Nine Inch Nails: Ghosts I-IV

[St. Brett]

Greetings.

I had the misfortune the other day to stumble across this new '08 CD release by Nine Inch Nails titled Ghosts I-IV.
Yes, I actually bought it! Can you believe that?

And, as with anything new released in the entertainment industry today, it plain friggin' stinks!

This should have been released with the title 'Trent Reznor - Bored!'

It comes as a two-disk release, why it contains 2 disks, I'm frigged if I know, he could have fitted the entire rubbish onto one disk I'm sure of it!

I have nothing positive to say about this album, none whatsoever!
Its attempted creative endeavors lead it straight to a highway on course for a sewerage plant!
What effort he has put in to it has been blatantly ripped off from a blue print of the Dust Brother's Fight Club score CD soundtrack!

Ghost’s I-IV isn't creative, it's not artistic and it has no meaning!
He probably released this album with a dead-line of a week.
Everything about it is wrong, even the booklet inside, what is that? Photo's of amplifiers and keyboards, foot pedals on a piano and audio cords?
You have got to be f**king kidding me!
Audio cords hold meaning to him?

And what correlation there is to a ghost theme I don't know!
There is none.
I asked the lady in JB Hi-Fi if it had a Halloween haunted ghost skeletal feel to it and she said yes! It doesn't!

Trent Reznor's Ghosts I-IV gets a big fat 1 out of 10!
But why, why am I even giving it a one, for effort?
This is not Nine Inch Nails! It is Trent Reznor solo.

What a f**king waste of $21 this was!
This album should have been titled 'Percussionaly Confused: I'm Still On Drugs."
I know, percussionaly is not even a word.
What a dead end though.
Have you heard this rubbish?

I mean, this isn't even the band Nine Inch Nails; it's just Trent Reznor going solo strumming instruments.
He isn't entitled to go under this album using the band name Nine Inch Nails because they don't even jam on any of the tracks.
It's just him so why didn't he title it Trent Reznor's solo album debut - where he could have called it 'Trent.'

This guy is just milking the public for every dollar he can get with this giant turkey!

Here, listen to track 5 on disk one it sounds just like the piano work at the end of that Closer To God song.
And this is the problem with every track on this double-disk CD , they all sound like he wants to just break out into one of the old songs but he's just given 'em a tweak and twist and went the other direction with a weaker flow thinking he's inventive and new!

Track 6 on disk one - Didn't I used to use this instrument in primary School?
It's a xylophone, right?

Track 7 on disk one sounds like some amateur LL Cool J beat from his Farmer's Blvd basement days!

I'll tell you what, if this is some sick joke, like, in a month's time is he going to release a quick follow-up album to this Ghost I-IV album and this time will it come with lyrics and will it be titled 'Body' or something?
This is an absolute shamble.

This is an artist scraping the bottom of the barrel and this is an embarrassment to the consumer!

Track 8 on disk one is a mess of over-base with no direction.

My recommendation is to pop on your old NIN Fragile CD and listen to tracks 9 and 12.
Track 9 Pilgrimage is the anthem for all to rise for Hitler's entrance.

Who ever the idi-ette was that green-lighted this Ghost I-IV project is a total f**k wit!
They're treating the public with total contempt!
Do they really think we're idi-ettes?

Track 14 on disk one oh man, I cringe! I can only cringe. Oh man this is painful.

Track 15 on disk one, again he's reverted to that instrument I used in primary school.
A Xlyophone yer? You hit it with a rubber headed mallet!
Friday arvo's I used to bash the sh*t out of this thing. It was deep and gave you a sense of belonging like you were apart of something and not that pussy bullsh*t tambourine perscussion band!

Track 16 on disk one sounds like a tacky Atarii 2600 video game.

Track 18 on disk one If I wanted to hear some 80's retro I'd listen to Oingo Boingo!
Oh boy, be sure to listen to this album with a loaded gun in your hand.

Avoid this crap at all costs!

In my second portion of the report I will analyze disk two and go through all those tracks.

BRB.

 

[St. Brett]

Ok, I'm back to do the second part of my NIN Ghosts I-IV report.
This'll be the disk two run-down.

Where was I?

How an artist who had merit from previously released albums can release something of this lower-grade calibre is beyond comprehension.

Seriously, if anybody here at LU wants my copy that I purchased I'd be more than happy to give it to the first person that put up their hand.
Private message me your P.O. Box address, or whatever, and I'll give it to you free of charge.

Wanna know what song I like lately? It keeps bobbing up on Channel V lately.
It's by some arseholes called Draft Punk, or some thing, and there's this big over-sized dog walking around NYC and he meets this sneaker-wearing chick in a 7/11 and sparks up a convo.
"That's a really great song!"
Although them Draft Punks did that terrible song with that Blue People cartoon clip which was total sh*t.

I was watching Layne Bogg's in that movie She's All That the other night and two of her fellow students suggested that she kill herself to boost her painting sales, I think ole Reznor should take a leaf out of those books same as Kobain and go Ko-bang to be truthful.
His CD sales would sky rocket and everyone would benefit because the way it is he's just a pain in the arse walking around on two-legs!
I'm tired of his bullsh*t! Sorry sonofabitch he his!
Delta Goodrem would have benefited from this whole 'blow your brains out Kurt Kobain pain easer style' as well.
Do everybody a favor, Jesus Christ! How miserable can one sonofabitch be?
There comes a time where every artist should consider this.

By the way, I don't know if I mentioned this or not, but there's no lyrics to any of these songs and every song is titled Ghost apparently!
No lyrics or vocals on any of the tracks whatsoever!
It goes to show that he's really struggling as an artist.

I expect this kind of thing from Tori Amos to release some instrumental Beyond Blue I'm-lost sh*t like this!

Trent Reznor is insatiable and plain miserable.
He needs to lighten up.
Are you telling me that this guy hasn't found himself after all these years and is still asking questions?
This guy had his say back in the 90's! He's had and done his time, just like Marilyn Manson!
His message was bullsh*t to begin with.
He actually led us on a stray.
Drug fuelled delusional fool!

I'm not surprised this album is f**ked though as he's always been short on lyrics!
Some of his stuff is amateur and childish when I think about it.

Ok, CD 2.
Let's go through 'em.

Ghosts I-IV CD 2 track one sounds like he was in his basement banging the drainage pipes with a wrench looking for new sounds.

Track two was recorded on a flat battery. It's junk. I can't put it any other way. Broken record perhaps?
There's nothing hollow or transparent to represent these tracks as ghostly!

Track 3, again with the elementary child drums. Xylophone right?

Track 4, It must of been a rainy day. His broken piano work is shocking. Delta Goodrem could do better than this with one hand.

Track 5, he's trying to tune the radio in to a station that can pick up on his transistor. His radio is not on station.
Messy.

Track 6, has a bit of a Fight Club theme going and will probably appear in a Vin Diesal movie maybe? Bit of a Dirty Harry - The Scorpion Killer's on the move type thing, yer?

Track 7 Oh I'm Alice in Chains, I'm in heat, rip it Reznor, oow let's go.
Got like a cats bell or Jingle Bells thing going with no direction.
Yer, I'm trapped out in Phoenix and I don't speak a word of Spanish, somebody help me, I'm lost, oh help me!

Track 8 Blatant Fight Club rip-off! How painful is this?

Track 10 has a Kentucky Banjo strum thing going. I could learn my ABC's and times tables by the time this track is finished!

Track 11 I can see some African pimp strolling down corner LaBrea and Hollywood Blvd in a feathered hat. (Before being blasted away Magnum Force style.)

Who's still reading this? How am I going? If you don't believe me buy the album and painfully listen to it yourself!

Track 12 is trying to be scary like it's lost in a chainsaw massacre up in North Queensland somewhere!

Track 14 Shove a cooked hot dog up my arse this is more painful than extracting teeth.

Track 16 on disk 2 is plain banal! Sounds exactly like that HURT song. It is!

My conclusion is that this guy cannot create new music!
This is the problem with most artists who stay in the game too long.
Their sh*t all sounds the same.

I saw a new Korn album the other day too with a bird on the cover and passed on it as I'm not falling for any more of these artists sh*t.

I should have spent today typing about my new Test Tube Yagoni Alien instead of typing out this NIN sh*t!

The next time I see a new NIN CD in a store I'm looking the other way.

NIN R.I.P. '08!

"Look at me, I'm Trent Reznor and I'm feeling grey."

Of cause.....either us or The Yanks spell it grey/gray??????? It's one or the other.

"The sky is blue, people! Every thing to Trent is upside down. He's feeling lonely and lost."
The poor dear.
Lost in this big ole world of ours.
Guy needs some f**king 90210 school counselling.
Tori Spelling or Brian Austin Green could cheer him up with some Tokyo happy happy feelings and words of encouragement.
The Hills style! Cali-for-nia! Be happy like us rich arseholes! Arseholes!
What an arsehole.
He puts a blight on my day.
He has all the money in the world yet he's still a selfish brat!
I don't know about you, but millions of dollar would put a permanent sh*t eating grin on my face 24/7 in this life even if I had to mask it like the Joker from Batman.
A big false grin mascarading happyness + millions of dollars is all okeydokey in my books.

 

[St. Brett]

Before I depart, I wish to share something with you all.

I just had a revelation.

Reading over my thread it occurred to me that I may not be an authority anymore.

I mean, who am I too judge today's times, right?

I guess I've turned into one of those guys that has to listen to his selection of music privately and feels guilt when doing so because he's become too old yet doesn't realise it.
Or refuses to accept it?

No longer can I wear T-shirts displaying my favorite band or rage publicly like some system against the machine with todays times and political up-heavels eh?

Christ, I'm aged!

Is this the stage in my life where it all breaks down and I have this mid-life crisis they talk about?
Evening Primrose oil or tennis anybody?

Do I start panicking?

Or do I have to re-invent myself like Kevin Spacey in that American Beauty movie?

P.S. Wanna know what makes me sad? Pigeons with no legs or feet.
That brings me un-done.
I get sad when ever I see this on the street.
There'll be birdie poking around for food when there isn't any there and he has to walk or fly on his stomach because he can't rely on his feet. He can't support his chassis because his frame is minus parts.
I wanna save every legless Pigeon in Australia.
It makes me sad to see a Pigeon with no feet.
Like it's been picked off or hacked off with a hacksaw or another bird took to it.
We should live in a world where every bird has feet.
Why would God allow Pigeons to go on minus a foot? It doesn't make sense.
I would like to heal the birds but I'm no life saver or world beater.

I'm off to buy my Oz Lotto ticket for Tuesday's 40 mill!
Don't anybody else think about winning it either!
That forty mill is as good as mine!
Once I win it I'm out of here.
See, I plan to buy a house up near Humbolt County in CA along the coast near the 101.
Only when I win my 40 mill.
I'll tell you more about my plan after I win my 40 mill.
But rest assured that you won't be involved in my 40 mill plan!

 

[Parki]

your a cranky man brett

 

[elyod138]

Do you have any friends?

 

[St. Brett]

Mark? Mark Peterson?

Can you believe that I'm actually walking around today in a pair of shoes with some guy's name on them?
Patrick!
I'm wearing shoes with Patrick's name on them!

And a Bonds T-shirt.

What am I an advertising post for fashion arseholes.

Do you want my copy of Ghosts I-IV?
I can post it to you.

You're the first to reply.
It's as good as yours if you want it.

Let me know.

I'd be more than happy to depart with my copy.

Mark......I'm a bit annoyed at the way "No Country For Old Men" finished.

I had that dream, then I woke up? What was that?

Parki?

your a cranky man brett

That should read you're a cranky man, Brett. (Capital B too.)

You are (=you're) a cranky man. Then , Brett.

What am I talking about I can't even spell commar. Commer. Comar?

I'm going home.

Out from Moorebank.

G style on the B up! Livo for lyf, dark homie. Thug'n it in Syd Thug lyf my bros! G-style on the D up bitches!

~out~ for sure on the fishing reel.

eloyd138 Sorry I don't speak Queenslandish.
You'll have to translate that into English holmes.
By the way....how do you translate twinkies are deaf into spanish?
Maricone ? ?

 

[Parki]

it's comma

and you can have it. you don't make it sound very appealing

 

[sydraider]

:lol: Thats the best Album review I have read in a long time.

You should submit some of your stuff on Amazon Brett.

 

[alien]

:|

you're a very strange man mista gaddes and that's comin' from me :lol:

 

[Paullyboy]

:lol: Thats the best Album review I have read in a long time.

You should submit some of your stuff on Amazon Brett.

I also enjoyed it. That's as good as reviews get.

 

[St. Brett]

So I take it no body wants my copy then?

It's there if anybody wants me to post it to 'em.
I don't want it.

I actually put it on last night and went over every track again and started laughing at how amateurish it is.

It's actually a demo tape release.

If you were to hand in this term paper to your teacher she'd automatically mark it F without even looking at it.
Because he's put his name on it he figures he's made an effort.

Today, my friends, Brett Gaddes wins forty million dollars!
It was nice knowing you all, it's been fruitful, but I gotta get going.

Alien, Paulyboy and Syd Raider.......it's been nice, but I'm out of here after tonight.
I'm selling Australia out as quick as wild fire and moving to California after I win that forty million oz lotto tonight.

You won't be seeing me 'round these parts anymore after tonight boys.

P.S. we watched that Stephen King movie last night Room 8014 or something and that was jargon too.
Pretty dumb really.
Started out ok but totally went the wrong way and could have been better.
Dumb.

I'm submitting this letter to The Daily Telegraph under the name Donkey Stench today.

In a news flash the other night I overheard them say that because of the rising tensions in Zimbabwe petrol prices will rise worldwide.
Only a year or two ago the excuse was that because of the war in Iraq prices soared.
What next – a shortage of rice in China or a decrease of sheep in New Zealand affecting the global trade of fuel?
Or better still, because of the Olympic torch creating tension world wide we feel it justifiable that petrol prices increase?
When are they going to finally admit that Earth is fast running out of these fuels as our ever increasing population is putting a drain on our resources!
They keep producing these gas guzzlers knowing damn well of the shortages that run them!
They’ll probably raise the cost of fuel next based on what the state Government has done to NSW!
Oh gee, would you look at that, there’s a decline in the Canadian Bear population let’s inflate fuel prices.
In another year or two you can bet your bottom dollar that you will be looking at the $3 vicinity!

They refuse to publish my letters now because I won't give 'em our new phone number.
We had to call the 'do-not call de-registration' line the other day to stop arseholes from ringing us and telling us we had won boat cruises or free long distance phone calls.

Who watches that Phone Jackers thing on Foxtell? I'm warming to it. I like that lazy Indian guy that sells 50 times faster internet service provider where it's free for the first month then a monthly charge of $88 a month and so on and so on.

And that other one....abso-f**king-lutely!

 

[alien]

Nar, dont want a copy. I believe you when you say it's crap. Did you win lotto?

 

[alien]

ps what happened to ur donny darko evil bunny avatar

 

[sydraider]

Yeah I also miss the donny darko av

 

[Once Dead]

Finck is back with NIN.

 

[elyod138]

Finck is back with NIN.

Yep, good news.

I liked Aaron North in the live band but Robin is a level above I think. It's good that Allesandro Cortini and Josh Freese are still in the band too.

Ok, I tried not to but I'm going to reply to you Brett. I'm not going to argue your dislike for the music, because you're entitled to that. I'll just point out some obvious errors that were pissing me off.

This is not Nine Inch Nails! It is Trent Reznor solo.

I mean, this isn't even the band Nine Inch Nails; it's just Trent Reznor going solo strumming instruments.
He isn't entitled to go under this album using the band name Nine Inch Nails because they don't even jam on any of the tracks.
It's just him so why didn't he title it Trent Reznor's solo album debut - where he could have called it 'Trent.'

Nine Inch Nails is and always has been Trent Reznor on his own, he assembles a band to play live (because he cant play all the instruments at the same time obviously). Sure, every now and then a member of the live band might play 1 riff on an album if they are lucky, but that's very rare. Ghosts is actually the first album where more people than just Trent have been involved, most of the tracks have extra writing credits.

I'll tell you what, if this is some sick joke, like, in a month's time is he going to release a quick follow-up album to this Ghost I-IV album and this time will it come with lyrics and will it be titled 'Body' or something?

There's a rumour that he's going to release another album in a few days (he released a new single last week (which sounds like a gay dance anthem, it couldn't be less similar to ghosts and yes it has lyrics), it hasn't been confirmed by Trent yet, but he has said to check nin.com on May 5th.

By the way, I don't know if I mentioned this or not, but there's no lyrics to any of these songs and every song is titled Ghost apparently!
No lyrics or vocals on any of the tracks whatsoever!
It goes to show that he's really struggling as an artist.

You would have known that if you read anything about the album before buying it.

He probably released this album with a dead-line of a week.
Everything about it is wrong, even the booklet inside, what is that? Photo's of amplifiers and keyboards, foot pedals on a piano and audio cords?
You have got to be f**king kidding me!
Audio cords hold meaning to him?

Close. It was just a short experimental project, he gathered a group of friends to improvise in his studio, thats what the pictures are of.


p.s. I would like the album but I wouldn't be comfortable with you knowing my address :lol:

 

[elyod138]

edit: double post

 

[akazie]

I love this review, so much so I put a link to it on Trent's blog :lol:

https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?p...logID=3531509609051187076&isPopup=true&page=5

 

[elyod138]

I love this review, so much so I put a link to it on Trent's blog :lol:

https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?p...logID=3531509609051187076&isPopup=true&page=5

Watch out.. that blog attracts some major freaks.

Oh damn, now they'll see that I called them freaks.

 

[akazie]

Watch out.. that blog attracts some major freaks.

Oh damn, now they'll see that I called them freaks.

:lol: