Tag Archives: Trent Reznor

06/04/2017 · 9:42 am

Liaison of the Spiders

From BIUL IV.

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Filed under Bad Influences, Comix Classic & Current, Zappalogy

Tagged as 1970s, 1979, 1995, 2017, Bands I Useta Like, Bugs Bunny, comix, DEVO, Frank Zappa, Gary Panter, Prince, spiders, Trent Reznor, Warner Brothers, William Shatner

07/09/2016 · 6:20 pm

When Broken Broke

From 1989 to 1992, all anyone knew of Nine Inch Nails was prettyhatemachine. Your opinion of that one album was your opinion of Nine Inch Nails.

Before Broken, NIN’s sophomore EP, you could be forgiven for thinking Trent Reznor was the heir apparent of electronic Goth, following the dark path of Joy Division and Depeche Mode. Reznor was the scion of a venerable HVAC company (founded 1888!), and probably spent much of his young life in the presence of gigantic, droning machines. “Industrial” was already wired into his veins.

For all your heating, cooling, and electro-goth needs!

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Filed under Bad Influences, Don't Know Don't Care, Faint Signals, Nostalgic Obsessions, Thousand Listen Club

Tagged as 120 Minutes, 1989, 1990, 1990s, 1992, 1994, Adam Ant, alternative music, Bands I Useta Like, Charles Manson, Coil, depression, despair, DEVO, electro-industrial, electronica, Gaspar Noe, goth, Henry Rollins, hidden tracks, Irreversible, John Balance, metal, MTV, music, New Jersey, Nothing Records, parental advisory labels, Pennsylvania, Pigface, pre 9/11, Sharon Tate, suicide, synthpop, Trent Reznor, TVT

02/26/2016 · 9:53 pm

Guiltiest Pleasure: Natural Born Killers

In 1994, a severely truncated version of Oliver Stone’s Natural Born Killers was released to theaters nationwide, after a long and brutal production. It grossed about half its budget on opening weekend, and broke even in 2007. It was based on a story written by Quentin Tarantino, who was currently ablaze in Tinseltown thanks to Pulp Fiction. It starred former sitcom bartender Woody Harrelson, and Geoffrey Lewis’ daughter Juliette (the nymph in Scorcese’s Cape Fear remake), as mass-murdering marrieds Mickey and Mallory Knox.