Audio CD review:
Nine Inch Nails - Down In It

Nine Inch Nails - Down In It

Band: Nine Inch Nails Title: Down In It Rating: Release Date: 28 November, 1991 Media: Audio CD Tracks: 1: Down In It (Skin) 2: Down In It (Shred) 3: Down In It (Singe)

Customer Reviews The Start of a mission Most see his music as either some plea for help, crying over his own problems or just a very disturbed person that only goes for shock value. All NIN really has these days is its core base to support Trent Reznor's unacknowledged genious to just about the rest of the world and the country that he's so desperatly trying to reach out to. When in all reality (a point made blatently clear in the album "Y34R Z3R0") he's really just trying to get all of us to wake up and end this lucid dream because there is a nightmare out there and unless we do somthing about it soon then not only will it engulf us, we'll have deserved that fate. I can only see each album that Reznor has saw fit to share with us as not a plea to help with his suffering but that we need to start paying attention to our own. It is usually the people who are constantly trying to help us that get shunned the most openly or the most criticized. Isn't time that we stop paying attention to the metheod and more so on the message? I give this album 5 stars because this is where it all starts. The long, painful journey to reaching man kind. angelic resonance But I can only perceive this as angelic resonance. A lot of people try to write off Nine Inch Nails as noise. The first time I heard Down In It, I was on the beach, in the middle of the night, and I was shaken to the very foundations of my being. I knew instantly what the artist was singing about. . . the loss, the loneliness, the pain of a need so deep he would rather destroy himself than live without it. . . and if there was anything I possibly could have done, I would have done it to ease his suffering. Listen closely to this music. This is the sound of despair. I know it intimitely. Great song, but blah remixes. An entertaining song to say the least. You know that song, "Down in It" by Nine Inch Nails, where he speaks to where it's almost in a rap, and there's lots of industrial noises on the chorus, etc? Well, that song _is_ included here in the form that also appears on the album. I am just as big of a NIN fan as anyone else out there, but the TVT singles were really nothing to sneeze at. Especially "Down in It"'s single. What makes this not worth owning? Well, others have explained that already. Besides, the remixes are boring, repetitive, and too long. If you are a halo collector, I guess you can get this. If you like the original "Down in It" and don't know if you want to get "Pretty Hate Machine" (a highly recommended album), I guess this too. But I feel that this single doesn't have the merit of the later ones like "Closer to God" and "March of the Pigs", truly great NIN singles. . You can see a complete list of all Nine Inch Nails discography, or go back to the Nine Inch Nails tabs