Year Zero Thread - The End is Fucking Here!

Wallhitter

Am I the only person who gets chills down their spine whenever they listen to Zero-Sum?


I dunno why, but out of all of the terrifying things I've read and watched...it's the only thing I've ever gotten them from. A song. That's kinda fucked up.

Trulz

I've been listening to the CD for days and had no idea any of this ARG shit existed. I knew about the whole end-of-the-world scenario but had no idea they went into this much detail. I'm downloading that "Year Zero Experience" torrent now.

Stigma

ARG
WHAT DOES MEAN
ME NEED KNOW
FUCK ME DUMB

The album is pretty good by the way. I haven't deciphered all of the lyrics and really given it the old 'meaning of it all' lookover but I like the sound and the lyrics that stick out are good enough for me.

The viral marketing websites and stuff are terribly cool, I'm way into it.

Calamity Jane

ARG is an acronym for Alternate Reality Game. This really isn't a message sent back in time, but in entering the "game" you sort of go in as if this were real and so forth.

Covert Operative

wallhitter wrote: »

Am I the only person who gets chills down their spine whenever they listen to Zero-Sum?


I dunno why, but out of all of the terrifying things I've read and watched...it's the only thing I've ever gotten them from. A song. That's kinda fucked up.

Originally I thought the entire song was about America getting nuked to shit because of the whole "They're starting to reach down through" part in the song, but when I learned that the song was really about the presence wiping out humanity that's where it began to creep me out.

Stigma

I thought you might mean Alternate Reality Game, but then I thought I was retarded because it wasn't a game.

WHO'S LAUGHING NOW?!

Wallhitter

Stigma wrote: »

I thought you might mean Alternate Reality Game, but then I thought I was retarded because it wasn't a game.

WHO'S LAUGHING NOW?!

If you die in Year Zero, you die in real life.

Seph

I've listened to two songs from the album.

I've never listened to NiN before, if you can imagine, they just never interested me. In my last years of highschool NiN kids wore jeans and black shirts everyday and that's all i knew about them, not a driving force to listen to it

so i've been listening to smashing pumpkins a lot lately too

and i listen to these two nin songs

and back to SP

and I realize these NiN have no harmony. I can't hum them in my head or in the shower and they don't evoke any warm feelings. they don't even make me upbeat like techno and they dont put me in a rock out mood like, well rock. And for being new and edgy it doesn't sound very good. I like MSI and it's got a lot of variety and it sounds great

this just sounds like noise. I have to admit the ARG is compelling and interesting

but the music is so simplistic and uninspiring on 50 levels of saltine cracker existence the word "meh" could fill a football stadium in one deafening boom.

Trulz

Seph wrote: »

but the music is so simplistic and uninspiring on 50 levels of saltine cracker existence the word "meh" could fill a football stadium in one deafening boom.

I can totally understand you not liking it at all, but I don't really think it can be called simplistic. A lot of the songs are layered to an intense degree.

Bloods End

One of those songs had better not be "God Given"

Because that song has great harmony. I've been singing it to myself since I first heard it.

SA

Seph wrote: »

I've listened to two songs from the album.

I've never listened to NiN before, if you can imagine, they just never interested me. In my last years of highschool NiN kids wore jeans and black shirts everyday and that's all i knew about them, not a driving force to listen to it

so i've been listening to smashing pumpkins a lot lately too

and i listen to these two nin songs

and back to SP

and I realize these NiN have no harmony. I can't hum them in my head or in the shower and they don't evoke any warm feelings. they don't even make me upbeat like techno and they dont put me in a rock out mood like, well rock. And for being new and edgy it doesn't sound very good. I like MSI and it's got a lot of variety and it sounds great

this just sounds like noise. I have to admit the ARG is compelling and interesting

but the music is so simplistic and uninspiring on 50 levels of saltine cracker existence the word "meh" could fill a football stadium in one deafening boom.

its like you didn't even give it a chance and judged their entire library on two songs...

Homeless

this was my first album too and i liked it okay, but not a lot

but then i listened to broken and the downward spiral and i like year zero a lot more

SA

Homeless wrote: »

this was my first album too and i liked it okay, but not a lot

but then i listened to broken and the downward spiral and i like year zero a lot more

the fragile, year zero, and pretty hate machine are better than those two albums.

Homeless

what you don't like noise?

broken is great

i also really liked the alternating time signatures in march of the pigs

SA

Homeless wrote: »

what you don't like noise?

broken is great

Broken is the only NIN album I don't own.

Bloods End

I like Reznors quieter, instrumental stuff more. Which is why I love "The Fragile".

omega71

I am still convinced that The Good Soilder is the best song on the album...

Abracadaniel

I find myself drawn to ARGs.

I was obsessed with The Lost Experience for a while as well as I Love Bees.

This one is doubly awesome because it's leading to some cool stuff.

Helps that the album was really great.

I've heard some stuff off of The Fragile and Downward Spiral and I bought With Teeth (which wasn't as good as Year Zero has been)


also fucking hell omega your sig is annoying as fuck.

omega71

ouch..yea that sig was pretty awful...i didnt realize I made it blink that fast...sorry bout that

SA

omega71 wrote: »

I am still convinced that The Good Soilder is the best song on the album...

I think everyone is saying that.

Bloods End

I like God Given the best.

Abracadaniel

I really really like The Great Destroyer.

Knob

Meet Your Master is probably getting the most play from me

SA

I stand corrected.

Rankenphile

I ain't heard a single thing from this album, but really didn't care for the dancy, poppy stuff on his last one.

How is this album, in terms of awesome?

Abracadaniel

This one is better Rank.

Noisy, thick, and it's fun to listen to.

SA

Rankenphile wrote: »

I ain't heard a single thing from this album, but really didn't care for the dancy, poppy stuff on his last one.

How is this album, in terms of awesome?

notably way more awesome

less poppy

Knob

when i picked up the album, i told my girlfriend to call the number on the back

she starts flipping out going 'oh my god oh my god is that real oh my god is that fucking real'

so i put her name and cell number into freerebelart and let her get that phone call and she almost cried

Knob

Rankenphile wrote: »

I ain't heard a single thing from this album, but really didn't care for the dancy, poppy stuff on his last one.

How is this album, in terms of awesome?

rank

i have not cared for nine inch nails for a long time

and this is one of the best albums i heard in years

Rankenphile

Knob wrote: »

Rankenphile wrote: »

I ain't heard a single thing from this album, but really didn't care for the dancy, poppy stuff on his last one.

How is this album, in terms of awesome?

rank

i have not cared for nine inch nails for a long time

and this is one of the best albums i heard in years

i trust your musical judgement

I shall check this out

The Cheese

the great destroyer is rad

Abracadaniel

rank you can hear the album streaming on their site

Located Right Here

Rankenphile

linkdead

edit: oh there we go. removed the www. from the front of the link. thanks SH

Covert Operative

Meet Your Master is really awesome, probably my favorite track on the album

Abracadaniel

sometimes i am not so good at the internet rank

(as not to waste a top page, you may want to check out NiN Wiki as they are compiling all of the Year Zero ARG. It's really good for catching up on it.)

Rankenphile

hmmm

quick browse of it, seems to be a lot of slower beatpoprock stuff, kinda like downward spiral a little. I keep looking for a song that's holyshitbadass like some of the stuff on broken, but haven't found anything yet. Anything full on in-your-face-fucking-industrial like that on this one?

I'm intrigued, but I think I need to get a copy of it and chill out and listen to it nonstop, instead of just playing it at my computer or something.

Rankenphile

I really, really like the whole concept and execution of the album. Showing a lot of really, really clever viral marketing and design.

Like the album player page... if you leave it paused for a few minutes, it gets all static-y and freaks out for a few seconds, then goes right back to normal.

Knob

Listen to Meet Your Master and let it warm up to the chorus

Listen to The Great Destroyer all the way through and wait until the world explodes

Um, mostly just listen to the entire album start to finish in a dark room


For the first time in a long time, there is an album that works as an album and should be listened to as such

Knob

It is also very important to listen to everything as loud as you can get away with

Abracadaniel

In a recent interview Reznor said he has plans on creating a pair of movies based upon the Year Zero concept, with the album being the soundtrack "for a movie that doesn't exist yet."