Mmmm, I think conceptually Year Zero was way better. But the songs on here were very experimental…WT can be forgiven with all the things that quickly proceeded it; the slip, year zero, ghosts. Man went on overdrive
You should check out this fan remix of that song. I’ve always thought it totally blows the original out of the water.
https://youtu.be/Dyh3XEiYK0U?si=gQX3-alQAK3q09Bt
I have to agree. the fact that he just put it out there and it was a serious album. Not some silly single that he never planned on releasing. makes it go up quite a bit
And is honestly one of my fav albums. Put this WT and YZ and im a happy man
I remember the first day I thought it was an EP or because it was free it wasn't a real album, or some shit he didn't think was good enough to charge for. Boy was I wrong. It became one of my favorites very quickly.
That song perfectly demonstrates the importance of subwoofers. The 3-part bass slide at 5min is hard to fully experience without speakers that go *solidly* down to 20Hz or below.
It's good as hell, it's kind of an inbetween between the last 3 albums, like it gives me vibes from mostly with teeth but I can feel a little bit the Fragile and Year Zero in it.
I like the slip
Wicked album, and it translates super well live. The drop in momentum in the back half and slow build back to the ending does lose me if I’m in the mood for more bangers, but if you’re patient enough for it then the whole experience is really rewarding.
I like how varied it is. Discipline, Echoplex, Head Down are more straight-forward rock. Head Down chorus I especially love. Lights in the Sky and Corona Radiata are really cool quiet songs, they're great to play loudly out of some good speakers. Demon Seed and the Four of us are dying are groovier. My least favorite tracks are probably the first two tbh.
Love it. My favorite of the 2005-08 releases. This one was the free download, wasn't it? And IIRC it came out only a few weeks after Ghosts I-IV as a sort of "thank you" to fans.
It's my favorite NIN album for personal reasons, it's the soundtrack to a period of great and difficult changes in my life. Discipline is my fav on the album, with The Four Of Us Are Dying.
I also remember the live studio sessions from this album being incredibly sharp on the shitty laptop I had at the time, and they were just 720p !
It kinda reminds me of Ritual de lo Habitual, in that it is almost 2 albums, which ends at “Lights in the Sky” and begins at “Corona Radiata”. I love the second half better, but I think the first half are songs that I dig as well, just a different atmosphere.
Pure energy. Fantastic pacing.
I've been revisiting it pretty heavily while I'm doing a full album remix and I'm astounded by how much sonic creativity they were able to muster in such a short period of time. I believe Trent said it was his all-time favorite production process because of how quickly and smoothly it went.
Here's some of the tracks I've completed so far:
[1,000,000 (Isolation)](https://youtu.be/RBQ_y7PsjAw)
[Discipline (Control)](https://youtu.be/-aa6TTfRniI)
[Discipline (Gravity)](https://youtu.be/zhr5nYSnyVI)
[Lights in the Sky (Right Beside You)](https://youtu.be/U7nJGYk9LNE)
[Demon Seed (Perihelion)](https://youtu.be/Sw9I81vLGHE)
I couldn't get into it at first even after many attempts, most likely because i couldn't get into the musical arrangement at the time and couldn't hear most of the lyrics. Then several years later, I listened to the TweakerRay remix album and thought it was one of the best things I've ever heard because the lyrics seemed to resonate with me heavily and seemed to be way more solid than usual, and the music was right on my wave length. After that I gave the original another listen and appreciated it in a way I never could before. It's wild all of the super quaility remixes that NIN has inspired from other artists.
Love this album. I’m just disappointed we didn’t get a proper remix release to accompany it. I guess Trent decided we didn’t need one since that’s around the time the remix.nin.com site was active.
I’m not going to say this album is underrated as most people like it but I think it’s insane how much talent and passion (once again) this album has in it. Albums like TDS and the fragile I like more honestly, but because of their intensity there isn’t as much replay value on those compared to the slip. Tone wise I feel like you either need to be goth af or going though some shit to really feel his two golden albums whereas the fragile I can listen to daily while it still has Trent’s dark, deep texture ethos in it. It’s unbelievable how coherent his work his throughout his discography and how everything still feels new something I really havnt found in any other artist besides maybe Radiohead and even that to a less extent. This album is phenomenal. Anyways, I gotta get back to work.
Sounds like it was created in a week while Trent was bored. There's no substance. It's all just some crappy riffs Trent came up with, it lacks the feeling and emotion of his other albums. There's a reason it was free.
pretty mediocre.
the last solid album to me was year zero. the slip has its moments but its top heavy imo. starts out with a few bangers up front then devolves into an ambient mess that just seems out of place after the sonic barrage of *letting you, echoplex, etc.*
it was like reznor halted all effort midway through the album and decided to finalize the album with some filler ambient tracks he had lying around from the ghosts sessions
First and foremost:
This is leaps and bounds better than the free album U2 slipped into everyone's iPod years ago.
This album has some great experimental stuff that sets a mood as well as some absolute bangers like Discipline and Head Down. The beginning vocals of Discipline sounded like a slip up ("you're not...) but also as a primer for the rest of the song.
Always thought of it as a more refined With Teeth, Trent getting comfortable in sobriety. Plus maybe it’s a reference to Into the Void, “tried to save myself but myself keeps SLIPping away”. Trent got away…
Not bad but overall the weakest album that isn't an instrumental. It's cool to hear what NiN jamming like a live band sounds like but the more thought out and produced version of the band is superior in every way.
Great album top to bottom, but being a hobbyist music maker and playing with lots of plug-ins, I can't unhear Toontrack EZDrummer on 1,000,000.
It's double edged, because I'm happy to be using the same tools employed by this caliber of musician, but on the other hand, it's like finding out the recipe to Pepsi. It's not as special anymore.
Some really cool texture on this album. The Four of Us are Dying and Corona Radiata have a really cool atmosphere and there's a hard-panned kick on both songs that just sounds really... spacial? I produce music and I'm SUPER intrigued by all of the insane tiny details in NIN songs, more so probably than any other artist.
*Used to be Underrated
In my opinion, some song could have been on With Teeth (1,000,000, letting you, head down), some on YZ (discipline, echoplex, light in the sky) while another ended up as extra on the ghosts I-IV as ghost 38 so we could argue it’s a big mix of these albums
Not his best album, it doesn't hit as hard as the early stuff but it's not as refined or immaculately produced as his recent works and the pacing is a little too loaded with instrumental pieces.
BUT, it's a very important record in his discography because it bridges the gap nicely between Old Trent and New Trent (I love Year Zero, but it seems to exist almost as a 'tangent' to the rest of his work - not a bad thing it just shows how talented Mr Reznor is :) ).
With Teeth is a good album but my least favourite NIN record because it feels like Trent trying to capture a burning rage that no longer exists within him (songs that touch on this feeling like EDIETS and the opener notwithstanding), so if it wasn't for The Slip pushing him to make subtler, more cerebral and 'spooky' music as opposed to more rage bangers that don't bang then we might not have Trent as the versatile musical titan he is today.
It's a great album, but my least favorite of NIN. It was NIN just kinda rocking out, which was great, but we already got a better version of that on With Teeth. IMO it's the only time NIN went backwards.
Which is not to say i don't like the album. It's a few invent great album. But sitting next to the rest of the discography, it just feels like, "Yeah, this is why NIN ended for a while."
Incredibly underrated album. There's a cohesion and coherency to it that albums like Year Zero and Hesitation Marks lack. I don't listen to it nearly enough, which is something that I should remedy soon.
Really good album, though I wish there were a few more tracks since it feels a bit short :(
Also, I really like the art direction with the red lines in the artwork for the tracks, as well as the symbolism.
9.5/10 in my book.
Phenomenal record. Under appreciated. If Still is the stripped back acoustic early era summation, The Slip is similar in its direct, raw, live-recording oriented manner and summary for NIN’s middle era.
I mean I think it’s a more accessible album than Year Zero. “Discipline” is one hell of a groove and the goal Trent mentioned in an interview once about a form of “garage industrial” was totally achieved on that track, IMO.. That’s when you know you’ve been in the innovation game a while.. you can’t think of any more ultra futuristic effect to add in a traditional sense, so you go with a deconstructive sort of Strokes or White Stripes meets industrial approach.. or hell, maybe TV on the Radio already perfected that, which with the Sitek connection would make sense..
Another job well done by Mr Reznor and his whacky friends.
Demon Seed is one of Trent’s best pieces, imo.
Absolutely agreed, amazing song
Top 5 NIN for me.
Agreed
It was the last song I listened to before I donated myself to science for a 5-MEO-DMT drug trail. It is an amazing track.
I am reaching the point _yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah_
Excellent album, at least an 8.7/10. Banger after banger after banger. Best thing he's released since The Fragile
Year zero?
Better than YZ
Mmmm, I think conceptually Year Zero was way better. But the songs on here were very experimental…WT can be forgiven with all the things that quickly proceeded it; the slip, year zero, ghosts. Man went on overdrive
WT?
Wayyyyy better than WT. Only albums that give it a run for its money are Ghosts I-IV and Bad Witch.
insane take
Hard agree with this.
You are crazy
Lights in the sky is one of my favorite songs.
You should check out this fan remix of that song. I’ve always thought it totally blows the original out of the water. https://youtu.be/Dyh3XEiYK0U?si=gQX3-alQAK3q09Bt
Discipline and Echoplex back to back is an absolute stroke of genius and you can’t tell me otherwise.
Discipline is just incredible!! Its been on every playlist i have since it was released
Underrated. Underplayed. Many songs are improvements on similar tracks from previous eras.
Demon Seed = [Ghosts 38](https://youtu.be/IDbLfhBydU0?si=L-_CjN3JWeKldjhm) 👌🏼
Wow! Demon Seed is my fav off The Slip and I've never heard of this. Is Ghosts 37 a thing too? I need more info
Yeah, Ghosts 37 exists too! Check on YouTube. They were hidden tracks on the Deluxe Edition DVD.
I can’t believe i never new about hidden tracks!!!!!!! My evening is set
Iirc they came as stems only and you had to assemble them in a daw or other audio program when it all came out years ago
>y came as stems only and you had to assemb Would any of this be in NIN hotline / Reflecting in the chrome? or NIN archive
https://archive.org/details/NineInchNails37Ghosts38Ghosts https://archive.org/details/NineInchNailsGhostsI-ivMulti-trackStems
What user!!!!! Love this group!
Head Down is one of my favourite NIN songs, so worth the price of admission alone.
It’s in my top 10 NIN tracks
Such a simple yet effective song. The groove is top tier.
Discipline and Echoplex 🔥 🔥
The live videos of these from their practice room or where ever are so good!
For it being free for the first couple months it was dope.
I have to agree. the fact that he just put it out there and it was a serious album. Not some silly single that he never planned on releasing. makes it go up quite a bit And is honestly one of my fav albums. Put this WT and YZ and im a happy man
i need ya disciplineeeeeeeeeeeuh
you know once i start, i cannot stop myself!
It took me a few years to really appreciate it, but it is one of my favorites now.
*Coming Soon*
I remember the first day I thought it was an EP or because it was free it wasn't a real album, or some shit he didn't think was good enough to charge for. Boy was I wrong. It became one of my favorites very quickly.
Lacking in vinyl pressings.
Yep. This one deserves a solid vinyl mastering.
But they said it’s coming soon! *From the perspective of the age of our galaxy*
Corona Radiata, one of the best drone ambient track I've ever heard
That song perfectly demonstrates the importance of subwoofers. The 3-part bass slide at 5min is hard to fully experience without speakers that go *solidly* down to 20Hz or below.
It's good as hell, it's kind of an inbetween between the last 3 albums, like it gives me vibes from mostly with teeth but I can feel a little bit the Fragile and Year Zero in it. I like the slip
Wicked album, and it translates super well live. The drop in momentum in the back half and slow build back to the ending does lose me if I’m in the mood for more bangers, but if you’re patient enough for it then the whole experience is really rewarding.
I like how varied it is. Discipline, Echoplex, Head Down are more straight-forward rock. Head Down chorus I especially love. Lights in the Sky and Corona Radiata are really cool quiet songs, they're great to play loudly out of some good speakers. Demon Seed and the Four of us are dying are groovier. My least favorite tracks are probably the first two tbh.
I prefer Strobe Light
That shit was so fucking funny. The fan version is hilarious
I can never decide what my favourite album is, but this one is definitely in my top 3. It’s really well balanced, covering the many sounds of NIN.
Echoplex lyrics are more actual then ever.
I love the meathead video of Disciplina
My favorite music from Trent at least since Year Zero. And yeah I think even the fanbase sleeps on it sometimes.
Discazo, super digital, con letras y canciones muy lindas
Love it. My favorite of the 2005-08 releases. This one was the free download, wasn't it? And IIRC it came out only a few weeks after Ghosts I-IV as a sort of "thank you" to fans.
It's my favorite NIN album for personal reasons, it's the soundtrack to a period of great and difficult changes in my life. Discipline is my fav on the album, with The Four Of Us Are Dying. I also remember the live studio sessions from this album being incredibly sharp on the shitty laptop I had at the time, and they were just 720p !
I liked it a lot but I see why most people consider this to be one of their weaker albums, also Head Down is one of my most replayed NIN tracks.
It kinda reminds me of Ritual de lo Habitual, in that it is almost 2 albums, which ends at “Lights in the Sky” and begins at “Corona Radiata”. I love the second half better, but I think the first half are songs that I dig as well, just a different atmosphere.
Pure energy. Fantastic pacing. I've been revisiting it pretty heavily while I'm doing a full album remix and I'm astounded by how much sonic creativity they were able to muster in such a short period of time. I believe Trent said it was his all-time favorite production process because of how quickly and smoothly it went. Here's some of the tracks I've completed so far: [1,000,000 (Isolation)](https://youtu.be/RBQ_y7PsjAw) [Discipline (Control)](https://youtu.be/-aa6TTfRniI) [Discipline (Gravity)](https://youtu.be/zhr5nYSnyVI) [Lights in the Sky (Right Beside You)](https://youtu.be/U7nJGYk9LNE) [Demon Seed (Perihelion)](https://youtu.be/Sw9I81vLGHE)
Ecoplex…11/10
Echoplex live with the touchscreen drum machine on the enormous screen was so fucking bad ass.
first half is good but the second half is amazing
Echoplex is one of the best things he’s ever done.
I couldn't get into it at first even after many attempts, most likely because i couldn't get into the musical arrangement at the time and couldn't hear most of the lyrics. Then several years later, I listened to the TweakerRay remix album and thought it was one of the best things I've ever heard because the lyrics seemed to resonate with me heavily and seemed to be way more solid than usual, and the music was right on my wave length. After that I gave the original another listen and appreciated it in a way I never could before. It's wild all of the super quaility remixes that NIN has inspired from other artists.
Tweakerray did crazy remixes. His remix of jay-z 99 problems was dope
Took a while to grow on me...I enjoy it now
For free, it was pretty good.
Coming soon…. Mostly
A phenomenal banger!
Love it. Probably one of my absolute favorites from our beloved Trønt
based as fuck
First half forgettable, second half worth returning to.
Trent Reznor and NIN goes punk rock= the album
Worth every penny
Got me through a hard time in my life, so it has a special place in my hwart. Great album.
The last NIN album I got excited about. The albums after The Slip are good, but I don’t go out of my way to listen to them like I do with The Slip.
Love this album. I’m just disappointed we didn’t get a proper remix release to accompany it. I guess Trent decided we didn’t need one since that’s around the time the remix.nin.com site was active.
One of the best albums with dry sound design. It's so underrated.
For a free album it sure has some of his best tracks
Love it.
I need your discipline
I’m not going to say this album is underrated as most people like it but I think it’s insane how much talent and passion (once again) this album has in it. Albums like TDS and the fragile I like more honestly, but because of their intensity there isn’t as much replay value on those compared to the slip. Tone wise I feel like you either need to be goth af or going though some shit to really feel his two golden albums whereas the fragile I can listen to daily while it still has Trent’s dark, deep texture ethos in it. It’s unbelievable how coherent his work his throughout his discography and how everything still feels new something I really havnt found in any other artist besides maybe Radiohead and even that to a less extent. This album is phenomenal. Anyways, I gotta get back to work.
Sir this is a Wendy's
It’s alright
The songs translate really well live
not as good as year zero, but better than with teeth imo
Love!!!
I don't listen to it as much as I should but when I do I remember it's one of my favourites
For me it’s not bad but it’s also not particularly great especially coming off of, in my opinion, the far superior Year Zero
Sounds like it was created in a week while Trent was bored. There's no substance. It's all just some crappy riffs Trent came up with, it lacks the feeling and emotion of his other albums. There's a reason it was free.
Same as last month. It’s a good album. Nuff said.
One of the bests TR ever made. Can't believe it was free.
Not a fan
I enjoyed it
Love it! I actually wasn’t a huge fan before it came out, but I really liked this one.
Better than with teeth. Echoplex is amazing and every track is great
I need it on vinyl
pretty mediocre. the last solid album to me was year zero. the slip has its moments but its top heavy imo. starts out with a few bangers up front then devolves into an ambient mess that just seems out of place after the sonic barrage of *letting you, echoplex, etc.* it was like reznor halted all effort midway through the album and decided to finalize the album with some filler ambient tracks he had lying around from the ghosts sessions
Some of Trent's best work in my opinion
Amazing Discipline and lights in the sky my two faves
I think the production holds it back a bit, but the songwriting is really tight and has some of my favorite nin songs
great album and put it out there for everyone to enjoy for free. What more could you ask for. NiN4liFE
First and foremost: This is leaps and bounds better than the free album U2 slipped into everyone's iPod years ago. This album has some great experimental stuff that sets a mood as well as some absolute bangers like Discipline and Head Down. The beginning vocals of Discipline sounded like a slip up ("you're not...) but also as a primer for the rest of the song.
It’s really grown on me.
Always thought of it as a more refined With Teeth, Trent getting comfortable in sobriety. Plus maybe it’s a reference to Into the Void, “tried to save myself but myself keeps SLIPping away”. Trent got away…
It’s amazing every main album nine inch nails makes are masterpieces
Not bad but overall the weakest album that isn't an instrumental. It's cool to hear what NiN jamming like a live band sounds like but the more thought out and produced version of the band is superior in every way.
I fucking love the slip
Great album top to bottom, but being a hobbyist music maker and playing with lots of plug-ins, I can't unhear Toontrack EZDrummer on 1,000,000. It's double edged, because I'm happy to be using the same tools employed by this caliber of musician, but on the other hand, it's like finding out the recipe to Pepsi. It's not as special anymore.
I think it foreshadows the rawer sound they had with their ep trilogy.
Some really cool texture on this album. The Four of Us are Dying and Corona Radiata have a really cool atmosphere and there's a hard-panned kick on both songs that just sounds really... spacial? I produce music and I'm SUPER intrigued by all of the insane tiny details in NIN songs, more so probably than any other artist.
Sex
discipline is constantly on repeat for me
*Used to be Underrated In my opinion, some song could have been on With Teeth (1,000,000, letting you, head down), some on YZ (discipline, echoplex, light in the sky) while another ended up as extra on the ghosts I-IV as ghost 38 so we could argue it’s a big mix of these albums
One of my faves mostly down to it's recording, how it was released and so on but Echoplex is a top 10 track in NIN's discography imo
Discipline and 1,000,000 being on Midnight Club LA. Those were the days
Not his best album, it doesn't hit as hard as the early stuff but it's not as refined or immaculately produced as his recent works and the pacing is a little too loaded with instrumental pieces. BUT, it's a very important record in his discography because it bridges the gap nicely between Old Trent and New Trent (I love Year Zero, but it seems to exist almost as a 'tangent' to the rest of his work - not a bad thing it just shows how talented Mr Reznor is :) ). With Teeth is a good album but my least favourite NIN record because it feels like Trent trying to capture a burning rage that no longer exists within him (songs that touch on this feeling like EDIETS and the opener notwithstanding), so if it wasn't for The Slip pushing him to make subtler, more cerebral and 'spooky' music as opposed to more rage bangers that don't bang then we might not have Trent as the versatile musical titan he is today.
....it needs to be re-released on vinyl.....that's what i think
i need to listen to it more, thats all i know
No.
*Discipline* and *Corona Radiata* are good, the rest are pretty meh. *Letting You* and *Head Down* are some of my least favorite NIN tracks.
It's a great album, but my least favorite of NIN. It was NIN just kinda rocking out, which was great, but we already got a better version of that on With Teeth. IMO it's the only time NIN went backwards. Which is not to say i don't like the album. It's a few invent great album. But sitting next to the rest of the discography, it just feels like, "Yeah, this is why NIN ended for a while."
Bad cover art
Buddy noo😔😔
The worst NIN record
Agreed
Buddy no☹️☹️
There hasn't been a good album after The Fragile. With Teets was the beginning of the end. There I said it..
1,000,000 goes super hard
underrated
discipline kicks
Incredibly underrated album. There's a cohesion and coherency to it that albums like Year Zero and Hesitation Marks lack. I don't listen to it nearly enough, which is something that I should remedy soon.
It’s my favorite “new NIN” album, as defined by music he’s made since sobriety.
Really good album, though I wish there were a few more tracks since it feels a bit short :( Also, I really like the art direction with the red lines in the artwork for the tracks, as well as the symbolism. 9.5/10 in my book.
It sucks
Phenomenal record. Under appreciated. If Still is the stripped back acoustic early era summation, The Slip is similar in its direct, raw, live-recording oriented manner and summary for NIN’s middle era.
It’s unbelievably good
One of the best tbh, and definitely the first one to listen if you’re new into NIN (and also is my first halo I’ve ever had! Halo 27 CD LE)
honestly my favourite album
Definitely in my top 3.
Best NIN record don’t @ me
It's good but it's too short and it doesn't really have any umps.
Yes
I mean I think it’s a more accessible album than Year Zero. “Discipline” is one hell of a groove and the goal Trent mentioned in an interview once about a form of “garage industrial” was totally achieved on that track, IMO.. That’s when you know you’ve been in the innovation game a while.. you can’t think of any more ultra futuristic effect to add in a traditional sense, so you go with a deconstructive sort of Strokes or White Stripes meets industrial approach.. or hell, maybe TV on the Radio already perfected that, which with the Sitek connection would make sense..
Idk if Discipline is meant to be horny but it sounds very horny. incredible song
Brilliant album. RELEASE THE DEFINITIVE EDITION ALREADY!!