NIN Destroyed My Stereo ... And House!
As you know, I worship Trent Reznor as a musical god. His songs are intense and his albums are always recorded with the passion of an audiophile. As a result, I like to geek out to his music on my nerd stereo system.
Well ... it finally happened. After more than a decade, my trusty receiver / amp blew up. It was during "You Know Who You Are?" on the new Nine Inch Nails album WITH TEETH.
Above: the deceased Sony ES receiver. It's with Jesus now, in a better place. May it rest in peace.
I am a music lover, and living without a stereo at home is impossible, so I whipped out the credit card and got another piece of equipment. After hooking everything back up, I had to give the new Onkyo unit a test, so I got the NIN CD and cranked it up. It kicked ass. I was in paradise.
Until the loud music vibrated the wall so hard that a shelf / frame holding a candle and some other decorations fell and smashed my DVD shelf. Good thing I wasn't sitting on that couch or I'd be with Jesus and my old amplifier, plucking harps on a cloud.
Above: The photo for the insurance company. Is loud music covered under my homeowners policy?
So kids, the moral of this story is ... crank it up, knock the walls down. It's Nine Inch Nails for hell's sake!
todd's iPod songs for Friday 5/20
10:20 "Breathe" Prodigy (This song could probably knock stuff off of the walls, too.)
1:20 "Seattle" PIL (Johnny Rotten is a bad-ass!)
Well ... it finally happened. After more than a decade, my trusty receiver / amp blew up. It was during "You Know Who You Are?" on the new Nine Inch Nails album WITH TEETH.
Above: the deceased Sony ES receiver. It's with Jesus now, in a better place. May it rest in peace.
I am a music lover, and living without a stereo at home is impossible, so I whipped out the credit card and got another piece of equipment. After hooking everything back up, I had to give the new Onkyo unit a test, so I got the NIN CD and cranked it up. It kicked ass. I was in paradise.
Until the loud music vibrated the wall so hard that a shelf / frame holding a candle and some other decorations fell and smashed my DVD shelf. Good thing I wasn't sitting on that couch or I'd be with Jesus and my old amplifier, plucking harps on a cloud.
Above: The photo for the insurance company. Is loud music covered under my homeowners policy?
So kids, the moral of this story is ... crank it up, knock the walls down. It's Nine Inch Nails for hell's sake!
todd's iPod songs for Friday 5/20
10:20 "Breathe" Prodigy (This song could probably knock stuff off of the walls, too.)
1:20 "Seattle" PIL (Johnny Rotten is a bad-ass!)
posted by Todd Nuke 'Em at 6:26 AM
10 Comments:
i think i'll plagarize this post. thank you.
The "It's in a better place" line was written by Zack Shutt, and plagairized by Todd Nuke 'Em.
Take me to Judge Judy and sue me!
Ha ha ha... i prefer NIN live... The volume they were putting out in Denver probably would have blown your system too.
I think the overall creativity of the lyrics and music make it easier for me to stomach the angst in Reznor's work.
I guess I'm a little sick of millionaire musicians telling me that they're "falling apart". It somehow seems sincere coming from Trent.
Well he did just get out of rehab and all that. Trent has an amazing ability to capture emotion in his song.
It's pretty crazy to see a man like Johnny Cash cover the song Hurt by Trent Reznor, and it describes the emotions he has felt so perfectly.
And in Denver at their concert you could really feel that emotion of the song coming through Trent's voice and you could tell it wasn't just some song that he thought people would like or anything like that, it was all what he felt and had felt.
Trent
Geez. I almost missed the The Aquabats reference in your post, Zack.
Best. Band. In the world.
And their music kicks all forms of trash, but despite the fact that everybody's heard of the band and they have a large following in this area, you won't hear anything but "Super Rad" on the radio. It's really too bad.
Clumpy.
I totally agree. Aquabats are a very sweet band - the new cd "Charge!" is kickin' too.
It's sad that Super Rad is the only song that gets played, they're stuck in the same rut Reel Big Fish is with "Sell Out."
Except all of Reel Big Fish's new songs just whine about it. Aquabats are still fighting supervillians and kicking ass.
Kangaroo Corndog. Hi Todd.
oh wow is that simulated oak vaneer? geez thats gonna set ya back a little. Here's a hint Todd tell the insurance guy it smashed a 100 year old oak roll top desk passed down by your great great great grand pappy...damn you Trent!
That was $19.99 at Shopko and I assembled it myself. Hey, I'm a DJ. I'm not made of money.
Yes but you are made of free CD's...
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