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  • i love how it just goes acoustic in the middle of the song :D

  • Ahh, I was 18 once, in 94....and sank myself into this music. I love the accoustic parts in all of the grind.

  • I always thought about the women screaming like whores in the background "The anxiety that stardom creates" and "The ability to get any women you want" it also provided a great emotion my teen abstinence needed "I fucking hate you whores".

  • yeah...BUT, I get my food stamps FOR FREE and goofball dude you talking 'bout had to go and pay for his houses, just like a little sucker! I WIN plus, if you count how much i stizzeal, um...aquire I mean, I win even more! How can you say I'm poor when I haven't even paid for anything? Five Finger Discount!!!

  • make way to much of this.. how many folks look at the mona lisa and wonder what her chichis look like? in the end niveks twin wants YOU to buy his shirt... when you check how much you got left in food stamps... he checks out how many houses he owns

  • won't give up it wants me dead goddamn this voice inside my head

  • This is PERFECT for a David Fincher movie.

    Even before Trent Reznor helped produce the Dragon Tattoo soundtrack, I always thought this song fit Fincher's personality to a tee. Hell, ALL of NIN's music is good for a Fincher film!

  • @Joelomite Hell yeah! That's why Trent won an Oscar for his Social Network soundtrack.

  • I grew up to this music..My dad constantly had NIN playing away on home and car stereo. When I listen to NIN now, it takes me back to when my Dad was alive and I was safe with him. It touches me somewhere inside this music. Love, Love, Love it!!!! (This is my partners you tube acc!) Taara :)

  • @brandonbalistx Coolest dad ever.

  • Love when the acoustic guitar kicks in. One of my favorites on this album.

  • Boss tune,Man!

  • reminds me of 'tetsuo the iron man'

  • @antikoerper256 You're not kidding!

  • I am becoming!

  • A moron who sucks on his hash pipe, crafting systems of philosophy merely upon small glimpses of the truth....Joseph Conrad

    

  • @GunYou1 I disagree.

  • f all you dorks trying to sound profound...go play your worlds of warcraft.

  • Could all of you just shut the fuck up and listen to fucking song?

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  • The song's about assimilation into the Borg collective...or something like that. Who gives a shit. IT KICKS ASS!!!!!

  • this song is about who is trying to suck his own penis but he cant reach so he has his ribs removed and still cant reach and he realizes its not his ribs, his dick is too small

  • @cultofjimjones It's never been documented that someone has had a set of ribs removed. Therefore, your argument is invalid.

  • brilliant

  • I have moments like this.

  • I hear it clear as a bell.

  • i dont know what this song is about but it goes hard as fuck

  • I can see this song PERFECTLY in a suspense/horror/psychological thriller film intro:

    -Similar to Fight Club, you could picture a 3D trip inside somebody's nervous system, showing synapses, nerve conduction and arterial blood flow.

    -Amidst the inner chaos, show flashes of people going crazy to REALLY mess with viewer's heads.

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  • We are Borg. You will be assimilated resistance is futile.

    7/9

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  • Trent Reznor is bipolar.

  • The song is about being Bipolar..the becoming..the change thats happens ..the meds..the manic states and suicidal thoughts.

  • @rissacat79 I'm Bipolar. This song describes me so true it's scary.

  • @TheNightsMoon

    This song has nothing to do with fake psycho-logicical disorders. Quite down b4 the trainman gets you.

  • @AndrewRaimonSavage psychological*

    No, things like that are very real. If you saw the impact it had on my life, you would understand.

  • @rissacat79

    No the song is about realizing and actualizing the "I Am" god or goddess within. I Am the be-coming. Maybe people go manic for a reason... Just hand yourself up to the Lord of Hosts and he will manifest positive change in your life.

    And the truth is everyone is a little bipolar, if they weren't they would be an everyzero.

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  • Music is not bad today, you need to look in the right places. Its not the same system as it was in the 1990's. The industry has changed.

    Lots of people doing exciting things trying to move things foward. there was a dip for a few years last decade.

    Things have not devolved, in the late 80's and early 90's saw true birth of electronic music and equipment was being produced. everyone began to see and take advantage of all its potential. This just happened to be produced during that time.

  • seriously whats with all the guesswork about what the song is about. trent has said this album was about him. he was suicidal. there is nothing to guess about, and if youve ever truly been on the brink of suicide this than the nature of the whole album becomes obvious

  • the song is about being lost inside yourself, destroying yourself mentally and realizing that your losing your sanity. the subject is suicidal and this song is a sort of cry for help.

  • i dont get how this track is nearly 18 years old.

  • @hundhun17 because most popular music sucks today and there's been no progression or evolution in music all this time. If anything, everything has devolved.

  • 3:26  Jizz

  • The best tune on this album. Right next to Ruiner, Eraser, Reptile and Hurt.

  • Being exposed to too much pain can create an immunity to it.... it's not the right way to go, try and prevent the suffering of yourself and others, don't turn a blind eye to it.

  • 4:07-4:27 orgasm

  • emotionless machine

    the only difference between us and machines is our complexity's,weakness's and emotions

    this song can be seen a few ways but it does seem to share the same view

    losing ones self

    my opinion is that this song is explaining one who made their mind of life

    to die, get over it or stay alive a little longer

    the later in this case may leave one devoid of emotions like a machine

    as for the trouble with the voices that is your self thinking only it sounds unlike your normal thoughts

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  • @turkeygod and what about the "annie" mentionned in this song?

    It's an NIN fashioned love song........

  • @turkeygod I think, despite the negative sound and lyrics of this song, it had a very positive message. He is overcoming physical things, like pain and fear. He is becoming something greater.

  • @turkeygod You will never know, opinions are to be questioned :)

  • @turkeygod the voices remind me of the screams of suffering and fear, just like in snuff films where they die.

  • one of his best songs..

  • The most violent NIN song

  • @lucapomi No way, dude..Absolutely not. Last, Happiness In Slavery, Eraser, Reptile, The Downward Spiral title track (just read the lyrics), and Somewhat Damaged blow the level of violence in this song out of proportion. This song sounds more paranoid than violent to me.

  • @frootloopwarriors i soooo agree!

    

  • @frootloopwarriors  @lucapomi uhm.... Big Man With A Gun?

  • @Shwah7 Of course.

  • @frootloopwarriors Mr Self Destruct

  • @frootloopwarriors Naah those songs are all about drugs

  • @StickyInADarkBlueCut None of the songs I mentioned are about drugs.

  • @frootloopwarriors Somewhat Damaged. IS about drugs with as most of nin songs have double meanings that one does not

  • @frootloopwarriors You're right, but paranoia is a path that leads to violence.

  • @frootloopwarriors What about 'You Know What You Are'?

  • @theshninja The list goes on and on.

  • Welcome to paranoia. 

  • This song is about a man who has been gravely harmed (emotionally) and has changed as a person. In order to cope with his pain, he has become 'machine-like.'

  • @dagon11985 Lovecraft fan eh?

  • The me that you know doesn't come around much

    That part of me isn't here anymore!

  • if you like this, go watch some einstürzende neubauten videos...

    I love NIN but without EN I`m sure they would not sound like this.

  • It won't give up, it wants me dead, god damn this noise inside my head.

    It's so true, the fucking ringing, never leaves....

  • This song is not about Nietzsche...

    This song is about the tinnitus that Trent Reznor suffers, as do I.

    It's about how it's trying to kill him, and he feels that it strengthens him. It has tried to kill me as well, but in the end I have become stronger; a savage.

    Long live the rock.

  • @zachsielaff this song is the opposite of nietzsche's philosophy. i can't imagine two things being more polar.

  • @zachsielaff Do you want Nietzche in Nine Inch Nails?

    Listen to Right Where it Belongs, Closer, and Heresy (I hate the last one but it fits.) I don't see Nietzche in this song.

  • I love the musical break in the middle of the chaos, images of sliding off a hill of skulls into a freefall over nothing

  • FUN FACT!.....the screaming sound clip in the song starting at 0:24 is from the movie Robot Jox.....the scene is just after the "hero" crashes his robot into a crowd of people crushing them all and the surviving injured are screaming JUST like how they are in this song

    Proof: /watch?v=vUxDmKFCD2o&feature=r­elated

    or "Robot Jox Fight Scene (Achilles vs Alexander)"

    @ 6:30

  • i'm stuck in this dream!!!

  • I love ALL of NIN's albums but "The Downward Spiral" is just my all-time favorite. An incredible collection.

  • Heroin.....

  • GODDAM I FUCKING LOVE THIS SONG. FEELS GOOD TO KNOW SOMEONE IS FUCKING CRAZY AS I AM. AND YES THIS IS WORTH ALL CAPS.

  • response to the world. all hail NIN

  • The concept and title of this song comes from Stephen King's book "The Tommyknockers."

  • @tocherd

    I always imagined it was something along Neitzsche lines...God Is Dead and that...Trent sounds like he digs Freddy...

  • @Mersault1988 Yeah, he references Nietzsche several times in the album. The most obvious is in "Heresy" when he says "God is dead and no one cares." This is a direct reference to the first time Nietzsche declared God was Dead in the square of St. Petersburg.

  • @alpal43214 That's not surprising....Nietzsche eventually went completely out of his mind.

  • Anyone else think this is a Stephen King reference- Tommyknockers? Strange machines, "becoming", people who are not themselves anymore, and a horrific sound?

  • K so he starts the verse off with "I beat my machine", right? Then later on the verse at the end of the verse he says "I am becoming". This song is definitley about masturbation.

  • @Velvetgoldmine92 Nah it's about a dude who is losing all of his humanity, becoming a cold machine inside of himself. Look at all of the lyrics.

  • @cheetos2579 Yeah didn't Trent say that himself? The whole album tells a story of a man losing his mind and ridding himself of those around him through drugs, religion etc,.

  • Our contemporary despair, brilliantly captured in one song.

  • This is one of my faveorite songs....def top ten of NIN. It's so unique :)

  • voices voices they laughed ha ha ha

  • I can tell just by looking at a lot of these comments that these people really have no clue what his songs are about.. they just listen to it for the sound.

  • To all industrial fans, I need some help: I'm looking for music that sounds essentially like I'm trapped in a dark factory of sorts. You know, the sound that NIN perfected--lots of warbling, clanking, beeping, etc. Very mechanical.

    Are there any other particular bands that specialize in this? A LOT of industrial that I hear is very, very dance-oriented, and doesn't sound as dark as this (i.e. "The Becoming," which is the epitome of the sound I"m looking for).

    Thanks!

  • @veryangrystorks You obviously haven't listened to Aphex Twin then.

  • @JeggFilms I'm actually a bit familiar with his work (Analogue Bubblebath, Drukqs, I Care Because You Do). I certainly have not heard all of his stuff, but I know a bit of it.

    While I'll say that Aphex Twin is incredible, it's still not what's in my head here.

    (I don't mean to sound like a picky jackass--sorry).

    Thanks for the recommendation.

  • @veryangrystorks Richard D. James is an amazing musician. Definitely one of the most unique individuals in electronic music. I'd highly suggest you pick up his debut "Selected Ambient Works 85-92" and "Selected Ambient Works Volume II" Those are ambient classics.

  • @veryangrystorks Hmmm try a Wumpscut, the song War. Maybe you will like it.

  • @metalgodess81 Hey. Thanks a million! "War" was awesome. I think an ex-girlfriend introduced me to a few minutes of Wumpscut about five years ago; I didn't think much of it. Now that I'm getting back into industrial, it's time to take a second (and third, and fourth, etc.) look at their work.

  • @veryangrystorks No problem ; ) . Not much industrial sounds like this. Trent truly was one of a kind.

  • @JeggFilms Definitely. "Selected Ambient Works 85-92" and "Selected Ambient Works Volume II" are classics. "...I Care Because You Do" is another good album. Most of what Richard D. James has done is damn good. He is one of the very few artists out that is all by himself. I cannot pinpoint anyone that sounds like him

  • Trent"s music is the soundtrack of my life!

  • To the two people who like Justin Bieber, GTFO MAKE MY SANDWICH.

  • This would be a great song for a horror movie trailer.

  • korn staind and mudvayne suck compare to nin.

  • @royalnaz1 I disagree.

  • @royalnaz1 yea i also disagree. well with the korn part. staind and mudvayne can go eat a bowl of dicks

  • @royalnaz1 I agree cuz nin is my favorite band aaand korn doesnt have enough good songs

  • @BriBriPWNZZ I Agree x)

  • if somebody doesn't know, those screams are from sci-fiction movie, Robot Jox ;]

  • @Siberian16

    Really? Cool info! Thanks : )

  • this song helps me get sleep when im pissed off

  • This song is about the transhumanist nightmare... Downloading into a machine will come with many benefits... But it will also come with horrors.

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  • This needs to be in Mortal Kombat

  • i cant stand when NIN "fans" bash him for making a movie score.... A MOVIE SCORE!

  • @ilovegibsons1 i'm guessing these sames fans forgot he scored a video game years ago.

  • Emo? What Emo? Before Trent Reznor there was nothing. All came from the 'Downward Spiral'.

  • god this song is incredible, the screaming is hilarious though, pretty hardcore imo

  • i think of the SAW movies when I hear trent.

  • i dont want to listen, but its all to clear.

  • i bought this album on cassette tape....lol

  • @timmy11171979 me too...it had a cool sleeve instead of the traditional case. even back then, with something as minute as the packaging, Trent found a way to be abstract.

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  • It was 1993-4 when I bought this CD. This is definitely the standout track for me. I'm a freak in that it still gets my blood pumping; I don’t know why & I know it’s not normal. I’m also like this with plenty of other music from 15-20 yrs ago. Music addiction? I don’t know & don’t really care

  • Man. When I was a wee-lad, I fucking loved NIN. Yep, way back in ninety two. I was like.....6. And I still love this shit. God damn sometimes I amaze myself with my sheer awesomeness. Most people I know could never listen to the stuff they did when they were 6 yrs old.

  • those badmouthing the social network soundtrack deserve to join the crowd in the background of this song.

  • @komunista94 I dunno, man, they sound like they're having a killer time.

  • @UnitedDiscord LOL! Yeah, by 'killer' someone's probably killing them. Believe this was taken/sampled from ROBOT JOX. Right where a huge robot was falling down a crowd, I think.

  • @komunista94 No-one deserves that, those screams are disturbing!

  • @Bostonian91 LOL! Another one told me they sounded like they were having a great time. Either way it was still a negation to my statement, though in totally opposite directions=)

  • @komunista94 a great time!? i don't think thats what trent was going for lol

  • @komunista94 You mean the people from Robot Jox? : )

  • @komunista94 nothing wrong with the OST, the movie and Facebook itself do suck though.

  • @komunista94 tortured by those who predicted the social network OST as a sure oscar winner. give me the pitchfork, please!

  • @Brunnhilde1000 LOL! Be my guest.

  • @komunista94 That movie, and its concept is flat out gay. It does not deserve to contain the awesomeness that is NiN.

  • I love Trent Reznor’s stuff but I can't stand his holier than thou fans.

  • @Kaligulasucks Us holier than thou fans of Trent Reznor can't stand you neither. And yes, we DO still don fishnets beneath our ripped jeans that are tucked into our knee-high boots. That's howz we's rivet it up yo!! ;D

  • all hale trent

  • Great way to endure 5 1/2 minutes of a workout in order to disconnect from the environment surrounding you & become the machine you strive to be.

  • @Pyewackin it is my workout cd as well

  • He touches on the edges of insanity

  • @theraphosa27 well put

  • @theraphosa27 That's where my mind is right now. Right on that edge.

  • @theraphosa27

    And then come the song Eraser, he jumps off if it.

  • @theraphosa27 wellll fucking said

    

  • 1.the becoming

    2.closer

    3.reptile

    4.dead souls

  • I've never heard anything darker than NIN. Trent Reznor goes above and beyond. I love it.

  • @nataliemb89 I give velvet acid christ props in in the dark genre but musically NIN is superior.

  • The best song on TDS.

  • @Tengocuentadeyoutub I agree. I started listening to this when I was 13, it is by far one of the darkest tracks I've heard to this day.

  • @ericambrosecoon

    Hi , do you know any album similar to this? , I mean an album with topic about hopeless, despair, hate , were atmosphere is about - there isn't much to do, this is the end-

    The most similar I remember is Pornography by the cure , but it's a very overrated album in my opinion, Although it has the darkest song I've heard to this day"One hundred years".

    I would love a recommendation mate

  • @Tengocuentadeyoutub I know a few

    Dysfunction by Staind,

    Darkest Days by Stabbing Westward,

    Mechanical Animals by MarilynManson,

    Issues by Korn,

    End of all Things to Come by Mudvayne

  • @GravemindLFX

    Marilyn manson....

    Korn....

    Lol

  • @Tengocuentadeyoutub I actually like Marilyn Manson from the 90s to early 2000s. Twiggy was a good songwriter and Manson himself was quite a good lyricist. Also, Trent Reznor himself was of course closely involved early on.

  • @Tengocuentadeyoutub Now Korn, Staind and Mudvayn...umm...they suck?

  • @Tengocuentadeyoutub I know you didn't ask me, but if you're looking to music to kill yourself to (metaphorically or otherwise) I'd listen to, like, Coil: Horse Rotorvator, Mars Volta: Frances the Mute, Alice in Chains: Dirt, Serj Tankian: Elect the Dead, Type O Negative: Slow, Deep, and Hard (or) Bloody Kisses, Skinny Puppy: Too Dark Park, Ministry: The Mind is a Terrible Thing to Taste, Amen: Amen, Tool: Undertow and although it's nearly unlistenable, Throbbing Gristle: 1st Annual Report

  • @Tengocuentadeyoutub Try the goth band Lycia and their albums "A Day In The Stark Corner" or "The Burning Circle And Then Dust". And then there's Joy Division's album "Unknown Pleasures". Or even Morrissey's "Vauxhall And I". Plus Stabbing Westward's "Darkest Days", and maybe even Mazzy Star's "So Tonight That I MIght See", and Cocteau Twins "Tiny Dynamine" EP. Give those albums a listen dude. Cheers!

  • 2,600 views and only 17 people rated it.. The voices in my head say to rate it with 2,600 thumbs up..

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