Nine Inch Nails

[NAD]

Fuckit, Dill brought them up, it's open for discussion.

One of my all time favorite bands, industrial fools say they are too pop to be cool, metal morons say they are too gay (or some other weak excuse to not like them). One of the first groups I got into when I was discovering music back in 1992, Broken is one of my all time favorite releases. I used to stay up to the wee hours of the night mimicking this crap rockstar style on my bass, lots of great memories. So much angst, so powerful and emotional, amazing stuff. Never got pretentious to me, but I suppose that could be a valid claim (you're still wrong though ).

Russell, Dill, BloodStainedWalls, I'm calling on you fuckers for this one. :Spin:

 

[lumitalvi]

*whispers* I looooooove Pretty Hate Machine!!! *whispers*

 

[dill_the_devil]

Nine Inch Nails are one of my favourite bands too - admittedly, the first time I heard them was on the soundtrack for The Crow, but I was instantly hooked. Went out straight away and bought this MP3 disc at a dodgy computer fair that had every album up to and including The Fragile on it, along with all the tracks Trent did for Quake I & II, all the film soundtracks and very nearly all of the B-sides and remixes.

Since then, 'The Downward Spiral' and 'The Fragile' have become two of my most frequently-spun albums, the 'And All That Could Have Been' Live DVD is coming close to wearing down to a wafer thin husk from repeated spins, and I'm a lot more miserable for it.

Incredible band.

 

[Russell]

Agreed, I too have (nearly) their entire back catalogue, they rock my socks. Saw them live at Glastonbury festival in 2000 too, which was cool A good friend of mine who I'm still in touch with lent me virtually every album they have ever done when I said I wanted to check them out. It was wicked!

 

[Krilons Resa]

I'm not ashamed to say that they are one of my favs as well. I grew up listening to Trent. The Downward Spiral and Broken are incredible imo. He created some of the most dark and depressing music ever recorded. I was never a fan of all the remix discs he put out but the originals were all gold.

 

[J.]

The old stuff is OK. The newer stuff, from what I've heard, is quite a shit-stain.

Never did see the big fuss over PHM. It had like two good songs. But the album with the orange cover (whatever it's called) was pretty nifty.

 

[Black Winter Day]

i love all 4 albums. have for 7 years. no qualms.

 

[NAD]

I think Pretty Hate Machine is more ahead of its time or important than it is good, his best work came later. I do love Sin though, one of my favorites.

My favorite NIN remix (I have all of the official ones as far as I know) is The Day The World Went Away (Quiet). The multiple layered guitars are replaced with Trent doing these harsh whisper things, I recommend it any fan. Since it was a single it might be hard to find now, but I picked it up for $2 when it came out 5 years ago.

There isn't any NIN I don't like except that stupid live album which SUCKED ASS. Terrible sound and doesn't come close to portraying their live sound, which is great. The only redeeming aspect was the second disc on the limited edition, lots of rare and very old tracks, mostly unproduced pieces of songs with Trent's voice and a drum machine, VERY cool for rabid fans like me.

 

[[0hr]Sunlapse]

I love the Downward Spiral

 

[NAD]

along with all the tracks Trent did for Quake I & II

Okay I know I've never heard these, how are they? They on disc somewhere, or do I need the games?

 

[houkai]

NIN makes some nice atmospheric music. I listen to it when I want to relax. I think NIN just gets badmouthed because the same people tend to also listen to Marilyn Manson.

 

[Krilons Resa]

Also, my prediction that Trent was gonna kill himself by the year 2000 went belly-up. That man is fucked up but a genius.

 

[NAD]

Dear Trent:

Where the fuck is Tapeworm.

Signed,
a shitload of fans

PS: how about another NIN record since Tapeworm will never happen, huh? HUH!?!

 

[dead_fly]

(before anyone's like 'who's dead_fly?', this is Dill on my missus's machine...)

NAD - you either need the games, or I guess I could make a couple of CD-Rs for you and send them over... but it's not really album material, more just ambient industro-metal background noise for primitive first person shooting...

 

[NAD]

Just as I was thinking "hey I like this new person!"

I'd greatly appreciate a CD-R of that stuff, let me know if you want anything in return.

 

[Hell Mike]

NIN is gay and people who like nin (HINT::: YUO GYUS"!!1) are gay.

 

[NAD]

The Downward Spiral is getting re-released on double-disc CD/SACD and DVD-audio versions on 11/23. Lots of cool shit, bonus tracks, and 5.1 surround sound. Very few albums are worth this kind of treatment, but this is certainly one of them.

http://www.nin.com/current/index.html

I'm gay.

It's cool man, most of us already knew that.

 

[NAD]

Oops, a few things to cover in this thread:

- Tapeworm is officially dead. It never worked out in the studio apparently. Sucks because A Perfect Circle performed a Tapeworm song in concert a few years back and it RAWKED.

- New NIN sometime next year.

- Hey Dill, did you ever make those CD-Rs for me? I owe you one or seven if so.

 

[matt99_crew]

Okay I know I've never heard these, how are they? They on disc somewhere, or do I need the games?

I've got some mp3s of this. Not sure if it is the complete set. Let me know if you're interested.

And I'm a massive NIN fan. Incredible stuff.

 

[matt99_crew]

The other thing I have that is really cool is the deluxe version of And All That Could Have Been, which has the "Still" bonus CD. New and "acoustic" stuff. Very cool. I've got several shows too.