Three amazing tracks.
My one time seeing NIN live was this show, the most memorable part of which was certainly this speech before "La Mer".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIsAazPVnFQ
― jmm, Monday, 29 April 2024 21:13 (one month ago) link
kinda wish the rest of With Teeth was more shoegazer/wall of sound style production that Beside You In Time exhibits. Like a whole album building on The Day The World Went Away
― octobeard, Monday, 29 April 2024 21:16 (one month ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/65IISFx.jpeg18. Into The VoidReleased on The Fragile, 1999364 points, 11 votersStudio versionMusic video
― ufo, Monday, 29 April 2024 21:24 (one month ago) link
jmm damn, thanks for sharing that vid
― octobeard, Monday, 29 April 2024 21:25 (one month ago) link
la mer and into the void were nos. 2 and 3 on my ballot
― ivy., Monday, 29 April 2024 21:27 (one month ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/bswllm7.jpeg17. EraserReleased on The Downward Spiral, 1994368 points, 9 votersStudio versionLive 2014
― ufo, Monday, 29 April 2024 21:34 (one month ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLFUKBWyves
they did do "la mer" into "into the void" live in 2006
― ufo, Monday, 29 April 2024 21:35 (one month ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtLHcgDJvzA
and like every funk-adjacent track, the 2013 live version of "into the void" is great, though there isn't any pro-shot footage of it (whatever happened to that promised tension concert film release anyway)
― ufo, Monday, 29 April 2024 21:38 (one month ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/YSGrnoP.jpeg16. The WretchedReleased on The Fragile, 1999372 points, 10 votersStudio versionLive 2000Live 2008
― ufo, Monday, 29 April 2024 21:44 (one month ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/Ctlkyeg.jpeg15. HeresyReleased on The Downward Spiral, 1994378 points, 9 votersStudio version
― ufo, Monday, 29 April 2024 21:54 (one month ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/bvksuax.jpeg14. Terrible LieReleased on Pretty Hate Machine, 1989384 points, 13 votersStudio versionLive 2008
― ufo, Monday, 29 April 2024 22:08 (one month ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/79wbiF1.jpeg12. RuinerReleased on The Downward Spiral, 1994386 points, 9 voters, 1 #1 voteStudio version
https://i.imgur.com/MGjGRfZ.jpeg12. A Warm PlaceReleased on The Downward Spiral, 1994386 points, 11 votersStudio version
― ufo, Monday, 29 April 2024 22:19 (one month ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/fFv1nJ4.jpeg11. Just Like You ImaginedReleased on The Fragile, 1999402 points, 12 votersStudio versionLive 2000Live 2009 with Mike Garson
― ufo, Monday, 29 April 2024 22:30 (one month ago) link
top 10 tomorrow!
It comes down to this…
― Doctor Madame Frances Experimento, LLC", Monday, 29 April 2024 23:00 (one month ago) link
GREAT GRAPHICS TY THERMO
― Psychocandy Apple Grey (Pyschocandles), Monday, 29 April 2024 23:28 (one month ago) link
Just Like You Imagined is my favorite NIN instrumental. Surprised it placed so high!
― octobeard, Monday, 29 April 2024 23:52 (one month ago) link
Mine too - it was no. 3 on my ballot.
― Tim F, Monday, 29 April 2024 23:59 (one month ago) link
Lots of my other ballot choices in this run: "Beside You In Time" and "And All That Could Have Been" were top 10 picks for me and "The Wretched" and "Eraser" were top 20.
― Tim F, Tuesday, 30 April 2024 00:02 (one month ago) link
I’m wondering what people expect the top 10 to look like.
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 30 April 2024 00:28 (one month ago) link
And thanks, candles!
I’m pretty positive on 9 out of 10 but the order is a mystery.
― Doctor Madame Frances Experimento, LLC", Tuesday, 30 April 2024 00:41 (one month ago) link
Obviously a lot of singles - I'm more interested to see where any album tracks place. I was disappointed to see "I Do Not Want This" place relatively low but that's nothing compared to my crossness if "The Becoming" misses out entirely.
I'm a bit resigned to "Running" not making it now, sadly.
― Tim F, Tuesday, 30 April 2024 00:57 (one month ago) link
Starfuckers Inc. better not be anywhere near the top ten. I'd almost prefer Deep.
Regarding the rundown:
Shout out to Terrible Lie's vestigial twin, Now I'm Nothing.
SICNH was my number one. I'm particularly fond of the Natural Born Killers version - first verse and chorus with a new long piano outro.
― Vernon Locke, Tuesday, 30 April 2024 01:32 (one month ago) link
I didn't vote because I only really know 2 albums and 1 EP well enough, but I've made playlists for this:
Remixes
Songs
Loads of really great stuff here that I'd never heard before
― nate woolls, Tuesday, 30 April 2024 01:52 (one month ago) link
Tim: Running was #56
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 30 April 2024 01:57 (one month ago) link
:-(
― Tim F, Tuesday, 30 April 2024 02:02 (one month ago) link
Thanks for that Nate ! I'm in the exact same position.
― LeRooLeRoo, Tuesday, 30 April 2024 02:40 (one month ago) link
there's so many obvious "top 10" contenders that have already placed and the fact "just like you imagined" placed #11 has me excited for the final rollout.
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Tuesday, 30 April 2024 07:16 (one month ago) link
20. Something I Can Never Have
My second highest off PHM, my poll was quite heavy with the sappier tracks. That steam engine is still incredible.
17. Eraser
A stunning instrumental first half, the vocals in the second half are powerful but also the worst example of trent's worst lyrical technique - trying to make you sympathise or even identify with an abuser because they feel bad about themselves.
― ledge, Tuesday, 30 April 2024 07:44 (one month ago) link
Very interesting 20-11, I've never had any awareness of what the consensus Fragile picks are beyond a couple of songs (in general I mean, not just on ILM...).
― Gavin, Leeds, Tuesday, 30 April 2024 07:51 (one month ago) link
Heresy was my number 2, and really could have easily been my number 1. I really love the way his voice sounds in the verses, wish he did that kind of thing more often.
― silverfish, Tuesday, 30 April 2024 13:43 (one month ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/w6xll3r.jpeg10. PiggyReleased on The Downward Spiral, 1994426 points, 12 votersStudio versionLive 2008, Ghosts versionLive 2013
― ufo, Tuesday, 30 April 2024 21:00 (one month ago) link
the outro on "piggy" is one of their very best moments
― ufo, Tuesday, 30 April 2024 21:16 (one month ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/Mh6s68F.jpeg9. Head Like A HoleReleased on Pretty Hate Machine, 1989452 points, 13 voters, 1 #1 voteStudio versionMusic videoLive 2008Live 2013
agreed!
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 30 April 2024 21:17 (one month ago) link
no one has ever made drums sound cooler than trent reznor
― ivy., Tuesday, 30 April 2024 21:19 (one month ago) link
Heresy has my fav sounding drums
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 30 April 2024 21:22 (one month ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/vUxwqMW.jpeg8. The Perfect DrugReleased on Lost Highway soundtrack, 1997454 points, 11 voters, 3 #1 votesStudio versionMusic videoLive 2022
― ufo, Tuesday, 30 April 2024 21:28 (one month ago) link
i was surprised this wasn't higher, it's so great
it's also quite odd structurally, very poppy first half but then spends the second half on that jungle-inspired breakdown and atmospheric outro
― ufo, Tuesday, 30 April 2024 21:30 (one month ago) link
speaking of drums sounding cool
hearing the extremely glitchfucked amen break/drum solo in the middle of this is probably the thing that made me want to be a drummer, which is hilarious because it's practically unplayable (ilan rubin has somehow done it)
― ivy., Tuesday, 30 April 2024 21:37 (one month ago) link
I love this poll thank you ufo
I wish there’d been a sidebar for “fave lyric”, I always get “shove it up inside / surprise! / lies!” in my head
― Drowning in TG, he sent me Discipline (flamboyant goon tie included), Tuesday, 30 April 2024 21:38 (one month ago) link
fave lyric: the clouds will part and the sky cracks open and god himself will reach his fucking arm through!!! just to push you down, j-j-just to hold you down
― ivy., Tuesday, 30 April 2024 21:40 (one month ago) link
other fave, obv: stale incense, old sweat, and lies! lies! lies!
― ivy., Tuesday, 30 April 2024 21:41 (one month ago) link
The “inside!” / “surprise!” / “lies!” section of “March of The Pigs” is so great - a performative bow on the top of the time signature decision (which I was mentioning somewhere upthread), but also at that point Trent declaiming vaguely about “lies” was already self-parody, so it feels like one of the best examples of Trent winking at the listener and saying “yes, I really am completely ridiculous”.
― Tim F, Tuesday, 30 April 2024 21:45 (one month ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/LeYpGc3.jpeg7. We're In This TogetherReleased on The Fragile, 1999500 points, 12 voters, 1 #1 voteStudio versionMusic video
― ufo, Tuesday, 30 April 2024 21:55 (one month ago) link
i didn't expect this to be so high, it's decent but kinda just chugs along, unusually uninteresting for a fragile track
― ufo, Tuesday, 30 April 2024 21:56 (one month ago) link
I’m generally indifferent to the Fragile, but I like the chorus
― Doctor Madame Frances Experimento, LLC", Tuesday, 30 April 2024 22:01 (one month ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/1d0viVd.jpeg6. WishReleased on Broken, 1992516 points, 14 votersStudio versionMusic videoLive 1995Live 2006Live 2008Live 2022
― ufo, Tuesday, 30 April 2024 22:08 (one month ago) link
Video is Sleazy at the top of his powers as a director
― Doctor Madame Frances Experimento, LLC", Tuesday, 30 April 2024 22:10 (one month ago) link