Controversial Nine Inch Nails opinions

[Krazy]

Regarding the recent topics above:

Aaron played Only and TBCD WAY better than Robin ever has IMHO. Really don’t think Robin can play those well at allnactually.

The Trilogy: NTAE and AV were OK-ish, had some decent moments. Bad Witch is definitely my least favorite thing that Trent has ever put out under the NIN moniker.

[Deacon Blackfire]

Aaron played Only and TBCD WAY better than Robin ever has IMHO. Really don’t think Robin can play those well at allnactually.

Robin has gotten way better at playing both of those tracks but I totally agree, Aaron's fuzzy messiness perfectly complimented those tracks and he absolutely killed them. The opposite of this, in my opinion, was Sin - Robin always owns that song while Aaron's version was usually underwhelming.

I loved Aaron North in NIN and am happy he seems to be in a better, more stable place now. He tends to get written off by a lot of modern NIN fans but the energy he brought to the shows was exhilarating and he was a terrific guitar player, way better than he typically gets credit for. Robin is for all intents and purposes the "official" guitarist and I wouldn't change that but Aaron's time in the band was definitely something special.

To echo previous sentiments, if anyone brought down the 2005-2007 lineups, it was Jeordie. Horrible stage presence, always seemed to have a "I'm too good for this" attitude (I seem to remember people saying he visibly yawned during SICNH and that kind of crap, anyone remember that?), and never really seemed into it. And that's not even getting into all the unsavory things we know now.

I didn’t like JW either. In fact the only thing I remember about him is the meathead animation of him receiving perpetual blow jobs and looking blank.

This was one of those things where Meathead was almost too accurate.