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Post by jvandyck87 on Apr 15, 2010 17:17:31 GMT -5
Innerpartysystem said the following in an email that I was sent as part of a fanmail blast: A clip of the song is streaming here: www.myspace.com/innerpartysystemI hope they can attain more success than they did with "Don't Stop" peaking in the 30s on alternative, but in all honesty, this clip sounds like it's not as awesome as 2/3 of the songs on their self-titled debut, which was a top-notch album.
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Post by WotUNeed on Apr 15, 2010 17:32:40 GMT -5
"American Trash" was the most intriguing snippet in their last teaser, but at this point I'm just gonna wait for the full thing. Excited for album #2.
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Post by American Idiot on Apr 15, 2010 18:26:10 GMT -5
I liked both of the singles from the last album as well, but this kind of dancy-emo/punk isn't as big as it was a few years ago, so I'm not expecting this to do much at all. However, I am interested to hearing it.
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Post by (Artie Ziff) on Apr 16, 2010 14:59:36 GMT -5
This came on radio today and I actually stopped to figure out who this was and why it was being played on a Modern station. I almost thought it was Nine Inch Nails.
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Post by jvandyck87 on Apr 16, 2010 15:08:42 GMT -5
What station? And why would it surprise you that a modern station would play something that sounds like Nine Inch Nails?
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Post by My Life Is A Stereo on Apr 16, 2010 15:24:02 GMT -5
It was on AOL Radio, pretty sure 105.9 from Orlando. It surprised me because I had assumed Nine Inch Nails broke up and wouldn't have a new song out. How does a one man band really break up? Reznor can pretty much make NIN music all by himself. He mostly uses musicians for touring purposes.
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Post by jvandyck87 on Apr 16, 2010 15:27:04 GMT -5
Gotcha, cool.
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Post by My Life Is A Stereo on Apr 16, 2010 15:32:02 GMT -5
No such thing as a one-man band. Sure like to see that dude get out there and perform all of his hits alone. It's not like he's Bob Dylan! LOL....He is a solo artist that works under a band name. Touring musicians are not necessarily part of the group. He writes, records (instrumental and vocals) and produces pretty much everything he does. Thanks for the laugh for the day. That you don't know the difference between a band and a touring backing band is my highlight of today.
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Post by pen on Apr 16, 2010 22:05:38 GMT -5
A musician may choose to work with other musicians on an album but that doesn't mean those musicians are part of the act or have earned a place under the banner.
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Post by onefrayedrepublic on Apr 17, 2010 19:38:29 GMT -5
NIN is a band now? When did that happen?
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Post by pen on Apr 17, 2010 19:51:48 GMT -5
Is that a reference to the fact that Trent Rezor is NIN like everyone else but Artie is saying or is that just you being a douche again?
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Post by thisbeautifulmess on Apr 17, 2010 20:57:49 GMT -5
Is that a reference to the fact that Trent Rezor is NIN like everyone else but Artie is saying or is that just you being a douche again? Well, since "nobody else is as informed" as Artie, everyone else must be wrong.
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Post by singingrulebritannia on Apr 17, 2010 22:13:52 GMT -5
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Post by pen on Apr 17, 2010 23:04:47 GMT -5
Either way it would be fun to go watch Reznor perform all of these songs solo. Maybe a live acoustic album. You do realize that singer-songwriters have backup bands too, right? Actually, what am I saying, of course you do. You just enjoy pissing everyone off.
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Post by WotUNeed on Apr 17, 2010 23:51:59 GMT -5
I've always thought of NIN as a band with a revolving membership. Reznor is a constant, but the other members come and go. To be fair, that may be because it's not named after a solo artist, but whatever.
In any case, I'd also like to revise my previous comment. I was confusing "American Trash" with a different clip in IPS's teaser. It's not at all the most intriguing clip, but, hopefully, if this is what they've chosen as single numero uno, the full song will impress me more than the few seconds did. Still looking forward to the next album.
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Post by pen on Apr 18, 2010 12:07:17 GMT -5
Why would he call it that when Trent Reznor and NIN are one and the same? It would just sound really stupid.
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Post by American Idiot on Apr 18, 2010 13:44:28 GMT -5
No clue about Owl City, but I don't even think Lee is in Evanescence anymore. I'm sorry, but this was my reaction :o at first, followed by a This might help too on what happened to the rest of the band. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_Are_The_Fallen Sorry once again, but
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Post by singingrulebritannia on Apr 18, 2010 14:28:51 GMT -5
"Wikipedia is obviously never true. Never. Ever. Ever."
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Post by halo19 on Apr 18, 2010 14:48:30 GMT -5
Why would he call it that when Trent Reznor and NIN are one and the same? It would just sound really stupid. He did something somewhat similar to the "suggested" (above) project in 2002: Still was basically "NIN acoustic." It had about four new versions of "classic" songs, as well as a few new ones. This reminds me of when Spin made a comment about Conor Oberst going "solo."
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Post by (Artie Ziff) on Apr 18, 2010 15:31:02 GMT -5
Proposed as in tried and forgotten? Or as in still in the works. I obviously think that's a cool idea.
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