15 years ago I was a confused high school based in China, I listened to this album day and night. It dragged me out of the teenage dark hole. It helped me make few friends who love NIN too. It inspired me to make the desicion of pursuing a music career. Then I went to the US music school when I was 27. Finally watched NIN live in boston, and it was still so unreal for me. Now I am a professional composer. My life wouldn't be like this without this album. It encouraged me to become a better person. Thank you so much for sharing this. It brings back my memories. 😭
This album absolutely blew my mind on first listen. The Way Out Is Through brought me to tears coming off La Mer/The Great Below. The Fragile has been and will likely remain my favorite NIN record. There are no bad songs.
This album was my introduction to NIN. As an immigrant, I was just getting into this type of music. Manson was all over the airwaves, and Sept 1999 I saw Trent perform "The Fragile" at the MTV VMAs. A couple weeks later when the album was released I took the risk and bought the double CD. First song "Somewhat Damaged" caught me. So much rage. so much anger. So much beauty. I spent the next few weeks digesting this body of work and today I still claim it as my favorite NIN album. From then I worked my way backwards into the NIN discography.
Hi Ixi, your passion for music is contagious, you've inspired me to revisit the NIN catalogue, especially this album. I've only seen them once many years ago and at the time i wasn't really into them outside of singles but i'll always respect Trent's integrity. At the gig, between songs, he told us how disgusted and pissed off he was when he found out how much the label was charging for their cd's. So he told the 10 000 or so in the crowd to go out and steal the album and that he'd rather we got it for free, than line the pockets of the label exec's. Was funny, but he made a good point. Keep doing your unique thing Ixi, it comes across as fresh air across the stagnant pond that is most youtube content these days. Oh and thanks for the 90's nostalgia videos, just the album art in the thumbnails was enough to bring the memories running back.... back when albums were consumed as a whole body of art.
I recently revisited this album and I think it might be one of my fave albums of all time in terms of composition and production. In high school music class our teacher asked us to bring in a cd and play one song for the class and I picked just like you imagined. The teacher was legit impressed and cranked the song up so loud ;)
The Fragile was the biggest album anticipation moment in my life. I was in grade 12. Heard about it early, watched all the teasers, VMA performance, everything. Got TDTWWA single when it came out. I even skipped school to go buy it on release day, because I couldn’t wait until after school. I loved it from the first note. Listened to the whole thing first time. Quite a journey. Helped expand little 17 yo me’s musical horizons. Not actually a huge NIN fan anymore, but they (he) had a very big, lasting impact. I still listen from time to time, mostly out of nostalgia.
@@benjaminginther8515 No specific reason. I've just changed and my tastes have changed with me. There are still tracks I really like, and I still listen from time to time, more out of nostalgia than anything.
@@benjaminginther8515 i also feel like nin music lends itself to being a gateway drug to a bunch of other genres, from classical to ambient to industrial to synthpop. i dont think ill ever stop loving the music but if other people have expanded their tastes its probably due to nin and not despite them
I've always liked it, but I find every NIN fan has their own favorites. Rarely will you come across 2 NIN fans who have the sane favorite songs. The Wretched and Just Like you Imagined are tracks that burned out the quickest for me, back when I first heard the record in high school. Even Deeper, Into the Void, Ripe (With Decay), and Somewhat Damaged are my favorites (10 Miles High if we're counting all Fragile era releases). I'm always fascinated to find out people's favorite.
You want a common motif? Water. This is the album he was contemplating suicide by drowning on. Sinking, spinning, arms of undertow, the great below, adrift and at peace. Just imagine how scary and tragic it would be if this was his last album ever.
Pretty Hate Machine is like air. His debut on the airwaves, air is thoughts we send out to the world. His message is definitely being stated in Head Like a Hole and Terrible Lie. Something I can Never Have is my favorite. It's a thought being sent to a past love. Broken is fire. Full of anger and a feeling of happily burning. Hate especially towards TVT records.The Downward Spiral is Earth, material world, drugs sex depression everything the Earth can deliver bringing on suicide. And like you said, The Fragile is water. Emotions. Loved how he used the sea as a metaphor for death in The Great Below. Songs flow and drift in this album.. Drowning and also songs finding their shape inside of us like water filling different shaped cups.
I really like the water motif. Trent was probably listening to good old Tom Waits's "The ocean doesn't want me" a lot when he wrote The great below...we can get back to Nick Cave's The Birthday Party though to "Death by drowning" but that's a different story 😂
@@d00mf00d The song La Mer (The Sea) is the cornerstone of the album. It's an album about feeling like you're drowning in your grief. Wouldn't really call that silly
I was in grade 6? 7? hearing The Day the World Went Away as the first single on the radio was ... there was no song like it on the radio in 1999. Huge intro, some words in the middle, a whole outro. So good. You never heart a song like that on the radio, like, ever. How that was picked as the first single i so bizarre and so awesome. I remember staying up late to record We're In This Together on tape (my friends and I would record songs off the radio all the time). The DJ said the song was coming up, ended up coming on 30 or 40 minutes later, oy. I waited forever. But I pushed PLAY and RECORD and I captured it. Ended up buying The Fragile shortly after, it was the first CD I bought with my own $$$.
This is the best album by the best band of our lifetime. Trent Reznor is a musical genius. This album forces you to relive every memory and every extreme emotion you've ever had. Be it love or hate Trent pushes you into feeling it. I could barely listen to this album without crying and then 15 minutes later being so fuckin amped you nearly put your fist through the wall.
I've been stopping by here every now and again, and i'm always impressed by your breadth of NIN knowledge, but not only that. Anyone can be a NIN superfan. You're so much more than that (as I'm sure you know), and we all appreciate the hell out of you. So glad you're part of the NIN community. Much love.
So fun to have a guided tour of an album I've listened to a million times. Amazing how you can hear something for the first time with the help of a new light. Thanks for making this. Appreciate the insight.
To me, We're In This Together and The Fragile are a perfect representation of a doomed relationship, especially when taking into account the story of The Downward Spiral. This person was never able to fix themselves, but now he's in a new relationship and he thinks he can fix her. He's building her into his perfect untouchable porcelain doll and building a wall around her to keep everyone else out, and we know it's not going to work, and of course it doesn't even survive the end of disk 1. I know The Fragile is not really a concept album or story to the extent that TDS was, but at the least those two tracks seem to fit into the same narrative.
in Ripe (with decay) you said that it felt like Summer, with the insect sounds, and I'm realizing now that since he recorded it in New Orleans, those sounds reflect his environment... the bayou!
Sorry I missed most of the stream. Specially since The Fragile is my favourite NIN album. I fell into NIN because of the intro of SE7EN. As a graphic designer, the intro really fascinated me, and set to that alternative take of Closer really helped in that. I loved TDS as soon as I had a listen to it. Again, as a graphic designer I loved the way Trent played with sound layers, and juxtaposes colour and texture in the album. In my mind, this was akin to what I was doing on the page. To me, Trent was doing sonic graphic design. But this was somewhere around 1995-1996-ish, so I was a bit behind other fans. When I really got into loving the band, The Fragile was pointing it's nose. The Fragile was my first NIN album bought as it came out. Many would follow. The soundscape of the album consolidated what I felt with TDS. And, lo and behold, they also brought the most influential graphic designer of the 90's aboard to design the packaging: David Carson. That sealed the deal, Trent is, at least in my head, a graphic designer playing with a different set of tools and canvas. To me, Trent was at his peak maturity musically when he did this album. I feel "The Fragile" is "Led Zeppelin IV". It's "Dark Side of the Moon". It's the album that galvanizes a band, a musician, that masters his craft. Once again, thank you Ixi for indulging us in this pleasure. p.s.: I thought your reaction at 1:25:09 was because what you played sounded like "Find my Way", from Hesitation Marks... It wasn't, but I think it should be noted!
Best album ever. So much depth and various interpretations from the lyrics and the atmospheric songs woven into one double album. You did a great job pointing out some motifs and callbacks that even I had never caught before! Great job! 😎🤘🏼🎶
Thankyou. I remember getting this on the day of release and leaving work with a "migraine" so I could get home and listen. Loved it and still my favourite album of all time. Thankyou ixi for taking us through this sonic masterpiece. Much appreciated 🙏 ☺
Sad I missed this live. Enjoying the recording though. The Fragile was amazing and came at a good time for me. Nothing was out of place, it was all appropriate and timely. The idea that certain songs didn’t belong is just editing the past.
I think people just thought those songs were unexpected from NiN, on things for sure, im oblivious to the names of all the tracks, though, i think i can recall all the tracks ......same for me, i thought it jelled together very nice
I don't hate Starfuckers Inc either, as it was a good dose of vitriol amongst all the various songs that were on that album... Every time I listened to it I would be head bangin'! :)
This is one of just three albums that I have ever listened to twice in a row on first listen. It was so important to me at the time, dealing with loss of family and relationship and being about as low as I'd ever been. My favorite album of all time and one of the top 20 albums ever made.
i think I’m Looking Forward to Joining You Finally is probably the most underrated song on the album. it’s also one of my favourite songs just in general
100%! It took me awhile to really understand it, but wow it is so hazy and sexy and almost intoxicated sounding. Definitely one of my top favorites of the album.
I discover this album at 16 years old. This album changed my life. Cool friends, meeting my first girlfriend, falling into depression, and discovering this on my birthday on RUclips in 2009. I bought both the Definitive and Deviations 1 vinyl albums and I will still keep the CD version.
I'm not sure if I like your videos because you remind me of a friend of mine so much, or because you're a musician and just as obsessed with all these sounds, textures and the musicology behind it all. This album does resonate with all my scars.
It took me many years and hundreds of listening sessions to conclude, that NIN's The Fragile is the best music album of the 90's. And I don't mean best rock or whatever music genre album of the 90's but best music album of the 90s across all genres. Without going into all the details, I say so because of the lyrics, complexity of composition, incredible layering of the sounds, unique musical style that cannot be classified as any clear genre, and for many more reasons. I'm not in a position at the moment to elaborate more or in a more coherent way. But I will stand for this statement until I discover any other album of the 90s that could overthrow The Fragile, which I am highly doubtful of.
I’m curious what other albums or artist you like. Obviously I’m partial to the harder rock or metal sound of nin but I like all genres if it’s musically good and has good lyrics
@Travis Hogsett There are three bands that influenced me the most and have played a very important roles in my life: The Doors, Nine Inch Nails, Dead Can Dance. Other albums and artists? You say metal I say Meshuggah - Catch 33 being the best metal album I ever heard. I'm not saying best out there but out of all the metal I heard it really stands out from the rest of the scene. Hard to answer a question like this as I listen to so much different stuff. King Crimson is a band I used to like a lot but recently I listened to their discography and realised it is actually not as good as I once believed it was. I concluded that despite the legendary status of their debut album, their best album ever is in fact a 2003 album Power To Believe, which is an album I really like and I strongly recommend. I think King Crimson are best experienced live, especially with their current double drummer setup. I like some artists from the 90's Goa scene like Elysium - Dance for Celestial Being (album), Etnica, Shakta - Enlightened Ape (album). Marilyn Manson - Mechanical Animals, Killing Joke - Pandemonium, Killing Joke, Hosannas From the Basements of Hell; This Heat - Deceit, Radiohead - Hail To The Thief, Delerium - Karma, Sematic Spaces. I threw a bunch of random and unrelated stuff, hopefully there is something new for you to discover here.
I love this album so much! The Fragile was an important moment in music for me. It was the album that made me a fan of Trent. I fell in love with his music. Downward Spiral piqued my interest and The Fragile completely won me over.
When i finally got this album, i was really late on the draw, but i listened to it consistently for at least 6 months straight, the "theme" phrase throughout is so epic... imo its, right there with The Downward Spiral...like a different painting
So sorry to have have missed You live😭 Thanks so much for doing this😎👏🤘 It's my favorite Nails album by a loooooooong way. "...Hate Machine" is where I came in, "...Spiral" perhaps means more to me lyrically but sonically this is perfection for me. As an long time fan I remeber the original reviews, it did well in the UK, (where I'm from), 5 K's from "Kerrang!" for example, and featured very high on the end of year list for "Metal Hammer". It was also "Spin" magazine's "Album of the Year" for 1999. Opinions on the album seemed to cool off quickly for a while however. I don't know why this was although as you alluded too, it was apparently a tough album for Trent to write. He was going thru a lot of personal sh*t & perhaps certain songs weren't played a lot live at the time. I seem to remember that certain songs were actually played more the "With Teeth" or "Year Zero" tours but this could be my mind playing tricks on me. It was also perhaps own worst enemy as it revived interest in "The Downward Spiral", an album which had gone on the inspire a lot of musicians of the time. I'm so glad to see the album have a mini revival of sorts over the past couple of years however and to find people like yourself & Melissa from NIN_My_Nothing who are as passionate about this album as I am😎👍 Thanks again for doing this & I hope it's still up in its entirety for me to view in full later on in the week😁 (I'm about an hour & half into it now but sleep is calling me back sorry😴)
“Pilgrimage” makes me envision the Carthaginian general, Hannibal, marching his army to battle against a legion of Romans. Or the sound of Roman amphitheater fanfare reverberating off the corridor walls that leads outside towards the arena.
Thank you, ixi. Just the fact that the tracklist includes 'Pilgrimage' makes this a notable album to me. I once devoured this album on a family trip to Spain/Portugal. memories! Also, your mom is right... You do resemble an elf. :)
I agree. Those two albums are interwoven, if you look at la mar you can catch the lyrical references. I think TDS, fragile, and then with teeth form a story. Falling, climbing, and then finding belonging.
I too almost 'missed' the depth of NIN. I am a big fan of his work. It pays to give music a Listen. I really like the way you talk about his music....it clears up the parts that would take me forever to figure out. Thanks.
This remains my favorite NIN album, from beginning to end it brings you on a journey eats u up and spits you out and if u let it brings u right back in, true emotion and shape through sound!
When talking about perfect pitch , do you know of Derek paravinici , blew my mind , just so love how you express such joy and passion whilst exploring the rabbit hole . Many thanks honesty through out , no smoke , mirrors and with the curtain drawn back
Just stumbled on your channel. The way you enthuse about music, especially music from this era, is so relatable. Hilarious... I was motivated to comment because I was going to make the Downward Spiral/The Fragile --> Siamese Dream/ MCiS analogy, and you just mentioned it. Subscribed :)
The Fragile... my favorite album from NIN😍. I remembered exactly the first time i listened to it. In 2001, I rented in my small town in 🇨🇵 . In France NIN is not very well known, so i wasn't aware, i knew nothing about Trent Reznor. So Nine Inch Nails sounds german for a french guy, i put the cd and "what the f***😬 !What is this? It was "Somewhat damaged" and i thought "it sucks!" It must be some stupid contemporary musician paying in art galleries for snobbish guys. But there were "the frail" and "the wretched", so it was... quite interesting. And one saturday morning, i played seventh track "Just like you imagined" and it was everything i was looking for. I repeated it so many times, it was and it is such a perfect piece of MUSIC. So i forced myself to go deeper into the Fragile and the NIN universe. And guess what happened? I fell in love with it, and i think Trent Reznor is the musician/ businessman who has the biggest influence on me. What i like the most is the cinematographic aspect of the Fragile, i've always thought one day these songs and instrumentals will be in movies and Reznor will score movie soundtrack...i think iwasn't too wrong... And the live band and the production was so cool...I miss the Fragile era
Thanks so much for remembering me. I hope my last comments didn't make you uncomfortable when i had to take a break from the channel for a bit. I had just gone through a very unexpected and painful break up on top of pretty serious health issues all of which turned my entire life upside down and i figured by the time you had gotten to 'a warm place' i was already getting really emotional so i thought before we start delving into the end of the downward spiral i should sit this section out. Obviously I'm doing a little better and considering the fragile is one of my top 5 favorite albums of all time i had to come back. I'm so happy for you and your success. I did at least manage to do some recording and even recorded my first cover song. It's not nin but i would very much like my next one to be but i just can't decide. I'm leaning towards 'that's what i get' or 'the day the world went away' but there are so many others it's like option paralysis, otherwise i would have done nin as my first cover song. Any suggestions, requests or advice? In any case, fun stream it was nice to come back to and thanks for your channel and just being you.
It's really interesting to see your take on these songs, since you come at things from a more musical / structural / theory-based direction, which is very valuable. I've never been able to play instruments, but love books and writing, so the biggest thing that drew me to NIN was the lyrics. It's really interesting to hear your opinions on "Looking Forward To Joining You, Finally", because you make a lot of good points about its composition in comparison to some of the other more complex songs on the record. I love that track for its lyrics first and foremost. I like the music too, but for me lyrics are the most important part. I struggle relating to the music-first / lyrics-later approach, but I respect it, and am glad that we have such diversity in our listening palettes.
I don’t think any of the motifs you mentioned are a stretch and all are more than probably intentional. Reznor has mentioned on my occasions how Pink Floyed’s The Wall was a giant influence on him . The Fragile is Trent’s The Wall . It’s also a a giant concept double record about self examination with several musical motifs recurring throughout the journey and for extra credit .... it was Produced By Bob Ezrin , Who Reznor hired to come in and provide the final album sequence on The Fragile .
I remember sitting in the corner of my room by myself listening to this album on my CD player on the day of release and being blown away by the emotions of each song until I got to La Mer and I remembering playing it over again 3 times. I got this weird mixture of emotions from that song and I remember it putting me in a headspace that I realized I had been in previously myself. and I remember thinking to myself "He wrote this instead of killing himself" Years later Trent said to the audience during a performance that he went to that house in New Orleans both to record and contemplated suicide several times throughout the process. During that dark part of his life he only wrote the one song. Trent chose to live and went back to that house and got married there so that he would remember it fondly instead. I'm still here myself, and La Mer remains my favorite song. ruclips.net/video/rIsAazPVnFQ/видео.html
I was considering enjoying stream live but wasn't capable to stay awake... :-) Looking forward to enjoy this later today. In the meantime, the two best albums ever for me are The Fragile and... The Wall. Both amazing, epic, true, powerful records. I'll edit this post later. Edit: I promised to edit this, so here it is - it was fantastic, thank you. %*)
Ohh I've always loved that 'Great Below motif' throughout the album! It's one of the reasons why I rank Fragile slightly above Downward Spiral. It really stitches the whole narrative together.
two of the weirdest facts about this album imo: a) the day the whole world went away was released as a single for SOME reason b) it somehow went to #1 on the canadian rock charts
This single was the first halo I ever bought and I was so happy when I heard it for the first time. And then the Quiet version was the next sound and I was even more hyped. I bought Further Down The Spiral the next day now confident that it wasn't going to be cheesy scary voice industrial.
27:32 Maybe that's the reason why _"Just Like You Imagined"_ was also used for one of the most influential trailers in modern pop and meme culture, i.e. for the movie *_300_* a.k.a. _"Madness?? THIS IS SPARTA!"_ : ruclips.net/video/UrIbxk7idYA/видео.html
I listened to Starfuckers a lot! It was always playing on MTV/MTV2/MCM (lol). It was in many of my random CD-Rs. I still find it surreal that it took me like 5-8y (the year before Year Zero probably?) to listen to the whole album for the first time. And… wow. It hit so hard. I find it so easy to listen in a loop. Probably thanks to the way it “ends” with Ripe (With Decay). Also, for A LONG time I thought the jpeg I had of the cover was incomplete, and the red bit was a glitch/artifact of a bad download 😅😂🤦♂️
A lot of people dont feel NIN or get it like we do. Its often futile trying to share it with them or make them understand it. Anymore at my age I no longer want to share it. Its mine, my precious. I love this album always have. It can suck you into a depressed state but nothing like self loathing.
1:25:15 The moment you played it, I thought SHOOT it sounds like Great Below. Because you played it on a piano, it was easier to make a connection. And what is interesting is in "Somewhat Damaged" he "flew too high and burned the wings" and then he was faced with what was DOWN BELOW. Very intriguing. All these recurring motives make me wonder, are these always placed there deliberately and for specific reasons, pulling the whole material together? Or is Trent simply repeating himself sometimes in terms of his selection of notes? Very intriguing.
1:51:41 probably my favorite of the album these days. Used to be The Fragile was my favorite- when I was younger. "I'm Looking Forward To Joining You, Finally" is probably one of my favorite "off"-tracks of all Trent's work. That droning bass reminds me of some of the sounds you hear in old Spyro The Dragon tracks. I think I'm thinking of like Cliff Town and Tree Tops... they make great use of those gentle tones.
Really enjoyed this meandering chat on this album.. I'm revisiting the album now... it's so epic (in the real sense of the word not the kid's trendy use of it _ I'm so behind the times!) ... totally forgot there are so many songs on it. really thematic... almost like movements in one piece right? :D And that prepared piano sends my mind straight to Aphex Twin's Drukqs album.
Lol just found this in my rando feed after mentioning this isnanoter post...might have accidentally said wretched. I really liked the album and live DVD. I would say that absolutely the time I found this can say even if you replace his vocals with instrument/s and take it as that holy heck that was some intense music. I remember high school with with a 300watt JVC system. Between that lords of acid first two slipknot albums plenty of that good old raw street tapes/cds and gogo the lovely music of DC....that album was very Interesting. It's crazy how I just found out Dre worked on a song.
Back in 99, as an elementary school kid at that point, hearing The Day the World Went Away on the radio (as the first single) was fucking amazing. Was so different from anything else on alt rock radio. Good times. It's funny how much The Perfect Drug hinted at how The Fragile was gonna sound like: going from the machine vs organic sounds of The Downward Spiral to the drum n bass, strings of The Fragile. I feel Trent has always tried to come back to this album. You could probably mix and jamble this album and Hesitation Marks and it will flow, or sound like the same "era". On a side note, I see some of us are playing revisionists in terms of track listings or what they feel has aged the best. As an older person now than when this behemoth dropped, I can see now how some critics were ... dismissive of some tracks. These are the songs I feel are the strongest, most complete. In hind sight, a lot of the instrumentals from this era (including Still) could have made a great 1st Ghosts album. Somewhat Damaged The Day the World Went Away Just Like You Imagined The Frail The Wretched We're In This Together The Fragile Even Deeper The Way Out Is Through Into the Void The Big Comedown La Mer The Great Below
The music and lyrics alludes to some of the biggest secrets in the world. "The Fragile", the song, is literally about a incredibly beautiful woman, looking for some ONE. I fell in love with her over time, after they, who are in Air Force, Department of Defense, Defense Intelligence, etc., made me break up with Annie aka Anastasia (the becoming). I had to go through several years of enhanced interrogation during Trump Era, in a room above a laundry room, that shook hours, every day. I was threatened over and over to not talk about Trump, but they wanted me to join the "association", "NSA", and "the company". I had no clue this woman could read my mind and she loved and cared for me. One of the greatest things in life. -OUT OF MANY, ONE
If you haven't heard the single version of Day the World Went Away, I recommend checking it out. It uses a completely different vocal take from the album version. It runs 4:04 and was on the cd single with the Quiet version and Starfuckers, Inc with an extended outro.
re: we're in this together There's an interview with Alan Moulder I think where he says he recommended that snare as a joke because it was so cheesy sounding, but Trent heard it in the song and was like, wait, I don't care, this snare is it.
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The Fragile was a foundational album for me. It is one of my top Lifetime albums. It literally brings me to tears every listen.
15 years ago I was a confused high school based in China, I listened to this album day and night. It dragged me out of the teenage dark hole. It helped me make few friends who love NIN too. It inspired me to make the desicion of pursuing a music career. Then I went to the US music school when I was 27. Finally watched NIN live in boston, and it was still so unreal for me. Now I am a professional composer. My life wouldn't be like this without this album. It encouraged me to become a better person.
Thank you so much for sharing this. It brings back my memories. 😭
This album absolutely blew my mind on first listen. The Way Out Is Through brought me to tears coming off La Mer/The Great Below. The Fragile has been and will likely remain my favorite NIN record. There are no bad songs.
This album was my introduction to NIN. As an immigrant, I was just getting into this type of music. Manson was all over the airwaves, and Sept 1999 I saw Trent perform "The Fragile" at the MTV VMAs. A couple weeks later when the album was released I took the risk and bought the double CD. First song "Somewhat Damaged" caught me. So much rage. so much anger. So much beauty.
I spent the next few weeks digesting this body of work and today I still claim it as my favorite NIN album. From then I worked my way backwards into the NIN discography.
Hi Ixi, your passion for music is contagious, you've inspired me to revisit the NIN catalogue, especially this album.
I've only seen them once many years ago and at the time i wasn't really into them outside of singles but i'll always respect Trent's integrity.
At the gig, between songs, he told us how disgusted and pissed off he was when he found out how much the label was charging for their cd's.
So he told the 10 000 or so in the crowd to go out and steal the album and that he'd rather we got it for free, than line the pockets of the label exec's.
Was funny, but he made a good point.
Keep doing your unique thing Ixi, it comes across as fresh air across the stagnant pond that is most youtube content these days.
Oh and thanks for the 90's nostalgia videos, just the album art in the thumbnails was enough to bring the memories running back....
back when albums were consumed as a whole body of art.
I recently revisited this album and I think it might be one of my fave albums of all time in terms of composition and production. In high school music class our teacher asked us to bring in a cd and play one song for the class and I picked just like you imagined. The teacher was legit impressed and cranked the song up so loud ;)
Your teacher knew what was up! And so did you!
The Fragile was the biggest album anticipation moment in my life. I was in grade 12. Heard about it early, watched all the teasers, VMA performance, everything. Got TDTWWA single when it came out. I even skipped school to go buy it on release day, because I couldn’t wait until after school. I loved it from the first note. Listened to the whole thing first time. Quite a journey. Helped expand little 17 yo me’s musical horizons. Not actually a huge NIN fan anymore, but they (he) had a very big, lasting impact. I still listen from time to time, mostly out of nostalgia.
Why are you not a fan Any More???
@@benjaminginther8515 No specific reason. I've just changed and my tastes have changed with me. There are still tracks I really like, and I still listen from time to time, more out of nostalgia than anything.
@@benjaminginther8515 i also feel like nin music lends itself to being a gateway drug to a bunch of other genres, from classical to ambient to industrial to synthpop. i dont think ill ever stop loving the music but if other people have expanded their tastes its probably due to nin and not despite them
Just Like You Imagined. Best NIN song. Maybe best song period. Subbed just for that!
I've always liked it, but I find every NIN fan has their own favorites. Rarely will you come across 2 NIN fans who have the sane favorite songs. The Wretched and Just Like you Imagined are tracks that burned out the quickest for me, back when I first heard the record in high school. Even Deeper, Into the Void, Ripe (With Decay), and Somewhat Damaged are my favorites (10 Miles High if we're counting all Fragile era releases). I'm always fascinated to find out people's favorite.
You want a common motif? Water. This is the album he was contemplating suicide by drowning on. Sinking, spinning, arms of undertow, the great below, adrift and at peace. Just imagine how scary and tragic it would be if this was his last album ever.
Pretty Hate Machine is like air. His debut on the airwaves, air is thoughts we send out to the world. His message is definitely being stated in Head Like a Hole and Terrible Lie. Something I can Never Have is my favorite. It's a thought being sent to a past love. Broken is fire. Full of anger and a feeling of happily burning. Hate especially towards TVT records.The Downward Spiral is Earth, material world, drugs sex depression everything the Earth can deliver bringing on suicide. And like you said, The Fragile is water. Emotions. Loved how he used the sea as a metaphor for death in The Great Below. Songs flow and drift in this album.. Drowning and also songs finding their shape inside of us like water filling different shaped cups.
La Mer
Your interpretation of the water motif is silly.
I really like the water motif. Trent was probably listening to good old Tom Waits's "The ocean doesn't want me" a lot when he wrote The great below...we can get back to Nick Cave's The Birthday Party though to "Death by drowning" but that's a different story 😂
@@d00mf00d The song La Mer (The Sea) is the cornerstone of the album. It's an album about feeling like you're drowning in your grief. Wouldn't really call that silly
I was in grade 6? 7? hearing The Day the World Went Away as the first single on the radio was ... there was no song like it on the radio in 1999. Huge intro, some words in the middle, a whole outro. So good. You never heart a song like that on the radio, like, ever. How that was picked as the first single i so bizarre and so awesome.
I remember staying up late to record We're In This Together on tape (my friends and I would record songs off the radio all the time). The DJ said the song was coming up, ended up coming on 30 or 40 minutes later, oy. I waited forever. But I pushed PLAY and RECORD and I captured it.
Ended up buying The Fragile shortly after, it was the first CD I bought with my own $$$.
This album saved my life several times
A three hour video all about my favorite album? Yes! Can't wait to watch :)
This is the best album by the best band of our lifetime. Trent Reznor is a musical genius.
This album forces you to relive every memory and every extreme emotion you've ever had. Be it love or hate Trent pushes you into feeling it. I could barely listen to this album without crying and then 15 minutes later being so fuckin amped you nearly put your fist through the wall.
this is exactly what it does for me/how it makes me feel as well.
I've been stopping by here every now and again, and i'm always impressed by your breadth of NIN knowledge, but not only that. Anyone can be a NIN superfan. You're so much more than that (as I'm sure you know), and we all appreciate the hell out of you. So glad you're part of the NIN community. Much love.
So fun to have a guided tour of an album I've listened to a million times. Amazing how you can hear something for the first time with the help of a new light. Thanks for making this. Appreciate the insight.
To me, We're In This Together and The Fragile are a perfect representation of a doomed relationship, especially when taking into account the story of The Downward Spiral. This person was never able to fix themselves, but now he's in a new relationship and he thinks he can fix her. He's building her into his perfect untouchable porcelain doll and building a wall around her to keep everyone else out, and we know it's not going to work, and of course it doesn't even survive the end of disk 1. I know The Fragile is not really a concept album or story to the extent that TDS was, but at the least those two tracks seem to fit into the same narrative.
Ixi always just continue to put out whatever content YOU want. A persons genuine enthusiasm touches our hearts.
Thanks for that, Bryan :)
in Ripe (with decay) you said that it felt like Summer, with the insect sounds, and I'm realizing now that since he recorded it in New Orleans, those sounds reflect his environment... the bayou!
Sorry I missed most of the stream. Specially since The Fragile is my favourite NIN album. I fell into NIN because of the intro of SE7EN. As a graphic designer, the intro really fascinated me, and set to that alternative take of Closer really helped in that. I loved TDS as soon as I had a listen to it. Again, as a graphic designer I loved the way Trent played with sound layers, and juxtaposes colour and texture in the album. In my mind, this was akin to what I was doing on the page. To me, Trent was doing sonic graphic design.
But this was somewhere around 1995-1996-ish, so I was a bit behind other fans. When I really got into loving the band, The Fragile was pointing it's nose. The Fragile was my first NIN album bought as it came out. Many would follow. The soundscape of the album consolidated what I felt with TDS. And, lo and behold, they also brought the most influential graphic designer of the 90's aboard to design the packaging: David Carson. That sealed the deal, Trent is, at least in my head, a graphic designer playing with a different set of tools and canvas.
To me, Trent was at his peak maturity musically when he did this album. I feel "The Fragile" is "Led Zeppelin IV". It's "Dark Side of the Moon". It's the album that galvanizes a band, a musician, that masters his craft.
Once again, thank you Ixi for indulging us in this pleasure.
p.s.: I thought your reaction at 1:25:09 was because what you played sounded like "Find my Way", from Hesitation Marks... It wasn't, but I think it should be noted!
Best album ever. So much depth and various interpretations from the lyrics and the atmospheric songs woven into one double album. You did a great job pointing out some motifs and callbacks that even I had never caught before! Great job! 😎🤘🏼🎶
When he sings 'underneath it all' in the fragile motif 😍. Thanks for pointing out that its in We're in this together now!
Thankyou. I remember getting this on the day of release and leaving work with a "migraine" so I could get home and listen. Loved it and still my favourite album of all time. Thankyou ixi for taking us through this sonic masterpiece. Much appreciated 🙏 ☺
Sad I missed this live. Enjoying the recording though. The Fragile was amazing and came at a good time for me. Nothing was out of place, it was all appropriate and timely. The idea that certain songs didn’t belong is just editing the past.
I think people just thought those songs were unexpected from NiN, on things for sure, im oblivious to the names of all the tracks, though, i think i can recall all the tracks ......same for me, i thought it jelled together very nice
I don't hate Starfuckers Inc either, as it was a good dose of vitriol amongst all the various songs that were on that album... Every time I listened to it I would be head bangin'! :)
This is one of just three albums that I have ever listened to twice in a row on first listen. It was so important to me at the time, dealing with loss of family and relationship and being about as low as I'd ever been. My favorite album of all time and one of the top 20 albums ever made.
i think I’m Looking Forward to Joining You Finally is probably the most underrated song on the album. it’s also one of my favourite songs just in general
Agreed! The lyrics on that song are among my favorites Trent has ever written on any album.
100%! It took me awhile to really understand it, but wow it is so hazy and sexy and almost intoxicated sounding. Definitely one of my top favorites of the album.
I really love how the „quiet“ vocals are in the foreground and the screamed „loud“ vocals are suppressed in the background
ONE OF THE BEST STREAMS EVER STREAMED
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the live version of the frail. perfectly. such love
I discover this album at 16 years old. This album changed my life. Cool friends, meeting my first girlfriend, falling into depression, and discovering this on my birthday on RUclips in 2009. I bought both the Definitive and Deviations 1 vinyl albums and I will still keep the CD version.
I'm not sure if I like your videos because you remind me of a friend of mine so much, or because you're a musician and just as obsessed with all these sounds, textures and the musicology behind it all. This album does resonate with all my scars.
Missed the live stream due to the country I stay in... Going to enjoy this... Can't wait for a breakdown on Pilgrimage 😁😁😁
It took me many years and hundreds of listening sessions to conclude, that NIN's The Fragile is the best music album of the 90's. And I don't mean best rock or whatever music genre album of the 90's but best music album of the 90s across all genres. Without going into all the details, I say so because of the lyrics, complexity of composition, incredible layering of the sounds, unique musical style that cannot be classified as any clear genre, and for many more reasons. I'm not in a position at the moment to elaborate more or in a more coherent way. But I will stand for this statement until I discover any other album of the 90s that could overthrow The Fragile, which I am highly doubtful of.
I’m curious what other albums or artist you like. Obviously I’m partial to the harder rock or metal sound of nin but I like all genres if it’s musically good and has good lyrics
@Travis Hogsett There are three bands that influenced me the most and have played a very important roles in my life: The Doors, Nine Inch Nails, Dead Can Dance. Other albums and artists? You say metal I say Meshuggah - Catch 33 being the best metal album I ever heard. I'm not saying best out there but out of all the metal I heard it really stands out from the rest of the scene. Hard to answer a question like this as I listen to so much different stuff. King Crimson is a band I used to like a lot but recently I listened to their discography and realised it is actually not as good as I once believed it was. I concluded that despite the legendary status of their debut album, their best album ever is in fact a 2003 album Power To Believe, which is an album I really like and I strongly recommend. I think King Crimson are best experienced live, especially with their current double drummer setup. I like some artists from the 90's Goa scene like Elysium - Dance for Celestial Being (album), Etnica, Shakta - Enlightened Ape (album). Marilyn Manson - Mechanical Animals, Killing Joke - Pandemonium, Killing Joke, Hosannas From the Basements of Hell; This Heat - Deceit, Radiohead - Hail To The Thief, Delerium - Karma, Sematic Spaces. I threw a bunch of random and unrelated stuff, hopefully there is something new for you to discover here.
Almost forgot: Recoil - Bloodline
@@praszu Catch 33 hell yes!
I love this album so much! The Fragile was an important moment in music for me. It was the album that made me a fan of Trent. I fell in love with his music. Downward Spiral piqued my interest and The Fragile completely won me over.
When i finally got this album, i was really late on the draw, but i listened to it consistently for at least 6 months straight, the "theme" phrase throughout is so epic... imo its, right there with The Downward Spiral...like a different painting
The fragile is my favourite album ever, Just like you imagined is also my favourite song, its incredible!
Hesitation Marks took me a long while to get into.... then i saw NIN live, and it became one of my favorite
I love how you decipher all of his music :)
So sorry to have have missed You live😭
Thanks so much for doing this😎👏🤘
It's my favorite Nails album by a loooooooong way. "...Hate Machine" is where I came in, "...Spiral" perhaps means more to me lyrically but sonically this is perfection for me.
As an long time fan I remeber the original reviews, it did well in the UK, (where I'm from), 5 K's from "Kerrang!" for example, and featured very high on the end of year list for "Metal Hammer". It was also "Spin" magazine's "Album of the Year" for 1999. Opinions on the album seemed to cool off quickly for a while however.
I don't know why this was although as you alluded too, it was apparently a tough album for Trent to write. He was going thru a lot of personal sh*t & perhaps certain songs weren't played a lot live at the time. I seem to remember that certain songs were actually played more the "With Teeth" or "Year Zero" tours but this could be my mind playing tricks on me.
It was also perhaps own worst enemy as it revived interest in "The Downward Spiral", an album which had gone on the inspire a lot of musicians of the time.
I'm so glad to see the album have a mini revival of sorts over the past couple of years however and to find people like yourself & Melissa from NIN_My_Nothing who are as passionate about this album as I am😎👍
Thanks again for doing this & I hope it's still up in its entirety for me to view in full later on in the week😁 (I'm about an hour & half into it now but sleep is calling me back sorry😴)
This is probably my favorite album ever. From end to end, disc to disc.
“Pilgrimage” makes me envision the Carthaginian general, Hannibal, marching his army to battle against a legion of Romans. Or the sound of Roman amphitheater fanfare reverberating off the corridor walls that leads outside towards the arena.
Thank you, ixi. Just the fact that the tracklist includes 'Pilgrimage' makes this a notable album to me. I once devoured this album on a family trip to Spain/Portugal. memories!
Also, your mom is right...
You do resemble an elf. :)
Nice treat to see this video! Thanks for doing this one!
I know this might sound weird, but I have always looked at The Downward Spiral as Side A, The Fragile as Side B.
I agree. Those two albums are interwoven, if you look at la mar you can catch the lyrical references. I think TDS, fragile, and then with teeth form a story. Falling, climbing, and then finding belonging.
@@TheParadox1010What about Hesitation Marks? How do you think that fits in?
@@KamenSentaiMetalHero resting almost
Their best album
Love this analysis. Thanks for making this.
Great video IXI. Made me want to take another listen to the whole album. Definitely have a new appreciation for it.
2 hours in: “we’re running pretty long so I’ll probably end this stream soon”
*sees that there’s an hour left*
😋😋😋 it tastes SO GOOD
Love how you bring something extra to music I already love. Shame RUclips didn’t give me a heads up on this live
Amazing Album. It starts with Somewhat Damaged, then goes through so many layers of the human Psyche from there
I think Ripe (With Decay) might just be the heart of The Fragile...the core.
The same guy from pitchfork magazine, Brent DiCrescenzo, gave Lateralus a 1.9 out of 10. This music is just too advanced for him.
Fucking troll. Annoying thing is how those reviews still come up
Nola native here and love that he recorded in the city. It is my fave !
I hope you do a full analysis of that album. I know it's a monster. But if someone can do it it's you. :)
I too almost 'missed' the depth of NIN. I am a big fan of his work. It pays to give music a Listen. I really like the way you talk about his music....it clears up the parts that would take me forever to figure out. Thanks.
This remains my favorite
NIN album, from beginning to end it brings you on a journey eats u up and spits you out and if u let it brings u right back in, true emotion and shape through sound!
This has long been my favorite NIN album, and I have it on vinyl - for which the mix is sublime.
HAPPY FRAGILE DAYY WOOHOOOO 💖💖💖
One of my favorite albums of all time besides Smashing Pumpkins :Melancholy
Your interpretation and analysis of mr Trent’s work is amazing - keep up the great work
When talking about perfect pitch , do you know of Derek paravinici , blew my mind , just so love how you express such joy and passion whilst exploring the rabbit hole . Many thanks honesty through out , no smoke , mirrors and with the curtain drawn back
The Wretched guitar solo sounds like a more mature and sophisticated response to the "goofy"guitar solo in TDS
Saw The Fragile tour in Brixton 1999. One of the luckiest moments of my life.
Please do an analysis of "Only". I would love to learn more of the music theory and sound design of that one. The lyrics for me were perfect poetry.
Not my favorite album, but it does contain "Just Like You Imagined," which might be my favorite NIN track of them all. Definitely in my top five.
Wish NIN played Stafuckers on MTV music awards in 1999.
Just stumbled on your channel. The way you enthuse about music, especially music from this era, is so relatable. Hilarious... I was motivated to comment because I was going to make the Downward Spiral/The Fragile --> Siamese Dream/ MCiS analogy, and you just mentioned it. Subscribed :)
Wrong album, I know, but I have such a feeling of belonging when watching your videos. Thank you for being ❤️
The Fragile... my favorite album from NIN😍. I remembered exactly the first time i listened to it. In 2001, I rented in my small town in 🇨🇵 . In France NIN is not very well known, so i wasn't aware, i knew nothing about Trent Reznor. So Nine Inch Nails sounds german for a french guy, i put the cd and "what the f***😬 !What is this? It was "Somewhat damaged" and i thought "it sucks!" It must be some stupid contemporary musician paying in art galleries for snobbish guys. But there were "the frail" and "the wretched", so it was... quite interesting. And one saturday morning, i played seventh track "Just like you imagined" and it was everything i was looking for. I repeated it so many times, it was and it is such a perfect piece of MUSIC. So i forced myself to go deeper into the Fragile and the NIN universe. And guess what happened? I fell in love with it, and i think Trent Reznor is the musician/ businessman who has the biggest influence on me. What i like the most is the cinematographic aspect of the Fragile, i've always thought one day these songs and instrumentals will be in movies and Reznor will score movie soundtrack...i think iwasn't too wrong... And the live band and the production was so cool...I miss the Fragile era
Thanks so much for remembering me. I hope my last comments didn't make you uncomfortable when i had to take a break from the channel for a bit. I had just gone through a very unexpected and painful break up on top of pretty serious health issues all of which turned my entire life upside down and i figured by the time you had gotten to 'a warm place' i was already getting really emotional so i thought before we start delving into the end of the downward spiral i should sit this section out. Obviously I'm doing a little better and considering the fragile is one of my top 5 favorite albums of all time i had to come back. I'm so happy for you and your success. I did at least manage to do some recording and even recorded my first cover song. It's not nin but i would very much like my next one to be but i just can't decide. I'm leaning towards 'that's what i get' or 'the day the world went away' but there are so many others it's like option paralysis, otherwise i would have done nin as my first cover song. Any suggestions, requests or advice? In any case, fun stream it was nice to come back to and thanks for your channel and just being you.
The amount of times I listened to this in my life... he's literally a genius. 2... out of 10... HAH!
It's really interesting to see your take on these songs, since you come at things from a more musical / structural / theory-based direction, which is very valuable. I've never been able to play instruments, but love books and writing, so the biggest thing that drew me to NIN was the lyrics. It's really interesting to hear your opinions on "Looking Forward To Joining You, Finally", because you make a lot of good points about its composition in comparison to some of the other more complex songs on the record. I love that track for its lyrics first and foremost. I like the music too, but for me lyrics are the most important part. I struggle relating to the music-first / lyrics-later approach, but I respect it, and am glad that we have such diversity in our listening palettes.
I don’t think any of the motifs you mentioned are a stretch and all are more than probably intentional. Reznor has mentioned on my occasions how Pink Floyed’s The Wall was a giant influence on him . The Fragile is Trent’s The Wall . It’s also a a giant concept double record about self examination with several musical motifs recurring throughout the journey and for extra credit .... it was Produced By Bob Ezrin , Who Reznor hired to come in and provide the final album sequence on The Fragile .
I remember sitting in the corner of my room by myself listening to this album on my CD player on the day of release and being blown away by the emotions of each song until I got to La Mer and I remembering playing it over again 3 times.
I got this weird mixture of emotions from that song and I remember it putting me in a headspace that I realized I had been in previously myself. and I remember thinking to myself "He wrote this instead of killing himself"
Years later Trent said to the audience during a performance that he went to that house in New Orleans both to record and contemplated suicide several times throughout the process. During that dark part of his life he only wrote the one song. Trent chose to live and went back to that house and got married there so that he would remember it fondly instead.
I'm still here myself, and La Mer remains my favorite song.
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I was considering enjoying stream live but wasn't capable to stay awake... :-) Looking forward to enjoy this later today. In the meantime, the two best albums ever for me are The Fragile and... The Wall. Both amazing, epic, true, powerful records. I'll edit this post later.
Edit: I promised to edit this, so here it is - it was fantastic, thank you. %*)
"One of the best songs" is definitely the perfect quote for a drinking game for your next live stream for us 😉🥂🎵🎶🐢
Lol
WE'RE IN THIS TOGETHER IS MY FAVOURITE LOVE SONG IN LIFE. IT SPEAKS TO ME AND FOR ME IN MANY WAYS.
Ohh I've always loved that 'Great Below motif' throughout the album! It's one of the reasons why I rank Fragile slightly above Downward Spiral. It really stitches the whole narrative together.
two of the weirdest facts about this album imo:
a) the day the whole world went away was released as a single for SOME reason
b) it somehow went to #1 on the canadian rock charts
Ultimate power move. Release the monolithic wall of noise song with no chorus or hook or really any structure as your lead single
This single was the first halo I ever bought and I was so happy when I heard it for the first time. And then the Quiet version was the next sound and I was even more hyped. I bought Further Down The Spiral the next day now confident that it wasn't going to be cheesy scary voice industrial.
@@officialFredDurstfanclubWhat about the Nah Nah part?
27:32 Maybe that's the reason why _"Just Like You Imagined"_ was also used for one of the most influential trailers in modern pop and meme culture, i.e. for the movie *_300_* a.k.a. _"Madness?? THIS IS SPARTA!"_ :
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Yasssss Queen - please please analyse the whole _double_ album song by song.
I listened to Starfuckers a lot! It was always playing on MTV/MTV2/MCM (lol). It was in many of my random CD-Rs. I still find it surreal that it took me like 5-8y (the year before Year Zero probably?) to listen to the whole album for the first time. And… wow. It hit so hard. I find it so easy to listen in a loop. Probably thanks to the way it “ends” with Ripe (With Decay).
Also, for A LONG time I thought the jpeg I had of the cover was incomplete, and the red bit was a glitch/artifact of a bad download 😅😂🤦♂️
A lot of people dont feel NIN or get it like we do. Its often futile trying to share it with them or make them understand it. Anymore at my age I no longer want to share it. Its mine, my precious. I love this album always have. It can suck you into a depressed state but nothing like self loathing.
1:25:15 The moment you played it, I thought SHOOT it sounds like Great Below. Because you played it on a piano, it was easier to make a connection. And what is interesting is in "Somewhat Damaged" he "flew too high and burned the wings" and then he was faced with what was DOWN BELOW. Very intriguing. All these recurring motives make me wonder, are these always placed there deliberately and for specific reasons, pulling the whole material together? Or is Trent simply repeating himself sometimes in terms of his selection of notes? Very intriguing.
Into the Void is a masterpiece
Masterpiece
1:51:41 probably my favorite of the album these days.
Used to be The Fragile was my favorite- when I was younger.
"I'm Looking Forward To Joining You, Finally" is probably one of my favorite "off"-tracks of all Trent's work.
That droning bass reminds me of some of the sounds you hear in old Spyro The Dragon tracks. I think I'm thinking of like Cliff Town and Tree Tops... they make great use of those gentle tones.
Really enjoyed this meandering chat on this album.. I'm revisiting the album now... it's so epic (in the real sense of the word not the kid's trendy use of it _ I'm so behind the times!) ... totally forgot there are so many songs on it. really thematic... almost like movements in one piece right? :D And that prepared piano sends my mind straight to Aphex Twin's Drukqs album.
I missed it 😖
At least it's still here
Just got the definitive edition on vinyl - Amazing experience :)
Lol just found this in my rando feed after mentioning this isnanoter post...might have accidentally said wretched.
I really liked the album and live DVD. I would say that absolutely the time I found this can say even if you replace his vocals with instrument/s and take it as that holy heck that was some intense music.
I remember high school with with a 300watt JVC system. Between that lords of acid first two slipknot albums plenty of that good old raw street tapes/cds and gogo the lovely music of DC....that album was very Interesting. It's crazy how I just found out Dre worked on a song.
Back in 99, as an elementary school kid at that point, hearing The Day the World Went Away on the radio (as the first single) was fucking amazing. Was so different from anything else on alt rock radio. Good times. It's funny how much The Perfect Drug hinted at how The Fragile was gonna sound like: going from the machine vs organic sounds of The Downward Spiral to the drum n bass, strings of The Fragile.
I feel Trent has always tried to come back to this album. You could probably mix and jamble this album and Hesitation Marks and it will flow, or sound like the same "era".
On a side note, I see some of us are playing revisionists in terms of track listings or what they feel has aged the best. As an older person now than when this behemoth dropped, I can see now how some critics were ... dismissive of some tracks. These are the songs I feel are the strongest, most complete. In hind sight, a lot of the instrumentals from this era (including Still) could have made a great 1st Ghosts album.
Somewhat Damaged
The Day the World Went Away
Just Like You Imagined
The Frail
The Wretched
We're In This Together
The Fragile
Even Deeper
The Way Out Is Through
Into the Void
The Big Comedown
La Mer
The Great Below
The video was just like you imagined
The music and lyrics alludes to some of the biggest secrets in the world. "The Fragile", the song, is literally about a incredibly beautiful woman, looking for some ONE. I fell in love with her over time, after they, who are in Air Force, Department of Defense, Defense Intelligence, etc., made me break up with Annie aka Anastasia (the becoming). I had to go through several years of enhanced interrogation during Trump Era, in a room above a laundry room, that shook hours, every day. I was threatened over and over to not talk about Trump, but they wanted me to join the "association", "NSA", and "the company". I had no clue this woman could read my mind and she loved and cared for me. One of the greatest things in life.
-OUT OF MANY, ONE
"We've been going for two hours now, probably can't go too too much longer." She says 2/3rds of the way through.
lol
my favorite NIN album!
Dissonance is beauty.
If you haven't heard the single version of Day the World Went Away, I recommend checking it out. It uses a completely different vocal take from the album version. It runs 4:04 and was on the cd single with the Quiet version and Starfuckers, Inc with an extended outro.
‘we would be here for three hours’
😬🤭
I shoveled snow @ 11 because this album made me feel like I wasn't ALONE!! I'm a tattoo artist and NIN is hidden in my handwork!!
re: we're in this together
There's an interview with Alan Moulder I think where he says he recommended that snare as a joke because it was so cheesy sounding, but Trent heard it in the song and was like, wait, I don't care, this snare is it.