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[OSLIN]

With excitement for the new album growing, I've been listening to a lot of old NIN and started creating some playlist.
Then I started thinking if I had the chance to arrange any album of NIN's, what would I create? Then I started thinking, people here might have some sequences that I would be interested in listening to. So here are the rules, there are no rules.
Just take your favorite NIN album and any songs from that era to create an ordered sequence that you'd prefer.
Basically, pretend you're the permanent Bob Ezrin of NIN.
For example: Create a new TDS that includes Burn/Dead Souls/anything FDTS, then remove Big Man with A Gun/Piggy and then rearrange the songs.
Track listing numbers can vary. There's no wrong way, all NIN is good.
Look forward to seeing what you come up with, and remember there's no end to the possibilities!!!

[OSLIN]

The Fragile
as arranged by OSLIN

Left

01 The Way Out is Through
02 The Frail
03 The Wretched
04 Where is Everybody?
05 Just Like You Imagined
06 We're In This Together
07 The Fragile
08 Gone, Still
09 And All That Could Have Been
10 Leaving Hope
11 Underneath It All

Center

01 Somewhat Damaged
02 Into the Void
03 Deep
04 No, You Don't
05 Starfuckers, Inc.
06 The Big Comedown
07 Pilgrimage
08 Metal
09 Even Deeper
10 La Mer
11 The Great Below

Right

01 The Day the World Went Away
02 Adrift and At Peace
03 The Mark Has Been Made
04 10 Miles High
05 Please
06 Appendage
07 Complication
08 The New Flesh
09 I'm Looking Forward to Joining You, Finally
10 The Persistence of Loss
11 Ripe (With Decay)

[laz001]

Pretty much Hate this Machine

1 Kinda I want to
2 Kinda I want to
3 Kinda I want to
4 Kinda I want to
5 Kinda I want to
6 Kinda I want to
7 Kinda I want to
8 Kinda I want to
9 Kinda I want to
10 Kinda I want to

[OSLIN]

Pretty much Hate this Machine1 Kinda I want to2 Kinda I want to3 Kinda I want to4 Kinda I want to5 Kinda I want to6 Kinda I want to7 Kinda I want to8 Kinda I want to9 Kinda I want to10 Kinda I want to

Good one! Didn't see that coming. Kinda I want to punch you in the face

[brokenfragility]

I like this idea. I've been thinking about cherry picking things from different NIN eras to create a crazy sonic concept, I think it could be done and even sound like it was meant to be. I will type up a list of what I mean later tonight.

[Ryan]

The Fragile
as arranged by Jeffrey Oslin

Left

01 The Way Out is Through
02 The Frail
03 The Wretched
04 Where is Everybody?
05 Just Like You Imagined
06 We're In This Together
07 The Fragile
08 Gone, Still
09 And All That Could Have Been
10 Leaving Hope
11 Underneath It All

Center

01 Somewhat Damaged
02 Into the Void
03 Deep
04 No, You Don't
05 Starfuckers, Inc.
06 The Big Comedown
07 Metal
08 Pilgrimage
09 Even Deeper
10 La Mer
11 The Great Below

Right

01 The Day the Whole World Went Away
02 Adrift and At Peace
03 The Mark Has Been Made
04 10 Miles High
05 Please
06 Appendage
07 Complication
08 The New Flesh
09 I'm Looking Forward to Joining You, Finally
10 The Persistence of Loss
11 Ripe (With Decay)

I like that.

[EndlessLoveless]

Isnt it the day the world went away. Not whole?
It is a good track list though. I like the idea of it starting with the way out is through. I always remember seeing the tv commercial with that song in it and thinking, this album is going to kill.

[The Reason Being]

The Fragile

1. Starfuckers Inc. (Version)
2. Starfuckers Inc. (Version)
3. Starfuckers Inc. (Version)

But seriously, i'll come back to this. I tried to create an ultimate NIN album once that featured any songs from Pretty Hate Machine up to The Slip. Didn't go well.

[PhoenixML]

@jeffrey : I am so going to try that!!

The Downward Spiral
Mr Self-Destruct
Piggy
Heresy
March of the pigs
Closer to God (I really prefer this version)
Ruiner
The Becoming
I Do Not Want This
Burn
Big Man With a Gun
A Warm Place
Eraser
Reptile
The Downward Spiral
Hurt (Quiet)
[missing A Violet Fluid, I have not tried a place for it yet]

With Teeth
All the love in the world
You know what you are
The Collector
The hands that feeds
Love is not enough
Every day is exactly the same
With teeth
Only
Getting Smaller
Not so pretty now
Non-entity
Sunspots
Home
The line begins to blur
Beside you in time
Right where it belongs

[Pyract]

My version of With Teeth has some drastic changes:

All the love in the world (Deep cuts)
You know what you are
Non-Entity
The hand that feeds (Ruff mix)
Not so pretty now
Everyday is exactly the same
With Teeth (I cut literally the whole song except the quiet piano part, and amplified it)
Only
Getting Smaller
Sunspots
Home
The line begins to blur
Beside you in time
Right where it belongs

[Kaze]

Some years ago a friend of mine asked me to make her a NIN mix cd. All she was familiar with was The Downward Spiral. So I was tasked with capturing the essence of Nine Inch Nails without using the one album which, for me, best represents what Nine Inch Nails is. On top of that, I found it impossible to use any of the tracks from Pretty Hate Machine because the sound quality was so different from the other albums that they did not flow well with the newer records (obviously this was before the remaster came out.) This is what I came up with:

01 Driver Down
02 Somewhat Damaged
03 Leaving Hope
04 Burn
05 Suck
06 The Way Out Is Through
07 Wish
08 The Great Below
09 Beside You In Time
10 Closer To God
11 Last
12 In This Twilight
13 Right Where It Belongs

[OSLIN]

@PhoenixML: Nice mixes. I love Closer to God, it's like a mix of Closer/Burn. That would be fun to mash up. I need to take a stab at TDS.
@Pyract: So you pulled the teeth, literally. My WT mix would prob never include Not So Pretty Now, that song just doesn't grab me. Like the remix additions.
@Kaze: That is definitely a variety of songs. I always forget Driver Down, great instrumental.

[tony.parente]

The Fragile

1. Starfuckers Inc. (Version)
2. Starfuckers Inc. (Version)
3. Starfuckers Inc. (Version)

But seriously, i'll come back to this. I tried to create an ultimate NIN album once that featured any songs from Pretty Hate Machine up to The Slip. Didn't go well.

I prefer to put Starfuckers Inc. (Version) before Starfuckers Inc. (Version) personally, but that's just my preference.

[OSLIN]

I prefer to put Starfuckers Inc. (Version) before Starfuckers Inc. (Version) personally, but that's just my preference.

No, No... you put Starfuckers, Inc (version) before Starfuckers, Inc (version) but start it with Starfuckers, Inc (version). Everyone knows that.

[Shadaloo]

Streak Marks From Repeatedly Sliding Down the Spiral: Remixed Self-Destruction In Four Parts, Pretentiously Titled

CD1

1. The Art of Self-Destruction, Part 1
2. Piggy (Nothing Can Stop Me Now)
3. Heresy (version)
4. All The Pigs, All Lined Up
5. Closer To God
6. Self Destruction, Pt. 2
7. Ruiner (version)
8. March of the Fuckheads
9. The Beauty Of Being Numb
10. Eraser (Polite)

CD2

11. Self Destruction, Pt. 3
12. Reptilian
13. Eraser (Denial: Realization)
14. At The Heart Of It All
15. Self Destruction, Final
16. The Downward Spiral (The Bottom)
17. A Violet Fluid
18. Hurt (Quiet)

[OSLIN]

@Shadloo: Personally would have called it, "When is this Fucking Spiral Ever Gonna Fucking Stop?".

[Amaro]

Streak Marks From Repeatedly Sliding Down the Spiral: Remixed Self-Destruction In Four Parts, Pretentiously Titled

lolol

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I guess I'll be contributing the With Teeth reworking of mine in this thread, when it's done.

[Fist Fuck]

The Fragile
as arranged by Jeffrey Oslin

This. Please. Couldn't be arranged it any better. In 5.1.

Minus Metal and Deep, maybe.

[OSLIN]

This. Please. Couldn't be arranged it any better. In 5.1.

Minus Metal and Deep, maybe.

Yeah, I've been listening to these tracks in this order. I used Ableton trying to fuse the tracks together more smoothly, and it's been working somewhat. Into the Void immediatly leading into Deep is fucking fantastic. I am still unsure of Metal, but it is one of my favorite covers. I might even like it more after Pilgrimage instead of before it.

EDIT: I just had the acoustic at the end of Metal fading out while Even Deeper starts and it has a much better flow. Switching them now on the list.

[wight rabbit]

I recently started revisiting an extended ver​sion of Pretty Hate Machine that I made in 2007. It consisted of the standard album tracks mixed with different remixes and the Purest Feeling demo to make the tracks longer. Once I make the finishing touches that I'd like to make I will make it available to anyone interested. Here's the track listing:

01. Intro
02. Head Like a Hole
03. Terrible Lie
04. Down in It
05. Segue 01 (I'm either going to put this at the end of "Down in It" or think of a better title.)
06. Sanctified
07. Something I Can Never Have
08. Kinda I Want To
09. Sin
10. That's What I Get
11. Segue 02 (Same deal as above.)
12. The Only Time
13. Ringfinger

Note: No, I'm not going to include "Get Down, Make Love" on it as I believe the production on the song is a completely different vibe and throws off the balance (I believe the same with the remaster).

[OSLIN]

Note: No, I'm not going to include "Get Down, Make Love" on it as I believe the production on the song is a completely different vibe and throws off the balance (I believe the same with the remaster).

Yeah, I agree on the Get Down, Make Love.

It would be fun to take the track You Know Who You Are off of halo 3 and cut it to maybe intro into HLAH. Just an idea... that just might work.

No Purest Feeling love I see

[wight rabbit]

Yeah, I agree on the Get Down, Make Love.It would be fun to take the track You Know Who You Are off of halo 3 and cut it to maybe intro into HLAH. Just an idea... that just might work.No Purest Feeling love I see

It's funny you mention that track because that's what I used for the intro. I cut it off at a point where I could transition it into the opening drums of Head Like a Hole (which is when that track starts on my mix). No love only because I think that would also throw off the vibe.

[OSLIN]

No love only because I think that would also throw off the vibe.

You're probably right, although you can never go wrong with a little sax.

[OSLIN]

Bleedthrough
With Teeth as arranged by OSLIN

01 Love is Not Enough
02 Getting Smaller
03 The Collector
04 The Hand That Feeds
05 You Know What You Are?
06 Only
07 Sunspots
08 Non-Entity
09 All the Love in the World
10 Everyday is Exactly the Same
11 With Teeth
12 Home
13 The Line Begins to Blur
14 Beside You In Time
15 Right Where It Belongs

[Mr.Metheus]

The Fragile
as arranged by OSLIN

I just finished listening, and this playlist is definitely a keeper! Thanks for sharing.

[Ichiro]

Its pretty funny that this thread showed up today, I've been doing the exact same thing for With Teeth recently. Here's what I came up with:

1.All the Love in the Word
2.Do You Know What You Are
3.Getting Smaller
4.Love Is Not Enough
5.Non-Entity
6.With Teeth
7.Home
8.Sunspots
9.The Line Begins to Blur
10.Beside You in Time
11.Right Where it Belongs (maybe v.2)

I took off all the singles because, for me at least, the album feels less coherent with them included(not that I don't enjoy them). I mean, aside from being topical in 05', what does The Hand That Feeds' politics really have in common with the rest of the album. Not so Pretty Now is basically a weaker version of Getting Smaller, I left the Collector off just so the whole thing flowed better and Home acts as kind of an introduction for the second side. Relatively quick, consistent and to the point: I somewhat liked how it turned out.

[Akahige]

The Fragile
as arranged by OSLIN

Left

01 The Way Out is Through
02 The Frail
03 The Wretched
04 Where is Everybody?
05 Just Like You Imagined
06 We're In This Together
07 The Fragile
08 Gone, Still
09 And All That Could Have Been
10 Leaving Hope
11 Underneath It All

Center

01 Somewhat Damaged
02 Into the Void
03 Deep
04 No, You Don't
05 Starfuckers, Inc.
06 The Big Comedown
07 Pilgrimage
08 Metal
09 Even Deeper
10 La Mer
11 The Great Below

Right

01 The Day the World Went Away
02 Adrift and At Peace
03 The Mark Has Been Made
04 10 Miles High
05 Please
06 Appendage
07 Complication
08 The New Flesh
09 I'm Looking Forward to Joining You, Finally
10 The Persistence of Loss
11 Ripe (With Decay)

I really like this, might try it out

[InvitingmeAway]

Accepting Decay (The Fragile)

Somewhat Damaged
The Day the World Went Away
Just Like You Imagined
The Frail
The Wretched
The Way Out Is Through
Into The Void
Pilgrimage
The Fragile
Even Deeper
Where Is Everybody?
Please
We're In This Together
The Mark Has Been Made
Starfuckers Inc.
No, You Don't
La Mer
Complication
I'm Looking Forward To Joining You, Finally
Underneath It All
The Big Come Down
Ripe [With Decay]
The Great Below


I listened to this. I like it a lot. I think it twists the story a bit as well. Hope it's a decent list.

[wight rabbit]

I'm probably going to shelve that Pretty Hate Machine mix. I keep getting distracted by making long versions of other songs and I kind of want to put my focus into that.

Here's a list of what I've done so far:
- The Day the World Went Away (Combing the original, the "Quiet Mix," and the Still version.)
- Happiness in Slavery (Using the original and various elements from two remixes.)
- Wish (Using J.G. Thirlwell's remix, I edited the track to focus on the "live" sounding version of the song that creeps in and out.)

[OSLIN]

Year Ø
as arranged by OSLIN

01 In This Twilight (Y34RZ3R0R3M1X3D)
02 The Warning
03 Vessel
04 My Violent Heart
05 Survivalism
06 The Good Soldier
07 Capital G (Y34RZ3R0R3M1X3D)
08 Me, I'm Not
09 God Given (Y34RZ3R0R3M1X3D)
10 Meet Your Master
11 The Greater Good
12 Another Version of the Truth
13 The Great Destroyer (Y34RZ3R0R3M1X3D)
14 Zero-Sum