Me, I'm Not - Year Zero // NIN track by track breakdown
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- Опубликовано: 10 сен 2024
- Earlier this year we listened to Year Zero on my Patreon and with their blessing I'm releasing an edited recording of the livestream, song by song! There's some analysis of the melodies/chords/rhythms and soloing of the individual multitracks to hear how all the components fit together to make the final track!
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The glottal stops in the verses, the tension, is relieved in the chorus when he says "heyyy". That's when we breathe.
Has anyone else noticed that the opening and groove of this song is exactly the same as Home by Depeche Mode? Now, that would be a pretty cool mashup.
yeeees. just checked! Haha
This song is a perfect example of why I love nine jnch nails, and I feel like there are not as many bands that have music layered in such an interesting way. Literally a discovery on every track.
Yeah soloing Year Zero multi-tracks are always such an adventure. it's just like, …how do you layer so many different sounds on top of each other without it sounding like garbage? NIN manages to do this and instead create something sounding incredibly dynamic, and those layers are essential to the way the song sounds-even though those sounds often get obscured in the mix, like ixi was discovering.
I'll never forget hearing this song live in 2007. The live setup for the song was an obvious homage to Kraftwerk, and those green pulsating lights behind the guys was so cool to see.
Did the sub bass burst your heart out of your chest?
@@iximusic Yeah, Mortal Kombat fatality style
I think this is a reference to the faction within the lore “Backwards initiative”
And their goal to send information about their dystopia, back in time so their dystopian future can be avoided.
Was such a cool concept.
Thanks for this comment I hadn’t gotten to that bit and am loving the sht out of it.
One of the coolest songs of all time. Just sounds fucking cool. I’ll never forget them opening with this in London 2014, and Trents silhouette just slowly appearing through the fog. Good times.
They also opened with this in Glasgow 2014. Such a cool way to open
This is one of my favorites of the stuff he did post 90s. It's so grumbling and boiling sounding. Sounds like an alchemist made this.
"Aayyyeee.." to be sung like a modern day Fonzie... one of my faves, particularly the live version, omg the kinetic stop/slow of his vocal delivery, rappers should be impressed by it, fun to sing along... lazy sinister feel...
22:28 lol someone else remembers Sphere (1998)
I believe this was mainly all done by Trent, pretty sure he spoke about making a lot of this album on a laptop, while on tour for the previous album, which is sick
This track is so smooth n funky.
I remember when this album came out, the sound design was so revelatory to me, that distorted riff ixi solos in around 18:29 just sounds like ITS ALIVE. I always imagined it as the character going over the edge and turning into a monster, howling while glitching out as its system is overloading. It's also weirdly reminds me of Turntablism scratching , using two vinyls each with weird sound design tracks on them.
The fact that he made something so dynamic and musical yet experimental with Eurorack modular gear is just a testament to how intuitively he picks up electronic music gear and finds the music hidden within. Most people just make weird sound design, ambient, or dance music on Eurorack modular systems, because that's sort of the path of least resistance.
Back when the Year Zero ARG was in full swing, prior to the album's release, individual songs would come out online because the band would put the song on a USB stick and leave it in a bathroom stall or under an overpass or some other insane place and the clues from the game would lead a fan to find it. The fan would upload the song to a fan site, and everyone would hear it then for the first time.
I remember when Me I'm Not came out that way one afternoon, a stripper who was active on the Echoing the Sound message board said she could pick her own music at work, so she danced to this song that very same night, months before the official release.
That really stuck with me, and your comment here about dancing to this track reminded me of it. I always wondered what the people in the strip club would have thought of that music (not that the clientele would necessarily have been doing a lot of thinking).
Hands down my favorite track from Year Zero. The delayed reverb on the snare is just so satisfying!
Thanks Ixi..now I just must listen to the whole year zero album ...again...don't stop! ...me I'm not.❤
Me i'm not is great, his vocals are just insanely unique
I love this song so much! Of course, I say that for every track on this album. 😁
The hip hop is strong with this one
Bonkers production on this one
Love these track by track breakdowns. Love the release schedule. Such a great series. :)
One of my faves . That grimy rubbery Bassline is the piss
Also @7:04 🤔. DJ gig for Texas’s eyes wide shut parties I’d keep it hush hush too 🤣
lol!
Definitely an underrated NIN song.
I didn't love it at first, but it really grew on me. I really enjoy live versions
It's a pleasure to listen through this "with you" one day at a time. Always something to look forward to. :)
It took me years to really "love" Me, I'm not. Now it's one of my favorites off Year Zero.
Regarding the song meaning, if I remember correctly, since this a concept album about an dystopian authoritarian government, and part of that meant forcing the citizen's to take some drug ( I think they even had a name for it), hence the protaganist " swallows it down" and becomes something " he is not."
This is my favourite NIN track hands down. So dark and groovy
When the "chair squeak" hits just right.
Loving the blue lipstick in these videos!
I thought we might have to call for help ... during that longish listening section, I thought your fluttering eyelids, as you let yourself fall deep into the music, might be indicating an impending seizure. Absolutely LOVE LOVE your amazing passion for the music, and I'm very impressed by your increasingly acute and spot on understanding of rhythm, especially how the elements of a drum set are used in the music you evaluate. I so very much enjoy your videos.
This song hooked me to Year Zero, so I can feel your adoration for this song. This song wouldn't play on my boombox at home though, strangely enough.
Favorite non-Ghosts NIN track of the 21st century. What an outing.
I love the in theme lip color !
So Massive Attack
I see the same kidna of care put into every element in this one just like during the TDs - Fragile era. my fav from this record!
I did dance to this, I happened to be brushing my teeth at the time. Maybe not the best idea, but that’s how danceable it is.
It’s a slow burn version of Vessel but the lyrics sound like someone beginning or at the start of an addiction rather than the throws of addiction.
Whats funny when this album came out I loved it . But as I listen to it today in 2022 every song feels like Trent has been trying warn us on what's going on with this world and all of the things happening right now. If that make sense !
It does. Some say it was a warning!
@@iximusic haha.! I see ok ok that was a good one !
Definitely my favorite album
Do you think you could make a sister channel where you just listen and groove and sing along to NiN songs all day? I'm sure Mr Reznor wouldn't object.
Txs for doing this! Love your work!!!
This is definitely one of my favorites from this album, and really in general. Funny to hear the submarine groove reference at the end, because I hear a whale call when you had the four tracks @ 16:17 🐳😯 But I never did before...
Relatable here
I regard this song as a pseudo continuation of The Becoming.
I listened to a local band's album online which sounded like they had only listened to this album. They totally aped it.
Thanks for the OM Unit recommend :)
Love this song
Ever since I saw you were doing Year Zero, I was waiting for this one. Such a fucking weird, bizarre, sexy, beautiful track.
Hmmm….An Aphex Twin musical analysis video and now you divulge your love of electronic music. Ever thought of doing an analysis of anything off of Orbital’s In Sides album?
ixi is my #1 fangirl :D
That beat reminds me of “Home” by Depeche Mode.
At around 17:00, your piano reproduction of the synth track sounds like the opening to Hand Covers Bruise.
I love how quickly the stop, stops? If that makes sense. The flow of the words are just really glitchy. It’s like he’s being censored. Reminds me of jpegmafia almost?
The synth work is very 'Brainiac'-like, all the crazy noises at the end
I *love* the Reznorator too! 😉
This is what aliens play in their spaceships.
Not to be immature but...69 thousand subsribers...
sounds like something from the dust brothers’ FIGHT CLUB score.
This is number six on my personal top ten list of NIN tracks. These lyrics will rock your booty off! "That Deep philosophical genius of Trenty boy! You can tell he's well read on the simulation theory,Plato, Carl Jung, & many of the greatest thinkers & writers. He incorporates a lot of ancient theories into his art. He does it in his own brilliant way. Don't even get me started on "zero sum".
RIP, Tim Smith.. please, if you can listen to the Cardiacs. I think you will like them. Infact I think you will be a fan for life.
Yuh! Me, I'm not!
20:34 It sounds like a wooden agogo
This is very Dub-inspired.
Hey @ixi music Are you using stem files to do this or just the software. If so, is that Ableton?
Stems! Downloaded them here: www.nindestruct.com/remix.html enjoy!
Come to think of it, the "tss tss" loose high-hat fill reminds me of Bernard Purdie's ghost notes
Лучшеееееееее.......
Just published this new song, which is partly based on NIN Closer, and Gary Numan Down In The Park. You may or may not dig it... ruclips.net/video/cNjx20x_0NE/видео.html
Ya should have listened to commander Reznor, Putin
2432.mp3
Blue? How can I put it…noooooooo