https://i.imgur.com/bswllm7.jpeg17. EraserReleased on The Downward Spiral, 1994368 points, 9 votersStudio versionLive 2014
― ufo, Monday, 29 April 2024 21:34 (five months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLFUKBWyves
they did do "la mer" into "into the void" live in 2006
― ufo, Monday, 29 April 2024 21:35 (five months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtLHcgDJvzA
and like every funk-adjacent track, the 2013 live version of "into the void" is great, though there isn't any pro-shot footage of it (whatever happened to that promised tension concert film release anyway)
― ufo, Monday, 29 April 2024 21:38 (five months ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/YSGrnoP.jpeg16. The WretchedReleased on The Fragile, 1999372 points, 10 votersStudio versionLive 2000Live 2008
― ufo, Monday, 29 April 2024 21:44 (five months ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/Ctlkyeg.jpeg15. HeresyReleased on The Downward Spiral, 1994378 points, 9 votersStudio version
― ufo, Monday, 29 April 2024 21:54 (five months ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/bvksuax.jpeg14. Terrible LieReleased on Pretty Hate Machine, 1989384 points, 13 votersStudio versionLive 2008
― ufo, Monday, 29 April 2024 22:08 (five months ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/79wbiF1.jpeg12. RuinerReleased on The Downward Spiral, 1994386 points, 9 voters, 1 #1 voteStudio version
https://i.imgur.com/MGjGRfZ.jpeg12. A Warm PlaceReleased on The Downward Spiral, 1994386 points, 11 votersStudio version
― ufo, Monday, 29 April 2024 22:19 (five months ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/fFv1nJ4.jpeg11. Just Like You ImaginedReleased on The Fragile, 1999402 points, 12 votersStudio versionLive 2000Live 2009 with Mike Garson
― ufo, Monday, 29 April 2024 22:30 (five months ago) link
top 10 tomorrow!
It comes down to this…
― Doctor Madame Frances Experimento, LLC", Monday, 29 April 2024 23:00 (five months ago) link
GREAT GRAPHICS TY THERMO
― Psychocandy Apple Grey (Pyschocandles), Monday, 29 April 2024 23:28 (five months ago) link
Just Like You Imagined is my favorite NIN instrumental. Surprised it placed so high!
― octobeard, Monday, 29 April 2024 23:52 (five months ago) link
Mine too - it was no. 3 on my ballot.
― Tim F, Monday, 29 April 2024 23:59 (five months ago) link
Lots of my other ballot choices in this run: "Beside You In Time" and "And All That Could Have Been" were top 10 picks for me and "The Wretched" and "Eraser" were top 20.
― Tim F, Tuesday, 30 April 2024 00:02 (five months ago) link
I’m wondering what people expect the top 10 to look like.
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 30 April 2024 00:28 (five months ago) link
And thanks, candles!
I’m pretty positive on 9 out of 10 but the order is a mystery.
― Doctor Madame Frances Experimento, LLC", Tuesday, 30 April 2024 00:41 (five months ago) link
Obviously a lot of singles - I'm more interested to see where any album tracks place. I was disappointed to see "I Do Not Want This" place relatively low but that's nothing compared to my crossness if "The Becoming" misses out entirely.
I'm a bit resigned to "Running" not making it now, sadly.
― Tim F, Tuesday, 30 April 2024 00:57 (five months ago) link
Starfuckers Inc. better not be anywhere near the top ten. I'd almost prefer Deep.
Regarding the rundown:
Shout out to Terrible Lie's vestigial twin, Now I'm Nothing.
SICNH was my number one. I'm particularly fond of the Natural Born Killers version - first verse and chorus with a new long piano outro.
― Vernon Locke, Tuesday, 30 April 2024 01:32 (five months ago) link
I didn't vote because I only really know 2 albums and 1 EP well enough, but I've made playlists for this:
Remixes
Songs
Loads of really great stuff here that I'd never heard before
― nate woolls, Tuesday, 30 April 2024 01:52 (five months ago) link
Tim: Running was #56
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 30 April 2024 01:57 (five months ago) link
:-(
― Tim F, Tuesday, 30 April 2024 02:02 (five months ago) link
Thanks for that Nate ! I'm in the exact same position.
― LeRooLeRoo, Tuesday, 30 April 2024 02:40 (five months ago) link
there's so many obvious "top 10" contenders that have already placed and the fact "just like you imagined" placed #11 has me excited for the final rollout.
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Tuesday, 30 April 2024 07:16 (five months ago) link
20. Something I Can Never Have
My second highest off PHM, my poll was quite heavy with the sappier tracks. That steam engine is still incredible.
17. Eraser
A stunning instrumental first half, the vocals in the second half are powerful but also the worst example of trent's worst lyrical technique - trying to make you sympathise or even identify with an abuser because they feel bad about themselves.
― ledge, Tuesday, 30 April 2024 07:44 (five months ago) link
Very interesting 20-11, I've never had any awareness of what the consensus Fragile picks are beyond a couple of songs (in general I mean, not just on ILM...).
― Gavin, Leeds, Tuesday, 30 April 2024 07:51 (five months ago) link
Heresy was my number 2, and really could have easily been my number 1. I really love the way his voice sounds in the verses, wish he did that kind of thing more often.
― silverfish, Tuesday, 30 April 2024 13:43 (five months ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/w6xll3r.jpeg10. PiggyReleased on The Downward Spiral, 1994426 points, 12 votersStudio versionLive 2008, Ghosts versionLive 2013
― ufo, Tuesday, 30 April 2024 21:00 (five months ago) link
the outro on "piggy" is one of their very best moments
― ufo, Tuesday, 30 April 2024 21:16 (five months ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/Mh6s68F.jpeg9. Head Like A HoleReleased on Pretty Hate Machine, 1989452 points, 13 voters, 1 #1 voteStudio versionMusic videoLive 2008Live 2013
agreed!
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 30 April 2024 21:17 (five months ago) link
no one has ever made drums sound cooler than trent reznor
― ivy., Tuesday, 30 April 2024 21:19 (five months ago) link
Heresy has my fav sounding drums
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 30 April 2024 21:22 (five months ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/vUxwqMW.jpeg8. The Perfect DrugReleased on Lost Highway soundtrack, 1997454 points, 11 voters, 3 #1 votesStudio versionMusic videoLive 2022
― ufo, Tuesday, 30 April 2024 21:28 (five months ago) link
i was surprised this wasn't higher, it's so great
it's also quite odd structurally, very poppy first half but then spends the second half on that jungle-inspired breakdown and atmospheric outro
― ufo, Tuesday, 30 April 2024 21:30 (five months ago) link
speaking of drums sounding cool
hearing the extremely glitchfucked amen break/drum solo in the middle of this is probably the thing that made me want to be a drummer, which is hilarious because it's practically unplayable (ilan rubin has somehow done it)
― ivy., Tuesday, 30 April 2024 21:37 (five months ago) link
I love this poll thank you ufo
I wish there’d been a sidebar for “fave lyric”, I always get “shove it up inside / surprise! / lies!” in my head
― Drowning in TG, he sent me Discipline (flamboyant goon tie included), Tuesday, 30 April 2024 21:38 (five months ago) link
fave lyric: the clouds will part and the sky cracks open and god himself will reach his fucking arm through!!! just to push you down, j-j-just to hold you down
― ivy., Tuesday, 30 April 2024 21:40 (five months ago) link
other fave, obv: stale incense, old sweat, and lies! lies! lies!
― ivy., Tuesday, 30 April 2024 21:41 (five months ago) link
The “inside!” / “surprise!” / “lies!” section of “March of The Pigs” is so great - a performative bow on the top of the time signature decision (which I was mentioning somewhere upthread), but also at that point Trent declaiming vaguely about “lies” was already self-parody, so it feels like one of the best examples of Trent winking at the listener and saying “yes, I really am completely ridiculous”.
― Tim F, Tuesday, 30 April 2024 21:45 (five months ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/LeYpGc3.jpeg7. We're In This TogetherReleased on The Fragile, 1999500 points, 12 voters, 1 #1 voteStudio versionMusic video
― ufo, Tuesday, 30 April 2024 21:55 (five months ago) link
i didn't expect this to be so high, it's decent but kinda just chugs along, unusually uninteresting for a fragile track
― ufo, Tuesday, 30 April 2024 21:56 (five months ago) link
I’m generally indifferent to the Fragile, but I like the chorus
― Doctor Madame Frances Experimento, LLC", Tuesday, 30 April 2024 22:01 (five months ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/1d0viVd.jpeg6. WishReleased on Broken, 1992516 points, 14 votersStudio versionMusic videoLive 1995Live 2006Live 2008Live 2022
― ufo, Tuesday, 30 April 2024 22:08 (five months ago) link
Video is Sleazy at the top of his powers as a director
― Doctor Madame Frances Experimento, LLC", Tuesday, 30 April 2024 22:10 (five months ago) link
iirc they pretty much never play "we're in this together" live because reznor can't sing it
"the perfect drug" was also never played until 2018, though not because the drum solo was impossible but apparently because reznor didn't like how the outro felt when they rehearsed it? something about it killing the momentum
― ufo, Tuesday, 30 April 2024 22:11 (five months ago) link
HEY PIG
― Marten Broadcloak, mild-mannered GOP congressman (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 30 April 2024 22:16 (five months ago) link
― ivy., Tuesday, April 30, 2024 4:41 PM (thirty-five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
IT COMES DOWN TO
THIS
― Marten Broadcloak, mild-mannered GOP congressman (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 30 April 2024 22:17 (five months ago) link
I wouldn’t have imagined those songs placing at 7/8, will have to revisit them.
Very, very glad to see “Wish” here even as I wish (heh) it was higher
― Marten Broadcloak, mild-mannered GOP congressman (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 30 April 2024 22:19 (five months ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/Hkd9duY.jpeg5. The BecomingReleased on The Downward Spiral, 1994518 points, 11 voters, 4 #1 votesStudio versionStill versionLive 2009
― ufo, Tuesday, 30 April 2024 22:24 (five months ago) link