 Genius Meanings
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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 – The Downward Spiral
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One of the final songs on The Downward Spiral and an extraordinarily disturbing treatise on suicide. The song notably features stripped-down instrumentation with a sole piano
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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 – Was It Worth It?
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“Was It Worth It?” is an unreleased track cut from The Fragile and later released instrumentally on its accompaniment, The Fragile: Deviations 1 in 2016/17.
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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 – Taken
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“Taken” is an unreleased track cut from The Fragile and later released on its accompaniment, The Fragile: Deviations 1 in 2016/17.
The track is minimal, consisting of a rapid drum
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Nine Inch Nails – +Appendage
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“Appendage” (styled as “+Appendage”) is a track originally featured on the cassette version of The Fragile. It was a filler track that followed “Please” on Side A of the second (
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Nine Inch Nails – Not What It Seems Like
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“Not What It Seems Like” is an unreleased track cut from The Fragile and later released instrumentally on its accompaniment, The Fragile: Deviations 1 in 2016/17.
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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 – 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 – One Way to Get There
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“One Way to Get There” is an unreleased track cut from The Fragile and later released on its accompaniment, The Fragile: Deviations 1 in 2016/17.
It is stylistically similar to “
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Nine Inch Nails – Something I Can Never Have
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“Something I Can Never Have” is the fifth track on Nine Inch Nails' 1989 debut album, Pretty Hate Machine. It’s a song about lost love and missed chances. An extended and edited
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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 – Just Like You Imagined (Alternate Version)
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[Instrumental]
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Nine Inch Nails – The Day the World Went Away (Still)
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[Verse] / I'd listen to the words he'd say / But in his voice I heard decay / The plastic face forced to portray / All the insides left cold and gray / There is a place that still
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Nine Inch Nails – 10 Miles High (Instrumental)
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“Hello, Everything Is Not OK” is the original demo instrumental for the track “10 Miles High” which appeared exclusively on the Vinyl edition of The Fragile as well as the first
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Nine Inch Nails – And All That Could Have Been
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“And All That Could Have Been”, the seventh track on Still, is a leftover track from The Fragile sessions, and the only new non-instrumental track on the album.
It may be one of
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Nine Inch Nails – 10 Miles High
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“10 Miles High” appears exclusively on the vinyl version of The Fragile, as well as the first disc of the European and Japanese single for We’re in This Together and the remix
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Nine Inch Nails – The Fragile (Still)
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[Verse 1] / She shines in a world full of ugliness / She matters when everything is meaningless / Fragile, she doesn't see her beauty / She tries to get away / Sometimes it's just
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Nine Inch Nails – La Mer (Alternate Version)
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[Instrumental]
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Nine Inch Nails – A Warm Place
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“A Warm Place” functions as a sliver of hope before the protagonist ultimately succumbs to the inhuman “voice” in his mind. The song is a pseudo-interlude between the bombastic “
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Nine Inch Nails – The Way Out Is Through
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The 1st track of the “Right” side of Halo 14.
It is one of the more abstract and non-traditional songs on the album, with its structure based around a drawn-out crescendo. It was
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Nine Inch Nails – Claustrophobia Machine (Raw)
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[Instrumental]
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Nine Inch Nails – Pilgrimage (Alternate Version)
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[Instrumental]
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Nine Inch Nails – Can I Stay Here?
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This track (along with “Hello, Everything Is Not OK” and “The March”) were previously released as part of an Apple Music playlist Trent released in 2015 called The Fragile
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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 – 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 – The New Flesh
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“The New Flesh” appears exclusively on the vinyl version of The Fragile, as well as the first disc of the European and Japanese single for We’re in This Together and the Australian
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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 – 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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Nine Inch Nails – Complication (Alternate Version)
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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 – 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 – 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 – Closer (Precursor)
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As per the NIN Wiki:
This is an atmospheric remix, made up of heavily distorted synth and percussion loops that sound like machinery. The line “I want to fuck you like an animal
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Nirvana – Rape Me
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Originally written in May 1991 and performed live later that year, “Rape Me” was recorded in a studio setting in February 1993. It was released on the band’s final studio album
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Blood On the Dance Floor (Ft. Jeffree Star) – Poison Apple (Remastered)
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[Intro: Dahvie Vanity] / Now I've got you where I want / Lots of love / I will haunt / Now I've got you where I want / [Verse 1: Dahvie Vanity] / Baby burn, burn, burn / With my
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William Golding – Lord of the Flies (Chap. 8: Gift for the Darkness)
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Piggy looked up miserably from the dawn-pale beach to the dark mountain. / “Are you sure? Really sure, I mean?” / “I told you a dozen times now,” said Ralph, “we saw it.” / “D'you
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Crystal Waters – Gypsy Woman (La Da Dee La Da Da)
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[Verse] / She wakes up early every morning / Just to do her hair, now / Because she cares, y'all / Her day, oh, wouldn't be right / Without her makeup / She's never had a makeup
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Project Evidence – Document
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Report #1: Hello, my name is doctor Stephen Svenstein. I am keeping these records as a way to document a pet project of mine. You see, I have noticed a few strange cases
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Henry David Thoreau – Economy
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Henry David Thoreau was a bit strange for his time. This essay, written from the shores of Walden pond, would have you believe he lived in true isolation. In reality he was a short
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John Steinbeck – Chapter 26 (The Grapes of Wrath)
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IN THE WEEDPATCH CAMP, on an evening when the long, barred clouds hung / over the set sun and inflamed their edges, the Joad family lingered after their supper. / Ma hesitated
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