"It serves as a testament to doing what entertains you with no borders." How Trent Reznor created a masterpiece with Nine Inch Nails' timeless The Downward Spiral

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"It serves as a testament to doing what entertains you with no borders." How Trent Reznor created a masterpiece with Nine Inch Nails' timeless The Downward Spiral - and influenced everyone from Korn to Johnny Cash in the process
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I think I still prefer The Fragile, and Hesitation Marks has some great tracks.

"The answer was The Downward Spiral... Nine Inch Nails’ second album"

I like how Broken, despite having 7 tracks to PHM's 8 tracks, is referred to as an "EP" and not their second album. Not to mention Fixed exists. TDS is their third album, fite me.

Edit: since I'm on the subject, here are some little kids performing Wish.

Broken has 99 tracks, but most of them are digital silence for whatever the redbook minimum length was

With Teeth has some really good songs like Only, Every day is exactly the same and Getting Smaller.

Best album for me is Year Zero. It has a dark theme and without being extremely political like SOAD or RATM it definitely is saying something about the way the world is governed.