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In a constantly shifting round of voting and a final push on the last page, With Teeth is now gone after it's final representative (Right WHere It Belongs) is now gone.
RWIB 5 Mr Self Destruct 3 Zero-Sum Ruiner Becoming AATCHB THESE ARE THE TRACKS for the Ultimate Reznor: Non-Album Tracks: 1. And All That Could Have Been Year Zero: 2. Zero-Sum The Fragile: 1. The Great Below 2. Somewhat Damaged 3. We're In This Together The Downward Spiral: 1. Ruiner 2. The Becoming 3. Reptile The Mixes: (Top mix from each election only) Mr Self Destruct (album) In the words of lenny_VIE: Have fun  | |
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see, on TDS i love the becoming the most followed by MSD. the becoming, since i first heard it, has stuck with me more lyrically and musically. MSD wasn't always second but the version played in the last tour gave me new love for it. i get, um estatic, during the noise at the end of it. ruiner and reptile are great, but not my top 2.
RUINER is my vote i have a ? for the voters: which album was your introduction to NIN and which is album favorite? i got in on the ground floor (so PHM), but TF is the one i'd take to the desert island | |
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I certainly love the Still and live interpretations of Becoming, not crazy about the album version though. I think part of it is the positioning in TDS, it feels like one loud track too many (in a row). Last month I started slotting Videodrones; Questions in between Ruiner and Becoming, it alleviated that issue.
It's not just that though, I'm not fond of the screaming near the end of the song; and having examined the 5.1 tracks, there's a huge amount of really cool material that gets drowned out by the repetitive beat. At this point in the election it's a case of which track has the most nits to pick, they're all pretty great. Bit annoying that we've had most of the albums wiped out without a single track dropping from Downward Spiral or Fragile; I think TDS is particularly over-represented at this point. THAT IS NOT AN EXCUSE TO VOTE FOR MR SELF DESTRUCT HOWEVER! fleighing posted: With Teeth was my introduction to NIN, I'd heard quite a bit of Fragile material over the years but none of it really stuck (to this day I think WITT is overrated; I really hope we get multitracks with the remaster as I'd love to tweak that one). I think I needed something as conventional as With Teeth as an entry point, though Pretty Hate Machine would have done the trick too. TDS, Fragile and Broken (also YZ, Slip and Ghosts when they appeared) all required quite a few listens to get into. My favourite... I'm a bit obsessive about modifying my NIN albums. Off the rack, I'd call it a tie between TDS, Year Zero and The Social Network. I'm more a fan of Fragile's era material than the music actually on the album, I think the focus on blaring layered, various-states-of-tune guitars drowns out a lot of the subtlety and emotion that should have been there (TDTWWA being a great microcosm of this - there's so much more feeling in the Still, live and Quiet versions). Adding in material from the period though, and remixing a few problem tracks as best I can, Fragile becomes something else entirely. Either of my custom discs blows away anything else from any artist I'm familiar with, in my opinion. | |
DrVertigo posted: i asked because, HORRIBLE GENERALIZATION FOLLOWING, my perception based on talking with fans is either people got in early with PHM or TDS and as a generality like WT the least or WT was their entrance into NIN and thus think fondly of it. course, this generalization is age-dependent as people my age / trent's age were around (and out of diapers ) and able get into NIN from its start. I totally can see either PHM or WT being the gateway as its music and lyrics were more accessible. | |
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We have a weird 3 way tie this morning, I wonder how much voting will shift once we narrow things down.
Zero-Sum 3 Ruiner 3 Mr Self Destruct 3 The Becoming Vote for your LEAST favorite between: Zero-Sum Ruiner Mr Self Destruct In the words of lenny_VIE: Have fun | |
