Maybe one of these days we'll talk and it'll be OK, but it doesn't feel like it's a friendship, that's for sure."Ĥ. I wish it would have been a little more fun. He's writing songs about me … you know, I wish it hadn't been so complicated and so weird. "When a guy writes a song called 'Piggy' about you, there's obviously tension or some leftover shit," Patrick, who left NIN in 1993 during the recording of The Downward Spiral, told the Sacramento Bee in 2010. The word "Pig" had been written in blood on the door of the house by one of the killers, so therefore the song "Piggy" - with its chorus of "Nothing can stop me now" - was widely interpreted as being about a mass murderer and his "family." However, former NIN guitarist Richard Patrick (later of Filter) believes the song was actually about the dissolution of his friendship with Reznor. The fact that The Downward Spiral was recorded at the same house were Sharon Tate and her friends were murdered by followers of Charles Manson led many listeners to believe that the lyrics to several of the album's songs were written in reference to the killings. “Piggy” may have been about former NIN guitarist Richard Patrick
So those things were largely performed in a single take."ģ. He'd always ad-lib stuff, and after you picked one of the takes he would never allow you to punch in anything less than an entire verse … To his way of thinking, whereas the rhythm should be perfect, the emotion should come from the voice and the guitar. It might seem that there wasn't a lot of thought behind what he was doing, yet he'd obviously been thinking about it for a long, long time and he would lay down maybe three tracks of the vocal without ever repeating himself. "You had to make sure that one or two mics were always available for him to sing at any given moment," he said. "The music just flows out of Trent like no one else I've ever known," longtime NIN engineer and mixer Sean Beavan told Sound on Sound in 2012. "As with any great artist, there's a lot of procrastination, but while he's playing games, his brain is still working and at any moment he could come up with something fantastic."īeavan recalled that he and the other engineers working on the album always had been on their toes, in case Reznor suddenly felt a creative urge. Most of Trent Reznor’s vocal and guitar parts were recorded spontaneouslyĭespite Reznor's reputation for perfectionism, and the fact that it took a year and a half to complete The Downward Spiral, most of his own vocal and guitar contributions to the album were recorded in a fairly off-the-cuff manner. Here are eight things you might not know about the album.Ģ. That perhaps added to the isolation and claustrophobia of the record." The house was on its own, gated in, and once I realized I hated L.A., there was never any reason to leave. But the nice thing about the house, which I feel had nothing to do with what happened there, was that I wouldn't leave it for weeks. "If there was any sort of vibe then it was one of quiet, maybe sadness. "It's really quiet and secluded, yet it's also five minutes from the Whisky …" "The reason I was there is because it's a cool, nice house on this beautiful green mountainside that overlooks the whole city from the ocean to the downtown," he told Kerrang! in 1994. Reznor has insisted many times that he had rented the property before learning of its history. Most of the album was infamously written and recorded at Le Pig, Reznor's home studio at 10050 Cielo Drive in Beverly Hills, the same address where actress Sharon Tate, her unborn child, and four other people were murdered by followers of Charles Manson.
On this record, I was more concerned with mood, texture, restraint and subtlety, rather than getting punched in the face 400 times." "I didn't want to box Nine Inch Nails into a corner, where everything would be faster and harder than the last record. "This time I wanted to make an album that went in 10 different directions, but was all united somehow," he told Guitar World in 1994. In 1992, NIN's heavily distorted Broken EP had signaled Reznor's move away from the clean and commercial sounds of 1989's Pretty Hate Machine now, nearly two years later, it was clear that Reznor's artistic vision had evolved even further. alone, and influenced just about every dark and edgy metal, hardcore and/or electronic act that came after it. Self Destruct," "March of the Pigs," " Hurt" and " Closer," which managed the difficult feat of being addictively catchy while also being unbearably intense, the densely layered record has sold almost 4 million copies in the U.S. Featuring harrowing and uncompromising tracks like "Mr. On March 8th, 1994, Nine Inch Nails released The Downward Spiral, a landmark not just for Trent Reznor's career, but for hard, electronic-oriented music in general.
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