Audio CD review:
Nine Inch Nails - And All That Could Have Been

Nine Inch Nails - And All That Could Have Been

Band: Nine Inch Nails Title: And All That Could Have Been Rating: Release Date: Media: Audio CD Tracks: 1: Terrible Lie 2: Sin 3: March Of The Pigs 4: Piggy 5: The Frail 6: The Wretched 7: Gave Up 8: The Great Below 9: The Mark Has Been Made 10: Wish 11: Suck 12: Closer 13: Head Like A Hole 14: The Day The World Went Away 15: Star****ers, Inc. 16: Hurt 17: Something I Can Never Have 18: Adrift And At Peace 19: The Fragile 20: The Becoming 21: Gone, Still 22: The Day The World Went Away 23: And All That Could Have Been 24: The Persistence Of Loss 25: Leaving Hope

Editoral Review The live album And All That Could Have Been, recorded during Nine Inch Nails' Fragility 2. The biggest difference between a kick-ass studio album and a kick-ass live album? Intensity. 0 U. S. tour in 2000, provides that trait in abundance. It helps that Trent Reznor has a band, instead of just a battery of keyboards, to help him work through 16 tracks of the raging yet surprisingly listenable musical vitriol that made him a star. The live musicians, who allow him some freedom to play with tempo, help kick "Closer" up a notch and lend some atmospheric weight to a slow version of "The Frail. " The band rips into older material with gusto; Reznor sounds just as pissed off performing "Head Like a Hole" as he did in 1989. The CD closes with "Hurt," which might seem like an odd choice, but somehow, after everything that's come before, it's like the denouement of a tragedy. While a CD can only capture a piece of NIN's onstage energy, their first live album is an intense, sometimes overwhelming recording, further vindication of NIN's continuing popularity and influence. --Genevieve Williams .. You can see a complete list of all Nine Inch Nails discography, or go back to the Nine Inch Nails tabs