Rollingstoneより。ベスト・コンセプト・アルバムにマンソンとNINのアルバムが選ばれました。
このテの企画はネタに詰まると便利ですね（実感） えー、とりあえず順位はこんな感じ。
The Best of the Last Twenty Years
(Rollingstone)
Liz Phair: Exile in Guyville
Nine Inch Nails: Downward Spiral
Radiohead: OK Computer
Flaming Lips: Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
Magnetic Fields: 69 Love Songs
Drive-By Truckers: Southern Rock Opera
Sufjan Stevens: Illinois
The Streets: A Grand Don’t Come For Free
Neutral Milk Hotel: In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
Marilyn Manson: Antichrist Superstar
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そしてこちらはBlender誌によるベスト企画。「ROCK史上５００の名曲」まあ他に話題がなかったんでしょう。
The 500 Greatest Songs Since You Were Born
(Blender)
43. Hurt
Johnny Cash [2002]
The last great moment of the Man in Black, penned by the Goth in Black.
Producer Rick Rubin presented Johnny Cash with some brilliantly unexpected song choices for his final albums, but none more inspired than Nine Inch Nails’ “Hurt,” whose “heart and soul and pain” Cash praised. On the final album released during Cash’s life, his bare-bones performance―just that magisterial croak, ravaged by illness and accompanied by old guitar strings―found chilling intimations of mortality in Trent Reznor’s angsty lyrics about addiction and loss. (Reznor has said he hasn’t listened to his own version since he heard Cash’s.) And Mark Romanek’s devastatingly sad video, in which a shaky, 70-year-old Johnny looks back on his vibrant youth and remembers his wife June Carter in her prime, was recently voted “best video ever” in a British poll.
Available on: American IV: The Man Comes Around (Lost Highway)
75. “Head Like a Hole”
Nine Inch Nails [1989]
Synth-pop dons industrial battle armor.
Trent Reznor’s greatest hit took a long time to catch on, but by 1992, the debut album it anchored had gone gold, and it’s currently triple platinum-and out of print, thanks to tussles with his former label. But its twin choruses-one a synth-funk revenge threat, the other a scaldingly noisy declaration of defiance-till bring new wave fashionistas and industrial shockheads together on the dance floor, and its sneaky Latin freestyle beat keeps them there.
Available on: Pretty Hate Machine (TVT)
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同じくBlenderより。こちらは2005年の記事「ROCK史上最悪のトホホなお買い物」より・・・こういう場の常連といえばやはり。チャールズ・マンソンのメモラビリアに５００ドル。安いか高いか？
50 Dumbest Rock-Star Extravagances
Blender
22. Family Album
Marilyn Manson
Item: Charles manson memorabilia Cost: $500
Given that Church of Satan founder Anton LaVey made Manson a reverend, it’s fitting that Manson should visit Odium, the L.A. occult shop that was co-owned by LaVey’s grandson. While there in 2002, Manson picked up framed photos of the Manson Family murder scene. Perfect for the guest dungeon!
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WENNより。MINISTRYの迫真のステージ写真です。・・・ジョーイ、機材に埋もれてませんか？骨のマイクスタンドは定番なのね。前回来日時にもまして凶暴そうなメンツです。彼らはLOUDPARKで来日する予定です。
http://www.loudpark.com/
http://www.ministrymusic.org/
http://www.myspace.com/ministrymusic
アルバムはこちら。国内版には、ボーナストラックが収録されています。
Rio Grande Blood
MINISTRY
発売日 2006/07/19 価格 2,415円（税込）
01 RIO GRANDE BLOOD
02 SENOR PELIGRO
03 GANGREEN
04 FEAR (IS BIG BUSINESS)
05 LIESLIESLIES
06 THE GREAT SATAN
07 YELLOW CAKE
08 PALALESTINA
09 ASS CLOWN
10 KHYBER PASS
11 LIESLIESLIES JUNGLE MIX (bonus track)
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海外記事より。NINのライブレビューです。記事としての冷静なレビューというより、ファンの感想になっていますね。
Nine Inch Nails, Bauhaus, Peaches; Jones Beach, NY
Set List:
Somewhat Damaged
You Know What You Are?
Sin
Terrible Lie
March of the Pigs
The Frail/The Wretched
Closer
Burn
Gave Up
Help Me I am in Hell
Non-entity
Only
Wish
La Mer
Into the Void
The Big Come Down
Dead Souls
Suck
Get Down Make Love
Down in It
Hurt
The Hand that Feeds
Head like a Hole
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海外記事より。ロックバンドを泊めても、一昔前のように「テレビや冷蔵庫が窓から落ちたり」「流血沙汰があったり」することはほとんどないそうです。そりゃそうだ。お金をもらったパフォーマンスならいくら派手にやっても構わないが（いや、暴力沙汰は多少問題もありますが）寝に帰ったホテルをわざわざブッ壊す気力まで残ってないよねえ。
Rob Zombie and Nine Inch Nails have stayed at the Hotel Metro. Hansen said tour managers for some bands push for a lower rate, saying the hotel benefits because it can brag later about who stayed there. It doesn’t usually work.
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