Hello Qain, I just wanted to post this because I am interested, and have thought about posting it for a while. I've noticed you wearing NIN merch pretty often, and it's obvious you're a NIN fan. I am as well, and was curious what your favorite NIN album is, and how you would rank NIN's albums?
My favorite NIN album is without a doubt, The Downward Spiral. This album is absolutely fucking amazing. Seriously fucking phenomenal. Trent Reznor has put out some really great albums, but this is the pinnacle imo, and it's so fucking deep and creative. The pig themes, the seamless interconnecting rhythms and horror movie sample loops, the textures, the intense feeling of mechanical humanness, it's just absolutely fucking phenomenal. The Downard Spiral is to me, the epitome of the idea of Nine Inch Nails - the blurred lines between humanity and electronics/mechanics. I read an interview with Trent Reznor a long long time ago and he talked about when he first created NIN, like where he got the idea, was when he was a kid at an arcade, the enclosure door on an arcade machine was open, and he looked inside and saw all the circuitry. Listening to The Downward Spiral is almost like peering inside at the circuitry of some fucked up android that thinks it's a human or something. It's absolutely incredible and completely unmatched by any other album imo.
This thread is not about myself, but I just wanted to post my favorite NIN album, and I wanted to try to put the rest of NIN's discography into a tiered ranking system. I can't rank each one individually in terms of my preferences, but I think I can do tiers. I'm only considering original NIN studio releases, not remixes or soundtracks or anything like that.
Tier
The Downward Spiral
The Fragile, With Teeth, Year Zero
Broken, Pretty Hate Machine
Ghosts, The Slip, Hesitation Marks
ETA: This thread is incomplete without music.
I've always wondered why the woman came up to and spoke with Trent in the middle of this and what she said. An unsolved mystery.