Ok, so most of you know, if you've been reading our blog (or you have the digital booklet for our "20 Years of Twitch" retrospective), that we are heavily influenced by Nine Inch Nails, but what is our favorite Nine Inch Nails album..? I could tell you where it started, how I initially got into NIN... I can't quite remember how I came across them in the beginning, but something influenced me to pick up "Pretty Hate Machine", I may have seen the video of 'Head Like A Hole' and that is kinda what started me into the downward spiral 😉 of trying to find and purchase anything I could get my hands on! I loved NIN, and still do!
I could tell you how I purchased "Further Down The Spiral" by accident, thinking it was "The Downward Spiral"... and then putting it on and realizing it was not what I thought it was... but decided to keep it anyway! Then, a little while later I picked up "The Downward Spiral"... and then somewhere between purchasing "The Downward Spiral" and purchasing the "Closure" VHS tapes, I picked up the "March of The Pigs" singles, as well as the "Closer" single, and also somewhere in there "Broken" and "Fixed"...
...I could tell you sometime after moving to Calgary a friend of mine gave me a copy of the "Broken" snuff video... then moving to London, England for a 4.5 month stint, I was thinking about Nine Inch Nails, and was hoping that they would release something new, not knowing that I would randomly walk into a music shop there like 10 minutes later, and found the "The Day The World Went Away" single that they just released, and it would carry on like that, I found out they were releasing a new album "The Fragile" and picked that up as well...
...then I came back to Calgary, and found "Things Falling Apart", then "And All That Could Have Been" live album... then a few years later, I was wondering if they were going to release something again, initially called "Bleedthrough", "With Teeth" was announced! I managed to win a contest at a club here and won the CD and a poster as well... a little while after that, I picked up "Every Day Is Exactly The Same"...
...Then the next year "Year Zero" came out, and the "Survivalism" single... course I don't have everything NIN... I don't have all the Halo's, but I do have a large chunk of them in physical copies... I also managed to get the "And All That Could Have Been" live DVD, as well as the "Beside You In Time" DVD as well...
...I downloaded "The Slip" when it was available online (I would like to find the CD though), I ended up with a collectors edition of "Hesitation Marks" and picked up digital versions of the "Head Like A Hole" and the "Down In It" singles (would love to find this in CD as well), I also have the CD version of "Add Violence" and "Bad Witch", and I managed to get the special black package of "Not The Actual Events" (that was a lot of fun to open, lol)!!.
There's other things I have too like "Ghosts: I - IV", and "Still"... there's quite a few pieces I don't have... but I figure I'll find them someday... soooo, what Nine Inch Nails album is my favorite, and why? To be honest with you, I can't pick one... everything Trent has put out, I love, and I think every album speaks for the time that they were created... and I think each and every one, has their own character and sounds different... the only exception was the last 3 EP's that they did; "Not The Actual Events", "Add Violence", and "Bad Witch", I thought they were great, but I didn't feel Trent (and Atticus), where moving in new territory... I do understand that Trent was feeling nostalgic at the time, and wanted to honor the early days with these EP's, and they are great in that context, but like I said... they weren't really breaking into new territory, and I just felt that it has already been done, but I still do think they are great, just not the best in the Nine Inch Nails spectrum! So, there you have it, now you know what is/are our favorite album(s)!
So, what is your favorite NIN album?
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