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What is your favorite NIN song and why?

hrd2imgnhrd2imgn Posts: 4,898
edited August 2017 in Other Music
Curious what NIN song you all like- no reason, tell me which one and why please.

Hard to pick just one, I am going to say LAST from Broken.  All the rage, guitar grunge, and industrial skank I fell in love with in the early 1990's.

How can you not like a song that talks about dressing up rotten carcases, seriously! 

Close second would be Suck from the same album.

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  • Tim SimmonsTim Simmons Posts: 8,076
    I think I'll go with Perfect Drug. Great balance of the crunch of the DWS era but also forward thinking to the Post Fragile era of more electronics. 
  • pjsteelerfanpjsteelerfan Posts: 9,897
    Mine is two in a way, The Frail into The Wretched
    ...got a mind full of questions and a teacher in my soul...
  • Tim SimmonsTim Simmons Posts: 8,076
    Oh shit, I forgot about The Great Below. Damn. Can I have two too?

  • Thirty Bills UnpaidThirty Bills Unpaid Posts: 16,881
    Reptile.

    So dark. Who writes songs like that? Reznor is unrivalled.

    And then the Downward Spiral and Hurt follows it up.

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  • Thirty Bills UnpaidThirty Bills Unpaid Posts: 16,881
    We're In This Together is pretty damn good too.
    "My brain's a good brain!"
  • Thirty Bills UnpaidThirty Bills Unpaid Posts: 16,881
    edited August 2017
    I'll shut up after this post for a while but this is crazy (synchronicity at its finest):

    This thread promoted me to play NIN... which I haven't jammed to in a while. Not even 20 minutes ago, while listening to The Fragile, my wife came in and plopped the vinyl Fragile I ordered back in December (it finally arrived).

    Crazy.

    By the way... No You Don't is pretty damn good too. Very hard to make 'favourite' selection.
    Post edited by Thirty Bills Unpaid on
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  • hrd2imgnhrd2imgn Posts: 4,898
    all great choices- wretched is a modern classic, reptile, the remixes are unreal....hell all the Downward Spiral remixes are amazing
  • toolietoolie Posts: 391
    I'd say Gave Up. It was so heavy in 1992. I still can't help banging my head to it. 
  • ShynerShyner Posts: 1,226
    Something i can never have because i can't
  • tbergstbergs Posts: 9,811
    I love way too many NIN songs. Recently listened to PHM and Downward and forgot how Damn good every song is.

    I will say that Head Like a Hole is what got me in to them so it's my nostalgic favorite. March of the Pigs completely blew me away when I first heard it. Just an absolute onslaught of guitars and drums into a classic Reznor howl. Also like Piggy for the exact opposite reason. A quiet sinister Reznor delivery.

    My last favorite song is The Fragile. Absolute gem of a song on a masterpiece of an album.

    If I had to pick just one, it would probably be The Fragile because it captures the early NIN and the turning point for post 90's NIN.
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  • iwasatpj20iwasatpj20 Posts: 3,412
    Mr. Self Destruct

    In that song, it has all the elements I enjoy; aggression, anger, passion, energy, and it sounds like gears grinding (particularly since I'm a mechanical engineer and car guy).
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  • Spiritual_ChaosSpiritual_Chaos Posts: 30,529
    I think...


    Or

    "Mostly I think that people react sensitively because they know you’ve got a point"
  • eeriepadaveeeriepadave Posts: 42,062
    Wish, mainly it was the video that got me hooked on them for some reason. Saw it on MTV and i was entranced by it.  Not sure exactly why but i thought the video was really weird and cool at that time. 
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuoFiIFkdAA

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  • Tim SimmonsTim Simmons Posts: 8,076
    As I've gotten older the full on rage-y NIN doesn't resonate with me like it did when I was half my age. Slower/more electronic NIN is what I'm about now. 

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  • tempo_n_groovetempo_n_groove Posts: 40,355
    I'm sure I'm in the minority here but I love "A Warm Place."
  • JOEJOEJOEJOEJOEJOE Posts: 10,513
    Wish, from the "Broken" EP is my favorite NIN song....it is a massive assault of guitar, drums and Trent's screaming!
  • dankinddankind Posts: 20,839
    "Burn"

    Because fuck you!
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  • Attaway77Attaway77 Posts: 3,151
    edited August 2017
    Just a great song...  This is the one I like to crank up... My stereo went out in my bronco and I would hang headphones on my rearview mirror so we could listen to this album... Good times....

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzTk-djuH_A
    Post edited by Attaway77 on
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  • Thirty Bills UnpaidThirty Bills Unpaid Posts: 16,881
    Attaway77 said:
    Just a great song...  This is the one I like to crank up... My stereo went out in my bronco and I would hang headphones on my rearview mirror so we could listen to this album... Good times....

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzTk-djuH_A
    Awesome song!
    "My brain's a good brain!"
  • Attaway77Attaway77 Posts: 3,151
    This one as well... It's just a beautiful song, simple as that..

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jAyfGzSaz0
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  • Thirty Bills UnpaidThirty Bills Unpaid Posts: 16,881
    This song is pretty freaking awesome (I like this version too):

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IubxkUeVgOQ
    "My brain's a good brain!"
  • Spiritual_ChaosSpiritual_Chaos Posts: 30,529
    Attaway77 said:
     My stereo went out in my bronco 

    "Mostly I think that people react sensitively because they know you’ve got a point"
  • goldrushgoldrush Posts: 7,542
    tbergs said:
    I love way too many NIN songs. Recently listened to PHM and Downward and forgot how Damn good every song is.

    I will say that Head Like a Hole is what got me in to them so it's my nostalgic favorite. March of the Pigs completely blew me away when I first heard it. Just an absolute onslaught of guitars and drums into a classic Reznor howl. Also like Piggy for the exact opposite reason. A quiet sinister Reznor delivery.

    My last favorite song is The Fragile. Absolute gem of a song on a masterpiece of an album.

    If I had to pick just one, it would probably be The Fragile because it captures the early NIN and the turning point for post 90's NIN.
    Head Like A Hole and March Of The Pigs are the first ones that sprung to mind for me too. MOTP is brutal live.
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  • Attaway77Attaway77 Posts: 3,151
    Spiritual_Chaos said:
    Attaway77 said:
     My stereo went out in my bronco 

    Ha!!!!! Yeah I don't think that bronco was playing my type of music at the time.. but who knows.. That's funny shit man...
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    2012 Missoula (9/30) 2013 Chicago (7/19) Pittsburgh (10/11) Buffalo (10/12) Baltimore (10/27) Dallas (11/15)
    2014 Austin (10/12) Memphis (10/14) St. Paul (10/19) Milwaukee (10/20) Denver (10/22)
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    Temple of the Dog - 2016 Upper Darby


  • pledgeagrievancepledgeagrievance Posts: 2,861
    March of the Pigs. Best workout song ever. I haven't listened to them in a long time so is March of the Pigs like saying Betterman is your favorite PJ song lol; only popular stuff 
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