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Nine Inch Nails - The Slip, Sucks

May 5, 2008

Digg.com informed me NIN had decided to give away, as in "gratis", their latest album, "The Slip". W00h00, right? Wrong.

Down in the comments section on Digg, someone noted how it's very likely Lars Ulrich is going to be pissed about the album being free of charge. But after listening to the album twice today, I assure you this, much like all NIN albums, is complete crap. I'm not sure what it is, but it's not music.

I've tried to like NIN over the years, really I have. The thing is, what they make just isn't very good. The drum beats never change, and the guitar riffs are very "low-skill". Low-skill, as in I'm only a hobby guitarist and I assure you I can play anything NIN has ever written, easily.

As far as originality, there's not much of that either. The second song on the album has the exact same drumbeat as Ministry's 1992 release, "Just One Fix".

And I'm not a drummer, but I own a 5-piece kit. Without a doubt I can easily play any drumbeat NIN has ever published. I'm not saying I'm all that, don't get me wrong.. but if someone claims to be a musician and writes albums then I would only assume it would be more that I can do in my garage.

Good thing the album is free.. I'd be pissed if I paid money for it before hearing it.

Lars Ulrich has zero worries. I'd rather pay for Metallica than get NIN for free.

Tags: nin, metallica

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Completly Agree

By: j <julian_kranicz at hotmail dot com>

Posted: 2 months ago

Even though i liked the previous albums by NIN, i thought that this new album was a piece of sh**.

My main reason is that lyrically, this album sounds like it was written by a two year old rhyming.

Seriously, whenever i listen to the album i get this image of Trent just asking himself, "what rhymes with such and such..."

No skill required, take your fans for granted.

A big middle finger.

F*** you too.

uhh what

By: Anonymous <shorty dot man7232 at gmail dot com>

Posted: 3 weeks ago

Yes I will agree that generally the riffs and rhythms of their songs are pretty easy to play and "low skilled". But to call them un-original is kind of dumb. There is no other band like NIN. Yes they have used small elements of industrial in their songs, but for the most part they have their own style. If you listened to a bunch of NIN sounding bands (like ministry, skinny puppy, old marilyn manson etc) you would be able to pikc out NIN easily.

Listen to these songs and tell it isn't good and why. (NOT skill-wise, but music wise):

Right Where It Belongs
La Mer
Leaving Hope
Happiness in Slavery
The Day the World Went Away
The Great Destroyer
Ruiner

You know, I think every band has copied some other beat. I'm sure if you picked out a metallica song, you could find some other song by another band (before the metallica song came out) that uses the same riff or rhythm..

It's fine to not like NIN, but to say they aren't original and suck is really stupid.

In the past year or say, he's made a highly conceptual album (Year Zero), a huge alternate reality game, 36 instrumental songs (Ghosts), and a free album (The Slip). Plus he made remix site where fans remix songs and post them.

Oh, and the Slip was made in less than 2 months. That takes a lot of skill to make those songs in a 2 month period.

(F)lamer, eh?

By: Andy <andy dot bohan at gmail dot com>

Posted: 1 week ago

You reckon you can take on any NIN drum beat? Go play Gave Up or Just Like You Imagined, and record it, then you can criticise. Just because industrial isn't your cup of tea does not mean it's talentless.

Talentless and stupid

By: Greg Donald <gdonald at gmail dot com>

Posted: 1 week ago

Dear Andy the dumbass,

First, "criticise" is spelled criticize.

And second.. I love industrial, just not NIN's failed attempt at it.

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