No.101762
Are Nine Inch Nails any good? Should I bother listening? Where to start?
Also side note, is The Downward Spiral any good? /10? It's always at my record shop and I usually glance over it.
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No.101763
You already made an NIN thread
I'd say start with Pretty Hate Machine and go from there, working through their releases chronologically.
>Also side note, is The Downward Spiral any good? /10? It's always at my record shop and I usually glance over it.
Are you joking? It's often regarded as their best album.
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No.101765
I'm not a fan, but they have some good songs. Pretty Hate Machine is probably my favorite album, not that that's saying much.
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No.101767
NIN have a lot of releases and they're all very different. Pretty Hate Machine is kind of an industrial pop album, The Downward Spiral is an industrial rock album, Ghosts is an ambient album, Bad Witch is a jazz-rock-industrial fusion, etc.
My favorite album is Ghosts don't bother looking up reviews/comments about, they all say "omg old town road sampled this!!1!" or "omg xxxtentacion sampled this!!1!!", for whatever reason a lot of rap artists sampled Ghosts but your favorite album might be With Teeth or Year Zero.
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No.101781
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No.101791
Depends on how much you like edgy industrial rock or dark ambient.
>is The Downward Spiral any good
Nigger what. It's one of the most critically acclaimed albums of the 90s, and possibly ever.
>>101767
>for whatever reason a lot of rap artists sampled Ghosts
I'm sure that's because it was licenced under Creative Commons so they didn't need to give royalties, just songwriting credit. Fine choice of album though, Ghosts is under-appreciated.
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No.101855
First of all, who the fuck are we to decide what you like to hear?
If you are into "Joy Division", "The Smiths", "Radiohead", and other depressive weird fantasy then you should definitely check it out.
I'm saying this as a non listener of these and not as a hater. I appreciate all these bands' artistic values but I definitely don't recommend listening to it because of their tendency to drive you down an emotional downwards spiral.
Never keep these at arms lenght.
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No.102041
angrier albums - Broken, TDS, Not The Actual Events (?), Bad Witch
poppier albums - With Teeth (more alternative tho), Pretty Hate Machine
Moodier - The Fragile
Experimental - Ghosts
Synthy, Dark - Hesitation Marks, The Slip, Year Zero
once you become more infatuated with the main albums, I'd highly recommend taking a dive into the many remix albums and EPs which serve as great complementary experiences
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No.102086
Pretty much every release by NIN is at least good, with the exception of Hesitation Marks. That's the only album NIN has ever released I didn't enjoy.
Also check out How To Destroy Angels, it's a 4-person band containing the two guys behind NIN.
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No.102107
local boy from where I hail from, good work he made but ripped off Skinny Puppy and Coil a lot.
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No.102126
>>102107
Skinny Puppy is more influential of a group than they're given credit for.
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No.102137
>>102126
I can see that with their use of sampling
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No.102139
>>102107
The Skinny Puppy influence is mostly in Pretty Hate Machine, can't hear it much beyond that.
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