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  • Posted: 04/24/2019 20:00
  • Post subject: Album of the day (#3053): The Downward Spiral
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Today's album of the day

The Downward Spiral by Nine Inch Nails (View album | Buy this album)

Year: 1994.
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Overall rank: 158
Average rating: 82/100 (from 902 votes).



Tracks:
1. Mr. Self Destruct
2. Piggy
3. Heresy
4. March Of The Pigs
5. Closer
6. Ruiner
7. The Becoming
8. I Do Not Want This
9. Big Man With A Gun
10. A Warm Place
11. Eraser
12. Reptile
13. The Downward Spiral
14. Hurt

About album of the day: The BestEverAlbums.com album of the day is the album appearing most prominently in member charts in the previous 24 hours. If an album, or artist, has previously been selected within a x day period, the next highest album is picked instead (and so on) to ensure a bit of variety. A full history of album of the day can be viewed here.
RoundTheBend
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  • Posted: 04/25/2019 03:34
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my history teacher in high school had this up on his wall as a poster.

It's genius.
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  • Posted: 04/25/2019 04:01
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HELL. YES.
Crhmgs

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  • Posted: 04/25/2019 05:40
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Such a classic record.

And a major improvement over Pretty Hate Machine which was a good record, but NIN was aiming for a more focused and more ambiental work now. With The Downward Spiral, they kept their previous style and sound, but this time around NIN had a much, much better production and they sounded darker, taking into consideration themes like depression, violence, mental illness and sex in a pretty deep and sinister way.

Without a doubt i think this is NIN's greatest work and one of the greatest albums of the 90's, and it was definitely a benchmark that set the bar for Industrial music to come... you can feel the all the desesperation, anger and sadness that Reznor it's trying to portray in here.

Piggy and A Warm Place are one of my favourite NIN songs, March of the Pigs is perfect and Closer and Hurt are probably their masterpieces, it's beautiful, it's dark, it's depressive, it's haunting it's NIN at their peak.
HoldenM
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  • Posted: 04/25/2019 08:20
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A goddamn masterpiece. Sometimes moving, always grim, mostly groovy. Also, minority view, I know, but... NIN "Hurt" > Johnny Cash "Hurt." Just one man's opinion.

Track picks
1. Mr. Self Destruct
4. March Of The Pigs
5. Closer
9. Big Man With A Gun
14. Hurt
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  • Posted: 04/25/2019 23:27
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Definitely great but I prefer Pretty Hate Machine
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I concur with everyone's comments.
It is amazing.
A few years back, i went to a nin concert- hestation marks.
Have to state- good looking woman all around.
If your a nin fan, check out the live version , made in england, of trent reznor with
Gary Numan perfoming "cars". Its really really good.
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