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| Nin Ranked (aka The Rankward Spiral)
Includes Broken, Ghosts and The Slip, but none of the Remix albums. | | 1 |  | Nine Inch Nails
The Downward Spiral
Just pips The Fragile to the post by having a better closer. The atmosphere the whole album creates is just fantastic, from the claustrophobic songwriting of I Do Not Want This to the obscene catchiness of Closer and of course, the masterpiece that is Hurt, the album stands up there as probably my favourite of all time. | | 2 |  | Nine Inch Nails
The Fragile
It's almost a shame to have to put this one second, because it's just on another level from every other NIN album. The album is more of a journey or even a soundscape than a collection of songs, and the fact that it took 5 years to make really shows with the smooth song transitions and absolutely perfect production. | | 3 |  | Nine Inch Nails
Year Zero
Broken just misses out as this is a lot more fulfilling as an experience, since it's a whole album rather than an EP. The mood of this album is more relaxed than most other NIN, but it's also sinister and spine-tingling in it's own way. | | 4 |  | Nine Inch Nails
Broken [EP]
Their most aggressive and full-on release, Broken stands as one of my favourite EPs of all time, although there are one or songs which just aren't particularly memorable - not bad by any means, I'd even go so far as to call them great, but they don't stand up to some of the other songs on the album (Wish, Gave Up and Happiness In Slavery are among NIN's best). | | 5 |  | Nine Inch Nails
Ghosts I-IV
There's far too much I could say about this album - all I'll say is that this totally disregards traditional songwriting convention, in a similar fashion to an unfocused version of The Flashbulb's Soundtrack To A Vacant Life. And I mean that in the best way possible. The problems are exactly what you might expect from a 4 disc, sprawling instrumental, but often they don't stick out over the mood journey that is the majority of Ghosts. | | 6 |  | Nine Inch Nails
With Teeth
Some really good songs, a bit of filler, and a fairly standard rock/dance/pop/industrial album as far as NIN is concerned. Definitely a good idea for a starting point if you're looking to get into them. | | 7 |  | Nine Inch Nails
Pretty Hate Machine
Too bland, containing some of Reznor's worst lyrics (his lyrics have got much better recently, but in their first few releases he was prone to sounding pretty childish), but fun still. Something I Can Never Have still stands as one of NIN's best slower-paced songs to this day. | | 8 |  | Nine Inch Nails
The Slip
One or two good songs, mostly average. I was annoyed when Reznor released this on CD a bit, because that validates it as a proper release rather than just a small gift to the fans, as it was originally (and probably still) supposed to be. Don't buy this, if you want it just download it from their website. | |
rotterdog
02.24.09 | This is pretty much my ranking exactly. Though "Head like a Hole" brings PHM higher for me. I think you need to add "[ep]" after the word "broken" to get the album art. | absurdismwine
02.24.09 | Really good list, I'm not that deep into Nine Inch Nails, but this was interesting. | fireaboveicebelow
02.24.09 | almost how I feel I would put Ghosts higher and With Teeth below PHM | Spamue1G
02.24.09 | fixed the ep problem :) absurdismwine - fair enough, they aren't for everyone by any means.
rotterdog - I don't like Head Like A Hole that much. It's fun, but that's about it as far as I'm concerned.
fireabove - Ghosts is a difficult one to place, but I don't listen to it that much relative to their others, so I thought that 5th was fair enough. | The Computer
02.25.09 | I never heard Broken, but I am asumming I should. I was too very disappointed with the Slip. | Chewie
02.25.09 | Downward Spiral
Year Zero
Ghosts I-IV
The Fragile
Pretty Hate Machine
The Slip
With Teeth
Broken | MassiveAttack
02.25.09 | 1. Downward Spiral
2. The Fragile
3. Broken EP
4. Year Zero
5. Pretty Hate Machine
6. Ghost I-IV
7. With Teeth
8. The Slip | Underachiever
02.25.09 | I liked the slip quite a bit, and I think it should be higher.
My order would be 1,2,3,8,6,7,4 | Captain North
02.25.09 | I've only listened to 1, 3, 5 and 7. Didn't like PHM much. But the other three are fantastic. | Spamue1G
02.25.09 | derekchewie - Broken bottom? I can honestly say I've never seen that before... | Chewie
05.01.09 | I dunno man, there just wasn't enough to satisfy, and they went overboard with the industrial, after a few listens I couldn't stand it |
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