Nine Inch Nails - Year Zero
Because it was just sitting there, already open (I swear!), I decided to see what the new Nine Inch Nails album sounds like. I was surprised with it, as was this cute girl who may or may not have agreed just because she was flirting with me (I can't tell). It's not Downward Spiral, but it did not embarrass me the way some NIN albums have, and it held my attention all the way to the end. I'll have to listen to it some more to decide whether or not I actually like it, but on first listen, I'm pleased, and I may have to learn some new NIN songs to help me relive junior high. (By the way, the new Avril Lavigne does not get my recommendation, even though my friend wrote an stunning argument for her being the epitome of punk, where irony and non-irony meld into a higher plane of existence.)
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May 19, 2007 at 5:32 AM
Joe, what are you talking about? The new Avril Lavigne album is somehow NOT good in your world? Look, as I wrote to Rolling Stone:
This album is a perfect continuation of Avril's plan. She's trying to create something unlike anything that's ever existed before in the entire history of humanity by creating something that's been done so many times before that there's nothing original about it whatsoever. To Avril, the pimped-out hot rod of pop culture was already pointed at a cliff before she climbed in the driver's seat -- she's just holding the wheel straight and hitting the gas.
July 7, 2007 at 2:12 PM
I didn't really listen to it. I put it on and the went on break. When I got back, it was over, so I relied on the-cutest-girl-around's opinion. Apparently, thanks to your help, I now know that cute girls CAN NOT be trusted.