Nine Inch Nails

Love NIN. My fav albums have changed through the years - at first the downward spiral, after that the fragile and currently my favorite is Ghosts. I just love how conceptual it is, the whole album is like a sonic journey... And the least liked by me are albums that come after With Teeth (with the exception of Ghosts)

my personal fave is with teeth esp when you think of it in its original parallel universe concept album

>>74030573
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVpw1SwJRBI

One of my favorites

After "With Teeth" I haven't really kept up with them, but everything before that is great from the engineering, concepts, and other good garbage.

Why is there no love for Year Zero in this thread? It's definitely a little overlong but it has some god tier songs on it and the concept is great. I love the glitchy noisy sound too

>>74032154
With Teeth is terribly underrated. People hear The Hand that Feeds and assume the whole album is poppy like that when it actually has a few challenging tracks.
The Line Begins to Blur is one of my absolute favorite NIN songs but lately ive had Getting Smaller stuck in my head.
>I think I'm losing my grip
>But I can still make a fist
>You know I still got my one good arm
>That I can beat
>Oh that I can beat myself with up with

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>>74030573
helo this is not tront

the nein itch nails are prety good i think u shoud by their albums

theyre all good

the fragrile is probbaly the best thogh cause its got twice mor musics on it

its grate value

>>74032467
I'M JUST A FACE IN THE CROWD

>>74032202
theory is the new EP trilogy has something to do with Year Zero, I'm skeptical of this, but damn. Also, I fucking love Year Zero.

>>74032696
wouldn't that make Ghosts the best one?

HOLY SHIT THE NEW EP

>>74032902
2spooky

>>74032909
... REAALY SUCKS!

>>74030573
fan for 20 years. the downward spiral, further down the spiral and especially the fragile are timeless materpieces.

he somehow lost his way since then. feels like the limitless sounddesign possibilities tech brought pulled his mind to far away from songstructure and composing. everything else since then was just above average imo.

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>>74032938

>>74032949
Ghosts and the soundtrack work he's done proves he can still make really interesting and boundary pushing music even with all the limitless possibilities (and money) that's now burdening him.

All the NIN stuff he's putting out is still above average and worth a listen, but I feel it's become sort of formulaic. The plonking piano, the wallofnoise guitar, some bliips n bloops, lyrics about being a million miles away and being forgiven, and there you have your modern NIN song. TDS and Ghosts feel so different and varied compared to his recent output. I'm looking forward more to his soundtrack work these days than to the NIN stuff.

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Trent is a good producer and musician, some of his lyrics can be eye rollingly bad and even lazy.

He brought industrial into the mainstream, so i guess he is important a bit.

I enjoyed his song he did on twin peaks, still has it, that sinister nin feeling.

I think at this point he could be considered a veteran, or like a iconic music dude.

Dude is like 50

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QczxCxFRUf0

>>74033070
interesting an boundary-pushing =/= good

and he hasn't become formulaic so much as he's just become gutless. PHM is incredibly formulaic and yet it's fucking good.

>>74030573
they're a lot less good than PIG

>>74032938

are you less than?

>>74032202
Totally agree. Long but, when you listen start to finish, its really worthwhile. More accessible than anything that came before but intelligent as well.

My honest opinion is that a lot of people disregarded it after they found out it was anti-Bush cause a fair number of conservative NIN fans.

The "Totally Not Industrial" ranking for me is
Foetus >> NIN > Ministry >= KMDFM

>>74033696
Ministry has overwhelmingly better riffs and they ere better at new wave synthpop

also PIG is a punchier, more focused version of Foetus

>>74033128
>interesting and boundary-pushing =/= good

actually I agree, it usually means great.

>formulaic

I meant formulaic relative to other NIN stuff. the trajectory of PHM, Broken, TDS, and The Fragile shows constant and radical change, experimentation, and growth.

gutless is the last thing Trent is

>>74033728
PIG attempts Foetus takes but ends up being corny in the bad way
It feels like the ideas he implements are more gimmicks than anything else

>>74033731
>actually I agree, it usually means great.
only in the minds of mid-XXth century second-rate modern art slackers who got bamboozled by consumerism into adopting planned obsolescence as a valid model for culture.

In real life, it usually means stupid, unnecessary and underwhelming.

Gutless is the thing that characterizes Trent the most and it's what most of his music revolves around, thematically. He apparently like being thought of as a shy, vulnerable little thing with naughty naughty fetishes.

>>74033769
nah if anything it's less goofy than Foetus because there's less clownish vocals, and when it tries to sound tough it actually sounds tough (instead of "man this is pretty harsh but it's not quite tough yet")

No joke when I first listened to PIG I thought "man, Thirlwell really got his shit together on this project, he's really matured a lot since the 80s".

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jAyfGzSaz0

>>74033839
Needs more stars for autism

>>74033839
He posts here so crank that autism up

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>>74033696
i dont think he likes kmdfm very much.

I'm going to go ahead and add +3 to his autism here >>74033839

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>>74033839
I made my own long time ago.
The singing is for the newest stuff.

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>>74033855
real shit?

>>74033949
Yeah sure thing

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>>74033949
of coursh

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>tfw the end of background world flows perfectly into the beginning of branches bones
>tfw the third ep releases the cumulative result will be the best nin album since DWS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88edHftKumo