{"id":973820,"date":"2019-12-02T21:37:46","date_gmt":"2019-12-03T04:37:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=920847"},"modified":"2019-12-02T21:37:46","modified_gmt":"2019-12-03T04:37:46","slug":"hear-trent-reznor-atticus-ross-cover-david-bowies-life-on-mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/music-news\/hear-trent-reznor-atticus-ross-cover-david-bowies-life-on-mars\/","title":{"rendered":"Hear Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross Cover David Bowie\u2019s \u2018Life on Mars?\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Nine Inch Nails<\/a>\u2019 Trent Reznor<\/a> and Atticus Ross recorded a spacey version of David Bowie<\/a>\u2019s \u201cLife on Mars?\u201d for the HBO series Watchmen<\/a><\/em><\/a>. The instrumental song, which strips down the Hunky Dory<\/em><\/a> piece to a plinky keyboard line and airy synths, appears in the superhero drama\u2019s recently aired seventh episode, \u201cAn Almost Religious Awe.\u201d<\/p>\n

Reznor and Ross are releasing their Watchmen<\/em> score as a three-volume soundtrack<\/a>, with each edition issued on vinyl throughout the show\u2019s first season. The first two volumes came out in November, and the third installment follows on December 16th.<\/p>\n

Nine Inch Nails have paid tribute to Bowie in the past, having covered<\/a> the late musician\u2019s Blackstar<\/em><\/a> track \u201cI Can\u2019t Give Everything Away\u201d onstage in 2017. Reznor, who referred to Bowie as a \u201cmentor\u201d and \u201cfatherly figure\u201d in a written memorial<\/a>, contributed to the singer\u2019s 1997 single \u201cI\u2019m Afraid of Americans\u201d and even appeared in its music video<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Reznor recently spoke to Rolling Stone<\/em><\/a> about his admiration for Watchmen<\/em> showrunner Damon Lindelof and the strategy behind releasing the soundtrack in three pieces.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re having some fun with the way that it\u2019s released,\u201d he said. \u201cThere are a number of reasons behind doing that. One is there is quite a bit of music, and I think when you drop a big chunk \u2014 a couple hours\u2019 worth of music \u2014 on the public these days, that\u2019s a good way to get 90 percent of it ignored. So breaking it up is good.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe motivation wasn\u2019t to monetize it three times,\u201d he continued. \u201cThat wasn\u2019t what the deciding factor was. And we\u2019re putting it out on vinyl because we\u2019ve been on a physical-object kick. Speaking for myself, that\u2019s for nostalgic reasons. I\u2019m looking at a shelf full of vinyl albums right now, and it that feels a little different than something that\u2019s a cloud-based file, which feels a little disposable. They also tie into Watchmen<\/i>. Let\u2019s put it this way: We overthought it.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Nine Inch Nails\u2019 Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross recorded a spacey version of David Bowie\u2019s \u201cLife on Mars?\u201d for the HBO series Watchmen. The instrumental song, which strips down the Hunky Dory piece to a plinky keyboard line and airy synths, appears in the superhero drama\u2019s recently aired seventh episode, \u201cAn Almost Religious Awe.\u201d Reznor […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-973820","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-14 07:08:23","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KFMU Solar Powered Radio","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=973820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973820\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=973820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=973820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=973820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}