Nine Inch Nails Discography Help

PSUS2H

Hey guys, I am new to NiN stuff, there are a ton of releases and I am having a hell of a time figuring out what to get and what to pass on. I am looking for studio releases and not the remix albums. So far I have:
Pretty Hate Machine
Broken
The Downward Spiral
The Fragile
Still
With Teeth
Year Zero
The Slip

What else should I pick up that isnt live or a remix album? I have the soundtracks he did with Atticus Ross and HTDA. Thoughts from the hardcore NiN fans?

Dead Man Walking

Nine Inch Nails also did Ghosts I-IV but that is all instrumental and more like Trent and Atticus' soundtrack work and not so much nails stuff.

Personally, I've always been a big fan of TDS and The Fargile. Though The "new" NIN (Last 3 albums on your list) certainly do not disappoint.

I don't consider Still an album as it's just a companion to All That Could Have Been.I'm not o ne for remixes either but I would definitely look into the b-sides to TDS as there are a few good tracks.

Also, there was a NINJA sampler (free) from 2009 with a pair of great NIN tracks on it. Also, The Perfect Drug is an absolutely killer non-album track.

PSUS2H

Thanks! I do have Ghosts which is pretty cool stuff.
Are the b-sides for TDS further down the spiral?

Still has some stuff that was intended for the OST for One Hour Photo as well as some stripped down live stuff. Its a great listen.

Its interesting about the perfect drug, Trent said that he hates that song and wouldnt even put it in his top 100! Its not a bad tune though.

peacefrompaul

They're all really great in my opinion

You did well

jasonbouchard88

I think you actually have everything from NIN that is not live or a remix. Now we wait and see when their U.S. Arena Tour will be announced and whether they will come to your city as well as if they will actually come to Canada or not.

RobbyD462

"Further Down the Spiral" was a good album.

DocChicago

Grab the live album "And All That Could Have Been" for some particularly excellent versions of Head like a Hole and Sin. Head Like a Hole is so much more aggressive when played live than it was on the PHM studio version.

SatansFuton

If you don't have Woodstock '94 (there are only a handful of songs on there that are good) the version of "Happiness In Slavery" is really awesome. It's actually what got me into NIN. I don't think I'd heard anything else by them prior to that, and within a month I had most of the discography to date at the time. There's a pretty good bootleg of their set too.

Here's the song from the video of the show. I don't think they ever made a DVD, but I have the old VHS. NIN and Primus were really the only reason to own it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4g86KUHGlOg

peacefrompaul

SatansFuton wrote:

If you don't have Woodstock '94 (there are only a handful of songs on there that are good) the version of "Happiness In Slavery" is really awesome. It's actually what got me into NIN. I don't think I'd heard anything else by them prior to that, and within a month I had most of the discography to date at the time. There's a pretty good bootleg of their set too.

Here's the song from the video of the show. I don't think they ever made a DVD, but I have the old VHS. NIN and Primus were really the only reason to own it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4g86KUHGlOg

Woodstock '94 was fucking nuts. Great live show

SatansFuton

peacefrompaul wrote:

SatansFuton wrote:

If you don't have Woodstock '94 (there are only a handful of songs on there that are good) the version of "Happiness In Slavery" is really awesome. It's actually what got me into NIN. I don't think I'd heard anything else by them prior to that, and within a month I had most of the discography to date at the time. There's a pretty good bootleg of their set too.

Here's the song from the video of the show. I don't think they ever made a DVD, but I have the old VHS. NIN and Primus were really the only reason to own it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4g86KUHGlOg

Woodstock '94 was fucking nuts. Great live show

The whole thing or NIN's set? I wasn't that impressed with the concert video or album save for NIN and Primus. There were some other songs by bands I like, but they were either songs I wasn't crazy about or they were just played exactly like the album and no point to listen to the Woodstock version unless you thought the studio version needed more crowd noise. I love the NIN bootleg of the show though. I always wondered watching the video how the rest of the show went, by the time they got to Happiness In Slavery the band and stage looked like a war zone. Trent doesn't look like he got hit by mud, he looks like he's been swimming in it.

lephty

They have 1 officially released video called Closure. For reasons that I am assuming are label related they were never rereleased onto DVD. There is also an unreleased video for the Broken album. Warning, both videos are VERY graphic with sex and violence. The Broken video got NIN investigated by the FBI for some footage that someone found. The story I read is that a camera was attached to a balloon for a camera angle and the balloon blew away. The footage on the camera had some scenes of what looked like a "snuff film" and FBI needed to verify people were alive or something.

Good Guy Trent posted a link years ago to a pirate bay account that I like to believe is his. You can download them there and also get some other very quality recordings. NIN with Peter Murphy and TV On the Radio are really excellent. Link - http://thepiratebay.sx/user/seed0/

If you really get into NIN you will not be happy with just the main studio albums. The albums are released with a Halo # with the # representing the release order of everything they have. I actually renamed the NIN albums in itunes to be "Halo 02 Pretty Hate Machine" so that itunes keeps them all in the correct order by name. I guess I am just that OCD about them.

If you are just getting into music like NIN then I would suggest checking out Stabbing Westward too. They have a very similar sound since both bands were born from a band called Exotic Birds (1985) which had members of NIN and SW in it until they split. Here is a fun video a news station did on how musicians are using synthesizers and computers in music - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJYBx5NJULY

Dead Man Walking

^ Funny you mention the Pirate Bay account and Halo's in the same post. You'll notice the users account name is "seed0" and everything NIN has released digitally without a "Halo" number has been a "seed" number.

Trent is such a genius.

peacefrompaul

We've all seen the Broken snuff video, correct? :twisted:

RobbyD462

peacefrompaul wrote:

We've all seen the Broken snuff video, correct? :twisted:

I've heard of it.
I just finally watched it for the first time.
By the far most brutally disturbing video I have ever seen!
Holy Fuck!!! :shock: Fucking Crazy shit.......

Oh that Reznor..... :twisted:

rhcpjam1029

watch BESIDE YOU IN TIME -- their live dvd from the with teeth tour. i was a fan of them before then, but that solidified my passion.

Eraserhead

RobbyD462 wrote:

"Further Down the Spiral" was a good album.

It's my fave NIN album.

BinFrog

Ignoring the fact that you asked for non-remix albums:

Fixed

some of my favorite NIN stuff.

facepollution

PSUS2H wrote:

Its interesting about the perfect drug, Trent said that he hates that song and wouldnt even put it in his top 100! Its not a bad tune though.

Isn't that cause it's about Courtney Love?! I don't care what he thinks, I love it!

spnoone

check out the pre-broken suck by pigface.

PSUS2H

http://nineinchnails.tumblr.com/

Trent has been posting a lot of stuff to this account. In a way he reminds me of how open he wants a band to be, so he gives fans the most insight to what hes up to and some of the behind the scenes stuff. He does not seem to care if people pirate his stuff, and he even made the slip free for download to say thanks to his fans. http://theslip.nin.com 320kpbs too!

Thanks for all the info, now I am building up my Manson collection, just three to go Portrait, Holy Wood, and the High End of Low!

Spoony C

BinFrog wrote:

Ignoring the fact that you asked for non-remix albums:

Fixed

some of my favorite NIN stuff.

Agreed. It's the remix album for Broken, but it doesn't overstay its welcome or bore you with nine remixes of the same song, like some of those projects do.