My level isn't 'little trouble girl' for nothing :p

I enjoy that album quite a bit. Echoplex is one of those live experiences that will always have a serious imprint on my mind. That tour was damn good. Amazing visuals.

I have enjoyed the new stuff as well. Soundtracks as well like mentioned. I think my NIN experiences follow Sev's pretty close, actually.

Echoplex is easily in my ten favourites. My favourite off The Slip, but it's an extremely close thing with 1,000,000.

I saw the Another Version of the Truth live video on YouTube and it impressed me just how well organised all of that was.

I am also pretty intrigued by this. It certainly does not appear you need any coaching or anything of the sort when checking back catalogs and shit, but I will say one thing. NIN has always had such a strong visual element with their shows. I strongly, strongly urge anyone getting into NIN at all to go check past live stuff. There is a really large collection of pro-shot stuff out there.

Edit: On that note, I was really hoping to find the full 4-6 song single-camera shot of this Fragile material, but just found this one song segmented out. This was some of the most mesmerizing shit I had ever seen. David Carson directed visuals. The Fragile will always be my fav album of all NIN simply from this tour alone. I will do a deeper dive tomorrow to see if can't find the full 4-6 songs uncut.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_wUVXGkndE

Yeah, watching him build that Echoplex beat live, Vanna White style on stage really excited me. I thought it was a really cool way to work into and out of a song.

Edit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_M049DK21k
Here is a pretty decent clip of it.

Seeing NIN live is one of those things I’m just always going to cherish, whether they become lame and uncool and lose their recent appeal or not. I will wear my NIN live experiences with pride.

Definitely check out old concerts from TDS and Fragile eras, as well as post-PHM shows that feature Broken material. “Wish” is one of the most ferocious things I’ve ever seen on a live stage. My god.

A truer statement has never been uttered. Wish live is pure intensity.

A lot of people like to ask, "If you could go back in time and see any tour...?" I really think one of my answers would be the Jim Rose/Manson/NIN tour for TDS. I was just right at that fringe age of being allowed to go out of town for shows on my own by the parents, as long as they knew something of who I was with and seeing. Somehow the parents caught wind of the band names for this one and put it on severe halt. I remember the girlfriend at the time coming back and telling me all about it and me just being sooooooo bummed. I will never get over not seeing that one, prolly.

Not quite a tour, but I wish I'd been around for all of the Year Zero alternate reality stuff.

I wish I remembered the Outside tour. I was just starting to get out to concerts around this time. Was really into music at a young age, and I come from a music nerd household, so I got to see some shit I really don’t remember at all. Bowie and NIN was one such show, and though I saw NIN repeatedly when I was older, even those concerts are fuzzy (when I saw them on the Fragile tour, I was probably high... ok definitely high).

But as for straight NIN shows, I wish I’d seen them around the Broken era.

Look at what this bitch got for Christmas!

better than SOnic Youth

Lolok

REZNOR
1965-20??
Died. Said 'fist fuck'. Won a Grammy.

Name one SY album that slaps harder than Broken ep

Makes sense, as award ceremonies essentially are fist-fuck orgies.

Slaps harder?

Is heaviness how goodness is determined now?

Well, he won an Oscar too.

yeah

Today's glorious fact: Trent Reznor backwards is Ron Zertnert, and if that's not an excellent name then you're no fun at all.