Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral

[deltaomegaable]

this is one of the only albums i can listen to from beginning to end without ever feeling the need to do much as pause it for anything. the world waits for the downward spiral. the downward spiral does not wait for the world.

[dancehardcoredance]

@Retrospect1995 I've been there too. I'm sorry.

[SbMick]

A suicidalist's soundtrack

[garding2]

What alot of people dont know or care was this album was recorded in the Polanski house where Sharon Tate and three friends Abigail Folger Voytec Frikowski and Jay Sebring were murdered by the MANSON FAMILY on August 9th 1969.

The equipment was standing on the exact place where Sharon & jay died.

Pretty creepy !

[edmundthebeast]

So poetically dark.. I love it

[dudemanthingpersonww]

listening to songs about severe depression are the best cure for depression

[dudemanthingpersonww]

The sad thing is that if you truly understand and feel this album you are fucked up

[OneNationUnderMe]

@dudemanthingpersonww than i guess im fucked up -_- actually, already knew but good point

[ZeTakeALap]

fuck dubstep. 2:32, now thats a drop.

[ravenouscolonelhart]

The title track from the best NIN album. A real message of wtf fuck this. And more appropriate than ever as music and culture evolves towards greater and greater hopeless ridiculous evil bullshit from hell.

that's right - unfortunately.

[Boddahism]

Trent Reznor showed up on the scene about '85, before he starred in Light of Day movie to help out on keyboards while I wrote songs. I wrote Head Like A Hole and Closer for him. I had just seen the movie Real Genius with Tom Cruise's friend Val Kilmer. There is a line in the movie Real Genius which I repeated to Trent. "Can you hammer a six inch spike...?" This was inspiration for the band name Nine Inch Nails. He thought the initials (NIN) would look good on a logo.

[smkxj]

心象風景が、掻き立てられる、素晴らしい曲♪

[doubleder]

"So much blood for such a tiny hole..."

[7Saburo]

I don't have the balls to kill myself, so then I'll get into a bar fight and get myself killed.

[elpistol100]

your damn right theres only 1 dislike

[ryansnake85]

But how many people know that, when looking down the barrel of the gun, the inside is a spiral. Therefore, downward... OH I GET IT NOW!

[MyGta123]

@ryansnake85 yep rifled barrel unlike a shotgun which is smooth barrel

[stefanisawesomer]

The deepest shade of mushroom blue..... all fuzzy..... spilling out of my head.

The nihilistic side is dying.

[Hopper3513]

Everything's blue in this world

[earthypig]

a familiar place...

[Poodlehead1992]

Listening to this album for the first time....I can honestly say that it is one of the best 90's albums. The feelings of despair and hopelessness that creep through it are amazing. They make one feel as if they are truly understood. I have a lot of favorite 90's bands (Radiohead, Smashing Pumpkins etc.) NIN just made the list.

[Ihuffglue91]

@Poodlehead1992 one of the best albums of all time*

[MetalDrummer776]

this song is nuts XD

[hallorand9]

So much blood, for such a tiny little hole.

[awake352]

Suicide in stereo.

[TheNightsMoon]

Your life is not complete untill you have heard this album.

[ke777in]

@TheNightsMoon but once you hear it, your life may be over.

[Ujak118]

@nick7084 how did it change your life?

[thebellastorm]

this album changed my life. just about EVERYTHING trent did made me feel understood on a deeper level. almost as if we became one for that moment. feeling music is way better than simply listening and studying it. he executes that perfectly. <3

[HmniND]

@thebellastorm Because your speshul right?

[awake352]

Not many albums have changed me or affected me as much as TDS did. Helped me through some really dark feelings of despair. I'm just glad Trent is still here and still making awesome music.

[UncleWiggler]

problems have solutions

a lifetime of fucking things up fixed in one determined flash

the sound of death

[KedViper]

I hate when I type in NIN The D- The Day The Whole World Went Away comes up, not that I don't like that song, but hardly anyone (population-wise) has heard this song and/or album.

[awake352]

@KedViper

This is NINs highest selling album in the U.S. People have heard it.

[KedViper]

@awake352 Well, I mean, it's hard to say if a lot of people didn't buy it just to hear Closer and Hurt, a huge amount of people usually only care about singles and hardly anyone realizes the vast meaning of this album. I wouldn't be surprised if most people just skipped this track all together.

[awake352]

@KedViper

Well, their loss. How someone could skip tracks on a concept album is beyond me.

[yermyahu]

A deeper shade of mushroom blue...I wonder if Lowe's, Ace Hardware, or Home Depot carries that.

[KedViper]

@yermyahu "The deepest"

[InVasRel]

If I ever shoot myself in the face you can be sure I'll be playing this song real fuckin' loud when I do.

[SilberneLuna]

Kill everyone.

[OilofPuppies969]

Feels like death or something is talking in the background (Trent's voice). Not that I would know, thankfully.

[alphadeltaroflcopter]

@OilofPuppies969 He is talking in the backround. It's all about a guy shooting himself in the head basically. :)

[seanneal1983]

I just love the pain, the anger, the sexuality, the darkness, the fealing of despair that is "the downward spiral". this album is one of if not the best album ever.

[draedwillows]

Thank you Trent Reznor for this song, thousand nights high staring at the infinity of a wall while millions of thoughts pierced my mind

[thenewanna]

@draedwillows ive been there with this song alot when i was a kid, i was 15 and in the darkest hole... i think trent was my best friend then....

[ryansnake85]

@thenewanna lol 15

[gazleyd]

so much blood for such a tiny hole

[666briareos]

This is suicide.

[murderousbastard83]

This track sounds like the soundtrack to hell! So eerily disturbing.

[91exile]

@murderousbastard83  PINK FLOYD

[blacklightburns100]

LOOOVE when he screams on the end , and i love this song ! :D

[EnglishSteel2347]

This album, along with the Fragile, are immense. The production jobs alone have such a life to them, giving the music flesh and blood to compliment their audible expression.

Reznor was just brilliant with sound effects and mixing. I hate the way modern albums sound, so over compressed and dry.

So tired of today's alternative and metal music. Everything being based on flair and tech, not substance.

[Dubminimalist]

@nick7084 +1

[Thejampacker]

Trent always manages to make just the right amount of wrong sounds in order for it to be perfect. 2:32 thank you

[xRockinBabyDoll94x]

When I first listened to this song after downloading it onto my iPod, I remember just feeling....numb.. and scared at the same time. Those weird looping noises, the flies buzzing. "OMG I BETTER TAKE THIS SONG OFF BEFORE MY MOM HEARS THIS!!"

At that point, I didn't really care. Horrified, listening to Trent's screams at the end. Yeah.. I went through a Downward Spiral too. But somehow, most of his awesome, fucked up music helped me heal.

Thanks Trent..

[GuruBabadesh]

@xRockinBabyDoll94x  you're a douche.

[xRockinBabyDoll94x]

@GuruBabadesh how am I a douche?

[MrStirstir]

@xRockinBabyDoll94x

[NINmindfreak27]

@GuruBabadesh Yeah I was gonna say, how do you get douche from any of that? He/she was just complimenting the music and the artist.

[philippeEmmanu]

This is the most "Fucked-Up" of albums...I have heard it 100-times or more,and I still like it....

[TJM459]

downward spiral, in utero and superunknown... 94 was too good.

[PureGenerationY]

@TJM459 Correction, In Utero was '93.

[dcfrezz]

this song is deep!

[MaurizioTerracina]

@nick7084 mine too!

[Ihavealltherightstuf]

the fragile i would say changed mine

[yourshitjusthitmyfan]

shit yes , i grew up listening to this . one of the first cds i ever owned . this and korn self titled . . good shit . makes little boys grow to be crazy fucks down for their shit . .thanx for uploading this whoever you are.

[schmagoogal]

you're welcome :)

[bluephreakr]

@schmagoogal You have another video with the same title, except it's The Bottom remix by coil.

Just figured if you still read these comments one year later, that you'd like to fix that to avoid confusion. I know on the other video with this same title, another person said the same thing I was saying, except in a VERY rude fashion. :P

[HuskyVerbatim]

@yourshitjusthitmyfan Based on your post, I'd say it makes little boys not know how to fucking type.

[HuskyVerbatim]

@yourshitjusthitmyfan Classy.

[NINPHMTDS]

@yourshitjusthitmyfan Korn sucks, NIN is forever!!!!!!

[Ihuffglue91]

@NINPHMTDS Korn most certainly does not suck, not before 1999 anyways. NIN is forever indeed..

[xclam8]

@yourshitjusthitmyfan Do you mean like underground rap Celp titled?

[therealsprat01]

@yourshitjusthitmyfan Your name just changed my life.