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Only the GREATEST ever!!!!

Far too many people go in to listening to NIN with apprehention, doubt, and many times unfounded disgust. They were never what I thought they were when I first started hearing their stuff. Trent (regardless of the opinion of many on here) is a very smart man. He's trounced the record companies, and released a CD worthy of commercial release. Don't rate based on what you THINK NIN is. Come into them with an open mind. You might find yourself suprised at the depth here.

My favorite band hands down. I have almost all of their songs (including remixes and rare songs) and the band is amazingly dynamic. I got into them when I was uber-depressed, but I still like them today. Yes, they have a negative energy but at least it's more insightful than the mindless rap and pop that floods the radio filled with lyrics about greed, crime, and pride. And they sound like no other popular band today. Even if you aren't very into them, listen to Ghosts and it will likely change your mind at least a little. My favorite album by them besides The Downward Spiral is Still, which was a limited production CD but is still available online. Check it out if you get a chance - it's beautiful in a dark sort of way.

Some of their stuff throws me for a loop but what can you say about the band that brought us "Closer."

Amazing - NIN has never failed to give me chills.  Only love for this band, my all time favorite!  If you havent seen them in concert and you are hating on them then you really cant rate them properly.  I took my friend who didnt listen to them at all and didnt like that kind of music (my best friend so i didnt want to bring anyone else)....He was blown away and agreed that they provided a mind bending experience!

Every five years this guy creates a masterpeice.

Not really my cup of tea but they're not bad. Of cousrse Head like a Hole is a catchy song. Other stuff I can take or leave.

Nine Inch Nails: With_Teeth is another example of why Trent will always be relevant in almost any situation...just listen to the lyrics.

Another waste of perfectly good cds.

How can they play the guitar with such long nails.I suppose they would not need a guitar pick?

excellent,the lyrics alone and then trent's depressing darkness,if you don't get it, then leave it alone. Stop criticizing something you can't ever understand.

NIN has always been a very good band, not great, but good.

I gave NIN a chance because I liked 'Star*uckers'. Most of their songs sound very same to me. They have good song highlights, but I don't see them as a band I could dedicate myself to. Trent Reznor is cool.

Best studio band ever, and fun to see live. Pretty Hate Machine, starting with Head Like a Hole, is still my favorite album after discovering it late.

contrived, silly, crap reznor really is a bad lyricist

Truly, the worlds most substantial being, is Trent Reznor. The man is so intensely ahead of his time. Trent and his band mates know exactly what it takes to make someone trip out and go on this rightious journey...all without any halucinagens. Trent is an idol to me and thousands of others, nationaly and internationaly. The man who made Marilyn Manson, the man who is this generations David Bowie, the man who puts out albums that are compared to those of pink ****ing floyd. If Ozzy Osbourne is the father of darkness, then Trent is truly the mesiah. Trent, with his musical genious, is able to incorperate these sensual, technological, lustfully transcending rhythm's. If you're someone who likes to just sit in a comfy space and contemplate what's going on in your life to the soundtrack of your psyche, then i sujest you buy one of their mind warping albums. Definately worth the dinero.

I LOVE NINE INCH NAILS.........sorry couldnt think of much else.

Trent Reznor is probably one of the most talented people in the world. Anything He touches turns to gold. Nine Inch Nails music ranges from angry to sad to tragic to just breathtaking....there's something for everyone. a must-own!

I have to say, I love their sound and rhythm. Noone compares to their music. I think that's what I like best about this band. And yes, I say 'band' because although Trent Reznor does most of the work they are still supposed to be a team. Suck it up, Reznor, and stop trying to take ALL the credit. But even though I love their sound, I have to agree with the reviewer who said that their negative lyrics turn some of his fans away. You don't have to be cussing in every sentence to be a good band. Some of that is going way overboard.

I don't know anything about this band. I do know that they were supposed to have authored Johnny Cash's last single, "Hurt". I love that song!

Yeah, the first two albums (and one EP) were really quite good, but then Reznor decided that he was some unsung genius artiste and became a little too self-indulgent for my liking. He's also not that great of a singer, and lacks charisma. I like how he threw together these albums single-handedly based on his vision, but I don't like him anymore for the same reasons I don't like those whiny absinthe-sipping appallingly-bad-poetry-writing clove-smoking goth people.

Noisy, static, self-indulgent and self-impressed crap. TR thinks he's a genius, which is pathetic, because the only other people who think that are retarded, tonedeaf junior highschoolers.

Musics good but the negative lyrics put me off.

Well, well, well! By the time I'm reviewing this it's 2.61 and I dunno whether to be surprised or not. I can see why not everyone would like Nine Inch Nails because their music has always been very dark, yet the sound has changed substantially and differs between the four Big Releases (Pretty Hate Machine, the Broken EP, The Downward Spiral, The Fragile) and the bizarre industrial albums (Fixed, Further Down The Spiral, The Perfect Drug Remixes, and Things Falling Apart. Also remember that many of the singles have remixes). However, its cult appeal among people who are not "just goths" should not be ignored. This is genuinely good music, which hasn't really hit a decline over the years as Trent Reznor still dares to be creative after all this time (usually it just takes one or two albums for a good band to sink into the depths of commercialism). The four Big Releases do indeed sound quite different from one another. Pretty Hate Machine (1989) uses the electronic stuff often so it's not for the synth-phobic, however it's the most melodic of them all. Sexual relations with an object of hate ("there's a devil sleeping in my bed") also make for the most lyrically mainstream theme. The goths I know don't like this one! In my opinion, "Something I Can Never Have" (track five of the album) was lyrically the best Nine Inch Nails track ever made. The Broken EP is the most mainstream musically but not lyrically. The cool Broken cover contains the lyrics to the first four tracks with vocals (the other two are hidden, and two of the main six are instrumental) and one can see the overtones almost as clearly as a hatred for religion in The Downward Spiral's "Heresy". A great way to convert numetal'ers to Nine Inch Nails is to turn to track two, "Wish", which is a great listen but by no means a challenging one. "Wish", and "Last" (which follows it) are in fact about as heavy and unchallenging to those accustomed to other metal as NIN get. Trent Reznor also gets to use his voice a lot as well, putting it to full range at the end of Last following the solemn final lines of "I want you to make me/I want you to take me/I want you to break me/Then I want you to throw me away". The shocking videos to the tracks of the Broken EP often show graphic S/M imagery as Trent lets out his pent-in frustrations in his music and yet embraces them at the same time. The second album, The Downward Spiral, is also heavy as it portrays human imperfection with a musical picture of mental instability. Most recognised for the relatively unchallenging "March of the Pigs" and "Closer", this is taken by many (not including myself, though) as the best album Nine Inch Nails has ever made. Surprises pop up in the oddly pleasant instrumental that is "A Warm Place", and the reflective dying minutes of the album in the final ballad-like track known ominously as "Hurt". The two central tracks ("The Becoming" and "I Do Not Want This") are the most varied and can last for far more listens, as "I Do Not Want This" closes with an almost disturbing chant of "I wanna know everything/I wanna be everywhere/I wanna **** everyone in the world/I wanna do something that matters" over and over again to an eventual climax. The more casual listener (categorised somewhat unfairly as "those who bought The Downward Spiral for Closer") may dismiss these two tracks, along with the controversy of "Big Man With A Gun" and "Heresy" which have more obvious overtones. The first track is also hard for some due to the amount of anger let out in the space of four minutes and thirty-two seconds along with one of Trent's famous whispers (in case anyone wonders, it's "I am an exit"). The third album (released after a five-year gap following "The Downward Spiral") is "The Fragile", famous for instantly reaching the top of the Billboard charts only to drop to #16 the next week. It was hyped up like the next big mainstream pop CD, but what came out was far from it. The Fragile is two CDs and over one hundred minutes long. Six of the twenty-three tracks are instrumentals, including the last track of the second CD. As time has gone on Trent has gathered up more rhythmic noise-making machines and instruments to his arsenal than ever before, allowing him to make such an album as The Fragile. Many people dismiss it as having too much filler, but in this case filler is a byword for tracks that they may not yet be able to decipher enough to enjoy. The instrumentals are particularly strange - the final track, "Ripe (With Decay)", ends uncertainly on a loud note repeating over and over again. It's hard to appreciate Nine Inch Nails without being able to sink into their music just right, but with that done with it's hard not to. Great stuff.

Incredibly layered music, there's a lot more to it than people realize. Trent Reznor is a musical genius, he should do more production work and collaborate with other artists.

Trent is brilliant. Just brilliant. I've heard every song he has recorded and they're all excellent in their own right. The Fragile was simply a masterpiece and all his other albums are flawless.

Ha. Who?

Man, now this is a great band! I've only been a fan of thier music for about maybe 4 years now but Trent is absolutely a genius. His band is the Pink Floyd of our generation. He creates dark and scary type music to create moods. Every song is a masterpiece, it can be an instrumental or a lyrical song and it's still great. Pretty Hate Machine was thier first album and it was fantastic, I STILL LISTEN TO IT!. Downward Sprial was a work of art, DARK MUSIC FOR DARK TIMES!. Finally the Fragile, TODAY'S DARK SIDE OF THE MOON. Trent has also made many EPS, Singles and a live album. I currently do not own these but I'm well on my way to getting them. nine inch nails proves they are an artsy band even with thier videos. The music videos are very dark, disturbing and make you think. His video for Closer is the weirdest thing I've ever seen. It's been going since 1989 and it doesn't seem to be over anytime soon. Most people that like this band are freaks or "goths" but that is not true. I am actually quite preppy and listen to this band as well as other metal music. Nine Inch Nails Forever baby!

Whiney goth piece of sh*te

nin is one of the best live band i have ever seen their music is great!

I don't like the fact that Trent is so jealous of Fred Durst that he has to break pictures of him...if Trent was really cool, he would go break Fred's face in person.

Trent Reznor is a sexy b*tch. Anyways, I think their best work was The Fragile but everything they do is a work of art.

They did a great job. Although they should have stayed indie.

Nine inches ? Four inches is more like it..

NIN is a great band. Trent Reznor is one of the most infulentul artists out there. His lyrics go great with his dark evil music. He has made some of the most memorable songs of the 90s. His albums are masterpieces. I love Pretty Hate Machine & The Downward Spiral. Yet, some people do not like NIN. Example, Whiny boy Fred Durst. I hate Limp Bizkit. Yet, even with the feud with Durst Trent seems to be stronger. Long Live Nine Inch Nails!!!!!

I had always been a Nine Inch Nails fan. I had heard songs like Head Like a Hole, Closer,Hurt andPerfect Drug growing up. It wasn't until they put out the album "The Fragile" did I realize how powerful and beautiful Their music really is. Around that time I was going through an extremlly hard time in my life. I was stuck in a horrible relationship and I was too scared to break away from it. Listining to the Fragile opened me up. I could relate to every song and every melody. I then bought the albums Closer,Broken and Pretty Hate Machine. Pretty Hate Machine helped me out the most. It helped me get out the agrivation and Rage that burned inside me. The distaste that was rising in me for the evil girl in my life. After being with her I would pop on NIN and be comforted knowing someone else has felt this before. Someone else has suffered and hurt. Someone else has felt sorry for themselves and wished they could escape from the ties that bind them. It wasn't until I saw NIN on their Fragility tour in Atlanta Georgia that I realized what I had to do. I knew I was stronger than her. When they played the song Sin I practically screamed the lyrics at her. I screamed every single word into her face and cried. The next day I left her. NIN is not very previlant in my life anymore. But, their music has made me a much stronger person. They have taught me through their poetry that My Hurt my Feeling makes me powerful not weak. I will always consider NIN to be one of the greatest bands of all time. Each album is a masterpeice, a work of art. NIN is something to listen to a know what it is ti be human. A Great band beyond any in modern music.

I give them five stars for being unique and for being a serious influence on music in the 90s. I give them TWO THUMBS DOWN for the graphic nature of those banned videos that I had the displeasure of viewing. Does SOMEONE NEED THERAPY or what???

Trent needs to stop taking credit for Marilyn Manson's work. No one likes you anymore, Trent. Your old albums will stay in my CD collection, though.

I love NIN! Trent is an alsome writer!

I AM IN LOVE WITH NIN CUZ THEY ARE SOOO COOL AND I LOVE THE SONG "CLOSER" CUZ IT DESCRIBES ME! HEHEHE

im listening to them right now i just want to know why there 124

For some reason, I am compelled to write poetry after hearing NIN.

Very heavy. Both musicly & lyricly.

NIN slapped me in the face and woke me up. Always loved heavy metal and those screaming skinny longhaired guys like Skid Row and NIN gave me new insight into something I needed!

best industrial band, ever

Angry social issue music, Renzor is a perv. (I like that in a man)

Nine Inch Nails is one of the greatest bands to ever enter the "scene." I'm glad they got a low rating because that means that the proletariat (the uneducated masses) have no sense. Woohoo!

Trent is a cool guy. An individual with talent, even if he sometimes chooses to ignore it. Pretty Hate Machine is a classic, and they have other stuff worth checking out.

The only people who like NIN are those who think NIN is "industrial". When they get a little older, they'll find better music to listen to, such as Funker Vogt, Wumpscut, Leaether Strip, Skinny Puppy, and Front Line Assembly. NIN is nothing compared to those bands, and Trent Reznor is a selfish, shallow idiot.