In April 1997, the band convened at Buck’s Kauaʻi vacation home to record demos of material intended for the next album. The band sought to reinvent its sound and intended to incorporate drum loops and percussion experiments. Just as the sessions were due to begin in October, Berry decided, after…
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Daft Punk released their debut album, Homework , on 20 January 1997. That February, the UK dance magazine Muzik published a Daft Punk cover feature and described Homework as “one of the most hyped debut albums in a long long time”. According to The Village Voice , the album revived…
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Wilder continued to work on his personal project Recoil , releasing a fourth album ( Unsound Methods ) in 1997.
In 1997, they released ” Chinese Burn “, the first single to be taken from their third studio album Come Clean (1998). The album is a set of songs displaying a more pronounced influence of electronic music than earlier releases. Curve continued to do small-scale live shows in and around…
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In 1997 Reznor also produced the soundtrack to the David Lynch film Lost Highway , which featured one new Nine Inch Nails song, ” The Perfect Drug “.
Released in 1997, the Closure video documented highlights from the tour, including full live videos of “Eraser”, “Hurt” and a one-take “March of the Pigs” clip directed by Peter Christopherson.
Reznor chose the name “Nine Inch Nails” because it “abbreviated easily” rather than for “any literal meaning”. Other rumored explanations have circulated, alleging that Reznor chose to refer to Jesus’s crucifixion with nine-inch spikes , or Freddy Krueger ‘s nine-inch fingernails. The Nine Inch Nails logo first appeared on the…
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Curve’s second studio album, the harder-edged Cuckoo (1993), did not repeat the UK Top 20 success of the band’s debut. That coupled with the stressfulness of the tour in support of the record, may have contributed to Halliday and Garcia’s decision to disband the group in 1994. “It got to…
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In mid-1996, after his near-fatal overdose in which his heart stopped beating for two minutes, Gahan entered a court-ordered drug rehabilitation program to battle his addiction to cocaine and heroin.