Backdated: Nine Inch Nails- Ghosts… and film festival?
March 26th, 2008 Posted in Music
You’re soon to find out (soon being now) that I am quite the fan of Nine Inch Nails. Ever since… well… the early-to-mid nineties, I have loved them… And I always will. OK, some people have liked them longer, went to their first gig- whatever! Good luck to you! Damn, I hate people that are that damn good! Sigh… sorry. I like NIN- you possibly like NIN- it’s all good, I say.
So, of course, I was rapt to hear recently that NIN were releasing an album online, Ghosts I-IV (plenty of roman numerals today). So I came home on the day of its release to get it.
And found the servers were down.
Not long later, they were back in full swing, with a vengeance, and I was listening to a totally unexpected and appreciated surprise. It’s a friggin’ awesome album. Especially considering it’s a 36-track instrumental.
Now I gotta be honest… As much as I love my NIN, I generally skip over the instrumentals on most of the regular albums, even given that I appreciate them. Much of what I look for in NIN is in the lyrics- the emotion and the tone can very quickly be ascertained. However, never before have I listened to an instrumental album and been totally blown away. There is more emotion in some of these songs than the whole catalog of pop at the moment. OK, so I’m biased, but check it out- you can download Ghosts I (the first 9 tracks) for free…
And of course, being a fan, I occasionally return to the site to see what’s goin’ down in Trent’s town. And what did I find now? Trent and the posse are planning a “film festival” of sorts- where listeners create their own videos to their favourite tracks from Ghosts, upload them to Youtube, after which Trent and the guys will check them out and choose their favourites- THEN present them somehow somewhere as a Ghosts film festival- How rad is that!
OK, not to poorly represent the guys- there are no awesome prizes planned, it’s more of an artistic collaboration to see what can be done, sort of “Art 2.0″, where those who appreciate the art can provide their own interpretations to the artist. Top marks for innovation there, Trent. Not to mention kudos for leading the online distribution model, too.
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