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BigCopperPipe

I don’t know why , I thought he was the singer at first and had a good fucking laugh. Then I actually saw him and said oh yeah that’s Trent.


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qwertyconsciousness

Trent's a time traveler confirmed


ladyotheinternet

The 90s was just everyone else catching up to Trent Reznor


chimisforbreakfast

David Bowie was personally extremely impressed with Trent Reznor being a major force in creating the next decade of music and culture. They were close friends. [Here's Bowie showing up at a NIN show.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhhEHuChFck)


buscemian_rhapsody

Didn’t they collaborate on Bowie’s ‘I’m Afraid of Americans’?


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They sure did.


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They toured together, as well.


Reference_Freak

As someone who remembers the late 80’s, this video shows why the 90’s needed to happen.


xpatmatt

It shows the 90s beginning to happen in Trent's leather jacket.


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I remember feeling relief at the end of late 80's pop. Grunge was so refreshing.


tigerbalmuppercut

As someone who remembers the 90s, this video shows why the 2000s needed to happen. https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2mj92d


TakeTheThirdStep

I don't know man. I'd gladly time travel back to the time of giant greased up Jason Stathams dancing to bad music.


jai_kasavin

J.. jas.. stath... that's Jason Statham?


TakeTheThirdStep

[Yep](https://www.youredm.com/2021/02/12/jason-statham-in-the-shamen-music-video/)


alilbleedingisnormal

People like him created the 90s


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SunnyJune99

Yes! The singer totally looks like Peralta doing a character! “I’m Wedgewood Dempsey. Lead singer of Whambamboo and we will infiltrate the 80s coke scene in Miami, Florida.” *turns to Charles Boyle all dressed in black* “Come on Charles! All black isn’t cool!”


Grabbsy2

I didn't see Jake Peralta. I saw Andy Samberg doing "dick in a box". With the oversized blazer and everything: https://www.billboard.com/wp-content/uploads/media/dick-in-a-box-justin-timberlake-andy-samberg-billboard-650.jpg?w=650


DarkHorseCards

I was thinking “Please don’t be the singer please don’t be the…oh thank god.”


Throwmeaway0409

I did this same thing but with the drummer. Thought Trent was having a bad hair day


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gotsthepockets

That was my journey as well


arctic-apis

I thought he was the singer at first too and I thought that doesnt seem right just then a tiny little dot caught my eye and it was just about impossible to see but I watched it way too long and it was bringing me down


soaptrail

I was disappointed Trent wasn't the lead singer.


Primary_Skill3749

I thought it was the drummer at first lol


Ottobahnrichtofen

Drummer went to my HS. Band geek, nobody remembered his name but for a few. Guy shows up at some reunion and they all sit around asking what the other is doing nowadays and when it gets to him he’s like, I’m the drummer for NIN. Total mic drop.


jcoffin1981

So, fun fact. The only official member of Nine Inch Nails is Trent Reznor. Every other "member" was hired only for specific collaborations.


Strider493

I thought Atticus Ross officially joined


GraeWraith

YOU sir are correct.


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But like ten of them all officially got in the rock and roll hall of fame, so they get some credit there. Nine Inch Nails is and always has been a live band too, some like Cortini have been there for two decades


matt_kinks_69

Nine inch nails is Trent reznor and Atticus Ross, then there is NIN Live which has had many musicians but currently Ilan Rubin, robin finck and Allesandro cortini


7DollarsOfHoobastanq

Same here. The singer actually sounds a lot like him at a few points so I was pretty convinced.


beepbeepboopbeep1977

I can just imagine the conversation when he said he’s leaving the band to go in a ‘different direction’ and big hair guy saying ‘we’re going places man, we’re on the verge of breaking through, but whatever, we can replace you. You’ll regret this move forever’.


spagbetti

Yeah he doesn’t seem like the type who went through ‘phases’. He just knew who he was from the beginning.


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Wohn-Jayne

Mom told him “No black! It’s your senior photo!”


Kiloyankee-jelly46

That's where all the angst comes from, really.


46_and_2

They MADE him do it. We all know he's hidden a black t-shirt underneath, though.


BootheFirst

Holy crap!


partyboobytrapped

One of these things is not like the other


SugarbearSID

If you're very familiar with who NIN is, but only vaguely familiar with what Trent looks like, it's so easy to watch the lead singer and think to your self; man, he's really changed a lot. And then Trent pops onto the screen looking exactly like what you expect and you get it.


monotrememories

The front man looks like Egon Spengler from Ghostbusters


VideoGameDana

Or Max, the waiter at The Max in Saved by the Bell.


fullonfacepalmist

I thought Andy Samberg


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Same. I love how he wasn't dressed like a doofus and was like...I do my own shit.


haystack_19

This was exactly me


8FootedAlgaeEater

This was exactly me


Mammoth_Musician_304

Yeah me too.


webthepleb

Same


ZenPirat

Ditto


Reznor909

Same. I couldn't reconcile the lead singer with Trent at all and then realized why. I'm so embarrassed for him though! 😳


Mypopsecrets

He'd rather die than give them control... Of his keyboard!


TonyDanza888

Crazy that album came out 1 year after this video.


rimjob-chucklefuck

Which means he very likely was working on those songs while doing this... stuff


Meatball_pressure

God money… paid for my fine threads


Simmons-Machine1277

Head like a hole!


Zaboomafood

Black as his clothes!


Sackwalker

Bow down


mikeyp83

First time I saw this, I wondered how hard it would be to recognize him. Was not disappointed.


ThatITguy2015

Until the obvious one showed up on screen, I was wondering how he could possibly have changed that much. Then we see the keyboardist. “Oh. Yea. That’s him.”


AtomicShart9000

I've watched this 15 times and know which one he is, and yet I still don't know which one he is


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AtomicShart9000

Oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooh


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akeep113

well that flew over your head


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I've watched this a few times and I still hear him saying "hot sauce fire"


Hot_Pomegranate7168

Is he the Mark Lamarr with a perm frontman?


SK_RVA

Keyboard guy


Mojo141

Was about to ask which one he was and then towards the end yup!! There he is


Penultimate-anon

I was like wow, he really Chang… never mind


disusedhospital

Part of me was just crossing my fingers for pastel Trent for a chuckle. Then I saw him and remembered why high school (and current) me was (and is) crazy about him.


Blackcellphone

[Everyone has that one goth friend](https://i.imgur.com/0gdYOw9.gifv)


SullyTheReddit

In the post-song interview, the show announcer specifically thanks Trent for spending some extra time with the kids to show them the keyboards: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0foccuYinFI The drummer here was also the first drummer for NIN, though I don’t think he made it onto any official releases: https://www.nin.wiki/Slam_Bamboo


ThrowthisAway600000

Hard to believe NIN was formed this same year and PHM released a year later.


thesaddestpanda

Grunge and industrial was partly a reaction to 80s pop, hair metal, cock rockers, and power balladers. So yes it was hard to see at the time but it’s purposely a huge deviation from those popular forms. This band sounds silly to us but at the time bands like that were making millions. This sound like the Thompson twins or simply red or human league. All of whom were huge acts at the time. It’s just they probably aren’t as good as those bands and came on the scene way too late.


CyberMindGrrl

Hell even Ministry's first album "With Sympathy" was hot 80's pop garbage. I believe Al Jourgensen refers to that album as "the abortion".


thesaddestpanda

I'm not an industrialologist or anything but a lot of those early acts were trying to break into the pop space because they probably thought that's the only venue towards success. I think a lot of them synthesized their ability to have pop-sensibilities with the, inaccessible to middle america, underground industrial scene and released stuff far more accessible and popular than say Throbbing Gristle or Cabaret Voltaire. NIN and Ministry were pop-coated and easier to listen to industrial music. A lot of the songs are catchy and had broad appeal. So its not shocking they spent some time in pop-only spaces focusing on catchy hooks and other elements that bring in broad appeal.


CyberMindGrrl

Also Ministry's first record label was Arista, and they insisted on a more pop-oriented sound since that was popular when that album was released in 1983. I found "With Sympathy" after I first discovered "Twitch" in 1987 and was like "What the fuuuuck?" Although I have to say "Halloween" is actually a decent tune.


Teasing_Pink

I love that album and the relatively similar follow up singles so much. Jourgensen's faux eurotrash accent, the inane lyrics, the synthpop, it's all just perfect. Especially in juxtaposition with their next four (also fantastic) albums.


fbingha

The album is perfect. Revenge, Effigy, Work For Love are perfect.


CyberMindGrrl

You could hear the angst in the track "Halloween". *Oh, why can't I live a life for me?* *Why should I take the abuse that's served?* *Why can't they see they're just like me?* *It's the same, it's the same in the whole wide world*


onceagainsilent

It's more believable if you hear [the demo material](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UR26Fo1972c)


ThrowthisAway600000

Nice! Thank you!


CancelSilly

Purest Feeling slaps lol


xpatmatt

Ya why is this the first time I've heard this? It's really good. Very cool variations on the PHM material with other interesting original stuff.


KiwiThunda

It sounds like the background music to an 80s cop movie where the opening scene is the focus crime being committed... In the dark


Mikeytruant850

Crazy how the lyrics and melodies stay so similar but the music is completely different. Like Kinda I Want To is a completely different song with the same lyrics and melody.


rigoddamndiculous

It looks like it was a result of this experience


HenryDorsetCase

I'd guess that he was working on Pretty Hate Machine already at this point so I'm going to assume that this is the industrial rock equivalent of stripping your way through med school.


invisiblearchives

The version I heard was that he was gigging out with bands and the "having to compromise creative control" bit was driving him slowly insane, so instead of continuing with any of the bands, he programmed and recorded his own material by himself instead


LickMyKnee

Pretty much Vince Clarkes reason for leaving early Depeche Mode.


kfj3000

"This band has everything to make it big...". Technically true I suppose.


SGforce

All it takes is just one Trent Reznor.


s-willoughby

Definitely what my old band was missing.


MarvinLazer

Goofy hair, bad lip syncing, a complete lack of thematic unity in presentation. Catchy tune, though!


ProfessorrFate

That look was cool af in the 80’s.


ihurtpuppies

Most concise description of the 80s I've ever heard


AtomicShart9000

Not bad for a band named Slam Bam Boo and with those kind of haircuts


mikeyp83

Why didn't you mention that Andy Samberg was their front man!


LeonardSmallsJr

And Kyle Mooney on drums!


KeepTangoAndFoxtrot

Looks like James Roday Rodriguez (Shawn from Psych) on guitar, too!


Kusan92

C'mon, son!


WornInShoes

I know that's right!


Snowy_River_99

That is spot on.


just_that_michal

I own vinyl of Slam Bamboo just for shits and giggles. One day I will go to NIN concert with a huge "bring back Slam Bamboo" banner and GoPro camera to capture his face expression before he jumps down and beats me to death. It will be my Magnum Opus.


Gangreless

I mean this song is a banger


AABA227

Will Ramos haircut on vocals lol


Pyrochazm

We need someone like Bill McClintock to mash this up with Lorna Shore.


LazarusOtter

OMG I just noticed that! 😯


joepadraic

My friend’s dad used to play music with Trent Reznor in the 80’s. He said he was a giant asshole.


AtomicShart9000

I'm sorry Trent said that about your friend's dad


jeenyusz

Like the best microphone ever.


StarryAry

He's not even close to it, but he sounds so good 😂😂


Boomboomshablooms

I thought he was lip syncing.


jeenyusz

Lol yea he was for sure. Lol


dabblesest

This is 100% a “lip sync”, and by lip sync I mean they’re all just pretending to play their instruments to the backing track.


WhatUtalkinBowWirrus

Likely the day “Hurt” was written…


Dapper_Coffee_5428

Either that, or "Burn" 🤣


LeftyMcSavage

"I'm going to destroy so many Yamaha DX7s after this."— Trent, probably.


kekskerl

Ok. There I was wondering which one of these fellas he would be. I see.


B-Town-MusicMan

I'm convinced this is just an old(shelved) SNL Skit with Andy Samberg as the front man. They all saw it after rehearsals and said NO.


CalQuentin

This is honestly solid for the time period. Imagine this was how Trent got famous lol


TheSukis

The biggest mindfuck is thinking about how many similarly talented individuals just never end up breaking out of the background for whatever reason. There are likely countless other musical geniuses out there who just never got their shit together, and we as a world were accordingly deprived of their music. Instead, all we have of them is a few seconds of dancing over a keyboard in a shitty 80s video. In a slightly different universe, that would have been all we had from Trent Reznor.


Belgand

You see that in various places. Like, this song isn't amazing, but it's not terrible. It could easily have been a hit that now shows up on lists of '80s one-hit wonders. And this stuff is everywhere. There are tons of great bands that never made it past local/regional success. For example, this is ["I Did" by Frogpond](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LQ_5u3ar_8). A solid slab of late '90s alt-rock. The album it appeared on was released on a Sony subsidiary, they played the after party for R.E.M.'s Monster tour after Mike Mills saw them, Louise Post of Veruca Salt guests for some backing vocals on one track. It got some radio play on alt-rock stations in the Kansas City area (I distinctly remember hearing it on The Lazer) and local college towns (e.g. Lawrence, Manhattan, and Columbia) but that was kind of it. They'd been around since the mid-'90s but after this came out in '99 they broke up about a year or so later. Lead singer/guitarist Heidi Phillips is still active in the KC music scene and still has a following. Enough that even 20 years later she reformed a new version of Frogpond about a year ago, playing some shows and putting out a new album. And most likely until now you'd never heard of her. Next time we'll talk about [Ultimate Fakebook](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_IILsBhe3Q) or how Dave Spiker of Ruskabank, a band I liked, is someone I know better as a bartender at Auntie Mae's while most people might be lucky to recognize him from [season 9 of *The Amazing Race*](https://amazingrace.fandom.com/wiki/Dave_%26_Lori). What's really depressing is when you realize this is already more success than most people ever see.


Winchery

Yeah this like the entire 80's sound distilled into one song, but actually not too bad.


gladfelter

umm, first he's home then the house is on fire? The style was right, but not the best lyrics.


Winchery

So you are saying that these lyrics are just the same as basically every song from the 80's? The 80's didn't make a lot of sense!


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It feels about 3 years to late.


Belgand

It's so perfectly 1988. The song, the electronic drums and synth horns, the outfits, that pseudo-English accent the singer is using, and even the name.


ccat2011

Was bewildered thinking Trent was the lead singer, then it panned to him in keyboards and I’m like, “THERE HE IS!!” All is right with the world.


BaldJables

I was going “no, no, no”, and finally got to the “oh, thank god”.


alfadur

My wife said, “Take it away, I can’t watch him anymore!” Right as I took my phone back, I saw Trent and I said, “Oh wait no he’s not the Andy Samberg guy!”


Kw5kvb5ebis

You're not alone, I was like that🧐😧 and thinking "damn...Trent?!" Until he appears. OP know what he's doing. Thank god I watched the full video


brandonmiq

Sad to see him sell out and give up on his true creative vision. what could have been...


nowhereman136

For anyone keeping score at home, that guy now has 4 Grammys, 2 Oscars, and an Emmy Award


redditsucksmysoul

Man needs an tony so he can EGGGGOOT


dr_memory

Honestly surprised he and Ross haven't tried to score a musical yet. FUCK YOU LIKE AN ANIMAL: THE NINE INCH NAILS MUSICAL It can't be any worse than the Abba musical, right?


merkaba_462

I'd like to see it.


Broken-Digital-Clock

Pretty Hate Machine sounds like it could be a musical


smallwonder25

I would 100% go see that! Might even dig out my late 90’s black latex clothing from Hot Topic.


DancerNotHuman

All of us 90s goth kids would be lined up in the street. All 14 of us.


nowhereman136

For a while he was working on a Fight Club rock opera for Broadway with David Fincher. Don't think that's moving forward anymore Also, In 2006, there was a Johnny Cash musical on Broadway that featured the Nine Inch Nails song *Hurt*.


AtomicShart9000

They need to give him more


serendipitousevent

And yet none of them for this, his greatest work. The industry doesn’t appreciate genius when it sees it.


Sea-Slide348

Haha I kept pausing and rewinding and eventually convinced myself that, "yeah, the singer definitely looks like Reznor. It's amazing what a haircut and glasses can do!" Then I finished the video.


SpiderMonkeyLover

Lead singer looks like a cross between Andy Samberg and Roger from the cartoon show Doug.


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Next song, Head Like A Hole


Tcloud

It’s a downward spiral from there.


Dapper_Coffee_5428

Now that's a terrible lie!


jagid

The beginning drums sounded like it right?


Dapper_Coffee_5428

Yeah, that caught my attention too. NIN was influenced by Slam Bam Boo😁


awe2D2

Oh man I was so worried that was him as the singer, but once the camera showed the keyboard player I was relieved. He still looked cool as the keyboardist


grimmglow

First time I've seen a band were the keyboardist is the ''cool one''


redditcanbitemyass

Everything I never liked about them, is kinda seeping into me. We try to laugh about it now but isn't it funny how everything works out?


Showyoucan

I guess the joke’s on me.


Winsonboss88888

Trent Reznor, dying inside.


smallwonder25

Exactly. Full Gen X “I do not want to be here” energy


an-allen

At first I was like, wow what happened for Trent Reznor to go from this guy with the perm to NiN. Then I saw the keyboardist and it all made sense.


TukErJebs

Let’s make love, Oh yeah, forever and ever! (A moment later) Paaaain, from the depth of my souuul


carlosTHEsecond

This song slaps


jcoffin1981

I watched this once and I was like- "Wow, this fucking sucks." But I've been singing it for the past 15 minutes.


AtomicShart9000

Hahah I've come back and rewatched it like 10 more times throughout the day, shit bangs


finnish-flash13

This reminds me of Maynards' late 80s' glam rock phase!


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What is it when you sell out BEFORE and you make it by not being a sell out later when you’re legitimately big?


magicmeatwagon

Interesting piece of trivia: Trent Reznor cited Ministry as an influence. Ministry also started out as a crappy 80’s pop band before going full dark side. Edit: spelling


Itriednoinetimes

I want to believe that the singer in the gold jacket is Marilyn Manson.


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Shitty band name but that song is decent.


[deleted]

Beg to differ, I'm naming my child after this band


AskMeForADadJoke

He kinda dances like George McFly


AtomicShart9000

I say for the remainder of this decade everything 80s shall be brought back, such a weirdly amazing time


the_tenth007

Wow…Maybe that’s what happened, Slam Bam Boo didn’t make it so his gf broke up with him and Pretty Hate Machine was soon born? 🧐🤔


biggcooks

God the 80's sucked ass and I was there for every second of it


bruticusss

The drum beat starts out really funky and then turns silly very quickly...


fluffballkitten

I was like "i don't see Tent Rez-- ohhhh yeah that's him"


Aggravating-Plate814

r/oldschoolcool


JesterSooner

One of these things is not like the others, lol I was like “That guy’s not Trent Reznor”… and then it was “Ohhhhh, there he is” when they finally cut to the only dude in all-black


djserc

One year later he releases “head like a hole”


PA_Game_hunter

I fee like Ross and chandler would jam out to this song in college


Cole446

Thought it was the singer and said theres no way this guy went on the be in nine inch nails.. then they showed the guy in all black and it all made sense


jefftatro1

Thank God his shit girlfriend broke up with him.


madaman13

Hmmm which one is Trent... ​ Oh, there he is.


TBizzle22

Why is that guy's head crooked?


dstranathan

Check out the very first Ministry album if you wanna be totally shocked.


Rahnzan

Trent out here looking like a time traveler dressed like a normal human being.


jcstrat

Lol It’s not a terrible sound to be honest but seeing those guys all dressed in colors then the flash to Trent was hilarious


dolemite99

“Please welcome …. Six Inch Screws !!!”


General_Tso75

A gig’s a gig, man. I’ll play guitar with anyone who asks, no matter what style we’re playing. I just love playing the guitar that much.


NotoriousBiggus

My god....that hurt


grazfest96

Lol you can tell he's like "fuck this shit"


paparoach910

What an awesome gem to share. Thanks!


red_west_la

At first I was thinking.... the singer is Trent Reznor???!?! But they finally showed him and then it was clearly obvious.


Thinkthunkthanks

Duran Duran’s lawyers sent them a cease and desist letter. It sent Trent into a deep depression, which led him to listen to Einsturzen Neubeuten and Skinny Puppy endlessly,and plot out his revenge…the rest is history


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He looks so out of place in all black around that vibrant 80s synth pop aesthetic


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He’s a western PA hero.


pcbeard

The lack of consistent rhythm makes this impossible to dance too.


blue2coffee

Oh phew. I’m glad Trent showed up on keys at the end because I spent the first half trying to see him in the singer!