During the Fragility 2.0 tour, Reznor suffered a heroin overdose in London in June 2000, forcing a gig which was to be played that night to be cancelled. The incident pushed Reznor into entering rehab, putting Nine Inch Nails on hold while he attempted to become sober.
A year after Up ‘ s release, R.E.M. wrote the instrumental score to the Andy Kaufman biographical film Man on the Moon , a first for the group. The film took its title from the Automatic for the People song of the same name. The song ” The Great Beyond…
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the 2000 Fragility tour
Before the album’s release, the song ” Starfuckers, Inc. ” provoked media speculation about whom Reznor had intended its acerbic lyrics to satirize. Cinesexuality critic Patricia MacCormack interprets the song as a “scathing attack on the alternative music scene,” particularly Reznor’s former friend and protégé Marilyn Manson. The two artists…
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Five years elapsed between The Downward Spiral and Nine Inch Nails’ next studio album, The Fragile , which arrived as a double album in September 1999. The Fragile was conceived by making “songwriting and arranging and production and sound design … the same thing. A song would start with a…
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The most successful single from Homework was ” Around the World “. “Da Funk” was also included on the Saint film soundtrack. Daft Punk produced a series of music videos for Homework directed by Spike Jonze , Michel Gondry , Roman Coppola and Seb Janiak. The videos were collected in…
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In April 1998, Depeche Mode held a press conference at the Hyatt Hotel in Cologne to announce the Singles Tour.
The band cancelled their scheduled recording sessions as a result of Berry’s departure. “Without Bill it was different, confusing”, Mills later said. “We didn’t know exactly what to do. We couldn’t rehearse without a drummer.” The remaining members of R.E.M. resumed work on the album in February 1998 at Toast…
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After the release of Homework , Bangalter and Homem-Christo created their own record labels, Roulé and Crydamoure , and released side projects and records by their friends. Homem-Christo released music as a member of Le Knight Club with Eric Chedeville. Bangalter released music as a member of Together with DJ…
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A second singles compilation, The Singles 86>98 , was released in 1998, preceded by the new single ” Only When I Lose Myself “.