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Title: NIN: the slip [official release - FREE download]
Post by: japanesebaby on May 27, 2008, 18:38:11
pretty soon after 'ghosts', trent keeps shaking the record company executives with his free releases:

http://theslip.nin.com/

the music is available in a variety of formats including high-quality MP3, FLAC or M4A lossless at CD quality and even higher-than-CD quality 24/96 WAVE. your link will include all options - all free. all downloads include a PDF with artwork and credits.

for those of you interested in physical products, fear not. we plan to make a version of this release available on CD and vinyl in july. details coming soon.


available formats:


high-quality MP3s (87 mb)

will play in any MP3 player. encoded with LAME at V0, fully tagged.
recommended for most users.

the files will arrive as a zip archive. in most cases, double-clicking the zip file will open it. if you need more help with zip files, go here.

FLAC lossless (259 mb)

CD quality - will not play in itunes or many other popular media players. (more info)
recommended only for advanced users.

this link will download a small .torrent file, which you must open with a torrent application in order to download the audio files. visit this site for information about using torrents.

FLAC high definition 24/96 (942 mb)

better-than-CD-quality 24bit 96kHZ audio - will not play in itunes or many other popular media players. (more info)
recommended only for advanced users.

this link will download a small .torrent file, which you must open with a torrent application in order to download the audio files. visit this site for information about using torrents.

M4A apple lossless (263 mb)

CD quality - will play in itunes. (more info)
recommended only for advanced users.

this link will download a small .torrent file, which you must open with a torrent application in order to download the audio files. visit this site for information about using torrents.

high definition WAVE 24/96 (1.5 gb)

better-than-CD-quality 24bit 96kHz audio (more info)

for advanced audiophiles only! although you will be able to play these files with most players that support WAVE format, you will not get any benefits from the higher resolution audio unless you have extremely high-end audio equipment. if you're not familiar with 24/96 audio, this download is not recommended.

this link will download a small .torrent file, which you must open with a torrent application in order to download the audio files. visit this site for information about using torrents.

all files are 100% DRM-free.



:rocker
Title: Re: NIN: the slip [official release - FREE download]
Post by: Steve on May 27, 2008, 19:42:33
Grabbed this a couple of weeks back.
Not bad actually.
I got hold of the 24/96 wavs & will commit to dvda whan I get some time.
BTW.
The artwork was inclused in the download, so anyone burning to disc can make a CD sleeve too.
Title: Re: NIN: the slip [official release - FREE download]
Post by: boneheadhaggar on May 27, 2008, 21:07:58
thanks a lot for the link :smth023
Title: Re: NIN: the slip [official release - FREE download]
Post by: japanesebaby on May 29, 2008, 22:56:24
i am really delighted about this album (and i don't mean because it was free).
this is exactly what i was missing at the moment. :smth045
great to have trent back in business (and hopefully they'll tour europe too later this year - fingers crossed...).


and the free download for the hi-res version: :smth023
haha i love it how it makes radiohead look like a bunch of amateurs/some sad old people still living somewhere in the 90s with their 50 kb/s dial-up connections. ha! :lol:




"we encourage you to
remix it
share it with your friends,
post it on your blog,
play it on your podcast,
give it to strangers,
etc."


a really cool site: http://remix.nin.com/

just how many bands make multitracks available for the fans? :smth023

Title: Re: NIN: the slip [official release - FREE download]
Post by: Poe on May 30, 2008, 11:08:55
Quote from: Steve on May 27, 2008, 19:42:33
Grabbed this a couple of weeks back.

With a little help from meee, I believe.  :smth082

Anyhow, this record made me realize I should listen more to this band. Suggestions? (I'm lazy, I know  :P)

By the way, I don't usually listen to the Off the Dial podcast, but they've reviewed the whole album (quite favorably) in their tenth episode (while playing it on the show). Someone tipped me about it, may be worth checking out (don't have time right NOW).

Quote from: japanesebaby on May 27, 2008, 18:38:11
M4A apple lossless (263 mb)

The episode is available in m4a enhanced format, is that  :smth051 or  :twisted:, i.e. okay to upload here or not? Seems alright, but not entirely sure... :roll:
Title: Re: NIN: the slip [official release - FREE download]
Post by: japanesebaby on June 01, 2008, 13:05:40
the topic slipped - sorry i meant split ;)

the NIN conversation that followed is moved here:

http://curefans.com/index.php?action=post;topic=5157

please carry on  :-D

(sorry don't know anything about podcasts - i might i'm too old for podcasts, don't they have an age limit or something? ;))

Title: Re: NIN: the slip [official release - FREE download]
Post by: Poe on June 01, 2008, 14:05:30
Quote from: japanesebaby on June 01, 2008, 13:05:40
(sorry don't know anything about podcasts - i might i'm too old for podcasts, don't they have an age limit or something? ;))

They most certainly don't, thank you very much!  :smth016 :-D There's something for everyone. I'll give you a little lecture on the wonders of podcasting in another thread sometime, alright?   ;)  8)

Here's the podcast episode with the review of the album (m4a enhanced format):

http://cdn4.libsyn.com/offthedial/OtD_2008.P10.m4a?nvb=20080601120045&nva=20080602120045&t=0a2f5ea68b34f18ab5dfb
Title: Re: NIN: the slip [official release - FREE download]
Post by: japanesebaby on June 02, 2008, 19:14:45
Quote from: Steve on May 27, 2008, 19:42:33
I got hold of the 24/96 wavs & will commit to dvda whan I get some time.
BTW.

-> http://curefans.com/index.php/topic,5162.new.html
Title: Re: NIN: the slip [official release - FREE download]
Post by: japanesebaby on July 23, 2008, 00:29:45
i found this a kind of cool gadget:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/nineinchnails/2612112871/


can you spot yourself on the map?
(depends on where you live as it gets a bit "crowded" there at times).
Title: Re: NIN: the slip [official release - FREE download]
Post by: crowbi_wan on July 26, 2008, 21:25:08
NIN kicks off their tour tonight.  Okay, they played a festival yesterday, but the official tour begins tonight in Seattle and I will be there  :rocker 
Title: Re: NIN: the slip [official release - FREE download]
Post by: coxoxi on July 28, 2008, 08:49:37
This is great move form NIN and I love the album  :smth023
Title: Re: NIN: the slip [official release - FREE download]
Post by: sues777 on August 05, 2008, 11:49:15
I just bought this (I know, could have just downloaded it but wanted the whole limited edition digipak experience...) and I love it...I kinda forgot how much I like this band...
Title: Re: NIN: the slip [official release - FREE download]
Post by: jbud1980 on August 24, 2008, 19:10:55
almost half the songs of year zero, yet twice as good. this album sort of reminisces  the "broken" era with a few "fragile" songs thrown in for good nature. i can't wait to see them live in a couple of weeks at the forum, but not looking forward to the GA floor. Good thing the show is on a saturday which will allow me to waist most of the day standing in line hours before the show starts in order to secure a close enough spot to trent and company. anybody else going?
Title: Re: NIN: the slip [official release - FREE download]
Post by: japanesebaby on August 25, 2008, 13:11:37
Quote from: jbud1980 on August 24, 2008, 19:10:55
almost half the songs of year zero, yet twice as good.

i think the concept of 'year zero' was simply brilliant, yet i have to agree that the album itself didn't quite reach the same level.
although some of the Y0 tracks actually did/do work very well live, much better than one might expect perhaps. for instance 'the great destroyer' performed behind the laptops in "kraftwerk-ish" fashion is simply superb live.

hope you enjoy the live show(s)! too bad no european dates seem to be coming up...
Title: Re: NIN: the slip [official release - FREE download]
Post by: jbud1980 on August 27, 2008, 03:16:38
I have never been disappointed by a NIN live show and look forward to hearing anything live, sans Ghosts. Of course, I will hope for rarities such as happiness in slavery, the becoming, where is everybody?, the perfect drug, the only time, and ringfinger, but whatever, that will never happen. sorta like the slim chances of ever hearing "all i want" and "homesick" by The Cure  :cry:

I know this may be sacrilegious,  but I have never heard anything from Kraftwerk. Could you recommend some songs?
Title: Re: NIN: the slip [official release - FREE download]
Post by: japanesebaby on September 04, 2008, 10:12:15
Quote from: jbud1980 on August 27, 2008, 03:16:38
I have never been disappointed by a NIN live show and look forward to hearing anything live, sans Ghosts. Of course, I will hope for rarities such as happiness in slavery, the becoming, where is everybody?, the perfect drug, the only time, and ringfinger, but whatever, that will never happen. sorta like the slim chances of ever hearing "all i want" and "homesick" by The Cure  :cry:

well i've really liked the live renditions of some of the 'ghosts'. the way they've been performed, like for instance here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBBemtCnAFg

but it's always like you said, wouldn't mind hearing them play half of 'fragile' though, just for me. :D

Quote from: jbud1980 on August 27, 2008, 03:16:38
I know this may be sacrilegious,  but I have never heard anything from Kraftwerk. Could you recommend some songs?

well i admit that my knowledge of kraftwerk doesn't really even go much past their 70's output. why? not sure! :-P haha
my personal favorites might be 'radio-activity' and 'the man-machine'. not sure if you might be into that kind of stuff though. it's quite early electronic stuff.

anyway, actually i didn't mean to imply NIN really sounded anything like kraftwerk, by "kraftwerk-ish" i meant mostly the visual lookt, or the "stage attitude" of playing behind the computers/laptops without any "rock action" at all. i think that it's a pretty cool thing from trent, to be bold enough to add such sharp contrast to their live performance: one moment they can be grinding their way through 'wish', in an old "how about smashing all of the stage gear? - aaargggh, you pigs!!" style and the next moment they are coolly behind the laptops - BUT the marvellous thing in it is that the music stays just as powerful all through this. :!: like said, the live version of 'the great destroyer' that i saw was probably the most powerful moment of the whole gig - and they played some really heavy stuff on that gig, including 'dead souls' etc. there was a comlete rioting madness during 'sin' and 'march of the pigs' which i easily would have thought couldn't be topped, but still 'the great destroyer' was the one that made me go all  :shock:   :rocker
and i've heard a recording of that since but it seems to be one of those things that cannot be recreated on tape/film. i kind of hate to say things like "you need to see it for yourself!" but in this case i think it might be true.

Title: Re: NIN: the slip [official release - FREE download]
Post by: revolt on September 04, 2008, 11:07:07
Quote from: japanesebaby on August 25, 2008, 13:11:37

i think the concept of 'year zero' was simply brilliant, yet i have to agree that the album itself didn't quite reach the same level.


I'm going to be a little nasty here, but I would say that actually that is a common problem with NIN productions... the songwriting abilities, as a whole, rarely meet the artistic ambitions.
Title: Re: NIN: the slip [official release - FREE download]
Post by: japanesebaby on September 04, 2008, 11:34:51
Quote from: revolt on September 04, 2008, 11:07:07
Quote from: japanesebaby on August 25, 2008, 13:11:37

i think the concept of 'year zero' was simply brilliant, yet i have to agree that the album itself didn't quite reach the same level.


I'm going to be a little nasty here, but I would say that actually that is a common problem with NIN productions... the songwriting abilities, as a whole, rarely meet the artistic ambitions.

well i don't think disagreeing about something must necessarily mean being nasty,
anyway, would you really think so? well i'd surely have to disagree that it's a common problem at all. for instance, 'fragile' surely deserves to be rated high in terms of songwriting alone. and not only in terms of NIN songwriting but songwriting in general. not to mention it's a very well structured double album (if you can use the term "album" about a cd release) that has very ambitious way of re-working of musical material throughout it. in which i do think it also succeeds very well - not something that many artists have succeeded with, if they even had ambition/means to try.

Title: Re: NIN: the slip [official release - FREE download]
Post by: revolt on September 04, 2008, 12:20:40
Quote from: japanesebaby on September 04, 2008, 11:34:51
Quote from: revolt on September 04, 2008, 11:07:07
Quote from: japanesebaby on August 25, 2008, 13:11:37

i think the concept of 'year zero' was simply brilliant, yet i have to agree that the album itself didn't quite reach the same level.


I'm going to be a little nasty here, but I would say that actually that is a common problem with NIN productions... the songwriting abilities, as a whole, rarely meet the artistic ambitions.

well i don't think disagreeing about something must necessarily mean being nasty,
anyway, would you really think so? well i'd surely have to disagree that it's a common problem at all. for instance, 'fragile' surely deserves to be rated high in terms of songwriting alone. and not only in terms of NIN songwriting but songwriting in general. not to mention it's a very well structured double album (if you can use the term "album" about a cd release) that has very ambitious way of re-working of musical material throughout it. in which i do think it also succeeds very well - not something that many artists have succeeded with, if they even had ambition/means to try.



Well, I admit I've never checked "The Fragile". I was thinking mainly of "The Downward Spiral". Also "Pretty Hate Machine", which is pretty much uneven (however, in this case perhaps there was no special concept of any kind). These are the albuns I know in full (not many, I know). But my overall impression also comes from reading reviews of other NIN albums...

By the way, together with "Something I can never have", this remains my favourite NIN song to this day:

http://mx.youtube.com/watch?v=jhp47q_mjqs
Title: Re: NIN: the slip [official release - FREE download]
Post by: jbud1980 on September 07, 2008, 20:44:34
Quote from: japanesebaby on September 04, 2008, 10:12:15
Quote from: jbud1980 on August 27, 2008, 03:16:38

but it's always like you said, wouldn't mind hearing them play half of 'fragile' though, just for me.  :D

The show last night was pretty good. My friend and I arrived 3 hours before doors opened because the floor section is GA, which sorta sucked. We ended up relatively close to the rail, but all hell broke loose as soon as NIN took the stage. I was quite disappointed by the amount of teeny boppers i assumed were there because of the few songs played on the ever redundant radio station, KROQ. I am 27 and felt "old" in the pit. Anyway, this may sound negative, but I am not impressed with technology and could have easily foregone all the pretty lights for a less predictable set list. Ghosts was horrible live (sans Ghosts 31 which had a Fragile sound to it) because it drained the energy from a show that is usually ripe with head banging, screaming-at-the-top-of-your-lungs songs. Even the pit was sorta tame by NIN standards. It wasn't a bad show (Reptile and The Big Come Down being my favorites) yet the new material sounded weak, and I am a huge fan of The Slip.

Only two songs from The Fragile were played, yet The Frail is more of a filler.  :?

Title: Re: NIN: the slip [official release - FREE download]
Post by: japanesebaby on September 13, 2008, 09:56:17
sorry to hear you were left a bit disappointed. i've felt old in a NIN pit (and other artists' gigs too) but just as long as everyone seems to be there for the same reason (which is focusing on the show) i suppose i don't really care. the only thing that really pisses me off at concerts is people who come there to have a chat with their pals all through the show and people who concentrate on being piss drunk the moment they are allowed through the gates and make beer runs all the time. i could punch those one's in the eye. anyway, another story.

Quote from: jbud1980 on September 07, 2008, 20:44:34a show that is usually ripe with head banging, screaming-at-the-top-of-your-lungs songs. 

yes i do know what you mean by that. still, i've just been really interested in the approach they've taken this time. i like the idea that a NIN show could be something else than just screaming-at-the-top-of-your-lungs experience. surely it's a classic NIN approach but they've been doing that for years - so why not try something else for a change.
i'd be really curious to see/hear the current format, whether it would work (for me). i guess i can't really say anything until i've seen/heard it myself.

(agreed, 'frail' seems to be just a filler. perhaps they should follow it with something else from 'fragile'. then again i kind of like the idea that they are patching up old and new material together like that, just adding glimpses of it between the songs. but perhaps they should do it a bit more extensively then, for the idea to really start shaping the concert.

('reptile' and 'big come down' - sounds good.)


by the way: http://curefans.com/index.php/topic,5157.msg55861.html#msg55861