ehh not so much the fragile was the only NIN album that I have never owned, and at one point I had over 30 different NIN albums. underrated... no just not as good as the rest.
I agree with you 100%. I saw a post on Reddit earlier that said what song lyrics have you heard that just resonated with you and stuck with you? I couldn't think of anything but I wish I would have thought about what he said at the end of The Becoming which was Won't Give Up it wants me dead goddamn this noise inside my head. I deal with depression and anxiety like everyday and I also suffer from PTSD. I don't think I've ever heard lyrics that put it as simple as that before. I think anyone with an addiction or a mental illness could relate to that. I'm planning on getting those lyrics tattooed on me coming up here soon. Also the ones where he said tried to save myself but myself keeps slipping away I want those tattooed on me also. Very few bands actually I don't think there has been another band that has helped me through some really dark periods in my life and has helped me to put my feelings into perspective in quite like Nine Inch Nails. In my opinion Trent is a genius and is Mike the Beethoven of our era. He's a great composer and a great artist. No one except perhaps Peter Murphy can touch what he does.
I love "The Fragile". Have you given the "Deviations" version a listen? I highly recommend it, if you are interested in listening to the soundscapes the songs are supposed to represent.
Bought this record the day it came out in a mall in Akron Ohio. So proud of Trent. He made it with several good records, the best probably being Pretty Hate Machine. So good. Decades later the music still holds water. He went from a Ministry roadie to a legend...
Gene Scheel did u ever think that Bowie had his own opinion? Maybe he personally liked The Fragile better, that’s cool. My opinion is Pretty Hate Machine and Downward Spiral are masterpieces and by far Reznors best work
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@Murican Ignorance Your name is all kinds of irony.
This is one of the most influential albums of my life. I feel so lucky to have been a teenager when this and so many other amazing moments in music were happening. NIN is one of my all time favorite bands. In 1999 I had their logo tattooed on the back of my neck. I got to see them the live for the first time either 1999 or 2000 on the tour for The Fragile. It was a killer show. A Perfect Circle opened too, at the Gorge in George,WA.
I saw that run of shows at a theater in L.A. I live in Houston: Me and three friends rented a suburban, drove to L.A. for the show, then had fun in Vegas. It was legendary.
#16 correction - He didn't perform the normal drums on Piggy, just the frantic random drumming near the end which was taken from when they were testing the mics on the drum-kit.
If i remember correctly, the main character isnt Mr. Self Destruct. Mr. Self Destruct is a character in The Man's head. (The Man being the main character)
The protagonist is not named Mr Self-Destruct - the lyrics point more towards Mr Self-Destruct being what plagues and destroys the protagonist. "He" is more of a manifestation of the dark side of the protagonist's personality, which seems to be starting to take more control.
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It's interesting to know where the samples came from. I never really thought too much of them even though I've been listening to songs on this album since I was a kid.
Just one big outburst of anger... No wonder it attracts people with borderline personality disorder. I've loved Trent's music for over ten years now, he really knows how to translate raw emotion into music.
It's a shame "Big Man with a Gun" didn't sit well with Trent, I can understand where he was coming from after the WMG dispute. The lyrics could have been more layered, but the sheer energy of the instrumentals is just what the album needed as a climax (heh) so you can feel the despair of the 3rd act. If he ever does replace it, I hope it's something even more off the wall for the shock value and the catharsis afterwards.
Because Flood didn't work with Skinny Puppy? I couldn't find any proof that he did. Though Skinny Puppy would definitely deserve a mention on Pretty Hate Machine.
No he didn't....Dave Ogilvie produced all of Skinny Puppy's material except for some of The Process and Rabies which Al Jourgenson helped produced. Flood never worked with SP on any of their albums.
Happy 25th, Downward Spiral! You should have mentioned that the song "Piggy" is a vague reference to Richard Patrick, who was a touring member of NIN, but left as Trent didn't want creative input from him. "Piggy" was his nickname in the band. 🤓😆
Unfortunately, Al and Trent ended up not seeing eye to eye and things fell apart. This as such gives us two different versions of 1000 homo DJ's cover of Black Sabbath's "Supernaut." The Ministry remix isint too different from the 1000 cover, just different samples for the most part but both are great, as is the original- a rare Sabbath moment that let Bill Ward shine.
@@Tails7212 for a while Al was back on the heroine and in general being even more of an ass than usual. I saw him in 2008 in Cleveland and he was barely concious; when I saw him in Columbus with Death Grips a few years ago he was doing MUCH better...pretty sure he's on medical steroids because he's quite puffy looking...Trent got clean a lot quicker. Nevertheless, drugged or sober, they both turn out great music. Managed to grab one of those guitar picks Sin Quirin throws out!
Phenomenal album ! Street of Crocodiles really messed with my head, loved it. I as a song writer myself, I wrote a poem entitled Metaphysical playroom inspired by this dark short. It's really cool when one can truly feel the art. When one can totally relate, not just "like" what they are listening to because it sounds cool. When the art/song(s) describe your life, it's a feeling of validation, whether the feelings are painful or not, It's to/for me, inspirational.
This album is a timeless masterpiece and the live show (Manson opening) was one of the best I’ve ever seen. It’s hard to believe that this album came out so long ago and like others I bought this the day it came out and I remember listening to this for the first time; gives me chills. #NIN
There's a track on Clint Mansels work for Black Mirror that reminds me of a warm place, mind due he is one of Trents best mates, so maybe it's a homage, Trent signed Clints old band PWEI to his Nothing label a while back.
Hi Guys, great list of facts. Just wondering as they use lots of samples on the album, is there a sample of Nirvana on track 13 (the downward spiral) @ 2:33? It sounds a lot like Kurt Cobain. Thoughts
valenius the kat technically that would mean you fought really hard to like it for a very long time and finally gave in after you couldn’t fight any longer
In the video for Gave Up in the Tate house a young still with eyebrows Marilyn Manson is seen playing guitar and singing backup vocals. However the video was shot years before M.Manson had actually learned to play guitar so he's just pretending to play in the video.
I love Downward Spiral, it was the first NIN album I bought, then I got Fragile but when i friend let me borrow Pretty Hate Machine that was the album that made me a hardcore fan.....
Bow down before the one you serve You're gonna get what you deserve🤘🏻. Head Like A Hole, Terrible Lie and Something I Can Never Have are my favourite PHM songs for sure.
2 things I would have liked to been mention.. Cuz I'm still curious about them? one is.. Why was "Peter Christopherson" not able to finish his video for March of the pigs? And the second what exactly is Tommy Lee credited for in the sleeves for the downward spiral on the song "big man with a gun" on the sleeve. It says he's credited with "Steakhouse"?
Drop.acid and press play by the time hurt comes on you start the peek..then put on pink floyd dark side of the moon...white zombie la sex..and end it with....pretty hate machine
READ more about The Downward Spiral - check out my book - Into The Never: Nine Inch Nails & The Creation Of The Downward Spiral adamsteiner.uk/nine-inch-nails-into-the-never/ Ushering in a new era of confessional music that spoke openly about experiences of trauma, depression, and self-loathing, Nine Inch Nails The Downward Spiral, is a seminal album that changed popular music forever - bringing transgressive themes of heresy, S&M, and body horror to the masses and taking music technology to its limits. Released in 1994, the album resonated across a generation, combining elements of metal, industrial, synth-pop, and ambient electronica, and going on to sell over four million copies.
@@jayt7178 Most People will put DS & Fragile at the top of their list for best NIN albums. I know I do. I think a good discussion for fans is which one comes third. Mine's Pretty Hate Machine... Oh crap... I like Hesitation Marks too. I'll make that 4th, lol... What's yours?
It's funny but insulting to Reznor that, for some reason, many ppl think Trent's version of Hurt is a cover of a Cash song. Dont care what anyone says, NIN "Hurt" is the best and my favorite version is from 2013 live in Los Angeles the Tension show. God that whole fucking show is orgasmic. My girl and I fucked on acid and Sassafras the whole hour and a half. There's a bonus fact for y'all!
Thanks Trent I feel better now. I hated Big Man With a Gun. When I would copy the album to different media, I would always leave it out. Now I don't feel so guilty.😀😀😀
I love Trent, and NIN, I just haven't liked an album from him since with teeth, I feel like everything after isn't that good, obviously my opinion, but can someone please prove me wrong and show me a good song off his new album??? Something with that great "Trent Emotion"
Nine Inch Nails isn't a thematic identity. It's a project used by a human being named Trent Reznor. You don't have to like his new music. He writes and explores what he wants, because he can't spend an additional 30 years of his life being an angsty, depressed, young adult like he used to be. He's matured well beyond what you'd ever probably call "Trent Emotion" at this point, although I personally find "A Minute to Breathe" shares some similarities to The Fragile, and "Less Than" to be pretty similar to Year Zero. Bad Witch might as well be an estranged love letter to David Bowie's passing in some ways.
Except for I don't buy the uneasy metal star thing... Maybe back in the day I might have but nowadays the entire discography is available of everything before even nine inch nails and it's pretty easy to see that this was always his passion and inevitability almost. He had the means the capability and eventually the connections and his development is really interesting to listen to but it was always tinged with a sort of a poetic seemingly calculated address to the more edgy aspects of pop culture oftentimes very Poppy... I suggested anyone truly interested in his body of work just search TH-cam for nine inch nails complete discography and look for one with like several hundred tracks all starting sequentially from his first known pieces of media that are available. The early days are very far departure from where he is now. So there might have been a time after the downward spiral and then further down in that era that led up to the fragile and that 4-year break before it where he might have recoiled a little bit from the status he'd achieved but I think that was just growing pains and if I could sit down and talk with him about it he'd probably have a whole lot more to say about it but I would think it would be reasonable that he would come to the same conclusion.
It's too long by at least 30% and this same issue only got worse and worse on future recordings. The best stuff gets lost due to an inability to select and edit. The absence of Flood somewhat explains this.
JezBollah 667 I listen to pretty much every genre , every genre has great artists , you just need to dig deeper. A lot of pop is very artistic , heard Of Kate Bush , Peter Gabriel , ABBA lol the Beatles were pop , nowadays we 've got Tame Impala and a lot of Australian bands do amazing pop music. There's a lot of hip hop I love, there is no genre that's bad, you just need to open yourself to new music or you'll end up a rock snob ,and no one likes a snob
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Call me crazy, but this album was always too noisy for me. Or maybe just too tinny. Did Trent ever remaster this with more bass, etc? Think I'm gonna pump up the bass myself with my Audacity software. Great album, but I prefer most others. And I have everything - How to Destroy Angels, all the film scores with Atticus Ross, hundreds of random remixes. All dope! Saw NIN at the Hard Rock in Las Vegas last year. It was off tha hook!
@@gb3817 LOL. Good one. I did crank the bass up and it's much better; funkier even. Of course there's standout tracks that I love (the quieter ones with more space to breathe). Closer, Piggy, I Do Not Want This, Reptile (peep the Peter Murphy/NIN motel room set, if you haven't!). I do prefer alternate mixes of Heresy and The Becoming (Still version). Gotta love March of the Pigs, too. Guess I really do love the album! Still crazy, tho', cuz I'm not really into Hurt that much. Played too much at his concerts. But I do dig the Johnny Cash version. And love the sample used on Westside Connection's The Gangsta, The Killa and the Dope Dealer. Check that one out.
Jeff S Glad you adjusted your bass levels. Glad to hear you felt some Funk because I’ve always thought Piggy was Funky as hell. I had many studio friends back in the day that enjoyed remixing NIN and then battling it out in weird places like a car parked in an empty parking lot as sheets of rain fell. I got to see them a couple times . The first time was in Tulsa and we all ate mushrooms a little to early and were peaking for the opening act which turned out to the Jim Rose Circus of Freaks. The next time I took my little brother and the projections blew us away. At one point Trent was in the tip of a tornado and then a red fox died , decomposed and then regained form, awoke and ran off. So cool you got to see them recently in Vegas. Envy ya Bro~
'Big Man With a Gun' to me always felt out of place compared to quality of the rest of the album. Interesting to hear Trent feels the same way. Probably would have served better as a B-side.
Haunting album no one makes these type of influential rock records anymore. The fragile was a highly underrated follow up.
ehh not so much the fragile was the only NIN album that I have never owned, and at one point I had over 30 different NIN albums. underrated... no just not as good as the rest.
I agree with you 100%. I saw a post on Reddit earlier that said what song lyrics have you heard that just resonated with you and stuck with you? I couldn't think of anything but I wish I would have thought about what he said at the end of The Becoming which was Won't Give Up it wants me dead goddamn this noise inside my head. I deal with depression and anxiety like everyday and I also suffer from PTSD. I don't think I've ever heard lyrics that put it as simple as that before. I think anyone with an addiction or a mental illness could relate to that. I'm planning on getting those lyrics tattooed on me coming up here soon. Also the ones where he said tried to save myself but myself keeps slipping away I want those tattooed on me also. Very few bands actually I don't think there has been another band that has helped me through some really dark periods in my life and has helped me to put my feelings into perspective in quite like Nine Inch Nails. In my opinion Trent is a genius and is Mike the Beethoven of our era. He's a great composer and a great artist. No one except perhaps Peter Murphy can touch what he does.
@@bustacap3791 I agree with you in the way that's saying the fragile was a little weaker lyrically speaking
@@bustacap3791 WHAAAAT.... the fragile is a stone cold masterpiece. Definitely better than anything else that came out later.
I love "The Fragile". Have you given the "Deviations" version a listen? I highly recommend it, if you are interested in listening to the soundscapes the songs are supposed to represent.
So glad to be a NIN fan since childhood.
Same here. Or adolescense i guess
cpngrats zna
Bought this record the day it came out in a mall in Akron Ohio. So proud of Trent. He made it with several good records, the best probably being Pretty Hate Machine. So good. Decades later the music still holds water. He went from a Ministry roadie to a legend...
Same in Canton, here.
Gene Scheel I all honesty, you’re pretty stupid
Gene Scheel did u ever think that Bowie had his own opinion? Maybe he personally liked The Fragile better, that’s cool. My opinion is Pretty Hate Machine and Downward Spiral are masterpieces and by far Reznors best work
@Murican Ignorance Your name is all kinds of irony.
I cut school to buy and listen to this the day it came out.
This is one of the most influential albums of my life. I feel so lucky to have been a teenager when this and so many other amazing moments in music were happening. NIN is one of my all time favorite bands. In 1999 I had their logo tattooed on the back of my neck. I got to see them the live for the first time either 1999 or 2000 on the tour for The Fragile. It was a killer show. A Perfect Circle opened too, at the Gorge in George,WA.
I saw that run of shows at a theater in L.A.
I live in Houston: Me and three friends rented a suburban, drove to L.A. for the show, then had fun in Vegas.
It was legendary.
Still the best concert I've ever been to.
#16 correction - He didn't perform the normal drums on Piggy, just the frantic random drumming near the end which was taken from when they were testing the mics on the drum-kit.
cool
Hell yea. That's a badass tidbit of info.
Nice where did you find that info
@@brandonsanchez9043 www.theninhotline.net/archives/articles/key394a.shtml 7th question here
@@ChaseEvers172 thank you. Fucking great read and awesome to know
25 years!? Wow, I'm old. Lol. But man, this is without question one of the greatest albums ever made imo.
One of the greatest albums ever. Been listening NIN since 1992. Legendary.
Love the sampling facts!
If i remember correctly, the main character isnt Mr. Self Destruct. Mr. Self Destruct is a character in The Man's head. (The Man being the main character)
The protagonist is not named Mr Self-Destruct - the lyrics point more towards Mr Self-Destruct being what plagues and destroys the protagonist. "He" is more of a manifestation of the dark side of the protagonist's personality, which seems to be starting to take more control.
Good stuff! 25 facts for 25 years eh?
Lie Likes Music love your videos man
You probably dont give a shit but if you guys are stoned like me atm then you can stream pretty much all the latest movies and series on InstaFlixxer. I've been binge watching with my gf lately :)
@Nehemiah Kylan Definitely, have been watching on instaflixxer for since december myself :)
This album changed my life and is so important to me... but knowing these facts just took it to genius level iconic! Wow. Just... Wow!
Good video, I love to see TDS videos popping up on my feed!
It's interesting to know where the samples came from. I never really thought too much of them even though I've been listening to songs on this album since I was a kid.
I was at the Woodstock 94 show, front and center for NIN. It was epic. Metallica was pretty fucking good there too.
Lucky!
that must of been amazing
I was in Juvi for making pipe bombs with my friends. We were wild af. Whoops, missed it. Lol
So cool hearing all these random little factoids about one of my favorite albums! Always wondered where Trent got some of those samples from...
Just one big outburst of anger... No wonder it attracts people with borderline personality disorder. I've loved Trent's music for over ten years now, he really knows how to translate raw emotion into music.
It's a shame "Big Man with a Gun" didn't sit well with Trent, I can understand where he was coming from after the WMG dispute. The lyrics could have been more layered, but the sheer energy of the instrumentals is just what the album needed as a climax (heh) so you can feel the despair of the 3rd act.
If he ever does replace it, I hope it's something even more off the wall for the shock value and the catharsis afterwards.
Why isn't Skinny Puppy mentioned? Flood worked with them as Trent got his inspiration from them.
Because Flood didn't work with Skinny Puppy? I couldn't find any proof that he did. Though Skinny Puppy would definitely deserve a mention on Pretty Hate Machine.
Flood never worked w skinny puppy. Unless he did a remix for them, but I don’t think he did. I have like everything they’ve ever recorded.
No he didn't....Dave Ogilvie produced all of Skinny Puppy's material except for some of The Process and Rabies which Al Jourgenson helped produced. Flood never worked with SP on any of their albums.
Happy 25th, Downward Spiral! You should have mentioned that the song "Piggy" is a vague reference to Richard Patrick, who was a touring member of NIN, but left as Trent didn't want creative input from him. "Piggy" was his nickname in the band. 🤓😆
A truly great album. Thanks for the insight 🍻
That was damn good. I didnt know 98 percent of those facts. Thanks for making this .
So you knew 1/2 of 1 fact? (Just messin' with ya!)
Exactly! Haha
As I fan of
Nine inch Nails I can say this is a well done video.
one of the best pieces of art ever created. thanks MTR
This is an awesome video...
Everything's blue in this world.
about TIME we got some facts about NIN
Awesome video!
I haven’t watched the video yet but the NIN doom secret better be in here!
This Album was my last two years of high school. Im 46 and still a fan!
Love Trent works 💜
Tremendous history lesson about a legendary album, its place in time, and an always fascinating artist. Thanks.
"Everything you probably already know, but we're gong to make a video about it anyways." Didn't know some of those samples at least.
Love NIN. Depeche Mode are their inspiration... sounds weird? Go and really learn their nature... have to love them. Hurt is a fuckin masterpiece
Mark Romanek also directed the video for Johnny Cash's cover of 'Hurt'.
I truly would love to hear an album between with collaboration of Trent Reznor and Al jourgensen.
How exciting and epic could that get..
You probably know, but just incase you don't they worked together on a project called 1000 homo DJ's!
Unfortunately, Al and Trent ended up not seeing eye to eye and things fell apart. This as such gives us two different versions of 1000 homo DJ's cover of Black Sabbath's "Supernaut." The Ministry remix isint too different from the 1000 cover, just different samples for the most part but both are great, as is the original- a rare Sabbath moment that let Bill Ward shine.
Al really messed up with that Antifa bullshit..
@@Tails7212 for a while Al was back on the heroine and in general being even more of an ass than usual. I saw him in 2008 in Cleveland and he was barely concious; when I saw him in Columbus with Death Grips a few years ago he was doing MUCH better...pretty sure he's on medical steroids because he's quite puffy looking...Trent got clean a lot quicker. Nevertheless, drugged or sober, they both turn out great music.
Managed to grab one of those guitar picks Sin Quirin throws out!
Absolutely loved this album and was listening to it not long ago
Phenomenal album ! Street of Crocodiles really messed with my head, loved it. I as a song writer myself, I wrote a poem entitled Metaphysical playroom inspired by this dark short. It's really cool when one can truly feel the art. When one can totally relate, not just "like" what they are listening to because it sounds cool. When the art/song(s) describe your life, it's a feeling of validation, whether the feelings are painful or not, It's to/for me, inspirational.
Too many facts about "Closer", which I think its the smoothest song of the entire album.
Trent said that tour with Manson nearly killed him
One of my top ten cds of all time. Very deep and meaningful
This album is a timeless masterpiece and the live show (Manson opening) was one of the best I’ve ever seen. It’s hard to believe that this album came out so long ago and like others I bought this the day it came out and I remember listening to this for the first time; gives me chills. #NIN
Hurt will always be better in the original version.
agreed. even though Johnny Cashs' voice is powerful and moving he doesn't quite deliver the HURTFUL deep emotion Trent does in my opinion
A warm place had the same melody as David Bowies Crystal Japan track. My all time fav release by Trent
Excellent inside details.
Damn, on point son 🔥
#nin
Love NIN
U2's 'Achtung Baby', dark? For U2, maybe.
This made me laugh way too much, for some reason. 🤣
Zooropa slaps though
A Warm Place sampled David Bowie's Crystal Japan.
not true
h bar really? Very good to know
There's a track on Clint Mansels work for Black Mirror that reminds me of a warm place, mind due he is one of Trents best mates, so maybe it's a homage, Trent signed Clints old band PWEI to his Nothing label a while back.
not true. not sampled. the tracks just sound alike.
its a *cover*
Awesome!!!
Hi Guys, great list of facts. Just wondering as they use lots of samples on the album, is there a sample of Nirvana on track 13 (the downward spiral) @ 2:33? It sounds a lot like Kurt Cobain. Thoughts
The Downward fucking spiral!!!! I give you all you need to know!!!
Daaaaaaaaaaaaamn! I remember the day I bought it, a beautiful sunny day in MD, in 1994!! I'll never forget it. :0)
When I first heard Head Like A Hole, I was hooked like a prize fish 🔊😍🕪
valenius the kat technically that would mean you fought really hard to like it for a very long time and finally gave in after you couldn’t fight any longer
@@turnerhalsey2114 it's a figure of speech 😒
Nin my first show in1994 ...I was 14
“follows our protagonist ‘Mr. Self Destruct’” holy shit dude
In the video for Gave Up in the Tate house a young still with eyebrows Marilyn Manson is seen playing guitar and singing backup vocals. However the video was shot years before M.Manson had actually learned to play guitar so he's just pretending to play in the video.
I think there was only one "fact" I did not know... the one about the stop-motion animation.
The best album he ever made.
90% of the stuff in this video are obvious and well known facts. great video.
Good video!
I love Downward Spiral, it was the first NIN album I bought, then I got Fragile but when i friend let me borrow Pretty Hate Machine that was the album that made me a hardcore fan.....
Bow down before the one you serve
You're gonna get what you deserve🤘🏻.
Head Like A Hole, Terrible Lie and Something I Can Never Have are my favourite PHM songs for sure.
Best Album ever
I want existing to actually learn anything, but this was a really good show
Fun Fact: Michael Jackson was a huge fan of this album.
I thought there was blood and a moth on the album cover. Cool to know it was an actual piece.
Joel-Peter Witkin
George Tooker, Man Ray, Francis Bacon, James Vanderzee, Georgio DeChiricho
Oh you didn't knowW? Well yo ass betta CALL SOMEBODEEEEEH!!!
Portrait Of An American Family was not recorded at Le Pig. Broken and TDS are the only albums recorded there.
2 things I would have liked to been mention.. Cuz I'm still curious about them? one is.. Why was "Peter Christopherson" not able to finish his video for March of the pigs? And the second what exactly is Tommy Lee credited for in the sleeves for the downward spiral on the song "big man with a gun" on the sleeve. It says he's credited with "Steakhouse"?
Robot Jocks was a sample source?! That's amusing.
jox
To my knowledge, he wasn’t addicted at the time - that came during the tour.
Drop.acid and press play by the time hurt comes on you start the peek..then put on pink floyd dark side of the moon...white zombie la sex..and end it with....pretty hate machine
READ more about The Downward Spiral -
check out my book - Into The Never: Nine Inch Nails & The Creation Of The Downward Spiral
adamsteiner.uk/nine-inch-nails-into-the-never/
Ushering in a new era of confessional music that spoke openly about experiences of trauma, depression, and self-loathing, Nine Inch Nails The Downward Spiral, is a seminal album that changed popular music forever - bringing transgressive themes of heresy, S&M, and body horror to the masses and taking music technology to its limits. Released in 1994, the album resonated across a generation, combining elements of metal, industrial, synth-pop, and ambient electronica, and going on to sell over four million copies.
I... kinda of... already knew this...
Lol, hey nice to see you here.
Maybe you should’ve done the video then
@@LieLikesMusic hey Lie
#23 is flat out wrong. Flood worked on The Fragile
You are flat wrong. Keep quiet.
That's what I was thinking, both Flood and Alan Moulder worked on The Fragile, Trent is still friends with them.
FoulDream maybe he did but wasn’t listed? I have no idea, just throwin that out there
I wonder if I am the only one here that has The Fragile as a personal favorite instead of Downward Spiral
Agreed.
Although the Fragile is better, DS will always be remembered as the breakthrough album...
I like both Equally for different reasons
@@jayt7178 Most People will put DS & Fragile at the top of their list for best NIN albums. I know I do.
I think a good discussion for fans is which one comes third. Mine's Pretty Hate Machine...
Oh crap... I like Hesitation Marks too. I'll make that 4th, lol...
What's yours?
The Right disc is the best for me, can't believe so many people prefer the first half
@@Tails7212 Probably because most people popped LEFT in and put "We're in This Together" on repeat...
1:54 I would be very interested in sources for this claim.
It's funny but insulting to Reznor that, for some reason, many ppl think Trent's version of Hurt is a cover of a Cash song. Dont care what anyone says, NIN "Hurt" is the best and my favorite version is from 2013 live in Los Angeles the Tension show. God that whole fucking show is orgasmic. My girl and I fucked on acid and Sassafras the whole hour and a half. There's a bonus fact for y'all!
Thanks Trent I feel better now. I hated Big Man With a Gun. When I would copy the album to different media, I would always leave it out. Now I don't feel so guilty.😀😀😀
what interview did trent talk about how he didnt like "Big man with a gun?"
I love Trent, and NIN, I just haven't liked an album from him since with teeth, I feel like everything after isn't that good, obviously my opinion, but can someone please prove me wrong and show me a good song off his new album???
Something with that great "Trent Emotion"
Nine Inch Nails isn't a thematic identity. It's a project used by a human being named Trent Reznor. You don't have to like his new music. He writes and explores what he wants, because he can't spend an additional 30 years of his life being an angsty, depressed, young adult like he used to be. He's matured well beyond what you'd ever probably call "Trent Emotion" at this point, although I personally find "A Minute to Breathe" shares some similarities to The Fragile, and "Less Than" to be pretty similar to Year Zero. Bad Witch might as well be an estranged love letter to David Bowie's passing in some ways.
Ahead Of Ourselves says "Good morning"
Right off the bat: "NIN changed the landscape of industrial rock and metal". The landscape of industrial rock and metal = the world.
i feel old
Except for I don't buy the uneasy metal star thing... Maybe back in the day I might have but nowadays the entire discography is available of everything before even nine inch nails and it's pretty easy to see that this was always his passion and inevitability almost.
He had the means the capability and eventually the connections and his development is really interesting to listen to but it was always tinged with a sort of a poetic seemingly calculated address to the more edgy aspects of pop culture oftentimes very Poppy...
I suggested anyone truly interested in his body of work just search TH-cam for nine inch nails complete discography and look for one with like several hundred tracks all starting sequentially from his first known pieces of media that are available.
The early days are very far departure from where he is now.
So there might have been a time after the downward spiral and then further down in that era that led up to the fragile and that 4-year break before it where he might have recoiled a little bit from the status he'd achieved but I think that was just growing pains and if I could sit down and talk with him about it he'd probably have a whole lot more to say about it but I would think it would be reasonable that he would come to the same conclusion.
Fuck the fuck shit. Hurt is still one of the greatest bar none genre songs to ever exist. If you make Johnny Cash cry you did some amazing work.
the artwork's title is "wound" not "ruined"
Young Trent Reznor is sooo hot
At 3:43 the sample with the weird short sound sounds like a woman saying "what" in Bulgarian
This is the only album of NIN I care about. It is so. F'ing. Sick.
It's too long by at least 30% and this same issue only got worse and worse on future recordings. The best stuff gets lost due to an inability to select and edit. The absence of Flood somewhat explains this.
NIN is the only industrial band I listen to , oh yeah and Rammstein
Same here!
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Andrew Cliett yeah man , I didn't understand shit
JezBollah 667 I listen to pretty much every genre , every genre has great artists , you just need to dig deeper. A lot of pop is very artistic , heard Of Kate Bush , Peter Gabriel , ABBA lol the Beatles were pop , nowadays we 've got Tame Impala and a lot of Australian bands do amazing pop music. There's a lot of hip hop I love, there is no genre that's bad, you just need to open yourself to new music or you'll end up a rock snob ,and no one likes a snob
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Pretty much the best album of the ‘90s.
Call me crazy, but this album was always too noisy for me. Or maybe just too tinny. Did Trent ever remaster this with more bass, etc? Think I'm gonna pump up the bass myself with my Audacity software. Great album, but I prefer most others. And I have everything - How to Destroy Angels, all the film scores with Atticus Ross, hundreds of random remixes. All dope! Saw NIN at the Hard Rock in Las Vegas last year. It was off tha hook!
Jeff S Your Crazy :)
@@gb3817 LOL. Good one. I did crank the bass up and it's much better; funkier even. Of course there's standout tracks that I love (the quieter ones with more space to breathe). Closer, Piggy, I Do Not Want This, Reptile (peep the Peter Murphy/NIN motel room set, if you haven't!). I do prefer alternate mixes of Heresy and The Becoming (Still version). Gotta love March of the Pigs, too. Guess I really do love the album! Still crazy, tho', cuz I'm not really into Hurt that much. Played too much at his concerts. But I do dig the Johnny Cash version. And love the sample used on Westside Connection's The Gangsta, The Killa and the Dope Dealer. Check that one out.
Jeff S Glad you adjusted your bass levels. Glad to hear you felt some Funk because I’ve always thought Piggy was Funky as hell. I had many studio friends back in the day that enjoyed remixing NIN and then battling it out in weird places like a car parked in an empty parking lot as sheets of rain fell. I got to see them a couple times . The first time was in Tulsa and we all ate mushrooms a little to early and were peaking for the opening act which turned out to the Jim Rose Circus of Freaks. The next time I took my little brother and the projections blew us away. At one point Trent was in the tip of a tornado and then a red fox died , decomposed and then regained form, awoke and ran off. So cool you got to see them recently in Vegas. Envy ya Bro~
The secret track list is
3 4 2 5-6 1 7-8 14 9 13 10-11-12
'Big Man With a Gun' to me always felt out of place compared to quality of the rest of the album. Interesting to hear Trent feels the same way. Probably would have served better as a B-side.
But it starts at 9
Title should been 25 facts you and everyone else already knows about downward spiral