Year Zero (Trent Reznor, HBO)

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Trent Reznor says HBO and BBC Worldwide Productions are moving forward with the development of “Year Zero,” the grim sci-fi epic that Reznor has chronicled in his music as well as in a celebrated Alternate Reality Game (ARG).

“We are in [the development phase of] pre-production with HBO and BBC [Worldwide Productions] to do a miniseries,” Reznor said Monday. “It’s exciting. I probably shouldn’t say too much about it except that I understand that there’s a thousand hurdles before anything shows up in your TV listing. It’s been an interesting and very educational process and it cleared the HBO hurdle a few months ago and now we’re writing drafts back and forth. So it’s very much alive and incubating at the moment.”
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Well this should be interesting.
 
Oh rad, i hope this happens. Time to listen to that album again.
 
loved that album but am a little unfamiliar with said topic. anyone care to explain this particular ARG??
 
Well this is really cool. I was just thinking about this the other day.
 
Trent is a very admirable entrepreneur (thank you spell checker). I'm so glad for his success.
 
Wow, that's ****ing cool.

Year Zero isn't even close to being among my favorite NIN albums, but it's certainly good, and I'm very interested to see how all this turns out.
 
The Downward Spiral
The Fragile
The Slip
Ghosts
With Teeth
Year Zero
Broken
Pretty Hate Machine

Yeah, pretty much Ennui. Though I'm a little concerned about how they're going to handle The Presence. A simple pair of hands descending from the sky could be either really poignant or saddeningly campy.
 
You put The Slip before Pretty Hate Machine? PMH is a classic dude
 
Stigmata said:
The Downward Spiral
The Fragile
The Slip
Ghosts
With Teeth
Year Zero
Broken
Pretty Hate Machine

Yeah, pretty much Ennui. Though I'm a little concerned about how they're going to handle The Presence. A simple pair of hands descending from the sky could be either really poignant or saddeningly campy.
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WAAAAH come on Broken and PHM are two of the very best NIN albums, especially Broken. How can you have TDS on top of your list and not have Broken up there with it? PHM is kind of campy and painfully 80s but it's still a great album. It's also sort of terrifying to me to see The Slip so far up there... I thought that was easily the worst NIN album by a mile.

I tried to write my own list for this post but it was too difficult. All I could decide is that first place is apparently a 3 way tie between TDS, Broken and The Fragile.
 
Ennui said:
WAAAAH come on Broken and PHM are two of the very best NIN albums, especially Broken. How can you have TDS on top of your list and not have Broken up there with it? PHM is kind of campy and painfully 80s but it's still a great album. It's also sort of terrifying to me to see The Slip so far up there... I thought that was easily the worst NIN album by a mile.

I tried to write my own list for this post but it was too difficult. All I could decide is that first place is apparently a 3 way tie between TDS, Broken and The Fragile.
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Broken and PHM may be classics but they just don't do much for me. Beyond Head Like a Hole, Terrible Lie, and Something I Can Never Have, PHM is way too 80's for me, and Broken is far too short for me to let myself rank it as an equal with his other albums. But I do like it as a whole, so it's at least ranked above PHM :p

The Slip is a fairly fantastic album. Musically it's a melding of The Fragile's serial tonal dissonance and Ghosts' electronic production, which is basically an eargasm for me. Lyrically I view it as a concept album, a sort of self-retrospective TDS, and this too pleases me. I don't think anything Trent has done has reached the levels of TDS and The Fragile, but to me The Slip is the closest he's come since.
 
Year Zero show is intriguing, but I have trouble visualizing its execution. Trent has yet to disappoint me except perhaps for scoring the Facebook movie, although I warmed up to it more since reading an interview with Reznor and Fincher and hearing the soundtrack.

Any way, the only thing better than Broken's hategasm is Fixed ****ing it all up even more.
 
I listen to Broken all the time while driving. It's just so raw and loud and angry. Not an uncommon sight to see me driving by with the volume at max and all four windows down screaming along to Physical at the top of my lungs.

Fixed is ****ing great too. Also Further Down the Spiral deserves a mention. The remixes of Mr. Self Destruct on there alone could be a full EP imo.
 
Ennui said:
I listen to Broken all the time while driving. It's just so raw and loud and angry. Not an uncommon sight to see me driving by with the volume at max and all four windows down screaming along to Physical at the top of my lungs.
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It's like the perfect album to listen to in the morning on the way to work/class. And you can pretty much finish it all in one trip.
 
Indeed!

Quite frankly I have a sneaking suspicion that this miniseries will be kind of lame ultimately. The Year Zero concept is interesting for a politically motivated album but as anything beyond that (like a TV show) it's kind of generic and cheesy.

Instead, I propose HBO re-releases the unedited Broken movie.

/shudder
 
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