The lyrics are then sung about a third of the way through, as the beat becomes heavier and the synths build in volume. By the middle of the song, the music becomes much louder as the lyric "Take me with you" is whispered over it. Vocal instrumentation, albeit distorted, is also incorporated into this remix.<br />
<br />
===The Perfect Drug ([[Spacetime Continuum]])===<br />
Windchime-like instrumentation over a percussive beat and the whispered lyric "You are the perfect drug" open this remix. It then goes into a percolating beat, with a simple melody over a pulsing bass. This could be considered one of the "quieter" mixes of the song, as it is not as aggressive as the other remixes.<br />
<br />
===The Perfect Drug ([[The Orb]])===<br />
This remix begins with the lyric "You are the perfect drug" heavily distorted as a swirling beat comes in over it. The word "drug" is also repeated at various points in this version. At about three minutes in, the lyric "Take me with you" is repeated as the mix goes into a pseudo-breakdown. At the breakdown, a bass line over percussion, leads into the song's finale.<br />
<br />
===The Perfect Drug (Aphrodite)===<br />
This remix is exclusive to the vinyl edition of ''The Perfect Drug Versions.'' It's set in a different key than the other remixes and has a fast, electronic beat. As with most of the other remixes, it is light on lyrics, consisting only of "can't keep control/can't keep track," "taking me," and "you are perfect." A CD-quality MP3 file of the track was uploaded by Reznor on [[remix.nin.com]].<br />
<br />
==Live==<br />
"The Perfect Drug" [[NIN songs never played live|has never been played live]]. It is widely speculated that the complex drum solo in the song is responsible for this, although it is not out of the range of current drummer [[Josh Freese]]. It is also likely that Reznor does not personally like the song very much, as he concedes it was produced quickly for the ''Lost Highway'' soundtrack.<br />
<br />
==Music Video==<br />
[[Mark Romanek]], who also directed "[[Closer]]," directed "The Perfect Drug" in 1997. It was one of the most expensive videos at the time as the costs of building a refrigerated set, renting period costumes, and securing use of Gustav Klimt's ''The Kiss'' painting were all factors in the almost $1 million cost.<br />
<br />
The concept of the video is widely interpreted as [[Trent Reznor]] portraying a man mourning the death of a child and detaching himself from reality through absinthe. [[Charlie Clouser]], [[Danny Lohner]], and [[Chris Vrenna]] appear in the video, most notably playing string instruments at the beginning of the video. The aesthetics were heavily influenced by the illustrations of 20th-century artist Edward Gorey (1925–2000), the most obvious reference coming from the boy sitting on the cushion in front of the painting.<br />
<br />
The entire video was filmed with a blue tint with the exception of the drum breakdown, which uses flashing green light instead, representing Reznor losing himself in the absinthe.<br />
<br />
==Lyrics==<br />
I got my head, but my head is unraveling<br />
Can't keep control, can't keep track of where it's traveling<br />
I got my heart but my heart's no good<br />
And you're the only one that's understood<br />
I come along but I don't know where you're taking me<br />
I shouldn't go but you're wrenching, dragging, shaking me<br />
Turn off the sun, pull the stars from the sky<br />
The more I give to you, the more I die<br />
<br />
And I want you<br />
You are the perfect drug<br />
The perfect drug<br />
The perfect drug<br />
<br />
You make me hard when I'm all soft inside<br />
I see the truth when I'm all stupid-eyed<br />
The arrow goes straight through my heart<br />
Without you everything just falls apart<br />
My blood wants to say hello to you<br />
My fears want to get inside of you<br />
My soul is so afraid to realize<br />
How very little there is left of me<br />
<br />
And I want you<br />
You are the perfect drug<br />
The perfect drug<br />
The perfect drug<br />
<br />
Take me, with you<br />
Without you<br />
Without you everything falls apart<br />
Without you it's not as much fun to pick up the pieces<br />
<br />
The last line of the second verse has been the subject of some arguments over what is being said. Among the other possibilities:<br />
how very little good is left of me<br />
how every little word is lack of me<br />
how every little bit is left of me<br />
<br />
==External Links==<br />
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0s5UOVsMDg "The Perfect Drug" music video]<br />
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[[Category: NIN Songs]][[Category: NIN Songs Never Played Live]][[Category:Music Videos]]</div>
Aeontriad
https://www.nin.wiki/index.php?title=Talk:TVT_Records&diff=21298
Talk:TVT Records
2008-07-08T21:51:11Z
<p>Aeontriad: Buy Out</p>
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<div>Does this really belong in [[:Category:The Band]]? -[[User:Heroicraptor|Heroicraptor]] 18:38, 17 February 2007 (PST)<br />
<br />
== Buy Out ==<br />
<br />
I added info on the buy out of TVT...I hope this makes it possible for Trent to release PHM as a special edition similar to The Downward Spiral [[User:Aeontriad|Aeontriad]] 14:51, 8 July 2008 (PDT)</div>
Aeontriad
https://www.nin.wiki/index.php?title=TVT_Records&diff=21297
TVT Records
2008-07-08T21:48:27Z
<p>Aeontriad: </p>
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<div>'''TVT Records''' (Television Tunes) is the independent record label that [[Trent Reznor]] initally signed with to release ''[[Pretty Hate Machine]]'' and its accompanying singles, as well as ''[[Broken]]'' and its remix EP, ''[[Fixed]]''. The label was founded by Steve Gottlieb in 1985. <br />
<br />
==Dispute==<br />
Reznor became engaged in several disputes with TVT records which resulted in the secret recording of the angst-filled ''Broken'' EP. The label forced Reznor to work with producers he did not want to work with (specifically John Fryer, whom Reznor didn't get along with) and released ''[[Down In It]]'' as NIN's first commercial single. The version of "Down In It" which appeared on the album was not the completed version Reznor wanted on it but a remix done by Adrian Sherwood and Keith LeBlanc, two of the producers involved with ''Pretty Hate Machine'', which also appeared on the single. Reznor has also stated in interviews that the record label called ''Pretty Hate Machine'' a "complete abortion" and paid little attention to [[Nine Inch Nails]] until the band started getting popular. <br />
<br />
Reznor has also stated that when NIN did Lollapalooza, they had wanted to put the Adam Ant cover ''[[Physical (You're So)]]'' out as a 12 inch, but couldn't because of TVT Records.<br />
<br />
While NIN was touring both with Lollapalooza and other bands, relations between Reznor and TVT Records got much worse; TVT had released a ten song EP in the USA for ''[[Head Like A Hole (halo)|Head Like A Hole]]'' which was actually a few minutes longer in length than ''Pretty Hate Machine''. Reznor claimed that he should have received more royalties from the sales of ''Head Like a Hole'' because, according to contract, he should have received payment as though it was an album, not an EP; TVT disagreed. Also working to break down this relationship was TVT's restrictive attitude toward NIN; Reznor wanted more freedom with what he could do with Nine Inch Nails but TVT wanted him to make a specific sound and assign him producers (a problem other bands have also had with the company). Reznor countinued to tour to bring in money without having to make another album for TVT and recorded his next album, ''Broken'', in secret with the personal funds he raised during the first Lollapalooza. He was also going to use that money to get a lawyer that would get him off the label (''"I decided to leave the label at any cost, if that was the end of my career then that was the end of my career."''). He eventually left TVT but the battles took up precious time which, along with touring, caused a long lapse in time between recordings.<br />
<br />
Finally, in 1992, Reznor and TVT reached an agreement that allowed NIN to move to a different record label while a small amount made from NIN sales would still go to TVT Records. Reznor signed with [[Interscope Records]], which agreed to give him complete artistic freedom and his own record company within Interscope: [[Nothing Records]].<br />
<br />
==TVT References in ''Broken''==<br />
Evidence of the dispute can be seen in the press sheet for ''Broken,'' as well as subtle jabs in the credits (''"No thanks: You know who you fucking are. The slave thinks he is released from bondage only to find a stronger set of chains."''). In the [[Nine Inch Nails music videos|music video]] for "[[Gave Up]]," the words "Fuck You Steve" appear on a computer monitor, referring to Steve Gottlieb of TVT Records. The words "Eat your heart out Steve" can also be heard in the beginning of "Physical (You're So)."<br />
[[Category:The Band]]<br />
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==Buy Out==<br />
On June 23, 2008 ''washingtonpost.com'' reported that "The Orchard, the digital music label, has bought out TVT Records after a New York bankruptcy court declared its bid the winner on Thursday." [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/23/AR2008062300123.html]</div>
Aeontriad
https://www.nin.wiki/index.php?title=TVT_Records&diff=21296
TVT Records
2008-07-08T21:47:03Z
<p>Aeontriad: </p>
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<div>'''TVT Records''' (Television Tunes) is the independent record label that [[Trent Reznor]] initally signed with to release ''[[Pretty Hate Machine]]'' and its accompanying singles, as well as ''[[Broken]]'' and its remix EP, ''[[Fixed]]''. The label was founded by Steve Gottlieb in 1985. <br />
<br />
==Dispute==<br />
Reznor became engaged in several disputes with TVT records which resulted in the secret recording of the angst-filled ''Broken'' EP. The label forced Reznor to work with producers he did not want to work with (specifically John Fryer, whom Reznor didn't get along with) and released ''[[Down In It]]'' as NIN's first commercial single. The version of "Down In It" which appeared on the album was not the completed version Reznor wanted on it but a remix done by Adrian Sherwood and Keith LeBlanc, two of the producers involved with ''Pretty Hate Machine'', which also appeared on the single. Reznor has also stated in interviews that the record label called ''Pretty Hate Machine'' a "complete abortion" and paid little attention to [[Nine Inch Nails]] until the band started getting popular. <br />
<br />
Reznor has also stated that when NIN did Lollapalooza, they had wanted to put the Adam Ant cover ''[[Physical (You're So)]]'' out as a 12 inch, but couldn't because of TVT Records.<br />
<br />
While NIN was touring both with Lollapalooza and other bands, relations between Reznor and TVT Records got much worse; TVT had released a ten song EP in the USA for ''[[Head Like A Hole (halo)|Head Like A Hole]]'' which was actually a few minutes longer in length than ''Pretty Hate Machine''. Reznor claimed that he should have received more royalties from the sales of ''Head Like a Hole'' because, according to contract, he should have received payment as though it was an album, not an EP; TVT disagreed. Also working to break down this relationship was TVT's restrictive attitude toward NIN; Reznor wanted more freedom with what he could do with Nine Inch Nails but TVT wanted him to make a specific sound and assign him producers (a problem other bands have also had with the company). Reznor countinued to tour to bring in money without having to make another album for TVT and recorded his next album, ''Broken'', in secret with the personal funds he raised during the first Lollapalooza. He was also going to use that money to get a lawyer that would get him off the label (''"I decided to leave the label at any cost, if that was the end of my career then that was the end of my career."''). He eventually left TVT but the battles took up precious time which, along with touring, caused a long lapse in time between recordings.<br />
<br />
Finally, in 1992, Reznor and TVT reached an agreement that allowed NIN to move to a different record label while a small amount made from NIN sales would still go to TVT Records. Reznor signed with [[Interscope Records]], which agreed to give him complete artistic freedom and his own record company within Interscope: [[Nothing Records]].<br />
<br />
==TVT References in ''Broken''==<br />
Evidence of the dispute can be seen in the press sheet for ''Broken,'' as well as subtle jabs in the credits (''"No thanks: You know who you fucking are. The slave thinks he is released from bondage only to find a stronger set of chains."''). In the [[Nine Inch Nails music videos|music video]] for "[[Gave Up]]," the words "Fuck You Steve" appear on a computer monitor, referring to Steve Gottlieb of TVT Records. The words "Eat your heart out Steve" can also be heard in the beginning of "Physical (You're So)."<br />
[[Category:The Band]]<br />
<br />
==Buy Out==<br />
On June 23, 2008 washintonpost.com reported that "The Orchard the digital music label, has bought out TVT Records after a New York bankruptcy court declared its bid the winner on Thursday." [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/23/AR2008062300123.html]</div>
Aeontriad
https://www.nin.wiki/index.php?title=TVT_Records&diff=21295
TVT Records
2008-07-08T21:45:52Z
<p>Aeontriad: </p>
<hr />
<div>'''TVT Records''' (Television Tunes) is the independent record label that [[Trent Reznor]] initally signed with to release ''[[Pretty Hate Machine]]'' and its accompanying singles, as well as ''[[Broken]]'' and its remix EP, ''[[Fixed]]''. The label was founded by Steve Gottlieb in 1985. <br />
<br />
==Dispute==<br />
Reznor became engaged in several disputes with TVT records which resulted in the secret recording of the angst-filled ''Broken'' EP. The label forced Reznor to work with producers he did not want to work with (specifically John Fryer, whom Reznor didn't get along with) and released ''[[Down In It]]'' as NIN's first commercial single. The version of "Down In It" which appeared on the album was not the completed version Reznor wanted on it but a remix done by Adrian Sherwood and Keith LeBlanc, two of the producers involved with ''Pretty Hate Machine'', which also appeared on the single. Reznor has also stated in interviews that the record label called ''Pretty Hate Machine'' a "complete abortion" and paid little attention to [[Nine Inch Nails]] until the band started getting popular. <br />
<br />
Reznor has also stated that when NIN did Lollapalooza, they had wanted to put the Adam Ant cover ''[[Physical (You're So)]]'' out as a 12 inch, but couldn't because of TVT Records.<br />
<br />
While NIN was touring both with Lollapalooza and other bands, relations between Reznor and TVT Records got much worse; TVT had released a ten song EP in the USA for ''[[Head Like A Hole (halo)|Head Like A Hole]]'' which was actually a few minutes longer in length than ''Pretty Hate Machine''. Reznor claimed that he should have received more royalties from the sales of ''Head Like a Hole'' because, according to contract, he should have received payment as though it was an album, not an EP; TVT disagreed. Also working to break down this relationship was TVT's restrictive attitude toward NIN; Reznor wanted more freedom with what he could do with Nine Inch Nails but TVT wanted him to make a specific sound and assign him producers (a problem other bands have also had with the company). Reznor countinued to tour to bring in money without having to make another album for TVT and recorded his next album, ''Broken'', in secret with the personal funds he raised during the first Lollapalooza. He was also going to use that money to get a lawyer that would get him off the label (''"I decided to leave the label at any cost, if that was the end of my career then that was the end of my career."''). He eventually left TVT but the battles took up precious time which, along with touring, caused a long lapse in time between recordings.<br />
<br />
Finally, in 1992, Reznor and TVT reached an agreement that allowed NIN to move to a different record label while a small amount made from NIN sales would still go to TVT Records. Reznor signed with [[Interscope Records]], which agreed to give him complete artistic freedom and his own record company within Interscope: [[Nothing Records]].<br />
<br />
==TVT References in ''Broken''==<br />
Evidence of the dispute can be seen in the press sheet for ''Broken,'' as well as subtle jabs in the credits (''"No thanks: You know who you fucking are. The slave thinks he is released from bondage only to find a stronger set of chains."''). In the [[Nine Inch Nails music videos|music video]] for "[[Gave Up]]," the words "Fuck You Steve" appear on a computer monitor, referring to Steve Gottlieb of TVT Records. The words "Eat your heart out Steve" can also be heard in the beginning of "Physical (You're So)."<br />
[[Category:The Band]]<br />
<br />
==Buy Out==<br />
On June 23, 2008 washintonpost.com reported that "The Orchard the digital music label, has bought out TVT Records after a New York bankruptcy court declared its bid the winner on Thursday." http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/23/AR2008062300123.html</div>
Aeontriad
https://www.nin.wiki/index.php?title=Talk:Ringfinger&diff=21284
Talk:Ringfinger
2008-07-07T21:56:14Z
<p>Aeontriad: End Lyrics?</p>
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<div>Why the hell isn't this song played more? It's fantastic, and it'd make a great ending song. Personally I relate to it more than Hurt, and I think it's time for Hurt to take a backseat to some lesser known greats. Trent's getting really sick of people screaming while he's singing it (I don't think he even bothers anymore)--[[User:Velvolver|Velvolver]] 10:14, 22 March 2007 (PDT)<br />
<br />
== Twist ==<br />
<br />
Should Twist get its own page? It should really be marked as songs never played live, and the music and lyrics are different enough to not be recognised as the same song - it may be a demo of Ringfinger, but it is pretty unique in itself. [[User:Sheepdean|Sheepdean]] 05:52, 3 July 2008 (PDT)<br />
<br />
== End Lyrics? ==<br />
<br />
I've listned over and over, but I can never hear that last few lyrics...<br />
<br />
"I’m so tired I can’t get to sleep<br />
And the squeaking of the bed is right in time with the song that’s repeating in my head<br />
I just want you to know<br />
<br />
'When I do it, I only think of you'"<br />
<br />
is it just me? [[User:Aeontriad|Aeontriad]] 14:56, 7 July 2008 (PDT)</div>
Aeontriad
https://www.nin.wiki/index.php?title=Talk:Reptile&diff=21283
Talk:Reptile
2008-07-07T21:50:00Z
<p>Aeontriad: Easter Egg?</p>
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<div>== Easter Egg? ==<br />
<br />
Where is this song hidden on the "AATCHB" DVD? [[User:Aeontriad|Aeontriad]] 14:50, 7 July 2008 (PDT)</div>
Aeontriad
https://www.nin.wiki/index.php?title=Talk:With_Teeth_(song)&diff=21282
Talk:With Teeth (song)
2008-07-07T21:46:29Z
<p>Aeontriad: Reptile connection?</p>
<hr />
<div>== Reptile connection? ==<br />
<br />
I noticed while listening to the live "Beside You in Time" version of "With Teeth" that the intro sounds a lot like some of the atmospheres used in "Reptile". This would make sense as both songs have very similar themes. [[User:Aeontriad|Aeontriad]] 14:46, 7 July 2008 (PDT)</div>
Aeontriad
https://www.nin.wiki/index.php?title=Talk:La_Mer&diff=21281
Talk:La Mer
2008-07-07T21:42:13Z
<p>Aeontriad: </p>
<hr />
<div>The words La Mer translates to: The Sea.<br />
<br />
== Lyrics! Lyrics! Lyrics! ==<br />
<br />
So in an effort to keep things consistent, I noticed that someone added an alternate translation of the Creole French lyrics, deleting the translationt hat was in the liner notes. I re-added the liner note translation but kept the other translation, noting that it's more literal than what was printed with ''The Fragile.'' Hopefully people will find all of this useful.--[[User:Leo3375|Leo3375]] 10:23, 7 April 2007 (PDT)<br />
<br />
== The vocalist ==<br />
<br />
The woman providing the vocals for this track is called Denise Milfort. I found some info on her on [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1632747/ IMDb]. Check the "other works" section.<br />
:Maybe it's just a rumor, but I read that Trent and Denise Milfort were once an item. Does anyone know if this is true? Also, I think she did some vocals on [[Things Falling Apart]], but I cannot find the track. [[User:Marcusaxavier77|M.A.X.]] 09:04, 25 May 2007 (PDT)<br />
::I would regard it as a rumor for now. Besides, it's irrelevant to this Wiki.--[[User:Leo3375|Leo3375]] 10:03, 25 May 2007 (PDT)<br />
:::Ok, do you know if she provide vocals to another track beside La Mer? [[User:Marcusaxavier77|M.A.X.]] 12:22, 25 May 2007 (PDT)<br />
::::Nope. I just looked at ''The Fragile'' liner notes and that's the only song for which she's listed.--[[User:Leo3375|Leo3375]] 12:58, 25 May 2007 (PDT)<br />
:::::[http://www.discogs.com/artist/Denise+Milfort Discogs] has her on La Mer and that's it. --[[User:Tony|Tony]]<sup>[[User_talk:Tony|converse!]]</sup> 14:56, 25 May 2007 (PDT)<br />
<br />
== Adrift and at Peace ==<br />
<br />
I found the tidbit and source on the "Adrift And At Peace" page. I thought it was important to add it to this artcile as well. [[User:Aeontriad|Aeontriad]] 14:41, 7 July 2008 (PDT)</div>
Aeontriad
https://www.nin.wiki/index.php?title=Talk:La_Mer&diff=21280
Talk:La Mer
2008-07-07T21:41:58Z
<p>Aeontriad: Adrift and at Peace</p>
<hr />
<div>The words La Mer translates to: The Sea.<br />
<br />
== Lyrics! Lyrics! Lyrics! ==<br />
<br />
So in an effort to keep things consistent, I noticed that someone added an alternate translation of the Creole French lyrics, deleting the translationt hat was in the liner notes. I re-added the liner note translation but kept the other translation, noting that it's more literal than what was printed with ''The Fragile.'' Hopefully people will find all of this useful.--[[User:Leo3375|Leo3375]] 10:23, 7 April 2007 (PDT)<br />
<br />
== The vocalist ==<br />
<br />
The woman providing the vocals for this track is called Denise Milfort. I found some info on her on [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1632747/ IMDb]. Check the "other works" section.<br />
:Maybe it's just a rumor, but I read that Trent and Denise Milfort were once an item. Does anyone know if this is true? Also, I think she did some vocals on [[Things Falling Apart]], but I cannot find the track. [[User:Marcusaxavier77|M.A.X.]] 09:04, 25 May 2007 (PDT)<br />
::I would regard it as a rumor for now. Besides, it's irrelevant to this Wiki.--[[User:Leo3375|Leo3375]] 10:03, 25 May 2007 (PDT)<br />
:::Ok, do you know if she provide vocals to another track beside La Mer? [[User:Marcusaxavier77|M.A.X.]] 12:22, 25 May 2007 (PDT)<br />
::::Nope. I just looked at ''The Fragile'' liner notes and that's the only song for which she's listed.--[[User:Leo3375|Leo3375]] 12:58, 25 May 2007 (PDT)<br />
:::::[http://www.discogs.com/artist/Denise+Milfort Discogs] has her on La Mer and that's it. --[[User:Tony|Tony]]<sup>[[User_talk:Tony|converse!]]</sup> 14:56, 25 May 2007 (PDT)<br />
<br />
== Adrift and at Peace ==<br />
<br />
I found tidbit and source on the "Adrift And At Peace" page. I thought it was important to add it to this artcile as well. [[User:Aeontriad|Aeontriad]] 14:41, 7 July 2008 (PDT)</div>
Aeontriad
https://www.nin.wiki/index.php?title=La_Mer&diff=21279
La Mer
2008-07-07T21:40:10Z
<p>Aeontriad: </p>
<hr />
<div>{{song<br />
| title = La Mer<br />
| album = ''[[The Fragile (halo)|The Fragile]]''<br />
| length = 4:37<br />
| versions = La Mer<br>La Mer (Version)<br>La Mer (''[[And All That Could Have Been (halo)|And All That Could Have Been]]'')—DVD/VHS<br />
| live = [[Fragility v1.0]] through present<br />
}}'''"La Mer"''' is the eleventh track from the Left disc of ''[[The Fragile (halo)|The Fragile]].'' It begins with piano chords accompanied by standup bass and is then accentuated by drums playing a jazz rhythm and e-bow guitar. This is one of the few songs by [[Nine Inch Nails]] that is played with almost all acoustic instruments. It consists of a 3/4 time signature superimposed over a 4/4 time signature. Its main melodic elements and bassline are taken in a different direction with "[[Into The Void (song)|Into The Void]]."<br />
<br />
The lyrics are in Creole French. It is one of the many NIN songs that includes the phrase "[[Nothing Can Stop Me Now]]," and one of the few to include a vocalist other than [[Trent Reznor]]. In addition, it was the first instrumental written for ''The Fragile.'' [http://www.9inchnails.com/articles/reznors-edge.php]<br />
<br />
[[Trent Reznor]] has stated that "[[Adrift And At Peace]]" is the conclusion to "La Mer." ([[:Image:LM-AAAP.gif|Source]])<br />
<br />
===Influences===<br />
It can be argued that the song is heavily infuenced by the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Mer_(Debussy) Debussy piece of the same name]. Both songs build up to create a sonic atmosphere, and both are (obviously) titled the same. It is very similar to'' [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sgt._Pepper's_Lonely_Hearts_Club_Band Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band]'' by The Beatles, in that it layers many, many instruments to induce atonality and the said sonic atmosphere.<br />
<br />
===Song Credits===<br />
*Vocals: Denise Milfort<br />
*Drums: [[Bill Rieflin]]<br />
*Cello: [[Willie]]<br />
<br />
==Appearances==<br />
===Halos===<br />
*''The Fragile''<br />
*''[[And All That Could Have Been (halo)|And All That Could Have Been]]'' (DVD/VHS)<br />
<br />
==Versions==<br />
===La Mer===<br />
This is the original album version. On ''The Fragile'' vinyl, the introductory piano chords and standup bass are repeated one extra time before the solo begins over top.<br />
<br />
===La Mer (Version)===<br />
An nin.com exclusive from ''The Fragile'' era, this remix by [[Jerome Dillon]] and [[Keith Hillebrandt]] features much more percussion-oriented loops, using atmospheric and base elements from the original.<br />
<br />
===La Mer (''And All That Could Have Been'')===<br />
This live version is a pure instrumental, with a guitar playing the xylophone part.<br />
<br />
==Live==<br />
On ''And All That Could Have Been,'' "La Mer" is performed live against the backdrop of three visual screens that display images of the sea. Towards the end of the song, Reznor presses against the screen on the center and moves his hands across the panel, as the blurry image of a woman appears and the screen fades to black.<br />
<br />
==Lyrics==<br />
===Creole French===<br />
Et il est un jour arrivé<br />
Marteler le ciel<br />
Et marteler la mer<br />
<br />
Et la mer avait embrassé moi<br />
Et la délivré moi de ma cellule<br />
<br />
Rien ne peut m'arrêter maintenant<br />
<br />
===English Translation===<br />
And when the day arrives<br />
I’ll become the sky<br />
And I’ll become the sea<br />
<br />
And the sea will come to kiss me<br />
For I am going<br />
Home<br />
<br />
Nothing can stop me now<br />
<br />
There is an alternate, more literal translation of the lyrics:<br />
And the day has arrived<br />
To thresh the sky<br />
And to thresh the sea<br />
<br />
And the sea has embraced me<br />
And it has dispensed me from my cage<br />
<br />
Nothing can stop me now<br />
<br />
[[Category:NIN Songs]][[Category:NIN Instrumentals]]</div>
Aeontriad
https://www.nin.wiki/index.php?title=Talk:Suck&diff=21270
Talk:Suck
2008-07-03T21:47:09Z
<p>Aeontriad: </p>
<hr />
<div>Fixed, thnx Leo --[[User:Vessel|Vessel]]<br />
:If you look at the top of the page you will notice that information about the Pigface version is provided.--[[User:Leo3375|Leo3375]] 18:56, 12 April 2007 (PDT)<br />
<br />
==Suck as part of [[Throw This Away]]==<br />
Uhh... proof? Sure doesn't sound like it. -[[User:Heroicraptor|Heroicraptor]] 00:08, 13 April 2007 (PDT)<br />
:Haha, nevermind. I was being stupid. -[[User:Heroicraptor|Heroicraptor]] 00:08, 13 April 2007 (PDT)<br />
<br />
== Pigface Version ==<br />
<br />
Why isn't the Pigface version mentioned under the Versions section? Even though it wasn't perfromed by NIN, Trent did sing on track. [[User:Aeontriad|Aeontriad]] 14:52, 27 June 2008 (PDT)<br />
<br />
I added the Pigface version and put it before the Broken version as the Pigface version was released in 1990. [[User:Aeontriad|Aeontriad]] 22:17, 1 July 2008 (PDT)<br />
:I'd personally put it last, as it's not a NIN version, it deserves mention due to Trent being on vocals, but this is ninwiki, not whatcamefirstwiki. [[User:Sheepdean|Sheepdean]] 13:23, 2 July 2008 (PDT)<br />
<br />
:::Then why is there a whole page for Supernaut when it's a Black Sabbath cover by 1000 Homo Dj's? [[User:Aeontriad|Aeontriad]] 21:19, 2 July 2008 (PDT)<br />
<br />
::::Due to Trent's involvement, other 1000 Homo Djs tracks aren't listed, and if NIN released it, then I'd still say that that came on top. Analogy - if Non-Entity gets a physical release, most people would say that that goes first on versions, whereas it was first heard live on BYIT. The way I see it, the list should go NIN chronologically, followed by NIN-related chronologically. But that's just my two penneth. [[User:Sheepdean|Sheepdean]] 02:53, 3 July 2008 (PDT)<br />
<br />
:::::Good point. I made the change. [[User:Aeontriad|Aeontriad]] 14:47, 3 July 2008 (PDT)</div>
Aeontriad
https://www.nin.wiki/index.php?title=Suck&diff=21269
Suck
2008-07-03T21:46:00Z
<p>Aeontriad: </p>
<hr />
<div>{{song<br />
| title =Suck<br />
| album =''[[Broken]]''<br />
| length =5:07<br />
| versions =Suck<br>Throw This Away<br>Suck (''[[And All That Could Have Been (halo)|And All That Could Have Been]]'')<br>Suck (Pigface version)<br />
| live =[[Hate Tour]] through present<br />
}}'''"Suck"''' is the second hidden track on 1992's ''[[Broken]]'' EP. Originally packaged with "[[Physical (You're So)]]" on a Mini CD sold with the EP, it was later incorporated onto the EP as a hidden track after allegations that some music stores were removing the Mini CD and selling it separately. "Suck" is track 99 on ''Broken'' while "Physical (You're So)" is track 98.<br />
<br />
"Suck" was originally written and performed by [[Pigface]], a band lead by [[Martin Atkins]] featuring [[Trent Reznor]] as well as many other notable Industrial musicians. Other notable singers of the song within Pigface include [[Nivek Ogre]] of [[Skinny Puppy]], who even shared the song as a duet with Reznor. Since 1994, it has become one of the regular songs played by [[Nine Inch Nails]].<br />
<br />
According to a previously unreleased interview Reznor did with ''Melody Maker'' magazine, "Suck" was supposed to be a "tongue-in-cheek" cover. The [[multitracks]] for the original Pigface version of the song were released for a remix contest.<br />
<br />
===Song Credits===<br />
*Writing: Trent Reznor, Pigface<br />
*©1991 Thumbless music, Leaving Hope and TVT Music, Inc.<br />
*Production: Trent Reznor<br />
<br />
==Appearances==<br />
===Halos===<br />
*''Broken''<br />
*''[[Fixed]]''<br />
*''[[And All That Could Have Been (halo)|And All That Could Have Been]]'' (CD/DVD/VHS)<br />
<br />
===Other===<br />
*Pigface, ''The Best of Pigface'', ''Gub''<br />
<br />
==Versions==<br />
===Suck===<br />
This is the version found on the ''Broken'' EP.<br />
<br />
===Throw This Away===<br />
This remix, found on ''Fixed,'' combines both "Suck" and "[[Last]]."<br />
<br />
===Suck (''And All That Could Have Been'')===<br />
This live version is similar to the album version, but the ending is very different, with Reznor shouting "Suck!" repeatedly rather than singing the song's final lyrics.<br />
<br />
===Suck (Pigface version)===<br />
This version is drums only with Reznor doing vocals. The "suck suck suck" portion of the chorus is whispered. This is the orignal version of the song released in 1990.<br />
<br />
==Live==<br />
"Suck" was played occasionally during the [[Pretty Hate Machine]] era, and has become a regular in the set since the [[Self Destruct]] tour.<br />
<br />
==Lyrics==<br />
There is no god up in the sky tonight<br />
No sign of Heaven anywhere in sight<br />
All that was true is left behind<br />
Once I could see now I am blind<br />
Don't want the dreams you try to sell<br />
This disease I give it to myself<br />
<br />
How does it feel?<br />
Suck suck suck<br />
<br />
She makes it sweeter than the sun<br />
I get too tight I come undone<br />
I bow my head to confess<br />
The temple walls are made of flesh<br />
Runs up my arm till I'm on track<br />
Itches the skin right off my back<br />
I'll heal your wounds<br />
I'll set you free<br />
I'm Jesus Christ on ecstasy<br />
<br />
How does it feel?<br />
Suck suck suck<br />
<br />
I feel so dirty on the inside<br />
I am so dirty on the inside<br />
<br />
How does it feel?<br />
Suck suck suck<br />
<br />
A thousand lips<br />
A thousand tongues<br />
A thousand throats<br />
A thousand lungs<br />
A thousand ways to make it true<br />
I want to do terrible things to you<br />
<br />
==Links==<br />
*[http://ninremixes.com/multitracks.php "Suck" multi-tracks]<br />
<br />
[[Category:NIN Songs]][[Category:Covers]][[Category:NIN Songs Released as Multitracks]]</div>
Aeontriad
https://www.nin.wiki/index.php?title=The_Slip&diff=21268
The Slip
2008-07-03T21:39:26Z
<p>Aeontriad: </p>
<hr />
<div>[[Image:The_slip.jpg|thumb|200px|Halo 27: ''The Slip'']]<br />
'''''The Slip''''' (also known as '''''[[Halo numbers|Halo 27]]''''') is the eighth and latest studio album from [[Nine Inch Nails]]. It was released as a free download on May 5, 2008, and contains the previously released Web-only singles "[[Discipline]]" and "[[Echoplex]]."<br />
<br />
The album is available for download in a variety of formats, including MP3, lossless FLAC and high-quality WAV files. When playing the MP3 files in an MP3 player a different piece of artwork is displayed for each song, [[The_Photography_of_Ghosts_I%E2%80%93IV|as was the case with]] ''[[Ghosts I–IV]]''.<br />
<br />
==Formats==<br />
===Downloads===<br />
*High-quality MP3s (87 mb), encoded with LAME at V0, fully tagged.<br />
*FLAC lossless (259 mb)<br />
*FLAC high definition 24/96 (942 mb), better-than-CD-quality 24bit 96kHz audio<br />
*M4A Apple Lossless (263 mb)<br />
*High definition WAVE 24/96 (1.2 gb), better-than-CD-quality 24bit 96kHz audio<br />
<br />
The FLAC, M4A and WAVE formats are distributed via torrents through tracker.nin.com. All formats include a PDF file with artwork and credits, all songs include individual track art and lyrics embedded. All files are 100% DRM-free.<br />
<br />
===Physical product===<br />
''The Slip'' will be available as a physical product in CD and vinyl formats. The 6 panel digipak will be limited to 250,000 pieces worldwide, each individually numbered, and will include a DVD of NIN performing five live tracks from ''The Slip'' at rehearsals, a 24-page booklet, and an exclusive sticker pack. The CD is to be released July 22, 2008 in the US and Canada, and released July 21, 2008 in the UK and Europe.<br />
<br />
Originally, the physical product was intended to be released on July 22, 2008 in the US, Canada, and Japan as a numbered, CD/DVD package, limited to 250,000 units with the UK, Europe, and Australian unnumbered editions to be released on July 21, 2008, with the same content as the North American and Japanese editions. It is not known at this time why the decision was made for the numbers produced to be reduced.<br />
<br />
The double gatefold vinyl release contains one 180-gram LP and a 24-page booklet. Unlike the CD release, the vinyl is not numbered. It will be released in the US and Canada on august 5th, 2008, and in the UK and Europe on August 4th, 2008.<br />
<br />
====Third Disc====<br />
On Amazon US, ''The Slip'' is described as having three discs. A user named as Ronaldo Jones posted under the discussion "Hidden Disc" that there is a third disc, a CD, with more studio tracks named "The Take Over". This is, however, just a rumour.<br />
<br />
When asked to verify the product info, Amazon.com customer service replied with the following: "I understand that it is listed as 2 disc, 6 panel digipak in other websites and it is listed as 3 discs on our website. The only information we can give you about a particular CD is what is displayed on the detail page for that particular music title."<br />
<br />
No further clarification was given. <br />
<br />
==Track Listing==<br />
#"[[999,999]]" - 1:25<br />
#"[[1,000,000]]" - 3:56<br />
#"[[Letting You]]" - 3:49<br />
#"[[Discipline]]" - 4:19<br />
#"[[Echoplex]]" - 4:45<br />
#"[[Head Down]]" - 4:55<br />
#"[[Lights In The Sky (song)|Lights In The Sky]]" - 3:29<br />
#"[[Corona Radiata]]" - 7:33<br />
#"[[The Four Of Us Are Dying]]" - 4:37<br />
#"[[Demon Seed]]" - 4:59<br />
<br />
Full length: 43:45<br />
<br />
==Album Credits==<br />
*Written by [[Trent Reznor]]<br />
*Performed by Trent Reznor, [[Josh Freese]], [[Robin Finck]] and [[Alessandro Cortini]]<br />
*Produced by Trent Reznor, [[Atticus Ross]] and [[Alan Moulder]]<br />
*Mixed by Alan Moulder<br />
*Programmed by Atticus Ross<br />
*Engineered by [[Michael Tuller]], Atticus Ross and Alan Moulder<br />
*Mastered by Brian Gardner at Bernie Grundman Mastering, Hollywood, California<br />
<br />
*Room tuning: Steve “Coco” Brandon<br />
*Art direction: [[Rob Sheridan]] and Trent Reznor<br />
*Cover styling: Amy Hall<br />
*Hair: Cori Bardo<br />
<br />
*Project coordination: [[Dancing Brett|Brett Bachemin]]<br />
*Assistance: Alynn Dotson<br />
*Management: Rebel Waltz<br />
*Business management: William Harper and Michael Walsh for Gelfand, Rennert & Feldman<br />
*Legal: Gary Stiffelman and David Byrnes<br />
*World wide booking: Marc Geiger for William Morris Agency<br />
*Press [us]: Steve Martin (Nasty Little Man)<br />
*Press [uk]: Frances McCahon (RMP)<br />
<br />
*The Null Corporation Europe: Didi Parlevliet<br />
*Published by: Form And Texture (ASCAP)<br />
*Label: The Null Corporation<br />
<br />
© 2008 NIN<br />
<br />
<br />
*Thank you: Bob Morelli, Alan Becker, Danny Buch and everyone at Red; Digidesign; Elena Dickstein and Preferred Travel; Jeffrey Ehrenberg and Vintage King; Jeffrey Jorton and Native Instruments; Paul J. Cox Studio Systems; Phillip Scholes and SSL; Rockit Cargo; Roger Cordell and Big City Music; Ross Garfield and Drum Doctors; Shawn Cleary and Analogue Haven; Shivaun O’Brien and Sound City Studios; Sudjam; Topspin Media Inc.; West L.A. Music<br />
<br />
*Thank you (continued): Bruno Bondanelli, Candy Soo, Chris Whitemyer, Christina Lum, Craig Johnston, David Phillips, Irina Volodarsky, Jeff Davis, Jeff Masud, Jessica Trento, John Coleman, Josh Smith, June Munsinger, Karen Ciccone, Kelly Jao, Marie Lewis, [[Rich Fownes]], Ross Rosen, Shamal Ranasinghe, Sherri Durrell, Tamar Levine, Zia Modabber<br />
<br />
This album is licensed under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/ Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike license]. <br />
<br />
More information: [http://creativecommons.org/ www.creativecommons.org]<br />
<br />
==Release==<br />
Prior to the album's release, a message was posted on [[nin.com]], simply stating "2 weeks!". The previous time the same message had been posted on the site had been to forbear the release of ''Ghosts I-IV''. Two tracks, "Discipline" and "Echoplex", were also released through radio and the internet respectively, both containing the message "go to www.nin.com May 5" in their ID3 tags. <br />
<br />
On May 5th, nin.com was updated with the title [[Halo numbers|Halo 27]] and a link to [[theslip.nin.com]] with the message:<br />
"(thank you for your continued and loyal support over the years - this one’s on me)"<br />
<br />
The album site requires a password to be submitted where the link to the download page can be sent to. The site itself states:<br />
"as a thank you to our fans for your continued support, we are giving away the new nine inch nails album one hundred percent free,<br />
exclusively via nin.com."<br><br />
"we encourage you to remix it, share it with your friends, post it on your blog, play it on your podcast, give it to strangers, etc." <br />
[[Multitracks]] for the songs were then posted for download from [[remix.nin.com]]<br />
<br />
According to a [http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/20818072/nin_release_free_album_online Rolling Stone article], the album was finished May 4th and sent to Sudjam, the company that manages nin.com, at 9:30 p.m. for a midnight release.<br />
<br />
In a [[nin.com]] update on June 26th, 2008, it was reported that since the album's release on May 5th, 2008, over 1,400,000 people had downloaded ''The Slip'' from theslip.nin.com. That number represents individual people, and excludes multiple downloads from the same order. <br />
<br />
==Miscellanea==<br />
The high quality wave download torrent includes a subdirectory named "The Slip art", containing JPEG images. However, the file "02-1000000.jpg", has an incorrect file extension. This is actually an Adobe Photoshop CS3 (Macintosh version) file with a single layer and no significant meta information attached.<br />
<br />
There also seems to be a mistake in the wave files; The track "The Four Of Us Are Dying" is mistitled "Demon Seed" and vice versa.<br />
<br />
The final page of the PDF gives credit to "(c) 2008 niin." This appears to be a typographical error.<br />
<br />
Audiophile message board [http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php Hydrogen Audio] noticed mastering errors on the 24/96 high-def WAVs, which was followed by posters "ningineer" and "treznor" who wrote that they had recontacted the mastering studio and released the WAVs in addition to high-def FLACs.[http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=63086] On May 15th the nin.com Halo 27 blog post was edited with the message: ''"Some friends at hydrogenaudio pointed out an error with the high resolution WAVE files we didn't catch. The corrected files are now posted along with high resolution FLAC files as well. If you're interested in these, simply re-download the new files. Sorry for the hassle!"''<br />
<br />
A Google Earth KML file representing downloads of ''The Slip'' according to geographic region was made available from nin.com on June 26th, displaying over 1,400,000 downloads (not including multiple downloads) that had come from theslip.nin.com.<br />
<br />
==External Links==<br />
*[http://theslip.nin.com theslip.nin.com]<br />
*[http://www.ilike.com/artist/Nine+Inch+Nails Streaming audio at iLike]<br />
<br />
[[Category:NIN Discography]]</div>
Aeontriad
https://www.nin.wiki/index.php?title=Talk:The_Slip&diff=21253
Talk:The Slip
2008-07-03T14:57:46Z
<p>Aeontriad: </p>
<hr />
<div>Whilst the credits are to NIIN, I would assume a typo and on here we should put in the correct spelling. [[User:Sheepdean|Sheepdean]] 07:28, 5 May 2008 (PDT)<br />
:This is what I thought too, the audio files' comment tags read "(c) 2008 nin". [[User:Mobytoss|Mobytoss]] 09:53, 5 May 2008 (PDT)<br />
::okay; i changed it back [[User:Tocz|Tocz]] 10:47, 5 May 2008 (PDT)<br />
:::I felt this was still noteworthy, so I've added it to the miscellanea section. [[User:M0de l3d|M0de l3d]] 22:34, 13 May 2008 (PDT)<br />
<br />
Hey, this album's message seems to convey a possible breakup in nine inch nails. I mean, look at both the page for "the four of us are dying". Also, the album is called "The Slip".<br />
I dunno, feel free to expand.<br />
<br />
If NIN broke up, I'd be very worried, as there's only one member.[[User:Sheepdean|Sheepdean]] 17:19, 6 May 2008 (PDT)<br />
<br />
But four members worked on this album.<br />
<br />
Doubt it has anything to do with the "band" breaking up. It's most likely about Year Zero and personal reflection. [[User:Velvolver|Velvolver]] 20:55, 6 May 2008 (PDT)<br />
<br />
<br />
=Alien Abduction=<br />
<br />
This whole albums about the year zero story, and then eventually talks about alien abduction. Seriously, I'll explain more later [[User:Velvolver|Velvolver]] 21:13, 6 May 2008 (PDT)<br />
<br />
The hand on the cover art is probably The Presence. Also, the album itself seems to be a sort of interlude between Year Zero and what's coming after,<br />
like a calm before the storm. The "Lights in the Sky" lyrics remind me of the christian idea of the rapture, and the album itself up to that track could be viewed as characters<br />
portrayed in the Year Zero story line who are left behind by The Presence (or what the presence signified) to a world void of meaning. The big event happened, and these people<br />
were not part of it. Their struggle to come to terms with this situation in expressed in a variety of painful perspectives that all seem to meld into one resolved perspective<br />
at the end of the album. The song "The Great Destroyer" from Year Zero foreshadows this character portrayed in "Demon Seed", a person with "the infinite potential... to murder everything".<br />
So, if the Presence = the Rapture, then I'm assuming The Great Destroyer/Demon Seed = the Antichrist. Like Trent Reznor's version of the apocalypse.<br />
<br />
The Presence symbol (signifying the hand of God/Fate, or whatever) on the cover of The Slip would be that hand pulling the author behind the various characters on Year Zero<br />
and The Slip (literally, Trent Reznor, but in the same way that the hand represents "the Presence"{God, Fate, or whaterver} the author would represent the self{or soul, ego, identity, etc.})<br />
back into one underlaying identity, Resolved to destroy what's left of the world. <br />
<br />
That's my guess, anyway.<br />
<br />
Also, the art for "The Four Of Us Are Dying" looks like 4 isometric zeros, like the numeric representation of the year zero.<br />
<br />
=Image files=<br />
<br />
What's with the extra bar at the bottom of all the artwork files for ''[[The Slip]]''? The only place they seem to appear is on the wiki (ie. they're not in the PDF of the embedded images in the MP3s)? It's most notable on [[Lights In The Sky]] and [[The Four Of Us Are Dying]].<br />
<br />
This is most likely a glitch produced when they were posted, but I also noticed it. It almost looks like the top of the image repeated at the bottom. [[User:Aeontriad|Aeontriad]] 03:25, 15 May 2008 (PDT)<br />
<br />
== A Theory ==<br />
<br />
This was posted in the main article and I thought it would be better on this Discussion page.--[[User:Leo3375|leo3375]] 11:45, 13 May 2008 (PDT)<br />
<br />
===Potential Year Zero Concept===<br />
Although not officially stated, the concept seems to show certain events which happen to the main characters in the year zero universe. Below are some potential meanings to certain songs:<br />
<br />
====1,000,000====<br />
This song could be about a person who has been lead to believe something and realised it was all just a lie, so he has become over eccentric with the idea and decided he no longer wants to believe anything, he feels more alive now he is no longer restrained, at the same time he feels like he has to destroy himself because he has no meaning.<br />
<br />
====Letting You====<br />
How the fictional government are controlling its people but the people are to afraid to do anything about it. Another part of the song shows how the soldiers they are training believe they are fighting for liberty but they only seem to be fighting for the same lost cause as their leaders.<br />
<br />
====Discipline====<br />
This song resembles one specific person who seems to believe he is doing something wrong, or is being told he is doing wrong, so he should be disciplined. This could also resemble certain torture techniques the government use on prisoners (much like in the movies), which in turn, forces them to think they are doing something wrong when in fact they aren't.<br />
<br />
====Echoplex====<br />
This song is from the eyes of someone who is being held captive, how he is going crazy and is starting to believe he can see everything, most likely because of a lack of the fictional parepin which helps repress feelings of control. It also seems like he is slowly being forgotten about and nobody is going to rescue him from his cage.<br />
<br />
====Head Down====<br />
This song resembles somebody talking to themselves, trying not to get caught for something they have done wrong, with feelings of people watching him at all times, waiting for him to slip up.<br />
<br />
====Lights In The Sky====<br />
This seems to show a couple, which are more than likely a part of the resistance. One of them (Most Likely The Male) may have had a chance to escape the carnage the government is creating, but wont leave the other due to feelings for eachother.<br />
<br />
====Corona Radiata====<br />
This song is a little bit more curious, as the corona radiata are several protective layers surrounding ova or unfertilized egg cells, responsible with supplying the ova or egg cell with protein. This could mean the couple from lights in the sky are expecting or dont know the female is pregnant, possibly with the demon seed, as the red line in the image is connected to the artwork for demon seed. the song also begins with a more muffled sound much like you are listening from the inside of the womb, and gradually gets clearer and clearer.<br />
<br />
====The Four Of Us Are Dying====<br />
This songs artwork is not directly linked to the demon seed, much like lights in the sky, this means they are not being affected by the seed for the reason shown below. It could also show the main characters of the plotline dying out, ushering in the new era and the demon seed.<br />
<br />
====Demon Seed====<br />
This could be from the point of view of the child the girl is bearing only older, perhaps an orphan wants to find out more about their parents, only to find they were killed as part of a government resistance, this child would then decide to carry on what there parents started and take down the government, creating a new resistance. This is the theory on how the artwork for demon seed is connected to everything on the album apart from the potential resistance members, it never knew its family, yet it is able to change the course of everything else which is happening in the universe around it. (Also, the artwork for Demon Seed, when rotated counterclockwise, looks like 0001, the year after year zero. bethehammer)<br />
<br />
<br />
These are only speculative theories and have not been officially stated.<br />
<br />
== Artwork ==<br />
<br />
Does the red line tie in to the vocals at all? Because the songs with vocals have red lines, but I think (I haven't checked) the instrumentals don't have red line artwork.<br />
<br />
Probably not, as corona radiata has a red line and it's an instrumental, and lights in the sky does not have a red line, and it's a vocal track (bethehammer)<br />
<br />
Moved the two above posts down to this section. [[User:Aeontriad|Aeontriad]]<br />
<br />
I'm curious to see if the artwork holds any hidden meaning. I was thinking about seeing if the images could be aligned a certain way so that the red lines connect (though I haven't found the time to do this myself). I also found it curious that some of the images have a darker background than the others.<br />
<br />
== ''Year Zero'' Tie-In? ==<br />
<br />
I've started putting songs from ''The Slip'' in between songs from ''Year Zero'' and so far have found that some of the songs fit very well together.<br />
<br />
For example: 'The Good Soldier' fades really well into 'Echoplex' and 'Vessel' fits into the theme that follows in 'Head Down' and then 'Me, I'm Not'. I've also noticed that the background ambiance in 'Another Version Of The Truth' is very Similar to 'Corona Radiata'.<br />
<br />
I'm still moving songs around to find a good mix...and I may throw in songs from ''Ghosts I-IV'' to see if there is another connection. [[User:Aeontriad|Aeontriad]] 5/18/08<br />
<br />
== Third Disc? ==<br />
<br />
I emailed Amazon.com in regards to the listing of 3 discs.<br />
<br />
Comments:The product info lists this product as having 3 discs. The artist's website http://feeds.nin.com/ninNews describes the product as the follwing "The Slip will be available in an individually numbered 2 disc, 6 panel digipak..." I just wanted to get some clarification on this so I know what I'll be getting. Thank you for your time.<br />
<br />
Amazon.com: I understand that it is listed as 2 disc, 6 panel digipak in other website and it is listed as 3 discs on our website. The only information we can give you about a particular CD is what is displayed on the detail page for that particular music title.<br />
<br />
On many detail pages, in addition to the artist and recording label, you'll also find links to track listings, reviews, customer comments, a biography of the artist, a list of musical influences, and other CDs by that artist. All of these links appear in the left-hand margin.<br />
<br />
We understand that, unless you already know something about the CD, you may occasionally need more information than we have available to make a purchasing decision.<br />
<br />
Our editorial staff is constantly increasing the amount of information we provide about each item in our music store. We invite you to add to this information by submitting customer reviews for your favorite (or not-so-favorite) CDs.<br />
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[[User:Aeontriad|Aeontriad]] 07:57, 3 July 2008 (PDT)</div>
Aeontriad
https://www.nin.wiki/index.php?title=Talk:Suck&diff=21246
Talk:Suck
2008-07-03T04:19:03Z
<p>Aeontriad: </p>
<hr />
<div>Fixed, thnx Leo --[[User:Vessel|Vessel]]<br />
:If you look at the top of the page you will notice that information about the Pigface version is provided.--[[User:Leo3375|Leo3375]] 18:56, 12 April 2007 (PDT)<br />
<br />
==Suck as part of [[Throw This Away]]==<br />
Uhh... proof? Sure doesn't sound like it. -[[User:Heroicraptor|Heroicraptor]] 00:08, 13 April 2007 (PDT)<br />
:Haha, nevermind. I was being stupid. -[[User:Heroicraptor|Heroicraptor]] 00:08, 13 April 2007 (PDT)<br />
<br />
== Pigface Version ==<br />
<br />
Why isn't the Pigface version mentioned under the Versions section? Even though it wasn't perfromed by NIN, Trent did sing on track. [[User:Aeontriad|Aeontriad]] 14:52, 27 June 2008 (PDT)<br />
<br />
I added the Pigface version and put it before the Broken version as the Pigface version was released in 1990. [[User:Aeontriad|Aeontriad]] 22:17, 1 July 2008 (PDT)<br />
:I'd personally put it last, as it's not a NIN version, it deserves mention due to Trent being on vocals, but this is ninwiki, not whatcamefirstwiki. [[User:Sheepdean|Sheepdean]] 13:23, 2 July 2008 (PDT)<br />
<br />
:::Then why is there a whole page for Supernaut when it's a Black Sabbath cover by 1000 Homo Dj's? [[User:Aeontriad|Aeontriad]] 21:19, 2 July 2008 (PDT)</div>
Aeontriad
https://www.nin.wiki/index.php?title=Talk:The_Slip&diff=21245
Talk:The Slip
2008-07-02T22:02:42Z
<p>Aeontriad: Third Disc?</p>
<hr />
<div>Whilst the credits are to NIIN, I would assume a typo and on here we should put in the correct spelling. [[User:Sheepdean|Sheepdean]] 07:28, 5 May 2008 (PDT)<br />
:This is what I thought too, the audio files' comment tags read "(c) 2008 nin". [[User:Mobytoss|Mobytoss]] 09:53, 5 May 2008 (PDT)<br />
::okay; i changed it back [[User:Tocz|Tocz]] 10:47, 5 May 2008 (PDT)<br />
:::I felt this was still noteworthy, so I've added it to the miscellanea section. [[User:M0de l3d|M0de l3d]] 22:34, 13 May 2008 (PDT)<br />
<br />
Hey, this album's message seems to convey a possible breakup in nine inch nails. I mean, look at both the page for "the four of us are dying". Also, the album is called "The Slip".<br />
I dunno, feel free to expand.<br />
<br />
If NIN broke up, I'd be very worried, as there's only one member.[[User:Sheepdean|Sheepdean]] 17:19, 6 May 2008 (PDT)<br />
<br />
But four members worked on this album.<br />
<br />
Doubt it has anything to do with the "band" breaking up. It's most likely about Year Zero and personal reflection. [[User:Velvolver|Velvolver]] 20:55, 6 May 2008 (PDT)<br />
<br />
<br />
=Alien Abduction=<br />
<br />
This whole albums about the year zero story, and then eventually talks about alien abduction. Seriously, I'll explain more later [[User:Velvolver|Velvolver]] 21:13, 6 May 2008 (PDT)<br />
<br />
The hand on the cover art is probably The Presence. Also, the album itself seems to be a sort of interlude between Year Zero and what's coming after,<br />
like a calm before the storm. The "Lights in the Sky" lyrics remind me of the christian idea of the rapture, and the album itself up to that track could be viewed as characters<br />
portrayed in the Year Zero story line who are left behind by The Presence (or what the presence signified) to a world void of meaning. The big event happened, and these people<br />
were not part of it. Their struggle to come to terms with this situation in expressed in a variety of painful perspectives that all seem to meld into one resolved perspective<br />
at the end of the album. The song "The Great Destroyer" from Year Zero foreshadows this character portrayed in "Demon Seed", a person with "the infinite potential... to murder everything".<br />
So, if the Presence = the Rapture, then I'm assuming The Great Destroyer/Demon Seed = the Antichrist. Like Trent Reznor's version of the apocalypse.<br />
<br />
The Presence symbol (signifying the hand of God/Fate, or whatever) on the cover of The Slip would be that hand pulling the author behind the various characters on Year Zero<br />
and The Slip (literally, Trent Reznor, but in the same way that the hand represents "the Presence"{God, Fate, or whaterver} the author would represent the self{or soul, ego, identity, etc.})<br />
back into one underlaying identity, Resolved to destroy what's left of the world. <br />
<br />
That's my guess, anyway.<br />
<br />
Also, the art for "The Four Of Us Are Dying" looks like 4 isometric zeros, like the numeric representation of the year zero.<br />
<br />
=Image files=<br />
<br />
What's with the extra bar at the bottom of all the artwork files for ''[[The Slip]]''? The only place they seem to appear is on the wiki (ie. they're not in the PDF of the embedded images in the MP3s)? It's most notable on [[Lights In The Sky]] and [[The Four Of Us Are Dying]].<br />
<br />
This is most likely a glitch produced when they were posted, but I also noticed it. It almost looks like the top of the image repeated at the bottom. [[User:Aeontriad|Aeontriad]] 03:25, 15 May 2008 (PDT)<br />
<br />
== A Theory ==<br />
<br />
This was posted in the main article and I thought it would be better on this Discussion page.--[[User:Leo3375|leo3375]] 11:45, 13 May 2008 (PDT)<br />
<br />
===Potential Year Zero Concept===<br />
Although not officially stated, the concept seems to show certain events which happen to the main characters in the year zero universe. Below are some potential meanings to certain songs:<br />
<br />
====1,000,000====<br />
This song could be about a person who has been lead to believe something and realised it was all just a lie, so he has become over eccentric with the idea and decided he no longer wants to believe anything, he feels more alive now he is no longer restrained, at the same time he feels like he has to destroy himself because he has no meaning.<br />
<br />
====Letting You====<br />
How the fictional government are controlling its people but the people are to afraid to do anything about it. Another part of the song shows how the soldiers they are training believe they are fighting for liberty but they only seem to be fighting for the same lost cause as their leaders.<br />
<br />
====Discipline====<br />
This song resembles one specific person who seems to believe he is doing something wrong, or is being told he is doing wrong, so he should be disciplined. This could also resemble certain torture techniques the government use on prisoners (much like in the movies), which in turn, forces them to think they are doing something wrong when in fact they aren't.<br />
<br />
====Echoplex====<br />
This song is from the eyes of someone who is being held captive, how he is going crazy and is starting to believe he can see everything, most likely because of a lack of the fictional parepin which helps repress feelings of control. It also seems like he is slowly being forgotten about and nobody is going to rescue him from his cage.<br />
<br />
====Head Down====<br />
This song resembles somebody talking to themselves, trying not to get caught for something they have done wrong, with feelings of people watching him at all times, waiting for him to slip up.<br />
<br />
====Lights In The Sky====<br />
This seems to show a couple, which are more than likely a part of the resistance. One of them (Most Likely The Male) may have had a chance to escape the carnage the government is creating, but wont leave the other due to feelings for eachother.<br />
<br />
====Corona Radiata====<br />
This song is a little bit more curious, as the corona radiata are several protective layers surrounding ova or unfertilized egg cells, responsible with supplying the ova or egg cell with protein. This could mean the couple from lights in the sky are expecting or dont know the female is pregnant, possibly with the demon seed, as the red line in the image is connected to the artwork for demon seed. the song also begins with a more muffled sound much like you are listening from the inside of the womb, and gradually gets clearer and clearer.<br />
<br />
====The Four Of Us Are Dying====<br />
This songs artwork is not directly linked to the demon seed, much like lights in the sky, this means they are not being affected by the seed for the reason shown below. It could also show the main characters of the plotline dying out, ushering in the new era and the demon seed.<br />
<br />
====Demon Seed====<br />
This could be from the point of view of the child the girl is bearing only older, perhaps an orphan wants to find out more about their parents, only to find they were killed as part of a government resistance, this child would then decide to carry on what there parents started and take down the government, creating a new resistance. This is the theory on how the artwork for demon seed is connected to everything on the album apart from the potential resistance members, it never knew its family, yet it is able to change the course of everything else which is happening in the universe around it. (Also, the artwork for Demon Seed, when rotated counterclockwise, looks like 0001, the year after year zero. bethehammer)<br />
<br />
<br />
These are only speculative theories and have not been officially stated.<br />
<br />
== Artwork ==<br />
<br />
Does the red line tie in to the vocals at all? Because the songs with vocals have red lines, but I think (I haven't checked) the instrumentals don't have red line artwork.<br />
<br />
Probably not, as corona radiata has a red line and it's an instrumental, and lights in the sky does not have a red line, and it's a vocal track (bethehammer)<br />
<br />
Moved the two above posts down to this section. [[User:Aeontriad|Aeontriad]]<br />
<br />
I'm curious to see if the artwork holds any hidden meaning. I was thinking about seeing if the images could be aligned a certain way so that the red lines connect (though I haven't found the time to do this myself). I also found it curious that some of the images have a darker background than the others.<br />
<br />
== ''Year Zero'' Tie-In? ==<br />
<br />
I've started putting songs from ''The Slip'' in between songs from ''Year Zero'' and so far have found that some of the songs fit very well together.<br />
<br />
For example: 'The Good Soldier' fades really well into 'Echoplex' and 'Vessel' fits into the theme that follows in 'Head Down' and then 'Me, I'm Not'. I've also noticed that the background ambiance in 'Another Version Of The Truth' is very Similar to 'Corona Radiata'.<br />
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I'm still moving songs around to find a good mix...and I may throw in songs from ''Ghosts I-IV'' to see if there is another connection. [[User:Aeontriad|Aeontriad]] 5/18/08<br />
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== Third Disc? ==<br />
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I have e-mailed Amazon.com about this. I'll post my findings ASAP. [[User:Aeontriad|Aeontriad]] 15:02, 2 July 2008 (PDT)</div>
Aeontriad
https://www.nin.wiki/index.php?title=Talk:Suck&diff=21242
Talk:Suck
2008-07-02T05:17:05Z
<p>Aeontriad: </p>
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<div>Fixed, thnx Leo --[[User:Vessel|Vessel]]<br />
:If you look at the top of the page you will notice that information about the Pigface version is provided.--[[User:Leo3375|Leo3375]] 18:56, 12 April 2007 (PDT)<br />
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==Suck as part of [[Throw This Away]]==<br />
Uhh... proof? Sure doesn't sound like it. -[[User:Heroicraptor|Heroicraptor]] 00:08, 13 April 2007 (PDT)<br />
:Haha, nevermind. I was being stupid. -[[User:Heroicraptor|Heroicraptor]] 00:08, 13 April 2007 (PDT)<br />
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== Pigface Version ==<br />
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Why isn't the Pigface version mentioned under the Versions section? Even though it wasn't perfromed by NIN, Trent did sing on track. [[User:Aeontriad|Aeontriad]] 14:52, 27 June 2008 (PDT)<br />
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I added the Pigface version and put it before the Broken version as the Pigface version was released in 1990. [[User:Aeontriad|Aeontriad]] 22:17, 1 July 2008 (PDT)</div>
Aeontriad
https://www.nin.wiki/index.php?title=Suck&diff=21241
Suck
2008-07-02T05:14:32Z
<p>Aeontriad: </p>
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<div>{{song<br />
| title =Suck<br />
| album =''[[Broken]]''<br />
| length =5:07<br />
| versions =Suck<br>Suck (Pigface version)<br>Throw This Away<br>Suck (''[[And All That Could Have Been (halo)|And All That Could Have Been]]'')<br />
| live =[[Hate Tour]] through present<br />
}}'''"Suck"''' is the second hidden track on 1992's ''[[Broken]]'' EP. Originally packaged with "[[Physical (You're So)]]" on a Mini CD sold with the EP, it was later incorporated onto the EP as a hidden track after allegations that some music stores were removing the Mini CD and selling it separately. "Suck" is track 99 on ''Broken'' while "Physical (You're So)" is track 98.<br />
<br />
"Suck" was originally written and performed by [[Pigface]], a band lead by [[Martin Atkins]] featuring [[Trent Reznor]] as well as many other notable Industrial musicians. Other notable singers of the song within Pigface include [[Nivek Ogre]] of [[Skinny Puppy]], who even shared the song as a duet with Reznor. Since 1994, it has become one of the regular songs played by [[Nine Inch Nails]].<br />
<br />
According to a previously unreleased interview Reznor did with ''Melody Maker'' magazine, "Suck" was supposed to be a "tongue-in-cheek" cover. The [[multitracks]] for the original Pigface version of the song were released for a remix contest.<br />
<br />
===Song Credits===<br />
*Writing: Trent Reznor, Pigface<br />
*©1991 Thumbless music, Leaving Hope and TVT Music, Inc.<br />
*Production: Trent Reznor<br />
<br />
==Appearances==<br />
===Halos===<br />
*''Broken''<br />
*''[[Fixed]]''<br />
*''[[And All That Could Have Been (halo)|And All That Could Have Been]]'' (CD/DVD/VHS)<br />
<br />
===Other===<br />
*Pigface, ''The Best of Pigface'', ''Gub''<br />
<br />
==Versions==<br />
===Suck (Pigface version)===<br />
This version is drums only with Trent doing vocals. The "suck suck suck" portion of the chorus is whispered.<br />
<br />
===Suck===<br />
This is the version found on the ''Broken'' EP.<br />
<br />
===Throw This Away===<br />
This remix, found on ''Fixed,'' combines both "Suck" and "[[Last]]."<br />
<br />
===Suck (''And All That Could Have Been'')===<br />
This live version is similar to the album version, but the ending is very different, with Reznor shouting "Suck!" repeatedly rather than singing the song's final lyrics.<br />
<br />
==Live==<br />
"Suck" was played occasionally during the [[Pretty Hate Machine]] era, and has become a regular in the set since the [[Self Destruct]] tour.<br />
<br />
==Lyrics==<br />
There is no god up in the sky tonight<br />
No sign of Heaven anywhere in sight<br />
All that was true is left behind<br />
Once I could see now I am blind<br />
Don't want the dreams you try to sell<br />
This disease I give it to myself<br />
<br />
How does it feel?<br />
Suck suck suck<br />
<br />
She makes it sweeter than the sun<br />
I get too tight I come undone<br />
I bow my head to confess<br />
The temple walls are made of flesh<br />
Runs up my arm till I'm on track<br />
Itches the skin right off my back<br />
I'll heal your wounds<br />
I'll set you free<br />
I'm Jesus Christ on ecstasy<br />
<br />
How does it feel?<br />
Suck suck suck<br />
<br />
I feel so dirty on the inside<br />
I am so dirty on the inside<br />
<br />
How does it feel?<br />
Suck suck suck<br />
<br />
A thousand lips<br />
A thousand tongues<br />
A thousand throats<br />
A thousand lungs<br />
A thousand ways to make it true<br />
I want to do terrible things to you<br />
<br />
==Links==<br />
*[http://ninremixes.com/multitracks.php "Suck" multi-tracks]<br />
<br />
[[Category:NIN Songs]][[Category:Covers]][[Category:NIN Songs Released as Multitracks]]</div>
Aeontriad
https://www.nin.wiki/index.php?title=Suck&diff=21240
Suck
2008-07-02T05:12:48Z
<p>Aeontriad: </p>
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<div>{{song<br />
| title =Suck<br />
| album =''[[Broken]]''<br />
| length =5:07<br />
| versions =Suck<br>Throw This Away<br>Suck (''[[And All That Could Have Been (halo)|And All That Could Have Been]]'')<br />
| live =[[Hate Tour]] through present<br />
}}'''"Suck"''' is the second hidden track on 1992's ''[[Broken]]'' EP. Originally packaged with "[[Physical (You're So)]]" on a Mini CD sold with the EP, it was later incorporated onto the EP as a hidden track after allegations that some music stores were removing the Mini CD and selling it separately. "Suck" is track 99 on ''Broken'' while "Physical (You're So)" is track 98.<br />
<br />
"Suck" was originally written and performed by [[Pigface]], a band lead by [[Martin Atkins]] featuring [[Trent Reznor]] as well as many other notable Industrial musicians. Other notable singers of the song within Pigface include [[Nivek Ogre]] of [[Skinny Puppy]], who even shared the song as a duet with Reznor. Since 1994, it has become one of the regular songs played by [[Nine Inch Nails]].<br />
<br />
According to a previously unreleased interview Reznor did with ''Melody Maker'' magazine, "Suck" was supposed to be a "tongue-in-cheek" cover. The [[multitracks]] for the original Pigface version of the song were released for a remix contest.<br />
<br />
===Song Credits===<br />
*Writing: Trent Reznor, Pigface<br />
*©1991 Thumbless music, Leaving Hope and TVT Music, Inc.<br />
*Production: Trent Reznor<br />
<br />
==Appearances==<br />
===Halos===<br />
*''Broken''<br />
*''[[Fixed]]''<br />
*''[[And All That Could Have Been (halo)|And All That Could Have Been]]'' (CD/DVD/VHS)<br />
<br />
===Other===<br />
*Pigface, ''The Best of Pigface'', ''Gub''<br />
<br />
==Versions==<br />
===Suck (Pigface version)===<br />
This version is drums only with Trent doing vocals. The "suck suck suck" portion of the chorus is whispered.<br />
<br />
===Suck===<br />
This is the version found on the ''Broken'' EP.<br />
<br />
===Throw This Away===<br />
This remix, found on ''Fixed,'' combines both "Suck" and "[[Last]]."<br />
<br />
===Suck (''And All That Could Have Been'')===<br />
This live version is similar to the album version, but the ending is very different, with Reznor shouting "Suck!" repeatedly rather than singing the song's final lyrics.<br />
<br />
==Live==<br />
"Suck" was played occasionally during the [[Pretty Hate Machine]] era, and has become a regular in the set since the [[Self Destruct]] tour.<br />
<br />
==Lyrics==<br />
There is no god up in the sky tonight<br />
No sign of Heaven anywhere in sight<br />
All that was true is left behind<br />
Once I could see now I am blind<br />
Don't want the dreams you try to sell<br />
This disease I give it to myself<br />
<br />
How does it feel?<br />
Suck suck suck<br />
<br />
She makes it sweeter than the sun<br />
I get too tight I come undone<br />
I bow my head to confess<br />
The temple walls are made of flesh<br />
Runs up my arm till I'm on track<br />
Itches the skin right off my back<br />
I'll heal your wounds<br />
I'll set you free<br />
I'm Jesus Christ on ecstasy<br />
<br />
How does it feel?<br />
Suck suck suck<br />
<br />
I feel so dirty on the inside<br />
I am so dirty on the inside<br />
<br />
How does it feel?<br />
Suck suck suck<br />
<br />
A thousand lips<br />
A thousand tongues<br />
A thousand throats<br />
A thousand lungs<br />
A thousand ways to make it true<br />
I want to do terrible things to you<br />
<br />
==Links==<br />
*[http://ninremixes.com/multitracks.php "Suck" multi-tracks]<br />
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[[Category:NIN Songs]][[Category:Covers]][[Category:NIN Songs Released as Multitracks]]</div>
Aeontriad
https://www.nin.wiki/index.php?title=Multitracks&diff=21237
Multitracks
2008-07-01T21:52:35Z
<p>Aeontriad: </p>
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<div>Nine Inch Nails have pioneered the idea of giving away '''multitracks''' or song masters away to the general public for remix purposes. All multitracks are available for download from the fan-made site [[ninremixes.com]], [http://ninremixes.com/multitracks.php here]. Alternatively, a selection of multitracks can be downloaded from the official NIN remix site, [[remix.nin.com]], [http://remix.nin.com/ here].<br />
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==The Fragile era==<br />
In 1999, [[nin.com]] had multitrack clips up of three songs in swf format. None of the songs from this era were released with complete multitracks.<br />
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"[[Starfuckers, Inc. (song)|Starfuckers, Inc.]]" was released as 21 separate 13-second files.<br />
<br />
"[[The Day The World Went Away (song)|The Day The World Went Away]]" was released as 17 separate 14-second files.<br />
<br />
"[[The Big Come Down]]" was released as 15 separate files of varying lengths.<br />
<br />
==With Teeth Era==<br />
"[[The Hand That Feeds (song)|The Hand That Feeds]]" was the first multitracks of two songs to be released for this album, released via nin.com on April 15th, 2005 in Garageband format (with RAW AIFFs).<br />
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"[[Only (song)|Only]]" was released on June 25th, 2005 in more formats than the previous multitrack.<br />
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==Year Zero era==<br />
"[[Survivalism]] was the first of this album to be released on March 13th, 2007. The next batch of multitracks to be released were "[[God Given]]", "[[Me, I'm Not]]", "[[Capital G]]", "[[My Violent Heart]]" and "[[The Beginning of the End]]". The multitracks for every song on ''[[Year Zero]]'' were then made available with the physical release of ''[[Year Zero Remixed]]''; to coincide with the release, remix.nin.com was set up where users can upload, stream and download mixes, as well as download multitracks in .zip files.<br />
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==Ghosts I–IV era==<br />
The multitracks for all the songs on ''[[Ghosts I–IV]]'' are included on a DVD-ROM as a part of the deluxe and ultra-deluxe editions of the album which can be ordered from [[ghosts.nin.com]], although the latter has sold out. Additionally, multitracks for the songs "[[10 Ghosts II]]", "[[19 Ghosts III]]", "[[26 Ghosts III]]","[[34 Ghosts IV]]" and "[[35 Ghosts IV]]" can be downloaded from remix.nin.com<br />
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==The Slip era==<br />
The multitracks for the single "[[Discipline]]" were made available on remix.nin.com at the same time it was released as a free download.<br />
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Multitracks for the remaining songs on the album were made available on May 5, 2008 as a free download from remix.nin.com<br />
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==Other==<br />
In addition, the Pigface version of "[[Suck]]" was released as multitracks for a remix competition.<br />
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Following the release of ''[[The Inevitable Rise And Liberation of NiggyTardust!]]'', the multitracks for "[[Banged And Blown Through]]" and "[[Break]]" were made available for download from remix.nin.com<br />
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[[Category:NIN Songs Released as Multitracks]]</div>
Aeontriad
https://www.nin.wiki/index.php?title=Talk:Multitracks&diff=21236
Talk:Multitracks
2008-07-01T21:51:35Z
<p>Aeontriad: New page: I added updated info for The Slip. I seperated this as seperate era. Even though there are only a matter of months sperating The Slip from Ghosts, I thought this would flow better on the a...</p>
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<div>I added updated info for The Slip. I seperated this as seperate era. Even though there are only a matter of months sperating The Slip from Ghosts, I thought this would flow better on the article. [[User:Aeontriad|Aeontriad]] 14:51, 1 July 2008 (PDT)</div>
Aeontriad