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Nine Inch Nails – Ripe (With Decay)
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“Ripe” is the final track, an atmospheric instrumental, on The Fragile vinyl. “Ripe (With Decay)” is the final track on The Fragile CD and cassette, with an extra part at the end.
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Nine Inch Nails – Ripe
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[Instrumental]
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Nine Inch Nails – Somewhat Damaged
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“Somewhat Damaged” is the first track on the Left side of the double disc The Fragile, the third studio album from Nine Inch Nails, released in 1999.
It primarily builds using
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Nine Inch Nails – 28 Ghosts IV
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[Instrumental]
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Nine Inch Nails – The Day the World Went Away
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Trent Reznor has not explicitly said so, but this song is rumored to be about his reaction to the death of his grandma, Clara, which happened before the recording of The Fragile.
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Nine Inch Nails – 1 Ghosts I
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[Instrumental]
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Nine Inch Nails – Right Where It Belongs (Alternate Version)
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[Verse 1] / See the animal in his cage that you built / Are you sure what side you're on? / Better not look him too closely in the eye / Are you sure what side of the glass you are
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Nine Inch Nails – The Seed Numbers
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Seed 1 / Seed 2 / Seed 3 / Seed 4 / Seed 5 / Seed 6 / Seed 7 / Seed 8
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Nine Inch Nails – 34 Ghosts IV
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“34 Ghosts IV” is an instrumental track by the American experimental rock project Nine Inch Nails, included in the Ghosts I-IV compilation, released on March 2, 2008 under a
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Nine Inch Nails – 13 Ghosts II
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[Instrumental]
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Nine Inch Nails – Lights in the Sky
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The song’s somewhat devotional lyrics are reminiscent of those of both “We’re in This Together” and “The Fragile”.
The song’s accompanying art is vague, but may represent a light
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Nine Inch Nails – Please
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The fifth track on the Right disc of the album, it opens immediately with the verse drum loop, synthesized bass, and manipulated guitars for eight bars before reducing to the first
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Nine Inch Nails – The Mark Has Been Made
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“The Mark Has Been Made” is the fourth track on the Right disc of The Fragile.
The piece consists of a dark and quiet introduction, featuring a beat with a wah effect, deep
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Nine Inch Nails – Beside You in Time
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“Beside You in Time” starts quietly with a dark, uneasy drone fading in from the end of “The Line Begins to Blur”, which remains prominently throughout the entirety of the song and
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Nine Inch Nails – Find My Way
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Downtempo, atmospheric and contemplative, the song prominently features a beat loop that is constantly augmented with echoes throughout, reminiscent of trip hop beat programming
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Nine Inch Nails – No, You Don't
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One of the most metal-oriented NIN songs, it begins with a subversive ambient pad fading in from the end of “Pilgrimage”, which builds and sweeps in the drum loop. After 16 bars
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Nine Inch Nails – The Big Come Down
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A unique track in the NIN canon, it features a loud and bombastic drum loop with odd percussion sounds, synthesized bass, and an oddly-tuned acoustic guitar riff. Trent Reznor’s
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Nine Inch Nails – I'm Looking Forward to Joining You, Finally
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This song was dedicated to Trent Reznor’s maternal grandmother, Clara. In the liner notes, the credits include the words"For Clara".
The song features a repeating array of soft
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Nine Inch Nails – Underneath It All
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“Underneath It All” immediately begins with a quiet beat and scratchy synthesizer melody. These are soon built upon by a stuttering, noisy rhythm loop, on top of which Trent Reznor
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Nine Inch Nails – We’re in This Together
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“We’re in This Together” was released as a triple single, Halo 15. It took two weeks for the band to record and compile the diverse sounds of the song together.
[the] whole song
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Nine Inch Nails – Into the Void
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“Into the Void” is one of several songs on The Fragile that shares a melody with one or more other songs. It is a sister-track to “La Mer”, also from The Fragile; both songs grew
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Nine Inch Nails – Even Deeper
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“Even Deeper” is the eighth track on the Left disc of The Fragile, and is a relatively slow and atmospheric track. Beginning slowly with layers of percussion and deep synthesizers
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Nine Inch Nails – La Mer
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“La Mer” is the eleventh track from the Left disc of The Fragile. Its main melodic elements and bassline are taken in a different direction with “Into the Void”.
The lyrics are in
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Nine Inch Nails – The Wretched
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“The Wretched” is the fourth track on the Left disc of The Fragile.
The bridge of the song contains a sample of radio interference often confused with whispered lyrics. It can be
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Nine Inch Nails – Where Is Everybody?
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Beginning immediately with a thumping drum beat and distorted bassline doubled by synthesizers, Reznor delivers the first verse rapidly yet melodically, hearkening back to his
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Nine Inch Nails – Starfuckers, Inc.
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This song deals with the self-involved vanity and shallow commercialization of fame – specifically directed towards celebrities such as Marilyn Manson (who Reznor was publicly
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Nine Inch Nails – The Great Below
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“The Great Below” is the twelfth and final track on the left disc of The Fragile.
A single synthesizer layer fades in from the end of “La Mer”, ascending in pitch until it is
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