Any Nine Inch Nails fans here?

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Who likes/loves Nine Inch Nails?

I am, obviously!	33%	[ 2 ]
I like them but they're not my favourite band	33%	[ 2 ]
I think they're okay	17%	[ 1 ]
I've heard of them but that's all	0%	[ 0 ]
I think that Trent is a musical genius	0%	[ 0 ]
I think that NIN went downhill with Atticus	0%	[ 0 ]
I prefer the early NIN over the later NIN	17%	[ 1 ]
I can't stand them	0%	[ 0 ]
Nine Inch Who?	0%	[ 0 ]

Total votes : 6

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03 Jul 2025, 3:31 pm

I have this suspicion that a lot of NIN fans are neurodivergent. I don't have much to back this up, apart from the only 2 people who I've been messaging with both love NIN too.

So my question is: who on this forum loves, or likes, NIN?

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03 Jul 2025, 3:50 pm

I liked them when I was in high school, but I haven't really followed their output since The Fragile.

I have most of the releases up until (and including) The Fragile though.

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03 Jul 2025, 4:18 pm

funeralxempire wrote:

I liked them when I was in high school, but I haven't really followed their output since The Fragile.

I have most of the releases up until (and including) The Fragile though.

Excellent! Did you grow out of them, you think?

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03 Jul 2025, 4:24 pm

NINfan wrote:

funeralxempire wrote:

I liked them when I was in high school, but I haven't really followed their output since The Fragile.

I have most of the releases up until (and including) The Fragile though.

Excellent! Did you grow out of them, you think?

I guess so. They were a good gateway into other industrial like Wumpscut, Suicide Commando, Hocico, etc; but my musical tastes kinda shifted too. I ended up really getting into hardcore/crust/grindcore/powerviolence type stuff and that interest kinda consumed most of my attention so there wasn't much left for other styles.

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04 Jul 2025, 6:11 am

I know what you mean, there are so many music styles out there, you can't follow all. You stopped at one of their best albums though. The Fragile is my 'therapy album'. Whenever I feel stuck within myself, I listen to it and feel less unstuck.

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07 Jul 2025, 6:06 pm

I was 'I prefer the early NIN over the later NIN'. Pretty Hate Machine and Broken are good, as well as the remix albums Fixed and Further Down the Spiral. The rest is hit and miss as far as being in my preferences. That said I respect Trent a lot, I respect his influences, just that for sound and style I'm more of a pre-Process Skinny Puppy and Pop Will Eat Itself Fan when it comes to industrial and adjacent sounds (My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult has some good stuff as well but they're even more hit-and-miss, kind of like Pigface).

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07 Jul 2025, 6:12 pm

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Consequently, that means NIN went out on a high point as far as my awareness is concerned.

Much better than a lot of acts that drag things out into mediocrity. I wish Antichrist Superstar was the last Marilyn Manson album I was aware of. :lol:

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07 Jul 2025, 6:18 pm

techstepgenr8tion wrote:

How do you feel about Frontline Assembly?

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Yesterday, 11:17 am

My favorite thing about NIN is definitely the quake 1 soundtrack, I was obsessed with quake as a kid. Same thing with American McGee's Alice, it was my favorite game for a time when it came out. I think the drummer for NIN did that score, Chris.

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Yesterday, 12:39 pm

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The songs weren't quite the same once Trent managed to get sober, which is an awful thing to say. I was happy for him, but I had to get used to his new stuff. Their latest tour is fantastic, though! The first tour Im missing, unfortunately.

I also like PWEI, Skinny Puppy but prefer Ministry, Pigface and the earlier Manson. And Cop Shoot Cop. And Girls Against Boys. And the early Treponem Pal.

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Yesterday, 12:41 pm

funeralxempire wrote:

NINfan wrote:

Consequently, that means NIN went out on a high point as far as my awareness is concerned.

Much better than a lot of acts that drag things out into mediocrity. I wish Antichrist Superstar was the last Marilyn Manson album I was aware of. :lol:

You made a good decision! (Not my words, obviously). Ah, Manson. What to make of him nowadays..

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Yesterday, 12:46 pm

funeralxempire wrote:

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How do you feel about Frontline Assembly?

Oh, I haven't listened to them for ages! I mainly remember them from the 90s. Can't remember what I made of them, so will listen to them later today.

I take it you like them?

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Yesterday, 12:50 pm

Backbonding Pie wrote:

I have the soundtrack too, but never played the game.

I don't know Chris's game score, I'm afraid to say. But I will look it up. I liked him as a musician.

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Yesterday, 1:50 pm

NINfan wrote:

Backbonding Pie wrote:

I have the soundtrack too, but never played the game.

I don't know Chris's game score, I'm afraid to say. But I will look it up. I liked him as a musician.

Yeah, the scores are cool on their own, but I think they're fire in the game, especially AMA, it's so creepy, highly recommend both. It probably won't have the same nostalgia pull like I felt when I played them in my childhood, and might seem dated, but quake aged much better than AMA imo.

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Yesterday, 2:23 pm

NINfan wrote:

funeralxempire wrote:

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How do you feel about Frontline Assembly?

Oh, I haven't listened to them for ages! I mainly remember them from the 90s. Can't remember what I made of them, so will listen to them later today.

I take it you like them?

Yeah, I still listen to a few of their albums occasionally.

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Today, 3:21 pm

I used to listen to NIN / Manson / Helmet / Snot / etc back in the 90s and early 2000s. I still enjoy them these days, but they're not the main things I listen to.

I suppose I listen to them less cos I'm not as angry as I was back then. Angry feelings made it easy to relate to angry music. I suspect autistic ppl might like NIN cos they relate to the pain and isolation on some level. Equally so, when I stopped having those feelings as much, the type of music I listened to also changed, as I related to different things now.

The same may apply to Trent and how his music changed before and after getting clean. His mindset changed, and as a result, so did his music. If (you) as the listener have not changed, while the artist does, it can create a disconnect between how you used to relate, and how you currently relate to the music.

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