Year Zero
by Nine Inch Nails
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Year Zero is ranked 5th best out of 25 albums by Nine Inch Nails on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Nine Inch Nails is The Downward Spiral which is ranked number 161 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 8,774.
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Year Zero track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 79 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Year Zero rankings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 07/19/2026 02:16 | Exist-en-ciel | 15,354 | 70/100 |
| ! | 06/11/2026 21:32 | thepardunk | 2,587 | 69/100 |
| ! | 01/10/2026 01:40 | Devilwoac | 1,398 | 97/100 |
| ! | 12/29/2025 17:41 | mutant | 1,671 | 56/100 |
| ! | 11/24/2025 16:28 |  EyeKanFly | 8,848 | 65/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 12% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 74.4/100, a mean average of 74.0/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 74.5/100. The standard deviation for this album is 14.5.
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Trent's masterpiece, and I don't think it will ever sound dated.
Enjoyable.
Brilliant concept album! Best NIN album and IMO one of the best albums of the 2000s (only Hybrid Theory & White Blood Cells are better), very forward thinking!
GandalfORiley345 07/09/2014 02:39 | #116323 | TOP COMMENT
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Out coming from the typical sounds, this album takes to be the most electronic that Reznor ever made, he gives him time to create 16 different sounds (not the best creativity comparing each one) that every song dives to amaze people while listening, and he still singing sad, negative, creepy lyrics, mad agresive sounds, with crazy chorus and stranged way to sing, he´s been making the most unique music since decades, this album gives, simply, the best view of unique mental creativity
Best song: Survivalism
Worst song: Another Version of the Truth
NubbinBased 06/07/2012 21:27 | #44017
The last few songs are great, the rest... not so much.
lightmyway 05/08/2012 22:47 | #41860 | TOP COMMENT
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The first time an NIN album didn't take forever to come out. It's a good album with some real highlights but there are a lot of boring parts too.
I enjoyed this apocalyptic concept album.
Sprawling album which doesn't quite manage to carry itself all the way. In parts it is very good though and a huge dark forboding atmosphere. The concept is also out there in the stratosphere too. Certainly worth it if you liked his earlier work. No drop in the standard of his songwriting.
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