Liddy Buck is a definite WHA? although it wouldn't surprise me if he listens to NIN, he's weird that way. Pino, however, is a session player legend, so like Freese he eventually ends up playing with everyone. I get what you mean about Adrian but it's just that - to me - I cannot see him in the kind of atmosphere a NIN show creates.
Okay so there was this nagging voice in my head about CBH and I finally realized it's that it reminds me of "Only" because it's like Trent is recursively quoting himself again and that's his thing and all BUT while the former is clever (because I say it is) the latter strikes me as tired, and part of the reason is it is seriously lacking a dynamic arrangement, which is what we expect from NIN. B makes a good point about the first single tending to be an unfortunate choice (on purpose, maybe?) and I really hope this is the case because I can't take a whole album of halfassed NIN.
The video...now I love DL, y'all know I do but it's like he's trying to make us have a seizure and while I wouldn't discount that as an artistic statement and all, it's entirely the wrong song to set it to. So yeah, it comes off badly and I don't blame all those who are trashing it.
