Pretty Hate Machine back in late 90. My much older brother used to blow out his speakers with it and I loved every second of it!

My best friend. He's actually a member on this site, don't know if he's active here anymore, but he's on here. A few years back my dad and I were driving to San Francisco and we were listening to a satellite radio station and he made me guess who it was. I had no clue who it was and when he said Nine Inch Nails, I only remembered the name and forgot all about it until my best friend became a bigger and bigger fan of NIN. He eventually got me listening to some of the songs, now I have most of the albums.

saturday mornings in the late 90's my brothers and i would play doom on our old computer. We always had NIN playing the background. I especially remember the release of The Fragile because in my opinion the best song to play a FPS to is We're in This Together Now. So that was every saturday until we moved into our new house. Then NIN vanished from my life for a while(I know it's really sad) But when i was in high school Year Zero came out and thats when NIN came back into my life. And if you want to know i was lost on this dark path called being a Metallica fan during the release of With Teeth. It was a really dark time of my life. But now i'm better and back on the NIN path.

Got the Down In It single when it came out because it was played in the clubs i frequented and i got PHM the day it came out. but what got me *hooked* was seeing NIN open for the Jesus & Mary Chain in March 1990. even back then there was something, a level of musicianship, showmanship, talent, ENERGY--i can't quite describe it, but i just knew that i found my *drug*. so i then saw them open the following month for Peter Murphy and then twice more in 1990 on the Sin and Hate tour legs. and i spent the next 19 years feeding my *addiction*, seeing them perform 68 times total. i'd gladly sell a kidney or kill someone to see them live one more time before i die.



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SSquirrel posted:

fleighing posted:

i'd gladly sell a kidney or kill someone to see them live one more time before i die.

Heck it won't even have to be your own kidney, just pack a spare that comes thru at work in ice

considering how sick i am i couldn't pay someone to take one of my own kidneys so it would have to be one from work. or a heart, liver, lung, pancreas, i'm flexible

It was this July. It all began with my boyfriend and THIS shirt. And not wanting to look like an idiot loser to the Hot Topic staff.

My boyfriend was gradually introducing me to the songs he listened to, but I thought nothing of it; he always sends me things to look at and I look at them and shrug them off usually... He likes NIN; it is one of his favorite bands. So I decided to buy him a NIN tee shirt at Hot Topic.

There were two guys at the counter. I asked the guy there if they had NIN T-shirts. He looked at his friend, then he motioned me to wait because they had a customer that needed to pay and such. The customer went away a few minutes later. Then I was talking to one of the dudes and then he told me he met Trent Reznor a long time ago, when he first started in Ohio and then the Hot Topic dude started talking to me about the history of the industrial rock movement and gave me band names and things, and how he personally tried to make it into the industrial rock arena but failed. I nodded yes the entire time, feeling awkward because in all actuality he thought I was legitimately into NIN and industrial rock, thinking that I was the one that wanted to buy the T-shirt because I was a fan. But I didn't want to say anything because I didn't want to make him feel like he gave me an entire history lesson for nothing.

Anyways, I ordered the T-shirt for pick-up a week later because they didn't exactly have NIN shirts in the store, but they did have rap artists and Justin Bieber. WTF. At home, I wondered if the Hot Topic dude was saying the truth and knew anything about what he told me or if he was just lying for some reason, but this dude was legit in everything he told me. Then I started to listen to NIN music attentively because next time when I went to Hot Topic I didn't want to look like an idiot who bought band shirts because it was the 'cool' thing to do even thought it really was for my boyfriend, an idiot who nodded saying yeah to someone who took time to tell me a rough history of NIN during their workshift, an idiot who didn't know anything about the music her boyfriend listens to.

Listening to the music, though, raping the play button on NIN songs on Youtube, burning CDs, I actually began to like it. In one week, in constant immersion, I was a greenhorn NIN fan and was tempted to keep the shirt for myself but I knew I had to give it to my boyfriend because I liked sending him interesting gifts to him to spice things up since he's in the military. So before I sent it to him, I totally camwhorred with that shirt to remember it, sweated in it, and everything, to remember the marvelous shirt. i'll put the pic of me wearing it in my profile. It was a pretty shirt! And to this day I still like NIN. And kinda wish I kept the shirt myself. The end.

My father mentioned them saying, "They`re a little perverted." So, I listened to Pretty Hate Machine, then The Downward Spiral, then Broken.

The Fragile. On an impulse I got NINs first 3 albums + Broken on an impulse with birthday money last year. Never regretted it and while I loved everything I was hearing, it was The Fragile that made me fall in love with the music.

Played Rockband and found the song The Hand That Feeds then typed Nine Inch Nails into YouTube and found Ruiner, Reptile and Eraser. fell in love

This is more of a "what kept me into NIN" post, but it should count in a way, because I've felt the same exact when I gave NIN a proper listen for the very first time. Aside from NIN just sounding great, it was also due to fact that I was able to relate to his music so much. It has helped me cope with some of my worst moments of depression and self-loathing. It has helped me feel better and has prevented me from going too far off into the deep end while being in that unstable state of mind.



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After my Radiohead craze I saw that southpark. The goth kids equated Cthulu destroying everything to NIN do I checked it out and enjoyed it. For now I'm more into Sonic Youth and Radiohead (again) and I listened to Loveless at least twenty times. The reason I got bored with NIN is becuase I realized I probably wont like any of the newer albums so I went to searching the web for exparinental stuff.

I heard "Something I Can Never Have" on Natural Born Killers soundtrack. It was like WOW... But only in 2007, after my first (and the last?) NIN concert, I became a fan. I didn't know most of the songs they played, but the show was so exciting that I felt that I have to explore this music - and here I am...

Hearing head Like a hole when it came out in a night-club.Then me and my friends would be dancing to it everytime it came on after that.



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I remember seeing "and all that could have been" and liking the artwork. I curiously downloaded a few tracks on...whatever people used in 2002. I soon bought all nin's albums and as many EP's as I could find, along with the AATCHB live dvd. When With Teeth came out I felt let down, the unique sound of previous albums wasn't to be heard. Since 05 With teeth managed to grow on me a little, I never enjoyed year zero or the slip but i continue to listen to previous albums over and over.

I first saw/heard March of the Pigs on a rerun of Beavis and Butthead back around '98 or '99, and I loved it. Then a few months later, one of our cleaning ladies (this woman was awesome-she and I used to talk about music and movies all the time and give each other suggestions on what to listen to/watch) gave me a burned copy of a CD and said "you gotta check this shit out, but don't play track five too loud when your parents are home". It was The Downward Spiral.
I put it in and immediately cranked it up (I couldn't figure out what that thumping noise was and I was trying to hear it), and when Mr. Self Destruct really kicked in, my stereo speakers (and my ear drums... And my brain) almost melted and I've been a hopeless addict ever since.