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

i don’t know what in the ADD is wrong with you all that you can’t enjoy a 2 disc epic as god intended

Hell, it's half an hour shorter than "Speakerboxx/The Love Below," and nowhere near as uneven.

thank youuuu

re: accessibility i think the downward spiral is just a much catchier album and still draws more on his synthpop roots - even the heavier tracks like "mr self destruct" and "march of the pigs" are rather pop. on the fragile, even "into the void" is nowhere near as catchy as "closer". the fragile is just denser, weirder, and heavier

@chap are you still interested in running a nine inch nails poll? if you're not i might do that sometime soon

In retrospect, I spent way too much time convincing myself that most of The Love Below was good, actually

The good songs are AMAZING but also there is a bunch of unnecessary nonsense, Speakerboxxx is about a billion times more consistent

omg i am so down for a NIN poll

also djp otm, i had the same come to jesus moment lol

random tangent but DJP otm

I put on the "La Mer" earlier, really good, then got to "The Great Below" also good and I remembered this song being one of the highlights of his live show. Then I got to the second disc and shut it off. I still have a hard time with his vocals. Now listening to Quake soundtrack, which I had forgotten existed, but is bringing back some memories.

idk how anyone can leave off "just like you imagined" from a single-disc edit

― ufo, Tuesday, 12 March 2024 23:31 (four days ago)

And Even Deeper! Madness. Such incredible beat programming (with assist from Dr. Dre)

@chap are you still interested in running a nine inch nails poll? if you're not i might do that sometime soon

― ufo, Tuesday, 12 March 2024 23:44 (four days ago)

Sadly way too busy with work at the moment, but would vote!

i also wouldn't cut "the mark has been made"... or any of the instrumentals period

otm

i also wouldn't cut "the mark has been made"... or any of the instrumentals period

So your edit would be...everything but "Starfuckers"? Or would you keep that in too, just for the sake of flow?

i wouldn't edit this record!!!! as i've already stated

ivy is correct & you are all craven

No, Starfuckers needs to go

eat yr spinach

I will happily eat spinach but I will not eat diarrhea

lol

new board description

in case anyone is new here, yes, this is the guy you know from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles soundtrack.("putting the NIN in Ninja Turtles")

https://www.stereogum.com/2225186/trent-reznor-and-atticus-ross-composing-terrifying-score-for-teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles-movie/news/

suggest ban

the score for that movie slaps, though

I enjoy the moody bits too, and never bother with making my own edits of albums anyway, but the thing that always strikes me about The Fragile when I listen to it is how you could construct a tight album from its pop moments that sounds more like Pretty Hate Machine 2 than anything else Trent ever actually did.

Think I noted on a different thread that Leopold Ross, who used to collaborate more with his brother, did the score to that Godzilla TV show (among other things), and it sounded so much like Atticus and Trent that 1) it verged on parody and 2) it kind of made me wonder what Trent brought to his scores with Atticus.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KI6S_Eq7pU

huh, I somehow had no idea that was Atticus's brother. I guess my deep NIN fandom dropped off at some point in the last, uh, 25 years

i'll probably try to get a poll up and running in the next week or two

:D

i'm going to open the poll later but first, any thoughts on side-polls beyond songs/albums? do people want to poll the reznor/ross soundtrack stuff too or remixes as side polls? i will probably just accept htda material as eligible for the main polls

remixes wd probably be good? - i think scores & soundtrack stuff is a bit much

sidepoll: trent hairdos
jk

The scores/soundtracks might be 2-3 separate polls alone!

yeah its a pretty hefty list