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| With Teeth | 
 enlarge | Artist: Nine Inch Nails
Label: Interscope Records
Category: Music
List Price: $13.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  714 reviews
Sales Rank: 4071
Format: Explicit Lyrics
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 000455302
UPC: 602498813546
EAN: 0602498813546
ASIN: B000929AJQ
Release Date: May 3, 2005
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 Also Known As "Awitha Teetha" June 30, 2005
8 out of 13 found this review helpful
One and a half star
After a five and a half year wait, I was expecting riots in the streets if Nine Inch Nails' long(LONG) awaited followup to "The Fragile" didn't live up to even the most rudimetary expectations. But the release date came and went, and lo and behold no riots. But I'm still waiting.
I tried every conceivable way to like this record on pretty much any level that a record could be enjoyed. I lowered my expectaions to a level so far down that it would need to be pretty bad to dissapoint me. But sadly "With Teeth", in my eyes, is a very dissapointing record.
What went wrong? Everything that Nine Inch Nails and it's de facto leader used to do so well---dense, layered tracks that can go from brutally aggressive to open calm in a heartbeat, melodic but deceptive songs, occasionally interesting lyrics--- are gone, replaced by a sound that even Marilyn Manson would consider passe.
The production on "With Teeth" is a low for Reznor, who along with producer/ mixer Alan Moulder, usually puts together a pretty impressive package. Here however the songs sound cluttered and busy. Far to often on the record Reznor appears passive about the overall sound quality. Many of the songs don't sound mixed, but rather as if Reznor had merely turned all the levels on every track to the same number and left it at that.
Songwritting wise this has to be the laziest group of songs that Reznor has ever put out. For the most part it's a "Downward Spiral" redux, with occasional parts from "Broken" or "The Fragile" thrown in for good measure.
"Don't You Know What You Are?" is as aggressive a track NIN has put out, but instead of feeling cathartic it feels tired and obvious. The title track "With Teeth" tries to be menacing but instead it kind of funny, ecspeccially when Reznor sings the chorus comes in and Reznor muses "Awitha teetha". "The Line Begins to Blur" is just a bad mash of overly distorted instruments creeping into a My Bloody Valentine-esque chorus, and the two records first two singles, "The Hand That Feeds"(a fairly silly politcal song, let's all admit it) and the Gary Numen-esque "Only", sound more like the current new wave revivalist a la The Killers and the Bravery then Nine Inch Nails.
But the most unforgivable aspect of the records have to be the cringe worthy lyrics that make up the bulk of the record. Once again Reznor sounds as if he weren't picked for kickball in P.E. and man is he mad, but here he resides to cliches and underdevolped ideas to get his point across. The lyrics, pretty much as a whole, sound like the type of stuff that your average seventh grader would turn in for his English class poetry assignment and still make a C. At the ripe old age of forty, I think it's about time Reznor begins to look to something else for lyrically inspiration.
Two decent tracks pop up though. "All the Love in the World" will sound vaguely familiar to anyone who has given Radiohead's "Kid A" a listen, but even though the lyrics are still pretty weak, the overall vibe and mood of the song hits the right chords. And the excellent "Everyday Is Exactly the Same" would fit on pretty much any other NIN record well, with the records best production, lyrics and songwritting, and one Reznor's best choruses yet. Hopefully it will be the records third single so I can pick that up.
I want to like "With Teeth" desperatly, but I just can't. It doesn't hit me at all and after a few listens I gladly traded it in for my five dollars credit, three dollars cash at the local used record shop. It is without a doubt the weakest non-remix record of NIN's career, and left with me with only one question:
"It took alomst six years to make THIS?"
Music for SUV Commercials August 9, 2005
8 out of 18 found this review helpful
Trent has gone the way of music that sounds and looks edgy and hard but is highly polished and non-threatening. You can hear this kind of music in the more hip SUV and luxury car commercials. This is the tremendous downside to being overly-perfectionistic and using very sophistocated studios; sad, but true. His lyrcism has him sounding developmentally stunted since he's still singing about things 15 year olds complain about. Trent also tends to reuse the same terminology in his titles and phrasings which make for redundant sentiments. I really wish he'd delve back into Prince-tinged sexuality like he did on his first three albums; that's where a lot of NIN's meat was. Sadly, Reznor's music seem's pretty neutered now, tepidly wallowing in a pedestrian haze of Pro-Tools and overemphasized insecurity.
Though Nine Inch Nails may have always been a pop band, it is no longer the innovative force it once was. Trent & co. sound more like an "industrial" sampler act for those whose boundries begin and end with MTV and MTV2, mixing a little rock, a little light electronics and little pop to create a nice package for casual music fans.
The Begining of a New NIN April 18, 2007
8 out of 10 found this review helpful
You know what? I'm sick and tired of reading people saying that there is nothing "great" about With Teeth or even their new album Year Zero. I'm tired of reading that With Teeth isn't a Master piece of an album. First of all, With Teeth is the new sound NIN and quite frankly, it f*cking rocks. IF you don't like it, that's awesome. Go back to listening to pop-rock. It's clearly your choice. You must understand that Trent is no longer constantly abusing drugs and alcohol. So, NO, he isn't going to be making the kind of music you heard on 1994's The Downward Spiral. Ya that album was groundbreaking, but Trent was also a hudge Heroin attack at the time. Look at how deep and dark The Fragile was. Trent isn't like that anymore. And GOOD FOR HIM. Serriously. That really rocks that he climbed up out of that hole he was in and he still is able to rock the f*cking house and do it hard. If you are truly a NIN fan, you will like ANYTHING Trent puts out there because his music is constantly changing.
 Hauntingly Beautiful April 27, 2005
7 out of 10 found this review helpful
After a 5 year excrutiatingly long wait, Trent Reznor is back and better than ever. For a man who's been in the music business for over 10 years, and dubbed the God of industrial, Trent never fails to impress fans with his angst-driven, yet in most cases, beautifully haunting music. From the classic upbeat Pretty Hate Machine, to the heavy hitting yet euphoric The Fragile, Nine Inch Nails has always seemed to cover just about every scrap of ground that one could cover, in the world of Industrial-Rock. With Teeth is somewhat of an exception though. Trent's new album seems like 5 steps backwards, covering what already was, but improving upon it with new material, and an actual live band backing up his vocals. That's right, Trent is no longer a one-man band, he actually has a live band backing up most of the songs on this new release. With Teeth, the former "Bleedthrough", is a 13 track regression, that covers what already has been in terms of sound, and a tad bit of new sound to add to the flavor of the album. With Teeth is an extremely adverse album, that goes from hard hitting, to upbeat, to melodic, and repeats the cycle numerous times.
Almost every single track on this 2005 release has major replay value, and not a single song on the album, is bad nor doesn't belong. With Teeth has everything...melody for the lovers of melodic pieces, upbeat tracks for fans of Trent's early years, and hard hitting tracks for fans of disc 2 of The Fragile, and tracks such as "Burn", and "Starfu*kers, Inc." If With Teeth had to be compared to any release that Trent has put out, it'd have to be a cross between Broken and The Fragile, which in my own personal opinion, are 2 of Trent's best releases to date. So with that said, you already know you're going to be getting good music on this disc.
The subject mannor on With Teeth is for the most part, love-driven. The entire album is based on the ups and downs, of love. This may upset a few fans of Trent, as it may seem like a midlife-crisis that Trent should've kept to himself, and it may also please other fans of Trent, as...well...the music is just really really good, and you just can't argue with that. Lyrically, this album kind of sinks to a low, and really doesn't offer anything devastatingly amazing, but still finds a way to capture the listeners soul, and send it to a land of angst and euphoria. Also, at times, the album can be lyrically redundant, and extremely saddening. But knowing Trent, this is something a typical 5+ year long fan of Nine Inch Nails, needs to learn to expect, or even has learned to expect. Trent just loves to repeat the same things over and over, and With Teeth kind of proves this. There are even at times, With Teeth song titles in other songs on With Teeth. This may show a lack of creativity, but it's well worth it once you take a listen to it.
In the long run, With Teeth is going to be an album much debated amongst fans of Trent Reznor and Nine Inch Nails. Some will like it, and some won't. But don't let that stop you from atleast giving the cd a chance. I did, and it's now my 2nd favorite studio release the band (or therein lack of a band in most cases), has put out to date.
Standout tracks on With Teeth include the following:
"With Teeth", "Every Day is Exactly The Same", "Only", "Love is Not Enough", and "Right Where it Belongs."
Also, "Home" is an extremely beautiful song that is well worth the money for an imported version of With Teeth.
The ***UK*** import of With Teeth, comes with "Home", and "Right Where it Belongs (Alternate Version)" and costs less money. 15 tracks in all. So I suggest getting it over this one, because in my personal opinion, With Teeth is a great cd, that needs no remixes as filler, just straight songs make it worth while. Remixes infact, might even make this album kind of tacky, and stray from the beauty that it holds. So I could do without a The Hand That Feeds remix, and just be left with the other 2, which are actual songs, and not remixes.
With Teeth is a great effort by Trent Reznor, and fans of the The Fragile and Broken eras of Nine Inch Nails, need not hesitate, and give this cd a chance. Like it or leave it, it's been made, and it's not going to leave untill it makes its impact on the select few fans who enjoy it.
Give With Teeth a chance, you won't regret it.
Great album, could have been DARKER May 3, 2005
7 out of 12 found this review helpful
This is definitely one of the most "pop" type of albums Trent Rezner has come out with. Its not dark like the fragile or broken. Has a lot of 80's retro feel to it which isn't really a bad thing. Overall I like it, but its not his best album by far and I was a little disappointed not hearing any real good "Angry" music. But I still love Trent and NIN and I'm looking forward for some remixes of this album!!!
Ok well now that I've had some time to fully get used to this album and 1 live NIN concert/tour later. I appreciate this album much better more now. Yes it is different then his other albums but whats wrong with a little change? I think Trent knows his roots and he will get back to them in his next album.
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