Nine Inch Nails releases

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But my favorite is the Downward Spiral.

What he said!

Ew, put that away.

(You mean aside from that whole debut at number 2 thing, right?)

MAAAAAAAAAYBE, maybe JUST ONCE, I'll GET what's COMING to MEEEEEEEEEE.

well that includes me, so here we are.

1. Perfect Drug single / Lost Highway soundtrack (probably in my top 5 songs ever)
2. Broken
3. Fixed
4. Pretty Hate Machine
5. The Downward Spiral

I do not rate The Fragile; it is okay, but I do not own it and would not ever like to hear it again. And Things Falling Apart should be DESTROYED DESTROYED DESTROYED! omg soooo bad.

I agree that the Perfect Drug is definitely one of their best tunes (damn, Trent would have become a jungle producer...).

D'oh! I paid way too much for that disc back in high school & upon listening even as a massive fan was like.. WTF???? However I did make a profit reselling it several years later to some random NIN obsessive in Japan.

I think "March of the Pigs" is my favorite moment of theirs. The video's pretty funny..

B-but what about the double time, 4 on the floor gospel bit?

That performance is a hidden track on the DVD. Good stuff.

i love the og ghosts but these volumes are far more fleshed out and their own thing

Together was kinda wallpaper-y to me but maybe I just wasn't in the mood for it. Haven't made it all the way through Locusts yet.

Locusts sounds a lot more soothing than Together to me (also agree it's one of the best things he's done). One of the tracks on Together has this really high frequency tone overlaid on top that's bad enough that I have to skip it.

I tend to play my music on album-shuffle, so I never quite know what I'm going to get. My wife was chilling on the sofa by the stereo speakers while I think something mellow like Can's "Soon Over Babaluma" was playing, but then things got a little quiet and I couldn't quite make out what had queued up next. I look at what's about to play on my phone and see it's "The Downward Spiral" about to blargh out, so I quickly hit skip. "That was a close one," I told her. "You almost got Nine Inch Nailed!"

Here's a question: is there anywhere that lists all the appearances of what one might call the "NIN motif"?

(Skip to 3:50 in this Ladytron remix for reference.)

https://youtu.be/Bzl348HCN0w

I think of that as the "Downward Spiral Theme".

Trent hasn't used it himself in anything outside the titular album, has he?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMiWe_s7HMY

Yeah that was a really lovely moment from last night. The version of "Fashion" with Mariqueen also excellent.

holy cow Trent sounds so good!!

mike garson is so cool

heartening—after watching him complain about his own voice in the nin song exploder episode, always wishing he sounded like bowie instead—to hear him hit that sustained note in "fantastic voyage"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJMowK3OkWc

F*ck, well it is footage recently surfaced of NIN at Woodstock before the performance, shit-talking the other acts and discussing where the best mud might be at.

"We're having trouble finding private mud..."

That could be a Spinal Tap line.

I'd rather listen to "vletrmx21" to "A Warm Place," thanks.

― Leee Majors (Leee), Monday, February 2, 2004

Wouldn't surprise me if that track was also a reference point. Trent was deep into the Warp stuff early

NINE INCH NAILS
NINE INCH NOIZE • HALO 38
APRIL 17TH • PRE-SAVE NOW pic.twitter.com/uLtVji2gFY

— nine inch nails (@nineinchnails) April 8, 2026

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Indeed.

coachella performance ruled extremely

Incredibly so. If anyone needs it:

https://archive.org/details/nine-inch-noize-coachella-2026

Thank

Huh. I’ve never listened to How To Destroy Angels but after all of that I think I need to do so

The HTDA records are pretty good. I had a similar thought after watching that performance - that I should pull them off my hard drive and revisit.

I feel like the Coachella show is launching me into another NIN obsession. That was so incredible.

I walked out of the Peel It Back tour show last August thinking I should really see if I could catch another show on the tour. I can't think of a large venue show I've attended, let alone an arena-sized show, where I've had that impulse

I wish the timing had worked out on any of their more recent stops near here. It's wild that a band/performer this good and this consistent can sort of also be underrated, given how much many take it for granted.

htda is basically just the less aggressive end of nin with mariqueen on lead vocals, it's fine. not really up with the best nin material but i'd take welcome oblivion over the slip?

Whoever decided that Trent should stand feet shoulder width and Mariqueen should stand feet together (and that’s the extent of their stage presence for the first twenty minutes) deserves a high five

Seriously. I watched a bit of a ripped stream, and my first thought was, eh, where is the chaos of the band members bouncing off of each other? But then as it evolved I came around to it being one of the coolest performances ever.

the guy is 60.

Maybe that is why he was just standing there.

~ someone didn’t watch very far but has some conclusions! ~

Somebody informed me that Trent is 5’7” which does explain why he’s so neatly ripped and well-proportioned on camera. His vocal performance at Coachella was incendiary— the duetting w Mariqueen on Heresy especially— I felt like he was reaching Scott Walker level highs within his own particular genre

Whoever decided that Trent should stand feet shoulder width and Mariqueen should stand feet together (and that’s the extent of their stage presence for the first twenty minutes) deserves a high five

― the gay of hormuz (flamboyant goon tie included), Tuesday, April 14, 2026 12:13 AM (twenty-three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

yeah it's beautifully choreographed and the sound and vocal performance are somehow better than the records. trent's whole look - the clean-cut thing - is just mindblowingly perfect for whatever this is, material-spiritual bombast at its highest possible intensity.

i'm kind of clueless about nin sadly but every time i see some of their live footage i'm really drawn in. maybe i'll actually give this new album a listen for once. i remember when ridha was a hot club music name in the early 2010s, cool to see him ride to this.

His vocal performance at Coachella was incendiary

I really was amazed just by his singing and whatever the mic and mixing were on this. And really, it was true for the other Coachella sets I saw streaming this year too. Met Live-level mixing and editing.

There were some studio BVs in the mix, and they may have switched to tracking for bits of choreography — eg during Closer, for the “getting dragged down the pyramid by wretches”

i really wanted reznor's falsetto "perfect" to jump out on "closer". at least it was audible. a sudden falsetto note is really hard to project at the same level i imagine?

The "Closer" choreography was so creepy. Up until the group slide - that part looked fun.

boys noize and his record label have had some pretty good stuff lately. fwiw the “she’s gone away” nonoize version is basically the lyrics over the boys noize track “girl crush”

trent reznor’s going hard for his age but BN did this set, a separate dj set, and a second dj set elsewhere over the weekend. I need to get my shit together, he’s around my age

Maybe that is why he was just standing there.

― Josh in Chicago

Now now he also slid down a thing at one point.

also some strutting back and forth on an uneven surface, etc

bouncing off other band members hasn’t really been a nin thing since the 90s, not even the post-rehab very swole reznor period. tbf he probably would have accidentally knocked one of the skinnier guitarists through a wall if he’d tried that then

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4sUq-ftzgc

the fantastic nine inch noize performance mostly just has me now thinking about the best thing nin have done in recent years

excellent choice

however, per mr. reznor’s nomenclature, that is a soundtrack by the two members of nine inch nails and alan sparhawk/bj burton

I get why he pushes on that but it’s also fun to show up to the NIN show and tell the person to your side that you hope they do songs from the Pixar movie Soul

I liked the Reznor+Noize remixed Challengers soundtrack on a long walk. And the Reznor/Ross score to the forgotten Sam Mendes film Empire of Light is interesting because it’s shamelessly beautiful without any edges, just going for pretty.

(And I should say I’ve done a 180 on NIN, at least their 21st-century incarnation, after basically disliking them as much as I disliked Requiem for a Dream, for similar reasons.)

archive.org link is dead :(
Sorry i missed it.

they were doing "(you made it feel like) home" from the reznor/ross bones and all score on the most recent tour!

"a minute to breathe" too!

during the 2013/2014 tours they did a few reznor/ross tracks too, though those were instrumentals

i really wanted reznor's falsetto "perfect" to jump out on "closer". at least it was audible. a sudden falsetto note is really hard to project at the same level i imagine?

He’s 60, you lose your head voice as you age

This might be getting somewhat parasocial— but part of what I loved so much about this performance was the husband/wife element, and how it recontextualized the unknown “you” that is the subject of so much of the depresso Downward Spiral era stuff— all of it, really. The salvation is onstage and a part of the show and a part of the narrative. These songs flipped from being “I’m 26 and depressed and drug addicted and want to die” into a new “I made it through all that and now I’m a happy father of six” victory lap