Reviews (page 14 of 14)
There was maybe 2 songs i would call music. "HURT" which is a cover anyways and "Closer". Other than thatbits just street noise with Lyrics you can hardly hear. Don't need to hear this again
hate it
Not for me. Some of the atmospheric stuff works at times, but mostly it's just too sonically ugly.
Nope
So this is industrial rock. They actually sample table saw sounds (“I Do Not Want This”) Questions that entered my mind when listening: Who listens to this shit? Is this guy gay? (see lyrics to “Ruiner”, one of the better songs actually) Is this music? What are these lyrics breh? (interesting… lyrics in “Closer” -also one of the better songs, Gorillaz’ Plastic Beach vibes) Did this guy listen to Deftones, or did Deftones listen to this guy? (Shoutout Chino) I don’t hate all of it, but the singer is so winy, and the music is so discordant and harsh, if they put an audio clip of forks scraping a plate in one of the songs, it would fit right in. I at least don’t hate some of the non-grating moments, though, “Reptile” didn’t make my ears bleed, I may even have enjoyed a song or two (“A Warm Place”, “Eraser” -minus the last minute). Not my genre though. Johnny Cash didn’t write “Hurt”?! I actually like the NIN original better. Also it was in Rick and Morty. Best song on the album. (I’m so glad this album is over)
Hasn't aged well and it gave me a headache
This is absolutely awful. I’m sure many people enjoy this, but then there are also people who slam their genitals in doors for kicks. Each to their own.
"Now here are some of your no-name bands. Sonic Youth? Nine Inch Nails?" - Homer Simpson If hating this makes me uncool, then consider me a big ol' square.
When I am grateful for pauses of silence, that tells me this isn’t my genre. It felt like Nine inch Nails on a Chalkboard 😫
la misoginia de closer me hizo quitar el álbum, y en general el tono edgy de las letras es más para un adolescente de 13 años con el cerebro consumido por la porn*grafía y la violencia que para mí. otra nueva adquisición para la lista de álbumes que no envejecieron bien y que sin importar que tan modernos fueron en su época, es en esa época en la que deberían quedarse y no en el presente.
There is a reason that the US military use Nine Inch Nails music as a form of torture in places Guantanamo Bay and Abu Ghraib. Because its unbearable.
Only got through about half of this — hated every minute of it. Just awful.
I suspect there will be a lot of 1s and 5s for this. Either love it or hate it. So many of the songs sound like they would be in a horror film. It had me thinking “you okay, man? You seem pretty angry”
Other than the 2 songs I've heard before, avoid at all costs! Would never listen to again.
Scheiss Industrial mit pornografischen Texten
Reading the wiki on this album is far more enjoyable than actually listening to it.
absolutely diabolical
Whiny and annoying. The only good thing to come out of this album is Johnny Cash's cover of Hurt.
Just awful. Made me consider - do I really want to waste my time when there are so many bad albums in the 1001. This is offensive on so many levels. Couldn’t listen to whole songs. Still got a headache. I miss what anyone sees in this. Just awful!
Bad rock, not hard rock
If I ever here any song from this album, that isn't Hurt (and hopefully then it's the Johnny cash version), it's an instant skip. Industrial rock is just ear torture.
Unlistenable. I liked Closer at the time but it's the only song I could listen to on this. I like Reznor's soundtrack work though.
I've always said noone can bollox up a truly great song. The Bad News cover of Bohemian Rhapsody, Rolf Harris's cover of Stairway to Heaven are examples of this. And the cover of Hurt tht we have here, although it is definitely not the Nine Inch Nails version that I know it is still ok. But even that is not good enough to drag this heap of shit out of the mire. 1 because Hurt stopped it from being lower.
Has to be the worst one so far. Absolutely horrible, and I now feel vindicated for all the times I thought my classmates were shallow or lame for liking 9IN
DNF
About 20 seconds after the start of the first track there was a very loud voice inside my head screaming "Make it stop". I didn't give into that voice immediately but by the third track I could no longer ignore it. So I listened to A Walk Across the Rooftops by The Blue Nile in order to preserve my sanity..
I hate this so much. I would pay money to never hear this again.
Not my groove
I didn't really get it. The jarring noises ended up feeling so frequent that the music faded into the background - I found this utterly anonymous.
Non stop screaming. Horrible music
I don't understand why anyone would voluntarily listen to this album
This shit is ass. And it’s a shame Trents work on the social network soundtrack is my favorite work of all time. It’s not that it’s going over my head either. I totally get it. the experimentation is pretty cool but it gets drowned out by nonsense. And his vocals are trash. For some reason I keep thinking of Oakley sunglasses and Nissan Z3s. It’s so damn try-hard, I’m gonna have to try hard to listen to the rest of it. Keep feeling like I’m watching an episode of CSI. I gotta turn this shit on next time I’m hacking a computer. Something something this album sent me down a downward spiral.
Didn't care for this one at all. Don't get the appeal either
Pain in the ears
Note my music. Lot of noise, lot of sounds, but not melodious.
Many people regard Nine Inch Nails pioneers in their area and hold them very highly, so I went in with quite high expectations. I was thoroughly disappointed. I listen to quite a lot of techno, and that genre usually get comments about being monotone and just "noise", so it's funny that I should have the exact same feeling about this album. I think the melodies are not interesting enough and lacking in general. Almost everything is just distorted way too much for the sake of it (at least that's how it feels). Extremely edgy in general. 'Close' has a cool beat, but the lyrics are just weird. I prefer Johnny Cash's version of 'Hurt' many times over this original with it's dissonant quirks. Might be heresy, but going to have to give this a strong 1 since I feel that it is borderline hard to listen to sometimes. I think it's a matter of taste though, NiN are obviously praised by many but this wasn't an album for me.
Too much anger, dissonance and frankly, NOISE. I miss musicianship in music…especially during the 90s.
Industrial rock is a genre I just cannot stand. I do like loud rock music but also like it to be melodic and easily able to distinguish the different instruments and voices making the tune. This is just a cacophony of random noise. I’d rather have a 9 inch nail through my skull than listen to this again. 1/5 6/5/24
If you listened to this as a teenager when it came out, you probably thought you were the edgiest kid on the block. I was 19 or 20, so I was over that phase, so I never listened to NIN. This album is noisy, abrasive, annoying, but also boring and repetitive. I hate the drum machine and the whole industrial sound. I didn't like any of it - not for me.
1.5/5 This album contains a lot of, let’s call it “noise”. I don’t mind a little bit, but on this one it’s too much and disturbing. It was hard for me to get through this album. The only positive thing about this one is Hurt. Just so Johnny Cash could cover it.
Would rather nail my balls to a plank than finish this album.
Not for me
Techno, heavy metal. Oof, this is not for me. I really dislike music that is designed to make me feel like I'm in a drug spiral.
If you’re could have given Zero stars, I would have…nails on a chalkboard!!
Terrible. Just awful. Bravely plumbing new depths of what it means to be really really bad. I mean, at a certain point, you have to hand it to them because you don’t get to sound this bad without trying really hard, so congrats I guess? But I don’t know, maybe next time, and hear me out, you try being deliberately good instead? Just a thought. PS - well done Johnny Cash for taking this album’s one good song and making it a hundred times better
If my dogs bark at it the whole time, it’s no good. In 2024, I can at least appreciate the mixing of these sounds, but I didn’t like it in 1994 when my brother(s) were listening to it, and I still don’t like it today. So so dark.
This album was edginess incarnate. While it brought some interesting ideas to the table, I don't think any of them were executed well at all. So many decisions come across as intentionally circumventing what's expected of music, forgetting that, in the end, this is still supposed to be music.
All the edgy kids in the 90's loved this. I hate those "this is just noise" comments but...this is just noise. Really sounds like it's trying too hard, moving into Sharon Tate's house to record, wtaf?
Oh boy, an album by the esteemed artist who scored "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem"! Look, I suppose if you can't make music that sounds good for normal people to enjoy then you can make loud, discordant noise for stupid, angry people to enjoy, and can make a lot of money that way because there are plenty of stupid angry people in the world who can often manage to scrounge together $15. But this is stupid noise and it sucks.
Nice sound. Didn’t understand a whole lot, but it was good background music
Yuck, no music, just noise
# 174 : Can't Listen, will not go back to this. Not my kind of sound. Too angry and noisy.
I would give it a zero if I could.
Not my thing. Hard to discern anything approaching music in this.
I liked Johnny Cash's cover of Hurt better than the original. The only other song I liked was A Warm Place, which stands in stark contrast to the rest of the album's industrial yelling
Non
Terrible. Mostly just shouty industrial metal noise. No discernable melodies.
Prefer Atari Teenage Riot
Repetitive and dull
Inte för mig
I listened to each song all the way though and I could not wait for each song to end. Such a hard listen... "Closer" and some parts of "Hurt" are not as bad as everything else. "The Downward Spiral" literally brought me distress. I really tried to find something to appreciate about this album but it made me feel so bad. The best part about The Downwo Spiral is that it eventually ends.
Don’t like
Aua
Empezamos con Mr Self Destruct, no pude con ella. Una cacofonia que tuve que parar. El grupo usa ruidos de fondo en sus canciones, que si bien es un hecho original no me termina de gustar. Las letras tampoco es que sean muy buenas o memorables. Definitivamente este grupo y el género no es para mí. La única que pude escuchar: A warm place. El resto, no me gustó nada.
I tried to make it through this album, but not my kind of music at all. :(
I can't find where you make comments at
This album is just unlistenable for me, it feels souless and grating in ways that I cannot tolerate much more than a song or two and then I regret hearing the lyrics. I like Ministry, Laibach and Unwound but this is just nothing I would ever listen to again.
I'm trying to keep an open mind throughout this project, so here's the most charitable version of my take: "The Downward Spiral" is not for me. Trent Reznor poured his hatred and his cruelty for capitalism, religion, and any living being with ears into this album. The nails in the band's name might as well be the ones on a chalkboard, which featured prominently during the 65 misanthropic minutes of its runtime. This album was mixed with utter contempt for audio normalization, forcing me to look up the lyrics later. None of those words are in the Bible. I can't imagine reaching a life state where these lyrics resonate with me, but—who knows—poetically, maybe there's something there. Sonically, it was akin to the Human Centipede being dragged into an industrial lathe at one of those dystopian cyberpunk raves from sci-fi movies. This album could have been a fitting OST for the gory shock websites of the 2000s. “A Warm Place” felt like a calming oasis of actual music in the desert of edgy screeching, and I’m not sure if the final track, "Hurt," really fit in the mix. The angst was there, but instrumentally, it felt like an afterthought. and props to Johnny Cash and Neil Cicierega for creating something enjoyable from this heap. "I Do Not Want This" was a standout track for summarizing my thoughts on the album in its entirety. I'm relieved that at least the author of this book liked the album. Nine Inch Nails, consider going to church. A wholly despicable and malicious piece of work.
This album is angst and nihilism incarnate. Maybe I’m just a normie, but I think music should be pleasant/enjoyable on some level. This was the music equivalent of modern art – it’s there to make you think or make a statement, but nobody would use it for their own enjoyment. The mixing/mastering was weird too. Tons of oversaturated guitar making the vocals totally drowned out (which I’m sure is on purpose). The most unpleasant sounds were the loudest in the mix. Closer and Reptile were interesting and had some fun electronic sounds, But I think I only liked them in comparison to the other stinkers. Hurt is actually a good song, but it can’t redeem that godawful album. By the end of I was annoyed that it was even included in the 1001.
Track 8 was actually very relatable, because I Do Not Want This. March of the Pigs was trying so hard to be a good song, but the singer and guitarist had to insert themselves. Hurt also became very relatable by the end
Hurt still fire
Not enjoyed. Appreciate the time and place but not my scene
Trash
Wow! Pretty scary stuff.
Vika biisi ok. Muuten meteliä
if horny metal spoons made music, that’s what this is.
Too much screaming
no thanks
Music for boring straight men, literally every song is the same, *yells into the microphone with a distortion effect*, did not every attempt to finish
Ouais bah rock industriel c'est le bon nom j'ai l'impression il a enregistré l'album à l'usine le boug Mais en vrai je comprends que des gens aiment mais perso c'est pas mon style
Pure shite!
Too experimental for me
Wat een gruwelijke herrie.
The first 5 seconds of the first song annoyed me so much I turned it off.
Really really bad Too much noise Video game music? Tony hawks pro skater Makes me feel like a Christian parent who thinks rock music is the devil because I hate it so much
Mostly mot my taste
Very much not for me. I am just not interested in deliberately unpleasant sounding music (even if I theoretically understand how it might be cathartic and emotional) and I found this a struggle to listen to. Every so often, in one of these songs, there'd be a tiny snatch of something actually melodic and interesting, which would get my hopes up, and then they'd immediately go back to screaming. However, because of this, A Warm Place, which I'm sure is a beautiful reprieve for anyone listening to the album, was actually borderline transcendent and completely unexpected to me, so that was really lovely.
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¿Y éstos quiénes son?
Not my fav
Heard it before?: No Enjoy it?: No, not my thing Favourite song: didn’t have one
I like loud abrasive music but couldn't get into this at all, the quiet vocal mixing annoys me and it feels edgy for the sake of being edgy. Think Hurt is the best track by far and would like to hear a bit more like that.
Absolutely not my flavour. God bless Trent for being as angry as he was though.
trash
yeah this is not an album for me. i'm sure this album was a very influential album but i think it's influential for a lot of musicians that i am not particularly fond of. i don't mind dissonance and noise, but just the way these songs are laid out just does not do it for me. there's something about the lyrics that i cannot take at face value, like they are so over the top and corny. look i am a sad boy through and through but my sad boy tendencies are not this angry. this is just eye rolling to me. this resonates with people? go take a walk or something. yeah, not my thing.
I can see the appeal of this album for hard industrial enjoyers but it's just not for me. Some really interesting sounds going on that I appreciate, but I can't see myself jamming to this album.
schreckliches Album.
I did not enjoy this at all
Just droned on with the noise. I definitely could have been fine with never listening to this.
I was like what could be worse than the name Nine Inch Nails for a band, then I heard their music... 1 star.
Never liked Nine inch nails. This album just sounds like noise. Will not listen again
I didn’t think this before listening, but now I think I’ll kill myself
Not a fan
Possibly would have liked this when I was a teenager and I can imagine they are great when you are in the moshpit but it's not something I will ever listen to again
Vägrar lyssna på den här clownen.
🐷 >:(
De las peores vergas que escuché. Cómo una mezcla entre heavy metal y electrónica.
there is a hell and taking this as a blueprint for life will lead you right there
Honestly, this is fucking awful. I should like it, but it's just noise.
Couldn’t even make it through the album.
Man I hated listening to this. Who is this for?
Headache stuff.
Irredeemably awful. Putrid and stupid, not to mention silly and sophomoric. Negative numbers should be an option for the likes of this.
This is five-star music if you're in a club or are just some poser who thinks that listening to this makes you "edgy". Thank heaven I'm neither of those things.
As I have learned from this list, I do not have much fondness for industrial music. I don't really think this is a horrible album. If you like this style of music, I'm sure it's great. But I really, really did not enjoy listening to it. Had to have the volume pretty low the whole time for the sake of my hearing. I kind of like the depressing nature of it, but there's other albums I like more that can make me depressed. I guess I'm glad that this album exists though, because without it, we would not have the Johnny Cash cover of Hurt, which I quite like. My favourite song would be Hurt, I guess? I didn't like any of the songs on here and I don't see myself seeking any of them out again.
dookie
Listen to this if you want to make your life feel more miserable. Lyrics are deep as a puddle. Vocals...just irritating. Not recommended for people in a bad mental state. And ones who appreciate their ears. If you want good electronic music with darker undertones, listen to Depeche Mode. As for depressive industrial music (but less annoying), check out Swans. Best song: Piggy (least annoying one personally, the trip-hop vibe is also not so bad) Worst song: Heresy (screaming made my headache worse)
I did not like this. Some songs were okay - a little lighter and with more of a melody I liked. But I couldn’t really hear any lyrics in some songs and it just sounded like ambient noise. Having said that, my 10 month old seemed to really like it.
It’s definitely a downward spiral. I really don’t like this. Make mine the Nine Inch Snails: Give me some salt And turn me to gel A whole lot better dan NIN, to my ears at least.
Hurt proves that the songwriting is great. But dear god the performance of all the other songs is beyond unlistenable. Pure cacophony Trent Reznor was right though: Johnny Cash did make Hurt his song
omg. no. nails on a chalkboard. i hate this. i don’t even need to explain why i hate this. 👎👎👎👎👎 Not one good thing in this album.
Van Gogh was not crazy - just perhaps ahead of his time. My ears are crying. 1/10 1 star.
The first part of the album sounded like noise rather than music. The latter part wasn’t too horrible, but not my cup of tea. I found myself actually kind’ve liking ‘Reptile’ and ‘Hurt,’ primarily because of Johnny Cash. I don’t like them well enough to repeatedly listen though, and if I want to hear ‘Hurt,’ I’ll listen to the Cash version. I knew ‘Closer’ already and it’s cool but I can’t stomach it because of my ex. Overall, I can appreciate some of the interesting time signatures and transitions, but I wouldn’t want to listen to this again. 1/5
This music does not fit for me. I respect their reputation. Do not enjoy it.
I just can't with this guy. But I fixed it by listening to Einstürzende Neubauten. Ahhh... much better.
People really like industrial rock? Closer always made me feel weird. I guess that's the point if this whole album is about the downward spiral to suicide. Recording in the location of the Manson murders makes me dislike this album even more. I don't ever need to listen to this album again.
Interesting take but very hard to listen and not enjoyable at all
I went through this so you don't have to. Don't repeat my mistake.
Some techno metal type stuff I’ve heard nothing but good stuff about this band/album but this shit hot garbage
I have no idea why anyone would listen to this
Genuinely up there with one of the worst pieces of music I have even encountered. There is nothing endearing, enjoyable or entertaining about this, it’s just noise
Nope. Still don’t like it.
Fucking awful
Sesenta y cinco minutos de lo que sólo se puede calificar como una encerrona. Cada vez que llega un riff chulo o una melodía que puede ser interesante prefieren arruinarla inmediantamente -quiero pensar que a posta- para dejarte con el mal sabor de boca. El edging que se lo quede al que le guste pero que no cuenten conmigo
太硬核了，欣赏不来
Ça pour une surprise
I wish I knew what the heck they were saying
not a fan.
Not my thing
If Red Hot Chilli Peppers were grumpy satanists who also found a synth.
This was an angry dystopian onslaught of noise that I found virtually unlistenable.
Much like the last NIN album, I don't get them. Never have, never will.
Oh no no no
Nah mate not for me ty very much. There was one song I thought I was enjoying slightly more then I realise the album had finished and it was a suggested album from another artist LOL. Just found this all a bit embarrassing with the OTT lyrics etc
Nope
Geprobeerd. Niet voor mij.
Sure it's demonic but its obnoxiousness is the bigger problem. The odd interesting figure and the mellower sections ("Piggy") and parts of the last song suggest that this project could have been much less of a spectacle, if not fully redeemable.
ugh, nine inch nails
Sorry, it's not the kind of music I listen to...
I tried, would honestly rather have silence though
Прослушивание 1: 1 Снова электроника, ура. Ну и жесть, пи...(матерные слово)какой-то . 2 Да кто такой этот ваш пиги? Чем может быть этот трек интересен? Он очень безвкусен. 3. Недоретровейв. Какой отвратительный экстрим воказл. 4 Неужели таких треков еще 10. Я хочу плакать. Но в этом треке хотябы норм бас гитара. 5 Мне не хватит слов, чтобы описать моё состояние сейчас. 6. Я страдаю, помогите. Я слушаю только для одного, чтобы поставить объективную оценку. 7 Я хочу просто молча дослушать. Как хорошо, что я не плед перед прослушиванием. 8... 9... 10... 11... 12... Мне осталось всего ничего .. я выдержу. 13... Пожалуй это был самый ужасный час в моей жизни. 14... Неужели всё, неужели, я дотерпел этот ужас. Вывод: если бы можно было поставить 0 , я бы поставил, а так 1/5
1/5 not at all. too bad for hurt song :(
This was a rough day to catch up... Again, not my cup of tea. I am an indie rock girl at heart and I need to accept that. Too much yelling. Too much dissonance.
“Musically, Hieronymus Bosch as postindustrial atheist; lyrically, Transformers as kiddie porn.”
This album would not be one I would have ever reached out to listen to willingly, and now that I have given it a go my opinion has stood the test of time. I couldn't finish this one.
This album was not for me. I've heard at least two tracks off of this album before, in addition to other tracks from the band. Some of the music I did not like and I did not like nearly all of the lyrics. I did like "A Warm Place" (no lyrics). Trent Reznor is talented, and I have liked some of the movie soundtracks he has created. The other track on this album that is good is "Hurt". Reznor's version is good, and I love Johnny Cash's cover of this track. Even with a couple of tracks that I like, the lyrics and much of the mood of this album sink the rating to 1 star.
I tried, I really tried
Jag är ett stort fan av att lyssna på musik via telefonens högtalare 0/1 btw
not my cup of tea, but I can tell they rock the boat
A lot of noise... but not in a good way...
The last song "Hurt" sums up how I feel after listening to this abomination
Not a huge fan having F you like an animal and God is dead blasting out of my windows. Not my thing
First time listening: 5/14 songs liked Industrial music hurts my head, but I understand the implications of this concept album. quite disturbing to say the least. One song saved
Enttäuschend. Furchtbar. Ich dachte das wäre irgendwie Alternative aber das ist ja nix!! 1 stern für die Zulieferung von hurt an Cash und da war es auch vor allem dessen Interpretation
Didn’t like
i don´t like. Nunca han sido mi estilo.
pa morir
Rapist
Fast schon bemerkenswert niedlich, wie bemüht gegen den Strich gebürstet dieses Album daherkommt. Die Lust am Geräusch und an der Experimentierfreude täuscht aber zu keinem Zeitpunkt darüber hinweg, dass hier versucht wird, mit Plakativität den Mangel an künstlerischer Substanz zu kompensieren (und zwar sowohl musikalisch als auch textlich).
helvete vad dåligt
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Rapist
Pedo
Not really my genre.
not bad
A classic on the TL