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You should reach out to Trent to see if he'll sit down with you and your piano for an interview. You never know...
YES !! Great idea !!
Trent is the kind of person who, if prompted, would do that kind of thing. Just my two cents.
@@lafeeshmeister Yeah, and what professional musician wouldn't love being interviewed by someone who actually understands the details of what they're doing like Ixi? Beats the vacuous junk most music journalists ask about.
YES! This would be the best one ever done, especially at this phase in his career!
She might melt..😂
I don't know why but "Leaving Hope" always felt very calm and comforting to me. "And All That Could Have Been" on the other hand stabs me right in the feels.
Agreed
Same for me. It is almost as if the worst has now happened and a calm comforting acceptance is sinking in.
The Great Below is the one that lightly glazes my eyes. I don't cry, but the song definitely tightens up my chest and tickles my sinus a bit. There's just something about his voice, and the type of melodies, rhythms, and layered noise. The only other voice I've felt an emotional glaze, is Amy Lee.
I can see that. It has 'musical movement' before the outro which keeps it from being completely melancholic, like, say, pondering the times you had with someone after they're gone. I think the most hard hitting part is the outro which, however many times I listen to it, I always want to be returned to something that came before, like how the quiet part between 2:30-3:00 moves toward the chorus: I want it to return to something. It doesn't, and it just leaves you with an empty feeling, in contrast to whatever was there before which you're realizing won't be coming back. I might be alone in this, but it's always been the feeling it's left me with.
It works The Opposite Way to me..
In context of the whole album, A Warm Place brought me to tears almost 30 years ago. As a standalone song, however, this is a great choice.
Listening to Leaving Hope feels like my heart has been ripped out of my chest, set on fire and thrown into the ocean. It's the devastation of loss.
Only in this vision, the fire doesnt stop burning as your heart falls and sinks below the cold ocean waves?
Leaving hope is one of the best songs ever created
I 100% agree
"Dissonant but not unpleasant" has just become my new favorite phrase.
Knowing La Mer's history, I would say that is the saddest NIN song.
I'm just so happy that STILL is getting so much love these days.
I've been a nine inch nails fan since the beginning and I think STILL is still the best album he ever made.
oh? that sounds intriguing. i've been listening to NIN since the beginning as well. I eventually get to everything trent has released but shall move this up the list!
Indeed. Both the originals and the versions on this album have a depth that I haven´t found in any NIN record since or before. Also, hearing these versions with the original songs in mind creates a sort of "augmented experience" for me, personally. As if these gentler versions are barely holding back the huge power on the original ones.
Something I can never have.
Your right.. this one is different tho. Not as scary..iv used them both in my life alot
I always felt that Trent knew there was a better way in life, that there was hope in this world, but not for him. The music from this Era could be so hopeful in some ways, but utterly heart breaking.
It may be Trent’s saddest song-but hearing you talk about it with care and a lot of attention made my day better. Thank you
I instantly knew the two choices would be either [Leaving Hope] or [All That Could Have Been] because that sh*t stuck with me for the better part of a decade now.
Another very emotional piano piece by Nine Inch Nails is "Together" from the Ghosts V album.
This is one of the most beautiful songs I have ever heard. It touches my soul in a place that I try to keep hidden. Hope is a very dangerous thing and shouldn't be held on too because it hurts so bad to lose it. This song perfectly expresses the feeling of loss and trying to get back that hope. That maybe one day things will be better. That the dangerous part, the maybe. You will chase "maybe" for your entire life. Kinda the theme of my life which is why I love this song so much.
You're doing great work. With a title of "The saddest Nine Inch Nails song", I knew immediately that you were referring to "Leaving Hope". Such an incredibly emotional piece.
Haha same. As soon as I saw the title, I started humming Leaving Hope.
You did such a great job of demonstrating why Trent Reznor is one of the best songwriters of all time.
I didn't know this song as soon as I clicked on this video (thanks for sharing by the way), I have been getting into Trents and nine inch nails music alot recently, and I have been finding alot of hidden gems, the production on the fragile, further down the spiral, pretty hate machine and pretty much most of his albums are top notch and one of the reasons I bought a synthesizer and got super inspired again, it's like having a new soul when you get a new instrument like this all these effects at the tip of your fingertips, you can create basically anything. Trent makes dark, heavy but beautiful sounds, and that's why to me he's a genius
The quiet screams mixed in at the end is so haunting and beautiful. I love the way it hangs on that, because it loops back into Something I Can Never Have so well. It also just feels so empty, like everyone you know is gone, but you are still here.
I first listened to this when I was just entering my 20's. 9/11 was still recent and I had entered the grind of the work force and kind of gave up on my life dream of being a writer/artist for a living. And so after the euphoric highs of my teens in the 90's, and then the sudden plunge into whatever the hell the 00's were, I was for the first time depressed and felt hopeless about the world and my own life. And this track pretty much summed up how I felt perfectly.
I love Trent’s writing style, not just the heavy stuff but especially his melodic piano Arrangements, I have never heard anything else like it, after 20 years of breaking from studying music theory I’m starting again just to dissect and hopefully compose something similar. I think modal enter change and borrowing outside the normal scales is key, but thank you for sharing what I can’t yet do.
He does use modal interchange with only major chords a lot. But in this song he doesn't borrow or interchange, and it still sounds very much like him. I think it has something to do with his comfort with dissonance and tension and sparse harmony created by melodic lines and sequences. It's taught me a lot too!
The intro always reminds me of 'Narayan' by The Prodigy.
Holy shit... your version at the end is going on repeat. How beautiful.
Was just gonna comment that. The infinitely rising figures just... wow.
I'm a black metal head and a band but I will never ever forget my true favorite band nine inch nails and a very significant influence of my music
Whole internet couldn't do what you have done here... Thank you for that!
A Warm Place, especially if you listen to slowed down versions is the saddest song by far
while im still here fading into black noise
Leaving hope sounds like someone washed ashore after a shipwreck , and as they slowly gain consciousness, they realize all that they lost, and all that cannot come back. And they wish maybe they never washed ashore at all. It's a pale moon lighting the sky a deep blue. absolutely agree on the cold wind feelings.
I’ve always loved music - but I was never trained or taught formally. I absolutely love how she breaks down Trent’s music. His music has always touched my heart & soul - but she interprets it for the mind.
🖤🤍🖤
Listening to this song is like opening an old wound.
Fully weeping at Ixi’s version that closes out the video. Beautiful.
This was my most listened to song for 3 years in a row lol
I've been listening to the same TH-cam video of this song since 2011, so it was only natural for TH-cam to recommend this video to me. Glad it did. Great work, you really gave the song the respect and love it deserves. Peace.
Your playing is so beautiful.
My favorite song from this era of NIN.
It’s been my favorite song since the day I first let in in…which coincidentally was a few days before my fiancé passed away….it’s never been performed live to the best of my knowledge…
I can't believe I've never even heard this song, but the way you analyzed it makes me want to cry. Really good.
a new convert!
@ixi music To this song, yes! I've been watching your channel for a while, and I absolutely love your analysis of The Downward Spiral, my favourite album of all time. After listening to it 140,000 times, I thought I caught almost everything, but I'm thankful you proved me wrong. Such a deep, deep, deeeeeeep album.
This girl is sharp as a tack..
On TH-cam in 2022, I watched (as usual) a whole lot of junk, entertainment and valuable materials. But the greatest treasure for me will be the Ixi channel, which technically breaks down music into layers, giving them technical sense and allows you to understand why they are so special. Over the past few months, Ixi has taken me on a nostalgic and emotional journey through sounds from my past that have shaped me emotionally. Plus it satisfies my engineering approach to music.
Something amazing. At the end of the year, I get a great culmination in the form of the Leaving Hope analysis.
Ixi - thank you with all my heart.
Really gave me pause the first time I heard this one - not just from how achingly beautiful the song is, but also from the sheer breadth of Trent's musical range.
Massive disparity between this and something like Mr Self-Destruct.
Also, first time I've caught a premiere!
Once I read the title, I knew which song it was.
This is definitely the saddest NIN song ❤️
Such an instrumental masterpiece, so many emotions, so much nostalgia… it reminds me of a heartbreak I went through back in NYC, about 10 years ago…
Just like smells, music brings you back to previous, forgotten feelings. Amazing to be alive and feel 🏆❤️
When I first heard it, and all the Still album , I thought Trent should make movie scores 😝. It definitely prefigured his future path. Suggestions : have you heard Trent's collabs lately? Native Intelligence and I Think We're Past This Now are stunning ❤️😍!
melody make me watchin someone try to climb up to struggle but slowly slip down to the start. and he repeats over and over.
This song sends shivers down my spine and brings tears to my eyes. Always. No matter how many times I’ve heard it. Thank you, Ixi.
"Supposed to give us answers but it just gives us more questions." I love that!! So glad you released this! Such a long time coming but worth the wait!
Might I say that I love the visual aid of the piano diagram playing! This song is so beautiful and I've always wanted to understand it.
I have said since i heard it, i want this played at my wake. It sounds like freezing.
this is one of my favorite and most important albums to me. this helped me through really tough times, it's hard for me to listen to it because it brings me back to the comfort of suffering.
One of my favorite songs of theirs. My hope is that whenever he is done performing live this is finally played.
Amazing. So glad you've done this one -- probably my favourite thing Trent has ever written.
Leaving hope means the world to me. And i have not heard anyone put music into words, or analyze composition, as well as you do, in years, if ever. And so, it's like you are handling this piece much better than i do, and it hits the feels, and respects :)
Here are my two cents: the guitar notes you compared to meowing that doesn't come through, the overtoney ones, i believe, are a case of pitch harmonics. He'd just touch the strings with the picking hand, just barely, and just right, while picking, to interfere with their movement. Or maybe those are even the natural flageoletes, without pinning the string down? Something among those lines. It's not about distortion settings per se.
Thanks for your video!
This song breaks me down every time
I love how the saddest song has no lyrics. Thats one thing I love about NIN, their music is so emotional.
Leaving Hope without a doubt has become one of my favorite NIN songs lately, i’m honestly glad I found out about this song
"Right where it belongs" is my favorite NIN song.
If you haven't seen it I analyzed it a ways back without being too familiar. It was kind of like a proper introduction.th-cam.com/video/0QqlzHrttj0/w-d-xo.html
Oh wow, I didn't expect it would be this one, but yeah, beautiful, nail on head! One of my all time favourite pieces of music, ever. I actually always found the title to be very juxtaposed. To me, the music feels more like hope arriving. A transition into a new state of acceptance, giving up the fight, but in a good way. A caterpillar to a butterfly.
Love this! I think that this song made me feel the most of anything Reznor ever composed, but that riff in "And All That Could Have Been" is probably the saddest piece of music I've ever heard. This lead is likely the most effective piece of music Reznor ever wrote, and I'm very glad that someone with a following is doing a video on it, so thank you!
Thanks a lot Ixi. Beautiful. Heartbreaking. One of Trent's masterpieces, definitely.
Leaving Hope certainly has a sadness to it, but it feels like it goes to an urgency and a resolve to action. Also, When you broke down that last part it sounds like the awesome part of Still Right Here from the Ghosts V album: Together. It's also very explorative, might be worth checking out.
Been waiting so long for someone to dive into this track like this. My favourite piece of music - to the point that I have that main melody tattooed. Your analysis does it justice as well. Thank you.
I’d love a video on Trent and Atticus’ new score for Bones and All. Loads to unpack there!!!
There are so, so many deeply sad NIN songs. Which do you consider the saddest?
I cried during and all that could have been multiple times :
"Leaving Hope" from Still.
For me it's "RIght Where It Belongs" - lyrically speaking at least. It just asks some really hard questions, and requires a level of introspection that i sometimes don't want to contemplate.
It's not the most original opinion, but I still think it's "Hurt"
Splitter's remix of Zero-Sum. If you don't feel something, seek help.
Leaving hope is one of the most precious songs that he’s ever given us. This and Home from the With Teeth sessions
I love Home. They played it live at Red Rocks this summer and I was so excited!
While Leaving Hope still tears my soul out, I do get a sense of bittersweet victory from it. The idea of leaving hope behind sounds terrible at first. That’s when I realized what we are without hope, free. This is my Katrina song. I grew up in New Orleans and left after Hurricane Katrina. I really fell in love with this song during that time. Hope can be anchor, an anchor you’re told to be thankful for. But without hope, you can move on and let go. I let go of my past listening to this song while driving across the country to start over. I doubt this was Trent’s intent behind the song, but that’s the feeling I still get from it.
Thank you for covering this masterpiece.
Thank you so much for doing this. It's my all time favorite NIN song, but it also breaks my heart.
Beautiful piece. One of my favorites. It’s such a deep track.
Leaving hope. It feels like one's will is leaving. After an excruciatingly painful time.
Also, The Persistence of Loss, which precedes it on the album. The placement of all the songs is amazing. Persistence seems like one is tired of the repeating pain.
Thank you for finally doing Leaving Hope! I've been patiently waiting. 🙂
I wish in my time of 20 years loving this band and learning all of his/their songs. That i could have found someone like you that understands this so deeply......i still feel alone . But thank you
This video made my day. Then I saw the Downward Spiral analysis series, which made my week! As a longtime Reznor fan and musician who loves to mess around with NIN stuff on keys, I thank you.
The way it slows down, into "death" or whatever, puts me in a thoughtless dissociated fog, it's weird but a cool effect, to happen from listening to sound.
Amazing ixi you finally got to it! This is very very very very very very very special. Thank you so much. Your arrangement is incredible and very touching. I especially like the added 'lifting' section where you built up from the lower guitar melody into these weaving-upward chord voicing and stretching up the melody. Big feels. Thank you.
this album came out on my 15th birthday and was playing in my head most of the time during basic training. thanks for covering this tune. really enjoying your videos!
YES YES FINALLY!!!!!! Probably the highest quality (emotional quality) and most beautiful piece of music/art since the classical era in my opinion
The weird thing is this song is right in my complete wheelhouse and yet this isn't in heavy rotation for me. Now with this magnificent video, it's gotta be in my top 10 from him. Definitely going to use this as reference to write something this week!!! Thanks Ixi, love your channel. You do such a great job.
...and damn! that cover!
My favorite song to cry to, I love your version.
At 11 30 you say synth, i always hear it as a guitar playing on half pressed chords. Playing the overtones, or the ones with a zero mode on that particular fret. It is hauntingly beautiful in any case.
It's a very beautiful song.
i am so glad I stumbled upon your channel. Your NIN break downs fill me with joy. Thank you for existing
This is my fav NIN song! Hanging out playing along at home, thanks for this!
You have just made me realize a "drowning" scale. Imagine yourself sinking beneath the water. As a final act you reach your hand up to the surface hoping that someone will see you and reach out and pull you up so you can breath and continue to live. But you're already too deep and your hand doesn't break the surface and you are now resigned to sink and drown. I appreciate your work because of these visceral reactions and metaphors are more apparent when you slow it down and take it one bite at a time.
Wooow! This is my NIN Favorite Song!!! Yes, this is the saddest for me!!! Thank you!!!
I’m one of those who has requested this video, and as soon as I saw the title I knew it was here. And you did not disappoint. Thank you. I had goosebumps and tears in my eyes for much of the video.
It is difficult for me to articulate how important this song is to me. It is like an old friend that has got me through many hard times, I couldn’t even begin to guess how many times I have heard it.
Wow great job. I like how you took time to break down why the notes seem to carry the weight they do. Funny how the simplest things can convey so much complexity. That alone is a jewel of insight.
I absolutely LOVE how you compared the melody to speaking. Those notes being interpreted as words. Thats why I adore music, its such a strong language without having words. Trent is such a genius, and your interpretation of his work is spot on and fascinating to watch, Ixi. Thank you
pretty happy to see that, not a huge nine inch nails fan, but this particular piece was always my absolute favorite of all Reznor's output, thanks alot!
acutally, first time i heard it was in a game called "half-quake: amen", and the narrative of this game is this - you're locked in abstract black and white world with no exit, and the main point is that you suffer through series of levels knowing that you will eventually die in a painful way, because exit from this place does not exist.
and this piece was a soundtrack for the level where you're waiting for a train on a trainstation for 20 minutes (literally, you wait for 20 minutes).
man, that was about like 20 years ago. fell in love with that tune since
wow didn't know that!
This is my 2nd fave NIN track right behind Just Like You Imagined . Awesome break down Cheers !
Your insight into, and ability to describe, how music can be so emotionally evocative, is amazing. You so deftly put into words exactly what NIN makes me feel. Great video.
I’ve always loved NIN but your series has given me a very different appreciation. I’ve been learning piano for the past 10 years, and this has offered a very specific understanding of theory and NIN music. Thank you.
100%
Excellent analysis of Leaving Hope. Really gave me new appreciation for the track.
What an incredible analysis, thank you so much!
This song is the embodiment of loneliness and regret, so sad
Thank you for this. Damn. It's so good. You've done so well w the break down of the music.
I never noticed this song really, but its actually incredible.
I don't frequent your channel and for that alone, I should apologize, for constantly you demonstrate what I feel to be truly profound insight with truly excellent musicianship..
That said, I feel that you explore and explain this devastating powerful piece ((.... doubtless, one of my favorites)) with unparalleled sensitivity and skill...
Truly, I feel you are... a Beautiful Soul....
The "choked" sound I think is some kind of percussive tuned instrument (maybe piano, but also marimba, xylophone, etc, something with a sharp transient) put through a very, very underbiased fuzz.
Your cat meow analogy is on point: an underbiased fuzz has it's amplifying element (usually a discrete transistor) fed lower than expected current, so it does this thing where it only "turns on" at the very extremes of a waveform going through it, so it sounds choked, sputtery.
a lot of these songs really hit me hard because they're the only music that has really emotionally resonated with me. There's a line about asking people to please run as far away as they can from me, and it is one of the lines that just feels like it's the only truth in the world I could speak. Trent shows the clarity of seeing your mental state and realising how fucked you are so well, the bit running up to 3 minutes in this video just makes me feel like i do in the morning when i wake up and realise who i still am
Damn I love your analysis of NIN songs. Thank you so much for creating these awesome pieces of content.
BTW, this is my morning alarm clock song. It is what I wake up to every day.
Thank you for sharing this fantastic analysis
I wish you would put your cover of this song on spotify. I can't stop listening to it.
"And All That Could Have Been" is a must!
Wow I’m glad you are so analytical. It’s like you are acutely aware and really absorb all the layers I experience at different times but all at once. Thanks!