What Trent did was take five songs from The Fragile and rework them with Alan Moudler, Keith Hillebrandt, Charlie Clouser and others.
Things Falling Apart hails from this section of the Nine Inch Nails catalog, though it falls far short of Closer to God. Each version is more sexual and terrifying than the last?there are tracks that have "I want to fuck you, fuck you, fuck you" looped over and over, with animal noises and a preacher's rants in the background. And the best Nine Inch Nails record, known to depressingly few, remains Closer to God, the nine-track '94 release containing six different versions of the "Closer" single. This is the guy who made a hit single that went, "I want to fuck you like an animal," with a simple, slow, glorious beat that made you want to do just that. I bet Trent Reznor was shrieking at a good 5000 deflowerings since Pretty Hate Machine came out in 1989. What Nine Inch Nails does do, to great effect, is make music for goth girls to lose their virginity to. Forget albums?in the past few years even a decent single has eluded this band (1997's "The Perfect Drug" was the last).īut that's all for the bad stuff. The more songs you listen to, the more you realize (1) Trent Reznor is not a very interesting vocalist (2) he doesn't write very good songs and (3) he uses the word "decay" too much. As those of us who were duped into buying The Fragile know, a full CD of Nine Inch Nails is a dubious proposition. Things Falling Apart is mostly a bunch of remixes, but that's all right because it's what you do best.
I'll talk about Nine Inch Nails first, because if I don't, Trent Reznor might get offended and contract writer's block for the next five years. Time Is Money, by South Park Mexican, has diamond-encrusted Master P lettering ("SPM") and our hero right on the front of the record, raking in 50s and 100s as they fall from trees. Nine Inch Nails' Things Falling Apart looks like pretty much any Nine Inch Nails album: a closeup of something metallic for the cover, a minimal booklet and all the text in that boring NIN font. This week, I got two CDs that sit pretty much opposite in the packaging department.
Time Is Money South Park Mexican (Universal)
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