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“My Presence Is A Present, Kiss My Ass.” – My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy By Kanye West Album Review

Zack C. — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 03:12:51 +0000

Rap is dying. Let’s just face it. People are too caught up in shitty mainstream rap music to see good artists, like Atmosphere, Saul Williams, and (even though he is more well known…) Lupe Fiasco. When I heard Kanye West was going back to rapping on his new album, at the time called Good Ass Job, I was waiting for something that was only entertaining because it was drowning in its own ego, like most West albums. I listened to West every now and then, but I never thought he was anything more than a decently good rapper from the shitstream of popular rap. Though, when I started hearing the rave reviews of his new album, now titled My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, I will admit, it struck me as surprising. I mean, even Pitchfork gave him a 10/10 and they only give scores like that to The Cure! Being the curious man I am, I got the album and started listening to it. What hit me was one of the biggest surprises I have ever had while listening to a rap album. I mean, in a year where mostly nothing but shit came out, the one album that is coming from the biggest douche-bag in music (right next to Axl Rose and Metallica) today is the one you would expect to be the worst, right? Well, I nominate this album for “Biggest Shock of 2010″, because My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy ended up being one of the greatest albums I have heard all year.

Starting off with a monologue from Nicki Minaj, in which she explains how twisted the “scene” is, the first thing we hear musically is piano, strings, and a choir. Before you know it, the beat kicks in and right away you are tapping your foot. Kanye West was always able to make some pretty sweet beats but this album, musically, blows almost every single other rap album ever made out of the water. From the “kick back and relax” beat of “Dark Fantasy”, to the tribal-march mixed with King Diamond backing of “POWER”, to the jungle punch of “Monster”, to the Pete Rock and C.L. Smooth sampled sobfest of “Runaway”, and, what may be the most surprising of all, to the Aphex Twin (yes, that Aphex Twin) sampled ballad “Blame Game”, the music on this album shines almost as bright as West’s ego. Kanye obviously is trying to bring sampling back into rap and he did it perfectly. I mean, when you can make Aphex Twin work in a rap song, that HAS to say something about your musical ability.

Now, lyrically, this isn’t the most intelligent rap album of all time, as expected, but West is jarringly personal with his lyrics, revealing himself as human just as much as he says his presence is a present and you should kiss his ass. He is equal parts hilarious purposely, hilarious accidentally, shockingly open, and intelligent when he is rapping and it seems like he went over all his lines with a fine tooth comb over and over, just to make sure it was the best it could be. When the guest stars come in, they either completely surprise (like Nicki Minaj’s 32-bar, killer verse on “Monster”) or become completely counterproductive to the song/just approach the message wrong (like Pusha T in “Runaway”, who opens his verse on this heart-felt track with “24/7, 365, pussy stays on my mind.”), which ends up sweetening the album and, at the same time, almost completely making fun of the current state of it’s own mainstream by having the guests be so ignorantly oblivious of the human nature of the album. It almost seems like it was done on purpose, just to make Kanye seem so much better. Either way, it oddly works.

Out of everything this year, which mostly sucked ass, I never expected one of the biggest d-bags in music today to make something that I found myself going back to over and over again. Yet, I keep returning to Mr. West’s beautiful, dark, and twisted fantasy, because he has painted it so amazingly on this album that it has to be one of the most vivid rap albums of all time. Now, don’t get me wrong here, this is nowhere near the greatest rap album of all time, but with this album, Kanye is sending out two messages: The fact that everyone has a new standard to meet and that even when he takes a complete detour, Mr. West can amazingly come right back and feel like he never left. My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy is by no means a masterpiece, but it’s the closest thing that mainstream rap has had to one.

My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy gets a 4 out of 5.

The Sonoio Album Is Out!

Zack C. — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 01:05:54 +0000

Remember our post about Sonoio, Alessandro Cortini’s new project? Well, the album is now out! GO GET IT!

“Try The Ketchup, Motherfucker!” – A Thousand Suns By Linkin Park Album Review

Zack C. — Sat, 11 Sep 2010 22:43:00 +0000

You see, this would be the point where I say “LINKIN PARK IS BACK!” but this isn’t Linkin Park. And for the first time, I feel that’s for the best. Let’s admit it: Minutes To Midnight was an attempt to distance themselves from a sound, not an attempt to make a great record. It was okay, but it was overall throwaway. Mike, Chester, Joe, Phoenix, Brad and Rob are still trying to distance themselves from the dead (or what should be dead) genre of nu-metal after becoming the pinnacle of it, but it looks like this time they are trying to do something more than just run away from the past. But the almighty question(s) is this: Is this better than what they have done before? Has Linkin Park finally proved they can make music that has the same energy, emotion and awesomeness as Hybrid Theory and Meteora? Have they finally been able to make themselves a band instead of just a snapshot of the music industry in the early 2000′s? When am I going to stop asking questions and start answering them? Right about now, actually.

Let me start off by answering the question everyone is asking: This blows Minutes To Midnight out of the fucking water. Linkin Park HAS finally proved they are a band instead of just a snapshot of the music industry in the early 2000′s. But, this isn’t enough to erase the snapshot altogether, it’s just able to have the word “band” scribbled under the polaroid. While it still has traces of Minutes To Midnight on it, it isn’t a steaming pile of alt-rock. To tell you the truth, it isn’t a pile of anything specific. It’s a giant mix of everything and is kinda confusing to be completely honest.

Don’t get me wrong, this album isn’t shit. This isn’t Kesha (I refuse to use the dollar sign) or Justin Bieber, but this isn’t The Fragile. It feels more like an experiment than an album. A test more than a final product. And you can tell that’s what they were going for. It was meant to be an experience. That’s why, if you got the special edition of it on iTunes, there’s a track called “A Thousand Suns: The Full Experience”. It’s not meant to be easy to swallow and, while that usually works, it actually ends up being quite hard to get used to it being in your throat. You don’t get it at first and it requires multiple listens to fully appreciate it, but it does grow on you.

We were introduced to the new sound with “The Catalyst”, which is the album’s 6 minute, half-electro, half-stadium rock single, and it didn’t seem abnormally drastic from their normal stuff. Sure, it was different, but it wasn’t completely left field. (It was a couple degrees short.) Then we got treated to “Wretches And Kings” and shit started to get very head-scratch worthy. Then we got “Waiting For The End”, which added to the scratching. Then we got the album. We’ve been scratching our heads so much that we’re starting to get skin under our fingernails and the album just made us scratch so much that we started to draw blood.

It’s not accessible. At all. That’s not a bad thing, but when you are band that’s as massive as Linkin Park, that could back you into a corner. Back in the day, they were pushing it by having an instrumental track on their record. Today, they are pushing it by having three minutes of filler tracks before the first real song. (There is a total of six filler tracks on this record.) And while “Burning In The Sky” is an easily-accessible yet still experimental track (and sounds like it would be a really heavy track), the training wheels are taken off right away with “When They Come For Me”. It’s titled like a ballad, it’s actually a track with an intensely-layered tribal beat and immensely distorted synths. We get the rare treat of Mike rapping a lot more on this record, but the rapping here feels more like Fort Minor than Linkin Park, which is understandable but out of place.

But this album does get the award for Best Song Title with “Robot Boy”. If you couldn’t tell already, this album likes to have misleading titles. “Robot Boy” sounds like it would be a very industrial or electronic song, but it’s a ballad with piano and strings. It’s actually one of the most uplifting songs Linkin Park has ever made.

Throughout the rest of the album, we get everything from layered ballads to “WTF?!” worthy combinations. A perfect example of the latter being “Blackout”, which has Chester screaming extremely intensely but is made up of a simplistic drum machine beat and very melodic piano. It’s the songs like this that really show the attempt and want to make something different and unexpected, but those songs never seem to be able to pull of the magic trick they are trying to.

A Thousand Suns is a great successor to the ultimately disappointing Minutes To Midnight and actually ends up surpassing it greatly. While it’s not hard proof that Linkin Park is a force to be reckoned with in any genre other than nu-metal, it is enough to make you turn your head and realize that they aren’t chained to the early 2000′s. This is the right move for Linkin Park and they seem to be getting a grip on what they should do with the band’s direction. With that said though, A Thousand Suns seems to be more of a way to prove to themselves that they can do something other than nu-metal well than an actual attempt to do it. We’re not reaping the fruits of their success of becoming something more than a snapshot, we’re just observing their journey to that point. And that’s not really a bad thing.

A Thousand Suns by Linkin Park gets a 4 out of 5.

Sonoio: Alessandro Cortini’s Kickass New Project.

Zack C. — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 22:00:34 +0000

Alessandro Cortini, most widely known as being the touring keyboardist for Nine Inch Nails for four years and also known for being half of the duo named modwheelmood, has gone solo. Which is oddly close to saying the name of his new project, Sonoio, which is Italian for “it’s me”. So, it’s all one big statement of the seclusion involved. But with this seclusion and this control, as much as he was kickass in NIN and MWM, Cortini really shines.

Cortini released 4 songs from his upcoming, self-titled album on his website for free, plus a bunch of pre-order packages. They are as little as the $8 digital album and pre-order exclusive demo/outtake EP, to the mega $200 “Geek Bundle”, including a homemade synthesizer made so you can mess around with the Sonoio sounds, a limited art print of the album cover signed by Cortini, a CD signed and numbered by Cortini, the digital album, the pre-order exclusive EP, and a pre-order exclusive t-shirt. Between those two, you have 7 different packages with different combinations of all of the offerings. If you don’t think that is choices, you need to read a dictionary.

But, of course, the main point of all this is the music. Even more so, is it worth spending $200 on? The answer to that is simple: yes. Just yes.

The four tracks released by Cortini on the website for free, “Just Me”, “Suck Up Everything”, “Not Worth Remembering” and “Silence”, are nothing short of addictive. All the songs on the album are made using only one synthesizer, Cortini’s voice, and some very few and scattered extras, so they all feel connected by sound. Some of the songs feel like electro-pop music you may hear on the radio in Europe, while others are ambient tracks with calm build-ups. All the songs are full of melody and get stuck in your head abnormally fast. You’ll be finding yourself snapping and singing along to the song randomly many hours after hearing the songs because they are just that catchy. Not catchy in a bad way though, like pop-radio. It’s catchy because it’s written well and it has that feel of accessibility without being something you’ve heard a hundred times before.

Plus, Mr. Cortini is an extremely nice guy, and I don’t know about you, but when a talented musician is nice, it makes me want to buy his music even more.

There isn’t much to report on this project as the album hasn’t even come out yet, but I am recommending this to anyone. At least download the 4 songs on his website for free, because you’ll be happy you did.

Filed Under “Took Us Long Enough”: The Fragile (Complete) Is Now Up For Download!

Zack C. — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 03:00:45 +0000

That’s right folks! This little bitch of a boxset, which we have been trying to get online for months, is finally up! Download it here! Click after the break to be reminded of what’s in this bad boy.

Okay… so… here it is. The ultimate (not to brag) version of “The Fragile”. With all of the b-sides, a remix (or two), the cassette only tracks and the vinyl only tracks. All with new fade-in’s and fade-out’s for a complete and flowing experience.

Part I:

1: How It All Begins (The New Flesh Remix)
2: Somewhat Damaged
3: The Day The World Went Away
4: The Frail
5: The Wretched
6: We’re In This Together
7: The Fragile
8: Just Like You Imagined
9: The Persistence Of Loss
10: Even Deeper
11: Pilgrimage
12: No, You Don’t
13: La Mer
14: The Great Below
15: The Way Out Is Through
16: Into The Void
17: Where Is Everybody?

Part II:

1: And All That Could Have Been
2: The Mark Has Been Made
3: 10 Miles High
4: Slipping Away
5: The Great Collapse
6: Please
7: Appendage
8: Adrift And At Peace
9: Starfuckers, Inc.
10: Complication
11: The New Flesh
12: I’m Looking Foward To Joining You, Finally
13: The Big Come Down
14: Underneath It All
15: Gone, Still
16: Ripe (With Decay)
17: Leaving Hope

Part III – The Remixes:

1: Complications Of The Flesh
2: Where Is Everybody? (Danny Lohner Featuring Telefon Tel Aviv)
3: Starfuckers Inc. (Charlie Clouser)
4: La Mer (Jerome Dillion and Keith Hillebrandt)
5: Even Deeper (Telefon Tel Aviv)
6: The Becoming (Still)
7: Starfuckers, Inc. (Adrian Sherwood)
8: The Day The World Went Away (Still)
9: 10 Miles High (Keith Hillebrandt) + Untitled Appendage
10: Deep (Single Version)
11: The Wretched (Keith Hillebrandt)
12: The Fragile (Keith Hillebrandt)
13: No, You Don’t (Keith Hillebrandt)
14: The Day The World Went Away (Porter Ricks)
15: The Day The World Went Away (Trent Reznor)
16: The Frail (Benelli)

Part IV – Live:

1: The New Flesh + Pinion (Live From The Fragility Tour)
2: The Way Out Is Through (Live From The Fragility Tour)
3: Even Deeper (Live From The Fragility Tour)
4: Just Like You Imagined (Live At Fragility Tour Rehersals)
5: The Day The World Went Away (Live From The Fragility Tour)
6: Please (Live From The Fragility Tour)
7: Deep (Live At With Teeth Tour Rehearsals)
8: The Big Come Down (Live From The With Teeth Tour)
9: Somewhat Damaged (Live From The Fragility Tour)
10: No, You Don’t (Live From The Fragility Tour)
11: Into The Void (Live From The Fragility Tour)
12: The Day The World Went Away (Live At With Teeth Tour Rehersals)
13: The Frail (Live At With Teeth Tour Rehersals)
14: The Wretched (Live At With Teeth Tour Rehersals)
15: The Day The World Went Away (Live From The Chicago Recording Company Sessions)
16: The Big Come Down (Live From The Chicago Recording Company Sessions)
17: The Fragile (Live From The Chicago Recording Company Sessions)

Part V – The Ones Left Behind:

1: Something I Can Never Have (Still)
2: We’re In This Together (Radio Edit)
3: Metal
4: The Great Collapse/The Frail (Benelli)/Slipping Away/The Wretched (Keith Hillebrandt)(Things Falling Apart Trailer Mash Up)
5: The New Flesh (Deconstructed Mix)
6: The Frail + The Wretched (Extended Vinyl Mix)
7: La Mer (Extended Vinyl Mix)
8: Even Deeper (Extended Vinyl Mix)
9: The Day The World Went Away (Extended Vinyl Mix)
10: I’m Looking Forward to Joining You, Finally (Barely Extended Vinyl Mix)
11: Ripe (Alternate Non-CD Mix)
12: The Mark Has Been Made (Alternate Vinyl Mix)
13: The Day The World Went Away/We’re In This Together/Starfuckers, Inc. (German Album Promo Mash-Up)
14: The Day The World Went Away (Alternate Single Version)
15: Even Deeper (Live From The Chicago Recording Company Sessions)
16: Starfuckers, Inc. (Extended Single Version)
17: The Fragile (Still)

Videos:

Behind The Scenes:

The Live Video “And All That Could Have Been”
The Rare “And All That Could Have Been” TV Special
The Entire “Into The Void” Music Video “Red Room Take”
Behind The Scenes Of The “Starfuckers, Inc.” Music Video
Unused Band Shots From The “Starfuckers, Inc.” Music Video
A Short Behind The Scenes Video From The “We’re In This Together” Music Video

Bonus Videos:

The “And All That Could Have Been” Teaser Trailer
A Full Press Conference With Trent Reznor Explaining “The Fragile” And The “Fragility Tour”
The “The Fragile” TV Ad

Live Videos:

“Gone, Still” Preformed Live From Trent Reznor’s House
“Just Like You Imagined” Preformed Live From The “Fragility Tour” Rehearsals
“No, You Don’t” Preformed Live From Big Day Out 2000
“Somewhat Damaged” Preformed Live From The “Fragility Tour”
“The Fragile” Preformed Live At The MTV Awards 1999
“The Way Out Is Through” Preformed Live From The “Fragility Tour”
“We’re In This Together” + “The Frail” Preformed Live At A Secret Location

Music Videos:

The Original “Into The Void” Music Video
The Alternate Walter Stern Edit Of The “Into The Void” Music Video
The “Starsuckers, Inc.” Music Video
The Rare And Un-Released “The Day The World Went Away” Music Video
The Full 8 Minute Alternate Cut Of The “We’re In This Together” Music Video

Album Review – The Betrayed by Lostprophets

Zack C. — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 04:28:24 +0000

It’s been a long time guys. The rock/rap/nu-metal/pop/whatever (and UK!) band Lostprophets are back after a few years and a disappointing album. James Oliver, the band’s live keyboardist, stated that this new album, titled The Betrayed, had “the bite that Start Something (their second album, it was the heaviest of the three) had, with the song-ability of Liberation Transmission (their third album, which was very poppy and disappointing) but personality of Thefakesoundofprogress (their first album, which was an odd mix of metal, rock, and nu-metal… which turned out amazing).” Any Lostprophets fan would be excited as all hell for this album then! That just described awesomeness! Hell, I actually had hope that they would be able to redeem themselves. Now, notice how earlier I said that they are back. I really… REALLY wanted to say “and better than ever” but that, sadly, is just not the case.

This is not their worst album. At all. Liberation Transmission was their worst (and it was still better than most music out right now). But, this is not their best. At all. The album starts with a shortish intro song that has marching band-like snare rides and choruses with actual choruses singing. It gears you up for something epic… but it just doesn’t happen. After the first 3 songs (which are pretty decent, a lot different from the Liberation tracks and more like the original albums, but sound like imitations other than just sounding like them), we get treated to “Where We Belong”. It’s just a nosedive after that. “Next Stop Atro City” is a pretty hard rock track that isn’t too poppy, but after that, it’s just Liberation Transmission all over again. The ending track is similar to “Sway” from Start Something, as they both end the album with an extended instrumental, except this one’s is a hidden track that is stretched out way longer than it should be. (P.S. I reviewed the Korean edition, which has about 3 extra tracks in the middle of the album and this hidden track. All other versions do not have a hidden track.)

When I first started listening to the album, I’ll tell you, I had hope. Lostprophets is one of my favorite bands and I was just wishing that they would go back to their old grind. The only problem is this: The Betrayed attempts to do go back to the Start Something and Thefakesoundofprogress days for a little bit and then gives up. Even the times it tries, it sounds like the Liberation Transmission era Lostprophets are trying to imitate themselves instead of just BEING their old selves. Plus, as I listened to the Korean edition, it was 3 tracks longer and I felt that it stretched on too long. So, I suggest just picking up the US or UK version.

I’m just a really big Lostprophets fan who loved their first two albums more than most albums. That’s how I see them. If you don’t know this band or even if you have some knowledge about them, I highly suggest you pick this up. It’s an easy to swallow album that is poppy with a hard rock edge. It’s not bad, it’s just not the Lostprophets I know and love.

The Betrayed gets a 3 out of 5.

Album Review – “Them Crooked Vultures” by Them Crooked Vultures

Zack C. — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 19:19:01 +0000

(After a long hiatus, we are back! Anyway, let’s get to brass tax.)

Don’t call them a side-project because no one in the band would agree. You could call them a supergroup if you want to, but they wouldn’t really agree with that either. Josh Homme (singer/guitarist) of Queens Of The Stone Age and Eagles Of Death Metal fame, Dave Grohl (drummer) from Foo Fighters and the almighty Nirvana, and John Paul Jones (bassist) from the legendary Led Zeppelin see their newly formed band, oddly titled “Them Crooked Vultures”, as a bunch of friends (both new and old) just jamming. You would think that this would go decently well, as Dave and Josh have worked together before on the Queens Of The Stone Age album “Songs For The Deaf” and with Josh providing one guitar part on the Foo Fighters album “In Your Honor”, but it goes WAY more then decently well. It goes “Best Album Of The Year” well.

No one really knew of the band until 3 months ago, but it was talked about before. Dave Grohl said in a 2005 interview that “The next project that I’m trying to initiate involves me on drums, Josh Homme on guitar, and John Paul Jones playing bass. That’s the next album. That wouldn’t suck.” Then Josh Homme’s wife later commented on the band. But for the next few years, no one said anything. Everyone was wondering what happened with the band. Then, out of nowhere, in August of ’09, Them Crooked Vultures played their first ever live show in Chicago. Everyone was buzzing about the band, so they wanted to finally put the buzzing to rest and just say “Here we are.”. So, now that you are filled in, let’s talk about this mind-blowingly amazing album.

The album starts out with the usual concert closer song “No One Loves Me & Neither Do I”. This 5 minute opening song is one of the best if not THE best song on the album. The ending is one of the greatest in any song made before it and all three of the members are strutting their stuff here. It has Josh with his frantic guitar fills, John with his just as frantic bass fills, or Dave with his unmatched drumming (especially at the end). The best part is that this is just a preview for what’s going to be the entire album. But don’t expect it to get any heavier than this song.

As we continue throughout the album, we finally can create genre a for this band: Rockish-jazzish-bluesish-danceish-oddish jam music. We have rock on songs like “No One Loves Me & Neither Do I” and “Mind Eraser, No Chaser”, we have jazzishness on songs like “New Fang” and “Caligulove”, we have bluesishness on the aptly titled “Scumbag Blues” and “Bandoliers”, we have danceishness on “Gunman” and “Dead End Friends” and oddishness on the song “Interlude With Ludes”. I could go on with how diverse this album is, but I think that just explained it.

By the time you finish listening to this album, you have to sit down and think about what you just listened to. It’s all over the place with 5 different genres mixed in one 13 track CD. Not to mention there are two songs which almost reach the 8 minute mark and one that meets the 7 minute mark, which is where the jamming element of it all comes in. But once you start to comprehend what just exploded your mind, you realize that your mind hasn’t exploded for anything better in a LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONG time.

This year has had it’s fair-share of releases. With Paramore’s album, which finally gave us the maturity we have always wanted out of them, “brand new eyes” and Rammstein’s album, which completely made up for how bad “Rosenrot” was, “Liebe Ist Für Alle Da”, I was pretty sure it was going to be a tough choice between those two for album of the year. (Yeah, I did just say that.) But out comes “Them Crooked Vultures” and the choice became so much easier. If you pick up only one album this year, make it “Them Crooked Vultures”. And makes sure it’s on vinyl. It’s better on vinyl… trust me.

“Them Crooked Vultures” gets a very well deserved 5 out of 5.

Let’s Try This Again… HAPPY 10th BIRTHDAY “THE FRAGILE”!!!!!!

Zack C. — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 20:46:27 +0000

That’s right kids! Today is the 10th birthday of Nine Inch Nails’ groundbreaking, double-disk album “The Fragile”! 10 years goes by so fast… just think of all the other things that have happened. 9/11 happened. The War in Iraq happened. Kanye interrupting Taylor happened…

…is all this scaring you? Living in the present with machine guns and nukes? Do you want to re-live the good ol’ days of 1999 with Pwnage Pickle and Nine Inch Nails?

Well, then do we have a giant surprise for you!

IT’S “THE FRAGILE (COMPLETE)”! For REALZ this time! And it’s updated with even MORE stuff! It’s not just a tiny bit more complete version of “The Fragile” anymore… it’s a collection of the ENTIRE “THE FRAGILE ERA”. Hell yeah, right?

Us here at Pwnage Pickle have been slaving over a hot keyboard with our headphones blaring “The Big Come Down” and “Just Like You Imagined” for months now working on this for you and we are SO excited to be able to share it with you finally!

Anyway, enough talky, time for info!

It includes every possible video and song from the “The Fragile Era” all in one neat package. With over 6 hours of music and over 3 hours of videos, it’s pretty “complete”.

Song Tracklist:

Part I:

Part II:

Part III – The Remixes:

Part IV – Live:

1: The New Flesh + Pinion (Live From The Fragility Tour)
2: The Way Out Is Through (Live From The Fragility Tour)
3: Even Deeper (Live From The Fragility Tour)
4: Just Like You Imagined (Live At Fragility Tour Rehearsals)
5: The Day The World Went Away (Live From The Fragility Tour)
6: Please (Live From The Fragility Tour)
7: Deep (Live At With Teeth Tour Rehearsals)
8: The Big Come Down (Live From The With Teeth Tour)
9: Somewhat Damaged (Live From The Fragility Tour)
10: No, You Don’t (Live From The Fragility Tour)
11: Into The Void (Live From The Fragility Tour)
12: The Day The World Went Away (Live At With Teeth Tour Rehearsals)
13: The Frail (Live At With Teeth Tour Rehearsals)
14: The Wretched (Live At With Teeth Tour Rehearsals)
15: The Day The World Went Away (Live From The Chicago Recording Company Sessions)
16: The Big Come Down (Live From The Chicago Recording Company Sessions)
17: The Fragile (Live From The Chicago Recording Company Sessions)

Part V – The Ones Left Behind:

Videos:

Behind The Scenes:

Bonus Videos:

The “And All That Could Have Been” Teaser Trailer
A Full Press Conference With Trent Reznor Explaining “The Fragile” And The “Fragility Tour”
The “The Fragile” TV Ad

Live Videos:

Music Videos:

There you go. “The Fragile (Complete)” summed up.

You may be asking: “But where do I get this magical package?” We shall respond with: “Many places, you beautiful young person you!”

Since it’s a huge pack, it really is only able to be retrieved from torrent sites, so…

Here is the link to get it from The Pirate Bay.

The Pirate Bay link is currently unavailable. Sorry for the inconvenience. In the mean time… download it from here in .rar form.

We are working on getting it on Demonoid and Mininova, so you have options.

So… that’s it! Everyone here wishes “The Fragile” a happy 10th birthday and sincerely thank Trent Reznor for making such a masterpiece.

FLASHBACK! – The Fragile (Complete)

Zack C. — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 23:13:42 +0000

So, you guys remember that “The Fragile (Complete)” thing I made a while ago? With the download link that didn’t work? Well, SURPRISE! I’m revamping it so when you get it, it’s gonna be even BETTER. Hit the break to get some new info.

I have been thinking about it, and I am going to add even MORE to this boxset. It’s not just “The Fragile With B-Sides And Videos” anymore. It’s going to be a full out collection of the entire “The Fragile Era”. Now, this will take a while to get everything needed, but, as Trent Reznor would say, it will come out soon.

While you wait, why don’t you check out this trailer for it? It has even MORE info about the boxset… and it’s pretty cool itself.

Michael Jackson, The King Of Pop, Is Dead.

Zack C. — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 22:51:24 +0000

That’s right boys and girls, Michael “I like to dangle babies off of high ledges and rape little children” Jackson has died today, June 25, 2009, the same day as actress Farrah Fawcett, and the same week as late-night sidekick Ed McMahon. He was 50. More info after the break.

At 12:01-12:26 PM today, he was rushed to the hospital. Paramedics said he was not breathing when they found him and the whole way to the hospital. On the way, they tried to revive him with CPR with no success. He arrived at the hospital in a deep coma and at 3:15pm Pacific, he died. They are saying he suffered a cardiac arrest and a possible overdose on sleep meds. He leaves behind three kids: Michael Joseph Jackson, Jr., Paris Michael Katherine Jackson and Prince “Blanket” Michael Jackson II.

Michael Jackson, as you all know, burst onto the scene in the pop group “Jackson 5″, in which he was the youngest of all his brothers. They made the smash hit “ABC” and other lower grade hits. Jackson then went solo and released many hit albums, including “Thriller”, the best selling album of all time with more then 50 million records sold.

Even if he did rape those little boys… you have to give him respect. He was… and always will be… THE King of Pop. Rest in Peace man.