Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile
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Artist: Nine Inch NailsEdition: Music CD
Format: Explicit Lyrics
Published: 1999
CD Release Date: 1999-09-21
Music Label: Nothing
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- Somewhat Damaged
- The Day The World Went Away
- The Frail
- The Wretched
- We're In This Together
- The Fragile
- Just Like You Imagined
- Even Deeper
- Pilgrimage
- No, You Don't
- La Mer
- The Great Below
- The Way Out Is Through
- Into The Void
- Where Is Everybody?
- The Mark Has Been Made
- Please
- Starfuckers, Inc.
- Complication
- I'm Looking Forward To Joining You, Finally
- The Big Come Down
- Underneath It All
- Ripe (With Decay)
Music reviews of The Fragile
Music Review: Sublime
Rating: 5 Stars
The album is dense, and it needs a lot of listenings before you can get into. A double album is always something special, because only true artists can afford such a challenge! And Trent, after the already classic album "The Downward Spiral" was able to make a work even greater.
The first album, the best, starts with a sequence of 7 tracks that are among the best songs ever written by him:
Somewhat Damaged
The Day the World Went Away
The Frail
The Wretched
We're in This Together
The Fragile
Just Like You Imagined
Then it closes with a ballad, "The Great Below", with really beautiful lyrics.
The second album has great tracks too, like "Into the Void", "Where Is Everybody?", "Please" and "The Big Come Down". The band sounds great, and the production is high-quality as usual.
That's for sure NIN best album and one of the last masterpieces of rock.
Description of The Fragile
Trent Reznor took five years to record this monstrous double-CD set, wielding a perfectionist's touch in the production and the subtlety of a chainsaw in the musicianship. The result is uncompromising, full of hysterical noise and yet utterly accessible. Somehow, someway, this is one of the best pop records of the year. --Matthew CookeThe Fragile is even bleaker than 1994's The Downward Spiral as it lurches along with a perpetual scowl. A frenzied collection of buzz-saw pop, Trent Reznor's grim opus yo-yos through two CDs with scattershot intensity. Hushed one minute and explosive the next, spite and anger intermix with heartbreaking resignation, sometimes in the course of one song. Still, Reznor's dour and uncompromising approach is accessible and undeniably entertaining, even when he eschews vocals altogether. Unchanged are the obsessive lengths that he goes to for the sake of a dynamic thrill ride. The quiet tones that open the instrumental "Just Like You Imagined" suddenly erupt into a barrage of off-time rhythms and noodling keyboard riffs, all rising to a torrid conclusion. The sheer sonic invention on display here is astounding. Reznor's production approaches Brian Eno's in terms of dynamism, though it arises from a profoundly different sensibility. "Starfuckers Inc" uses chopped-up vocals for the verses and a shouting mob for its propulsive, Ministryesque chorus to mercilessly slam some of NIN's imitators (most pointedly, Marilyn Manson). And while there's nothing here as dance-floor-ready as Downward Spiral's "Closer," "Where Is Everybody" comes close, thanks to its slow, sweaty gyrations and Adrian Belew's slippery guitar figures. The Fragile's songs are ultimately simple explorations of deep disillusionment. However, once Reznor finishes twisting them out of shape, they're towering soundscapes of rage that are at once terrifying and beautiful. --Matthew Cooke
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