FEATURE:
The Lockdown Playlist
The Best of Trent Reznor and Nine Inch Nails
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AS it is…
IN THIS PHOTO: Nine Inch Nails
Trent Reznor’s birthday tomorrow (17th May), I wanted to put out a playlist of his best tracks - those with the band and his frequent collaborations with Atticus Ross. The Nine Inch Nails lead is a constantly engaging and innovative musician. He is a hugely influential songwriter and singer who has impacted so many others. Before coming to the playlist, it is worth bringing in some biography:
“Michael Trent Reznor (born May 17, 1965) is an American musician, singer, songwriter, record producer, and composer. He serves as the lead vocalist, multi-instrumentalist, and principal songwriter of the industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails, which he founded in 1988 and of which he was the sole official member until 2016. The first Nine Inch Nails album, Pretty Hate Machine (1989), was a commercial and critical success. Reznor has since released 11 more Nine Inch Nails studio albums.
Reznor began his career in the mid-1980s as a member of synth-pop bands such as Option 30, The Innocent, and Exotic Birds. He has contributed to the albums of artists such as Marilyn Manson, whom he mentored, and rapper Saul Williams. Alongside his wife Mariqueen Maandig and long-time Nine Inch Nails collaborators Atticus Ross and Rob Sheridan, he formed the post-industrial group How to Destroy Angels in 2009.
Beginning in 2010, Reznor, alongside Atticus Ross, began to work on film and television scores. The duo have scored many of David Fincher's films, including The Social Network (2010), The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011), Gone Girl (2014), and Mank (2020). They won the Academy Award for Best Original Score for The Social Network and Soul, and the Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media for The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. The duo has also scored the films Patriots Day (2016), mid90s, Bird Box (both 2018), Waves (2019) and Soul (2020), the documentary Before the Flood (2016), and the television series The Vietnam War (2017) and Watchmen (2019), winning a Primetime Emmy Award for the lattermost. In 1997, Reznor appeared on Time's list of the year's most influential people, and Spin magazine described him as "the most vital artist in music".
To honour the great Trent Reznor, this Lockdown Playlist is all about his best musical moments. It is a wonderful collection of power, memorable and moving songs…
FROM a music icon.