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Post by Pinch on Jul 15, 2020 14:24:10 GMT
For this AC I've chosen one of my favourite works from one of my favourite musician/composer/producers. This is the score to David Fincher's 'The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo', by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross. It is quite long, and so I don't recommend trying to listen to it all in one go. For my library, I have it broken into three 'discs', which mirror the CD release. Disc 1 is tracks 1-13, Disc 2 14-26, and Disc 3 27-39. The score proper begins with the second track - the first and last tracks are songs, also produced by Reznor and Ross (the first is a Led Zeppelin cover). This was the second score produced by Reznor and Ross - their first was the score for Fincher's 'The Social Network', for which they one an Oscar. This score was nominated for numerous awards, and won a few of them. In their day jobs, Reznor and Ross are Nine Inch Nails, of which Reznor was the sole member for nearly 30 years, before Ross officially joined in 2016. Reznor's work as Nine Inch Nails has been hugely significant to me for many years, and has exerted a huge influence on the way I listen to music and the stuff that I enjoy. For me, this score contains some of his best work, and I listen to it regularly. Though Reznor only started producing music for films in 2010, his work has always felt cinematic - it describes a world and tells a story, though often not a very pleasant one (though their next score is for Pixar's latest film 'Soul'). Because this score is so long I might think about how I would trim it down to a more standard album length and post a tracklist for a more condensed version. But for those who aren't intimidated by the size and who are happy to dive straight in, here you go! |
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Post by MikeMusic on Jul 15, 2020 15:13:36 GMT
I sampled this and wasn't convinced. 5/10 at the time
Will give another go
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Post by ChrisB on Jul 15, 2020 15:36:44 GMT
Thanks for your offering Tom.
I shall give it my full attention tomorrow.
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Post by Slinger on Jul 15, 2020 17:29:09 GMT
Not forgetting, of course, that Trent wrote "Hurt," which ended up completely revitalising Johnny Cash's career towards the end of his life.
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Post by simon on Jul 15, 2020 18:04:03 GMT
I saw Nine Inch Nains at a festival probably 10 years ago in the rain, only knowing one or two songs and it was a brilliant performance. Nearly made up for sleeping through Nick Cave the night before.
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Post by MartinT on Jul 15, 2020 19:18:44 GMT
Thanks, Tom. He's an unknown to me so I shall have a listen with interest.
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Post by Barrington on Jul 16, 2020 13:15:29 GMT
Title ! July (2) .
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Post by ChrisB on Jul 16, 2020 13:49:28 GMT
Amended!
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Post by MartinT on Jul 18, 2020 19:20:57 GMT
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Post by MartinT on Jul 18, 2020 19:31:16 GMT
It's fantastic incidental music and I loved the books and films very much, although I vastly preferred the Swedish films to the US one for which this music was written. People Lie All The Time is particularly atmospheric. Who sings in Is Your Love Strong Enough? Lovely voice and there's some good bass in it.
Not an album I would play all the way through, but picking tracks is fun. 3/5 (would be 4/5 for that final track).
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Post by ChrisB on Jul 19, 2020 9:55:08 GMT
I thought it was great. I had it on while I was working on a repetitive task that didn't require much brain power and so was able to revel in the atmosphere that it provided. I played it again the next day when I was able to give it closer attention.
It gets a 4 out of 5 from me.
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Post by Pinch on Jul 21, 2020 13:14:26 GMT
Not forgetting, of course, that Trent wrote "Hurt," which ended up completely revitalising Johnny Cash's career towards the end of his life. Indeed. It was such a big song for Cash that people still assume it's his song that the NIN version is cover! |
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Post by Pinch on Jul 21, 2020 13:15:08 GMT
I saw Nine Inch Nains at a festival probably 10 years ago in the rain, only knowing one or two songs and it was a brilliant performance. Nearly made up for sleeping through Nick Cave the night before. What was the festival? As a live experience they're hard to top - total commitment. I last saw them at Royal Festival Hall in 2018 and TR was just as intense and energetic as when I first saw them in 1999. |
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Post by Pinch on Jul 21, 2020 13:15:59 GMT
It's fantastic incidental music and I loved the books and films very much, although I vastly preferred the Swedish films to the US one for which this music was written. People Lie All The Time is particularly atmospheric. Who sings in Is Your Love Strong Enough? Lovely voice and there's some good bass in it. Not an album I would play all the way through, but picking tracks is fun. 3/5 (would be 4/5 for that final track). I should confess to having not actually seen the film! Not really a film guy. 'Is Your Love Strong Enough' is sung by Mariqueen Maandig-Reznor, TR's wife; they put out an EP and album together as 'How To Destroy Angels'. Here's a nice song of theirs: |
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Post by Pinch on Jul 21, 2020 13:17:54 GMT
I thought it was great. I had it on while I was working on a repetitive task that didn't require much brain power and so was able to revel in the atmosphere that it provided. I played it again the next day when I was able to give it closer attention. It gets a 4 out of 5 from me. Glad you enjoyed it! I think the approach of using it as background music before having a more focused listen is a good one. Condensed tracklist incoming... |
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Post by MartinT on Jul 21, 2020 18:55:02 GMT
I bet she loves spelling that out for people. |
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Post by Pinch on Jul 22, 2020 10:34:42 GMT
So here's a condensed tracklist for anyone who's interested in listening to this but is put-off by the length of the album. My approach was to omit the bulk of the more ambient and drone pieces (since I'd imagine most folks here would find these harder to get into) and to focus on tracks with percussion and more of an obvious structure. This list clocks in at 56m29s. I've just listened through it and it works pretty well. All of these tracks showcase one of the things I really love about TR&AR/NIN's sound, which is their artful layering of traditional instruments with modern electronics.
1 4-Pinned and Mounted
2 6-What If We Could?
3 7-With The Flies
4 9-A Thousand Details - play this one LOUD!
5 14-Cut Into Pieces
6 16-An Itch
7 20-You're Here
8 21-The Same As The Others
9 32-Oraculum
10 34-The Heretics
11 37-Infiltrator
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Post by ChrisB on Jul 23, 2020 7:07:59 GMT
Thanks for this Tom. Going the extra mile is really appreciated.
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Post by user211 on Jul 23, 2020 7:41:52 GMT
I was a big NIN fan. Not so much now.
One of the best things they did was And All That Could Have Been disc 2, though it does wallow a bit in self pity.
Other albums I rate are:
The Fragile.
Year Zero especially from track 7 onwards.
Also, The Downward Spiral. It's less accessible than the above but there's just something about it that impresses once you get into it.
The Fragile is pretty incredible really. When it came out I was glued to it for months. A friend at work was an even greater casualty once I got him into it.
Pretty Hate Machine - Sanctified and Something I Can Never Have are top tracks. And what a great name for an album - one of the best ever.
Ghosts and similar more atmospheric work I appreciate in a way but at the end of the day I just don't like it.
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Post by Pinch on Jul 23, 2020 9:28:55 GMT
I got into NIN via the Quake soundtrack, so I guess I always had more of an ear for the more atmospheric stuff. Aside from Ghosts - which I loved - it took me a long time to come around to the post-Fragile output. The score work kept me interested through the years when the NIN stuff wasn't clicking with me. But I've really dug the work they've recently put out under NIN - Bad Witch is great:
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