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Originally posted by Asher
Can you please condense all of your masturbatory threads to PMs to yourself, or at least one thread? so long as we are being civil, could you please kindly not troll my threads? i try to maintain a respectable distance, and i hope you can try to do the same.


Originally posted by Dis
I didn't care for the fragile very much.

Can this album compare to Donward spiral?

Pretty much their best album. Further downward spiral was a good remix though. the fragile was sprawling and organic. some people didn't get the use of leitmotif; they just thought he had run out of ideas and was recycling.

my own opinon of year zero is jaded by the fact that i've gone and seen much of the extra material. i suppose you could say that there has been much clarity and driving purpose in the new album as compared to the downward spiral. Trent has been sober for a few years now, and it appears to be having a positive effect.

it depends on how you want to look at things: just what attracted you to pretty hate machine in the first place? was it the synth sounds? or the use of drum machines, sequencers and processors? Year Zero is quoted as drawing inspiration for old public enemy records in their use of layered sound, noise and what have you.

Originally posted by nostromo
The reviews I read claim that its on the same level as Pretty hate machine and Downward spiral. But I saw the "Survivalism" video (nice video clip, btw) and, IMO, it sounds a lot like what they did in the nineties. it certainly harkens back to some of the older days. the intensity is only nearly matched by PHM and Broken. where Year Zero wins by leaps and bounds is all the supplemental content. the fact that many of these sites were decoded from t-shirts, usb drives left at concerts, and a curious white line pattern in the album booklet.

all the websites thus far have an index at this site.