Nine Inch Nails

[Kris]

Originally Posted by <TmNtRoX-1997>

Talking about PHM, I recently listened to the re-mastered version which was released a few years ago and it's alright. The original's rawer sound is far better but it was interesting listening to a slightly different "cleaner" version.

I like how the cover to Queen's Get Down Make Love was included in it, but I also prefer the original version as well. I ended up feeling the same way about regular version of The Downward Spiral too, but the deluxe edition of it on SACD was also a real treat.

Originally Posted by <TmNtRoX-1997>

I bought With Teeth the day it was released, it's pretty good and has some great tracks but it's definitely weaker to previous albums and couldn't be more different than Pretty Hate Machine, not sure why you're even recommending it.

It was hard for me to explain as I've admitted, as they are different, but I suppose I was referring to it in terms of perhaps having an upbeat and catchy sound with more of the pop side of Nine Inch Nails songs, for the lack of a better term. Then again, just about every album has catchy songs in them. I guess it depends on who you speak to and where you speak, as a lot of fans on Echoing the Sound that loved Pretty Hate Machine also seemed to have been drawn to With Teeth and Hesitation Marks a lot. I definitely didn't mean to say that they'd sound exactly the same though.

Originally Posted by <TmNtRoX-1997>

I've heard "copy of a copy" from Hesitation Marks, and it's alright but definitely "new" NIN from the little i've heard of that album, definitely don't think it'll be anything like PHM.

Oh yes, Copy Of A is actually one of my most favorite songs from Hesitation Marks. However, there was a song named Everything that seemed to surprise most of the fan-base. Came Back Haunted was also the only music video there was for that album at the time.

Originally Posted by <TmNtRoX-1997>

I had never heard of Purest Feeling, I just listened to some fragments of it and I don't like it but I'll give it a full listen one of these days, I like listening to demo versions of songs and they can be better sometimes.

As do I, as I certainly enjoy hearing just how different songs sounded before their final versions. It is without a doubt also different from Pretty Hate Machine in a way, even though some of the songs recorded eventually made the cut for Pretty Hate Machine, yet were still changed for the sound of that time.

And speaking of Came Back Haunted, there were actually two versions of that video, and they still seem to be the latest Nine Inch Nails music videos to date.

[Cheesebrush]

I do like NiN but they're the kind of band that I tend not to know the names of tracks apart from the really popular ones, probably because I only started listening to them later on in their career when they already had a decent back catalog so a lot of their albums kind of blur into one big playlist for me!

They also put on a really good live show (have seen them several times) - great use of stage effects and lighting.

If you like NiN can I also recommend some of the more recent Gary Numan (his latest album is Splinter) - it's very much in the same industrial rock vein as NiN.

[Kris]

I definitely enjoyed how the live songs added more panache to certain songs, as well as adding more aggression and heaviness to songs that were already aggressive and heavy such as Terrible Lie, Down In It, Happiness In Slavery, Suck, Love Is Not Enough, Copy Of A, While I'm Still Here and Black Noise.

And now that you've mentioned Gary Numan, that also reminds me of Nine Inch Nails covering Metal. They even performed together, and a video of that life performance was also uploaded on NIN's official YouTube channel.



Oh, and upon searching for Metal, here's NIN performing Cars with Gary Numan as well.



And not to be nudge, but perhaps there can be an order for a Limp Bizkit thread and/or a Gary Numan thread? However, I can obviously see the latter doing so much better though.

But yes, I'm definitely aware of, and as well as respect Gary Numan's overall influence and inspiration on NIN. It also seems to be right up there with David Bowie's overall influence and inspiration on NIN. (I also love I'm Afraid of Americans.)