Rank NIN Albums

[REPLICA]

1. The Fragile
The Downward Spiral
With Teeth
The Social Network
Year Zero
Pretty Hate Machine
The Slip
Broken
Ghosts I-IV

Listening to GWTDT right now. So far, it's pretty good.

[joplinpicasso]

Vertigo, what modifications on The Slip do you speak of?

On blue moons, With Teeth sliiiightly edges out The Fragile for me as my favorite.

[Vertigo]

Vertigo, what modifications on The Slip do you speak of?

-On 1,000,000 I cleaned up the "popping" muting noise at the end of each guitar riff and some of the gaps in the guitar (this took a long ass time); EQ tweak on the drum track to make it a bit punchier; shortened the silence before the finale; tinkered with the balance between the instruments.
-Discipline didn't really need tweaking but I used the multitrack version (which has an extended ending) and faded out each instrument at a different pace, letting the listener analyze the composition as the song winds down.
-For Echoplex I stripped the bass guitar from a lot of sections (trying to give it a lighter touch and more of a fragile, emotive tone) and messed with the opening drums to simulate the live intro to the song.
-Lights In The Sky I applied different subtle effects to each piano section, not enough to make it sound weird but enough to provide some dynamism to the track; also boosted the atmospheric effects later in the track to become a primary element of the song.
-Corona Radiata, just capped the bass booming at a couple of points in the first half of the song. This lets you comfortably listen to it at a higher volume.
-With Demon Seed I did the obligatory splicing with Ghosts 38, trying to make a more epic closing track. It works very well in my opinion - scatter the Ghosts material correctly and you have great instrumental tangents between verses, it almost feels like a NIN take on Jane's Addiction's Three Days. I didn't just add in sections though, it works best if you swap some 38 elements into DS's sections and vice versa (and some fiddling needs doing to make everything fit together properly).

Mucho thanks if anyone could be bothered to read through all that...

[ubermensch]

The Downward Spiral
The Fragile
Pretty Hate Machine
Broken
With_Teeth
Year Zero
The Slip
Ghosts