Scare him a little and give him some Jonas Brothers or something!

FireFerret, i fucking love your avatar.

Put the popular songs with other unpopular great songs such as The Line BEgins To Blur, or even live versions like the Big Come Down.

just the Definitive NIN: The Singles playlist.

snaapz posted:

Scare him a little and give him some Jonas Brothers or something!

Better yet, send him to Chris Cornell's MySpace and make him sit through Scream.

Make him a copy of closure... so he can watch videos and listen to music... And let me know his reaction to "happiness in slavery" I love showing that video to people LOL

tdwdtg posted:

With Teeth is pretty much the "NIN Beginner's Album" in my book. Not his best, but a good healthy dose of what TR's like.

agreed, also with teeth is definately the most mainstream of all his albums, it's the album that got me hooked



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CapitalG91 posted:

tdwdtg posted:

With Teeth is pretty much the "NIN Beginner's Album" in my book. Not his best, but a good healthy dose of what TR's like.

agreed, also with teeth is definately the most mainstream of all his albums, it's the album that got me hooked

Yeah, that's probably true. I didn't know what to make of NIN's older stuff when I first heard it, but With Teeth I could relate too.

I recommend starting off with The Fragile and With Teeth. Once he hooked on it (and he WILL!) tell him to download The Slip so he can discover it for himself. I would also recommend stuff from Year Zero, but they're a bit "visionary" for a beginner. For slower stuff, I would recommend La Mer, adrift and at peace, The Frail, Something I can never have, somewhere I belong, ligths in the sky, Hurt, not sure about Ghosts though, I guess it's good if he's like instrumental stuff. Maybe some remixes too. My sister got into NIN by hearing me play Everyday is Exactly the Same Sam Fog and Carlos D remix and The Hand that Feeds DFA remix.

I guess it depends on what kind music he's into. If he's retro, then the early stuff would work just fine. Heck, if he likes hip hop, introduce to Saul Williams

curiositykillz posted:

Make him a copy of closure... so he can watch videos and listen to music... And let me know his reaction to "happiness in slavery" I love showing that video to people LOL

Closure isn't a good route for this, NIN isn't 10% as ruthless now as they are in Closure.

basically he should be strapped into one of those dentist chairs with those things keeping his eyelids opens and be forced to watch the happiness in slavery film clip on repeat until the day of the show... theres so many nin songs he needs to absorb... give him your collection then quiz him on which songs which using electrodes to his testicals zapping him everytime he gets a song wrong... alternatively you could make him watch closure, and all that could have been and beside you in time with the slip thrown in to be up to date.

ikillbambis posted:

Show him Beside You In Time, it's relatively new and reflects alot of what you will see in concert. Minus the backdrops for this tour however.

Just what I was going to suggest! Either show him BYIT, or the footage people have put together from the HD videos, such as the Sacramento show- it's on youtube and in great quality with some nice multicam edits.

one friend became fan after hearing Memorabilia (more like a electronic music fan- now he only listens to NIN, lol)

one became fan after hearing The Great Below (the intellectual, spiritual kind of person)

and me became fan after hearing I Do Not Want This (the crazy kind of person)

id suggest a cd with this
1.1,000,000(gonna be played)
2.happiness in slavery
3.the hand that feeds
4.ruiner
5.something i can never have(gonna be played)
6.terrible lie
7.the good soldier
8.starfuckers inc.
9.just like you imagined
10.the fragile
11.discipline
12.march of the pigs
13.suck
14.head like a hole(always last song before encore)

those songs should give him a good idea of what NIN are like and there are also some live regulars there so he might recognise them when he goes.

seasonsinthesky posted:

0001 posted:

somewhere I belong

what?

+1
+lol

tdwdtg posted:

With Teeth is pretty much the "NIN Beginner's Album" in my book. Not his best, but a good healthy dose of what TR's like.

Agreed.

Get these 3 cds.

The Definitive NIN - The Singles
Tracklisting
"Head Like A Hole"
"Down In It"
"Sin"
"Wish"
"Happiness In Slavery"
"Suck"
"March Of The Pigs"
"Closer"
"Hurt (Quiet)"
"Dead Souls"
"Burn"
"The Perfect Drug"
"Deep"
"The Day The World Went Away"
"We're In This Together"
"Into The Void"
"Starfuckers, Inc."
"The Hand That Feeds"
"Only"
"Every Day Is Exactly The Same"

The Definitive NIN - Deep Cuts
Tracklisting
"Sunspots"
"Heresy"
"The Fragile"
"Terrible Lie (Live)" (taken from And All That Could Have Been)
"Piggy"
"Sanctified"
"The Frail"
"The Wretched"
"The Collector"
"Something I Can Never Have"*
"All The Love In The World"
"No, You Don't"
"Physical (You're So)"
"Home"
"The Big Come Down"
"The Becoming"*
"Gave Up"
"Reptile"
"Getting Smaller"
*The Still version of "Something I Can Never Have" and "The Becoming" is provided in the torrent

The Definitive NIN - Quiet Tracks,
"A Warm Place"
"Something I Can Never Have" (Still version, referred to as "Still"*
"Help Me I Am In Hell"
"Closer (Precursor)"
"Even Deeper"
"La Mer"
"Adrift And At Peace"
"Beside You In Time"
"The Day The World Went Away" ("Quiet" Version, previously available in The Day The World Went Away)
"The Downward Spiral"
"The Way Out Is Through"
"The Fragile" (Still version)
"The Mark Has Been Made"
"The Great Below"
"And All That Could Have Been"
"Ripe (With Decay)"
"The Persistence Of Loss"
"Right Where It Belongs V2" (from the UK and Japanese editions of With Teeth)
"Gone, Still"
*The studio version from Pretty Hate Machine is provided in the torrent

Also grab
"The Slip" and "NINJA 2009 Summer Tour EP"