Since I've got thirtysomething of their CDs and all.
If you don't like electronic music, don't bother with Pretty Hate Machine or the three singles that came from it, Down In It, Heah Like A Hole, and Sin. It came out in 1989 and it's beginning to show. It's a fine album, but it's so far removed from the rest of the albums that it's almost a different band. And is, in a way.
Broken (1991) is an eight-song LP of mean, loud, angry metal. The remix album, Fixed, is just bizarre. But in a good way. Fixed is still my favorite release.
The Downward Spiral is going to sound a lot more like the NIN that you're likely familiar with. It's one of those rare albums without a weak link. Two singles releases came from this one: March Of The Pigs, Closer To God, and there was a remix album, Further Down The Spiral. Closer To God is worth picking up if you find it just for the title track (a reworking of Closer) and Further is just good.
If you should see The Perfect Drug on a shelf, keep walking.
The Fragile, the album that the song you asked about came from, is a sonic masterpiece. The only problem I ever had with this album was deciding which CD to leave in my CD player all the time. If you can only get one of their albums, get this one. Unless you're just into collecting the whole set, you don't need to worry about the singles releases from this album.
And All That Could've Been is a concert DVD that, if you've never seen them live, you have to see. It's also available on CD, and might or might not include Still, an acoustic re-recording of some of their songs - including The Fragile. Still is also available separately.
And if you REALLY want to get picky about it, the soundtracks for Natural Born Killers and The Lost Highway were both produced by the lead singer and have some extra songs you can't find elsewhere. The Crow soundtrack also has a cover of an old Joy Division song, Dead Souls, that sounds strikingly like the original.
And most of the bootlegs are crap. |
