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Further Down the Spiral
1995 remix album for Nothing/ Interscope featuring three tracks not on the U.S. edition: 'Self Destruction, Part Three', 'Heresy' (Version) and 'Ruiner' (Version). 10 trackstotal.
Manufacturer: Island UK
Price: $6.59
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rating: 2
A marketing dream, no doubt, the European release of "Further Down the Spiral" differed in several tracks from the US release. Largely, my review for the US release is relevant to this one, but there's four different tracks on here that weaken the overall quality of the record.
As a rule, the remixes are clever, inventive, and great at changing mood, at a sense of heightened tension to the material. The best stuff from the US release is on here as well-- dark and moody retreads like "The Art of Self-Destruction, Part one" and "The Downward Spiral (the bottom)" and fantastic reinventions like the Rick Rubin "Piggy (nothing can stop me now)", but missing is a pile of great "Eraser" remixes, the "quiet" version of "Hurt", and a 'self-destruct' remix.
"Self Destruction, Part Three" sits in for part two, again by J.G. Thirwell, and is somewhat less interesting-- sounds like a single mix quite honestly, and the live version of "Hurt" in place of the quiet version is kind of a whatever substitution. Neither of them is particularly intriguing or additive. And the two Charlie Clouser remixes ("Heresy" and "Ruiner") I'm just not sure what to say about them. Clouser turned them both into dance songs, nice beats and "Heresy" has some effective sample use, but neither piece is anything I really found worthwhile.
Bottom line on this one, stick with the US release unless you're a completionist.
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Good companion to a great album
rating: 4
The UK and US versions of this release are very different. They only actually share 6 songs. The US version (10b, as it came out a week after the UK one) has a different version of Hurt, similar to the album version (Downward Spiral); two remixes of Eraser - one with strings and what sounds like pipes, and one that sounds like it's in reverse; another Aphex Twin track (no idea what it's a remix of!); and another remix of Mr. Self Destruct (Self Destruction pt2.
The UK version has two remixes by Charlie Clouser - Heresy and Ruiner which are both excellent; a different version of Mr Self Destruct (Self Destruction pt3); and a live version of Hurt, played with piano, not guitar.
Both are good, but I think the UK version just shades it for the Clouser stuff, and the Eraser remixes of the US version aren't terribly good.
By the way, if you want to get hold of the UK version, go to Amazon.co.uk where you can get it for about 8 GBP, plus 4 GBP shipping, which comes to about $20, rather than $21 plus postage on the US site.
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Cooooooool Cd
rating: 5
a very interesting album with remixes and different versions of songs from "Downward spiral".i am not a big NIN fan, but this Cd is one of my favourite because of three songs contained here...
"Downward spiral bottom","Heresy" and "Ruiner" are making this one.even if all the other songs were sounding [horrible] (but luckily they are good) these 3 songs would be a reason to give this 5 stars or even more.
i do not know how Trent is making Remixes as good as these, but really - i think he is one of the Industrial-techno-rock genius then...
oh yeah - this is a cool album (-:
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How does Trent do it?!?!?!
rating: 5
This is amazing, Trent Reznor figured out all of the problems with the songs of The Downward Spiral and changed them. Piggy was too soft and boring so he gave it a nice fast beat. Hurt was too noisy at the end so he made it better. Some of the original songs that were in Downward Spiral were like incomplete jigsaw puzzles, they were missing something. But Trent somehow managed to complete the jigsaw puzzle to make everything 100% perfect, I dont know how he did it but he is a genius. If you are a fan of Nine Inch Nails you must get this cd ...!
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Ruiner
rating: 5
Yeah, this is very similar to the [cheaper] non-import, but the "Heresy" and "Ruiner" versions are unbelievable!I know other NIN fans would kill me, but I'm not that excited by the Live version of "Hurt". Besides, with the 2002 release of "All that Could Have Been" I now have 5 recordings of it...
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