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What is you least favorite NIN song and why?
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EVERYTHING!!!
(inb4 everyone else)
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I feel like this could easily turn into controversial NIN opinions part 2 in half a page...
Speaking of, I would probably go with something off Fixed.
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Not So Pretty Now: just embarrassing. This is my #1 worst song.
Runners-up:
Discipline tries way too hard. I hate how this song sounds in general.
Disappointed is okay at the start, then goes on forever towards the end with absolutely nothing happening. It's much better live.
Running has some good moments but is horribly repetitive in a very unexciting way.
Fuck the naysayers; Everything is a good song.
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Deep (deep deep deep ...)
Josh Wink was on HLAH
Angel, it doesn't even FEEL like nin you know
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Love that songOriginally Posted by kleiner352
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You Know What You Are? is my worst song. But I don't hate it, it's just my least favorite song.
Everything is a good song, but I still don't get it. I need some more explanation why that song is on the album, a few comments from Rob were just not enough.
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What do you mean by more of an explanation? Why a song is *not* on an album could be explained easily, e.g., the album was too long, the song was similar to another song. But aren't most songs on a NIN album on there because Trent thought they were good and wanted to share them?
I guess some songs might be added because there was an overarching structural value. Like, maybe something like "The Downward Spiral" song was written for that reason or something. (I don't know if that's historically accurate. Just seems plausible.)
Or do you mean more like, why did Trent decide to right a song in that style?
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Meaning
From an interview with The Sun, Trent Reznor said the following about the track:
"I was trying to make something that leapt out of the speakers in a very umfamiliar way. At first listen, it might seem to be in praise of life but it's supposed to come off as an arrogant, 'Fuck you. I've survived!' It also gets less triumphant and more reflective and melancholy towards the end."[3]Reznor went on to state, in another interview:
"There were a few moments of this album where I expected eyebrows to raise," Reznor says. "But that actually was not one of them. To me, 'Everything' is a descendant of Fear and Joy Division and New Order. Somehow, that song has become representative of this as my 'happy album,' although I don't hear it as such. It's certainly not meant to make you feel like, 'Look at how great everything is!' But it seems to be the shocking moment of the record. We've not played it onstage, only in rehearsals. It's become an irritant to me."[4]
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What that song is trying to tell, in context. Actually I never read the first interview (with The Sun) Ryan posted above till now.
I only knew the second part and I was thinking 'okay, I know you didn't wrote this song to make us happy, and the lyrics are dark, but I still don't know what you're trying to do'.
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I don't find it very melancholy at the end; that part has always sounded uplifting to me:
I am home
I believe
I am home
I am free
I am home
I can see
Always here
Finally
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Black Bomb.... Needs more DJ noodling
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To me, that part has always sounded like someone ascending on a high after being sober for a long time. It sounds triumphant, but it's really a setback.
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I still don't think there's a bad song on Broken or TDS. 20 years ago I'd say the same thing about PHM but some of it hasn't aged as well. TF has some filler but nothing horrific IMHO.
There are some serious turds littered across W_T, YZ (Capital G, anyone?), TS, and HM (Running = ugh). Kind of hard to pick one out out so I'll leave it to a single release with accompanying video...
The Perfect Drug. Holy crap that song is just bad, and first time I cringed during a NIN song played on the radio. Cheesy lyrics/drug and relationship metaphor mixed with terrible beats. And that video with his pedo 'stache. :/ Just sounded lame at the time and still blows.
FLAME ON!
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Vessel. Running. Disappointed. I'll come back to this later.
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Bullshit. There's no way you hate every song he's done. I've heard you say you like some of it before, I'm sure!
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Nope. I hate it all. I've renounced my NIN ways and have decided to follow Jesus. Repent! The end is near!Bullshit. There's no way you hate every song he's done. I've heard you say you like some of it before, I'm sure!
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Definitely Everything for me.
I've still never heard Deep.
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Everything by a mile, and about half of PHM.
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i think it's a actually a decent tune. Just don't watch the video.
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probably a song from Year Zero, The Slip or Hesitation Marks. From Year Zero on, about half the songs on each album sucked for me and only 1 or 2 songs from each album were great. Plus Deep. Deep is cheesy. Half of Year Zero is super cheesy (at most it can be a guilty pleasure). The Slip I think I have to listen to again. Hesitation Marks was mediocre, although elements of it were so excellent and promising.
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capital G. i would be happy never hearing that song again.
would much rather listen to "the way you make me feel" by michael jackson.
(not sarcasm)
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You should listen to Capital G [switch remix]
(definitely sarcasm)
Josh Wink was on HLAH
https://soundcloud.com/nineinchnails...in-the-singles
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For real. When everyone circlejerked about it being "too happy for NIN" I had to wonder if they heard the choruses at all.
"And just who you think you used to be begins to bend and break," "This thing that lives inside of me will surely rise and wake," etc. Real happy stuff there. I get disliking it stylistically if it's not your thing but the "happy" criticism was just weird.
I'm personally still disappointed it didn't get played live. Would've loved to have seen it on Tension or the SG tour. Beefed up live with Ilan on the kit it could've sounded fantastic.
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Why the hell not? Do a YouTube search now and listen. I personally love it and have parts of it stuck in my head all the time.
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Getting Smaller or Everything....tough choice, my two least favourite NIN songs.
Today, Getting Smaller, tomorrow it might be Everything. I'm pretty content with all other songs haha
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