Downward Spiral (Explicit Version) (1994) ( )

Artist: Nine Inch Nails
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Label: Uni/interscope
UPC: 00606949234621
Release Date: 4/2/1996
Buy.com Sku: 60349657
Item#: MJGJP2
Format:  CD

Song Listing

Disc 1
Song TitleSample
1. Mr. Self Destruct ~ Nine Inch Nails
2. Piggy ~ Nine Inch Nails
3. Heresy ~ Nine Inch Nails
4. March Of The Pigs ~ Nine Inch Nails
5. Closer ~ Nine Inch Nails
6. Ruiner ~ Nine Inch Nails
7. Becoming, The ~ Nine Inch Nails
8. I Do Not Want This ~ Nine Inch Nails
9. Big Man With A Gun ~ Nine Inch Nails
10. Warm Place, A ~ Nine Inch Nails
11. Eraser ~ Nine Inch Nails
12. Reptile ~ Nine Inch Nails
13. Downward Spiral, The ~ Nine Inch Nails
14. Hurt ~ Nine Inch Nails

(P) 1994 TVT/ Interscope Records
(C) 1994 TVT/ Interscope Records

 
Album Notes and Credits

Notes & Personnel Info
Nine Inch Nails: Trent Reznor (vocals, various instruments).
Additional personnel: Danny Lohner, Adrian Belew (guitar); Flood (synthesizer, programming); Andy Kubiszewski, Chris Vrenna, Stephen Perkins (drums).
Engineers: Sean Beavan, Chris Vrenna, Alan Moulder.
Recorded at Le Pig, Beverly Hills, California; The Record Plant A&M Studios, Los Angeles, California.
THE DOWNWARD SPIRAL was nominated for a 1995 Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Performance.
"Hurt" was nominated for a 1996 Grammy Award for Best Rock Song.
Personnel: Trent Reznor (vocals, guitar, drums, electronics); Danny Lohner, Adrian Belew (guitar); Flood (synthesizer, drums, hi-hat); Chris Vrenna (drums, programming, sampler); Stephen Perkins (drums); Andy Kubiszewski (drums).
Audio Mixers: Alan Moulder; Sean Beavan; Bill Kennedy.
Recording information: A&M Studios, Hollywood, CA; Le Pig, Beverly Hills, CA; Record Plant.
Photographer: David Buckland.
Unknown Contributor Roles: Flood; Tommy Lee.
Arranger: Trent Reznor.
Nine Inch Nails mastermind Trent Reznor became an instant alternative-music hero with 1989's PRETTY HATE MACHINE, an angry-yet-accessible album that appealed to rock fans and club kids alike. Record-label woes led to a five-year delay for Reznor's follow-up, with two hard-edged EPs (BROKEN and its remix disc, FIXED) issued in the interim. Finally released in 1994, THE DOWNWARD SPIRAL seethes with an almost unhinged industrial ferocity, due, in part to both Reznor's frustration with messy bureaucratic entanglements and time spent with Ministry's Al Jourgensen during the peak of that band's guitar-heavy phase.
Although, SPIRAL does reveal the influence of latter-day Ministry (particularly on the blazing opener, "Mr. Self Destruct," and the scathing, distortion-filled "March of the Pigs"), Reznor also incorporates elements of progressive rock and funk into the proceedings. More than any other Nine Inch Nails song, the provocative, groove-laden "Closer" (and its shocking video) established Reznor as a bold, audacious artist. In contrast, quiet and emotive songs such as Eno-esque instrumental "A Warm Place" and the spare, haunting "Hurt" (famously covered by Johnny Cash shortly before the country legend's death) revealed Reznor's sensitive side. Here the intense performer works with his largest sonic palette yet, and the results are fascinating.

Producer: Flood; Trent Reznor; Flood; Trent Reznor

Musical Guests
Stephen Perkins
Adrian Belew

 
Artist Overview
Before Nine Inch Nails, electronic-based rock was often considered devoid of feeling and danger. Leader Trent Reznor merged synths with tortured vocals/lyrics, distorted guitar, and repetitive, slamming rhythms into an unpredictable amalgam, helping to popularize industrial rock in the '90s. In the process, Nine Inch Nails became one of the biggest alt-rock acts of the era, responsible for enduring hits like "Head Like a Hole" and "Closer," while inspiring legions of younger bands. The ever-stoic Reznor continued to evolve and create innovative music well into the band's third decade.

Artist Influences
Big Black | Cabaret Voltaire | Chrome | David Bowie | Depeche Mode | Devo | EinstĀrzende Neubauten | Front 242 | Gary Numan | Ministry | New Order (UK) | Pink Floyd | Renegade Soundwave | Skinny Puppy | Sleep Chamber | Suicide | Throbbing Gristle | Young Gods

Artist Contemporaries
12 Rounds | Aaak | Acid Horse | Billy Corgan | Chris Carter | Coil | Cop Shoot Cop | Current 93 | David T. Chastain | EinstĀrzende Neubauten | Fear Factory | Filter | Foetus | Forcefield | Front 242 | Front Line Assembly | Fury in the Slaughterhouse | Gordon Giltrap | Greater Than One | Griffin | Helmet | KMFDM | Laibach | Lead Into Gold | Leather Nun | Marilyn Manson | Meat Beat Manifesto | Ministry | Moby | My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult | Pankow | Pigface | Pitchshifter | Prick | PTP | Quartet Music | Rammstein | Revolting Cocks | Scarling | Severed Heads | Stabbing Westward | The Enid | The Prodigy | Throbbing Gristle | Tool | VAST

Artist Followers
12 Rounds | Evanescence | Fear Factory | Filter | Hate Dept. | Korn | Linkin Park | Marilyn Manson | Mudvayne | Orgy | Prick | Stabbing Westward | Two | VAST


 
Compilation Appearances
26 Mixes For Cash
Black Heart Retrospective
Dfa Remixes:chapter Two
Remixes Compiled

 
Associated Artists and Works
Artists, Various
Radiant Decay: A Tribute To Nine Inch Nails ~ Artists, Various
The Broken Machine: A Tribute To Nine Inch Nails ~ Artists, Various
Artists, Various
Absence Of Faith: Tribute To Nine Inch Nails [PA] ~ Artists, Various
A Tribute To Nine Inch Nails ~ Artists, Various
Original Soundtrack
Original Soundtrack
Original Soundtrack
Original Soundtrack
Radiant Decay: A Tribute To Nine Inch Nails ~ Various Artists
The Broken Machine: A Tribute To Nine Inch Nails ~ Various Artists
Various Artists
Absence of Faith: The Tribute to Nine Inch Nails [ ~ Various Artists
Various Artists
A Tribute to Nine Inch Nails [Tributized] ~ Various Artists
Various Artists
Various Artists
Various Artists
Various Artists
Ya Baby String Quartet (The)

 
Technical Info
Release Date : 03/08/1994
Original Release Date : 1994
Catalog ID : 92346
Label : Nothing/Interscope
Number of Discs : 2
Runtime : 65m : 8s
Studio/Live : Studio
Mono/Stereo : Stereo
SPAR Code : n/a
UPC : 00606949234621

 
Professional Reviews
Rolling Stone (5/13/99, p.54)
- Included in Rolling Stone's "Essential Recordings of the 90's."

Rolling Stone (3/24/94, p.92)
- 4 Stars - Excellent - "...Nine Inch Nails achieve a new kind of loud on THE DOWNWARD SPIRAL: accessible hard rock moves overlaid with a scrim of electronic racket...THE DOWNWARD SPIRAL is music the Blade Runner might throw down to: low-tech futurism that rocks...."

Spin (9/99, p.124)
- Ranked #11 in Spin Magazine's "90 Greatest Albums of the '90s."

Spin (12/94, p.76)
- Rankded #4 in Spin's list of the `20 Best Albums Of '94' - "...transfixes you with the heaviest metal, the most trance-inducing rave, and the silliest synth-pop you're ever likely to hear in songs this hummable..."

Q (7/01, p.90)
- Included in Q's "50 Heaviest Albums of All Time".

Q (12/99, p.171)
- Included in Q Magazine's Best Gothic Albums Of All Time - "...the migraine masterpiece that catapulted [Reznor] to #2 in the Billboard charts....it's a day at the dentist's: all screeching and pulsing, but sexy with it..."

Alternative Press (7/95, p.82)
- Ranked #24 in AP's list of the `Top 99 Of '85-'95' - "...This recording, coming some five years after Reznor's full-length debut, [is] a stark expose of the darkest regions of the soul: those places where our personal demons reign, and God feels unwelcome..."

Vibe (12/99, p.158)
- Included in Vibe's 100 Essential Albums of the 20th Century

Musician (5/94, p.72)
- "...beneath all that bad attitude and aural aggro lies music of extraordinary insight, intelligence, and, yes, beauty....An astonishing piece of work...."

Village Voice (3/94, p.5)
- Ranked #2 in the Village Voice's 1993 Pazz & Jop Critics Poll.

Village Voice (2/28/95)
- Ranked #9 in the Village Voice's 1994 Pazz & Jop Critics Poll.

Kerrang (Magazine)
(p.53)
- "Displaying breathtaking invention and variety, it's a deeply textured work..."

Mojo (Publisher)
(p.54)
- Ranked #98 in Mojo's "100 Modern Classics" -- "More than a celebration of nihilism,...SPIRAL was an anguished cry for something to believe in."

Mojo (Publisher)
(p.117)
- 4 stars out of 5 - "Reznor's industrial-blues masterpiece still drips with vileness."

New York Times (Publisher)
(1/5/95, p.C15)
- Included on Jon Pareles' list of the Top 10 Albums Of '94 - "Trent Reznor orchestrates the terrors of adolescence...with creepy-crawly sounds and a clandestine sense of melody."

  
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