Where should I start with Nine Inch Nails?

Awesome rock band back in 92.

http://youtu.be/yVpw1SwJRBI

As far as NIN remixes go, this is one of my favourites:

http://youtu.be/ETYKid2z0Kk

Ah yeah, Things Falling Apart has some great remixes. That's the Telefon Tel Aviv remix, right? Great track.

Unfortunately it also has 10 remixes of Starfuckers Inc.

Yeah, and none of them are particularly good. Trent himself also does a great version of The Frail on Things Falling Apart (it's mostly the song played by a string quartet, but it still sounds great).

  On 3/26/2012 at 1:18 AM, kokeboka said:

Yeah, and none of them are particularly good. Trent himself also does a great version of The Frail on Things Falling Apart (it's mostly the song played by a string quartet, but it still sounds great).

I think it was actually Benelli that remixed that.

The only remix contributions that Reznor had on that album were the first 2 tracks, Slipping Away and The Great Collapse

this one is a whole bunch of fun. goddamn was he ever listening to a lot of coil around then

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnrtGz8Bmxc

  On 3/26/2012 at 2:23 AM, kaini said:

this one is a whole bunch of fun. goddamn was he ever listening to a lot of coil around then

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnrtGz8Bmxc

I always heard a bit of Atari Teenage Riot in that track, but then I know shit all about Coil.

  On 3/26/2012 at 2:26 AM, oscillik said:

  On 3/26/2012 at 2:23 AM, kaini said:

this one is a whole bunch of fun. goddamn was he ever listening to a lot of coil around then

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnrtGz8Bmxc

 

I always heard a bit of Atari Teenage Riot in that track, but then I know shit all about Coil.

you need to rectify that. start with love's secret domain (and maybe time machines and the remote viewer). i guaran-fucking-tee you'll love them.

  On 3/26/2012 at 2:28 AM, kaini said:

  On 3/26/2012 at 2:26 AM, oscillik said:

  On 3/26/2012 at 2:23 AM, kaini said:

this one is a whole bunch of fun. goddamn was he ever listening to a lot of coil around then

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnrtGz8Bmxc

 

I always heard a bit of Atari Teenage Riot in that track, but then I know shit all about Coil.

 

you need to rectify that. start with love's secret domain (and maybe time machines and the remote viewer). i guaran-fucking-tee you'll love them.

Thanks for the protip, cheers

the downward spiral, for me everything after that only has flashes, that the last of the "essential" maybe maybe maybe the 'still' EP or whatever you want to call it.

Still is amazing!

What's the NIN song with the video of the band playing and Trent is moving around a lot and I think I remember him knocking over the mic stand a lot?

  On 3/26/2012 at 2:52 AM, YELLOW said:

What's the NIN song with the video of the band playing and Trent is moving around a lot and I think I remember him knocking over the mic stand a lot?

  On 3/26/2012 at 2:52 AM, YELLOW said:

What's the NIN song with the video of the band playing and Trent is moving around a lot and I think I remember him knocking over the mic stand a lot?

haha yes, he's given 2 or 3 new mics during that video

this is my favorite NINE INCH NAILS remix

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oguWC9tWR8Y

LOL

TDS and Further Down the Spiral were my entry. Further was also my intro to the Twin (couldn't stop listening to At The Heart Of It All).

  On 3/26/2012 at 2:55 AM, mrgypsum said:

  On 3/26/2012 at 2:52 AM, YELLOW said:

What's the NIN song with the video of the band playing and Trent is moving around a lot and I think I remember him knocking over the mic stand a lot?

march of the pigs

  On 3/26/2012 at 2:57 AM, oscillik said:

  On 3/26/2012 at 2:52 AM, YELLOW said:

What's the NIN song with the video of the band playing and Trent is moving around a lot and I think I remember him knocking over the mic stand a lot?

 

haha yes, he's given 2 or 3 new mics during that video

thank you! i've never been a real NIN fan but i remember this video when it aired vividly

  On 3/26/2012 at 2:52 AM, YELLOW said:

What's the NIN song with the video of the band playing and Trent is moving around a lot and I think I remember him knocking over the mic stand a lot?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PL72Tyxe1rc

directed by peter sleazy christopherson of coil

(and it's in mostly 5/4. proper idm)

it's so fuckin gooooood.

(Disclaimer: may be best to look at a chronological discography to make sense of my ramblings here.)

Where to start with NIN, eh? It all depends what you're going for. Since you got into them (or Trent/Atticus Ross, whatever, same thing basically) with the recent soundtracks, the next obvious place to go is Ghosts I-IV, which is the spiritual precursor to those two works. IMO there are a lot of sketches and things that don't work, but there are some gems in there too and you certainly won't hate it if you dug those soundtracks. I'm surprised that, apparently, no one has mentioned the Still album that Nine Inch Nails put out in 2002. It's really the last hurrah of the old, fucked up, pre-steroids, pre-"mature" Nine Inch Nails and features mostly piano and similar smooth sounds, but it's dark and depressing as hell. You would probably like that one too.

Speaking more generally, the entry point for most people is of course The Downward Spiral. A pretty brutal concept album about a broken man and his descent into depression, and it don't end pretty. It's a pretty straight-up industrial rock/industrial metal release, albeit about the best the genre has to offer. If you like that kind of stuff, the Broken EP is also essential. The first Nine Inch Nails album, Pretty Hate Machine, is EBM-inspired and has some synthpop influence too; that one has Head Like a Hole. Very solid IMO. Then the other "golden age" NIN release, 1999's The Fragile. A somewhat sprawling industrial rock album that took a truly depressed man years to make. It's sometimes excessive and perhaps more for the devoted fan, but it's the favorite of many.

After that 90s golden age (expanded to include 2002's Still) you have the post-drugs/post-hair/steroid NIN. With Teeth is a decent radio-friendly industrial rock album, kind of the hangover from the earlier self-destructiveness that was 90s NIN. Year Zero is a pretty political, anti-Christian, environmentalist concept album. Good songs, his best post-Fragile/Still release, but I think the message is cheesy. Then there's Ghosts I-IV which I mentioned, and The Slip, which is kind of a half-assed freebie he put out. Decent but probably the last album you'd want from them.

  On 3/26/2012 at 6:29 AM, Popemobile v2 said:

I'm surprised that, apparently, no one has mentioned the Still album that Nine Inch Nails put out in 2002.

Alright, I only skimmed the thread, plus beer. Still is good.

  On 3/26/2012 at 3:05 AM, kaini said:

(and it's in mostly 5/4. proper idm)

it's 7/8 buddy!

Shit do I ever approve of that cartoon. Only on WATMM.