Michael Trent Reznor

I don’t usually obsess over other people (unless it is my fiancé), but I can seriously say I have only a handful of people that I am just disgustingly impressed with. The number one person that I wish I could meet and speak to because we both had the same ideas and ideals is George Carlin, but he died before that thought could ever come to fruition. Makes me sad, but then again the chances of my meeting and or speaking to him never would have happened anyhow. The same goes for Trent Reznor, who is a lyrical genius and musical visionary. I like how he has shaped his music, realistically speaking I can’t say everything he has released has been up to his initial standards, but that is okay it is just a fact of life with musicians for some reason. For example, when an artist does his best work while being drugged, leave him alone and let him produce otherwise you get crappy music like after Everclear cleaned up their drug habits, absolutely terrible music after they cleaned up. Let’s not forget Stone Temple Pilots and their whole clean up, blech… Now this excludes Reznor as far as I can tell, he had a drug problem too and was suffering from depression like the rest of us have and still do, but I don’t think those addictions made it into his music. I think his lessons made it into the music, what he learned etc. but I don’t think it was a driving factor. His depression on the other hand I could definitely hear in his music. His music, the lyrics, drove me growing up from high school all the way to now. I went to my first NIN concert recently about a year ago, a few months right after an Iron Maiden concert and I have to say I was disappointed; it was good I got to see Reznor perform in person, but it was missing something. I don’t feel like his heart was totally into it. I saw him at the NinJa concert; they had the Street Sweeper Social Club as the warm up band, quite damn good by the way, then Nine Inch Nails and lastly Janes Addiction. I don’t like Janes Addiction at all, they had 3 good songs and that is about it. I love NIN though, my favourite songs are Hersey, Metal and Only. He recently decided that this is his last tour for a while and he is putting NIN to bed for now. He has started a new band with his new Hot Asian Wife and I hope they make beautiful music together (pun intended?).

His music moves me in ways I can’t describe, I feel like the words he speaks are always so spot on and he never strays from the mark. Not that he is infallible, but his music is close to the most perfect I can find. I love it all… I can’t wait to get that first “How to Destroy Angels” album… which apparently is free for download at the moment, which is fucking awesome. Ever since Reznor broke it off with his initial douche bag label he has been releasing some free albums here and there. So far I got “The Slip”, “Ghosts” and “How to Destroy Angels” for free all thanks to Trent. I will literally buy anything he releases (except for certain remixes of songs I have heard millions of times) and I say he, because if he is involved I want in. I can’t wait for them to go on tour.