pdhot65ton posted:unsure if its controversial or not, but everyone seems to love all this ambient dentist office music he's been making since WT (exception YZ), but I want to see TR bust out the metal guitar a la Broken and Starf*ckers. dude can play guitar, needs to showcase it like he does live.
I agree, "Broken" was the first nin's cd I really liked at my first listen, and I bought TDS and PHM before, but the riffs and the sound of that album was awesome, I needed more time to get used to the other 2 that I finished loving too, of course. And TDS had some awesome metal riffs too, the end of Eraser is orgasmic. The production in ACSS is pretty amazing too, one of the best sounding albums ever produced and its guitars are the shit, it has a mix of the sounds from NIN's previous albums.
I always wanted something like Broken again, and I remember how the first song I listened from The Fragile in the radio back in 99 was Starfuckers and I thought the whole album would be like that, and then I was kinda disappointed when it was released and I found it to be a really weird album, although I love it now too of course, but I needed many listens tbh. XD
Since the old days he has used many guitars but in different ways, I would have loved something like Broken again, not just a bad clone, but something with a similar sound because it was too short. And The Slip wasn't similar to Broken at all, I like it, but it's not as raw and hard as Broken was, although some people compared them (1000000 or Letting You are cool rock songs, but Wish, Happiness, Suck or Gave Up are a billion times better and the sound in the guitars are completely different, the old ones sounding much harder and better imo). Also Broken has some of the best songs Trent has ever written.
And since we are talking about Trent and guitars, I also loved loved loved this:
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I liked Ghosts a lot and TSN's score even more, but since he is going to make a lot of scores from now on, I would like nin's next album to have some seriously hard shit like that. Some people may think he is "too old and happy" now and should only write stuff with pianos and or noisy experimental pseudoindie stuff, and I love that kind of stuff too, but you can perfectly be in your 40s or 50s and be happy in your personal life and also write some hard stuff with amazing guitars like the ones from Driver Down or Eraser or Broken, just change the lyrics and instead of talking about how sad you feel write something about shit that still pisses you off, I'm sure even happy Trent hates a lot of shit in this world, and while he doesn't become some kind of selfparody like Manson did, I think he still can write hard riffs the same way that he should use harder electronics, after all he is going to write a lot of ambient stuff for movies(and with this I don't mean he should completely leave the more ambient or softer songs, I like a little bit of everything into the mix XD).
