Author Topic: Nine Inch Nails appreciation thread (Read 5240 times)

faemir · « **on:** July 11, 2010, 11:16:39 AM »

So recently I got some NiN albums, and was shocked to see no thread about them - any other fans out there?

I have the slip, with teeth and ghosts, and with teeth has just clicked, it's brilliant. The live footage from the free fan dvd is amazing too - every song seems to sound better than on studio.

nightmare_cinema · « **Reply #1 on:** July 11, 2010, 12:15:10 PM »

I really like NIN in the right context, I wouldn't say I love them as a whole but they're a great band. Really good for pre night out drinking music, or road trips with friends, or ESPECIALLY for running to.

sonatafanica · « **Reply #2 on:** July 11, 2010, 12:36:22 PM »

My relationship with NIN is weird. It's wrong, I know, but what has always thrown me off of really checking out NIN music is the already aged "goth" fanbase. I have within the past week decided that I would toss away all ignorance and experience his music without bias.

I remember being in love with the song Every Day is Exactly the Same when I was a sophomore.

LTE · « **Reply #3 on:** July 11, 2010, 01:27:41 PM »

I don't really listen to a lot of other albums other than The Downward Spiral, but they (Trent) are (is) a great band (artist).

The Downward Spiral is one of my favorite concept albums. Deals with nihilism.

Sigz · « **Reply #4 on:** July 11, 2010, 02:11:05 PM »

Love NIN. I always find myself listening to them whenever I have to program something too. I don't know why.

faemir · « **Reply #5 on:** July 11, 2010, 02:32:33 PM »

Also, Trent Reznor is such a great artist and guy. He's outspoken about how crappy the record labels are etc, and hell, he released kinda 2 albums for free, and all that live footage (450GB of it). I can't think of anyone else that does this sort of thing. Well actually Radiohead.

jezstyle · « **Reply #6 on:** July 12, 2010, 03:34:36 AM »

Massive fan here. My contribution to the thread - my collection: https://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=0AkgSJ78mag-kdFRtdWJZUE9fSzA5Y1V0ZS0xZVhkckE&hl=en&output=html

faemir, it seems that you're going backwards chronologically in the band's discography. Trust me, it only gets better from here. If you liked With Teeth (its a very so-so studio album imo), do check out Beside You in Time (the live Blu-Ray for the tour of that album). The live band improves quite a lot of WT songs.

KevShmev · « **Reply #7 on:** July 12, 2010, 09:17:09 AM »

I have and like both The Downward Spiral and The Fragile, but they are CDs I rarely listen to. Good stuff, but just not something I am ever gonna listen to regularly.

faemir · « **Reply #8 on:** July 18, 2010, 02:45:14 PM »

Quote from: jezstyle on July 12, 2010, 03:34:36 AM

Massive fan here. My contribution to the thread - my collection: https://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=0AkgSJ78mag-kdFRtdWJZUE9fSzA5Y1V0ZS0xZVhkckE&hl=en&output=html

faemir, it seems that you're going backwards chronologically in the band's discography. Trust me, it only gets better from here. If you liked With Teeth (its a very so-so studio album imo), do check out Beside You in Time (the live Blu-Ray for the tour of that album). The live band improves quite a lot of WT songs.

I have a friend who's seen them live, and he said their stuff is much better live, though interestingly I read somewhere that Trent is embarrassed by much of his performance on the WT tour as he was unwell for a lot of it.

In terms of albums, I'll keep digesting the studios I have them i'll move backwards certainly, though I'm hearing older songs from the fan dvd already

Gadough · « **Reply #9 on:** July 18, 2010, 03:06:08 PM »

Pretty Hate Machine is fantastic. It was one of the first albums I ever bought when I was 12 or so. To this day it's the only NIN I've heard, but I still like it quite a bit.

Jakartabassplayer · « **Reply #10 on:** July 19, 2010, 03:15:32 AM »

I own the Slip and really like it.
What albums should I also listen to?

faemir · « **Reply #11 on:** July 19, 2010, 05:17:18 AM »

Just go backwards like i'm doing

Also, get the fan made live concert for free: https://thisoneisonus.org/ it has bluray, dvd, audio, etc as torrents and direct downloads.

jezstyle · « **Reply #12 on:** July 19, 2010, 06:31:18 AM »

Quote from: faemir on July 18, 2010, 02:45:14 PM

Quote from: jezstyle on July 12, 2010, 03:34:36 AM
Massive fan here. My contribution to the thread - my collection: https://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=0AkgSJ78mag-kdFRtdWJZUE9fSzA5Y1V0ZS0xZVhkckE&hl=en&output=html

faemir, it seems that you're going backwards chronologically in the band's discography. Trust me, it only gets better from here. If you liked With Teeth (its a very so-so studio album imo), do check out Beside You in Time (the live Blu-Ray for the tour of that album). The live band improves quite a lot of WT songs.

I have a friend who's seen them live, and he said their stuff is much better live, though interestingly I read somewhere that Trent is embarrassed by much of his performance on the WT tour as he was unwell for a lot of it.

Correction: that would be the 1999/2000 Fragility tour which is documented for the And All That Could Have Been cd/dvd. He was on cocaine, heroin (overdosed on it on one occasion) and alcohol around that time period.

TR has been sober/clean from the release of WT-onwards which was also evident in the change of his physical appearance and voice.

faemir · « **Reply #13 on:** July 19, 2010, 06:37:48 AM »

Ah okay. Well that's good certainly!

watching this one is on us in 1080p, SO good!

jezstyle · « **Reply #14 on:** July 19, 2010, 09:03:37 AM »

Quote from: faemir on July 19, 2010, 06:37:48 AM

watching this one is on us in 1080p, SO good!

Indeed. I'm receiving my glorious Blu-Ray in a few weeks hopefully.

sonatafanica · « **Reply #15 on:** July 20, 2010, 11:19:15 AM »

I'm swinging by best buy. Recs?

ConstantMotion · « **Reply #16 on:** July 20, 2010, 10:42:41 PM »

These four albums are essential for every music collection:

Pretty Hate Machine
Broken
The Downward Spiral
The Fragile

Since then, it's been hit and miss for me. Although I did like some of With Teeth, most of Year Zero and Ghosts, and The Slip was excellent as well (probably his best since The Fragile.)

I'm very impressed with his new project (with his wife.) Forget what it's called, but downloaded the free debut album to my iTunes. It's a very good album.

sonatafanica · « **Reply #17 on:** July 20, 2010, 11:31:39 PM »

Yeah, I got that one a while back, it's called How to Destroy Angels.

faemir · « **Reply #18 on:** October 30, 2010, 07:27:00 PM »

Necrothread time!

I got The Downward Spiral 5.1 mix (SA-CD, I had fun ripping the .ac3s), and it's brilliant. Excellent use of the channels, though the mix isn't Steven Wilson level, it's almost there in terms of good use of the rear and middle channels.

I highly recommend it to all, it comes with the 2cd remaster which is really easy to get and barely more than the 1cd edition

The King in Crimson · « **Reply #19 on:** October 31, 2010, 03:33:48 PM »

Some news from www.nin.com.

Trent is done remastering Pretty Hate Machine apparently and it's set to release on 11/22.

I, personally, can't wait. PHM is a great album and my favorite from NIN.

Marvellous G · « **Reply #20 on:** October 31, 2010, 03:46:57 PM »

Ghosts I-IV was one of the best albums of the decade imo.

faemir · « **Reply #21 on:** October 31, 2010, 05:03:55 PM »

Quote from: The King in Crimson on October 31, 2010, 03:33:48 PM

Some news from www.nin.com.

Trent is done remastering Pretty Hate Machine apparently and it's set to release on 11/22.

I, personally, can't wait. PHM is a great album and my favorite from NIN.

It doesn't have surround mix like the other remasters though

The King in Crimson · « **Reply #22 on:** October 31, 2010, 05:08:41 PM »

Quote from: faemir on October 31, 2010, 05:03:55 PM

Quote from: The King in Crimson on October 31, 2010, 03:33:48 PM
Some news from www.nin.com.

Trent is done remastering Pretty Hate Machine apparently and it's set to release on 11/22.

I, personally, can't wait. PHM is a great album and my favorite from NIN.

It doesn't have surround mix like the other remasters though

Meh, doesn't really bother me.

Gorille85 · « **Reply #23 on:** October 31, 2010, 10:21:03 PM »

Just watched the film "Seven". The intro-generic music composed by NIN is AWESOME!! I need more of that!

faemir · « **Reply #24 on:** November 01, 2010, 08:40:38 AM »

They did the intro music? *youtubes*

Marvellous G · « **Reply #25 on:** November 01, 2010, 10:51:33 AM »

They did it for The Machinist too, and the main character is called Trevor Reznik.

Gorille85 · « **Reply #26 on:** November 01, 2010, 12:04:24 PM »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iy98RlQxCoI

Watch that and tell me it's not the most awesome thing ever. Do not actually do that.

Where can I get more of this kind of stuff?

faemir · « **Reply #27 on:** November 01, 2010, 03:46:31 PM »

Rina · « **Reply #28 on:** November 01, 2010, 07:35:45 PM »

They aren't my fav, but they are pretty good and I enjoy listening to them.

Birch Boy · « **Reply #29 on:** November 01, 2010, 07:37:37 PM »

Hi kids. Do you like violence? Wanna see me stick Nine Inch Nails through each one of my eyelids?

Gorille85 · « **Reply #30 on:** November 01, 2010, 11:04:20 PM »

The Downward Spiral is the next album (next overall, any bands) I'm buying, probably sometimes this week.

faemir · « **Reply #31 on:** November 02, 2010, 05:18:11 AM »

You're gonna have fun, it's amazing, possibly their best

LeeHarveyKennedy · « **Reply #32 on:** November 02, 2010, 10:54:37 AM »

I just listened to TDS the other day during a long drive, and I'd forgotten just how much I love that album.

Except "Piggy".

Vivace · « **Reply #33 on:** November 09, 2010, 01:42:15 PM »

I discovered something interesting about NIN that I noticed a few months ago. Early Nine Inch Nails music when it comes to studio albums are just solid while the remixes were, "ok". Now I find the remixes to the recent stuff vastly superior to the studio versions. There is a website out there where Trent makes available not only his remixes for stuff from With Teeth, Year Zero and The Slip but others have submitted remixes as well since he made available some master clips. I never really got into With Teeth before discovering these remixes and now with a customized version of With Teeth I find myself really loving it, same goes with Year Zero and The Slip. I cannot for the life of me get into Ghosts I-IV. Boring, boring, boring. Oh well.

Gorille85 · « **Reply #34 on:** November 09, 2010, 02:00:59 PM »

I bought The Downward Spiral the other day and I really love it!!

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Author Topic: Nine Inch Nails appreciation thread (Read 5240 times)