Nine Inch Decisions

[andrewducker]

I've been listening to the new Nine Inch Nails album recently, more out of a sense of duty than anything else. There are a couple of interesting tracks on there, but nothing terribly special.

And then Julie played a few tracks from earlier albums. One from Pretty Hate Machine, one from The Downward Spiral, one from The Fragile, and the difference was astounding. Not just, I think, because I was much younger when I heard those, but the whole feel of energy and emotion in both his voice and the music were radically different.

So now I don't know whether I want to go and see them live in Glasgow next year, when the last album I liked was in 1999, and the last one I loved was in 1994! They'll undoubtedly play some of their earlier catalogue, but is it worth sitting through bits of the three albums I never even got around to listening to twice?

Comments

[dalglir]

This is pretty much how I've felt about NIN since The Fragile. I'm increasingly 'meh' about his albums since then, to the point of having next to no interest at all.

Shame.