14 - nine inch nails

And all we ever were. Just zeros and ones.

At number 14 is nine inch nails. I have seen NIN 3 times, the first when they headlined Virgin Mobile Festival along with Kanye West in 2008 and the last time when they toured with Jane's Addiction.


This Wiki post is pretty much a crapjob, jsyk I didn't write it.
Wiki - Nine Inch Nails is an American industrial rock project, founded in 1988 by Trent Reznor in Cleveland, Ohio. As its main producer, singer, songwriter, and instrumentalist, Reznor is the only official member of Nine Inch Nails and remains solely responsible for its direction. NIN's music straddles a wide range of genres, while retaining a characteristic sound using electronic instruments and processing. After recording a new album, Reznor usually assembles a live band to perform with him. The touring band features a revolving lineup that often rearranges songs to fit a live setting. On stage, NIN often employs visual elements to accompany performances, which frequently include light shows.

Underground music audiences warmly received Nine Inch Nails in its early years. Reznor produced several highly influential records in the 1990s that achieved widespread popularity; many Nine Inch Nails songs became radio hits, two NIN recordings won Grammy Awards, and the band has sold over 20 million albums worldwide, with 10.5 million sales certified in the US alone. In 1997, Reznor appeared in Time magazine's list of the year's most influential people, and Spin magazine described him as "the most vital artist in music." In 2004, Rolling Stone placed Nine Inch Nails at 94 on its list of the 100 greatest artists of all time. Despite this acclaim, the band has had several feuds with the corporate side of the recording industry. In 2007, these corporate entanglements resulted in Reznor announcing that Nine Inch Nails would split from its label and release future material independently.

Since 1989, Nine Inch Nails has made eight major studio releases. The most recent releases, Ghosts I–IV and The Slip, both released in 2008, were released under Creative Commons licenses. Both were initially released digitally, with physical releases coming later. The digital release of The Slip was made available completely free of charge. NIN has been nominated for twelve Grammy Awards and won twice for the songs "Wish" and "Happiness in Slavery", in 1992 and 1995 respectively.


Discography -

Pretty Hate Machine (1989)
Broken (1992)
The Downward Spiral (1994)*
The Fragile (1999)
With Teeth (2005)
Year Zero (2007)
Ghosts I–IV (2008)
The Slip (2008)
*-best album


top 10 NIN songs

10 Into the Void
9 The Hand That Feeds
8 Terrible Lie
7 Closer
6 Wish
5 Right Where It Belongs
4 March of the Pigs
3 Down In It
2 The Perfect Drug
1 Hurt


"this world rejects me
this world threw me away
this world never gave me a chance
this world's gonna have to pay" - burn

"Bow down before the one you serve. You're going to get what you deserve." - Head Like a Hole

Trent Reznor is without a doubt one of the most creative people in music. The way that he can convey frustration, aggression, hate, passion, regret, concern, jealousy, and solitude into the words and music as well as he does is utterly incredible. He can write a beautiful song on a piano and a fast-paced song with thundering instruments, and it will be close as to which is more gut-wrenching with aggression. Nobody does passive aggressiveness like Trent.








If you don't think this is the most hauntingly beautiful song or at least top 3 there is something truly wrong with you.


I just watched like 13 of live videos on youtube from that concert and I thought how the hell do I only have these guys at 14? but then I looked at the list and, as usual, couldn't find a place to move them up.


next up: a band that was together for 12 years, until tragedy struck