I_Coma_I’s Comments

This post will describe my thoughts as I listen to Year Zero for the first time... may be a waste of time since you don't really "get" albums until you've listened to them several times but this first impression review may prove interesting when it's over and done with. It's a ???ing waste of time, i'm sure... but, whatever, i'm doing it anyway.

Track 1 - Hyperpower! - obviously an intro track but very manic and crazed, which is what I enjoy about nin. Good track, no lyrics so no depth but in the right state of mind, it's fitting. 1:42 seconds, over before you know it.

Track 2 - The Beginning Of The End - without lyrics in front of me, it's hard to say what I think of this song and probably the rest of the album will be the same way. Trying to look up the lyrics on Google, I find that a gaggle??? of other bands have made songs named this. Let's try and be more original next time, Trent. However, I guess if you're trying to be original, you start naming your songs "Hyperpower!" because no one else is nerdy enough to do that.

Anyway, finally found a suitable lyric provider and after listening to this while reading the lyrics, that i'm sure are only 80% accurate, i'll dub this song a "My Generation" song. It's trying to rally the people and gather a single angry force to take down the ???ing establishment but... we're just sitting here at our computers listening to this saying "Oh, cool." Hehehehe...

Slower track, ends abruptly...

Thrack 3 - Survivalism - I don't know why people are giving this song so much flak... Trent's voice is a bit overbearing compared to the music, like he was being choked to death while he was recording this track. The lyrics speak of the situation in the world today and instead of being protesting peacefully about it he's taking the side of joining the violence and just trying to survive. If you can't beat them, get beat yourself. Eh...

Ah, back to the song, I like it... I don't care what you think, this is my ???ing first impression review. This is a song i'd probably blast on my stereo in the high school parking lot while i'm wearing dark clothes and makeup. Looking scarily at the people walking by... "Grr... I say... Grrr." I'm so outcast, i'm incast.

Suck it.

Track 4 - The Good Soldier - More about war, obviously from the title you get that point, but it really catches me off guard... I expect a violent song but it's really a nice break from the psychosis of the other songs I just listened to.

Do I hear a ???ing Xylophone playing? Yes, I think I do... I sure would like to see that played live. FUCK YEAH! Nah, but seriously, it's a relaxing song... almost like an interlude, really. If it was longer, it might be a song that would stand the test of time, but as I listen now and type all this ???, it's already over... on to the next..

Track 5 - Vessel - I don't know what to think of this... don't know if this about drugs or if it's about sexual things. The chorus is a love it/hate it kind of thing... this song is weird. I don't understand what this about... am I trying to understand this too hard? What?

"I am turning into God."

I still don't know if this about sex or drugs or something totally something different... but i'm leaning towards drugs since it's pretty ???ed up. OH.... MY GOD....

That's a song that you'll probably only listen to two or three times on accident. Just doesn't sit well with me, really. If I was under the influence of something, I would be enjoying this a lot more... the last minute or so of the track is just music and I enjoy that... less weird ??? spouting out of your mouth and more ???ed up music, please.

Like I said... if I was tripping on something, I would be in a totally different dimension right now. I definetely think this is about drugs... however, it could be about s&m/bondage. Fits nicely into that, as well... like Closer 2.0... yeah, I said it... ??? you.

Track 6 - Me, I'm not - crazed, slowly. Like coming down from the last song, his voice sounds desperate in this song... like he truly is dying, I enjoy that aspect then we get to the chorus and I again refer back to the drugs thing... he had to be on something... steroids mixed with crystal meth/acid. Maybe this is all part of my subconcious desire to partake in psychedelic things in nature or maybe that's what this song really is about but...

...anyway, this song is forgettable. I would use it as a soundtrack for cutting up a person into tiny bits, I suppose... nothing else.

Hmm... solo from the disortion making device. Lovely. Please drill my ears with ???. I love it when you shove ??? in my ears. Just kidding... it wasn't that long of a solo... song's over now... ok.

Track 7 - Capital G - I love the pacing of this song. The way he sings is odd, again... but I got used to it by the time it got to the chorus. I like the song. Obviously it's an attack on our current president who, i'll agree is a ???ing moron but I am not involved enough in politics to make any educated written opinions on just how much of a ???ing moron he is. "He signs his name with a capital G"

"Ain't gonna worry about no future generations and
I'm sure somebody gonna figure it out"

That's the spririt... good attitude, and no, i'm not being sarcastic. Fuck everything, someone will figure it out. Not gonna be me, obviously... i'm just a lazy bastard. Oh... next song...

Track 8 - My Violent Heart - Opening with some bass and tick tick ticks... ok... moving on to some spoken word. He's getting his point across. "Bullet holes where my compassion used to be" Nice... tasty.

Chorus... gasmic... makes me want to stab someone in the eye over and over again... I do enjoy a good angst driven song or two.

Not sure what this is about or directed towards or who it's talking about... him and his fans or the collective emo plagued youth? Or maybe he's just talking about anyone that's been alienated by hate/greed/power-mongers in their lifetime? Whatever, this is a good song...

As I sit here listening to the musical ending of the song, I think back to previous albums and notice that the big difference is that Trent is lacking self-hatred. Needs more drug induced self hatred in my opinion... makes us all feel better about our own life... not to mention he makes better music but... w/e... this is what we have to deal with among the rest of the ???ty music situation we have today... 99% of music today is ??? so new cds from great artists like NIN is like a ???ing godsend to me. Anyway...

Track 9 - THe Warning - Ok, you can take this song the way you want to but i'm just going to say right now that it's about some higher power (a giant ???ing asteroid) wiping out the entire human race because we've squandered this opportunity we had (the earth) and ruined it... so this song is a warning to us that if we don't change our ways, we're all going to ???ing melt on the pavement from Global Warming.

Slow song... nothing spectacular...

I'm not moved... hang on a second, I need to drive 10 miles to go get some candy from the store... did I mention i'll be taking my gas guzzling truck on this trip, yeah... ??? the next gerneration. I hope I don't have children... I will too sorry for them. Poor things... they'll be even more ???ed up than us... ???... what a scary thought.

Track 10 - God Given - I'm listening, i'm reading, i'm loving. Clearly a commentary on the self-riteous behavior of most religious maniacs. I'm not against any religious practice, i'm juust against the ???ing fanatics that shove this ??? down your throat like if you don't listen to everything they tell you, you're going to die a horrible death and keep dying over and over again in hell... or... i'm too good to tell you about God because you look weird... or... ah, next song.

Track 11- Meet Your Master - like the music so far... no lyrics yet... here they are...

Something comes to mind listening to this song... the music is nice... but i'm left with a sour taste in my mouth with his attempt at "singing" in this song. I immediately think of Stonesour. Slipknot made amazing music coupled with amazing lyrics/screaming and got incredibly stupid after SS... started singing in Slipknot and that was the end for me... with nin, it's like he's trying to sing (except in the chorus) but... I don't really know where i'm going with this... i'm just not absorbed by this song...

I dunno... I think writing all this ??? while listening to it is a bad idea... paying less attention to the song but I guess I have the rest of my life to pay more attention to it after I buy/dl the cd... like the ending there moving into the next song...

Track 12 - The Greater Good - this is easily one of the best songs on this album. I'm not even halfway through this track and I ???ing love it... going to stop typing now and just listen to it...

...song is ending, loved it. You'll have to listen to it to know what i'm talking about. Maybe you'll hate it but I don't. This is the kind of creativity I like to hear. Need more Trent, please.

Track 13 - The Great Destroyer - This song... I just don't know what to think about this. It's good... it's just... odd... can't really put my finger on it. I feel stupid for even talking about it. Going to move on, now...

Track 14 - Another Version of the Truth - No lyrics so i'm assuming this is going to be instrumental... just going to absorb this and close my eyes while I type:

Static. Piano. Very soothing, yet... saddening. Bass comes in... briefly, made me think it was going to continue... there it is again... bass coming in and leaving again... there it is... back again... I think it's here to stay... nope gone... now back... static is gone... piano in the backgroung... beautiful. There's lyrics... this site must suck. Hard to understand.Sounds like he cut two songs and spliced them together. He sounds lost and distant... hard to hear. Very interesting way to do a song. I applaud you, Trent. Thank you for this song. I tahnk you for this piece. It's nice. I just like hearing it, now. I would like to listen to this in the dark... but, i'm in the living room and Cars is playing in the background... takes me out of hte song... oh well... I can't hide in the dark all the time like I used to... i'm different now, i'm not "depressed" like I used to be. I have to keep this show going or they'll find out that iI really am just ???ed up and there's no possible way for me to be normal. I'll always be... off, I suppose. That's the way it is... i'm ???ed.

I just realized that I had Zero Sum downloading and playing every 5 seconds while the whole track of "Another Version of the Truth" was playing so I thought that it was on purpose that this bass was interupting this song over and over again but it really is lyricless... i'm an idiot. It was kind of cool, though... if I had music editing software, i'd splice the two songs together and you would know what I was hearing... was kind of nice.

Ok, listening to the song again without the other song playing in the background. It's nice. Very nice. Reminds me of the bonus cd on "All That Could Have Been" which in my opinion is one of his best cd's out there... weird, seeing as how it's a bonus cd and not really a legitimate album.

Track 15 - In This Twilight - Good song... about halfway through. End of the world feeling. Although the music is tortured there's a peace about it that almost brings a smile to my face.

"ashes in your hair remind me
what it feels like
and I won't feel again"

I would like to hear that song as I was dying.

Track 16 - zero sum - last song. here we go. This was the song that was playing during "another version of the truth."

Hang on, I have to pay attention to the lyrics.

Song is ending. An exceptional ending to the cd...

"and did you ever really find
when you closed your eyes
any place that was still
and at peace"

The entire song is the age old question of what happens to us after we die? Nothing? Are we in the Matrix? Is there a God? Why are we so evil? What is wrong with us? Is there anything wrong with us? Who says what is wrong with us?

I enjoyed the song. Not a good road trip song, that's for sure.

Anyway,

Year Zero - on par with "With Teeth." Way below benchmark in comparison with "The Fragile" or the bonus cd with "And All That Could Have Been." However, it will be a decent addition to nin's library. I'll probably buy it. As soon as I get around to it... i'll DL it before I buy it, that's for sure... I haven't bought a cd in years.

Anyway, I enjoyed the album but it seemed a bit too political... GW won't be president for long so listening to this cd 10 years from now will be odd, when hearing the first half of the cd... but the last half of the cd is what i'll treasure. The self-absorbed feeling you get when you listen to it is what I like to feel when I listen to nin... like i'm the only person in the ???ing universe. Just getting that feeling like you're listening to something special is what I crave from nin and the last half of this cd delivers.

Well, i'm sure you all didn't read this so i'm going to stop, now.

Have a nice day.

Wednesday, April 11, 2007