#song is happiness in slavery by nin!

[9e111]

an old i have no mouth piece i made for no reason

[snowysobsessions]

hiii :] favorite nin songs? i'm curious what others we might share

Hello! :) It's going to be hard not to include everything on The Fragile and Broken, but I will try!

La Mer -> The Great Below -> The Way Out Is Through -> Into The Void. I feel like these four are one continuous work and and they are their strongest together. So I will count them as "one song." Anyway, they impacted me harder than The Downward Spiral (the album) did, which I didn't think was possible. Together, they are one of my favourite works of art of all time. And as someone who went to art school I've seen a lot of incredible art in all kinds of mediums.

Please. I mentioned this in my response to your post but IT KEEPS REPEATING! WILL YOU PLEASE COMPLETE ME?! [Clears throat] I don't know what came over me just then. So basically I wasn't the same man after hearing this for the first time. In my brain, being the writer and composer of Please is one of Trent's highest accomplishments. It's that good to me.

Pilgrimage. I think this one also altered my brain chemistry. It's such a weird track and I can't stop thinking about it. Also the auditory textures are immaculate.

The Becoming. This song is everything to me. Odd time signatures that never feel steady, sounds meant to make you feel very uncomfortable, long verses that never seem to end, extremely deliberate but strange sounding emphasis on syllables, I could go on forever.

Reptile. I don't know how to explain it but this song puts me on a new plane of existence. It feels like an emotional state that is both everything at once and nothing at all. Not to mention it being an incredible work of sound design.

Sin. I wouldn't be reposting the PHM fancam every Monday if I didn't absolutely LOVE this song. It was one of the first NIN songs I heard, and I said to myself "I don't care if the rest of what this guy made is crap, this is one of the best songs I've ever heard."

Ringfinger. A track so underrated sometimes even I forget how good it is. Just generally a really good song that I love, not a lot more to say.

Happiness in Slavery. I love this one because in the intense parts it feels like the song itself is attacking me (positive) but in the quieter moments it feels like a cry for help.

Suck. I really like the balance of intensity, rage, and heavy textures mixed with quiet, sensual, and regretful moments. It's like Closer and The Big Come Down put into a blender.

Only. Immensely catchy with very relatable lyrics, this is one of Trent's best for sure. Actually, it has helped me with social anxiety. If I get really anxious that no one actually likes me, I start singing "I just made (that version of) you UP, to HURT myself" until I convince myself no one actually feels that way about me.

Sunspots. The bass in this one is just incredible, I can almost feel the airwaves vibrate through my body. Combined with Trent's gentle and quiet voice it's a very pleasant sensory experience. Great for decompression after sensory overload.

The Line Begins to Blur. I really, really love the balance of noisiness and texture contrasted with smooth gentle sounds. It's very Fragile-esque but it feels more in control, focused, and significantly less "I'm dead inside." It's truly beautiful in every way.

Discipline. To be honest, Discipline > Head Like a Hole and The Hand That Feeds. Of all the very pop and mainstream songs Trent has made (that I've heard so far), this one is absolutely the strongest for me. It's so undoubtedly Nine Inch Nails, yet fits so perfectly amongst much less alternative/industrial artists. I'm 100% recommending it to anyone who wants to get into NIN. (My Mom also loves this song, it's her favourite NIN song I think.)

1,000,000. This one is kind of amazing to me because it's like every angry depression song Trent made up to that point rolled into one. Like actually just playing them all at the same time, I feel like I'm under psychic attack (positive). It's also... Unfortunately catchy. I have to be careful not to sing it out loud.

Thank you for the ask and for coming to my TED Talk! :)

[dykeferatu]

Hi, River! :)

What's your favourite NIN song(s) my dude? (If I may call you my dude.)

hello! god this is like asking me to choose a favorite child except i think that would be easier. if i was a parent. it's hard to chose only a few faves but it will TRY to keep this limited... (note from future river: i failed)

fuck this is actually so difficult... ok i have to get closer out of the way

obviously..... predictable choice but it's a hit for a reason ok!! it was my top song on spotify last year and i literally only started listening to nin in october. so good... i saw u respond to my post about track transitions and the transition from closer into ruiner makes me go crazyyyyyyy. i love ruiner as well but again. trying to keep it limited..

ok nearly every song on tds is a favorite so i'm just going to highlight a few more and then i'll give other releases a chance 😭

reptileee.. UGHHH. yeah this one just does something to me. the machinery sounds. yum. that guitar bit that lines up with that one machine sample that's playing throughout (3:43 if u don't know wtf i'm talking abt)... and i like the muffled yelling in the outro

there are songs on tds i guess i technically like listening to more but there's something about this one that makes it special to me. it's comforting somehow! the intro is meditative, and the meat of the song is cathartic. i like how we get the same muffled effect as on reptile, but here even the instrumentals are muffled

BURN!! one of my first favs. so good and aggressive. grraaahhhh

ok gonna try to limit myself to one song per release from here on out bc i really do love so many.....

so fun and funky. the nursery rhyme lyrics are a little silly but i love it. also love the part where he just screams

so many good things abt this one... the first things that made my ears perk up were the synths on the chorus

there's just a weight to the sound of this one that i'm obsessed with atm. also, the crunch is real good

ok already breaking my promise but the fragile has so many songs and i haaave to highlight please. underrated as hell!!! hearing that chorus for the first time changed my brain chemistry (<- could say this about a lot of nin stuff lmao)

breaking my promise AGAIN because LA MER...... such a beautiful song. does things to me. has made me cry. whatever........

gotta love only. the beat. the rambling verses. the chorus. the reference to down in it. fun!

i ran out of embeds but THAT WON'T STOP ME...

Me, I'm Not - i woke up with this song stuck in my head once and then i listened to year zero and finally Got It

Discipline - just a banger

Various Methods of Escape - hesitation marks is CRIMINALLY UNDERRATED

The Background World - i do kinda with there was a version with a shorter outro bc i looove this one but it's hard to put on playlists. great way to end the ep tho

God Break Down the Door - PLAY THAT SAX TRENT!! i also love his voice in this one

OK i'm done. i agonized over this and i still wanted to include more 😭😭 tysm for asking and thanks to anyone who got to the end of this post <3 ily

[trentreznorfanboy]

fun fact about Broken

As most of us know, Broken was recorded in secret because of the contract Reznor was tied to, he was told to make another pop album that was even more light hearted and poppy than Pretty Hate Machine, but he wanted to do the opposite.

It was recorded under the pseudonym Stunt Popes because anything created under Nine Inch Nails would have been owned by the record company

it was never really meant to be released from what i can tell, during the making of the film he worked with Peter Christopherson and Bob Flanagan

The short film doesn’t include every song, it left out Last, Physical and Suck

I don’t know if it’s still there, but there’s a hidden link to the short film on the official NIN website

Reznor ended up giving his friends copies of the film, but for the Help me Im in Hell segment he censored different parts for each of the copies, that way he would know who leaked it if it did get leaked.

That plan worked too, the most prominent leak is most likely from Gibby Haynes.

In the end it never really mattered, as an anonymous user online (most likely Reznor himself) Seed0 shared the video to the Pirate Bay on December 30th, it’s most likely Reznor as he posted to his blog on December 21st “Happy holidays! This one is a guilt-free download. (shhhh- I didn’t say that out loud) if you know what i’m talking about, cool”

Happiness in Slavery follows Bob Flanagan as he falls victim to the sado maso machine that eventually grinds him up to use him to fertilize soil underneath him, it ends with Reznor walking in and repeating the same rituals as the first man.

Pinion and Help Me in in Hell are credited to Eric Goode and Happiness In Slavery is credited to Jon Riess

[erporo]

hi erporo !! we don't interact but ur art is super sick and i love the random stuff u put on my page 🩷 i had a question abt ur music !! u put a lot of Pink Floyd on my page and i see some NIN too; i don't listen to much of either,, do u have any specific song recommendations ? i LOVE Echoes, If, and Summer '68 but those r abt the only ones i know. and as far as NIN goes im essentially clueless . thank u if u respond and thanks regardless for ur fun blog !

hi hi hi buggy,

tnx for the kind words!! <33

SO. song recs, huh.. i've already answered another que about pf (mostly) album (bcs ithink it's really better to listen to pf in albums, not some specific songs) recs like a week ago,

on a second thought tho, here are a few more that are worth listening to that i didn't add for god knows what reason:

Relics (contains the band's first singles like See Emily Play, Arnold Layne & cool songs like Julia Dream for example),

Ummagumma,

and Animals (Dogs is up there with Echoes and SOYCD to me). It's a hella political album (bcs of Rog & his opinions) tho

there's some more ofc like The Early Years, The Later Years & stuff, but they're there if u've listened to the main catalog & u want more, yk?

there's also this post i agree with for the most part.

i can get a bit more specific if u want tho, just lmk. keep in mind it's (obviously) gonna get real lengthy real quick tho-

as for nin... WELL

here's some, again, mostly album recs because, just like with pf- i think it's really better to listen to dis band in albums, in context, not some specific songs:

the entirety of Pretty Hate Machine, nin's debut album. ive listened to it like, yesterday for the 5th time or something- it's so gud

if u like some metal stuff, Broken EP is awesome,

Fixed (an entire album of remixes of Broken's songs) also has some goodies, like the remix of Happiness in Slavery (this song's been SUCH A MOOD for at least 3 yrs by now) & Fist Fuck <3

the entirety of The Downward Spiral of COURSE,

The Fragile's also hella good- one of my fav albums of theirs actually,

but u ain't gonna lose much if u don't listen to. all of em- like u can leave out the songs like Please, No, You Don't & u will be gud

If u wanna listen to some p cool outtakes (like, there's one that legit sounds like smth out of Shadow the Hedgehog LMAO) and instrumentals of the album then feel free to check out The Fragile: Deviations

the entirety of With Teeth, ithink??

see, im not sure about the entirety part bcs i always omit Getting Smaller & im. cool

Year Zero's also got some goodies: Survivalism; The Good Soldier; Me, I'm Not; Capital G; God Given; The Great Destroyer...

Hesitation Marks is. i think my second fav of theirs. can't recommend it enough.

like the first 10 songs of the albums r just. the best of the best: Came Back Haunted, Copy of A, All Time Low, Everything, Satellite, stuff like that.

In Two & While I'm Still Here r also p good afair

Honorable mentions:

She's Gone Away : a song that was featured in one of the eps of Twin Peaks (!!), & yep- its hella gud,

At The Heart of It All,

The Beauty of Being Numb,

Underneath the Skin : just a cool remix, v train-like if that makes sense LMAO,

This Isn't The Place : a song by Trent, dedicated to a huge influential figure of his back in the 90s - David Bowie. (for VERY obvious reasons too, as u can see),

Needless to say, their cover of Hurt makes me cry buckets every time i swear,

The Perfect Drug,

Trent's amazing cover of Queen's song Get Down Make Love,

God Break Down The Door,

MAGNIFICENT covers of various artists' songs (Joy Division, Iggy Pop, The Normal) & each other's songs (like Sanity Assassin, Head Like a Hole, Reptile, Bela Lugosi's Dead, etc) by Trent and Bauhaus' Peter Murphy from 2006,

NIN at Woodstock '94 <- Powerful shit.

& dat's it. hope u enjoy em!!

wouldn't be surprised if u didn't tho- pf's music's def not for everyone & Trent's music is mostly for. goths yk

[meatsex]

Fav NIN song/album?

my fav album is the downward spiral (yes, even after listening to a good big chunk of the discography)

my fav song.. thats way harder.. heres one fav song from random albums

sin (phm)

happiness in slavery (broken and fixed too)

ruiner (preferably right after closer)

everyday is exactly the same (with teeth)

echoplex (the slip)

thank you for the nin indulgent ask

[rillette]

Guess who is back

What would be your NIN song picks for Hal? Persoanlly mine would be Discipline, The Great Below and Ripe With Decay (And if you really want to find a reason to hate me: Happiness In Slavery and The Only Time)

:3

YESSSSS!!!! fantastic song choices, you're so fucking right as always!! discipline and great below especially oughhhhgg

i would go with hand that feeds, happiness in slavery, every day is exactly the same, and the great destroyer!!

[voskhozhdeniye]

I have been asked by @gaydread to complete this.

Last song I listened to/as I'm typing this:

Favorite Color: Orange is my favorite color, #CF5906, but I also really enjoy dark reds, #9C1309.

Reading: Nothing at the moment.

Last Movie: I didn't watch anything last month so Shrek 1 and 2 at the theater back in September.

What am I working on: From an artistic standpoint, trying to find a balance between noise and dance music that that feels right to me. I feel like most of what I'm making sounds like trying to get the two to play nice, instead of an organic combination. I've been thinking about the '90s NIN remix albums a lot. The "Happiness in Slavery" remix on 'Fixed' has always been a favorite. Lots of early Yellow Swans too, 'Dosed' in particular. Health's 'Get Color' also. The word primal keeps coming to mind.

Elsewhere, I'm on my second major playthrough of Fallout 3. It's my forth overall, but my second time really doing as many quest as possible. It's also my first time really playing the game since I started going to the city to explore a decade ago. I wish DC had as many metro stations as the game says it has. That metro station in the game by the white house is pure fiction. There are more, but that's the one that made me actually laugh when I saw it.

As for life, it and I are disintegrating.

@gaydread thank you for the recommendations.

I'm going to tag @anarchist-caravan @knightofleo & @yoddel

[defilerwyrm]

For the WIP ask game: Just Words and So Much Skin? (Sounds porny or horrory or both 😆)

Both, honestly, it is absolutely trash in the HTP sense of the term: everyone has a good old time until they don’t. (The title is a line from the NIN song “Happiness in Slavery”)

I just talked a bit about the plot, so here’s an excerpt:

The orcs are wise to what they seem to think the game is. The taller one squints and tilts his chin up. “How much does he go for?” Historically, two silver an hour. Caleb wills himself not to flinch. The shorter one is still eyeing him, now craning his head to and fro. “He’s pretty valuable,” Fjord tells them. “I don’t know, I’d put it around twenty-five hundred gold pieces.” The orcs share another look and make noises of disgust as they turn away. “Too rich for our taste.” The shorter one does spare a glance back at Caleb and there— there it is, it clicks into place where he’s seen that look. He can work with that, for the right price. He relaxes out of the spell on the short walk back to Fjord’s side. “Offer me to rent,” he says quietly. Fjord, seemingly about to yell after the full-bloods, does a double take. “I beg your fucking pardon?”

[desirepathzine]

A couple of months before the Covid 19 pandemic sent me home from college, I was unable tot listen to anything but Head Like A Hole by Nine Inch Nails. Walking to and from class, sittng by myself, pounding through the blackbox speakers at 1030 at night when I could just lay on the floor and listen.

I'd been on the fringes of trad goth music for some time (the on-repeat listening prior to Head Like A Hole was A Letter to Elise by The Cure), but something about the mechanized anger of industrial was breaking me open in a different way. Powerful, vulnerable, LOUD.

I had been familiar with Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross' soundtrack work. One of the most foundational films of my youth was The Social Network, David Fincher's 2010 piece about the founding of Facebook, a movie that on release felt cutting edge and has only grown in prescience, feeling like an apocalyptic prophecy from a time before the site became synonymous with conspiracy theories and election fraud. The score to The Social Networrk was like nothing I had ever heard before. I, a homeschooled, deeply neurotic, deeply Christian tween was not in an environment conducive to listening to Nine Inch Nails yet (my mother regularly admonished me for the 70s punk that filled my iTunes library). But those sounds, sometimes desolate, sometimes manic, always compelling, were on constant rotation for years. I wrote many school papers and stared out many car windows to The Social Network score over the years. And always just kind of put the band itself off for another time.

That time arrived. I was 21, and feeling more and more like a person with something to say, ready to graduate into a world that I was eager to be a part of. That did not happen. In March of 2020, I was sent home for a two week spring break that turned into a forever spring break.

With nothing holding me together, confined to a house I had not wished to return to, and in circumstances that literally comprised my worst nightmares (I have long been a hypochondriac who used to have real and actual panic attacks about the outbreak of a new virus), one of the only effective ways I had found to cope was throwing myself into the music of Nine Inch Nails.

NIN as a band seems remarkably suited to pandemic times. Songs like "Every Day Is Exactly the Same" and "We're In This Together" felt almost too on the nose in the everyday banal struggles of the early Covid era in America. But for me, the most catharsis came from the bombastic rage of their famous Woodstock 94 set.

Trent Reznor and co. took to the stage absolutely coated in mud, fighting weather and faulty equipment, and smashed through a set of their early work, becoming the talk of the festival, and setting a high watermark for the culturally explosive year of 1994, perhaps the only time in history a band like Nine Inch Nails could chart as high as they did. The set features a rabid performance of Happiness in Slavery, two songs that were featured in classic films from the year (their cover of Joy Division's Dead Souls as featured in The Crow, and Burn from Natural Born Killers), Trent saying fuck on PPV TV and being quite pleased with himself, a sound issue riddled performance of their Grammy award winning "Wish" in which Trent still manages to scream the infamous "fist fuck" line into the mic, a tech team scrambling to dodge Yamaha DX-7s, guitarist Robin Finck getting tripped up in guitar chords and eating shit during Down In It, and in general, the sort of controlled chaos that I most strongly associate with Nine Inch Nails. The first time I watched this set, I was spellbound. Pretty Hate Machine, NIN's first album, was absolutely made to be heard live. As soon as I heard Trent option up into a scream on Terrible Lie's last verse, I was sold forever. To say nothing of the whirring rage of Sin, which remains my favorite Nine Inch Nails song most days.

I watched this performance, at minimum, twice a week. I too felt like a small screaming Trent Reznor, covered in mud, rolling around on the stage. It was cathartic, captivating, and a good way to mosh it out between zoom classes to finish my degree and anxiously watching the Covid case counter march steadily upwards.

Shortly before all hell broke loose, Nine Inch Nails was announced as an inductee into the Rock N Roll Hall of Fame. Normally, this entails an induction ceremony with a performance by the bands. (The 2020 class would have been particularly strange, seeing as three of its most famous entrants had passed on, Marc Bolan of T-Rex, Whitney Houston, and The Notorious B I G) . But nonetheless, I was looking forward to it.

Just as I did not to have a graduation ceremony in December of 2020, there was no cathartic reunion of past members for Nine Inch Nails. Just as some guy I didn't even know read my name from a list on a livestream, so Nine Inch Nails was given a slickly produced video package and a pre-filmed introductory message from Iggy Pop (it would've been cool if Iggy Pop read my name at graduation though).

I felt a sort of kinship, however small, in this fact. Culminations of years of hard work and promised celebration postponed and reworked again and again and again.

In 2021, as the vaccines rolled out and events little by little started to reappear, the Rock Hall museum reopened, and installed an exhibit for the 2020 class. There, right next to a Depeche Mode display, was enshrined a tribute to the Woodstock 94 performance, lovingly rendered with mud and all.

I immediately knew I had to see it. After some discussion, I begged it off as a graduation trip a year in the making, and in June of 2021, after vaccination, during a dip in cases prior to the Delta variant arriving in the states, my dad and I took a roadtrip to Cleveland. My dad, not a NIN fan by any means but a music lover who knows the kind of impact a band can make on a person, graciously escorted me up the country and listened patiently as I infodumped about my favorite band and made him listen to a lot of goth music in the car.

The day we arrived at the museum, I calmly took in the multitude of sights at the Rock Hall, moseying through relics of music history and reading all the plaques, but I was abuzz. I knew what floor the new inductees exhibit was on, and I knew when we were approaching. I sprinted off the escalator and there was the alcove, there was the installation, and blasting loudly in the little room was "We're In This Together". I had made it. I cried.

That in and of itself would have been a good full circle moment, but unbelievably, the story gets better. I ended up in Cleveland again a year later, seeing a q and a with NIN at the Rock Hall, where members past and present got together to celebrate the band's legacy, and the next day got to see all of them perform together, some for the first time in years, at the Blossom Center in Ohio. Sitting in a small lecture room with the folks who had made such a strong impact on my life and kept me going through some of the roughest times I had ever known was incredible. They were older, wiser, and all extremely gracious and very funny.

They resurrected the NIN Woodstock installation for the occasion, but I was too busy getting coralled into a VIP line to go to the Q and A and catching my best Discord friend after they tripped down the escalator to hug me to go see it. I hope other folks got to see it and have their full circle moment. It's crazy to think that a mannequin in raggedy clothes covered in fake mud with a DX-7 could have had such a big impact on my life, but every time I see a picture from my trip, or just the image itself out in the wild, I am overcome with emotions.

And now, as I enter yet another era of my life where things are uncertain and hard, I hold my two road trips very dear. As ever, thanks Trent.

[everydayesterday]

happiness in slavery is only the 5th-most listened-to song on this EP according to spotify. it's the second-best NIN song. people are wrong.

[j0ekw]

Been listening to NIN and m8 they would've made the best soundtrack for a bionicle project.

Like "The great Below" or "The Lovers" would fit amazingly during a night in the wilderness of Bara Manga, the other sections of the planet hanging overhead among the stars. "The Great Below" especially would fit with a whistful mata nui longing for his original body back (It could also fit with Mahari nui tbf)

Meanwhile something like "The Wretched" or "No, you don't" seems evocative off the ignika Mahari period, with the general distain presented in the songs matching how it seemed like there was always a double cross going on.

Probably not as much of a match, given how it wasn't as forthright in the lore, but "Happiness in Slavery" (as well as the broken LP in general) seems to match the vibe of metru mui during "Dume"'s rise to power, with the overly militant vahki, the fact that a lot of the jobs there seem pretty unregulated (like onewa's whole deal) and just the fact its the most industrial setting.

It probably helps that a lot of these songs came out during/just before Bionicle was a thing, so the vibe of the time period probably helps bridge them a lot. I think generally their more ambient stuff would fit better. Idk if someone's already thought of this and done an AMV but it's an idea.

[xxweevilwitchxx]

“I curse the ground you walk on.”

[man-kills-everything]

A Ranking of NIN Songs

Back in the day, I used to have a page on my blog which showed my favourite top 5 NIN tracks from each album. I decided to resurrect things because why not.

I’ll be just doing the main studio albums with a dedicated section at the bottom for remixes/b-sides/rare tracks/the works. So enough bullshit, let’s dive in

Also, yes I’m kinda of stealing the idea of the anon who sent a few NIN blogs a “Best of Trent” playlist ask so consider this my contribution

Pretty Hate Machine (1989)

5- Kinda I Want To

4- Down in It

3- Sanctified

2- Ringfinger

1- Sin

Broken (1992)

5- Help Me I Am In Hell

4- Happiness In Slavery

3- Suck

2- Physical (You’re So)

1- Gave Up

The Downward Spiral (1994)

5- Reptile

4- Ruiner

3- Eraser

2- A Warm Place

1- The Becoming

The Fragile (1999)

5- The Big Comedown

4- Somewhat Damaged

3- Underneath It All

2- Into The Void

1- The Great Below

Still (2002)

5- Gone, Still

4- Adrift and At Peace

3- The Persistence of Loss

2- Leaving Hope

1- And All That Could Have Been

With Teeth (2005)

5- The Collector

4- The Line Begins To Blur

3- Home

2- Right Where It Belongs

1- Sunspots

Year Zero (2007)

5- The Good Soldier

4- My Violent Heart

3- God Given

2- The Great Destroyer

1- In This Twilight

The Slip (2008)

5- Echoplex

4- 1,000,000

3- Lights In The Sky

2- Head Down

1- Discipline

Ghosts I-IV (2008)

5-8 Ghosts I

4- 28 Ghosts IV 

3- 15 Ghosts II

2- 31 Ghosts IV

1- 37 Ghosts

Hesitation Marks (2013)

5 - Everything

4-  Running

3- All Time Low

2- In Two

1- While I’m Still Here/Black Noise

Not The Actual Events (2016)

5- Dear World

4-  She’s Gone Away

3- Burning Bright (Field on Fire)

2- Branches/Bones

1- The Idea of You

Add Violence (2017)

5- Not Anymore

4- The Lovers

3- Less Than

2- The Background World

1- This Isn’t The Place

Bad Witch (2018)

5- Over and Out

4- Shit Mirror

3- God Break Down The Door

2- I’m Not From This World

1- Ahead of Ourselves

Ghosts V - Together (2020)

5- Letting Go While Still Holding On

3- Apart

4- With Faith

2- Still Right Here

1- Hope We Can Again

2- Another Crashed Car

Ghosts VI - Locusts (2020)

5- When It Happens (Don’t Mind Me)

4 - Run Like Hell

3- The Worriment Waltz

1- Almost Dawn

Honourable Mentions (B-sides/Side Projects/Scores and Others)

Fashion

Burn

Theme to Call of Duty: Black Ops 2

Screaming Slave

Hand Covers Bruise

Slipping Away

The Great Collapse

The Art of Self Destruction Part One

Closer to God

Memorabilia

Deep

Atmosphere

The Space In Between

Fur Lined

Strings and Attractors

Ice Age

The Loop Closes

A Minute to Breathe

What If We Could?

Immigrant Song (Ft. Karen O)

Supernaut (with 1000 Homo DJs)

Babysitter (With Tobacco)

Past The Mission (with Tori Amos)

John Carpenter’s Halloween

Non-Entity

Metal

I’m Afraid of Americans

Stone Cold Crazy (Trent Reznor Remix)

Symphony of Destruction (Gristle Mix)

The Way It Used To Be

Nun With a Motherfucking Gun

Life on Mars?

Lincoln Tunnel

Quake Theme

Driver Down

The Perfect Drug

Technically, Missing

Aphelion

Oraculum

Escape

Lapdance (Remix)

[yellowedvedder]

Hey ☺️❤️

Since I'm obsessed with them... I want to know your favorite songs by Depeche Mode and NIN!

hi!

first, thanks for ask!

and second...

i think my DM favorites are Try Walking In My Shoes, Everything Counts and recently It's No Good (idk why but these last days is always on my playlist!) and my NIN faves are Down In It, Ringfinger, Happiness In Slavery and the cover from Joy Division, Dead Souls (i'm a big fan of everything from the Pretty Hate Machine era 😆)

[radionotfound]

Hi, glad to see you came up with some pretty cool NIN asks :) I would like to hear your thoughts on 4, 7, 17, 18, 19, 22 and of course 24 (mine is the Squidward-esque arm flip flop thing he does during Copy of A)

Thanks! I wanted to focus on NIN because my friends are sick of me talking about Trent and I thought your asks were cool, but I didn’t want to get personal. Anywho...

4. This is harder than I thought! First one that comes to mind is Discipline. That song is a straight up bop! Maybe Ringfinger too. I know everyone criticizes that LP for its songwriting and for sounding dated, but Ringfinger is just a good ass song. I would also throw in their cover of Dead Souls, but I may be bias because I’m a huge fan of The Crow.

7. Easy - Closer to God. Honestly, I’m not too big on the remixes. They just don’t do much for me, but Closer to God takes the song and adds to it in a way that makes it's meaning even clearer. I like the funky groove of the original, but the aggressive edge and the harshness of the song just really gets me at times. And though it’s not a sexy song, the remix just makes it hotter.

17. I only started listening to the scores this year. I’m not too big on instrumental music, so no not a fan of Ghosts I-IV. But after listening to all the scores I really like the Watchmen one. And it makes sense. Trent and Atticus even said it’s more in the NIN wheelhouse. I’m a sucker for really heavy, aggressive, brutal, harsh music and the score has that. But I also appreciate the quiet moments and its jazzy moments that sound nothing like NIN. And the score makes you feel like a badass. Try walking down the street listening to Nun With a Motherfucking Gun and not feel powerful.

18. It’s so tempting to say Closer for obvious reasons, but the one video I can’t stop watching is March of the Pigs. It’s so simple, yet striking. I just love Trent’s performance and of course, there’s the shenanigans like toppling into Robin and Danny and throwing the mic like a brat. It’s such a powerful performance that shows you don’t always need complex concepts or millions of dollars to make a good video. Plus, Trent’s outfit 👌

19. ...does the Broken movie count? That whole thing is disturbing. It’s on my shortlist of movies that actually scare me. Happiness in Slavery comes to mind. It’s unapologetic about its gore. Closer, of course. And oddly enough Pinon. It gives me chills when the camera pans out and we see someone bound and gagged having water funneled into them. The way the body trembles just gets me. 

22. I mentioned it in another ask, but I totally thought Trent was an elitist asshole. Something he said in an interview once came off as arrogant. But having watched many more interviews I see he’s a down to earth dude who’s just socially awkward. He honestly seems like a cuddly bear at times.

24. I do like his flip flop dance a lot! But his Closer groove and....whatever he does during Even Deeper are my favorites:

Thanks for the asks!