It all started with hurt. Is it too good to be true? Was Trent REALLY on drugs? He does not look like it at all!!

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What got you into NIN?

This video game right here.

The Only video. I'd heard a handful of NIN tracks over the years, but wasn't really interested until I saw this. Perfect video bringing to life an accessible yet layered, emotive and thought-provoking song.

I bought With Teeth and discovered one great track after another, it wasn't really like anything I'd heard before. With the exception of Pretty Hate Machine (which I took to just as easily as WT), all the other albums were difficult to get into - it took several listens, and one song would catch in my head each time until I loved pretty much the entire catalogue. By that point, almost everything I'd liked previously just wouldn't do the trick anymore; NIN redefined what I expected from music. Six years on, still nothing else really comes close for me.

Pretty Hate Machine...listening to Head Like A Hole and Down In It was so intense it was almost religious. NIN wasn't necessarily my "go-to" group at the time, but PHM was definitely in rotation. Then for a while, life got in the way, and I didn't listen to much of anything...

Things had evened out a little right when With The Teeth dropped. Only hooked me like it did everyone else, but The Hand That Feeds is still like audio crack. And for all of the praise for Closer (itself no doubt a fucking masterpiece), Sunspots is no less sinister, if more subtle. The last three tracks (especially from 3:09 of The Line Begins To Blur through the end) of the album have to be some of the most compelling music ever recorded. Fwiw, I think WTT has to be one of the best arranged albums of truly great music ever recorded (right there with Dark Side of The Moon and The Wall).

Then, got busy with work again, and sort of "rediscovered" NIN with The Slip. When I heard Echoplex and Discipline, it was over - I just started buying the catalog. I've never been disappointed...

patrick_nicholas posted:

posted:

What got you into NIN?

This video game right here.

me too

I have two older friends who are like brothers to me. Many years ago I was shown the Broken videos and I fell in love. I can't remember a time in my life I was not listening to NIN.

Center, 3 rows back from stage, 1st Lollapolooza, Saturday, August 10th, 1991

when i first listened to the downward spiral from beginning to end i was hooked for life

Oh, I love this story.
DANCE PARTY USA! I was in junior high and my girlfriends and I would watch Dance Party USA everyday after school at a friend's house. I was playing Nintendo on the other tv when I heard something that didn't seem quite right (Nine Inch Nails). Later on I raided this friend's older sister's music and found Pretty Hate Machine along with The Cure, Depeche Mode, Violent Femmes (all things I had barely heard about but was about to get hooked on)...thank you cooler, older sister of my friend for saving me from the Roger Rabbit and Cabbage Patch!

My mother bought the wrong cd once and as it turns out I loved it, Pretty Hate Machine.

I remember when I first saw the CD. I was searching through my mothers CD collection and the black, blue and purple design. The reversed "n"s. I thought to myself how neat does it look. So I popped it in a stereo and gave it a listen. First track, Head Like A Hole.. My body felt like it was in a sea of awe. I couldn't stop listening. Track after track, I continued to remain in my comma state of ecstasy. It was kinda like a drug, it was like love. I remember having the thought in my mind "steal it, take it from your mother", I never did. It felt wrong to steal something so amazing.

I talked to my mother about the CD later, she told me she bought the wrong album. She wanted to buy was the album Cleansing by Prong. What a difference. I thought to myself, she must have been an idiot for getting the two mixed up.

~Fuzzy Machine

Before I got into NIN, I never really had a background of the band. I heard Closer, March of the Pigs, and The Hand That Feeds a lot when I would listen to the radio. I went to Hastings, and had a gift card; so I was looking at the CD's. I seen the NIN section, and the albums seemed very interesting. I seen the "Closer to God" single, and I looked at the back. I didn't know that NIN did remixes with just i.e. "Closer (Precursor)", "Closer (Deviation)" etc. So like a dumbass I thought it was a full-on album. I never looked them up online or anything. I went home, heard "Closer to God", and I was like, "This song kicks ass!" Then the remixes came up and I got a little pissed off because I thought it was an full album. I seen that the song "Closer" was on "The Downward Spiral" and the next day I bought the album. I felt a feeling I've never felt before with music. I never heard anything like it. I then spent every penny I got on NIN albums and became a huge fan. Now I have all the albums and a bunch of singles and DVDs.

Basically, I went to Hastings, thought the "Closer to God" single was an album like a dumbass, and have been hooked since and bought all the albums. NIN has opened my mind up to so many genres of music. I can't even begin to thank this band/Trent Reznor for changing my life.

I was born in 1990, my parents listened to Pretty Hate Machine, I always overheard it, eventually got The Downard Spiral CD when I was 4, been hooked since.

The Beatles are my favorite band of all time.

I got into NIN because of this mashup.

I saw that my dad had The Downward Spiral and Pretty Hate Machine, so I listened.



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my first albums were probably not what i shoulda started out with, but my friend lent them to me: pretty hate machine and further down the spiral. satsfied with PHM, i bought the downward spiral, and that hooked me, and ended my former hatrid of further down the spiral, next: the fragile, which is still my fave. fast foward a couple years, i have only 4 halos to collect.

I wasn't really into nin at the time, but one day I said screw it, and started browsing through some of the tracks I found on a website. One listen to "into the void", and I was hooked. I love the bass.