Nine Inch Nails - The Slip

[halo19]

Album will be available for free via the official NIN site pretty soon. It's the album that "Discipline" comes from as we probably know by now.

[Pipa]

Actually, it already is.

dl.nin.com/theslip/signup

[sparta]

Sweeet! Now I'm faced with the delima of waiting to get the physical copy (cuz that's so much more fun) or indulging now online.

[halo19]

CD/Vinyl release on July 22. It looks like the site's promise was pretty much precise. I would've done pre-sale but was not only late to the punch but I'll have to travel to the venue this time. Oh well, it at least isn't as ridiculous as the admission for some of Coldplay's tickets.

[a Nick O!]

From what I understand, the physical release for The Slip will be limited to a mere 250,000 copies worldwide.

So Kirk, especially you and I need to get our asses to our most trustworthy music store as soon as they open that morning.

[Pipa]

Wow, that's it? It's not like he needs it anyway, he made like $1.4 million just off of Ghosts.

[a Nick O!]

My brother raised an interesting question about the limited number. Why doesn't he just sell physical copies of The Slip exclusively on this tour?

Good question!

[Jeffster]

are they talking about undergarments
? lol wut

[halo19]

I got the physical copy at my local independent store. I realized later that the CD's are all numbered; I wonder if they do that for the vinyl in a couple weeks as well. I was suprised at one place that I saw carrying the record.

I played this once at a friend's house when I told her what it was, and on my own it's just been individual songs that I've listened to.

[a Nick O!]

My brother happened to be visiting Sunday. We watched Batman Begins on Monday and went and saw The Dark Knight later that afternoon. So he decided to stick around through Tuesday morning to buy his own copy of The Slip with me.

Best Buy was the only place we knew had it for sure, so we were the first ones to buy it that morning right when they opened.

I listened to my free download of it once and liked it more than Year Zero at least. Otherwise I've been too busy to even unwrap it yet. (I still haven't even unwrapped The Black Parade Is Dead! from the first of the month. Played the hell out of the new Alkaline Trio, though, so that's something.)

By the way, I got No. 174,875. My brother happened to get No. 174,923

[halo19]

On the note of Alk3, I heard that this fall they'll be on tour with Rise Against and Thrice. They haven't announced the dates, but I'll be sure to get there if I can. And refresh myself the latter three RA albums.

My copy of the physical release is No. 93,814. I thought it was kind of strange how he put the more accessible and rocking stuff in front and put the more ambient and instrumental stuff at the end. I sure am lovin' "Discipline" these days.

[friday]

The fact that each copy is numbered makes me really tempted to get the physical copy, but the price will be sure to keep me away. The copies I saw in Fred Meyer were around, I believe, 30,940.

[crash46]

Are all of the copies in this release considered "limited edition" with the CD+DVD? I ended up with the very last copy at Target today; #81,445 is mine.

[a Nick O!]

Jul 28, 2008 22:51:10 GMT -4 crash46 said:

Are all of the copies in this release considered "limited edition" with the CD+DVD?

Yes.

Jul 28, 2008 14:57:06 GMT -4 friday said:

The fact that each copy is numbered makes me really tempted to get the physical copy, but the price will be sure to keep me away.

That's why the early bird at Best Buy got the worm for $9 cheaper than the regular price.

[friday]

I just think it'd be badass to be the person who winds up with copy #1. If I saw that one in the bin, I'd probably have to force myself to get it at that point.

[a Nick O!]

Jul 29, 2008 2:53:03 GMT -4 friday said:

I just think it'd be badass to be the person who winds up with copy #1. If I saw that one in the bin, I'd probably have to force myself to get it at that point.

Actually, Trent has #1. He held it up either in a picture or some online video...I can't remember what my brother told me, other than Trent held onto that one.

[halo19]

Saw 'em in Houston on Saturday and it was one hell of a show. The opening act, A Place to Bury Strangers, is not really worth talking about. Especially the seizure-inducing blinking lights. All of this album's first six songs were played, as well as three "Ghosts" songs and seven tracks from Year Zero. Surprisingly, just one song from With Teeth and no, they didn't do "The Hand That Feeds."

The set list, with chronology to the best of my memory (I know the first ten songs and the end is right, at lest):
999,999
1,000,000
Letting You
Discipline
March of the Pigs
Head Down
The Frail
The Wretched
Gave Up
Closer
The Warning
Survivalism
Terrible Lie
The Big Come Down
Vessels
II Ghosts 14
I Ghosts 6
I Ghosts 8 (?)
Piggy
The Greater Good
Pinion
Wish
Only
My Violent Heart
Reptile
Head Like a Hole
Echoplex
God Given
Hurt
In This Twilight

I was mostly satisfied. Not with the price of the t-shirts though! ($35?...) They did the screen a bunch around the Ghosts tracks which was really awesome. Some of the images were too clear to the song titles, which gave me a mixed reaction. For example, the lighting during "God Given" was well done but that pistol cross is pretty close enough to the song and almost had my eyes rolling, especially at the people who cheered it on so much. "Closer" and "Only" are played the same arrangement as in '05. "The Big Come Down" was a plesant surprise, but I never really hear the songs I like most from that album live. On the whole it was more worth it than not but if I see NIN again it'll have to be a bit closer to home, like Austin or SA close.

[a Nick O!]

Didn't read beyond your first paragraph, because I'll be seeing the show for myself on Wednesday.

[a Nick O!]

Here's the set list from my show tonight:

999,999
1,000,000
Letting You
Discipline
March of the Pigs
Head Down
The Frail
The Wretched
Gave Up
Closer
--------------------------
Me, I'm Not
The Great Destroyer
--------------------------
(Ghosts track)
(Ghosts track)
(Ghosts track)
Piggy
-------------------
Pinion
Wish
Survivalism
(Ghosts track primarily featuring Robin Finck)
The Big Come Down
Only
Terrible Lie
God Given
Head Like a Hole
---------------------
Echoplex
Love Is Not Enough
Reptile
Hurt
In This Twilight

As far as I can recall that's the correct order of the 30 songs, marked by stage setup. I'll write more later, but I need to get to bed soon.

But yeah, A Place to Bury Strangers kind of bored me, then pissed me off when their last song or two (one long song?) was just constant strobes. I'm already a seizure risk. Thanks a lot, assholes.

[crash46]

My show's Saturday night, and I just went ahead and looked at the setlist because I'm not familiar with most of those tracks and I've got catching up to do.

[crash46]

8/23

1. 999,999

2. 1,000,000
3. Letting You
4. Discipline
5. March of the Pigs
6. Head Down
7. The Frail
8. The Wretched
9. Closer
10. Gave Up

11. The Warning
12. Vessel

13. 1 Ghosts I
14. 21 Ghosts III
15. 19 Ghosts III
16. (Ghosts) Piggy

17. The Greater Good

18. Pinion
19. Wish
20. Terrible Lie
21. Survivalism
22. The Big Comedown
23. 31 Ghosts IV
24. Only
25. The Hand That Feeds
26. Head Like A Hole

27. Echoplex
28. God Given
29. The Good Soldier
30. Hurt
31. In This Twilight

I left the show with a degree of admiration of the quality of the performance I'd never felt before. Anyone can play music, but Trent has a vision. That made up my mind in buying the "censored for your protection" shirt and not really caring much about the cost.

They played in Toledo yesterday and I wasn't there, but I came damn close to trying to buy a walk-up ticket and watching them again. They skipped the whole Ghosts interlude though, which eased the pain of buying the Detroit ticket only to have them announce a show two weeks later here at home.

[a Nick O!]

How were you able to figure out which Ghosts songs he played? You didn't listen to it that much, did you?

[crash46]

Aug 27, 2008 2:00:56 GMT -4 a Nick O! said:

How were you able to figure out which Ghosts songs he played? You didn't listen to it that much, did you?

I just took the word of the NIИ Romania blog. From there I also was able to find a place to download somebody's audio recording of the show.

[sparta]

I'm behind.

I've been listening to "The Slip" since around july, saw a physical copy in Target, but didn't realize they limited them, I'd have likely bought it. I'll have to see if they still have one.

I really enjoy the album, Echoplex is probably my favorite non-single with Head Down. Discipline is really great.

[sparta]

Stopped in Target today, but can't afford a $23 album right now. They had mostly 68,000's, 92,000's, and a few in the 70,000's for anyone interested.

[halo19]

Well it's not like you have to worry since there's 250k copies and sales are at a recession. These days, 250k means a real hit album and I think it'll be some time before The Slip even reaches that. Not because it's bad but it only had one hit and it was also available for free any time. Some people might not enjoy their download enough to upgrade.

This isn't my favorite NIN album but it's something I like fine enough. I'm overall satisfied by both '08 recordings of Rez.

4/5.
01. Discipline
02. Lights in the Sky
03. Letting You
04. The Four of Us Are Dying
05. Echoplex
06. Head Down
07. 1,000,000
08. Demon Seed
09. 999,999
10. Corona Radiata

I learned on Pulse that apparently "1,000,000" was the second single. They play here in my city next Thursday.

[a Nick O!]

3.5/5
01. Head Down
02. Discipline
03. Echoplex
04. 1,000,000
05. Letting You
06. Demon Seed
07. Lights in the Sky
08. The Four of Us Are Dying
09. Corona Radiata
10. 999,999

"Echoplex" is quite the stamina exercise, if played on a real kick drum.