#90s album

[adriantheanimator09]

A Wordgirl Chuck parody I made of one of my favorite albums (The Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and The Infinite Sadness) (have no idea what came to me to make this masterpiece 😂)

[glimmer-nightshade]

Venmo: GlimmerNightshade

gotta raise money for my hungry piggy wiggies 😉😘

[gordonsgardenparty]

the cardigans - life album cover

my username was taken from one of the songs in this album (๑˃̵ᴗ˂̵)

[robsheridan]

Hard to believe Nine Inch Nails' classic The Downward Spiral is 30 years old today! Here is some detail photography I took of the original album cover painting by Russell Mills for the 10th anniversary deluxe edition release, which I had the unique honor of designing, and somehow that is now 20 year old.

Everyone has that one album that hit at just the right moment of adolescence to change their perspective on music and get them through their teenage angst. The Downward Spiral was that album for me, released as it was in 1994, when I was a freshman in high school (and an absolute banner year for music/films/games all around). I must have stared at the artwork for hours over those years, without even much detail to draw from on its tiny 5” CD slip case. So five years later, when I found myself inexplicably working for Nine Inch Nails, it was surreal to see the actual original painting in the flesh, hanging as it was at the time in Trent Reznor’s office at Nothing Studios, New Orleans.

I was struck by how much dimension and texture there was in the artwork that never translated on that tiny slipcase printing, how much detail was happening in the physical materials of the art: Flies, moths, wires, blood… I had been staring at this “painting” for so long, yet suddenly it was like I had never seen it before. I also noticed that it had aged - the wires had wilted over the years, drooping down from their original position as captured in the original album cover (interestingly, judging by the photo posted today by NIN, the piece has since been restored); a tooth was missing from the other main piece.

That experience stuck with me and it was the first thing I thought about when the task of re-imagining the album package fell upon me in 2004. I wanted to re-photograph the artwork, subtly updating the cover to show that ten years had changed it physically, much like our perceptions of art and music and memories change over time with perspective. I also wanted to dig into the previously unseen details of the work and explore it with my macro lens, so that fans like me, old and new, could have new layers of texture to pore over for hours while listening to a legendary album.

Happy birthday, old friend.

[anemiic-dreams]

[sneckoil]

two tigers away (here)

tracklist

everything she wants - wham!

one - marvin hamlisch (a chorus line)

love and hapiness - al green

dancing queen - abba

gaslight - inji

my heart will go on - celine dion

there is a light that never goes out - the smiths

gravity - john mayer

teardrop - massive attack, elizabeth fraser

[colealexart]

*90s-ifies your imogen temult*

[manicpixieangel444]

𝓘'𝓶 𝓶𝓲𝓼𝓼 𝔀𝓸𝓻𝓵𝓭, 𝓼𝓸𝓶𝓮𝓫𝓸𝓭𝔂 𝓴𝓲𝓵𝓵 𝓶𝓮 ˚₊‧꒰ა ♱ ໒꒱ ‧₊˚

[silphwave]

Lofi ambient beats with rain and wind sounds to do some old rod fishing to

[ruinedholograms]

Æon Flux (1991-1995)

[dissolvedvoid]

Deftones - Around The Fur | 1997 | Label : Maverick

[eyesaremosa1cs]

Type O Negative - October Rust (1996)

[1skittler1]

Kittie / Charlotte (1999)

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[bu99erfly]

FLO WALK LIKE THIS, 2024

[frenchnewwaves]

jeff buckley and the sheet of him writing lover, you should’ve come over

[anemiic-dreams]