Talk:The Slip

Whilst the credits are to NIIN, I would assume a typo and on here we should put in the correct spelling. Sheepdean 07:28, 5 May 2008 (PDT)

This is what I thought too, the audio files' comment tags read "(c) 2008 nin". Mobytoss 09:53, 5 May 2008 (PDT)

okay; i changed it back Tocz 10:47, 5 May 2008 (PDT)

Hey, this album's message seems to convey a possible breakup in nine inch nails. I mean, look at both the page for "the four of us are dying". Also, the album is called "The Slip". I dunno, feel free to expand.

If NIN broke up, I'd be very worried, as there's only one member.Sheepdean 17:19, 6 May 2008 (PDT)

But four members worked on this album.

Doubt it has anything to do with the "band" breaking up. It's most likely about Year Zero and personal reflection. Velvolver 20:55, 6 May 2008 (PDT)

Does the red line tie in to the vocals at all? Because the songs with vocals have red lines, but I think (I haven't checked) the instrumentals don't have red line artwork.

Alien Abduction

This whole albums about the year zero story, and then eventually talks about alien abduction. Seriously, I'll explain more later Velvolver 21:13, 6 May 2008 (PDT)

The hand on the cover art is probably The Presence. Also, the album itself seems to be a sort of interlude between Year Zero and what's coming after, like a calm before the storm. The "Lights in the Sky" lyrics remind me of the christian idea of the rapture, and the album itself up to that track could be viewed as characters portrayed in the Year Zero story line who are left behind by The Presence (or what the presence signified) to a world void of meaning. The big event happened, and these people were not part of it. Their struggle to come to terms with this situation in expressed in a variety of painful perspectives that all seem to meld into one resolved perspective at the end of the album. The song "The Great Destroyer" from Year Zero foreshadows this character portrayed in "Demon Seed", a person with "the infinite potential... to murder everything". So, if the Presence = the Rapture, then I'm assuming The Great Destroyer/Demon Seed = the Antichrist. Like Trent Reznor's version of the apocalypse.

The Presence symbol (signifying the hand of God/Fate, or whatever) on the cover of The Slip would be that hand pulling the author behind the various characters on Year Zero and The Slip (literally, Trent Reznor, but in the same way that the hand represents "the Presence"{God, Fate, or whaterver} the author would represent the self{or soul, ego, identity, etc.}) back into one underlaying identity, Resolved to destroy what's left of the world.

That's my guess, anyway.

Also, the art for "The Four Of Us Are Dying" looks like 4 isometric zeros, like the numeric representation of the year zero.

Image files

What's with the extra bar at the bottom of all the artwork files for The Slip? The only place they seem to appear is on the wiki (ie. they're not in the PDF of the embedded images in the MP3s)? It's most notable on Lights In The Sky and The Four Of Us Are Dying.