Nine Inch Nails

One of the greatest things to happen to music in the last 20 years. I was going to make this thread a while ago, but I never got around to it until now. Trent Reznor, who is pretty much the only real member of the band, is a musical genius, and his next album is coming out sometime this year! I can't wait. I know there's a few other people on VGC who are fans of his work.

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If you haven't listened to Nine Inch Nails, do it now. I recommend Pretty Hate Machine or The Downward Spiral as a starting point, but Trent hasn't really released anything that isn't at least decent.

Good band. I had listened to NIN before I met you, but never much. Only a few songs. Mainly "The Hand That Feeds" because I heard it on Midnight Club 3: DUB Edition. But yeah, good music. Pretty Hate Machine has a lot of good songs.

Aside from the songs on Pretty Hate Machine that were released as singles, "Something I Can Never Have" and "Terrible Lie" are choice album cuts in my opinion, although the whole album is very consistent in terms of quality. Every NIN album has at least a few outstanding songs on it. With Teeth is arguably Trent's weakest release, but it still has several good songs on it. "Sunspots" is my choice for an album cut there, and I found "Only" to be one of the worst NIN songs ever released as a single.

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Enough said.

Jordo, you've heard like 3 of Trent's songs, right?

I like most of what I've heard from NIN, which I've really got no clue what any of it was (I should probably go download their discography again). But I'm not a true fan of them, I liked a few songs a lot, but I couldn't really get into them.

If you got on AIM/MSN with me, Sean, I could probably show you a few decent songs by them you haven't heard.

Trent Reznor has to be one of the only people I'd choose to meet in this world. His understanding of music and intensity is outstanding. I can't say I agree with you on his best songs, personally, but that's just musical taste. I think With Teeth is one of his better albums, but not the best. I'm a personal fan of Only, With Teeth, Right Where it Belongs, The Line Begins to Blur, Every Day is Exactly the Same, and You Know What You Are?.

Besides that however, I believe that The Downward Spiral and The Fragile are his bests. I personally prefer most of The Fragile's music, however, The Downward Spiral is just that much more classic for some reason. The Downward Spiral was my first NIN album, so it may always wear the crown in my eyes.

My favorite songs have to be: Even Deeper, Just Like You Imagined, The Great Below, The Wretched, Eraser, Reptile, The Becoming, and last but not least, Hurt.

Oh, "The Wretched" was an underrated song. I forgot about how awesome that song was til just now. I think "We're In This Together" is my favorite song by Nine Inch Nails. The Fragile received some unfairly harsh reviews, in my opinion.

Terrible band. No redeeming factors to mention.

David Bowie seems to like them, and I trust his opinion on music.

And Johnny Cash seemed to enjoy his music as well. The cover of Hurt must have been a huge honor.

Johnny Cash sucked though.

And David Bowie can like the Backstreet Boys and still be awesome.

Rick Rubin sucks.

I don't much like his production style, either. Doesn't he do mainly rap & heavy metal? He leaves the music sounding really dry, I think. It might just be me, though, who thinks so.

Well, he's not completely terrible. He produced Danzig's early albums which are pretty good along with a couple other notable releases... but overall, eh. But I actually don't recall him producing rap besides Run-DMC. RHCP, Slayer, Tom Petty, AC/DC and so on.

No one mentioned Broken. I consider that EP to be right up there with the likes of The Fragile and Pretty Hate Machine. It's the loudest and angriest NIN album of them all, and it should not be forgotten.

NIN influenced the evolution of my musical tastes to a huge extent. They have certainly served as my gateway to similar artists such as Razed in Black, Project Pitchfork, and Apoptygma Berzerk.

Broken is my favorite work by Nine Inch Nails, actually. I think Reznor called it "an ultra-fast chunk of death" in an interview, and I have to agree.

nine inch nails is for fags.

I'll have to go ahead and declare that The Fragile is my favourite NIN work. It is simply a masterpiece from start to finish. The Downward Spiral was also a masterpiece, but it still didn't affect me as tremendously as The Fragile did. When I embarked on one of my first moonlit wanders down at South Point with the beautifully haunting song "Even Deeper" coursing through my mind, it was magical.

A lot of people hated the severe changes in his style between The Downward Spiral and The Fragile, but I've grown to appreciate the heavy layered sound on his newer material.

The Fragile took me a long, long time to absorb. It's a very complex, difficult album, especially in comparison to his previous works, most of which seem to be much more easily accessible. Even factoring in the hit songs from the album (and it really wasn't a hit song type of album), The Fragile's true beauty lies in the sum of its parts.

Yeah, there was a lot of good material on it. A lot of people bashed him for taking so long to come out with a new album and then drastically changing his style when it was finally released. I think they wanted a pop album or something, because they definitely missed the concept of a concept album.

It makes me wish fewer people would sob and whine and carry on about an artist or band "selling out" or "betraying the fans" when they decide to change their musical style, whether that style happens to appeal to a wider or more select audience. I believe Reznor did the best thing by releasing The Fragile, when he did. It's a very progressive album, and a gigantic leap forward from his work in the mid-90's.

Of a relatively similar note, The Fragile's song "Just Like You Imagined" is the main theme for the new movie coming out called "300." The intro tuned together with this song gave me the shakes last night. I'll be seeing this movie in iMAX, and even though I'd have seen it whether or not The Fragile was in it, it just makes it even more worthy of seeing.

Good thing. It's such a stellar instrumental, yet seemingly so tragically overlooked.

It was my title on here for quite awhile, I put it right up there with Eraser.

I admitt that I liked NIN when I was about like 13....
that was when I did not know what good music was.

He finds animals sexually attractive.

np Nine Inch Nails - "My Violent Heart" [4:19] (Year Zero 2007) [320kbs]

New song released today. Found on a USB drive in a bathroom at a NIN show in Portugal.

http://0at.org/media/nine_inch_nails_my_violent_heart.mp3

The song kicks. Furthermore, someone ran the static at the end through FL studio...

Thanks, Klarth.

Has anyone seen the live videos for "Not So Pretty Now" and "Non-Entity" on the internet? You can easily find them on YouTube. Those are supposedly on the next album, too.

Yeah, I read that after I typed it. He did perform them live and said they'd probably see eventual studio release, though. Most of that info I saw on Wikipedia already, too. I forgot to edit my post.

I actually like My Violent Heart.

I like it too, both songs are great so far, I'm sure the rest will follow suit

KMFDM > or = to NIN
NIN > *, except for/possibly KMFDM

Im a fan. Have the discography, and didnt even torrent it.

Other than Closer, the downward spiral is probably the only album that isnt really good.

pretty hate machine remains my favorite.

Okay, the new album will be out tomorrow in the UK and the next day in the US. I am very excited, because the four leaked songs were all good. Hopefully, the rest of the album is up to par with those ones. I'll grab it online ASAP, and I'll be sure and share it. I'd recommend it even if you're not really familiar with Nine Inch Nails.

Except the whole thing was already leaked lol

I'm pretty sure just four songs have been leaked, but I could be wrong. I'll look into this. Haha, I guess it has been leaked in full.

There's really no such thing as a non-leaked album anymore.