The day the POLL went away: NIN's The Fragile

Obviously I like your one because you've chosen most of the tracks I've chosen

Thanks, yours is cool too - though I'm not that big on Please.

The main trouble with listening to an edit is some of the opening segues sound really jarring in isolation.

Please is in only because I needed to flesh out the relative perfection of the other 7 tracks and because of the chord-change into the chorus

Definitely some of his prettiest moments on this album; the Frail and the coda of We're in This Together are just lush.

he did "the big come down" at the show i saw the other night, was not expecting my favorite fragile deep cut in a nin setlist in 2013

wow chap's 10 track reduction is probably perfect

Cheers!

to make it twelve tracks i'd probably drop in "the mark has been made" and "underneath it all"

Yeah good choices. I'm a little sad to lose The Frail/The Wretched as well.

there's no way I could cut The frail/The wretched

lj how would you assess the lyrics of this album

balladic

more in terms of value judgments than structure

there are some beautiful moments on this album in terms of SONICS
i am going to get high drink some burgundy and play it loud one of these days

the big come down = don't give this track that title

the lyrics on this album work surprisingly well for the puerile sloganeering that they are

directness of lyric to match directness of the music perhaps although the latter has more subtlety

see with the downward spiral i would use that same argument but that album had a reassuring kind of acrid, devitalized sort of feel that kept it in the lineage of various industrial predecessors but the fragile is much more refined and 'full' sort of sound probably courtesy of whatever state of the art late 90s digital production

i revisited this album for the first time in ages recently. and even now, i'm no closer to remembering anything but "We're In This Together" in any particular detail.

Even Deeper has that direct chorus, but it also has some jazzy touches unthinkable in The Downward Spiral. I guess the lyrics, while still direct, are less confrontational, more reflective this time out.

Apart from that shitty Starfuckers song

there's no way I could cut The frail/The wretched

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 18 October 2013 03:52 (Yesterday) Permalink

if it had been released on either a pre-/post- Fragile EP with maybe some of these castoffs [excluding starfuckers], i don't see why not.

lawl i was trying to get you to riff on starfuckers inc

still has some nice chunky rock sounds

I like the 'You're So Vain' middle eight in Starfuckers.

the single version of starfuckers ends with a live Kiss sample which totally makes the song IMO

or rather the version included on the "day the world went away" single

This... might be my favorite NIN album? At least (Left) is a strong contender; we'll see how I feel once I get to (Right)

"We're In This Together" is almost definitely my favorite NIN single at this point.

I like this album a hell of a lot and whenever I've listened to it always felt that there's a whole bunch of underrated work on here. Pretty Hate Machine is pretty much my go-to Nine Inch Nails album at this point, and I still enjoy the hell out of The Downward Spiral even though I've listened to it so much that I don't think there's anything left to discover about it (that, and it seems to be one of those records that are best listened to when you're of a certain age) but the highlights on The Fragile are easily as good as anything Trent ever did.

weirdly, Pilgrimage is the track i enjoy hearing the most of this these days.

There are 3-4 songs I really like but honestly if I'm gonna listen to NIN now it's gonna be either The Slip or Hesitation Marks.

our Hesitation Marks, I hope

well full disclosure, the album I actually LISTEN to the most is Year Zero Remixed

I haven't really listened to Hesitation Marks since it first came out.

this is really my favorite nin album. a 9-track edit of hesitation marks would also be a contender

i was v disappointed by every successive nin album bc i really just want him to build on his instrumental work on this record. ghosts was v inadequate as that goes

I should also relisten to With Teeth sometime

'Right Where It Belongs' probably one of my favourite Nine Inch Nails tracks, when all's said and done.

last two tracks on with teeth are incredible

rest of it ehh

last time i saw them live the year zero tracks were kinda the best part of the set tbh, feel like that record is undersung

Oh definitely, partially because "Survivalism" doesn't really work as a single but is incredible in context

Also the remix album really opens up a lot of that album's magic; I liked the original a LOT more after playing the remix album to death

The whole concept album/weirdo marketing stunts/hey-there's-gonna-be-an-HBO-show! thing really hurt Year Zero as an album. But the only song I really remember being a good song is "Survivalism."

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"the great destroyer" and "in this twilight" are two of his best songs

"The Great Destroyer" is fucking incredible on the remix album, which is what opened the original up for me:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRjOM59pduQ

this reminds me that I never did check out modwheelmood

I still think that the heat sensitive CD art on Year Zero is pretty neat... on CD players where you can see the CD as it's spinning, you can see it gradually change colour as it plays.

that "great destroyer" remix is great. turns it into a normal song lol

all versions of the great destroyer live remixed original and otherwise are dope as hell

sometimes i think zero is my absolute favorite but i do have way too much downward spiral angst nostalgia to not adore it

The instrumental/alt version of the Fragile up on Apple Music is worth a listen, the instrumental version of With Teeth not so much.

The instrumental/alt version of the Fragile up on Apple Music is worth a listen

Listening now and enjoying it, but definitely one for the fans. Don't think someone who didn't know the songs quite well already would get much out of it.

Listening to this for only the third or fourth time ever (private session turned on in spotify so the discover playlist doesn't get the wrong idea). Disc 1 sounds in parts very Downward Spiral redux, but less intricate. Some classic angry Trent but my days of angry Trent appreciation are long behind me, I'm mostly digging the later quieter tracks although I do appreciate the machines that sound like guitars that sound like machines chewed up and spread between two intact machines that sound like guitars that sound like machines, and "the clouds will part and the sky cracks open and god himself will reach his fucking arm through just to push you down, to hold you down" is an A+ lol. We're in This Together I already knew was fucking immense. Disc 2 up next...

yeah its a pretty hefty list