Nine Inch Nails

The entire 2005 US Club tour sold out in under 10 minutes, with tickets selling on eBay and other sources for more than $200. Pearl Jam (1991-present):. Surprisingly, this was done without seeking permission, though NIN is credited in the end credits for the song. Temple of the Dog (1990-1991):. The credit sequence for the David Fincher film Seven uses the NIN song "Closer (precursor)". Mother Love Bone (1988-1991):. Reznor himself received a "Music Consultant" credit on the film. The group has also made the obligatory promotional appearances on television shows, such as The Late Show with David Letterman and Saturday Night Live.

Man on Fire featured clips from six Nine Inch Nails songs: "The Art of Self Destruction, Part One", "Self Destruction, Part Two", and "The Downward Spiral (the bottom)" from Further Down the Spiral; "The Mark Has Been Made" and "The Great Below" from The Fragile; and "The Wretched" from Things Falling Apart. Vedder is the president of the official Ramones fan club. The Fan featured a clip from "The Art of Self Destruction, Part One" from Further Down the Spiral. He also lists Neil Young as one of his greatest musical influences. Director Tony Scott has used Nine Inch Nails music in two of his films to date. Eddie Vedder is a huge fan of The Who, and has appeared several times on stage with Pete Townshend. Trent Reznor is in possession of John Lennon's mellotron, which he has used on Broken, The Fragile, and Marilyn Manson's second album, Antichrist Superstar. In 2004, the band explicitly withdrew its support for Nader, with members appearing in Rolling Stone to promote the candidacy of John Kerry, and on the Vote for Change tour.

In their early days, NIN used Phantasy as their practice space and it was home for many of their concerts. Pearl Jam was an outspoken supporter of Ralph Nader's presidency run in 2000. He assembles different producers, engineers and musicians to assist him in creating new songs, though Reznor writes all of the lyrics himself and is in sole control of the direction of the band. Similarly, Reznor assembles a live backing band for each NIN tour. The band was also awarded a Grammy for best hard rock performance for this track. Trent Reznor is the only official member of the band. "Spin the Black Circle", a track on Vitalogy, serves as their homage to the traditional vinyl format. More than likely, Reznor will need to finish the tour for With Teeth before he can find time to work on this project. And only their first two albums, when they had little clout, were released in the standard CD jewel case.

In a response to a question on the official NIN website (http://www.nin.com), Reznor indicated that he would like to release surround sound versions of Pretty Hate Machine and The Fragile, similar to what was done for the 10th anniversary editions of The Downward Spiral. No Code, for example, includes a collection of Polaroids taken by the band. A DVD version of Closure is forthcoming, pending the resolution of some legal troubles. Pearl Jam has, since their genesis, expended more than the normal effort on liner notes, producing some of the most original in the industry. This album will be preceded by the release of the single The Hand That Feeds. Pundits say if Pearl Jam's move is successful, it may be the death knell of the music industry as it is known today. NIN's fifth major release, With Teeth, is due to be released on May 3, 2005. Pearl Jam states it has "no interest at this time" of signing with another label and is "excited about our freedom".

More information on Reznor's work outside of Nine Inch Nails can be found in the Trent Reznor entry. This move is viewed a something of a coup and has been described as "...one institution leaving another, the most popular and important American rock band of the '90's, voluntarily rejecting the grandest label heritage...". As a tribute to this, the programmers of the game included a nail gun as a weapon, whose ammo boxes bore the NIN logo. In June 2003, the band announced they were officially leaving their label of twelve years, Epic Records. NIN created the ambient music for id software's computer game Quake in 1996. However, the main concept for the album is love. The band earned a Grammy for "Best Metal Performance" for their live performance of "Happiness in Slavery" when it was included on the 1996 Woodstock '94 double CD set. In this album, the band makes numerous political statements.

NIN's mud-soaked performance at Woodstock '94 is one of their most famous moments. On the group's 2002 release, Riot Act, the band continued innovating and refused commercialize their music. It also features the song "Help Me I Am in Hell" set to a black screen and the song "Gave Up" set to scenes within the film. Some controversy arose over who was responsible for the accident, after Pearl Jam was blamed in the official investigation.
Broken, the unreleased short film directed by Peter Christopherson, contains the videos for "Pinion", "Wish" and "Happiness in Slavery". The two remaining dates of the tour were cancelled, and the band seriously considered retiring after this event. When any of these will be back in print is unknown. Nine people died, and the band stopped playing when they realized what was happening.

Halo 1, Halo 2, Halo 3 and Halo 4 are out of print due to Reznor's conflict with his former label TVT Records. Halo 13, Halo 15 and Still from Halo 17 are also out of print. Unfortunately, the 2000 European tour ended when on June 30 a tragic accident happened at the Roskilde Festival in Denmark, where fans were crushed and suffocated as the surging crowd left them no chance to escape.
Many of these releases are now out of print. A further 72 albums were released from the 2003 tour, and they continue releasing more of these "bootlegs" to this day.
. All totalled, they released 72 albums, most of them double, and set a record for most albums to debut in the Billboard top 200 at the same time. Official halos are as follows (colors denote main album eras):. Pearl Jam released all of the albums in record stores as well as through their fan club.

Many independent and new wave records follow similar numbering schemes. They originally intended to release these official bootlegs only to fan club members, but their record contract prevented them from doing so. The Downward Spiral is also known as Halo 8). After the release of Binaural, and the resulting tour of Europe and North America, the band hit upon a unique idea. Noting the popularity of illegal bootleg recordings, and the desire of fans to own a copy of the shows they attended, Pearl Jam hatched a plan to professionally record each and every show on their tour. Each Nine Inch Nails release is given a sequential number, with the word "Halo" preceding it (eg. It seems that by this time, grunge was irrevocably dead. Other complaints have been about it's length and overabundence of computer-generated sound. Yield, upon release, was proclaimed as a return to the band's early, straight-forward-rock sound, but it failed to sell as well as their earlier albums.

A music video for the North American single was chosen not to be released at the last minute, leading to less media impact than expected. Brad, Gossard's side project, was formed around this time. Despite its sprawling size (It was released as a double CD and a triple vinyl), The Fragile is often considered by both fans and critics to be a disapointment. No Code is the primary example, as is Vedder's collaboration with Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan on the Dead Man Walking soundtrack. The Fragile was followed by the remix album Things Falling Apart. Also, at this time, Eddie Vedder began to steer the group in a non-commercial direction, and the music began to re-earn its alternative label. Music videos for "We're In This Together", "Into the Void", and "Starfuckers Inc." (retitled as "Starsuckers, Inc.") were aired in the US. But over the next few years, their popularity declined, in part because of their unwillingness to record videos and because of a lawsuit alleging a Ticketmaster monopoly which stifled the launch of supportive tours.

It produced three singles, one released in the US ("The Day the World Went Away"), one in the UK ("We're In This Together") and one in Japan and Australia ("Into The Void"). Pearl Jam's first three albums were huge, commercially and critically. NIN's fourth major release was The Fragile (1999). Their only professional video, "Jeremy", was huge hit on Mtv and won several video music awards. A remastered version of the album was released in February 2005, with an accompanying CD of b-sides and rarities. Their first album produced three smash hits that propelled them into the music scene (Evenflow, Alive, and Jeremy). The Downward Spiral was followed by the remix EP Further Down the Spiral. Their debut albumTen, contains eleven tracks, many of them dealing with melancholic issues like depression, suicide, loneliness, and murder.

The album's final track, "Hurt", would enjoy success once again when it was covered, with slight alterations to the lyrics, by Johnny Cash in 2003. (See Green River). Music videos were made for the singles "March of the Pigs", "Closer", and "Hurt", with the edited MTV version of "Closer" becoming very successful. Kurt Cobain at one point angrily attacked the group because he saw them as commercial "sell outs"; however Kurt and Eddie Vedder later reconciled and reportedly became friends. One of the singles, "The Downward Spiral" was only released to radio. Pearl Jam became a key member of the Seattle grunge explosion, along with Nirvana, Alice in Chains, and Soundgarden. There were four singles released, "March of the Pigs", "Closer", "Hurt", and "The Downward Spiral". Keeping Blaylock in mind, the band decided to honor him by using his jersey number as the title of their debut album.

It went quadruple platinum and is often considered by critics to be NIN's best work. The name Pearl Jam was an inside joke having to do with a hallucinogenic, peyote-laced jam that Eddie's grandmother Pearl was known for. NIN's second full album and third major release was The Downward Spiral ( 1994). The band later changed its name to Pearl Jam after being signed to Epic. Broken was followed by the remix EP Fixed. Eddie and the band hit it off and, with the addition of Dave Krusen on drums, Mookie Blaylock was formed. A full length video informally called The Broken Movie was also made by Sleazy, but has not seen an official release. He sent the tape with his vocals back to the band and they were so impressed that they had Vedder fly to Seattle to try out for the band.

A video for "Pinion" aired twice on MTV before being banned for its objectionable content, although images from it did become a fixture in the opening title sequence of the MTV show 120 Minutes. They formed a story of incest, madness, and murder that became known to fans as the "Mamasan trilogy". The video depicts performance artist Bob Flanagan strapping himself to a machine that subsequently pleasures, tortures and kills him. He rushed back home and in one flurry of creativity recorded the vocals to three songs (Alive, Footsteps, and Once). The songs were what Eddie would later describe as a mini-opera. Peter "Sleazy" Christopherson of Coil directed a music video for "Happiness in Slavery," which was universally banned due to its graphic content. While he was out in the water, the music played in his head and the lyrics came to him. The song "Wish" won a Grammy in the "metal" category. Eddie listened to the tape shortly before going surfing.

It was later released as one CD, with the bonus songs as "hidden" tracks 98 and 99. This tape made it to ex-Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Jack Irons, who passed it on to Eddie Vedder during one of their hiking trips. It was originally released in a fold-out format, containing the first six tracks on a regular CD and an additional three-inch minidisc with the remaining bonus tracks. Stone Gossard and Jeff Ament recruited guitarist Mike McCready and recorded a 3 song demo tape. NIN's second major release was Broken (1992), an EP of six tracks plus two bonus tracks. The album was a moderate success, and the remaining members soon formed Pearl Jam. It went triple platinum in the US and produced the singles "Head Like a Hole," "Down in It" and "Sin." Music videos were made for these three tracks, but only the videos for "Head Like a Hole" and "Down in It" were ever completed and released. Eddie Vedder appeared as guest vocalist on the track "Hunger Strike".

NIN's debut album, Pretty Hate Machine (1989), largely consists of studio versions of demo recordings. As a tribute to Wood, Ament and Gossard, with old friends Matt Cameron and Chris Cornell (both of Soundgarden), released Temple of the Dog (also the name under which they played together). "The Perfect Drug" has the flavor of drum and bass, "Down in It" is essentially a rap, "Happiness in Slavery" is industrial, "The Frail" is a melancholy piano piece, and most of Pretty Hate Machine could be considered dark synth pop. Mother Love Bone's EP, Shine (1989 in music) and the album, Apple (1990 in music) were released posthumously, and the band decided to discontinue the name. NIN's songs cover a range of genres; as a body of work, they cannot be pigeonholed. He was found dead of an overdose before he could quit. So, I'd say I've borrowed from certain styles and bands like that." [2] (http://www.theninhotline.net/archives/articles/axc94a.shtml). Wood checked himself into a rehab center in order to defeat a painful heroin addiction.

And because someone didn't come up with a new name that separates those two somewhat unrelated genres, it tends to irritate all the old school fans waving their flags of alternativeness and obscurity. They signed to Polygram and began recording and touring. I'm working in the context of a pop song structure whereas those bands didn't. In addition to Green River's Ament, Gossard, and Bruce Fairweather (guitar), the band also featured Andrew Wood (lead singer, piano), and Greg Gilmore (drums). We have very little to do with it other than there is noise in my music and there is noise in theirs. The band Mother Love Bone formed in 1988 out of the ashes of Green River, and immediately created a buzz among critics (see 1988 in music). "What was originally called industrial music was about 20 years ago Throbbing Gristle and Test Department. Before their mainstream success as "Pearl Jam", certain members had recorded successfully as Mother Love Bone and Temple of the Dog.

NIN's sound has variously been described as alternative, electronica, heavy metal, rock, synth pop, or, most commonly, industrial. Regarding his music being categorized as industrial, Reznor had this to say in a 1994 Axcess magazine interview:. Pearl Jam was one of the most popular bands of the grunge music era in the early 1990s. [In his best he-man voice] Tough and manly! It's a curse trying to come up with band names." [1] (http://www.theninhotline.net/archives/articles/axc94a.shtml). 2002 "I am Mine" #26 UK. It seemed kind of frightening. from "Riot Act"