^ Twas really good. Probably would've enjoyed it a little more if it wasn't in the open air where some of the sound gets lost but it was a great set. Enjoyed the hell out of Love Is Not Enough. Also...tightest drum performance I've ever seen live. Rubin's unreal.
I think The Downward Spiral may be my favorite album of all time at this point in my life. I was always a Fragile truther in my youth, and I still think that album is a masterwork too, but TDS just hits different at this point.
that’s fair. I don’t really think there’s a wrong answer between the two. I just have gotten angrier at the world and sadly more mentally unwell with time, and TDS expresses a lot of that in a v cathartic and to the point way and I think the kinda nightmarish soundscaping is literally a perfect pairing. it sounds how I feel sometimes lol. the EPs honestly are up there with TDS and TF as their best work at this point now too. I’m glad I came back around to NIN over the pandemic.
made a playlist that includes the vinyl/definitive edition tracklist of The Fragile but with Ripe (with Decay) still at the end, and the Please Appendage also thrown in, and I gotta say this might be my preferred way to listen to it through now.
I always wonder how bands like NIN prep for tours when they do wildly different sets night after night. I imagine they work on 30+ songs during pre-tour rehearsals then do extensive soundchecks the day of a show to work out the new shit.
They spend literally two months rehearsing. 1 month for production, 1 month for performance. it also helps when your entire band are world class musicians.
Yessss. I remember maybe fifteen years ago, coming across a STACK of NIN promo vinyl releases at a random shop. They were all priced $15-20, and I remember thinking that was waay too much. I couldn’t afford it in high school regardless, but now I wish I just cleaned out my ‘savings’ and bought everything.
Finally checking out this band because they’re playing at Primavera LA (which I’m going to) Broken is incredible