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    Top 10 Favorite NIN songs

    Well, I've searched and searched for a thread like this, but could not find one.
    I could have sworn we've done this, but maybe not.

    Either way, with the conclusion of the "Trilogy" recently, and having the most up to date NIN catalog at this moment in time, figured this would be a good time to do this (or re-do it, if we've done it in the past)

    1. The Perfect Drug
    2. Sunspots
    3. Last
    4. And All That Could Have Been
    5. The Becoming
    6. We're In This Together
    7. Demon Seed
    8. Me, I'm Not
    9. The Idea Of You
    10. The Background World

    Honorable mentions: Sin, Ruiner, The Frail/The Wretched, Ahead Of Ourselves

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    My list seems to change as much as my underwear, but here's my current list. Ask me again in a day or two and it'll probably be completely different.

    This Isn't The Place
    Gave Up
    While I'm Still Here/Black Noise
    Burning Bright (Field On Fire)
    Ringfinger
    And All That Could Have Been
    Eraser
    Somewhat Damaged
    Home
    The Great Destroyer

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    Almost certainly not THE top ten for me, but pretty close:

    All The Love In The World
    And All That Could Have Been
    Burn
    Closer
    The Great Below
    Head Like A Hole
    The Perfect Drug
    Reptile
    Ruiner
    ...and then it's hard to pick just one, but instrumentals from The Fragile.

    Other contenders:
    Demon Seed
    Last
    Somewhat Damaged
    Something I Can Never Have

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    Oh man. Same about this changing often...

    Currently...

    1. A Warm Place
    2. Closer
    3. This Isn’t the Place
    4. The Persistance of Loss
    5. In this Twilight
    6. Head like a Hole
    7. The Beginning of the End
    8. Eraser
    9. The Background World
    10. Somewhat Damaged


    The Wretched, Ruiner, I Do Not Want This, Dear World, and Various Methods of Escape were excruciatingly left off of this mercilessly brief list.

    I surprised myself with Closer and Head Like A Hole. I am a little embarrassed to leave them in, but after all these years I never get sick of those songs. They are just objectively flawless works of art.

    I also didn’t intend for my list to span most eras but I am happy it does.

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    Something I Can Never Have
    Burn
    Piggy
    The Perfect Drug
    We're In This Together
    Sanctified
    Ruiner
    I Do Not Want This
    The Wretched

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    Off the top of my head without consulting album pages or mp3 folders:

    10 Miles High
    A Warm Place
    Demon Seed
    Leaving Hope
    I'm Not From This World
    The Way Out Is Through
    Ripe (With Decay)
    La Mer
    Adrift And At Peace
    The Great Below
    Last edited by Erneuert; 12-14-2018 at 10:30 PM.

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    This is hard to do, because it changes a lot, but the first four are always in my top ten basically no matter what.

    In This Twilight
    The Becoming (Still Version)
    Branches/Bones
    Somewhat Damaged
    Last
    Find My Way
    Reptile
    Beside You in Time
    Just Like You Imagined
    The Great Destroyer

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    No particular order, what my favs are right now.

    Burning Bright (Field On Fire)
    Something I Can Never Have
    Wish
    Hurt
    A Warm Place
    We're In This Together
    Over and Out
    Various Methods of Escape
    In This Twilight
    Right where It Belongs

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    Quote Originally Posted by Erneuert View Post
    Off the top of my head without consulting album pages or mp3 folders:

    10 Miles High
    A Warm Place
    Demon Seed
    Leaving Hope
    I'm Not From This World
    The Way Out Is Through
    Ripe (With Decay)
    La Mer
    Adrift And At Peace
    The Great Below
    Upon further reflection, Just Like You Imagined needs to be added as an 11th. All versions; album, live + theremin, live + Mike Garson. I can't choose.

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    1.-Somewhat Damaged
    2.-And all that could have been
    3.-In this Twilight
    4.-Leaving Hope
    5.-Right Where it belongs
    6.-Hurt
    7.-Wish
    8.-Gave up
    9.-La mer
    10.-Sin

    Find my way, In two, Burn, Reptile, Closer, Where is everybody, Something I can never have (still), Fragile, Not anymore, shit Mirror are good contenders

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    Can't really assign numbers, but I'd say this is fairly close:

    Terrible Lie
    Sin
    Ruiner
    The Becoming
    A Warm Place
    Just Like You Imagined
    The Way Out Is Through
    Gave Up
    March of The Pigs
    Something I Can Never Have

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    Not necessarily the absolute best, but what i'd put on a 2nd disc of "greatest hits"

    something i can never have
    eraser
    last
    pilgrimage
    love is not enough
    vessel
    disappointed
    head down
    24 ghosts
    18 ghosts

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    This is a very loose order and besides number 1 it's subject to tons of change.

    1. Just Like You Imagined
    2. We're In This Together
    3. La Mer
    4. Right Where It Belongs
    5. Discipline
    6. Copy of A
    7. Dear World,
    8. Closer
    9. Wish
    10. Complication

    Honourable mentions include Sanctified, Head Like A Hole, Last, Mr. Self Destruct, March of the Pigs, Piggy, I'm Looking Forward to Joining You, Finally, The Fragile, The Hand That Feeds, The Great Destroyer and Survivalism.

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    Disappointed in the lack of joke responses thus far.

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    Quote Originally Posted by bobbie solo View Post
    Disappointed in the lack of joke responses thus far.
    Wasn't that your job?

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    Quote Originally Posted by eachpassingphase View Post
    This is hard to do, because it changes a lot, but the first four are always in my top ten basically no matter what.

    In This Twilight
    The Becoming (Still Version)
    Branches/Bones
    Somewhat Damaged
    Last
    Find My Way
    Reptile
    Beside You in Time
    Just Like You Imagined
    The Great Destroyer
    See last night’s setlist?

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    Me, I'm Not (Olof Dreijer)
    Track 71 (Broken EP)
    Let's Hear It for Nine Inch Nails WHOOO They're Good!
    The Last Inch
    Zelda Theme live cover
    Fuck You Like An Animal
    Black Bomb (Jerry in the Bag)
    Just Do It
    My Dead Friend
    Coffin on the Dancefloor

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    Quote Originally Posted by fillow View Post
    Coffin on the Dancefloor
    I would still legit love to hear Strobe Light. There's at least one NIN cover band out there, isn't there? Could branch out into brand new territory.

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    guys...guys...this is way too hard for me to even attempt. it would probably take me about a month to narrow it down to 10 and i dont want to hurt myself.

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    Even though I enjoy heavy/fast NIN the most probably, all of my all time favorite NIN songs are the slow, contemplative tracks that hurt (haha) to listen to.

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    Quote Originally Posted by fillow View Post
    My Dead Friend
    That's a great song and all, but I personally prefer "the life you didn't lead". But to each their own.

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    1. Head Like A Hole
    2. The Only Time
    3. Wish
    4. Happiness In Slavery
    5. Mr Self Destruct
    6. Reptile
    7. Somewhat Damaged
    8. Into The Void
    9. All The Love In The World
    10. Every Day Is Exactly The Same

    Honorable Mentions: Closer, Burn, The Perfect Drug, Deep, Echoplex, Copy Of A, Burning Bright (Field On Fire), Less Than, Shit Mirror
    Last edited by Halo Infinity; 12-21-2018 at 06:11 PM. Reason: I forgot to mention Closer, as it was the song that started it all for me, not to mention the fact that I already love it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Toadflax View Post
    See last night’s setlist?
    *Frantically searches Setlist FM*

    Studies show that I would have died of happiness last night.

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    Fuuuuckkkkk this is hard. Live is different than studio too so I’m doing separate lists.

    Studio:

    01 And All That Could Have Been
    02 Ruiner
    03 The Becoming
    04 The Wretched
    05 The Line Begins To Blur
    06 A Warm Place
    07 We’re In This Together
    08 The Big Come Down
    09 The Idea Of You
    10 The Background World

    Close: Ahead Of Ourselves, The Perfect Drug, Terrible Lie, Less Than, In Two, and Burn



    Live:

    Love Is Not Enough (Beside You In Time)
    The Great Destroyer (2017-Cold And Black And Infinite)
    Happiness In Slavery (CABAI)
    In This Twilight (Lights In The Sky)
    Burning Bright (2017-CABAI)
    The Big Come Down (BYIT)
    Copy Of A (Tension)
    The Perfect Drug (CABAI)
    The Warning (LITS)
    The Great Below (Fragility)

    Close: Right Where It Belongs (BYIT), And All That Could Have Been (CABAI), Branches/Bones (2017-CABAI), Meet Your Master (NIN/JA), and Eraser (2014).

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    1. Just Like You Imagined
    1. Please
    1. Zero Sum
    1. Somewhat Damaged
    5.Beside You In Time
    6. Gave Up
    7. Adrift and at Peace
    8. And All That Could Have Been
    9. The Great Destroyer
    10. Leaving Hope
    11. Right Where it Belongs

    It's SOMETHING like that. Those first four are all equally fucking incredible.

    Edit: oh FUCK. I forgot to include Where is Everbody (version feat telefon tel aviv)
    Last edited by elevenism; 12-18-2018 at 01:41 PM.

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    At the moment it's

    1. Copy of a
    2. Head Like a Hole
    3. Reptile
    4. 1,000,000 (Live at Rehearsals)
    5. The Day The World Went Away
    6. Me, I'm Not
    7. Spoiler: Getting Smaller
    8. While I'm Still Here
    9. Gave Up
    10. Spoiler: Deep

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    #1 Happiness in Slavery

    #2-5 (in no particular order)
    The Becoming
    Ruiner
    Sin
    Vessel

    #6-10 (also in no paticular order)
    Eraser
    Burn
    Sanctified
    Me, Im Not
    No, You Dont

    honorable mentions
    Head Down
    Terrible Lie
    Just Like You Imagined
    Ahead of Ourselfs
    This Isnt The Place
    With Teeth
    La Mer/Great Below/The Way Out is Through
    Closer

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    Quote Originally Posted by fillow View Post
    Me, I'm Not (Olof Dreijer)
    Track 71 (Broken EP)
    Let's Hear It for Nine Inch Nails WHOOO They're Good!
    The Last Inch
    Zelda Theme live cover
    Fuck You Like An Animal
    Black Bomb (Jerry in the Bag)
    Just Do It
    My Dead Friend
    Coffin on the Dancefloor
    DIVE & SLAM
    You forgot one so I fixed it, you can thank me in PMs.
    Last edited by SM Rollinger; 12-16-2018 at 11:32 AM.

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    Leaving Hope
    And All That Could Have Been
    The Day The World Went Away
    I'm Looking Forward To Joining You, Finally
    Hurt
    Ripe (With Decay)
    In This Twilight
    This Isn't The Place
    The New Flesh
    The Great Below

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dryalex12 View Post
    I'm Looking Forward To Joining You, Finally
    Wow! Some love for that song. That's an underrated song. I love that track.

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