Album Description: International pressing of their 2005 album features one bonus track, 'Home'. Five years is a long time by most people's standards, but when such a period passes between albums by Nine Inch Nails, the turbulent electro-noir behemoth conducted by Trent Reznor, it's par for an increasingly elaborate course. With Teeth follows a period of intense self-investigation, a psychological shelf-clearing. It's an album that startles with its clarity, with its renewed vigour. A catalogue of grievances perhaps, like all his records, but possessed with more of a will to fight back than any other Nine Inch Nails release to date. Interscope. 2005.
Amazon.com: Trent Reznor has always been a one-trick-pony, but it's a damn good trick: sunny melodies filtered through ferocious electronics. Unfortunately, the trick's impact was often watered down by a tendency toward petulance and self-absorption. Still, almost six years after NIN's last release, The Fragile, the trick itself has lost none of its Teen-Beat-from-hell appeal. With Teeth blisters from the start with "All the Love in the World," and tracks like "The Collector" take full advantage of Dave Grohl's sledgehammer drumming. Reznor stretches occasionally, trying out different tactics, from crunchy, overtly commercial rave-ups ("The Hand That Feeds") to borderline New Wave ("Only"). But Teeth isn't about stretching. It's about doing the same trick, only better, with less clutter and more bite. By neatly distilling the sparseness of Pretty Hate Machine with Downward Sprial-style density, it ends up being the most focused record in the NIN catalog. –Matthew Cooke
[With_Teeth] !!!!!! Excellent!!!!!! Year Zero was actually the 1st Nine Inch Nails cd I had ever listened too! I was highly impressed with the music! I did know that NIN's previous and older work was much heavier and intense than the newer material! So, I went backwards an album and bought [With_Teeth] and played it from cover to cover and was amazed!
There are some heavy tunes!!!! But, If you are a fan of Industrial rock like I am, You will like this album!
Songs that I liked primarily: "Hand that feeds" "With Teeth" "Only" "Getting Smaller" "Sunspots" "Right Where it belongs"
Nine Inch Nails rocks Try samples of Reznor's NIN album and make believe that power of this awesome music can fly inside of the body and it's powerful. In my central european country Poland NIN is known as a masterpiece of industrial sound. That's why I recommend NIN's With_Teeth. This music drives me almost nine years. Go with it, U won't regret. It always smells fresh.
Bland and generic rock with some mildly catchy tunes That's the best way to describe this album. I am not a die-hard Nine Inch Nails fan, but I was utterly captivated by The Downward Spiral and The Fragile. The Fragile also includes some of my favorite songs of all time, number one being "The Great Below"
So it seems Reznor's abandoned the innovative, haunting style of The Fragile for something more upbeat, down to earth, and average.
There's very little in the album beyond typical guitar, bass, drums, which is the standard for rock, but after the sort of things Trent Reznor has done before, comes as a disappointment---with greater style and innovation comes greater expectations.
And the album is about as MTV-friendly as a NIN album could possibly be, with very little substance to any of the songs to make them in any way remarkable from one another. "The Hand that Feeds" has a very catchy beat, but when you break it down, it amounts to little more than the exact same 5 note guitar riff repeated throughout the entire song paired with some mostly unintelligible and droning lyrics.
In my previous experience, NIN seemed to be a fusing of art, music, and innovation. This album seems to pull back on all three of them, perhaps for the money.
Not As Bad As Everyone Thinks [WITH_TEETH] is probably (gasp) my second favorite album by Nine Inch Nails. Yeah its a departure, but change is good. I can listen to this album front and back. How rare is that to find in an album today? The drums and bass on this album are amazing, very catchy album, maybe not his best, but definitely a 5 star album
every song is exactly the same well, no, it's not really, but it may as well be.
here's the thing, in retrospect this is clearly a transitional album. this is trent reznor playing with a band trying to find his sound, trying to get back on track after the commercial failure of "the fragile". he's trying to focus and update his sound, without losing any of his edge. in many ways he accomplishes this, with modern-sounding production and an attempt at balancing noise with dance beats and catchy hooks.
the problem is, he doesn't get there. he's experiementing with different sounds and ideas trying to find what works, but only a few succeed. listening to the follow-up "year zero" you can see where "with teeth" was heading. the political ideas, the post-apocalyptic imagery, the more conceptual and less personal songs are the trails he followed to greater success on "year zero". here he still has holdover angsty-diary tracks that say the same thing as always in less interesting ways.
"every day is exactly the same" works best, while "the hand that feeds" worms into you despite being annoying and uninspired. "only" rips off "down in it" without showing any growth. the rest of the album has its moments, but often it sounds forced, as though trent is trying too consciously to make a nine inch nails album. despite flashes of brilliance, "with teeth" sounds like any of the flash-in-the-pan nine inch nails wannabes that came and went in the 90s. thankfully, trent avoided their fate and crafted a brilliant follow up. if any nin album can be skipped and forgotten, this is it.
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