Nine Inch Nails - And All That Could Have Been

[dza94]

I was really bummed when my album didn't come with the second "Still" disc. Likewise, I thoroughly enjoyed the live disc, and...really, the Still disc is only $8 in iTunes. Considering it's NIN, it's practically a steal.

[polocantujr]

Hard to be half human and half demon ain't it.

[91exile]

tool and nin

[MrAllasorte]

@91exile you have hit that nail right on the head. seriously though, those two bands are by far the best

[hydr0city]

This song always chokes me up. It's just audio perfection.

[KrisLemcheObsessed23]

awesome!! <3

[kmlvr9]

Love this remix!

[AmandaMcKelvey1306]

Amazing song! Still gives me goosebumps every time I listen to it!

[LittlePetrucci]

Tears.

[kaoruSG]

I still remember the first time I heard this song. I was young too.. it was like this great cold universe opened itself inside me. I still get chills just thinking about how it felt. It's something so holy it only happens once.. on that first listen.

[Nelo907]

I love you

[eweykidd13d]

I want this video on my 550 phone.

[ivanhhh1]

PLEASE, what songs you recommend to start listening NiN???

[dadio02]

@ivanhhh1 Go in order, its a long process, take your time, its halo themed, start with halo two, Pretty hate Machine...



[adNauseum100]

@ivanhhh1 Get their album The Downward Spiral to start with, or if you're a singles oriented person go for these. Piggy March Of The Pigs The Day The Whole World Went Away The Great Bellow The Fragile We're In This Together Closer Dead Souls (a great cover) Hurt This one Sunspots All The Love In The World Sin Something I Can Never Have That's What I Get Wish Reptile Starfuckers, Inc. Enjoy.

[ivanhhh1]

@adNauseum100 thanks people for the answers...

Long life to the great music like this.

[beyondsilhouette]

@EdwardMarshall1982 You took the words straight out of my mouth! I am still at a loss as to how he managed to convey such raw, powerful, complex and intricate emotions, and spin it beautifully into a tapestry of magnificence. You can look at each individual thread and see how simplistic it can be, but when you zoom out and view the entire artwork, you are immediately blown away by the beauty and blinded by the brilliance of each and every thread.

[tanman8833]

@LazerJesus007 GOoSEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

[donnagiuliana]

in my nothing you meant everything...

[MrXxGRAVEYARDxx]

hes far from emo he dont run around slitting his wrists and saying he wants to die. hes a true artist that can take any feeling and amplify it ten fold with his music. i just hate how stupid and ignorant people are. I guess you just have to be a little mature to understand the true nature of it.

[Dysaniclol]

@MrXxGRAVEYARDxx all music is emo...music is a reflection of emotions and how one translates it.

[famasdan]

captures my feelings, pretty sad tone

[dognita]

Sometimes, I wonder where are the Nine Inch Nails fans. I meet them everywhere on the web but nowhere in the real world.

[atheistunicorn]

@dognita here

[Skoople88]

@dognita alot of the NIN fans I meet in person are annoying and extremely self absorbed. They act as if the songs really are about them and them alone. It's very annoying :/.

[24222282]

@Skoople88 hurting people are self-absorbed for a good reason. they're hurting. it's hardly different from physical pain. they pay attention to the pain until they find a way to make it stop. when they finally find it, they share it because they care for others. they are not annoyed by the pain of other people.

Trent can care because he has experienced pain. Some go to his words and the unspoken message of his music because they recognize that empathy - that empathy some will never have

[Skoople88]

@24222282 I agree. Though I should have elaborated. I'm talking about people who behave like they are 17 in a 24+ year old's body.

[24222282]

@Skoople88 I got ya.  Sorry if I sounded condescending.

[Skoople88]

@24222282 No apologies necessary :)

[elihuffman1229]

This video is popular on Havana

[andyet1]

emo cry baby

[thearachnid09]

@andyet1 lolz he's not emo just awesome ; )

[SKiZOPumKin]

beautiful...... fucking beautiful...

[Haevok28]

Trent has a habit of tracking my emotions throughout the years. This one was dead nuts with how I felt at the time, as usual. Definitely goes down as one of my favorite songs of all time and favorite Trent song. I'm curious what he's going to do next so I know where my head will be in a couple years... Also, I see him unseating Elfman from the soundtrack throne. It seems like his destiny.

[Skollnhogg]

Trent.....Gods bless you for speaking my mind.

[TheNightsMoon]

It's like he reached into my soul and pulled out some part of me that I didn't know was there...

[xartepopx]

The most beautiful sad song.

[itskonrad]

The section at 0:56 is so perfect.

[BrokN9]

@itskonrad I love that part aswell. I wish it was longer.

[PTLover647]

Absolutely incredible......

[holographicplanet]

fucking beautiful... makes me want to cry...

[Firehckyman99]

I'm going to kill myself to this song

[killerjay13andAhalf]

@Firehckyman99 dont do that man.

[LazerJesus007]

@Firehckyman99 DOOOOOO ITTTTTTT! YOUR LIFE IS A BIG BLACK ABYSS OF NOTHING AND BROKEN DREAMS, OF WHAT COULD HAVE BEEN. JUST FUCKING END IT BRO, well skype while we do it .

[Sy0592]

@Firehckyman99 Don't do it...

[klm4298]

@Firehckyman99 Do it faggot.

[NineInchNails25]

This song is going to be played at my funeral!!!! With incense, blacklights, and strobelights surrounding my coffin in the church.

[TheNightsMoon]

I liked the title, so I clicked on it.... and when it began, tears were just behind the surface, and it was one of the most beautiful things I had ever heard. Well done Trent.... well done.

[ThisisTedWells]

I think it is rather unfair that Trent's music often goes unrecognized, merely because of its macabre perception in the mainstream. damn shame

[tallyhoman911]

probably one of the most beautiful songs ever made

[megatran14]

alot of you guys have probably heard the story trent told about how he planned to kill himself at a certain point in his life.. i'm so thankful he never did. he was one of the few who was able to overcome his adversity through his music before it killed him.

[TheMomoBlossom]

Trent, please....Please don't stop making music that others are afraid to make. That others don't know how to make. You reach into the core of all your listeners, and all forgotten, upset, lonely, and sad can relate to the songs and love the music you create. You're incredibly talented.

[MeRcSTEFsUiCiDe]

This song is epic. I can't imagine a world where Nine Inch Nails did not exist....Trent makes music that touches a place deep down within a person's soul, in their very core..

[awcc47thp]

NIN FTW

[WTCJohnnyBlaze]

its so weird how the saddest songs cheer me up when im depressed. i remember listening to this when it came out. and now im in the same place i was 9 years ago but this song helps.

[NineInchNails25]

I want NIneInchNails incorporated on my epitaph along with the name of this song. A masterpiece. .

[ANStacy]

this song just hits so close to my soul Cant help but cry as I listen to it for the millionth time......

[DanFo0]

If only I could see

In my

Nothing

You were everything

Everything to me

[mistershake860]

Who the ten hell people disliked this?!?!?

[vetiarvind]

I was restless and angry before i played this song..By the last minute, i was fighting tears. Trent is a fucking genius.

[1curt12]

@vetiarvind he is but u may be emotionally unstable. take no offence. just outside looking in!

[EdwardMarshall1982]

@vetiarvind A master of turning emotion into art. I feel like trent is speaking to me when he writes like the millions of fans also do. Simplistic conveyance of complicated emotions relatable by everyone. Technically simplistic lyrically simplistic, and yet there is a master at work doing nothing too extravagant, and yet everything simply perfect. Trent is the Mozart of our time.

[twistedkarm]

@vetiarvind hahaha

everyone knows that mate

[BDean97]

awesome

[MrMiktaylor]

4 minutes 18 seconds...pure joy!

[BossHossGT500]

why is the top comment about tool 

[bkb0000]

@BossHossGT500

seems the top comment was written BY a tool.

[CEG1904]

this fucking songs does me in. it literally brings me to tears.

[MrMiktaylor]

@CEG1904 it does exactly the same to me

[martiinr15]

This song gets me closer to God [quot.]

[TheSweetmamaa]

Sick!



[yasminleveau]

this song is what the stars sound like.

[3018mercintell]

For me, this song is nothing but a beautiful face. porceline maybe, cracking and falling on the floor, but too sharp and too fragile to pick up, to remember. a little bonus to life is love with a big impact on who i become in the "everchanging" future. when your not around, i remember i am without you and the world seems ugly and only full of sores and black tar cancer filling their apathetic faces.

[obeyance]

If this was a lame comment, IT WOULD BE REALLY LAME!

[slyaina]

I cry every single time I hear this.

[weeinersauce]

@slyaina Me too :[

[KonopKg]

MASTERPIECE

[LestatVonD]

IF THIS SONG WAS BLOOD, IT WOULD BE TIGER'S BLOOD!

[j4ckyb01]

love this song, so depressing yet so beautifull! is it about drugs??

[screechandmoan]

Gorgeous... almost describes it.

[DaniDahmer]

If this song were a drug, it would be Charlie Sheen.

[MrGorsuch]

this song is awesome like the rest of his songs.

[VyktorAbyss]

Love this song.

Can anyone point out any remixes or other versions? I could have sworn I've heard the 3 minutes onwards part a lot louder and more aggressively done by them....was it a live version maybe?

Cheers.

[ConstellationMovies]

explicit content MY ASS

[glok1989]

I don't think there are words to describe how good this son is.

[hfflpffchaser55]

I wish the song had more of the guitar part in the beginning

[lauralouda1027]

still gives me chills every time i hear it

[mmazola18]

this is like the only group that can take me to places i've never been to before

[TeRminus094]

I used to listen this a long time ago when i broke up with a girl i loved to death.

Even when we came back together a couple of months after that, we finally took different ways. This was one of the songs that i listen to every night before sleep.

Nowadays this song still bring me chills down my spine. I usually remember her before i close my eyes to bring a new day to my life, a new day without her...

[TrueLleran]

@TeRminus094 i feel you bro ...

[mikedownar]

@TeRminus094

nigga u gay

[p00ned0wned]

@mikedownar

boondocks ha

[zZzFxOooo]

@TeRminus094 wow thats exactly what i did, EXACYLY.  weird....

[drakkname]

@TeRminus094 Reading this comment brought me to tears...

[joseph0arthur]

@TeRminus094 move on, man.

[BossHossGT500]

@TeRminus094 OH BOO HOO

LET ME PLAY YE A SAD SONG ON THE WORLD'S SMALLEST VIOLIN

[inaudito2sconf]

@TeRminus094 pene

[inaudito2sconf]

Responder a este vídeo... pene

[MetalDrummer776]

@TeRminus094 I feel the same way, damn

[Xhunter987]

@TeRminus094

cool story bro

[Toxic7Shadow]

@TeRminus094 im sorry to hear :(

[TheLovesoul1]

@TeRminus094 you'll find someone who excepts you for who you truly are pal if not in this life then maybe the next.

[Retrospect1995]

@TeRminus094 Your story mixed with this song brought me to tears. I'm extremely sorry for your unfortunate situation.

[bkpoltina]

wow! i went a month without listening to this guys music... What a great way to self reflect... anyone who can enjoy this is a beautiful person, thats forsure!

[STARSIDRedfield]

Best song I have ever heard

[CoolSciTeacher]

OMG i just went back on time

[atomicwave]

I cried.

[tafder]

Samcro brought me here again

[Sammio11]

I'm really not even sure how my body's trying to react right now, but something's about to go deeown

[Killzoneguy117]

This is the kind of song to be reborn too. This song is the song that made me decide to make my life worth something.

[GamePath]

@Killzoneguy117 I know right? It made me happy that I'm actually, finally doing something with my life. It made me look back and realize I hadn't done jack sh*t. And I wasn't even paying attention to the lyrics... weird.

[Killzoneguy117]

@GamePath Exactly. Its a brilliant song. A lot of people complain about how kids listen to Justin Beiber and The Black Eyed Peas and all that crap. I personally am glad that they listen to that shit. If they take that shit seriously, they don't deserve to listen to the amazing work of art that is Nine Inch Nails. This is for those who can appreciate good music with meaningful lyrics.

[PrototypeRadio]

no other artist can make my life feel that it is reflected musically...

[arcticmonkeyzzz]

i feel like i can breathe. i know this doesn't make sense, but i feel like i now breathe like i never breathed before

[SHAWNWILD1]

@arcticmonkeyzzz I think I feel ya frequency, when I am angry, emotional, sad, depressed, Trent seems to meet me where I'm at with his brilliant music. Maynard from TOOL, PUSCIFER & A Perfect Circle does it too with his music, its just more mental/spiritual than Trent, but they both capture me introspectively and pull out my artistic and creative and even reactive side, I make music better, I allow myself to vent when I need to so I don't bottle up my emotions, first NIN, then I listen to TOOL!

[arcticmonkeyzzz]

@SHAWNWILD1 and i feel you completely, i love tool as well

[Killzoneguy117]

@SHAWNWILD1 Then you have respect from me. NIN and Tool is where its at for me.

[Courtney84Tool]

@SHAWNWILD1 Fantastic :) I couldn't have said it better myself.

[yohiwasupman]

@SHAWNWILD1 Brilliant taste in music. I'm fifteen and it's so hard to find anyone that will even listen to a Tool song for more than two minutes. Instead they just go listen to their mindless, obnoxious BROSTEP LOLOLOL.

[omgstoptakingnames]

@SHAWNWILD1 i feel ya dude, trent and maynard's music just have that dark, angry, sad, and just feeling blue vibe. i always listen to their music when i have a bad day/week or when it just feels like the whole world is against you and nothing is going your way.

[mcsuzzer]

He puts so much emotion in all of his songs...

[Section27Netlabel]

I hope this song gets you where you need to be.

[SirHarlequinXx]

And I have just cried for the first time at a song.

Christ on a bike.

[Recovrd1]

BTW... he doesn't really like or consider his music to be "Industrial"

He is a mastermind yes... but not of industrial music. Read "Nine Inch Nails" by Mark Huxley. Not being an ass here, just correcting you with words directly from the horse's mouth.

[VerticaDrums]

I know this is probably a really stupid question, but everytime I search for this album it's all live songs and they're different. Where is this collection of songs?

[JasonHouston77]

@VerticaDrums You've probably got the right album, but it's 2 cds. You need the one that has the studio and instrumental tracks, because the other one just has live tracks.

[evil2025]

Trent just Mindfucked me!

[maxwel2543]

the instruments and the lyrics are beyond breath taking, just each of them alone are a master piece, but both of them combined are truly a master piece

[Koenraad1982]

Liefste Nicky, het spijt me voor alles. Ik hou van je, nu en altijd.

[thclette420]

Never thought i would find a song to describe perfectly how im feeling. All i have to say is WOW.

[thegoldenarmkid]

And All That Could Have Been. How fucking appropriate

[TheOrion101]

This song is so good i want to throw up.

[TheLastDemiGod]

me: im nothing and you mean everything to me

girl: so im mean everything to nothing?

[mordenman]

God. Megan, I am so sorry.

[ri394]

the fact that this song was never played live is a travesty.

this and the perfect drug.

[frootloopwarriors]

@ri394 It was.

[alexgrp8]

Life sucks then you die.

[Usmcspartan420]

Life is fucked.

[cartmn6]

yep... just cried

[cartmn6]

hit... where home is... What could have been... everything

[STONESGAM]

I swear I've had so many of the same feelings about life as Trent Reznor. What a great song.

[dreaincarnate1231]

what would you do if you lost the thing that has made you the happiest in your life???

[KyleSurette13]

@dreaincarnate1231 Be strong and get over it. Life is way to short to worry about it. Everything breaks, everything dies, everyone has their day. You could go anytime. But when you go, it's not the end, but the beginning.

[ahrimansiah]

@KyleSurette13 yeah... wish it was this simple to make the end a new beginning JUST with words and hope, but reality is not words and hopes, or believe....

[ahrimansiah]

@dreaincarnate1231 hmm i didnt lose the thing that made me happiest... i lost everything that made me happy or my self... but what i do?... hmm im just cleaning all my memory from all that good things and forget all my happyness and my self, so maybe i can survive this way and find a new happiness, ofcourse i doubt i will be happy ever again, but at least i will survive im dont wana lose to this life who took every single dream of mine and burned them in frost of me... i hope u do the same....

[ahrimansiah]

@ahrimansiah in front of me*

[metaljim1981]

one of the best. give props. or leave it alone.

[thisevidence]

4:16 the best moment of song ♥

[DuffChic77]

100% the most perfectly made song in existance...

[saberjocky]

Trent Reznor looked into our souls....and for a brief moment, saw all that could have been.

[xNukeUx]

If this song were a waffle, it would be a damn good waffle

[romansoldierdude]

@xNukeUx It would also leave an ever so slight bitter taste in your mouth that only more of the waffle can suppress. o_0

[Lambda217]

@xNukeUx A waffle imbued with all the souls of people who died alone.

[djnieko]

@xNukeUx - It most certainly would be a most delicious waffle XD

[shantih433]

@xNukeUx Hungry?

[TheAlfsigr]

My head is toast and this is butter and cinnamon. 

[MrRandomWalkthroughs]

@RChahanovich Two words. Fuck. You.

[jaymesnin]

Trent Reznor is the greatest industrial mastermind EVER!!!!!!!

[draedlordion]

@jaymesnin Aphex Twin is his dad

[CybershamanX]

@jaymesnin be careful...we are biased after all... having "grown up" with this guy, I will be the first to admit that his music is the soundtrack to my life... however, there are other masters out there... keep your ears and eyes open... oh....and let me know when you find some...heh... ;)

[romansoldierdude]

@CybershamanX Celldweller is another great one man industrial act, has that same attention to detail and perfectionism that I highly respect from Reznor. Though his music might not be as deep or layered as much of NIN's, he does put a huge amount of work into its production... if you like songs like "The Perfect Drug", you might like the style.

Oh, and Maynard James Keenan of Tool, A Perfect Circle, Puscifer is extremely talented as well.

*was not asked for recommendations*

[yasminleveau]

@jaymesnin i know. he is the best industrial musician of modern times.

[yasminleveau]

this is magic.

[qwert4327able]

@yasminleveau fk ogff