Yeah, at the moment I'm thinking that it's possibly between 'Sin' and 'Something I Can Never Have' for me, but man, this is a seriously good record.― You’re being too simplistic and you’re insulting my poor heart (Turrican), Friday, July 24, 2015 12:36 AM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― You’re being too simplistic and you’re insulting my poor heart (Turrican), Friday, July 24, 2015 12:36 AM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Ended up voting for 'Something I Can Never Have', since 'Sin' and 'Head Like A Hole' are already getting a lot of love!
― You’re being too simplistic and you’re insulting my poor heart (Turrican), Sunday, 26 July 2015 01:02 (eight years ago) link
'something i can never have' is what sticks for me from this album, the guy i knew who turned me on to nin was a huge depeche mode fan and this seems like a really good fake depeche mode song.
― balls, Sunday, 26 July 2015 01:11 (eight years ago) link
Yeah, I can see why Depeche Mode fans would take to Nine Inch Nails, particularly this album.
― You’re being too simplistic and you’re insulting my poor heart (Turrican), Sunday, 26 July 2015 01:16 (eight years ago) link
Love this record lots. Went with "Down In It."
They probably spent $100 on the video and it looks and sounds dated but I still adore both it and the track.
The video has its own bizarre history.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gV8yQc0m7g
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 26 July 2015 01:37 (eight years ago) link
I voted for Sin, but That's What I Get is my secret favorite song on the album.
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 26 July 2015 04:58 (eight years ago) link
NIN would be great if Trent didn't sing.
― brotherlovesdub, Saturday, July 25, 2015 10:29 AM (12 hours ago)
what? NO!
― the late great, Sunday, 26 July 2015 05:53 (eight years ago) link
this album is 9/10 classic tracks ... just listened to it twice and the only one i managed to cross of the list was "terrible lie"
― the late great, Sunday, 26 July 2015 05:56 (eight years ago) link
*cross off
― the late great, Sunday, 26 July 2015 05:57 (eight years ago) link
hearing "Closer" in Magic Mike XXL made me realize that whatever its limitations, Trent's voice has a very specific value that I don't think it would be helpful for NIN to shed
― the naive cockney chorus (Simon H.), Sunday, 26 July 2015 07:31 (eight years ago) link
just listened to it twice and the only one i managed to cross of the list was "terrible lie"
I'm surprised that anyone would rank "Terrible Lie" last!
I voted "Down In It" for sentimental reasons, it's the first NIN song I ever heard. I still love it, but many other songs get to me in a more personal way.
I just read Daphne Carr's 33 1/3 book on PHM, it was easily my favourite of the series (at least out of the five or six that I've read).
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Sunday, 26 July 2015 07:45 (eight years ago) link
yeah, you're right, i don't know what i was thinking. 10/10 classic album.
― the late great, Sunday, 26 July 2015 08:18 (eight years ago) link
Went for Ringfinger. Just love how unassuming it is at the beginning and then it hits you
― octobeard, Sunday, 26 July 2015 18:27 (eight years ago) link
I actually don't mind Trent's voice, but agree that the lyrics are probably the weakest part of the package.
― You’re being too simplistic and you’re insulting my poor heart (Turrican), Sunday, 26 July 2015 20:54 (eight years ago) link
Ringfinger
― latebloomer, Monday, 27 July 2015 22:32 (eight years ago) link
i love trent's voice, his lyrics have been terrible forever but their awfulness vacillates between charming and distracting
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Monday, 27 July 2015 23:49 (eight years ago) link
It's a lot of fun to play "predict the rhyme" with him - I don't think I've ever been wrong.
― the top man in the language department (誤訳侮辱), Tuesday, 28 July 2015 00:22 (eight years ago) link
I got the re-mastered version of this with the Get Down Make Love cover tacked on at the end. It slays, can't believe I've never heard it.
― circa1916, Tuesday, 28 July 2015 00:59 (eight years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Friday, 31 July 2015 00:01 (eight years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Saturday, 1 August 2015 00:01 (eight years ago) link
it comes down to this
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Monday, 12 December 2022 23:21 (one year ago) link
your kiss
your fist
frankly the gayest album ever made by a straight(? idk trent's life) guy
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Monday, 12 December 2022 23:23 (one year ago) link
pretty straight machine
― the late great, Monday, 12 December 2022 23:57 (one year ago) link
that doesn't mean anything, just a dumb pun.
fwiw i totally agree with you. on the other hand pretty much all 80s / 90s industrial music seems fairly queer to me, though i wonder how much of that is just down to the prevalence of bdsm imagery
― the late great, Tuesday, 13 December 2022 00:00 (one year ago) link
+ inevitably getting homophobic abuse in junior high and high school for listening to industrial music, new wave and/or techno!
― the late great, Tuesday, 13 December 2022 00:02 (one year ago) link
that weirdly hit close to home
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 13 December 2022 01:32 (one year ago) link
Trent's ickiness over his own lust (and the objects of it) on this album maps very neatly onto the traumas of adolescent queer desire overlaid with internalised homophobia.
― Tim F, Wednesday, 14 December 2022 01:00 (one year ago) link