I always saw the half-visible NIN logo on the cover of the album being representation of the protagonist’s emotional state: somewhat damaged, frail and traumatized. Afraid of exposing himself to the outside world and being vulnerable again out of fear of being hurt and reliving all the pain all over again. Thus he is hiding inside of his shell (the bottom photograph is a photo of the inside of a sea shell) but peaking out just a little bit, because there is a little bit of hope left.
This album has been my saviour during my darkest times, and continues to be as such . It’s been therapeutic for me to say the very least. I’ve been listening to it since the day it came out.
I remember standing in line on a rainy day in Sam Goody the first day this album came out. This album and Marilyn Manson's Mechanical Animals were my escapes during the worst of times and some of the best :)
It’s crazy the production in nine inch nails early albums broke so many ‘rules’ at the time yet now the techniques used in this and the downward spiral and this are fairly embraced.
this whole thing, and Ghosts, is incredibly and unfortunately far ahead of its time. "The Fragile" is about as close to a perfect album that I can think of. that little ascending chromatic line that ties it together is something I hear in my sleep.
@@blessthismessss The transformation of that ascending chromatic motif that you hear in this track, and all over the album, into the jazzy, dreamy bass lick in "La Mer" is just incredible. It's just really, really good writing.
So impressed with all you do Tried so hard to be like you Flew too high and burnt the wing Lost my faith in everything Lick around divine debris Taste the wealth of hate in me Shedding skin, succumb defeat This machine is obsolete Made the choice to go away Drink the fountain of decay Tear a hole exquisite red Fuck the rest and stab it dead Broken, bruised, forgotten sore Too fucked up to care anymore Poisoned to my rotten core Too fucked up to care anymore Broken, bruised, forgotten sore Too fucked up to care anymore Poisoned to my rotten core Too fucked up to care anymore In the back off the side far away Is a place where I hide, where I stay Tried to say, tried to ask I needed to All alone by myself, where were you? How could I ever think it's funny how? Everything that swore it wouldn't change, is different now Just like you would always say, "We'll make it through" Then my head fell apart and where were you? How could I ever think it's funny how? Everything you swore would never change, is different now Like you said, "You and me make it through" Didn't quite fell apart, where the fuck were you?
The Album of my senior year in high school. Remember buying it with three of my friends and sitting in the car on a beautiful fall day. We were all jamming with that opening track!!! Loved it!!! Memories.
Watching this album be composed & put together in a studio would've been mind blowing. When this came out I'd recently started stuffing around with a music composing program, & listening to this now.. you can hear & feel the genius in every single intentional note, sound & drum beat. Its a fucking symphony.
What a genius Trent is. The best dark music act in history. Loving Nin and also other dark genres from artists like Gary Numan, Portishead, Chelsea Wolfe, Tool, Tricky, Ho99o9, AllFlaws
I first heard this album when I was 16, and I just leaned into the brilliance of these songs right away, how densely layered they are. It's an album that never gets old. It can always be deconstructed and analyzed in different ways.
the ultimate showdown lol. They actually made a song together I don't remember what its called though. Trent did the backup vocals on a Puscifer song... It was originally Tapeworm, the band they both started... guess it didn't work out. They're both different sides of the coin, but respectable lol
This is my first time hearing this, I kinda strayed for several years after downward spiral, I am VERY pleasantly surprised, awesome right out the gate
Always configuration configured in exaction of the possibility of self awareness and still learning so it lost me at the beginning but great beat I can’t know anything I don’t know atm there is always the opportunity to listen though :) 🤘🏻🖤
This shitty music reminds me of my ex and here is why and then some. I burned my journals listening to this album and now I just have my blog of memories. catherinesbipolarstory.blogspot.com/2020/04/the-tooth-fairy.html
So impressed with all you do Tried so hard to be like you Flew too high and burnt the wing Lost my faith in everything Lick around divine debris Taste the wealth of hate in me Shedding skin succumb defeat This machine is obsolete Made the choice to go away Drink the fountain of decay Tear a hole exquisite red Fuck the rest and stab it dead Broken, bruised, forgotten, sore Too fucked up to care anymore Poisoned to my rotten core Too fucked up to care anymore Broken, bruised, forgotten, sore Too fucked up to care anymore Poisoned to my rotten core Too fucked up to care anymore In the back, off the side, and far away Is a place where I hide, where I stay Tried to say, tried to ask, I needed to All alone by myself, where were you? How could I ever think, it's funny how Everything that swore it wouldn't change is different now Just like you would always say, we'll make it through Then my head fell apart and where were you? How could I ever think, it's funny how Everything you swore would never change is different now Like you said, you and me make it through Didn't quite, fell apart, where the fuck were you?
Nin saved my life. The music makes me feel like its ok to be lost and broken, every day is a new day
Colt, it is so much perfect to be lost and broken. Out of Harmony. Out of Song.
But when it's all said and Done.
What do you want to be?
Such a positive view to have. I like that!
i dont see trent as broken at all. more angry and combative. not a victim . he is a lot like me. this si still the best cd i have.
Trent goes places lyrically that need to be gone to, and I appreciate what he has done for me too. We're in this together now.
me too im going thru it right now n its all I knows
This is possibly the best album I have ever heard.... been listening to music for many years.
How many years?
Such an underrated album.
I don't think it's best ever! Lol good yes! Best not even close!
Oh yeah then what do you think the best album is huh???
@@dang75790 It's by far the best NIN album. I was surprised when I heard recently that even Trent shares this opinion.
I always saw the half-visible NIN logo on the cover of the album being representation of the protagonist’s emotional state: somewhat damaged, frail and traumatized. Afraid of exposing himself to the outside world and being vulnerable again out of fear of being hurt and reliving all the pain all over again. Thus he is hiding inside of his shell (the bottom photograph is a photo of the inside of a sea shell) but peaking out just a little bit, because there is a little bit of hope left.
used to fall asleep listening to this album.
Which I guess explains a few things.
Youre not the only one. Some days all i had was a walkman with these two disk and a bed.
I still do with my earbuds, somehow it's calming lol
@@patriciasalazar3712 Certainly, La Mer
I'm still doing it... Too fucked up to care anymore
you're a dink
This album has been my saviour during my darkest times, and continues to be as such . It’s been therapeutic for me to say the very least. I’ve been listening to it since the day it came out.
Ditto. I played it til disc 1 died back in 2001..got me through one of my bleakest times.
I love it even more now, if that's possible.
I remember standing in line on a rainy day in Sam Goody the first day this album came out. This album and Marilyn Manson's Mechanical Animals were my escapes during the worst of times and some of the best :)
It’s crazy the production in nine inch nails early albums broke so many ‘rules’ at the time yet now the techniques used in this and the downward spiral and this are fairly embraced.
this whole thing, and Ghosts, is incredibly and unfortunately far ahead of its time. "The Fragile" is about as close to a perfect album that I can think of. that little ascending chromatic line that ties it together is something I hear in my sleep.
Yup, the 1st track met me with complete agreement with your comment on day 1. love this album
you're the first person to put the sound I was hearing into the proper words, thank you
@@blessthismessss The transformation of that ascending chromatic motif that you hear in this track, and all over the album, into the jazzy, dreamy bass lick in "La Mer" is just incredible. It's just really, really good writing.
Top 5 NIN songs of all time. Saw it live and nothing will ever change my mind.
this CD is one of my favorites of Trent's
*these CD’s
One of the best albums ever made, Downward Spiral barely edges it out.
So impressed with all you do
Tried so hard to be like you
Flew too high and burnt the wing
Lost my faith in everything
Lick around divine debris
Taste the wealth of hate in me
Shedding skin, succumb defeat
This machine is obsolete
Made the choice to go away
Drink the fountain of decay
Tear a hole exquisite red
Fuck the rest and stab it dead
Broken, bruised, forgotten sore
Too fucked up to care anymore
Poisoned to my rotten core
Too fucked up to care anymore
Broken, bruised, forgotten sore
Too fucked up to care anymore
Poisoned to my rotten core
Too fucked up to care anymore
In the back off the side far away
Is a place where I hide, where I stay
Tried to say, tried to ask I needed to
All alone by myself, where were you?
How could I ever think it's funny how?
Everything that swore it wouldn't change, is different now
Just like you would always say, "We'll make it through"
Then my head fell apart and where were you?
How could I ever think it's funny how?
Everything you swore would never change, is different now
Like you said, "You and me make it through"
Didn't quite fell apart, where the fuck were you?
Absolute! Ty much!
Bruh
Jesus. That is art. Those last verses, reiterating, overwhelmingly increasing in anger in chaos, the change to directly speaking.
My sister gave me this cd when I was 8 or 9, changed my life forever!
The absolute best NIN album. A true COMPLETE MASTERPIECE.
This is one of those albums that won't meet it's true fan base for another 20 years
it's coming a lot sooner than that... unfortunately
I've been a fan since day one. Growing up in the 90's and early 2000's had some merits.
Been my favorite since 2001... Best NIN album yet
been a fan since its release -
Agree
The Album of my senior year in high school. Remember buying it with three of my friends and sitting in the car on a beautiful fall day. We were all jamming with that opening track!!! Loved it!!! Memories.
Saw them on the tour for this album. It was quite spectacular
Chance, you are quite spectacular :)
sooo lucky.. NIN is on my concert bucket list
Mia Zeringo very lucky. It is in my top ten favorite concert list.
Yes!! I went to Raleigh, NC to see them. It was very worth it, he came out slathered in mud
Me too, seen them a few times but 1999 fragility 2.0 (American leg) was first time, 17 junior in high school
Just another absolute classic from the great nine inch nails 👌 absolutely magnificent 🙌
Watching this album be composed & put together in a studio would've been mind blowing.
When this came out I'd recently started stuffing around with a music composing program, & listening to this now.. you can hear & feel the genius in every single intentional note, sound & drum beat. Its a fucking symphony.
What a genius Trent is. The best dark music act in history.
Loving Nin and also other dark genres from artists like
Gary Numan, Portishead, Chelsea Wolfe, Tool, Tricky, Ho99o9, AllFlaws
Best. Song. Ever. Remember that time The Walking Dead used this in the opening of an episode, before the show got s$&@y? Yeah, that was awesome.
Which episode I just started watch the walking dead a couple weeks ago and I'm on like season 5 episode 4
@@schismpeople8336 I believe it’s season 5 ep 15. You’re almost there!
@@ConquerYou Awh sweet dig man!!!! (:
@@ConquerYou UPDATE: You were right It was season 5 episode 15 and that was badass!!
@@schismpeople8336 Awesome. I gotta go back and rewatch some TWD. Cheers
Perfect, exquisite, wonderful. This album is absolutely amazing
I can't think of an album I could consider better. It's everything it needs to be, and more.
sometimes i sing the intro of this song whenever i'm bored, and it instantly makes me feel better due to how goofy it is
Somewhat damaged is the best song from The Fragile album ! 🎤🎧🎸
The beginning of the greatest album of all time.
my first psychedelic experience, on mushrooms, and my friend showed me this album. never was the same since lol.
same here, mushrooms and this album.
Sounds hellish
@@droptherapy2085 No way somehow i was in candyland lol.
Pretty heavy for psilocybin. Couldve been a recipe for a horrible trip...
@@dreamingofcottontails6601 well to me it was perfect lol. this, hendrix, and peter gabriels passion of the christ lol
I first heard this album when I was 16, and I just leaned into the brilliance of these songs right away, how densely layered they are. It's an album that never gets old. It can always be deconstructed and analyzed in different ways.
Sometimes my stereo just isnt loud enough
Exactly!!
I know exactly how you feel
Yup
Story of my lifetime
No shit
Damn 25 with my own kids and I have no clue what I was doing bumping this as an adolescent lmao. Never another like him.
I found nine inch nails at a young age, can't remember exactly.
What a great emotional release.
This is my favorite album of all time.
One of the best album ever!
TRENT has got the conviction we all need ❤❤❤ somtime in our lives.
This album is a masterpiece❤❤❤
This album represents the world in 2020.
Yep
im thinking it would be year zero.
Nah. It reps when it came out. I was there. Where were you?
I listen to this album and realize Trent has scored a Pixar movie... Oh... what a world we live in.
The Fragile saved my Life in 1999.
I moved out of State to a New Place.
This album helped Me. Showed Me.
Guided Me.
Incredible album
This song is so fucking important.
Opening track to the one of the most awesome albums in music history
Favorite album of all time! Sorry Maynard!!!!!
the ultimate showdown lol. They actually made a song together I don't remember what its called though. Trent did the backup vocals on a Puscifer song... It was originally Tapeworm, the band they both started... guess it didn't work out. They're both different sides of the coin, but respectable lol
Awww... :( ..... They are just two very different talented men...
Amazing track, this and Pilgrims, and a few others, were extreme advancements into angry music. The album as a whole is mind blowing.
The rooting on of The Andriod! A Hard Rock Band!
Literally my life. Thank you for existing, Trent!
This album was way ahead of its time.
This is my first time hearing this, I kinda strayed for several years after downward spiral, I am VERY pleasantly surprised, awesome right out the gate
If you want to learn rythm and drum, this is one of the best practice song : listen at 1'47 until 2'05.
I was introduced by a great person at 21 at 36 they were right love it good call
you might not be the real starlord... there might not even be a real starlord... but this one did it for me. thank you.
Gotta love that groove
Sooo gosh darn heavy! My stuff!
when the first song is good; usually the whole album is awesome ! 😎🤘🎼
Thanks Trent with NIN for music and You for sharing.
Hol' up guys, this the "definitive edition"
The best double album ever!
Does it make sense that this song actually comes after ripe with decay and its all a loop?
Yes, Trent and Maynard were both clasically trained and like long musical sentences.
Always configuration configured in exaction of the possibility of self awareness and still learning so it lost me at the beginning but great beat I can’t know anything I don’t know atm there is always the opportunity to listen though :) 🤘🏻🖤
Always thought this was his best album
Fun fact I actually bought the definitive edition vinyl on Black Friday 2020
And it’s awesome that it came with 2 booklets as well as 3 LPs
Turn the playback speed up to 1.5.
The Walking Dead Season 5... ❤
da na nuh na. Craziest repeating sound.
A Destructive Android
👍🥴💕
The 3 people that had to be cool and put a thumbs down brought their future luck on themselves...
😍👏
This is not bad!
This could be about Sephiroth
Can we please stop Insane people
Aural lucidity. Dreams are reality.
I feel kinda odd -like I killed someone after listening to this, as it's laid out..it really helps with anger & rage, & I'd recommend it.
The new pink floyd
This shitty music reminds me of my ex and here is why and then some. I burned my journals listening to this album and now I just have my blog of memories.
catherinesbipolarstory.blogspot.com/2020/04/the-tooth-fairy.html
Heheh... I was the 666th like on this video. Feel kinda proud of that...
Dumb
Broken and outdated instruments.
This song is awful
surely you jest.
This song is awesome.
@@xe_chri i changed my mind its really good
Its not amazing, but it sets up the rest of the album
Guys, he just got cut off. He meant to say, "This song is awful *ly good* "
So impressed with all you do
Tried so hard to be like you
Flew too high and burnt the wing
Lost my faith in everything
Lick around divine debris
Taste the wealth of hate in me
Shedding skin succumb defeat
This machine is obsolete
Made the choice to go away
Drink the fountain of decay
Tear a hole exquisite red
Fuck the rest and stab it dead
Broken, bruised, forgotten, sore
Too fucked up to care anymore
Poisoned to my rotten core
Too fucked up to care anymore
Broken, bruised, forgotten, sore
Too fucked up to care anymore
Poisoned to my rotten core
Too fucked up to care anymore
In the back, off the side, and far away
Is a place where I hide, where I stay
Tried to say, tried to ask, I needed to
All alone by myself, where were you?
How could I ever think, it's funny how
Everything that swore it wouldn't change is different now
Just like you would always say, we'll make it through
Then my head fell apart and where were you?
How could I ever think, it's funny how
Everything you swore would never change is different now
Like you said, you and me make it through
Didn't quite, fell apart, where the fuck were you?
one updoot = dead