Nine Inch Nails The Downward Spiral
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mandan
May 26th 2014


14099 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

He got banned again. Dunno why.

NordicMindset
May 26th 2014


25137 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

who got banned again?

mandan
May 26th 2014


14099 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

HeadPhones. He's reappeared under a number of alts, but he always ends up banned.

NordicMindset
May 26th 2014


25137 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

oh



that was him



ihihihi

Cygnatti
June 20th 2014


36514 Comments

Album Rating: 2.5

listening to this again and I can't tell if this is kinda nice or kinda not at all

NordicMindset
June 20th 2014


25137 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

GOD IS DEAD!!!!

Mongi123
July 29th 2014


22752 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

The Becoming is disturbing as fuck. The kids screaming in the background holy shit.

Froot
July 29th 2014


1910 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

I'd say the final ten minutes of the album are a good representation of what hell sounds like.

Mongi123
July 29th 2014


22752 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

Yea man, Hurt is devastating. Ironically, A Warm Place, a beautiful interlude, isn't too far behind the final tracks which just hit you one after the other.

Artuma
July 29th 2014


32834 Comments

Album Rating: 3.0

i really tried to find something special out of this but damn. sorry mong

Froot
July 29th 2014


1910 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

@Mongi: Yeah, as a lot of people have described it, it's the calm before the storm. That one glimpse

of humanity left in the protagonist before it all goes to complete shit.



Also, am I the only one who thinks the dude didn't actually kill himself? It just seems a bit too

obvious and blunt of an ending for an album with such multi-layered songwriting. I like to think that

it's just all just fantasy that he's having.

Mongi123
July 29th 2014


22752 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

@Arty You kinda have to look at it at more of an artistic level rather than just angsty teen stuff but

I understand some people can't get past that. You didn't like any of the atmospheric stuff?



@Froot Idk Trent did suffer from lots of shit. He claims this isn't about him but there are parallels.

This may have all been just a fantasy to the protagonist, but Hurt actually reveals what he does: Self

medicates with cutting himself because of depression. Kinda sad really.

Froot
July 29th 2014


1910 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

I agree, it's pretty eerie how things played out in his life after this.



Needing to give Fragile another go. Was listening to And All That Could've Been last week (one of the best fucking live albums btw) and upon hearing a number of tracks from the former included on the setlist, I feel like my 3.5 that I gave it like a year ago is unjustified.

Mongi123
July 29th 2014


22752 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

The Fragile is awesome too I'd give that another go

zakalwe
July 29th 2014


42356 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

Bleak

Froot
July 29th 2014


1910 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

Speaking of live performances, I got around to watching the NIN Woodstock performance a few nights ago. Holy fuck, what have I been doing with my life?



So fucking m/

zakalwe
July 29th 2014


42356 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

It was pre 2000 dude. Music was better.

Mongi123
July 29th 2014


22752 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

I've heard Trent puts on quite the show. Gotta watch one sometime.

Artuma
July 29th 2014


32834 Comments

Album Rating: 3.0

"You didn't like any of the atmospheric stuff?"



well i can't say i didn't like this but couldn't really get into anything on the album like i wanted

Froot
July 29th 2014


1910 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

There was this one documentary I watched where they were talking about the 2013 tour performance, and the making of the concerts, and everyone salivating over how much of a god Trent is. It's all really interesting for ten minutes, talking about lights and effects and shit, but then it starts showing clips of Trent getting mad at how shit the rehearsals are and lecturing the crew, and they have like three days before a concert in Japan, and it's like oh shit what are they gonna do



Thing is, it was only like a half hour long. I'm pretty sure you could make a feature-film length concert/documentary out of a NIN show, with all the drama that surrounds the production. Or at least I would watch the shit out of that.



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