What are the essential NiN albums?

Pretty Hate Machine (1989)
Broken (EP, 1992)
The Downward Spiral (1994)
The Fragile (1999)
With Teeth (2005)
Year Zero (2007)
Ghosts I–IV (2008)
The Slip (2008)
Hesitation Marks (2013)
Not the Actual Events (EP, 2016)
Add Violence (EP, 2017)

>>75124711
since the first comment didnt help at all, i suggest that you listen to the downward spiral, the fragile and year zero first and go from there

>>75124775
Fuck you. All NIN albums are essential fag.

listen to every main album (including broken) until the fragile, then if you don't like any of the sounds then you won't like NIN at all.

>>75124792
True, you can skip Ghosts though

>>75124815
Fair enough

>>75124711
if we are talking strictly essential, only downward spiral

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all

>>75124815
"Ghosts" is the only good thing Trent has done since "The Fragile".

>>75124731
Pretty Hate Machine (1989)
Broken (EP, 1992)
The Downward Spiral (1994)
The Fragile (1999)
With Teeth (2005)

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>>75124799
>>75124844
>>75124921

>>75124877
Wow

way to make yourself sound like a vapid shallow high schooler my man

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Their latest EP's are pretty killer.

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>>75126710
>Still
>5

every time

>>75126710
Still is amongs my favourite NIN records f a m

>>75125210
No Year Zero and the EPs?

>>75124711
The Downward Spiral
The Fragile
Year Zero
Hesitation Marks
Not The Actual Events
Add Violence

Rest god tier too. These are the absolute best works though

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>>75126753
It's just one guy that posts that shit every single NIN thread just to trigger people.

>>75126710
Fucking cringe

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>>75126765
Year Zero sucked and I included the only EP worth including.

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>>75127146
>Year Zero sucked
>I included the only EP worth including
Broken is overrated.
Year Zero is a master piece.
The recent EPs are some of the best work.

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>>75127146
Literal pleb """""""opinions""""""".
Get the FUCK out of this thread and never come back.

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>That sudden voice change from With_Teeth to Year Zero
Was anyone absolutely surprised by this? For a while I had no idea I was listening to Trent.
>>75124711
The Downward Spiral, Fragile, Year Zero, and EPs.
But every NIN album is worth listening to, these are good starting points to get you used to their sounds.
The Fragile hay have much more tracks and harder to get through but it has much cleaner sound, The Downward Spiral is much more agressive and may be hard to get used to at first.
Year Zero is very electronical, agressive and varied.
All three are concept albums. They are the pinnacle of great NIN.

>>75127220
>Was anyone absolutely surprised by this? For a while I had no idea I was listening to Trent.

Quitting drugs and starting to pump iron all day will do that to you.
You go from being a little emo bitch that can only get boypussi from Brian, to a sexual t-reznosaurus that destroys midget philiphino pussy all day.

>>75127220
>that Sandbag burn

10/10

>>75127146
>>75127251
retards

>>75127265
Brian, why are your vocals dying away in the newest single? Why didn't you progress from The Pale Emperor? Your fucked up vocals from drugs and shit worked genuinelly wonderfully on it.

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Name Top Ten NIN's best songs now.

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>>75126710
>>75126739

this was a first draft

>>75127372
Wrong, I remember seeing this shitty rating when it popped up.
The one you are showing us was the last one after bunch of anons called out the anon for scoring Still that low

>>75126661
No, I just feel that each release tells a story of what was going on in his life at that time. To skip is to do yourself a disservice.

>>75127372
>>75126710
this is pure cringe lmao

>>75127386
This is a very good observation and I feel like that about NIN albums as well, each of them feel like a story from beginning to end.

>>75127384

I think he said the rankings were reflecting less of the rating of the album and more on where he was in his life at the time. Whatever the case, it's the worse of his trentposting. Everyone has their strike out. Consdering he did the Bowie and the Aayliah one I'll forgive this autism kek

>>75127407
>I think he said the rankings were reflecting less of the rating of the album and more on where he was in his life at the time

Why did The Downward Spiral and The Fragile get such huge ratings then?
The Fragile may be considered his suicide note as it includes "La Mer" which Trent wrote when he wanted to drown himself in an ocean.
And the song in translation stands for "ocean"
And the album's cover is a close-up of a waterfall.

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>>75127265

brion get halp

>>75127424
>La Mer
Well, not "ocean" but "sea"
But my point still stands.

>>75127364
I'll just name "the best" and I will make a rule to name from only one album, to make it harder for myself and to highlight more albums (two for The Fragile, it's a fucking double album)

1) Ruiner
2) The Day The World Went Away
3) The Great Below
4) The Line Begins To Blur
5) In This Twillight
6) Various Methods Of Escape
7) Burning Bright
8) This Isn't The Place
9) Head Down
10) Leaving Hope

Lights In The Sky
The Four of Us Are Dying
Corona Radiata
Demon Seed
Echoplex
Head Down

Damn I forgot how good The Slip was. With a little more polishing and and a better marketing campaign it would have been at least With_Teeth level recognition.

>>75127364
In no order

Pilgrimage
Into the void
Ruiner
Happiness in Slavery
Get Down Make Love (cover)
Kinda I Want To
Survivalism
10 Miles High
Down In It
Ripe (with Decay)

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>>75127424
>>75127432
>The Fragile may be considered his suicide note as it includes "La Mer"

"La Mer" was not originally intended to be part of The Fragile.
It came out from a separate creative period, it was most likely intended to be part of it's own album (i imagine it would've sounded like a more lively Still most likely).
It's just that it was the only track that managed to came out while Trent was contemplating drowning himself every day, so he put it in The Fragile.
However it's fair to say it inspired "The Great Below" as a consequence, probably as a way for Trent to give both tracks a better, proper context within The Fragile itself.

>>75127502
It’s a shame the remaster cut with decay off from ripe

>>75127509
Don't forget also about "Adrift and at peace" which is from Still being a sequel to La Mer (said by Trent). So you are probably right about that

>>75127502
>Survivalism
Fuck yeah, that song goes in hard.

>>75124711
They look like Game of Thrones characters

>>75127548
That is because the remastered version is from Vinyl and the Vinyl version was always like that for some reason.

>>75127569
There is a picture where Trent sat on Game Of Throne throne.

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>>75127569
>>75127580

None

>>75127496
Fuck yeah, The Slip is great, ranks really high for me.
And it did have a pretty good marketing, I mean Trent released it for free in all formats.
That may have damaged it though, as people look at it as "that free" album, rather as "that fucking kick ass album"

>>75127496
>with little bit more polishing
The lack of polishness makes it special in my opinion, it is slippery and feels very urgent.

>>75127591
lmao they had to put her in front of Trent to hide his nine inch gut

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Here guys, while this thread was going on i made a new version of the roadmap.
My previous version was too clusterfucky.

I hope the fruits of my autism please you, i tried to stay as objective and rpatical as possible in order to avoid triggering any of you.

>>75127591
is that richard patrick on the top left? he looks like him

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>>75124711
OP I fixed your picture for you

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>>75128204
I am a small man yes I am and I got a small gun

>>75125210
Plebs believe this

I am getting tired of The Downward Spiral being praised as the "BEST NIN ALBUM", I got tired of it, it is an amzing record, but I feel like what came afterwarsd has so much more to offer to the listener, stuff like The Fragile or Year Zero feel much more impressive to me.
TDS's a classic, but I don't find it that impressive or captivating anymore, perhaps I heard it too much, but newer works more impressive now. I can clearly see Trent's growth musically through his career

>>75128465
The Fragile will always be a classic and his GOAT, unbelievably good album that holds up and has enough content to make every listen interesting and exciting.

>>75128486
I really like how The Fragile isn't agressive but mostly confessive and sad, if that makes sense, it seems more mature in comparison to TDS. Some lyricism of The Fragile is wonderful (I'm Looking To Forward Joining You, Finally)

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>>75126951
What's wrong with the remix albums?

>>75129312
I don't know what anon's problem is with Year Zero remixed and Fixed, they're great.

>>75124711
downward spiral was by far their best album, broken was meh

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>>75128204
kek

>>75129312
>>75129318
I think they're absolutely awful.

>>75130245
Year Zero remixed has some good stuff
Fixed is a strange package

>>75130255
Take a melatonin and put on fixed as you fall asleep. I fucking dare you.

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>>75130245
You just have shit taste.

>>75130245
>I don't understand or appreciate coil: the post

wew lad

>>75130410
I take melatonin everyday
All sounds the same

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>>75128465
>>75128771
TDS is a masterpiece but The Fragile has more depth and lasting power trough repeating listens.

Even Trent agrees, sorta, that's why he released the instrumental version recently with extra tracks.
He went back and listened to it focusing on the instrumental and he got a ghost-like experience.
Makes sense considering his current collab with Ross.

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>>75130491
>>75130495
Stop assuming, i like pic related.
It's just that those two didn't click for me at all.
Stop insulting other people just to validate your own taste in music, jesus christ, how childish.

>>75130552
In the end it is 4chan anon, people will call you fag for not liking a thing, it's normal here.
Yeah, it's frustrating and immature from anons, but this is still one of the best possible outcomes, at least music discussion is taking place

>>75131204
At least we’re not on reddit, where having a minority opinion means you’ll get downvoted.

>>75131244
Oh, fuck the voting system for posts in general, anywhere, it makes me sick so many website have put that forward in so many comments.

>>75131312
It’s pretty funny seeing what people will do for a virtual score on the internet.
It discourages discussion and free speech.

I took a weekend a few years back and listened to them all.

Pretty Hate Machine is the only one worth multiple spins.

>>75131626
An unpopular opinion for sure. What makes you enjoy it more than the rest?

>>75131626
I always found that to be the worse NIN release

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>>75131626
PHM is addictive as shit.
I went trough a phase where i'd listen to PHM and all the alternate takes over and over every day for like a solid month.
In my experience it's an honeymoon that doesn't last.

PHM is by far the straightfoward catchiest NIN release but it lacks the depth of The Fragile and such.
PHM works best if you keep it in cooldown periodically and then come back to it after a while.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mTun3BKNx0

>>75132611
needs to be revisted
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXBiYFoHsOg

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>>75124731
>>75125210
>no Quake (1996)
ya blew it