David Bowie & Trent Reznor 1995 Interview with Kurt Loder | MTV News 

+Richard Buchli me too :( , oh bowie, Trent took more than a week to speak about Bowie s death, cant imagine how sad he is

You are so right! You rarely see Trent smile in interviews. He's always so conservative & serious. Shy & unassuming as David describes, but he's quite light hearted here. You can really see that David was someone Trent trusted, respected & admired greatly.

Richard Buchli Bowie helped pull quite a few artists out of low periods. Iggy Pop was the first which I'm forever thankful for.

Richard Buchli True, I was thinking the same! It's so nice to see him smile for once!

Pretty sure they’re both on coke.

Hell yeah. He's definitely one of my favorites. His voice and delivery always struck

Why is this comment so good

It's not good it's lazy and cringy AF@@chinchirap2

Hilarious!

the thin tan duke

paulytamale Racist bitch.

Mister Justice Bassist Rich?

Mister Justice How is that even remotely racist?

EXPLODE If you’re that dense that you can’t tell, I’m not going to explain the obvious.

They used that in the lemony snicket books in I think it was penultimate peril

He had a sharp wit. Sometimes I think ppl figured out later that it was a zinger. He learned from Lennon on that.❤

He was a smart boy! Miss his kinda humor. A little nudge,nudge,wink wink...say no more. (I really wanna say somthing nasty, y'know).

#dadjokes Bowie is a beautiful loss

I don’t get it.... Is it a JoJo reference?

You will too if your wife is as beautiful as theirs😂.

Hair pieces help too. David used them as most people in show business do. David’s were pretty real looking which is why many people think it was his real hair

Coke must interfere with the aging process somehow.

@@Smoove_J No, cocaine accelerates the aging process.

@@Smoove_J no your thinking of H (eroin)

LOL I know you're being cynical, and Kurt was a bit of an old dork. But he was my favorite MTV anchor, and always scored good interviews with some of my favorite artists, hence this video.

He’s like the middle-aged male teacher who thinks he’s the school’s “cool teacher” to the students. *flips chair backwards, sits down* “OK dudes, let’s rap!”

v All times All places We end up on our a&&es

lol I didn't even notice but that's hilarious

He was 50 back then. He really tried to fit in the Ninetiees.

Trent's damn near 40 in this

@@williamhollaway1960 He's only 30 here.

@@newgame897 30?! Damn son.

@@williamhollaway1960 This was 1995. Trent was 30.

@@jobelthirty1294 He started his career when he was in his 20s I believe. And then this is 10 years later, more or less...

lol music elitist joke

MortonGoldthwait STOP

Heyy cool username. I love NIN, I love Swans and I love FoxTrot so I like you

SpoonyLionheart unbelievable that he didn't sweat in it. A jacket like that, zipped on any other human, would make him steam.

Louder. Lolll ?

DSJFKLFKJAS FSFDFSADBJ Kurt loder was a great interviwer

I grew up with MTV, this interview was when i was just going into college, and I always remember Loder kicked ass in an interview. My favorite all time interview with Loder was when he interviewed Oasis. He kind of understood them but said that we will use subtitles for the viewers. Funny thing is they did!

Loder is OG man. The best.

yes, it's just the way he sits lol. like a teacher trying to be cool

Kurt Loder wasn’t hip or cool, he was to MTV a fish out of water. The reason he was so popular on MTV was his professionalism in reporting. He would come in regardless of whether it was metal, rap, or pop just report it as if he was covering a major political event. And he lasted decades because of it

Lol

Gotta be adaptable, you know

Liisi Altsaar Loved reading his Rolling Stone reviews since I was a teenager

Dr drew was the cool old guy to me 😁

Lol

@Rafael Del Villar thanks for being a prick.

With Trent.

most def

Kurt's loaded

Agreed

except country. He hated it

@@allisonchainz82 exactly...great taste

@@allisonchainz82 how do you know that?

Would have loved to hear his take on mumble rap.

True. Bowie also touched on 1960s R'nB (the Mannish Boys; his first band, a mod group), folk ("Letter for Hermione", his first award-winning song), space rock ("Space Oddity", his breakout tune), music hall (most of Hunky Dory, considered by many critics his best record), glam rock (Ziggy Stardust & Aladdin Sane periods, when he broke into the mainstream), 1970s soul (his "plastic soul" era, when he moved to New York and recorded the Young Americans album with Luther Vandross), jazz ("Wild is the Wind", a gorgeous ballad on his sleek Station to Station album), garage rock ("Boys Keep Swinging" and much of his work with Iggy Pop on The Idiot record), ambient rock ("Heroes", as well as much of his Low and Lodger albums recorded in Berlin with Brian Eno), funk ("Fashion" and "Ashes to Ashes", his popular dance tunes from the later 1970s), and eventually electronica ("I'm Afraid of Americans" and most of his collaborations with Trent Reznor in the 1990s). Bowie indeed had a wide and eclectic musical palate.

I loved that part. He's like "you think you've seen some shit, well this happened!" xD

The irony being that NIN had a drummer collapse on stage with a heart murmur about a decade later

@@Kyle_The_Mighty And one of their pre-TDS tour drummers (not Vrenna, but Jeff Ward) died in 93, but I guess Bowie didn't know it. PS: Not onstage, he killed himself, he was an heroin addict, I guess that partially inspired some of the stuff in TDS.

The Brit humor and American humor really come together in symbiosis with these two. :-D

I love Bowie and nin so none of this trolling bullshit , that said I am sure they were both a tad under the influence of Coke. Checkout the pupil sizes they have had a bump or two. Having fun and for Trent living a dream as he has always referenced David as a major influence.

+sandman sevenseven They've both had substance abuse issues in the past, but David's pupil in his left eye was permanently dilated after a fist fight in his youth.

Trent notably had a drug problem at the time, but Bowie had been clean for more than a decade by that point. They may have been drinking, though. *shrug*

David had quit drinking a while before then, as well, that's what he was like sober.

I just think that they'd been fucking.

*He was as big a fashion icon as he was in music --- lots of people don't know that*

+scccrm 973 ...and his eyes...what would I give for having such amazing eyes...

+TylerDurden43 Well, you'd need to get punched in the face. That's why he has such cool eyes. From being punched in the eye when he was a kid.

Laura M ....yes, I know the story...what a lucky guy...other one´s getting a broken nose or loosing some teeth...but Bowie`s getting the most amazing eyes on this planet ;-)...

absolutely

Install a Friend ayy nice puns

He was a walking work of art

Oh god I can't stop hearing every little crackling noise now

Kurt loder is 77

@@booster330 77 gets to have Kurt Loder for a year

Kate Vielle he’s so cute and joyful!

when you get on stage with your teenage idol... you are on top of the world

Same here, one of my favorite Bowie songs

Those were the days when MTV was actually music television. The channel should now be called reality tv (RTV).

+Powernetwork he wasn't that afraid as he lived in NY

+Powernetwork Why are you "Afraid of Americans" ? Why would Bowie be "afraid of Americans?

+Powernetwork it's a song . It wasn't his life; he lived it HERE; called himself a NY'er

Lennon; McCartney and Harrison were all only 5'7" as well. Ringo even shorter.

hes making a joke

Jeff Buckley was a little guy to

Its wild how many front men are so short. Prince, thom yorke, bono, bruno mars, guy from fallout boy. Rivers cuomo

Beck is a small guy, so is the singer for GodSmack …

Theta I never heard that, I heard downward spiral was a complete experiment with no real idea of what was gonna happen

@@KevinCease Basically, Trent listened to "Low" a lot while he was working on TDS. The track "a warm place" is inspired by a couple of the atmospheric instrumental synth tracks that are at the end of the "Low" album. The whole of TDS isn't inspired by the Bowie album.

I love it when I find out that Bowie and I were enjoying the same music at the same time

The Wall was a major influence on Tds

Gotta say, meeting one of your influences and having them admire your work has got to be the best feeling in the world.

Vox Animus wow, I feel this as well and couldn't have said it better man!

Bowie’s about 48 here.

Got it now. Its TR that looks Snape. I was wondering how Bowie was in HP.

Lol. I was expecting this comment

Snape looks like Trent dear.

Now it makes sense why there was a song called "Reptile." You know... there were those those slithery snakey wizards in those books.

I thought he was adam driver for a second when I saw the thumbnail

#This

Well it’s not MTV’s fault that music sucks ass nowadays. I prefer that they just air their shitty realities 24/7 than playing and promoting mumble rap, trap and that kind of garbage.

+thevoid99 david bowie was doing more fangirling here.

+thevoid99 Bowie needed Reznor much more. I was 16 when this happened and a huge NIN fan. I learned of Bowie through NIN and this collaboration. Became huge fan and understood how big of a fan and inspiration David was in Trent's life.

+Pete Agassi Ummm, I don't think so. Bowie's always worked with the best of the best and was not intimidated by anyone. Respect for Trent yes, fangirling absolutely not.

+cactaceous Hahahah Cact sorry your offbase on that comment

+Ironjack53 How am I off base? I love Bowie more than I love NIN but lets have the facts right. This interview is from 1995. The Downward Spiral had come out the previous year and had been an amazing critical and commercial success. Their Woodstock 94 performance was mythologized. Bowie on the other hand was coming off the lucrative but completely panned Never Let Me Down album and the Glass Spider tour, the lackluster reception to both Tin Machine albums and the utter indifference, both commercial and critically to Black Tie White Noise and the ignored Buddha of Suburbia. That's why he went back to Eno on Outside and recruited Trent and NIN for the tour. He needed a spark. He needed a resurgence. He needed inspiration. He needed Eno and Trent to get him back on track. He got it. Outside is his best album since Scary Monsters and the tour was well received and got him back on MTV on high rotation when they both made the I'm Afraid of Americans video from Earthling. I was 16 when all of this was happening and though NIN he got exposure to a much younger demographic. I knew of Bowie but didn't feel compelled to explore until his association w NIN. So, I'm not off base.

Marion Farrell I understand this

pop culture sucks now, thanks to our overlords

3 years from your comment on this rings more poignant than ever, hope yer doing ok

I agree :/

Yeah.....about that.... see it gets much worse in the future!

+Ciel Jones I kid you not, this is the 6th time this has happened xD

Ummm….because it’s vinyl, not leather 😊

+Alexandra A That would have been amazing...

+Alexandra A Me too. Bowie/NIN was one of those shows I wish I could have seen, so Bowie/NIN 2.0 was definitely a wishlist show to see. It became bigger and bigger when I started hearing Bowie's new record. :'(

+Geoffrey Williams I was there. Nin played the amazing hits that we knew so well from our well worn cassette tapes. Bowie came out and blew our minds in flowing yellow and white gauze dress and pants and played Outside like he was from another world. Garson at his best, Gail Ann... Ahhh

Man, why did I have to be born so late that I was too young to attend this fucking powerhouse concert? (Born in 1989)

You could probably say the same thing about Trent these days.

Absolutely. Trent looks very healthy and youthful for a man who used to punish himself with endless touring and lots of chemicals and everything in between. He also looks pretty content in his own skin these days. I'm glad he finally found some peace in himself. Being young and full of rage can produce some very creative stuff but it can also drag you down and it gets tiresome after a while.

Zachary Tyler you have to say OK GOOGLE first

Quite possibly. (This is the question that keeps me awake at night.)

Probably

Yes

I can't even put into words how precious his giddiness was here but I can say that my heart exploded so...

He can hardly contain himself, I'd be the same way 😅

@@RetroAP its so nice to see him like that, for once

@@jessica5497 right!

Yea they probably just got done double teaming a 14 year old that was drugged. There so grear armt they.

+richard mattson was the best visual effects ive seen at a show. nin part was crazy they played a few songs together. bowie of course had tye best sound. every note was perfect. I was only 15 at the time but 35now. No one has came close to being a better show. ive never seen pink Floyd though. nin has since changed their stage production though and from the looks of it, its a big step up. would have been sweet if they could have done another tour.

I saw NIN in 2014 and can tell you that it is the best concert I've ever been to, performance and visual effects. I was more hyped to see Soundgarden but when I left I was completely amazed

Being only 4 years old at the time, I am so jealous of that experience. There will never be another David.

Lifesmyth

I feel your pain. Luckily there's new exciting, great talent everywhere these days in the underground, unsigned scene..

Iuy Yui For many reasons that would work.

hahahah true

But is there a story for it

Love the idea, although he would have to keep out from the sun during at least 3 years to prepare the skin

keanu Reeves ??? Bad actor !!!!

" Who the fuck r you? Kurt fucking Loder??!! Piss off!"

@@jasonpeters9865 What the hell are you even talking about?

@@neilgarvey2201 Lol, clearly u rnt that cool. It's fr "Dead Man on Campus." 1998 movie.

@@jasonpeters9865 Clearly....

​@@neilgarvey2201some random gut quoting a movie most people haven't heard of or remember saying you're not cool. Brilliant

+richard mattson ;)

Amen

lmao best answer

Or u desire to be back in 1995 again.

Just cross your eyes you'll see doible

He was an 'amazing joker'. (if you meant Batman's antagonist you needed to use a capital J)

Kurt was great about that.

the crowd still left even without a break at the show i went to :/

@@SniffyPoo anyone who leaves while Trent and Bowie are doing a duet of Hurt and Reptile should not have been at the show to begin with!!! It was a their loss for sure!!!

@@WHR17 they left after bowie's solo set w/o Trent started. it was a big NIN crowd, and yeah, today they probably wished they had stayed. It was the only Bowie concert I saw live.

Funny you say that because both Bowie and and the actor th that played Snape are both dead now.

+linglingjr no it's really not.

+linglingjr ironic but not funny lol

Trent Reznor sounds like an American Alan Rickman, not so much in this interview, but totally now in more recent videos. He looks less like Snape, but now sounds like him.

I always thought Reznor looked like Alan Rickman in the Perfect Drug video!

That's funny!

both beautiful in their own ways

He credits Bowie with inspiring him to get clean

Apart from the youtube interview outside a bar, where Trent was drinking beer, link one interview that has Trent Reznor ANYTHING OTHER THAN COMPLETELY SOBER.

@@isabellaswan2526 are you implying Trent didn't do shit tons of drugs?

@@Dejahthoris22 i read that also. He said he cleaned up and walked into Bowies dressing room saying umm sorry i threw up on your floor. Bowie just hugs him and says I knew you could get to this point. Bowie was such a good human being.

Paddy9476 where did you read that?

He is.

I still think he is.