Has someone noticed that the piano cadence and melody in the background at the end of him singing "...makes me dissapear" that keeps going till "in the great below!", is the same we can listen in the chorrus of the song "And all that could have been"???
@@iximusic of course is not a coincidence!! He use to do this a lot... repeting melodies in different songs like some kind of leitmotif. Since I first heard "and all that could have been" got the feeling that those 2 song were related in more ways than the title (part of the great below lyrics)....when I realized it was moving and inspiring! Thanks for your response, I love your channel!
The part when the ocean pulls me close was a revelation for me, it still feels like life had just begun. Even after 20 years it still moves me to tears.
this has always been my favorite Fragile song, it is the most "simple" but it is the one that impacted me the most, it's a sad mystical song, it looks like an old sailor song
how does this video not have 10 million views? Ixi really brings a lot of insights, which, for me, deepen my understanding of the music and his genius as one of our greatest living songwriters.
Not sure if anyone has chimed in on this yes, but this song carries the sorrowful theme about the loss of his grandmother, who cared for him during much of his life, hence the lines: "all the world has closed her eyes" - obvious metaphor of his grandmother dying and "all of this for you.... spoils of a wasted life...all of this for you" for just one more moment back with her.
I'm from a seaside town and I lost my best friend in some really tragic circumstances and on the greyest of days when I'd sit on the beach wall to try and be near her because we spent so time there I'd think of this song. I dare'nt play it then cos there would be alot of ugly crying
Nice to see many other people here say that this is one of their favourite NIN songs. I'm welling up just listening to ixi playing short keyboard sections.
I’ve fallen into an ixi music rabbit hole and I’m cool with that. Love the analysis. I would give a nickel to watch Trent reacting to one of your videos.
This is my favourite track from The Fragile and it's wonderful to see your analysis. I've always thought of it as a tale of someone contemplating suicide by drowning in the ocean but then moving on. The "I descend from grace" line is probably one of the most powerful lines I've ever heard and the way he delivers it is amazing. I'm surprised you didn't mention it. I've seen NIN live a few times but I haven't seen this live. I hope I do some day.
Haven't listened to NIN for a while, and it's so great to go back through The Fragile again. I love how there are several musical themes that run through multiple songs and even the entire album, creating a cohesive piece of amazing. Such a cathartic experience.
Watching these videos I am vacillating between goosebumps and tears in my eyes. I am 43 and have been a Trent Reznor fan since I was in my early teens. No artist is as important to me. I am also a musician and song writer who has always been in awe of Trent’s songwriting. Your analysis of these treasured songs is both familiar and enlightening. Thank you for the time and thought that has gone into these videos. This is my new favorite TH-cam channel.
This music makes me feel some really deep and strong emotions....its very rare to feel these kind of emotions in life..to feel that and make a song about it is incredible...Trent is absolute brilliant.
I didn't think such a dark song could be analysed in this fun and accessible a way! It's so nice to see Trent's pre-film score music being taken seriously as the work of a real composer. The soundscapes he makes are so meticulous and evocative: the attention to detail in the instrumentals, the intricate layering of sample over sample over sample. If you ever wanted to, I think you could do a phenomenal analysis of 'La Mer' and 'Adrift & At Peace' together, since he considers them companion pieces. Thank you for all of your fascinating videos and best of luck with your channel.
I knew after i watched this live box set that La Mer was a companion as is just flows right in The Great Below so naturally, but now i need to listen to all 3 as you mentioned. Wonder how many others haven't noted these are almost like 1 long song that changes its fur
Thank you for doing this. This song destroys me. It was a very pleasant experience listening to someone who "gets it", talk about this song so in depth. My absolute fav. NIN song. Keep up the fantastic work.
I have always liked this song. When I first heard it on big speakers and a subwoofer it skyrocketed to one of my faves. The bass hits in this song are tremendous.
Nine Inch Nails has been my favorite band since Pretty Hate Machine came out. Just wanna say thanks for putting all these together, I get absolutely lost in your analysis and love hearing your breakdowns and interpretations of these timeless songs.
Hello, thank you for this. Your explanations enlightened some of the feellings that I had for years. The Fragile is one of my favorite album ever, it feels like a journey and every song has such a great progression and story, it feels visual. This song to me felt so sad but also comforting and calming in a way. I know nothing about music, but I really enjoyed hearing you dissecting the song.
Yes it feels like a journey to me also. That's interesting you say it's visual - that's definitely my experience too, so evocative, so immersive. So glad you enjoyed. My hope is that people of all levels of a musical background can deepen their understanding!
Those string synths in the chorus you mentioned were what sold me on this song all those ... *checks notes* 22 years ago. Jesus. No matter how many times I listen, they always give me goosebumps. I'm gonna add to the suggestions that you look into Skinny Puppy. Specifically around the Rabies/Too Dark Park/Last Rights era, though they're all great.
finally, some insight into this song. as someone who doesn't really know theory, this is really cool for me to see someone dig into this song from that perspective. possibly my all time favorite nine inch nails song. truly, thank you, ma'am.
Hearing it for the first time i remember i was sooooo into those ocean's ebbs and flows violin waves that i'd just lost breathing track and forgotten about it for a while. A MASTERPIECE. And edit: no. we didn't missed it ;D We looooooooooooove those subtle, surely made to amplify the life evaporating atmosphere, noises.
It's amazing how you talk about every single emotion I am feeling while I listen to it. I feel like you broke into something very personal and private in my heart, and yet you made me happy because of it. I can't explain it in English.
Great video! Thanks for breaking it down for all of us, this puts these songs to a whole deeper level of understanding and appreciation. Personal history: I remember when this album came out I was listening to the strings in this song over and over again. I was also in high school and the strings were totally resonating with me at that point of my life. Cool channel.
I sit here with cheeto dust on my fingers pondering if Trent is looking up from the great below or looking "down in it" Thanks Ixi, ive rewatched and listened hundreds of times, this for me, is the hardest song ive tried to learn in a while
Came here from Mr. Self Destruct. So glad to see your treatment applied to this, my favorite song off my favorite NIN album. One thing that always gets me about this song is the power he wrung out of a single chorus. It pays off more because you only get one. Subbed.
I'm not even a musician but this is so interesting to watch/learn! Thank you ixi for breaking down this song part by part this has become one of my favorite songs and I wanted to find out the story behind it.
I love the violins in this song. I feel like they slowly build suspense like in a scary movie. Almost as if they are warning the Listener "Warning! Danger". It all crescendos when he sings that he will take is position in the great below. Then the music turns comforting and easy. Then his lyrics I can still feel you even so far away seems to go give comfort to someone that has lost a loved one. As one does when they are depressed it feels good to dwell in sad music. This is one of those songs. As you noted this song ended the first disc. I always find hope that the second disc starts with The way out is Through. The opening lyric is "All I've undergone I will keep on". He put these songs together on purpose. Suicide and then offers hope. Thanks Trent. Then comes Into the Void and it brings ya right back down. Lol. Roller Coaster.
I think Trent also uses a version of the chorus chord structure for the Watchmen (TV Show) Soundtrack. It's a little different but the structure is very similar.
I found your channel. I ~should~ have slept ages ago, but it's so intoxicating listening to you pick apart Trent's music and explain to me in such excruciating detail how he makes me feel exactly how he makes me feel. You are amazing. ♥
I went to see them on the fragility tour in 2000, and when this song was played my brain melted . Also it was that song where the light screens kicked over to movie screens.
This is another song I haven't really listened to in a while, but my god it dredges up feelings. Such a beautiful song that I feel terrible for not have listening to in such a long time. All of the different parts in this song make me feel something different.
I've been looking for someone on TH-cam for like 5 years or even more that can touch on what trent is doing, there's been nothing. Just bands doing covers and interviews. These videos are important. I'm already hooked. This girl is pretty and cool. Interesting look. Cool to wear lipstick, absolutely never any eyeliner. Almost want to say post elegant Emo look. Also she knows her music theory. I'm a guitarist and even this is helping me learn a little bit more on music theory.
I read on songmeanings that The Great Below was created by Reznor after the death of his grandmother, whom he was very close to. That explains the sad, haunting, and deep, yet beautiful, hopeful, and surrender type of feeling that this song encompasses. I love music that gives this feeling. It’s unfortunate that this type of music is difficult to come by in terms of feeling, melody, and mood.
Hi, great job analyzing the most visceral and powerful song (for me) they've played in a 2000 live show back then. Your channel is the NIN version of Rick Beato, and it's quite addictive. I've been a dedicated fan ever since NIN released the 'march of the pigs' video. I know theory, but I adore the way your content refreshes my memory of what I had forgotten with time, plus also makes me discover much new things for me as well, and that really feels good. Ever since I've binge watched your videos, my love and passion for my all-time favorite artist has been brought back, stronger than ever. Thank you, sincerely. Something tells me that chatting with you would be great, yet I really don't wanna come in too strong with that, respectfully. I know mixing and production, especially in wild unorthodox ways, so maybe I too could share knowledge as well. Just a wish, no pressure because I'm quite fine just watching your content. Again and again haha Fn' having a blast here. Have a good day from Canada! -alex
First time running into your channel and thank you for a fun roll through this great song and it's implied meaning through cords. You are fun to watch and listen to!
I would love to watch your review of The Way Out is Through, I'm Looking Forward to Joining You, Finally or The Big Come Down! I'm watching all your videos in a row! Thanks for doing them!
It's interesting that even on more keyboard-heavy/less "noisy" NIN songs, hearing parts stripped down to your piano and vocal takes makes it much easier to pick out the intervals and understand what's going on harmonically. I like the annotations for note names/scale degrees/modes, too. Helpful for someone like me who is interested in music theory, but very much still learning!
Ah wonderful! I really enjoy that process and it's good to know others do too. Have you stumbled across my Mr. Self Destruct piano cover yet? th-cam.com/video/92T6y2auxAQ/w-d-xo.html Great feedback about the annotations! I'm still figuring out what methods are most effective for y'all.
@@iximusic I have not, but I think your analysis of Mr. Self Destruct was the first of your videos that the mysterious algorithm recommended for me. I've been working my way through the whole series since! I will definitely check that one out.
as far as i know, alternating major and minor 3rd is borrowed from blues, where you start in major tonic and then you go to major 4th with flat 7th, which flattens the 3rd of the tonic. ... and you substitute and get non-blues sound in the same harmonic situation
@@iximusic well ... maybe there are more plausible approaches. i'd like to see something different. what i'm looking for is as small set of "rules" as possible. and then there are truly talented people who do great music beyond rules ... they just see or hear it. that scares me :)
Great, someone analyzing NIN! Not that I'm completely following as I don't know any notes (stand alone I played an instrument), but even then still fascinating :-)
Really interesting and insightful. Stumbled across this video and saw you have loads of NIN videos (my favourite artist of all time, he is a genius, industrial, metal with a classical piano background ). So to make a long story short.... Subscribed!
I started these videos analyzing The Frail and haven't stepped off the NIN train - no need, it's some of the most fascinating music I've ever heard! Thank you for being here so we can geek out about Trent's genius together!
Nice work, now I want to hear a piano/vocals cover version of this song from you 😄. Also the effect you’re mentioning on his voice is probably phasing. It’s a natural effect that feels very unnatural like it’s coming from inside your head or you’re under water. One exemple is when you walk from a speaker to another that plays the same sound on a big PA system, there’s a specific point where the sound is out of phase and it feels like your brain is turning upside down. Never consciously realized Trent used this effect on this song for that « in your head » feeling until you mentioned it and it’s brilliant!
Picture me, 18 year-old goth, newly arrived at the University in Glasgow. My first purchase was the, then brand new, epic album 'The Fragile,' I was blown away. I also had just discovered the epic Glasgow Necropolis (check it out, truly amazing place,) I remember just lying on the hill overlooking the crypts and the city, listening to this on my portable CD player, absolutely entranced...
Of course you mentioned it. To think I worried that you wouldn't. That little element of hope or sweetness. Because if you truly want to write music that rips people's guts out, you have to have a moment where it seems possible to climb out of the hole, and then destroy that hope. It's just beautiful, and awful. Beautifully awful. I couldn't love it any more than I do.
My English was not really good (it's my 3rd language), yet mood created by the music was spot on. I would not say it felt suicidal, more like a wish to dissolve in waves, to let that dark, eternal mass carry me away. Sometimes one doesn't wish for death, but can't live any longer either. And yes, there was still some hope in it too. So... 1999 then, both the best and the worst (at least so far) year in my life. Now _starring at the sea_ I don't just long for that long lost love (no tragedy, our feelings just were not mutual) and _things that could have been,_ when we were looking at a sunset together, now it's different, because now I know those waves hold some of her ashes, cancer took her several years ago.
Subbed - thanks ixi - it's really great! Massive NIN fan, Looking forwards to the next video! don't feel like you have to stick to just NIN though (though there's so much cool material!)
You should do And All That Could Have Been. Not only is it one of the most beautiful songs in the catalog, it's reusing the climax melody from The Great Below and obviously also references it in the lyrics.
Listening to you break this down, I realized that the line "Ocean pulls me close" sounds uncannily similar to the line "Just one step at a time" from the song "Is Your Love Strong Enough" by Bryan Ferry (which he ended up covering with Mariqueen).
Bravo again, ixi! I held off watching this one until I had time because of how much this song has meant to me over the last 20 years. Incredible analysis again. I chortled when you described the fifth as “stable AF” because I wanted to say “but A->E” is the fifth, not A->F. Haha. Keep ‘em coming!!
Wow. I just stumbled on this. GRRRRRREAT breakdown of this amazing track!!! I'm a musician as well and this blew me away. SUBSCRIBED and gonna binge watch your channel like I just did Cobra Kai this past weekend!!! :-p
Rick Beato made an analysis on The Hand That Feeds where he also noticed, a duel between minor and major modes in the verses and the choruses ! thanks for that great analysis !
I love that you love The Fragile as much as I do. I seem to remember reading that Trent said it was his least favorite album and he didn’t have much to say, thus all the empty spaces and it was put out more to fulfill a contract. It makes me question how much of a fan I am because I love it and find it so colorful. 🤷🏼♂️
Oh really? I hadn't read that! I think sometimes artists lose objectivity of their own art. But I will maintain he had quite a lot to say, even if it wasn't with words!
Can you please do the entire The Fragile album? After you finish The Downward Spiral of course. I've been loving every one of these. I would love to hear your analysis of Somewhat Damaged, The Pilgrimage, Into the Void. God, SO many brilliant tracks!
I’d love to see your analysis of And All That Could Have Been off the Still record by far his most melancholic work with very interesting arrangements and choices .
@@iximusic I'm sure you will enjoy ;) . Hope you're staying warm down there in the big T . I got a good friend down there been ruff for him .Hope all is well !
Hey thank you so much! I'm so stoked to be able to share this with y'all. I'm starting to upload every Monday now! And don't be shy to request a song if something strikes you.
I saw the Fragility tour at Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto in April 2000 (A Perfect Circle opened) Check out the live version of this off the DVD. The visuals are stunning; he filmed a figure diving into a pool and reversed it to look as if they were ascending. His live visuals are always compelling. Interesting analysis.
Sometimes I wanna show all your videos to all my friends who never got into nine inch nails because I just want them to know the depths of the writing and how good it really is. But unfortunately when some people decide they don’t like a band or musician they just can’t be swayed no matter what I say. One of the great tragedies in life lol.
I could be wildly incorrect, but the flutter and wow of tape delay, or/and little quick pitch bends are what I think is going on to make that broken sound? It is something I love to hear and play with.
Ya know, it honestly makes me feel like I have a real channel, haha. Thank you so much! I'm really enjoying sharing my thoughts about this incredible music with such passionate fans.
music omg I first want to ty for making these!! I dont know what my fav song is....I mean Closer is truly timeless, mr self destruct is up there, maybe God Given...or besides you in time? ugh soo hard to decide!
the stringy synths at the beginning are, i think, taken from/based on "the isle of man" by ministry, one of trent's influences around the start of nin.
Has someone noticed that the piano cadence and melody in the background at the end of him singing "...makes me dissapear" that keeps going till "in the great below!", is the same we can listen in the chorrus of the song "And all that could have been"???
Oh my gosh, you're right! That's SO cool! 👏 Can't be a coincidence. Natanael, you rock!
@@iximusic of course is not a coincidence!! He use to do this a lot... repeting melodies in different songs like some kind of leitmotif.
Since I first heard "and all that could have been" got the feeling that those 2 song were related in more ways than the title (part of the great below lyrics)....when I realized it was moving and inspiring!
Thanks for your response, I love your channel!
I haven't noticed that before, but that's super cool, and makes a lot of sense because these two songs are inextricably linked.
The beauty of NIN
"I just analyze Nine Inch Nails music and wear weird colors of lipstick"
Same
Thanks for the shoutout, glad I could help!
Aaah that's true! My people.
Definitely a good bit.
So glad theres FINALLY someone analyzing and/or reacting to Nine Inch Nails.
I didn't know I was filling a Void! But nothing can stop me now.
@@iximusic Enthusiasm like that can take you a million miles away. The only way out is through.
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@@Stray7 I'm 3 months late but I very much enjoyed this comment! haha 👏
Wait a minute, is there a need? I will happily fill this need! Well, no music theory, but...yeah.
The part when the ocean pulls me close was a revelation for me, it still feels like life had just begun. Even after 20 years it still moves me to tears.
this has always been my favorite Fragile song, it is the most "simple" but it is the one that impacted me the most, it's a sad mystical song, it looks like an old sailor song
Ah, that's a nice interpretation. It's an incredible track. Thank you for tuning in!
how does this video not have 10 million views? Ixi really brings a lot of insights, which, for me, deepen my understanding of the music and his genius as one of our greatest living songwriters.
Not sure if anyone has chimed in on this yes, but this song carries the sorrowful theme about the loss of his grandmother, who cared for him during much of his life, hence the lines: "all the world has closed her eyes" - obvious metaphor of his grandmother dying and "all of this for you.... spoils of a wasted life...all of this for you" for just one more moment back with her.
Aww, that's so sad and tender.
Happens the same with "I'm looking forward to joining you, finally" isn't it?
I'm from a seaside town and I lost my best friend in some really tragic circumstances and on the greyest of days when I'd sit on the beach wall to try and be near her because we spent so time there I'd think of this song. I dare'nt play it then cos there would be alot of ugly crying
Nice to see many other people here say that this is one of their favourite NIN songs. I'm welling up just listening to ixi playing short keyboard sections.
I’ve fallen into an ixi music rabbit hole and I’m cool with that. Love the analysis. I would give a nickel to watch Trent reacting to one of your videos.
I would have an aneurysm!
@@iximusic Make a video of your aneurysm with an analysis then. That would be fun to watch!
This is my favourite track from The Fragile and it's wonderful to see your analysis.
I've always thought of it as a tale of someone contemplating suicide by drowning in the ocean but then moving on.
The "I descend from grace" line is probably one of the most powerful lines I've ever heard and the way he delivers it is amazing. I'm surprised you didn't mention it.
I've seen NIN live a few times but I haven't seen this live. I hope I do some day.
Haven't listened to NIN for a while, and it's so great to go back through The Fragile again. I love how there are several musical themes that run through multiple songs and even the entire album, creating a cohesive piece of amazing.
Such a cathartic experience.
I love that too. I think that's what makes it such a masterpiece!
Watching these videos I am vacillating between goosebumps and tears in my eyes.
I am 43 and have been a Trent Reznor fan since I was in my early teens. No artist is as important to me.
I am also a musician and song writer who has always been in awe of Trent’s songwriting. Your analysis of these treasured songs is both familiar and enlightening.
Thank you for the time and thought that has gone into these videos. This is my new favorite TH-cam channel.
Scary.
I wish you'd been my music teacher growing up! You are so inspiring!
That's so sweet. I'm just now starting to teach music theory - hopefully I can be someone's teacher as they grow up :)
"The Fragile" is one of the rare 100% awesome double disc albums ;)
It's so epic!
If you and Rick Beato were in the same room together there would be a music theory singularity.
THIS! :-O These two REALLY should team up!
One of our mutual Patrons just told Rick about me! You never now :)
This music makes me feel some really deep and strong emotions....its very rare to feel these kind of emotions in life..to feel that and make a song about it is incredible...Trent is absolute brilliant.
This song is a fucking MASTERPIECE.
It still holds its own after 25 YEARS!?
I didn't think such a dark song could be analysed in this fun and accessible a way! It's so nice to see Trent's pre-film score music being taken seriously as the work of a real composer. The soundscapes he makes are so meticulous and evocative: the attention to detail in the instrumentals, the intricate layering of sample over sample over sample. If you ever wanted to, I think you could do a phenomenal analysis of 'La Mer' and 'Adrift & At Peace' together, since he considers them companion pieces. Thank you for all of your fascinating videos and best of luck with your channel.
Ah now that's an interesting suggestion for a video; I didn't know they were companions! I might just do that, thank you so much.
I knew after i watched this live box set that La Mer was a companion as is just flows right in The Great Below so naturally, but now i need to listen to all 3 as you mentioned. Wonder how many others haven't noted these are almost like 1 long song that changes its fur
Thank you for doing this. This song destroys me. It was a very pleasant experience listening to someone who "gets it", talk about this song so in depth. My absolute fav. NIN song. Keep up the fantastic work.
I love the ocean visuals. They go perfect with the song. (Even your dress seems to match this theme.)
Nice, I'm glad that detail had an effect! It was all inTrentional.
I have always liked this song. When I first heard it on big speakers and a subwoofer it skyrocketed to one of my faves. The bass hits in this song are tremendous.
YES!
Nine Inch Nails has been my favorite band since Pretty Hate Machine came out. Just wanna say thanks for putting all these together, I get absolutely lost in your analysis and love hearing your breakdowns and interpretations of these timeless songs.
It's an honor to make these Trentslations! 🙌 Really glad you're getting something out of them.
Hello, thank you for this. Your explanations enlightened some of the feellings that I had for years. The Fragile is one of my favorite album ever, it feels like a journey and every song has such a great progression and story, it feels visual. This song to me felt so sad but also comforting and calming in a way. I know nothing about music, but I really enjoyed hearing you dissecting the song.
Yes it feels like a journey to me also. That's interesting you say it's visual - that's definitely my experience too, so evocative, so immersive. So glad you enjoyed. My hope is that people of all levels of a musical background can deepen their understanding!
Those string synths in the chorus you mentioned were what sold me on this song all those ... *checks notes* 22 years ago. Jesus.
No matter how many times I listen, they always give me goosebumps.
I'm gonna add to the suggestions that you look into Skinny Puppy. Specifically around the Rabies/Too Dark Park/Last Rights era, though they're all great.
finally, some insight into this song. as someone who doesn't really know theory, this is really cool for me to see someone dig into this song from that perspective. possibly my all time favorite nine inch nails song. truly, thank you, ma'am.
My pleasure!
Hearing it for the first time i remember i was sooooo into those ocean's ebbs and flows violin waves that i'd just lost breathing track and forgotten about it for a while. A MASTERPIECE.
And edit: no. we didn't missed it ;D We looooooooooooove those subtle, surely made to amplify the life evaporating atmosphere, noises.
It's amazing how you talk about every single emotion I am feeling while I listen to it. I feel like you broke into something very personal and private in my heart, and yet you made me happy because of it. I can't explain it in English.
You explained it perfectly. Thank you for watching!
Great video! Thanks for breaking it down for all of us, this puts these songs to a whole deeper level of understanding and appreciation.
Personal history:
I remember when this album came out I was listening to the strings in this song over and over again. I was also in high school and the strings were totally resonating with me at that point of my life.
Cool channel.
I sit here with cheeto dust on my fingers pondering if Trent is looking up from the great below or looking
"down in it"
Thanks Ixi, ive rewatched and listened hundreds of times, this for me, is the hardest song ive tried to learn in a while
Came here from Mr. Self Destruct. So glad to see your treatment applied to this, my favorite song off my favorite NIN album. One thing that always gets me about this song is the power he wrung out of a single chorus. It pays off more because you only get one.
Subbed.
Ooof you nailed it - I really didn't touch on that but you're RIGHT!
I'm not even a musician but this is so interesting to watch/learn! Thank you ixi for breaking down this song part by part this has become one of my favorite songs and I wanted to find out the story behind it.
Outrageously good. Thanks for your hard work on the DETAILS
I love the violins in this song. I feel like they slowly build suspense like in a scary movie. Almost as if they are warning the Listener "Warning! Danger". It all crescendos when he sings that he will take is position in the great below. Then the music turns comforting and easy. Then his lyrics I can still feel you even so far away seems to go give comfort to someone that has lost a loved one. As one does when they are depressed it feels good to dwell in sad music. This is one of those songs. As you noted this song ended the first disc. I always find hope that the second disc starts with The way out is Through. The opening lyric is "All I've undergone I will keep on". He put these songs together on purpose. Suicide and then offers hope. Thanks Trent. Then comes Into the Void and it brings ya right back down. Lol. Roller Coaster.
I just found this channel. Brilliant stuff. The Great Below is super underrated.
I’ve said it in another video of yours. This album is an absolute masterpiece. It’s my favorite of the whole catalog, hands down.
The Fragile's probably in my top 10 of greatest albums. Gosh, has it been that long?
This song always makes me cry.
Another great analysis. The improv outro was a great touch, definitely would recommend more of those in the future!
Thank you for the feedback, I was wondering if people might like that. "in the style of..." videos are always enjoyable for me to watch.
Incredible! Thanks for taking the time to do this, great to hear a musician's take on my favourite music
This breakdown is really incredible.
Love it ❤❤❤
Singing out the the chords, tonics, notes, patterns played against each other..
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God i love your analysis! At last we have someone express all the beauty and genius of Trent. Thank you and keep it coming! ❤️
I think Trent also uses a version of the chorus chord structure for the Watchmen (TV Show) Soundtrack. It's a little different but the structure is very similar.
I'm so amazed by your thoughtful cognizance. Go girl!
"Looking up through the water and see light coming through" is exactly what this song is.
I found your channel. I ~should~ have slept ages ago, but it's so intoxicating listening to you pick apart Trent's music and explain to me in such excruciating detail how he makes me feel exactly how he makes me feel.
You are amazing. ♥
Beautiful... i can never have enough of NIN and your musical analysis only makes me respect reznkr even more. Thank you for this.
yes yes, such genius! Thank you for tuning in.
I went to see them on the fragility tour in 2000, and when this song was played my brain melted . Also it was that song where the light screens kicked over to movie screens.
This is another song I haven't really listened to in a while, but my god it dredges up feelings. Such a beautiful song that I feel terrible for not have listening to in such a long time. All of the different parts in this song make me feel something different.
I've been looking for someone on TH-cam for like 5 years or even more that can touch on what trent is doing, there's been nothing. Just bands doing covers and interviews. These videos are important. I'm already hooked. This girl is pretty and cool. Interesting look. Cool to wear lipstick, absolutely never any eyeliner. Almost want to say post elegant Emo look. Also she knows her music theory. I'm a guitarist and even this is helping me learn a little bit more on music theory.
I read on songmeanings that The Great Below was created by Reznor after the death of his grandmother, whom he was very close to. That explains the sad, haunting, and deep, yet beautiful, hopeful, and surrender type of feeling that this song encompasses.
I love music that gives this feeling. It’s unfortunate that this type of music is difficult to come by in terms of feeling, melody, and mood.
do not stop making these videos please, your analyzes are incredible!
The fact you wear blue lipstick AND you like NIN you have earned a subscription 👍🏻
I'm glad you made it over here and are lipsticking around :)
Hi, great job analyzing the most visceral and powerful song (for me) they've played in a 2000 live show back then. Your channel is the NIN version of Rick Beato, and it's quite addictive. I've been a dedicated fan ever since NIN released the 'march of the pigs' video. I know theory, but I adore the way your content refreshes my memory of what I had forgotten with time, plus also makes me discover much new things for me as well, and that really feels good. Ever since I've binge watched your videos, my love and passion for my all-time favorite artist has been brought back, stronger than ever. Thank you, sincerely.
Something tells me that chatting with you would be great, yet I really don't wanna come in too strong with that, respectfully. I know mixing and production, especially in wild unorthodox ways, so maybe I too could share knowledge as well. Just a wish, no pressure because I'm quite fine just watching your content. Again and again haha
Fn' having a blast here.
Have a good day from Canada!
-alex
First time running into your channel and thank you for a fun roll through this great song and it's implied meaning through cords. You are fun to watch and listen to!
I would love to watch your review of The Way Out is Through, I'm Looking Forward to Joining You, Finally or The Big Come Down! I'm watching all your videos in a row! Thanks for doing them!
All are on my list :) And you're welcome!!
Love your explanation and your passion. And love NIN. Thanx for this. It's beautiful.
It's interesting that even on more keyboard-heavy/less "noisy" NIN songs, hearing parts stripped down to your piano and vocal takes makes it much easier to pick out the intervals and understand what's going on harmonically.
I like the annotations for note names/scale degrees/modes, too. Helpful for someone like me who is interested in music theory, but very much still learning!
Ah wonderful! I really enjoy that process and it's good to know others do too. Have you stumbled across my Mr. Self Destruct piano cover yet? th-cam.com/video/92T6y2auxAQ/w-d-xo.html
Great feedback about the annotations! I'm still figuring out what methods are most effective for y'all.
@@iximusic I have not, but I think your analysis of Mr. Self Destruct was the first of your videos that the mysterious algorithm recommended for me. I've been working my way through the whole series since! I will definitely check that one out.
as far as i know, alternating major and minor 3rd is borrowed from blues, where you start in major tonic and then you go to major 4th with flat 7th, which flattens the 3rd of the tonic. ... and you substitute and get non-blues sound in the same harmonic situation
Sounds like I need to study the blues! 💙
@@iximusic well ... maybe there are more plausible approaches. i'd like to see something different. what i'm looking for is as small set of "rules" as possible. and then there are truly talented people who do great music beyond rules ... they just see or hear it. that scares me :)
One of my favorites on this album. Great analysis :)
Begin the snactivation!!!...Such a brilliant analysis of NIN. I'll be watching every video. I love that you catch all the beautiful chaos of Trent.
oh, I needed you so bad, all these years. Thank you, from the bottom of my dirty little heart. Thank you.
Great, someone analyzing NIN! Not that I'm completely following as I don't know any notes (stand alone I played an instrument), but even then still fascinating :-)
Really interesting and insightful. Stumbled across this video and saw you have loads of NIN videos (my favourite artist of all time, he is a genius, industrial, metal with a classical piano background ). So to make a long story short.... Subscribed!
I started these videos analyzing The Frail and haven't stepped off the NIN train - no need, it's some of the most fascinating music I've ever heard! Thank you for being here so we can geek out about Trent's genius together!
Nice work, now I want to hear a piano/vocals cover version of this song from you 😄. Also the effect you’re mentioning on his voice is probably phasing. It’s a natural effect that feels very unnatural like it’s coming from inside your head or you’re under water. One exemple is when you walk from a speaker to another that plays the same sound on a big PA system, there’s a specific point where the sound is out of phase and it feels like your brain is turning upside down. Never consciously realized Trent used this effect on this song for that « in your head » feeling until you mentioned it and it’s brilliant!
Picture me, 18 year-old goth, newly arrived at the University in Glasgow. My first purchase was the, then brand new, epic album 'The Fragile,' I was blown away. I also had just discovered the epic Glasgow Necropolis (check it out, truly amazing place,) I remember just lying on the hill overlooking the crypts and the city, listening to this on my portable CD player, absolutely entranced...
Of course you mentioned it. To think I worried that you wouldn't. That little element of hope or sweetness. Because if you truly want to write music that rips people's guts out, you have to have a moment where it seems possible to climb out of the hole, and then destroy that hope. It's just beautiful, and awful. Beautifully awful. I couldn't love it any more than I do.
2:37 it's things that used to be beautiful and make sence and were comforting, that now are broken beyond repair
My English was not really good (it's my 3rd language), yet mood created by the music was spot on. I would not say it felt suicidal, more like a wish to dissolve in waves, to let that dark, eternal mass carry me away. Sometimes one doesn't wish for death, but can't live any longer either. And yes, there was still some hope in it too.
So... 1999 then, both the best and the worst (at least so far) year in my life. Now _starring at the sea_ I don't just long for that long lost love (no tragedy, our feelings just were not mutual) and _things that could have been,_ when we were looking at a sunset together, now it's different, because now I know those waves hold some of her ashes, cancer took her several years ago.
Subbed - thanks ixi - it's really great! Massive NIN fan, Looking forwards to the next video! don't feel like you have to stick to just NIN though (though there's so much cool material!)
Haha yes. I'm having the time of my life analyzing NIN music, but it won't be forever! Do you have a non-NIN request?
You should do And All That Could Have Been. Not only is it one of the most beautiful songs in the catalog, it's reusing the climax melody from The Great Below and obviously also references it in the lyrics.
That's a great suggestion, thank you. I love how connected his work is.
Amazing. It's so fun to see a break down of my favorite song!!
You are as beautiful as your describing all the breakdowns to the power 9th, Gr8 stuff... you are Dr.NIN 🤩
Dr. NIN!! :D
The great below is one of my favorite tracks annnnd your lipstick is amazing
Listening to you break this down, I realized that the line "Ocean pulls me close" sounds uncannily similar to the line "Just one step at a time" from the song "Is Your Love Strong Enough" by Bryan Ferry (which he ended up covering with Mariqueen).
Bravo again, ixi! I held off watching this one until I had time because of how much this song has meant to me over the last 20 years. Incredible analysis again. I chortled when you described the fifth as “stable AF” because I wanted to say “but A->E” is the fifth, not A->F. Haha.
Keep ‘em coming!!
I'm glad I could do it justice! Amazing track. Also I loved your joke - it took me a second to get it but then I...LOL'ed!
Wow. I just stumbled on this. GRRRRRREAT breakdown of this amazing track!!! I'm a musician as well and this blew me away. SUBSCRIBED and gonna binge watch your channel like I just did Cobra Kai this past weekend!!! :-p
Hey thank you SO MUCH fellow musician! Hope you enjoy the rest of my passionate ramblings! Also now I gotta find out who Cobra Kai is...
Rick Beato made an analysis on The Hand That Feeds where he also noticed, a duel between minor and major modes in the verses and the choruses ! thanks for that great analysis !
Love this analysis! And your lipstick rocks!!
Thanks lady (be good)! :)
“Sargasso” is the feeling of this song, I’ve never had better words for it.
What does that mean?
@@iximusic As I imagine it, a kind of Limbo/Sheol for those lost at sea. The remnants of memories under water with no surface.
You've inspired me to really try and learn piano, also just subscribed to the Patreon!!
Right on! The piano is so worth it, there is nothing else like it. 🎹 Thank you for the support! 🙏
I love these videos, please keep making them!
I love that you love The Fragile as much as I do. I seem to remember reading that Trent said it was his least favorite album and he didn’t have much to say, thus all the empty spaces and it was put out more to fulfill a contract. It makes me question how much of a fan I am because I love it and find it so colorful. 🤷🏼♂️
Oh really? I hadn't read that! I think sometimes artists lose objectivity of their own art. But I will maintain he had quite a lot to say, even if it wasn't with words!
Can you please do the entire The Fragile album? After you finish The Downward Spiral of course. I've been loving every one of these. I would love to hear your analysis of Somewhat Damaged, The Pilgrimage, Into the Void. God, SO many brilliant tracks!
I’d love to see your analysis of And All That Could Have Been off the Still record by far his most melancholic work with very interesting arrangements and choices .
I'll definitely be analyzing this one!
@@iximusic I'm sure you will enjoy ;) . Hope you're staying warm down there in the big T . I got a good friend down there been ruff for him .Hope all is well !
And All That Could Have Been... one of my favourite. It’s a journey. I remember a music video (maybe a fan video) with nature, and rain. So touching
Amazing analysis i love your work and am adicted to your nine inch nails analysis's
Hey thank you so much! I'm so stoked to be able to share this with y'all. I'm starting to upload every Monday now! And don't be shy to request a song if something strikes you.
I saw the Fragility tour at Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto in April 2000 (A Perfect Circle opened)
Check out the live version of this off the DVD. The visuals are stunning; he filmed a figure diving into a pool and reversed it to look as if they were ascending. His live visuals are always compelling. Interesting analysis.
6:42 yup, that’s the feeling lol.
Sometimes I wanna show all your videos to all my friends who never got into nine inch nails because I just want them to know the depths of the writing and how good it really is. But unfortunately when some people decide they don’t like a band or musician they just can’t be swayed no matter what I say. One of the great tragedies in life lol.
I could be wildly incorrect, but the flutter and wow of tape delay, or/and little quick pitch bends are what I think is going on to make that broken sound? It is something I love to hear and play with.
Does sound a lot like that! Yeah...
You have put to words things that I've thought but have never been able to word
Aw, that means a lot to me. I'm really happy to be making these videos for you all.
You just got a great feel and ear for music, get it without know it. NIN show me that music could be art.
I have only subscribed to you! I mean... wow! I dont play an instrument but this is making my heart fulll!
That makes MY heart full! ♥️
The one single (at the time of writing this) dislike on this video truly baffles me. Thank you so much for taking the time to analyze these songs.
Ya know, it honestly makes me feel like I have a real channel, haha. Thank you so much! I'm really enjoying sharing my thoughts about this incredible music with such passionate fans.
I believe The Fragile is wonderful. It's definitely strong regarding atmosphere. It feels colder. Like the beach in mid-January.
this is absolutely amazing
Thank you so much! I have some other NIN videos too. What is your favorite song?
music omg I first want to ty for making these!! I dont know what my fav song is....I mean Closer is truly timeless, mr self destruct is up there, maybe God Given...or besides you in time? ugh soo hard to decide!
Great songs! For such a prolific, amazing band, it's actually kind of cruel to ask someone what their ONE favorite song is, haha.
@@iximusic you are sooo correct. hahaha. I mean BURN, THE GREAT DESTROYER, HAPPINESS IN SLAVERY all so truly powerful and intensely intelligent!
You got to the chorus and I had to turn it off for a few. Lol I was like "Oh, this fukkin song." But I steadied myself and went back in.
the stringy synths at the beginning are, i think, taken from/based on "the isle of man" by ministry, one of trent's influences around the start of nin.
Oh interesting, could be a sample. I love how creative he is with samples! I don't know Ministry. I'll have to check them out.
Good catch..not a sample, but similar for sure. The beginning of Pink Floyd's Sysyphus pt. 1 also comes to mind.
Why do you only have a few thousand views on these? This is magnificent work.
Thank you!
Incredible job ❤