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Product Description
The world's most disturbing rock band is in effect one man singer and songwriter Trent Reznor. Since stealing the show during the original Lollapalooza tour in 1991, NIN has limned the hard edge of the techno revolution. In Reznor's desperate, combative persona and disarrayed melodies the musical community has finally found a band that appalls, confounds, and undeniably attracts. Horrified yet entranced, NIN's fans are like moths drawn toward the disfiguring flame of their music.
From a well of previously unpublished research, Huxley has carved out the history of this improbably hero: Reznor's rise as an Appalachian outcast to dyspeptic sex symbol; his connections to Courtney Love; and his relationship with his spasmodically fixated fans. Ricocheting wildly between goth rock and grunge, Nine Inch Nails has emerged. Here, Martin Huxley digs hard and deep to unearth the truth beneath this, the ultimate noise.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #226268 in Books
- Published on: 1997-09-15
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Paperback
- 224 pages
Editorial Reviews
From Booklist
Those who hunger for throbbing bombast in all aspects of contemporary life will flock to this not incredibly revealing portrait of the man, the myth, the arrested adolescent behind the band Nine Inch Nails--Trent Reznor. Reznor is Nine Inch Nails and vice versa, just as the Mothers of Invention were Frank Zappa and whomever he showed up with on a given night. Not exactly darlings of critics (or parents), Nine Inch Nails is probably the most successful industrial music act extant. Huxley gives Reznor's life and attitude (which is everything, you know) full airing in this by-the-numbers bio. Much of the narrative is taken up with Reznor's well-cultivated inability to "fit into anything." Ah, angst--what would rock 'n' roll be without it? Replete with quotations from Thrasher magazine and other chronicles of the present and recent cutting edge, this little book is sure to thrill Reznor's legion of fans. Mike Tribby
Customer Reviews
Nine Inch Nails
This book is a disappointing read for the average NIN fan - pretty much everything of interest in the book I had already read somewhere before (most online as they are from American magazines such as Spin). The author also pads out the book with information on other artists, some of whom have very little connection to either Reznor or NIN. This means the prose is sometimes more in line with that of an essay than an interesting book. I was excited to find and read this book given the lack of books on the subject but, ultimately, I was relieved to finish it.
read to much like a term paper not a story.
There was a lot of information in the book but it was all research from other magazine and newspaper articles. There was no NINE INCH NAILS in there just facts. I didn't find that to entertaining.
Interesting book
I've not listened to much NIN before. They / he started getting popular when I was in college but I didn't have any albums until recently - I just bought 'The Downward Spiral.' I'm not a huge fan but I thought this book was interesting just because it tells about how Reznor became successful and how he approaches music, etc. It doesn't bash him or portray him as perfect either, which I like.
