Most ball-squeezingly intense NIN moment?

[BenAkenobi]

When i read the title "ball-squeezingly" i imagined the rubber toy ball for stress relief, that you can fling into your wall and it'll bounce all over the place. Much like nin music, which lets you loosen and get away from things and at the same time it does occupy relatively little space and just rests in the corner when you're away doing important stuff. Life doesn't revolve around it, you control it even when you think it's so epic and/or mindblowing and/or groundbreaking. Okay okay i shut up...

[elevenism]

of course, then there's a more pleasurable kind of ball squeezing that can be fairly intense...

But to be clear, the title refers to that strange sensation of nut tightening that i get in some powerful, emotional situations, akin to the other strange sensation that occurs for some reason in moments of intense empathy, like when you see some horrible injury, right?
It's not about having your balls in a vice grip, right?
okay okay I ​shut up

[Space Suicide]

How come I knew who made the thread before I even looked at the thread topic creator on the first page?
@Ryan

[Ryan]

@elevenism Yes!
@Space Suicide - I'm good like that. I leave my mark.

[Halo Infinity]

It just seems so right to include this particular moment right here.

[joplinpicasso]

When "The Way Out Is Through" goes from slithering to explosive.

[elevenism]

Oh, how could i forget.

"Nowwwwwwww everything is clear....i erase the feeeeaar.....i can disappear...Please i don't ever want to make it stop!"

Me and that song and fucking alcoholism in the aughts, good god. I SWEAR i had it stuck in my head for YEARS. It was running through my head every time i dragged my dying carcass to the liquor store, which was every day but sunday for a long, long time.

[Ribbitman]

When Eraser goes from kill me to help me at the very end

[elevenism]

When Eraser goes from kill me to help me at the very end

Does it? Jesus, that's 22 years of me not noticing?

[Ribbitman]

Does it? Jesus, that's 22 years of me not noticing?

I've probably listened to it the most of any song and It sounds like it to me. It's hard to hear it.

[botley]

I don't think that's true... sounds like the distortion is just cutting off the beginning and end of the word "kill". But it's just too indistinct to be sure.

[Hazekiah]

With all the talking about that specific lyric Reznor did in interviews at the time, I feel like he would have mentioned it if this were true.

[Ribbitman]

oh how could I forget

The Becoming - you know which part
"broken bruised forgotten sore too fucked up to care anymore"
Just like you fucking imagined

[Jrod]

NINE INCH NAILS : LIVE : 06.09.2000 : THE GORGE : is all I have to say, but if you were there that night; you know! we almost died on that floor, most insane nine inch nails experience of my life. I still have flashbacks of that show.

[Ryan]

Slave screams he hears but doesn't want to LISTEN!!!!!
Slave screams he's being beat into SUBMISSION!!!!!

[GrayscaleRain]

The EXPLOSION at the end of Beside You In Time, both the live and album versions. (They're very different and I always liked the drums and Trent's "ooooooooohoooo!" during the live version, but the sheer wall of sound on the album version is powerful as well.)

[Erneuert]

To you, personally?

For me it's the:

"the deeper the wound I'm inside you, forever and ever I am a part of -- YOUUUUU AND MEEEE..."

part of WITT.

What part of a song really rustles your jimmies in the best of ways?

Upon further reflection and maturation, I have to say the entirety (but especially the end) of Ripe (With Decay) does this for me now. I mean, how can one top an ending track like that? @eversonpoe agrees, I’m sure.

The vinyl is robbed, ROBBED to only have “Ripe”.

[azad_ninja]

The first time I listened to the Fragile, I had my headphones on and the volume on LOUD. So the last three seconds of No, You Don't was pretty fucking intense.