Nine Inch Nails releases

1. Perfect Drug single / Lost Highway soundtrack (probably in my top 5 songs ever)
2. Broken
3. Fixed
4. Pretty Hate Machine
5. The Downward Spiral

I do not rate The Fragile; it is okay, but I do not own it and would not ever like to hear it again. And Things Falling Apart should be DESTROYED DESTROYED DESTROYED! omg soooo bad.

I agree that the Perfect Drug is definitely one of their best tunes (damn, Trent would have become a jungle producer...).

D'oh! I paid way too much for that disc back in high school & upon listening even as a massive fan was like.. WTF???? However I did make a profit reselling it several years later to some random NIN obsessive in Japan.

I think "March of the Pigs" is my favorite moment of theirs. The video's pretty funny..

B-but what about the double time, 4 on the floor gospel bit?

That performance is a hidden track on the DVD. Good stuff.

While I liked it quite a bit when it first came out, The Fragile has really grown on me in the last few years, mostly for the subtlety of the instrumental tracks. Also, the older I get, the less I'm able to stomach Trent's sometimes gratuitous use of the F-word. The Fragile isn't as marred as the previous stuff, save for the obvious exception.

Ah. I was wondering why it wasn't included on the live album (I've never seen the DVD). Figured it was a natural to turn up someplace.

Yeah, that was neat for like 2 seconds. I don't really like that live r&b vibe of totally ditching song structure for gospel clap alongs. I would so love for Trent to turn nin into a Golden Palominos type thing where he does everything but the vocals. That the rumored Aaliyah collaboration never happened is a shame.

today is Nine Inch Nails day

currently playing: "The Wretched"

Isn't that the one with the hilarious line about god himself reaching his FUCKING hand through the sky just to hold poor old Trent down?

yup!

just a reflection
just a glimpse
just a little reminder
of all the what abouts
and all the might have
could have beens
another day
some other way
but not another reason to continue
and now you're one of us
the wretched

the hopes and prays
the better days
the far aways
forget it

it didn't turn out the way you wanted it to
it didn't turn out the way you wanted it to, did it?
it didn't turn out the way you wanted it to
it didn't turn out the way you wanted it to, did it?

now you know
this is what it feels like
now you know
this is what it feels like

the clouds will part and the sky cracks open
and god himself will reach his fucking arm through
just to push you down
just to hold you down
stuck in this hole with the shit and the piss
and it's hard to believe it could come down to thisback at the beginning
sinking
spinning

and in the end
we still pretend
the time we spend
not knowing when
you're finally free
and you could be

but it didn't turn out the way you wanted it to
it didn't turn out quite the way that you wanted it

now you know
this is what it feels like
now you know
this is what it feels like

you can try to stop it but it keeps on coming
you can try to stop it but

Fuck it, I'm going to poll The Fragile. Search says it ain't been done.

I think the only song on (Right) that I ever play is "Into The Void", but I love (Left) to bits

I'm Looking Forward to Joining You and The Big Comedown are hidden gems on (Right)

tbh "Starfuckers" turned me off so much, particularly since there is sustained awesome from "The Day the World Went Away" through "Even Deeper", that I just never felt the desire to play (Right)

What are your thoughts on Reznor as a singer? The older I get, the more grating I find his vocals, but, conversely, the more I admire his composition and particularly arrangement skills.

I think his biggest issue as a singer is his infatuation with screaming. Like, it's often very effective, but not so effective that it doesn't start getting really, really old. Also, he does have a decent voice and it's kind of a shame that he likes to go ugly with it so often because it can be even more effective when he just sings some of this stuff, like for example "The Day the World Went Away".

It's not on this album but "The Great Destroyer" on Year Zero is IMO him really hitting a vocal stride, enhancing the power of the song in the process; I wish he did more tracks like that.

Yeah his screaming has never been particularly convincing. In general, he's often too nasal and sneery.

http://nineinchnails.tumblr.com/post/51585462200/ive-been-less-than-honest-about-what-ive-really

not that much of a surprise really.
all those side project releases etc with the same crew kinda indicated he was still active in the studio ..
after all, this was not bowie/mbv/daft punk period of disconnection was it.

I've a hunch it will be really good though.

On Columbia? I thought he was going to be releasing without a label?

I've actually paid for stuff on Bandcamp and then downloaded it via soulseek cuz I didn't wanna deal with WinRAR. I am a profoundly lazy person.

― frogbs,

This reminds me how I pay for Prime but I torrent loads of stuff that's on Prime Video cos that's the only way I can figure out how to get it on my big telly.

my main feeling is that these records are incredible

"with faith" when that vangelis synth comes in...

the trumpet is the star of locusts

also locusts is one of the best things trent's ever done?

are these better than the first 4 volumes? I dug those but haven't exactly been clamoring to break em out again

i love the og ghosts but these volumes are far more fleshed out and their own thing

Together was kinda wallpaper-y to me but maybe I just wasn't in the mood for it. Haven't made it all the way through Locusts yet.

Locusts sounds a lot more soothing than Together to me (also agree it's one of the best things he's done). One of the tracks on Together has this really high frequency tone overlaid on top that's bad enough that I have to skip it.

I tend to play my music on album-shuffle, so I never quite know what I'm going to get. My wife was chilling on the sofa by the stereo speakers while I think something mellow like Can's "Soon Over Babaluma" was playing, but then things got a little quiet and I couldn't quite make out what had queued up next. I look at what's about to play on my phone and see it's "The Downward Spiral" about to blargh out, so I quickly hit skip. "That was a close one," I told her. "You almost got Nine Inch Nailed!"

Here's a question: is there anywhere that lists all the appearances of what one might call the "NIN motif"?

(Skip to 3:50 in this Ladytron remix for reference.)

https://youtu.be/Bzl348HCN0w

I think of that as the "Downward Spiral Theme".

Trent hasn't used it himself in anything outside the titular album, has he?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMiWe_s7HMY

Yeah that was a really lovely moment from last night. The version of "Fashion" with Mariqueen also excellent.

holy cow Trent sounds so good!!

mike garson is so cool

heartening—after watching him complain about his own voice in the nin song exploder episode, always wishing he sounded like bowie instead—to hear him hit that sustained note in "fantastic voyage"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJMowK3OkWc

F*ck, well it is footage recently surfaced of NIN at Woodstock before the performance, shit-talking the other acts and discussing where the best mud might be at.

"We're having trouble finding private mud..."

That could be a Spinal Tap line.

I'd rather listen to "vletrmx21" to "A Warm Place," thanks.

― Leee Majors (Leee), Monday, February 2, 2004

Wouldn't surprise me if that track was also a reference point. Trent was deep into the Warp stuff early