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The Downward Spiral |  | Artist: Nine Inch Nails
Label: Nothing/TVT/Interscope Records
Category: Music
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Rating:  644 reviews
Sales Rank: 4417
Format: Explicit Lyrics
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.5 x 4.9 x 0.4
MPN: 92346
UPC: 606949234621
EAN: 0606949234621
ASIN: B000001Y5Z
Publication Date: 1994
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| Tracks:
| • | Mr. Self Destruct | | • | Piggy (Nothing Can Stop Me Now) | | • | Heresy | | • | March of the Pigs | | • | Closer | | • | Ruiner | | • | Becoming | | • | I Do Not Want This | | • | Big Man With a Gun | | • | Warm Place | | • | Eraser | | • | Reptile | | • | Downward Spiral | | • | Hurt |
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Amazon.com essential recording
Nine Inch Nails are a pretty amazing phenomenon when one considers what they--um, he--have done with just a few studio recordings. The Downward Spiral, NIN's second full-length album, is just as packed with vitriol as Pretty Hate Machine and the EP Broken--and has just as solid a base of pop hooks that go a long way toward explaining NIN's popularity. Most recognizable is the down-tempo single "Closer," which remains a staple of dance clubs everywhere. But for the most part, the album is all heavy beats and aggressive guitars--industrial music with a pop angle. That winning combination is what makes Trent Reznor a law unto himself, becoming insanely popular while the main body of industrial music retains its subculture status. --Genevieve Williams
Amazon.com
It's easy to understand why Nine Inch Nails became the industrial band to break out of the techno ghetto and win a larger audience. Trent Reznor, who records the NIN albums almost entirely by himself (although he tours with a full band), tries very hard to pass himself off as an angry young man, but underneath the angst-ridden lyrics, pounding synths, and grating guitars is an irrepressible pop sensibility. On the second full-length NIN album, The Downward Spiral, Reznor builds his constructions of noise and gloom around warm, fuzzy melodies. On the album's first single, "March of the Pigs," for example, Reznor screams about swine lined up for slaughter amid guitars screeching in pain. Suddenly the guitars fall away to reveal the sensually throbbing rhythm track below; then that falls away to reveal a vocal-and-piano track that's as catchy as anything by Elton John. Because Reznor has a better handle on dynamics now, the melodic core is more obvious than ever. --Geoffrey Himes
Album Description
Originally released in 1994, Trent Reznor created THE DOWNWARD SPIRAL as both a concept album and modern day classic. This influential 90's classic is Trent Reznor's industrial cum-tragic opera view of the world and the soul's sonically detailed fall from grace. The Downward Spiral delves into despair and anger with hard guitars and brutal beats. DUAL DISC VERSION (CD & DVD on one disc) CD SIDE: Includes entire album in Re-Mastered CD Stereo DVD SIDE: * Video in surround sound and Stereo of "Closer" * Videos of "March of the Pigs" and "Hurt" * Entire album in Stereo and Advanced Resolution Surround Sound * Entire album in Dolby Digital Surround Sound and Stereo * Image Gallery * Complete Discography * Random DVD menus * Surround Sound mixes by Trent Reznor
Album Description
Japanese only SHM-CD (Super High Material CD - playable on all CD players) pressing includes one bonus track. Universal. 2008.
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 The Dog Ate The Part We Didn't Like March 16, 2010
Noddy (New York)
"I'm not as stupid as I look. Are you? For instance, I'm no golfer. I did have a burst, and this is the ghastly thing which awaits each of us, of creating the world in my own image. I removed all resistance until I floated in my own invention. I creamed the opposition. Who in the history of ideas has prepared us for creaming the opposition?"
These words are spoken by Chester Hunnicutt Pomeroy, the hilariously demented rock and roll refugee at the heart of Tom McGuane's deft and daffy little novel, Panama (1978). Chet's a burned-out ex-rock star from Key West on the run from his notorious past and one of the things I've always wondered about is what exactly his band sounded like when, you know, they were all plugged in and tearing up the joint. McGuane is dead funny when describing the younger Chet's onstage antics--he famously threw up on the mayor of New York and even once opened a show by emerging from the fundament of a frozen elephant--but there's very little here on the actual music. However, now that I've heard the supersonically deranged vibe pulsing through The Downward Spiral by Nine Inch Nails I like to think I've got me something of a clue at last. Strangely enough, this record was recommended to me by the son of a good friend of mine, a young jasper moreover whose musical judgement I don't normally completely trust one hundred percent. He's a good sort ordinarily, don't get me wrong, but he keeps playing Bruce Springsteen and U2 on the jukebox for one thing and once he even punched in some noodling tripe by the Grateful Dead, just for me apparently. Shudder. But with The Downward Spiral, this industrial-strength bunch of crunch here, I do believe young Fox done picked me a winner by a long couple of lengths. So farking good in fact is this album that it reminds me of something funny I read in another book once, a bit about the reception in the New York newspapers circa 1903 or 4 of a live musical entertainment starring a fat mezzo-soprano named Edwarda Beef: "'Spellbindingly incomparable!' proclaimed the reviewers, 'transcendently splendiferous!' too." The dude who wrote this book oftentimes puts the ha ha in funny ha ha. Seriously, every time I read that bit about Edwarda Vibe, nee Beef--who incidentally also appeared in a comic operetta called Mischief in Mexico where she had to share the stage with a trained pig named Tubby--I just about pee in my pants. Seriously in a different way and believe it or not, that jive about the book-record association right there actually happens to represent about as high a compliment as it's in the power of a hirsute bozo like me to pay. Yea I say unto ye, good albums and good novels have ever been my only loves. Trent Reznor's whole sick crew sure can crank out a regular old rumpus though, can't they? I've owned Ghosts I-IV for a while now but nothing on that trippy instrumental double-whammy prepared me for the blissful audio onslaught of The Downward Spiral. Didn't old Trent here also have a number performed in that mad David Lynch movie, Lost Highway? The music in that film was almost as good as the film itself if I remember correctly. Edwarda Beef though, talk about cracking me up. She's married to a tycoonical type, a mogul if you will, and has a maid named Vaseline! That's too bleeding funny that is but let me cork me cakehole already and leave yiz all with this little bit of advice: Get a hold in a hurry of this noisily flawless NIN rock opera, guaranteed by any number of discerning headbangers out there as one of the better solutions now available to the vexing problem of ubiquitous musical mindbarf.
Absurd February 12, 2010
iamnotwhatiam (Carbondale, IL)
Reznor is a brilliant composer. Not only does the music have feeling and emotion, but the beats are ridiculously infectious. Thank you Trent for one of the most inspired pieces of art we could have ever heard. You shouldn't just buy this album, you should thank it for its providing a medium for existential catharsis. Down and dirty and alive; this disc is MUSIC. Enjoy.
 The Downward Spiral November 21, 2009
Bjorn Viberg (European Union)
The Downward Spiral being NIN's 2nd studio album and 1994 release was both a critical hit and a smash hit in several countries, reaching the top ten in both in the Billboard 200 and in the UK. Allmusic, Rolling Stone and [...] all gave it high marks. The sound is a mix between industrial rock and industrial metal and contains very well-written lyrics. The book contains all the lyrics and some very strange art. The album spawned two singles "March of Pigs" and "Closer". 4/5.
One of only a handful of albums I'd give five stars. October 7, 2009
Dallas Fawson (Salt Lake City, Utah)
This album, simply put, is one of the best out there. It's revolutionary in more ways than one, have some of the best production of any album ever made, and still sounds great after fifteen years. The albums tone ranges from the heavy, psychotic rant "big man with a gun" to a smooth, catchy sex jam "closer" to one of the saddest, most beautiful songs ever written "Hurt"
One thing this album shows that many others don't is just what music is capable of, how many different emotions it can express, often all in one song.
I don't mean to sound preachy, this is really just one of those albums that deserves to be listened to. If you haven't already, give it a chance.
The Downward Spiral: Dual DISC, CD/DVD. 1994. September 28, 2009
Dr. Feelgood (USA)
As interesting as the record is, it sounds a whole lot better, now, remastered. The only flaw, is that some of the slower songs, tend to be dull. The dvd side includes the closer video, which features some creepy footage of bugs and stuff, and a bald chick, bald on top, and down below as well, not bad. Also, featured is The Downward Spiral in digital dolby stereo and 5.1 surround.
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