Nine Inch Nails releases

10

7

5

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.

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

@fajita seas, I've sent you a message.

Track listing for the Nine Inch Noize album:

01. Intro (Nine Inch Noize Version)
02. Vessel (Nine Inch Noize Version)
03. She’s Gone Away (Nine Inch Noize Version)
04. Heresy (Nine Inch Noize Version)
05. Parasite (Nine Inch Noize Version)
06. Copy Of A (Nine Inch Noize Version)
07. Me I’m Not (Nine Inch Noize Version)
08. Closer (Nine Inch Noize Version)
09. The Warning (Nine Inch Noize Version)
10. Memorabilia (Nine Inch Noize Version)
11. Came Back Haunted (Nine Inch Noize Version)
12. As Alive As You Need Me To Be (Nine Inch Noize Version)

Also, a PR statement from Reznor:

The creative fulfillment of working on the Challengers and TRON scores with Boys Noize led me to think that including him in the Peel It Back tour could be an interesting way to express NIN in more purely electronic terms live – a concept I’ve wanted to explore for some time. The result was so much fun for us we felt it was worth expanding and formalizing in some way.

On a whim I mentioned it would be cool to play a whole set as Nine Inch Noize in the Sahara tent at Coachella. Careful what you wish for…the next thing I knew we were designing a whole new show to present in the way it deserved.

There’s no surprise tour announcement – this Saturday is it. I’m taking Sunday off and excited to be working on new Nine Inch Nails music Monday – I’ll see you when I come up for air.

We recorded this album all over the place – some of it’s live, some in studios, hotels, planes, etc. We had a lot of fun revisiting these songs and hope you enjoy. Listen LOUD.

Hm, so essentially the Coachella set IS the album. (Not complaining, I just wonder how much different it'll sound in the end.)

(Not complaining, I just wonder how much different it'll sound in the end.)

this is like seeing JUSTICE live vs JUSTICE studio.
The live material is insane and noisey and so so good,
the studio releases, are a lot more "polite".

(the same could be said for Adrian Sherwood actually ... )

Well now I'm listening and...I think the album really is the live show! Which is great!

Ah okay in rereading the press guff it's a mix of live and studio. Still I wouldn't've minded if they just released the set!

it's pretty much a live album, though it's not all from the coachella set (even though it's just the same tracks - i would have loved to have the version of "sin" they were doing on tour too, for instance)

missed opportunity to call it As Live As You Need Me To Be

Not on Qobuz in my time zone yet.

missed opportunity to call it As Live As You Need Me To Be

the live cassette from two weeks ago was called As Live As You Needed Me To Be (and has Sin on it)

that was an unofficial thing wasn't it

yeah (probably) but just as well there’s no clash! and it makes more sense for the one that actually is a live comp

saw 'em live last year and this shit went so fucking hard so I'm stoked to have an audio souvenir.

The show you were at might be available here (the band is OK with this site) - https://ninlive.com/recordings

i'd be very happy if the next nin album sounds like this

i'm throwing this version of "parasite" in my next dj set

Listening now; this is exactly what I hoped for.

my favourites here are "heresy" which just rules and "the warning" which absolutely needed that coda

most pointless are "closer" and "as alive as you need me to be"

it's pretty much a live album, though it's not all from the coachella set (even though it's just the same tracks - i would have loved to have the version of "sin" they were doing on tour too, for instance)

Not a live album at all, to my ear - yes, there's crowd noise here and there, but it's clearly being used as a sonic element, like the Butthole Surfers did on "John E. Smoke":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uhmOTnF92M

some of it sounds pretty much identical to coachella last weekend

someone on the hoffman boards stated confidently it was sourced from that, which is a pretty quick turnaround. I didn't see the coachella set; but this is close to what the NoizeBoyz set was like when I saw him last year.

I think they are doing some live manipulation but the occam's razor here is that the triggered electronic instruments etc are not being twiddled that much and it reads as identical because it's being replayed

that fan bootleg from a couple weeks back that may or may not have used intercepted feeds off the IEM broadcasts for the band was pretty close, but wow did they not doing any real mixing. I'd be pissed if I were TR because it lacked any real vocal effects, vocals too high in the mix for NIN, lots of aesthetic errors

i was largely working off the vocals, which for some tracks are directly from coachella week 1 but for other tracks they're not. they are clearly doing something live because there's a video of them doing "sin" where they have a bunch of technical difficulties and have to restart the song

oh yeah, I think they're doing a lot of the stuff live and it's just really tight, barring technical difficulties

I love the dialectic of "it sounds perfect because it is pre-taped" vs "it sounds perfect because they are just really tight," lol

I know I posted it upthread somewhere, but I saw the band once in a small-ish place, and for the first two songs the house sound was not working, and anything you could hear at all was what was coming directly from what was on the stage (amps, monitors, etc.). Once Trent realized what was happening - essentially a really intense but virtually silent pantomime of rage - he got extra pissed and everyone had to leave the stage for a reset.

You can hear (or not hear!) it happening here!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npYpwP6bFlA

Tony Paglia
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I’ve been thrifting for records for decades, and every once in a while, I find something really special. This is the tale of one of the most special records I’ve ever found.
Trent Reznor, of the band Nine Inch Nails, grew up in Mercer, PA, which is the town where I live. He went to Mercer High School, and he played in the 5M Marching Band and Jazz Band, in which my kids have also played. Trent has gone on to become a very famous songwriter and performer, and he’s also won a stack of Grammys, Oscars and Golden Globes for some of his film soundtrack scores.
Recently, I thrifted a copy of a Mercer High School marching band and jazz band LP from the early 1980s. On the side 2 record label, under a song called “Pressure Cooker,” is the name Trent Reznor, featured as a soloist on tenor saxophone.
This is quite possibly the first time Trent Reznor was featured on a professional recording. Until now, there has been no reference on the internet (at least, not that I can find) that even acknowledges the existence of this record. So I made a little video to share this rare recording of a young (11th grade?) Trent Reznor playing a sweet jazz solo on the sax. I’m very happy to be able to share it with you. 🎶🎷

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiDAyGkC-LY

Damn I grew up 10 min from there. I thrift for records sometimes in the surrounding towns but never thought to go there. Amazing.