Seasons of the Nine Inch Nails

[Halo Infinity]

@chuckrh @iamclassic - I actually thought of making a thread like this ages ago, but somehow completely forgot about it. Thank you for indirectly reminding me to do just that. It would somehow seem to make sense on some level if a lot of us listen to Nine Inch Nails all year round anyway.

Anyway, it applies like any other thread that lists and ranks Nine Inch Nails albums, but with seasons instead. (You can select more than one season per release if you'd like, just not all of them. And if so, just select the season or seasons you feel each release leans more towards in your opinion.)

Pretty Hate Machine - Winter
Broken - Summer
The Downward Spiral - Autumn
The Fragile - Winter
And All That Could Have Been (Still) - Spring
With Teeth - Spring
Year Zero - Summer
The Slip - Autumn
Ghosts I-IV - Winter
Hesitation Marks - Spring
Not The Actual Events - Autumn
Add Violence - Summer
Bad Witch - Winter

[iamclassic]

Pretty Hate Machine - Spring
Broken - Summer
The Downward Spiral - Late Autumn
The Fragile - Winter (Though some of the sea feel makes me want to pick summer.)
And All That Could Have Been - Spring
Still - Winter
With Teeth - Summer
Year Zero - Late Summer/Early Autumn
The Slip - Early Autumn
Hesitation Marks - Spring
Not The Actual Events - Late Autumn
Add Violence - Summer

-------Actual Release Seasons -----------
Pretty Hate Machine - Autumn
Broken - Autumn
The Downward Spiral - Late Winter
The Fragile - Autumn
And All That Could Have Been - Winter
Still - Winter
With Teeth - Spring
Year Zero - Spring
The Slip - Spring
Hesitation Marks - Summer
Not The Actual Events - Early Winter
Add Violence - Summer

[henryeatscereal]

"The Fragile" have always felt like a summer album to me, i even remember a sumer vacation i spent listening to it in my Discman over and over (i'm old, i know)

"The Downward Spiral" is a winter album and perfect for holiday season (as we explained on the "Random NIN Thoughts", thread...)

[eversonpoe]

PHM - fall
broken - spring
tds - fall
tf - fall
still - winter
with teeth - summer
yz - (dystopian future) summer
ts - fall
hm - summer
ntae - winter
av - fall

fall is my favorite season so it's no surprise i associate a lot of NIN releases with it

[Helpmeiaminhell (is now in hell)]

Obv Purest Feeling is a bright sunny summertime day in the late 80s...I get a big Sonny Crockett Miami Vice feel for that album....
PHM is the fall..The sunny times of Purest Feeling are starting to turn cold. The leaves are starting to come out. Its starting to get colder and darker
Everything from Broken up through Still is Winter. A cold dark winter. Think Nicholson in The Shining
WT is the spring. Trents newfound sobriety, coming out of the darkness, kind of like how spring weather is a renewal of good weather, coming out of the dark bleak winter
YZ has no season, its more like an apocalypse...
Slip is kind of like summer. Even though its a hard hitting record, it seems TR is having fun with it. Fun like in the summer
I dont know what HM is. Season wise or musical wise. I'm still confused by it
NTAE is clearly back into winter. Dark and Cold
AV is like the fall. A mix of warm summer weather and the upcoming cold winter. In between

[Steven]

I'm doing something new with my playlists and trying to sort all of NIN's + TR/AR work into the four seasons. So far I've got:

Summer: Add Violence, Bad Witch (both came out in the Summer so my mind automatically goes there when I try to find a season they vibe with.) Also Hesitation Marks and Pretty Hate Machine. Both are extremely upbeat/fun compared to the other works and they just fit in right with what Summer should sound like to me.

Winter: Not The Actual Events (came out in the Winter and I remember listening to it so many times on walks in Winter). Year Zero also seems to fit in here the most, cold + dark vibes. Ghosts fits in here well because I can imagine listening to it while reading a book or working in the house during a cold snowstorm. Probably a lot of the soundtrack work in general is Winter music.

Spring: The Fragile - With Teeth era. Both albums are about change and I feel like Spring in the Midwest (where I live) is the season of most change and weather occurring. Still & And All That Could Have Been fit in here too.

Fall: Broken and The Downward Spiral as well as the Slip. Fall can get sinister but it's also full of energy which I feel like these 3 releases vibe with the most.

[BRoswell]

Spring: Hesitation Marks
Summer: Pretty Hate Machine/Broken/The Downward Spiral/With Teeth/The Slip
Fall: The Fragile/Year Zero
Winter: Still/Ghosts I-IV/Not The Actual Events/Add Violence/Bad Witch

[Steven]

Revised version:

Winter: Not The Actual Events / Year Zero / Still / Ghosts I-IV

Spring: The Fragile / Ghosts Together / With Teeth / Hesitation Marks

Summer: Pretty Hate Machine / Add Violence / Bad Witch / Ghosts Locusts / The Slip

Fall: Broken / The Downward Spiral

[Tiger_Stealth]

Mixed all of the songs I like from The Fragile, With Teeth, and Hesitation Marks into three albums.

My Spring NIN Playlist:

(Mostly high energy/bangers)

Somewhat Damaged
You Know What You Are?
Came Back Haunted
We're in This Together
Love Is Not Enough
Everything
Even Deeper
Getting Smaller
Various Methods of Escape
Into the Void
The Line Begins to Blur
In Two
I'm Looking Forward to Joining You, Finally
Beside You in Time
While I'm Still Here

(Atmospheric, slower paced)

Eater Of Dreams/Copy Of A (HM)
The Collector (WT)
The Day the World Went Away (TF)
Find My Way
The Hand That Feeds
The Fragile
I Would for You
With Teeth
No, You Don't
Black Noise
Complication
Sunspots
The Mark Has Been Made
Ripe (With Decay)
Right Where It Belongs

(Deeper cuts)

All The Love In The World
The Frail/The Wretched
Every Day Is Exactly the Same
Just Like You Imagined
Only
All Time Low
Starfuckers, Inc.
La Mer
Home
The Great Below
The Way Out Is Through
Satellite
Underneath It All
Where Is Everybody?
Please
The Big Come Down