Best Unknown Songs, Best Known Bands: Nine Inch Nails
This was bound to happen sooner or later since I am a huge Nine Inch Nails fan.
1: “The Big Come Down” off of the album “The Fragile”. This is pretty much the best Nine Inch Nails song ever made in the history of Nine Inch Nails. There is an acoustic guitar at the beginning but it just explodes. The guitar solo is awesome and even awesomer on the “Beside You In Time” DVD… heck… the SONG is better live. I am surprised this was not a single. Just pure amazing. Wow… that was very biased.
2: “And All That Could Have Been” off of the album “Still”. The album “Still” is kinda hard to find in it’s original form. You could find “Still” by itself on NIN.com or you can get it off of iTunes… but the original version… which was on the 2-Disk Limited Edition of Nine Inch Nails’ first live album “And All That Could Have Been”. It has calmer versions of well known Nine Inch Nails and some “The Fragile” B-Sides. “And All That Could Have Been” is a power-house of emotions. THIS is the best song Nine Inch Nails has ever released. It’s so calm and meaningful that it almost sits in the back of your brain as you listen to it… like it isn’t even there… in a good way though. I even fell asleep on a bus to this song. I have never heard a song that is such a masterpiece.
3: “The Downward Spiral” off of the album “The Downward Spiral”. The ending to the story that is being told in the album… it is haunting and yet awesome at the same time. Everything is very calm and almost sleepy until it breaks out… but it is still quiet then… because everything is muffled. Trent’s voice delivers the story of the main characters’ final hour in a creepy undertone that says with you. Pretty much the most important part of The Downward Spiral’s story, you should not over look this song when listening to this album.
