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1	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/nin_the_slip_album_cover_6.jpg]]
2	[[caption-width-right:350:''How did I [[AlbumTitleDrop slip]] into this?'']]
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4	''The Slip'' is the seventh studio album by Music/NineInchNails, released in 2008. One of the first releases on frontman Trent Reznor's then-newly-formed independent label The Null Corporation, the album's production was a deviation from the painstaking perfectionism that characterized past works. It was recorded in three weeks, and was originally intended to be an EP before becoming the full-length album it is now.
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6	The album was released as a free download under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA license on May 5, a couple weeks after it was finished, with a physical release out on July 22. ''The Slip'' has since been downloaded over 2 million times, and has sold at least 112,000 physical copies in the United States.
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8	While the original website used to promote the album is no longer available, it is still available on the Internet Archive and the Free Music Archive. You can download the album [[https://archive.org/details/nine_inch_nails_the_slip here]] or [[https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Nine_Inch_Nails/The_Slip here]] in the Platform/MP3 format, or [[https://archive.org/details/NineInchNailsTheSlip24bit96khz here]] in the higher-end [=FLAC=] format.
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11	!! Tracklist:
12	# "999,999" (1:25)
13	# "1,000,000" (3:56)
14	# "Letting You" (3:49)
15	# "Discipline" (4:19)
16	# "Echoplex" (4:45)
17	# "Head Down" (4:55)
18	# "Lights in the Sky" (3:29)
19	# "Corona Radiata" (7:34)
20	# "The Four of Us Are Dying" (4:37)
21	# "Demon Seed" (4:59)
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23	!! Personnel:
24	* Trent Reznor: vocals, most instruments
25	* Robin Finck: guitar
26	* Josh Freese: drums
27	* Alessandro Cortini [[note]] Cortini has stated that he didn't contribute to the album, but is credited as a performer anyway. He does, however, perform on the DVD included with the physical release. [[/note]]
28	* Atticus Ross: programming
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30	!! Tropes in the Sky:
31	* AlbumIntroTrack: "999,999".
32	* AteHisGun: "1,000,000":
33	--> Put the gun\
34	In my mouth\
35	Close your eyes\
36	Blow my [[PrecisionFStrike fuckin']] brains out
37	** According to one interpretation, the artwork for "Head Down" depicts this.
38	* CallBack: The Art is Resistance logo from the Music/YearZero ARG reappears in the artwork for "Letting You".
39	* EpicRocking: "Corona Radiata" (7:34). It even used to be the longest original song in the main Nine Inch Nails discography, until Add Violence's "The Background World" (11:44).
40	* FourIsDeath: "The '''Four''' of Us Are Dying".
41	* MinisculeRocking: "999,999" (1:25).
42	* NonAppearingTitle: "999,999", "Echoplex", "Corona Radiata", "The Four of Us Are Dying", and "Demon Seed"; half the album consists of these.
43	* OneWordTitle: "Discipline" and "Echoplex".
44	* ProtestSong: "Letting You".
45	* QuieterThanSilence: The majority of "Corona Radiata" is ambient noise until the last couple of minutes.
46	* TheShutIn: "Echoplex" appears to be about one, with lyrics like "I'm safe in here" and "You will never ever get to me in here".
47	* SplashOfColor: The album cover is entirely in black and white, with the exception of the red stripe near the top.
48	** This applies to most of the artwork associated with the songs, each being colored in shades of gray except for a thin red line (or lines). [[note]] The artwork for "1,000,000", "Lights in the Sky", and "The Four of Us Are Dying" all lack a red line. The artwork for "Demon Seed" doesn't apply either, as it is ''mostly'' red lines. [[/note]]
49	* StopAndGo: "1,000,000" features one not too long before the actual end of the song.
50	* TextlessAlbumCover
51	* TitleByNumber: "999,999" and "1,000,000".
52	* TogetherInDeath: The chorus of "Lights in the Sky" seems to imply this:
53	--> Watching you drown\
54	I'll follow you down\
55	I am here right beside you\
56	The lights in the sky\
57	Have finally arrived\
58	I am staying right beside you\
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