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NINE INCH NAILS 1995.04.16


Sunday April 16th 1995
Olympic Park, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Alternative Nation 1995

Source:

Taper: eatyourblud
Equipment: Blaupunkt CC 844 8mm Camera Recorder
Lineage: Unknown, see details below

Video Specs:

Version 1
#4245		 Version 2
#4246
File format: DVD folder DVD folder
Video codec: MPEG-2 MPEG-2
File size: 3.72 GB 4.29 GB
Duration: 57m 01s 61m 25s
TV system: PAL PAL
Framerate: 25 fps 25 fps
Scan type: Interlaced TFF Interlaced TFF
Storage Resolution: 704 x 576 720 x 576
Display Resolution: 720 x 576 720 x 576
Storage Aspect Ratio: 11:9 (1.222) 5:4 (1.250)
Display Aspect Ratio: 4:3 (1.333) 4:3 (1.333)
Video Bitrate: 8841 kb/s VBR 4620 kb/s VBR
Audio Coding mode: AC3 AC3
Sampling Rate: 48 kHz 48 kHz
Audio Bitrate: 256 kb/s 224 kb/s

Setlist:

  1. Pinion
  2. Mr. Self Destruct
  3. Sin
  4. March of the Pigs
  5. Piggy
  6. Closer
  7. Reptile
  8. Gave Up
  9. Wish
  10. Dead Souls
  11. Help Me I'm In Hell
  12. Happiness in Slavery
  13. Head Like a Hole

Notes:

I have two different versions of this recording.

Version 1 I received in a trade direct from Eatyourblud.
Version 2 I downloaded, but this was also compiled by Eatyourblud.

Both have supposedly come from the master, but given the title screens and cuts, it would have to be a VHS/1 at best.

Details and comparisons below:

DVD Menu:

Version 1 has a standalone DVD recorder menu.
Version 2 has no menu at all.

Disc contents:

Version 1 has the Alternative Nation show on it, and nothing else.

00:00 Title screen: NCL Productions
00:08 Title screen: Nine Inch Nails 1995-04-16 Alternative Nation
00:20 Alternative Nation 1995-04-06
57:21 Disc ends

Playback ends as the beginning drums of Head Like A Hole are beginning.

Version 2 has circulated as Nine Inch Nails: The Live Essentials Vol. 3, a compilation assembled by Eatyourblud.

00:00 Big Day Out 2000-01-26 (obsolete - superior source available)
29:27 Alternative Nation 1995-04-06
90:53 Title screen: Regurgitator 1995-04-19 Civic Hall Ballarat (8 frames)
90:53 Title screen: NCL Productions
91:12 Title screen: Primus 1995-04-16 Alternative Nation
91:16 Black
91:25 Reading Festival 2007-08-26 (4:3 video) (obsolete - superior source available)
121:04 Black
121:11 Eatyourblud's classic "Fuck eBay gougers" clip
122:52 Disc ends

The Alternative Nation performance cuts in during Pinion (missing 56 seconds compared to Version 1). It stops at 90:53, after Head Like A Hole.

Version 1 Performance duration total: 57m 01s.
Version 2 Performance duration total: 61m 25s.
Version 1 contains 56 seconds more of Pinion, but cuts off Head Like A Hole at the end.
Version 2 cuts into Pinion later, but includes Head Like A Hole in full.
Both versions have a drop-out that cuts off the end of Sin and the start of March Of the Pigs.

Bitrate is much higher on Version 1, but framing is slightly off.
Given the filming distance, there's not much discrenable difference between the two during playback.
Sound quality is a little fuller on Version 2, but again, both are similar.

Screenshots:

I have added a thin white border to Version 1 to indicate where the image cuts off. This is not present on the DVD.

VERSION 2.
4620 kb/s avg. bitrate.
VERSION 1.
8882 kb/s avg. bitrate.


VERSION 2.
4620 kb/s avg. bitrate.
VERSION 1.
8882 kb/s avg. bitrate.


VERSION 2.
4620 kb/s avg. bitrate.
VERSION 1.
8882 kb/s avg. bitrate.