Nine Inch Nails - Fixed
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Artist: Nine Inch NailsEdition: Music CD
Format: EP, Explicit Lyrics
CD Release Date: 2001-08-07
Music Label: Nothing
Soundtracks:
- Gave Up (Remix)
- Wish (Remix)
- Happiness In Slavery (Remix)
- Throw This Away
- Fist Fuck (Remix)
- Screaming Slave
Music reviews of Fixed
Music Review: Most definitely something different.
Rating: 4 Stars
Let me start by saying that if you're a fan of the more alternative style of Nine Inch Nails, or just a huge fan of Halo 5 in itself, then this EP might not be for you.
Fixed is one of those rare experiments where a musician went ahead and went a little insane in the studio. This album is, essentially, distorted noise. If you thought the guitars on Broken were capable of shredding eardrums, wait until you hear the shrieking wind-up intro of Screaming Slave. Fixed is LOUD, and its out to make ears bleed and heads spin.
Granted, none of this is to say its a bad album. I love anything by NIN. But this album has its moments where there's no melody or rhythm going, and unless you REALLY focus, you probably WILL get lost and turned off by what you hear.
Gave Up gives a completely new take on the original, going for a much more chopped up style than anything. It's fast, it overlaps itself vocally, and its probably the easiest song to follow along with, as its probably the only one without any moments of static distortion. 10/10
Wish (Remix) is LONG. It's the longest track on the album, settling in at 9:10, and it covers a LOT of different areas. Its got moments of repetition, its got moments that'll make you want to headbang, and then its got its rare moments where the original is 100% distinguishable. If any drummer were to ever attempt this track live, though, his arms (and legs!) would probably fall off. 9/10
Happiness In Slavery (Remix) is pretty much a HIS instrumental, except not, at the same time... Which isn't so much a bad thing. The original is incredible in itself, and if you liked it, you'll like this track, too. But, like most of the rest of the album, there are parts that will thrash your eardrums with screaming and heavy beats pounding at you from different directions. 9/10
Throw This Away starts off giving you the idea that, maybe, just maybe, this album has a calm track on it. But halfway through, and your head will ache once more if you've got it turned up. It's probably the simplest song on the album, but its still got its fair share of distorted noise. It's also the shortest track on the entire album, at 4:14... 7/10
Fist F***, the second remix of Wish, is a little... Different. It's one of the two songs that really tests your abilities at loving Reznors' work, as you'll be sitting there for nearly 90 seconds hearing the same repeated loop just getting louder and louder. Basically, it goes phased guitar loop for 90 seconds, reversed drums for a few seconds, guitar loop again, then a drum loop over... and over... and over... with some weird vocals, and then it suddenly cuts to some random quote from some random movie, and then its right back into another guitar riff loop that slowly speeds up and pounds its way through to the end of the track. This track redefines repetition, and, as much as I still love it, is possibly the worst out of the 6 tracks. 7/10
Screaming Slave is the final track on the album, and the one that basically determines if this album is for you or not. For 8 minutes, you will hear NOISE. And then some more NOISE. And then maybe some DISTORTED NOISE on top of that. It's as industrial as Trent Reznor has ever gotten, but its still incredible. If you have no patience for a long build up, you won't like this song. It takes over a minute for any actual MELODY to come into play. And once that happens, it just gets louder and noisier. At about 2 minutes in, its still winding up and getting louder, and then BANG! Something that sounds like a car having trouble starting up, and then your skull gets pummelled once more with heavy bass beats, with random noise flowing throughout. At around 3 minutes, it REALLY tries to lose you, and throws pure RANDOMNESS at you. About 3 minutes pass before the insanity breaks, and you get to hear the screams from the HIS video without any music over them. But once you hear a woman whisper "he's dead...", you get pummelled once more with pure noise, and extremely faint vocals somewhere underneath it all. 9/10
Overall, this album starts strong (Gave Up (Remix) is amazing), gets a little boring in the middle, and then comes back to full force through to the end. It's EXTREMELY different, and while $6.49 might not be that much, its still always good to know what to expect beforehand.
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