TopTenREVIEWS presents the music career and reviews of Nine Inch Nails
Nine Inch Nails
CAREER SPAN:
Decade
Album Score
# Albums
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews for each album.
Overall Band Score:
2.8331
Nine Inch Nails Album Rankings
1
I still remember the first time I ever heard Nine Inch Nails. On a spring morning in 1992, I was getting ready for another day of classes in college.
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2
Disillusioned. Disturbed. Pained. Aggressive. These are the perfect adjectives to describe the masterful music made by Nine Inch Nails.
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3
Trying to cover as many different artists as possible, sometimes one forgets some of the moments that make you glad you love music.
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4
First things first: I likedThe Fragile.
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5
Virtually ignored upon its 1989 release,Pretty Hate Machinegradually became a word-of-mouth cult favorite; despite frequent critical bashings, its stature and historical importance only grew in hindsi
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6
"Year Zero" is a total marriage of the pop and gamer aesthetics that unlocks the rusty cages of the music industry and solves some key problems facing rock music as its cultural dominance dissolves in
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7
The last time Trent Reznor set out to shock the world, he had an easier job.
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9
Instrumental sets by bands are usually just footnotes (see also the Beastie Boys' The Mix-Up). But this collection of dense headphone music feels like a creative breakthrough for Trent Reznor.
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10
Even in the great tradition of eccentric Englishmen, the Television Personalities are a cult unto themselves.
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11
It's time to face the facts.The Fragilewas not a success for Nine Inch Nails - people had expectedDownward Spiral IIand had gotten Trent Reznor'sThe Wall.
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12
Hard to believe that at one point Trent Reznor was seen as the quintessential perfectionist, squirreled away in a decaying Victorian house, sweating over each individual track he created, spending upw
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13
In the primal scream therapy session of the 1990s, Trent Reznor clawed himself a spot alongside Kurt Cobain and Billy Corgan for cringe-worthy journal entries set against stirringly bleak and disturbi
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27
Remixes of select tracks from Spiral by the Aphex Twin , Foetus ' Jim Thirlwell, Rick Rubin and others. Interesting, but no improvement on the originals.
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28
With the "Head Like a Hole" single, Nine Inch Nails managed to capture three of the most popular songs from 1989's Pretty Hate Machine: "Head Like a Hole," "Terrible Lie," and "Down In It.
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31
"Sin" might just be Nine Inch Nails most menacing, powerful song. Sadly, the three versions of the song that appear on this EP extract much of Trent Reznor's fury.
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