I totally agree with you on The Collector. Another song that really bugs me is 6 Ghosts 1.

Originally posted by Paco Freeman:

I totally agree with you on The Collector. Another song that really bugs me is 6 Ghosts 1.

Several tracks from Ghosts can really annoy me. I just cant remember which ones.

"Everything" from Hesitation Marks. Maybe I need to give it another listen...but it caught me off guard the first time (probably due to how upbeat it was) and I remember thinking "wtf is this".

Pretty Hate Machine ~ The Only Time. Hate everything about it. Yes, even more than the hilarious "Now I'm slipping on the tears you've made me cry" of That's What I Get.

Broken ~ Suck, since we're actually counting the two bonus covers. Excluding them, I don't really have one.

The Downward Spiral ~ I Do Not Want This. Don't really have much love for Closer either, but there's just too much cringe in "DON'T YOU TELL ME HOW I FEEL!". Sounds like something an angry child would screech at their parents.

The Fragile ~ Toss-up between Pilgrimage and Please.

Still ~ The Becoming. Excludiong the stripped down versions of past songs, none. The original material of the album is perfect.

[WITH_TEETH] ~ The Collector. Hate the instumentation and vocal delivery.

Year Zero ~ I don't have one, it's absolutely perfect. And even with that said, I still rank The Fragile above this album.

Ghosts I-IV ~ 08 Ghosts I.

The Slip ~ Don't really have one. It's not perfect, but I still enjoy every song on the album.

Hesitation Marks ~ All Time Low.

As for the comments about Hesitation Marks, outside of a few tracks, I REALLY didn't think much of the album myself. I believe I felt this way for two reasons.

1. Reznor more or less stated that he drew inspiration for Hesitation Marks from The Downward Spiral era. With the exceptions of having 14 tracks, a Closer-"like" song, and the aesthetic of the album art, (which I feel is the biggest misdirect of all), it's nothing like TDS. Not in tone or instumentation, not in lyrics or vocal delivery. I'm not gonna lie, at the time I felt like it was the kind of bait and switch Brian Warner has been pulling since Eat Me, Drink Me.

2. Year Zero was supposed to be a double album. I fucking love YZ, and I've been waiting forever for the second part and the mini series. I'm completely guessing here, but I think when Obama got elected, Reznor didn't think YZ style material was nessasary any more. If that was the case, well, he couldn't have been more wrong. Obama turned out to be George Dub-uh-yuh 2.0. At the utter least, the man has taken the Bush administration's "If you have nothing to hide, than you have nothing to fear" policies and gone full Orwellian with them. We needed Year Zero 2 then as much as we needed YZ back in 2007, perhaps even more so, instead we got Hesitation Marks. Oh well, at least it has Satellite on it.

All that said, the album has since grown on me, and I do like it now.

Further Down the Spiral was a huge downer for me. I loved everything released up to that point, all the singles and remixes, and then it was like: "WTF is this?". Dunno, maybe I'd like it now, if I listened to it again, now that I've had more experience of life's ups and downs, mostly downs, that I couldn't relate to as a suburban teen in the '90s.

Originally posted by I never said I could aim:

The Downward Spiral ~ I Do Not Want This. Don't really have much love for Closer either, but there's just too much cringe in "DON'T YOU TELL ME HOW I FEEL!". Sounds like something an angry child would screech at their parents.

I mean, that was kinda the whole point? We were the angry children who shopped at Hot Topic and wore combat boots to school, then got put on anti-depressants after we showed our bad poetry to our English teachers. OK, maybe that last part only happened to me . . .

NIN isnt NIN anymore
NIN stopped beeing NIN since "with teeth"
or lets say it in other works: NIN is only NIN if Trent uses drugs ^^
my favorite NIN time is 1989-1999 !!!

Least Favorite Song:
Pretty Hate Machine -- The Only Time
Broken -- Physical
The Downward Spiral -- I actually really hate Closer.
The Fragile -- The Big Comedown
With Teeth -- I don't own yet
Year Zero -- My Violent Heart
Ghosts I-IV -- 6 Ghosts I
The Slip -- I don't own yet
Hesitation Marks -- None
Not The Actual Events -- Dear World
Add Violence -- None
Bad Witch -- God Break Down the Door

What are you talking about? The big come down is a great track.
Anyways:

The Downward Spiral -- Closer
The Fragile -- Into the void
With Teeth -- Collector
Ghosts I-IV -- 3 (Call of duty soundtrack smh)