Nine Inch Nails
Things Falling Apart
Nothing/Interscope Records
Rating: 2 Flaming Goat Heads
Falling apart? No. More like ripped apart in a drunken frenzy and slapped back together before the wife got home. This deconstruction and remixing of six songs from The Fragile results in a rather mundane listening experience; most of the hooks and lyrics are removed and replaced by a bunch of noise that, although interesting, isn't very pleasant to the ear. Every third song is another failed stab at making "Starfuckers Inc." into something worth listening to, and after hearing three versions in 50 minutes you're ready to smash the windows out of any car blasting the song in your proximity. "The Great Collapse" is a Fragile throwaway that drones on for four incredibly long minutes before any singing is introduced. The cover of Gary Numan's "Metal" nearly saves the day, but it's surrounded by too many lackluster tracks too late in the album to make its presence felt. Still, Trent Reznor's mind must work on about eight different planes of consciousness for him to have these versions swimming through the synapses.
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