Review 1 of 10

No Screen Name writes:

Not Rated

I can't believe some of the reviews here. I am at work, with headphones on and playing it full blast. With a couple of exceptions, it is heavy as hell, brooding, imaginative, incredibly catchy and impossible to put down. "Every day is the same" is an absolute killer track, full of heavy synths and menacing layers."The hand that feeds" makes me stomp in my chair like a loony. It is so full of hooks, I feel transfixed. Many of the tracks, start like they're waiting to ambush you. A false sense of the laid back is suddenly ripped apart by a sudden wall of sound and Reznor's amazing ability to make Marilyn Manson sound pedestrian. Tracks like "You know what you are?" and "Only" take you up one alley, then hijack you with the hardest, most intense NIN Ive ever heard. Truly inspirational). All in all a hybrid of 80s electronic, Industrial, Heavy Metal and TR's unique flavour emanates through this album and leaves this reviewer positively exhausted at the journey!

Jan 10, 2008 07:45:01

Review 2 of 10

No Screen Name writes:

2of 5 Stars

I dont know what to say. I think it would have been better if Trent Reznor would just have spent more time on it. you cant hurry the process making music takes time. it just sounds really hurried and just not that good. Year Zero and The Downward Spiral are much better

Nov 24, 2007 18:53:46

Review 3 of 10

No Screen Name writes:

3of 5 Stars

The first couple of times I listened to "With Teeth", it seemed awesome. Very hooky and unpretencious. Then, a few weeks later, it didn't seem so good (I guess the 6 years wait got me all excited). It's not a bad album, but it sounds very flat. Regarding "the hits", yeah: they're not that good. Most of the fans seem to love "Only", but all I like about it is that buzzy melody when Trent sings "Yes, I'm alone...". There is some great stuff, in "Teeth", like "You know what you are", "The line begins to blur" and "Right where it belongs" (wich I find way better than "Hurt"), but the overall sound isn't very rich. The stripped-down style is not meant for NIN.

Aug 16, 2007 08:37:22

Review 4 of 10

No Screen Name writes:

Not Rated

Some perks like beside you in time and right where it belongs in which Trent takes a moment to appreciate the beauty of friendship and of friendship which has been destroyed by the actions of pop society and it's more malicious elements in combination with people who have done individuals wrong and have played them for the worse. The down points are all the dumb jokes and the fact that for Trent Reznor to be even slightly sincere he couldn't do it without getting a little of the hazing behavior in himself. He had to pander to all the people with cruel hearts. He does this because he needs power and is not comfortable with equality and kindness, and it is a shame because at one point in time he as well as a whole other lot of musicians were once my heroes. If him and a whole lot of others had just stood up for what was right and moral from the beginning and had really held that fort down he would not have needed to write this album at all (and he knows that and the truth about these issues deep down) and these sad situations would not have happened. Bob Dylan once said "how many roads must a man walk down before you call him a man." How true...

Jul 28, 2007 18:44:13

Review 5 of 10

No Screen Name writes:

Not Rated

Nine Inch Nails are great but they didn't deliver anything special in With Teeth, I know it's not fair to judge With Teeth with Trent's previous works but seriously you don't have to be a genius to know that The Downward Spiral and The Fragile wipe With Teeth on the floor. With Teeth falls very short of his earlier works. If Year Zero is worse than this then id have to say Trent has lost his edge. The single "The Hand That Feeds" is annoying and poppy. "Only" is horrible and "Every Day is exactly the Same" is very boring and repetitive and those are the hits. What the hell happened Trent?!?!?!?! If you are a true NIN fan you will know that Trent Rezenor pulled a St. Anger on us.....Stay Away From With Teeth the only reason why I am giving it 2 stars is because it has one good song on the whole album and that is "Right Where IT Belongs" other than that everything else reeks of crap

Apr 7, 2007 02:33:14

Review 6 of 10

No Screen Name writes:

4of 5 Stars

This album has polarised the fans, and I think that's a good thing.

Basically, what Trent's doing here (IMHO) is putting a cap on everything thats gone before - there is a representative of every style he's covered already on here, i.e. 'The Hand That Feeds' is a 'Head Like A Hole' style Industrial floor-filler, 'You Know What You Are' is a marrying of Drum n Bass to Gothic Metal a la a more pissed off 'Perfect Drug', 'Right Where It Belongs' is a retrospective, sad ballad just like 'Hurt' is.

This album doesn't further Trent's progression through the realms of music: It underlines it. It's one hell of an album, just don't go in expecting the coherence of a 'TDS' or 'The Fragile' - that's not at all what this is about. Apparently he has a new album almost ready... We'll see then just where this genius is going.
I for one can't wait.

Dec 18, 2006 18:45:19

Review 7 of 10

No Screen Name writes:

Not Rated

I'm sorry, but I wasn't all that impressed by this album. To me the singles (Hand That Feeds, Every Day..., and Only) are about the only really good tracks. Most all the rest is basic NIN humdrum. The drums (especially the intros) are fantastic. But, as I learned in the RS review, it isn't even Reznor playing them, it's Dave Grohl! Reznor actually ends up ruining many of his own tunes: Grohl does a badass percussion intro and then Reznor slips in whispering and croaking his pointless "I'm lost" lyrics, killing the song's ferocity. Even though it's less aggressive, I like The Fragile more. I like how it effortlessly flows from aggression to melody and back again. Teeth just seems like a bunch of 4 minute songs that sound very similar to each other.

Aug 4, 2006 08:21:34

Review 8 of 10

No Screen Name writes:

Not Rated

Theres is something missing in this review.
If you want to apreciate the full extent of Reznor's work you better ear it in a surround system with 5.1. This album was made to take full advantage of this technology, and in my opinion it does!

Jul 19, 2006 06:41:27