For me its quite simple... i love trent and his music (much respect for how great and how different his music is).

also most of the time (most songs) his lyrics are somewhat cryptic making the listener adapt to it and find a meaning to his/her self!!!!

Nothing will ever stop TR...no one will be as great as TR... sorry lol had to say that

I've always written music, but never found any interest in mainstream music... That is, until NIN.
It was the first actual "band" I could relate to in any way shape or form... Musically, and emotionally. Don't get me wrong... it's not the only music I like... but NIN definitely exposed me to "GOOD MUSIC", which got me into every other band I like... Pumpkins, APC, Tool, Aphex Twin, Skinny Puppy, Coil, Manson, etc.

It was definitely the Quake soundtrack that got me into NIN. That, and The Fragile.

I like his lirycs and the instruments Nine Inch Nails Is The Best Yeahh
Its Fucking Gansta

It's pretty simple for me. The music and lyrics are original, and Trent manages to make each album sound a little different from the one before.

I'm going to answer before I read all these ....

Anyway....it's Trent

That's it

just feels right...Its clear message

Which to me is extremelly gothic

Also extremelly passionate honest totally raw

The Answer is we love Trent

But it also is felt on very deep level

Understanding someone else feels the pain like me and is twisted tortured and torn limb from limb by this world full BS contradiction to our own primal nature, The...Lies Lies Lies!

Its just some great sonic mojo and sexxy!!!!!

I can play it all day........it does it all...Washes, dries...cleanse, folds, manipulates...shit it does it all!!!



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i love the variety in NIN's music and how every song manages to reach to the deepest caves, pits and bowels of my heart and shine a bright light there making me feel all is well. NIN takes my sorrow away when i experience it and making me feel understood when i feel like i'm not and when i have an awesome day NIN makes it even better

Because it goes good with all the cornstarch I have.

NIN touches something very deep inside of me.
The lyrics, the music, his voice... just love everything about NIN, really.

I have no idea what it is. I'm sure I haven't been listening to NIN for as long as some of you guys, but ever since I started about 5 years ago I've really struggled to listen to and enjoy any other music.

I think a lot of it is because every album is so different. Every album feels like a different band so it's impossible to get bored of.

And there isn't a single band out there that sounds anything like them, and I don't think there ever will be.

Like many people said all the albums sound different and have changed alot in a good way each time yet they keep that same feeling that Trent wanted his listeners to have. Not to mention so many of his songs have been used in movies and works well with it.

When I was younger, because they were hard and were literally the first band I ever heard that used the word fuck so much, which back then I thought was totally fucking cool and I understood the angst in the lyrics, because that's how felt most of the time growing up and it was just great fucking music to go fucking mentalist to, anywhere.
Now that I'm older, the musicianship is superb, the final result and releases look and sound very good and ultimately the shift and mood in his music and lyrical content has shifted and matured so as to make NIN still relatable and listenable 20 years after their initial inception. Then of course theirs the whole "fuck the corporate record Co. I'll do it alone" idea that he has grown which made me respect them even more.

Because it's detailed, extremely well written, catchy, extremely varied (there's really at least one NIN album for any given person) and fits all my moods. Trent Reznor is the greatest lyricist I've ever heard, and I personally believe NIN is the greatest musical project/band ever created, Daft Punk in second.

My favourite bands are Iron Maiden, The Prodigy, Infected Mushroom and Nine Inch Nails. The thing they all have in common is huge depth of sound frequency and intricacy. A good producer will make every sound distinct, and as Maiden are the only one without a producer as a key band member, they've probably made the highest proportion of dodgy nonsense.

The other important aspect with NIN is the connection with negative emotions. I first heard NIN aged 13 (Fixed, no less), and was completely sucked in. The Downward Spiral came out within six months of me first hearing NIN, and I listened to it probably at least once a week, in full, for nine or ten years.

At the time I thought that what I liked was that it expressed my teenage angst and made me happy that somebody else crystallised my feelings in such a way that I knew I wasn't alone. While that is definitely true, the thing that keeps me listening as a thirty year old with far more confidence than anyone has a right to have is the detail, the soundscapes, the sheer fucking beauty of so much of NIN's work.

The modern teenage angst equivalent might be Korn, or My Chemical Romance, or any number of other bands depending on when you consider "modern" to be, but neither Korn nor MCR* have much real depth to the musical composition, and once their audience moves on from navel-gazing, what is there in the music?




*Welcome To The Black Parade is tremendous though

It's funny: I listen to and like NIN because NIN can't easily be placed into a genre. I fucking can not stand when someone says "i only listen to rock, etc." I listen to things that are good (to me). Genre means nothing at all.

I love the way Trent fornicates me in the ear canals every time I listen to nin!

Wait ...... what?