NIN--With Teeth.

**I must also add that my buddy Rob gave a great analogy to the title...
He feels that With Teeth comes from the feeling that this is a metaphor on America-- living the American Dream is like getting a blowjob with teeth. I'll let you think about that one....


At first I thought this album bites. Now, I am just sad that it has to be on top of the Review of the Rolling Thunder Review, but that's how things happen from time to time.
With Teeth is the first album from Trent in something like 5 years and I think that if it were only a small period of time between the time that he developed this album and the last one, I wouldn't have the issues that I do with it.... However....
The last album that NIN put out was a nice little ditty called the Fragile. This album, a dual cd, is one of the best albums of all time and I would have no qualms with putting it with the Rolling Thunder, but this one seems like an idle attempt to put something out in the marketplace. Don't get me wrong, there are some good tracks in here, but for five years of hiatus, this type of art is just not acceptable. Sure, rock gods worth millions should take some time off, but I keep thinking that Trent should have just retired on top with the Fragile or taken another couple of years off before releasing an entire album.
The single, the Hand the Feeds, is good and is worth airtime and I think that leaking it as a single with about four other tracks would have been good. It's wierd, overall the album is worth having, but NIN fans who liked the Fragile will be dissapointed by this attempt at saying --Hey Fuckers, I am still here. We have been waiting too goddamn long to get this--give us more...
Which it is rumoured that he will be giving us much more.
This album is alot more introspective than the others.
For example, Only is one of the best honest songs that any muscian has ever put out. It really speaks alot about how he actually feels--- here are the lyrics...

I'm becoming less defined, as days go by
Fading away, well you might say I'm losing focus
Kinda drifting into the abstract in terms of how I see myself

Sometimes, I think I can see right through myself
Sometimes, I think I can see right through myself
Sometimes, I can see right through myself

Less concerned, about fitting into the world
Your world that is, cause it doesn't really matter anymore (no, it doesn't really matter anymore)
No, it doesn't really matter anymore
None of this sh... really matters anymore

Yes I am alone but then again I always was
As far back as I can tell, I think maybe it's because
brecause you were never really real to begin with
I just made you up, to hurt myself

I just made you up to hurt myself
Yeah, and I just made you up to hurt myself
I just made you up to hurt myself
Yeah, and I just made you up to hurt myself

And it worked
Yes it did!

There is no you, there is only me
There is no you, there is only me
There is no fucking you, there is only me
There is no fucking you, there is only me

Only
Only
Only
Only

Well the tiniest little dot caught my eye and it turned out to be a scab
And I had this funny feeling, like I just knew it's something bad

I just couldn't leave it alone
I cut off that scab
It was a doorway trying to seal itself shut
But I climbed through

Now I'm somewhere I am not supposed to be
And I can see things I know I really shouldn't see
And now I know why now, now I know why
Things aren't as pretty, on the inside

There is no you, there is only me
There is no you, there is only me
There is no fucking you, there is only me
There is no fucking you, there is only me
* * *

Anyway, as you see in the lyrics, I think he is slightly soul searching. In the nin.com arena, he actually answers questions from his fans and I think that since looking at that, it really makes me think alot more about the album and its validities, but you should be able to just listen to a cd and understand what the artists is trying to say without him having to explain what he went through to develop it--at least that is how I always feel about these kinds of things.
There is another album that is set to come out very soon.
There is a huge .pdf lyric sheet that goes in accordance with the piece, that I think would make the piece a little more stimulating....
Goddamn it, this is what I hate about this--the more you check out about this album, the cooler it fucking gets!!
I have spent too much time on it...
Tracks to download...

All The Love in the World
Love is Not Enough
Only
(if you have really good speakers) Beside you in time....

and download the fucking PDF