Trent Reznor is the only person on the planet who has written an entire album about BDSM, rape, self-deprecation, and torture that had one of its songs win a grammy, all the while using terminology like "fist fuck", then later win an oscar for the music he made for a kid's movie. I love this man
Love how he was able to turn that lots of negative and self destructive energy to make masterpieces like this and turn his life around. A living legend.
I'm sure someone has said this already, but as of 2020 this is still the only song to win a Grammy with lyrics containing the phrase "fist fuck" in it. 🙂
And what an epic song it is🤘🏻. This and Tool's Stinkfist...the only 2 songs that mention letting your hand go where it probably shouldn't that made it big (the charts, I mean...not the rectum)✊🏻🥴.
I was at a NIN concert in Tokyo in about 2009 and a typhoon was coming in; people started leaving to get escape the rain, and Trent called them pussies as they left. March of the Pigs started as the storm came in and it was the best concert of my life.
90's Trent: wears fishnet stockings, punches his fans in an S&M cage, and sings "fist fuck". 2022 Trent: wears tuxedos, has 5 (or more?) kids, and wins Oscars.
Nothing Head Hmmm, never knew he said that, at least the references make more sense now. On a side note, I wonder if he meant he said fist fuck AND won a Grammy, or that he won a Grammy FOR saying fist fuck...
+polyquaternium7 and I can bet you 100% Trent will come out alive... have you checked out the muscles on that dude. 50 as of current and he could crush my head without effort. props to him for not becoming fat and hokey like a bunch of bands before and after him.
This was my first exposure to NIN, and this genre of music in particular, way back in 1992, on MTV's Headbanger's Ball. I went a few days later and picked up the Broken EP, and discovered their album Pretty Hate Machine. After loving the Broken EP, the next week I went back and picked up PHM, and loved it, too. Been a fan of theirs ever since, as well as of this genre of music, even now in 2024. I'm about to be 45 years old in a few months, was only 13 freakin' years old when this video/single was released, way back in 1992, which just completely blows my mind when I think about it, and I still love this song, and video, even now in 2024, just as much as I did back then, if not even more so now.
Likewise. Im 31 and have been a fan since I was about 11 or 12. Id been playing with casio keyboards since I was 5 so when I found NIN I felt like I wasnt such a dork anymore. Turns out Im still a complete dork.
Wont even say how old I am but this shit still kicks ass. An ex turned me on to this an man you talk about changing my listening habits. We cruised the lake late night with NIN thrashing loud. Been listening ever since. Great times!
I also feel like when he's angry, someone fucking deserved it. Watch him on any interview or in any music docu, he's the chillest cat alive. If you piss him off, you were TRYING to.
Me too. I saw them in 1994 when I was 16. Manson opened and he was almost completely unknown. Saw NIN the next year in 1995 opening for Bowie, which was the only time I saw Bowie. And that was a little side trip off of Phish tour. Haha!
I wrote "i'm the one without a soul, I'm the one with this big fuckin' hole" on a folder in like, 8th grade. I will never forget the day I found a note that my mom had written next to it: "do you really feel like that?" didn't fuckin talk to me about it. just wrote on the folder next to it lmao
Especially in these days, you cannot tell anyone how you actually feel. You will be institutionalized You are sick, kid If you have to answer the question ‘have you ever thought about...?’ The answer is ‘No’ Trust me
After all these years this song still gives me chills all throughout listening to it. One of the most badass songs ever written. If Trent were never around I wouldn't know how to manage my anger!
LYRICS: This is the first day of my last days I built it up now I take it apart climbed up real high now fall down real far No need for me to stay the last thing left I just threw it away I put my faith in god and my trust in you Now there's nothing more fucked up I could do Wish there was something real wish there was something true Wish there was something real in this world full of you I'm the one without a soul I'm the one with this big fucking hole No new tale to tell twenty-six years on my way to hell Gotta listen to your big time hard line bad luck fist f*ck Don't think you're having all the fun You know me I hate everyone Wish there was something real wish there was something true Wish there was something real in this world full of you I want to but I can't turn back But I want to.....
★LYRICS★ This is the first day of my last days I built it up now I take it apart climbed up real high now fall down Real far No need for me to stay the last thing left I just threw it away I put my faith in god and my trust in you Now there's nothing more fucked up I could do Wish there was something real wish there was something true Wish there was something real in this world full of you I'm the one without a soul I'm the one with this big fucking hole No new tale to tell twenty-six years on my way to hell Gotta listen to your big time hard line bad luck fist fuck Don't think you're having all the fun You know me I hate everyone Wish there was something real wish there was something true Wish there was something real in this world full of you I want to but I can't turn back But I want to
While downward spiral is the staple...ive always thought the broken ep was aggressive as hell and although only 6 songs (99 actually), this shit was great!!
+Andrew Heller In 2015 I'm wondering how many people get your "99" songs reference. Half of the comments are from teeny boppers talking about Lincoln Park.
ahh.. yes.. I stand corrected. Has been a long time since i listened to those albums. Think i first heard Suck on the Pigface "welcome to Mexico" album
A couple weeks ago I had my first string of panic attacks. I was in pain and terrified, so my dad took me out at ONE IN THE MORNING for a drive to get my mind off of it. This was the album that we had on, so I was sitting there hardly able to think straight, muscles clenched and breathing exasperated, but I was still bopping my head to the beat. Thank you, Trent, for being the soundtrack for my first panic attacks, this and Pretty Hate Machine helped a lot while I was convulsing from anxiety! (though the 99 silent tracks where also funny to have for random moments of silence)
I remember this being played during NIN’s iconic mud performance at Woodstock ’94!! I was 13, and I love this song as much today at 41 as ever …on my way to hell!! 🤘
Say what you want, but years ago, in the wee hours of the morning, this video hit MTV and changed my musical tastes forever. Love it. Also, I always wondered why the crowd was trying to get in... 2 men enter, 1 man make angry music
Ministry started the change with The Land of Rape and Honey in 88, and was full force on A Mind is a Terrible Thing to Taste in 89. Pretty Hate Machine was also 89, but Broken went full on heavy like Ministry with Broken in 92, same year Ministry's Psalm 69 came out. Ministry set the standards, but NIN continued to converge their two different album styles, and we got The Downward Spiral.
This is THE song that made me a lifelong back NIN fan back in 1992. "Pretty Hate Machine" was a bit too tame compared to heavy stuff like Ministry and other industrial music I was listening to at the time. I later came to love "Pretty Hate Machine" with all my black little heart when I got out of my industrial only phase.
I'm kinda the opposite of you. I loved NIN from beginning through Downward Spiral and only a few months afterwards. I never heard "Wish" in my youth... Then my interests changed and I didn't listen to NIN again until 2014. If I had heard "Wish" I think I would be a very different person now. For better or worse I cannot say.. but music heavily influenced my life back then and I'm certain I'd be a different person. I'm pretty sure I'd be slightly improved somehow =)
I know, pretty hate machine was out forever before Broken hit. When broken came out, it Was heavy. imean i came to love halo2. When halo5 arrived. that really expressed my energy at the time. Gave up summed what i was feeling at that time
Pretty hate machine "mainstreamed" industrial. I still think it's edgy, danceable, but with Reznor's rage, and with lyrics that provoke. Pretty much everything he puts out is great, but his music got rawer and more intense
I remember back in high school when this first came out, saw it on MTV, yes it used to play music videos, but I was hooked immediately, this musical creation was what I've always wanted to hear, thank you Trent
I've seen NIN four times live. This is the song that always takes me back to my 17 year old self every time I see him. I'm glad I'm not in that place anymore..... most of the time, we all go there from time to time. I'm glad Trent is on a better place as well from what I've seen.
Arguably the best song ever. If you ever find yourself saying "Boys will be boys", and someone asks you what that means, well, you just show them this video!
I'm 45. Old enough to have grandkids. This song reminds me of my younger days at Lollapalooza and makes me want to stomp through my living room and break something precious. NIN kills.
This has been my turn to band for 20yr! And they still move me to tears. I would do anything to see them in person! I've bleed for them I've worshiped them! I love them.
I remember hearing this on m tv. They played music once, long ago. This song opened my eyes to all the different musical genres inside the umbrella term of metal. Thanks Mr. Reznor.
Sleazy from Coil directed this classic. Sleazy was a genius he directed this video and influenxed Trent musically! How to Destroy Angels is a Coil mini album title and Trent named his side project after that.
Being a music theory addict, I love that there is still rock with these time signatures. And Wish topped the scales first time I heard it live. It was perfect. Rick on, Trent. See you in htown next time!
I love how in expressing his wish for reality and truth, he created a song that is both real and true. It's like in the search for the cure to his nihilism he cured his nihilism. Genius stuff.
When i was a kid listening to this i thought the lyrics were “we share when somethings real, we share when somethings true, we share when somethings real in this world full of you!’
Nobody like NIN then and nobody like them now. Songs like this af and will live on in eternity of badassness. Rock & Roll Hall of Fame class of 2020 well deserved.
SInce I was a teen I´ve had a crush with Trent, apart from his good looks, I love this music, makes me feel like inside my dark mind, just having fun with being a dark person.
Danzig, Al Jourgensen, skinny puppy and others at various times asserted Trent had ‘ ripped off their act’ … I was 22 when TDS was released, following Broken (92) and PHM (89); PHM was first called ‘Purest Feeling’ and some of the lyrics and riffs were different. But we all already loved NIN as the sound was so much more truly industrial and , at times, as light and sensitive as dew on the morning lillies.. it could be brutal and sexy (or brutally sexy) and strong and weak all at the same time. it added devastating emotional turns and expressions of Rage, Love, Hate, sorrow, regret and self hatred/self destruction. As much as I loved the other bands mentioned as well as Tool, who had released Undertow in ‘93 and were gaining serious traction as the best and most original progressive band, beyond even Dream Theater .. none of them were comparable to NIN. Trent took the entire Industrial genre and added emotional and creative depth and brought the sound mainstream. Kinda. But just far enough out that it was too much for most. The Downward Spiral was / is his Magnum opus, swan song, etc and was the most artistically creative and technically brilliant album since “The Wall”. Curiously, both albums follow similar paths of the despicably selfish hero. The two legendary releases also create their own ‘realm’ of distinctive sound only on those particular albums, respectively. There was no way to follow TDS other than to change gears again, (Phm, broken and tds all have their own distinct sound throughout). And so did the Fragile. We drove to St Louis to see A Perfect Circle on tour for Met de Noms open for NIN on the Fragility tour. And the show was fucking surreal. As APC launched into the encore’Judith’ a massive storm hit the Riverport Amphitheater, complete with puple/black skies lit up with huge lightning bolts. The crowd on the lawn began to run but security would not let them under the amphitheater and repulsed their attempts and people were falling, running, etc and even trampling each other. My brother (RIP Nicholas) and I looked at each other and at our youngest brother and my girlfriend and just closed our eyes and threw the horns to the Gods just as Maynard obliterated the storm with that 1 minute bellow at the end of Judith… shortly thereafter… the steely sharp metallic monster licks of Pinion began… it was the single greatest show I have ever seen. And I’ve seen some good ones. The sound quality and perfection were unmatched. I’ve seen NIN 6-7 times, Tool and APC 7-8 times each, Pantera, Metallica and other great bands….and they would rank behind NIN -2-Tool, 3 APC…as the best live act to see. And an honorable mention to the Reverend on the Antichrist tour which was a revel of a screaming orgy of overdrive, drugs, filth, violence and talent :) Anyway, thanks for reading if you did. I would sum it this way: Trent / NIN are not a band.. the term does not describe the entity .. Trent Reznor is more an advanced, technologically brilliant composer, much like a Beethoven or Bach…maybe more a Chopin.
Trent Reznor: "I'm the one without a soul."
Also Trent: *composes a score for the movie Soul*
just a feeling
@ᴇʀᴇɴ ᴊᴀᴇɢᴇʀ I did? Omg
Didn't have a soul so they gave him one, I guess
Gotta fill the void somehow
Character development!
Trent Reznor is the only person on the planet who has written an entire album about BDSM, rape, self-deprecation, and torture that had one of its songs win a grammy, all the while using terminology like "fist fuck", then later win an oscar for the music he made for a kid's movie. I love this man
@Frankenstein Addams more likely to be Coil, dude
Woah woah
Living legend
Not exactly, but fir sure the first to make money from it.
Love how he was able to turn that lots of negative and self destructive energy to make masterpieces like this and turn his life around. A living legend.
Butthead: "This is like a zoo where they keep cool people."
Butthead making the noise of the beggining of the vid is so funny: Huggggghhh😃
i remember that episode.
Butthead making the noise like in the beggining of the vid is so funny: Huggggghhh😃
i remember that episode.
Classic.
Fuck yes! I totally read that in Butthead's voice!
The best part is when they're head banging and pause at 0:43 then resume without missing a beat!
Beat me to it 😂
I'm sure someone has said this already, but as of 2020 this is still the only song to win a Grammy with lyrics containing the phrase "fist fuck" in it. 🙂
would be the only composer to use that word AND get hired by Disney(Soul 2020) too
I put my faith in god and my trust in you
NOW THERE'S NOTHING MORE FUCKED UP I COULD DO
You see, grandma, I am a man of exquisite taste!
@@dsjkfdjlkl212 would be the only composer to write song about rape and get hired by Disney too :)
And what an epic song it is🤘🏻. This and Tool's Stinkfist...the only 2 songs that mention letting your hand go where it probably shouldn't that made it big (the charts, I mean...not the rectum)✊🏻🥴.
This video set some high expectations of what a live industrial show would be like.
lol right. or any metal/punk show for that matter. did any turn out to b this cool? haha
@symm DROME oh yeah, ive bet uve seen some cool shows then.. i have too live, but idk if they were this cool lol
@@somenothing7914 same here, maybe it's just my region that let me down hahaha
I was at a NIN concert in Tokyo in about 2009 and a typhoon was coming in; people started leaving to get escape the rain, and Trent called them pussies as they left. March of the Pigs started as the storm came in and it was the best concert of my life.
Combichrist can live up to it
This video made me late for high school one day. It came on MTV as I was stepping out the door and decided to stay and watch the whole thing
good choice
You sound like me in junior high school
Furthering your education in great music is just as important!😉
This is the most edgy teenager thing I’ve ever read
Wow you are so edgy and cool...
"Don't think you're having all the fun. You know me, I hate everyone". Trent really gets me...
Fiaj
still to this day, this song cannot get LOUD ENOUGH !!!
I was *_just_* thinking that in the car 15 minutes ago!
I hurt my ears listening to this, but it's still not enough
😊0😊🎉🎉,,,,,,,,,, e
I destroyed the speakers in my first car to this song hahaha
FIST FUCK!!! *Wins a Grammy in 1993*
Cattle Mutilation
FIST FUCK! *rewinds tape* FIST FUCK! *rewinds tape* FIST FUCK! *rewinds tape* FIST FUCK! *starts rubbing fist*
@@Blogofanclub I see what you did there...😉
@@Blogofanclub I knew exactly what you were referencing. Still like that film.
90's Trent: wears fishnet stockings, punches his fans in an S&M cage, and sings "fist fuck".
2022 Trent: wears tuxedos, has 5 (or more?) kids, and wins Oscars.
absolute legend
We all have our phases
dudes almost 60 now, im kinda glad he doesnt wear fishnets anymore ngl
I think discovering NIN and seeing this video at age 13 was one of the most pivotal moments in my entire development in life.
No one:
Trent Reznor: fIsT f*Ck
The Grammys: YOU'RE HIRED
na'mean?
The only lyric anyone knows in this song.
You messed up that joke pretty bad.
@@starfirem45 I'm the one without a soul. I'm the one stuck in this f****** hole!
nice pfp
Dude won a Grammy for saying fist fuck
I think he did a bit more than that...
that's hilarious. good point!
Hey Shaun: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wish_(Nine_Inch_Nails_song)
Nothing Head Hmmm, never knew he said that, at least the references make more sense now. On a side note, I wonder if he meant he said fist fuck AND won a Grammy, or that he won a Grammy FOR saying fist fuck...
Shaun Feldman He actually meant FOR saying it, like in a ironic kind of way... or at least I think so hahaha
a fucking industrial masterpiece
literally a "fucking industrial" masterpiece
Would do anything to go to a Broken-Era NIN concert, my first was Fragile-Era
I still have a fragility 2000 tour shirt.
My first concert ever was NIN with David Bowie and Prick. Oct 1995.
@@marz5315 Actually you saw one of best tours because they played all those remixes live. They never did that again.
Nahi chahiye ji. :D Came here after LInkin Park’s live performance of this cover by Chester. Dheko ek baar. Have a good one.
mine was lollapalooza '91. i feel bad for the youth of today.
Fun fact: Trent filmed this live at a Target Black Friday sale!
That's pretty damn funny
😂
He put his cage in front of the door right before it was time to open.
🤘😂🤘
XXthekingofyouXX 😆
I survived the 90's because of this music. I still have every Halo ever put out by NIN.
You've got to be around my age then! Grew up loving NIN. 😎
Not everyone. Got a couple myself!
It's still keeping me alive.
@@SyrupBuccaneer BRUHhhHHh
True that. They would have been so much worse without Pretty Hate Machine :-)
Mad Trent and the thunder dome..
+dubseedz757
+Ami Lee
+dubseedz757 Two bands enter, one band leaves!
b
+polyquaternium7 and I can bet you 100% Trent will come out alive... have you checked out the muscles on that dude. 50 as of current and he could crush my head without effort. props to him for not becoming fat and hokey like a bunch of bands before and after him.
This was my first exposure to NIN, and this genre of music in particular, way back in 1992, on MTV's Headbanger's Ball. I went a few days later and picked up the Broken EP, and discovered their album Pretty Hate Machine. After loving the Broken EP, the next week I went back and picked up PHM, and loved it, too. Been a fan of theirs ever since, as well as of this genre of music, even now in 2024. I'm about to be 45 years old in a few months, was only 13 freakin' years old when this video/single was released, way back in 1992, which just completely blows my mind when I think about it, and I still love this song, and video, even now in 2024, just as much as I did back then, if not even more so now.
Dark, misterious, powerful, energy.
I WISH go back in time and feel again the Industrial Rock of the 90's.
actually releases in 89. but close enough
@@hannibalshade8180 I thought this was released in 1992 for the Broken EP?
@@hannibalshade8180 89 Pretty Hate Machine
92 Broken.
I am a die hard NIN fan. i'm almost 38, and I've listened to them since I was 14.
Likewise. Im 31 and have been a fan since I was about 11 or 12. Id been playing with casio keyboards since I was 5 so when I found NIN I felt like I wasnt such a dork anymore. Turns out Im still a complete dork.
33 here and I totally get what you all mean. Been a fan since I was like 12 and really into Quake.
Me too! I remember getting Pretty Hate Machine when it came out on tape.
Wont even say how old I am but this shit still kicks ass. An ex turned me on to this an man you talk about changing my listening habits. We cruised the lake late night with NIN thrashing loud. Been listening ever since. Great times!
Jessica Wesner 28. Since 2003 from clip we're in this together, than was hurt and closer and that' s it. I'm a fan
angry Trent is best Trent
When he's pissed, you can feel too, and that is fucking cool!
Amen
I also feel like when he's angry, someone fucking deserved it. Watch him on any interview or in any music docu, he's the chillest cat alive. If you piss him off, you were TRYING to.
without a doubt!!! Angry NIN is best NIN
Agree someone needs to piss him off again 😈
Here I am at 44 years old. I first heard this when I was in my teens.. I still feel every word of this masterpiece.
Me too. I saw them in 1994 when I was 16. Manson opened and he was almost completely unknown. Saw NIN the next year in 1995 opening for Bowie, which was the only time I saw Bowie. And that was a little side trip off of Phish tour. Haha!
Exactly the same here
Director: Trent, do you want a Scorpions "Rock you like a hurricane" vibe or more of a Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome kinda thing?
Trent: Yes
Now this is my kind of nightclub! :D
This looks so much like Foufounes Electriques in Montreal!
lol mine too
You knoш шhat is in room lol∴ Ɛveryone knoшs шhat/s in room lol∴
Ingrid Rodriguez This is Nu Metal at it best
+BlimaWormtong 🎎🎏🎍🎋🎊🍤🍼🌏🌐💒🗾⛺🎢🎪💈🎰🎨🌌🎭🌌🎐🎑🎉🎃
42 years old & still sighing for Trent.
46, bought Pretty Hate Machine in 1988 and I still squirt to NIN
He already has one in his basement. I got peed on by a girl dressed as a teletubby once.
47 here...mid-90's Industrial flashbacks...used this album passing military PT test...works well
PoeBoi Kramere 59 years old and never stopped sighing over Trent Reznor
Got an NIN tattoo when I was 15 and everyone said "you'll regret that in 20 years". Its been 23 years and they're STILL my favorite band.
Trent is the most underrated under appreciated artist PERIOD
Underrated? The man won 2 Oscars. And Emmys, BAFTAs, etc. lol.
I wrote "i'm the one without a soul, I'm the one with this big fuckin' hole" on a folder in like, 8th grade. I will never forget the day I found a note that my mom had written next to it: "do you really feel like that?" didn't fuckin talk to me about it. just wrote on the folder next to it lmao
Your mom’s cool.
My mom would've taken me to therapy or some shit. You have a nice mom
Especially in these days, you cannot tell anyone how you actually feel.
You will be institutionalized
You are sick, kid
If you have to answer the question ‘have you ever thought about...?’ The answer is ‘No’
Trust me
That makes me feel sad 😞
My mom when she saw the Misfits song “ Mommy, can I go out and kill tonight”
Damn young Trent Reznor was a babe 👌🏻👌🏻
Absolutely
would still hit
Damn straight
now days he's a DILF
He was hotter than fire, lava and even sun in the 90's 😍 😘🔥💋.
Trent's wearing a fishnet stockings...oh yeah, this is called industrial.
Yes, It Is.
Let's see what you can put on and get away with...
@@stephenrussell8600 it's not about the clothes,its about the sound
@@friendlyneighborhoodcowboy5283 your absolutely right, sir...
After all these years this song still gives me chills all throughout listening to it. One of the most badass songs ever written. If Trent were never around I wouldn't know how to manage my anger!
Jim
See you today
SaQaqu
This song is just pure energy! You can feel it coming through the speakers as it sinks into your bones!
after the show, every one went home, washed off their pretend dirt/grease make up and vaseline, flossed, brushed their teeth, and went night night.
And at least one other person had to help Trent get his fishnets off.
You've never been to an old NIN show.
@@patrickwoodmency well, I hope they had basic dental hygiene.
Spoken like someone that knows less than nothing about Rock (industrial, metal, or otherwise).
Dude.... that couldn't be further from the truth lol....
This song is one of those songs that should energize you period. If you listen to it a few times in a row you should be wanting to run and run!
,k,,oikc
True!
I love the fact that the most viewed moment in this video is when Trent says "Fist Fuck" lol
LYRICS:
This is the first day of my last days
I built it up now I take it apart climbed up real high now fall down real far
No need for me to stay the last thing left I just threw it away
I put my faith in god and my trust in you
Now there's nothing more fucked up I could do
Wish there was something real wish there was something true
Wish there was something real in this world full of you
I'm the one without a soul I'm the one with this big fucking hole
No new tale to tell twenty-six years on my way to hell
Gotta listen to your big time hard line bad luck fist f*ck
Don't think you're having all the fun
You know me I hate everyone
Wish there was something real wish there was something true
Wish there was something real in this world full of you
I want to but I can't turn back
But I want to.....
The true hero of the chat
If you are reading this, it's not too late to turn back
❤
Only Trent Reznor can wear leather sleeves and not be awkward.
Him and Marilyn manson
I think that they’re actually latex gloves but yes he pulls them off very well
Manson...
@Bread Sandwich axel rose
Yep. And what do you think about his stockings?
It was a 'tough crowd' that night.
Mark McKinney hi,can u describe how it was?
You knoш шhat is in room lol∴ Ɛveryone knoшs шhat/s in room lol∴
Mark McKinney Lol, love song, hate this vid
BlimaWormtong you knosh shat is in room lol; zveryone knoshs shat/s in room lol
normal day out in Stoke-on-trent
★LYRICS★
This is the first day of my last days
I built it up now I take it apart climbed up real high now fall down
Real far
No need for me to stay the last thing left I just threw it away
I put my faith in god and my trust in you
Now there's nothing more fucked up I could do
Wish there was something real wish there was something true
Wish there was something real in this world full of you
I'm the one without a soul I'm the one with this big fucking hole
No new tale to tell twenty-six years on my way to hell
Gotta listen to your big time hard line bad luck fist fuck
Don't think you're having all the fun
You know me I hate everyone
Wish there was something real wish there was something true
Wish there was something real in this world full of you
I want to but I can't turn back
But I want to
The production on this is just otherworldly.
While downward spiral is the staple...ive always thought the broken ep was aggressive as hell and although only 6 songs (99 actually), this shit was great!!
+Andrew Heller In 2015 I'm wondering how many people get your "99" songs reference. Half of the comments are from teeny boppers talking about Lincoln Park.
The 99 tune "suck" was a cover of a song by a band called Pigface. I think..
+Sean O'Rourke still Trent, a cursory Google search would prove it
ahh.. yes.. I stand corrected. Has been a long time since i listened to those albums. Think i first heard Suck on the
Pigface "welcome to Mexico" album
+mr5elfde5truct haha I remember when my friend showed me the 99 track!!! lol. good times.
A couple weeks ago I had my first string of panic attacks. I was in pain and terrified, so my dad took me out at ONE IN THE MORNING for a drive to get my mind off of it. This was the album that we had on, so I was sitting there hardly able to think straight, muscles clenched and breathing exasperated, but I was still bopping my head to the beat. Thank you, Trent, for being the soundtrack for my first panic attacks, this and Pretty Hate Machine helped a lot while I was convulsing from anxiety! (though the 99 silent tracks where also funny to have for random moments of silence)
One of the greatest songs ever made.
I genuinely will never understand how someone can say the things he does and it hits right at home every time.
Es
says "fist fuck", wins a grammy
Had this on vinyl in high school in the mid-90's, song still gives me goosebumps to this day.
Fresh as the day it was released. I miss the 90s.
man I miss the 90s so much. I don't know if it's just me getting old or the nearly absent inspiration of today's music
I remember this being played during NIN’s iconic mud performance at Woodstock ’94!! I was 13, and I love this song as much today at 41 as ever …on my way to hell!! 🤘
I believe this song did not go so well in '94.
“……….FIST FUCK!”
I miss the 90s 😢
I can honestly say this is NINs best song... brings back memories of mosh pits and letting it all go
Say what you want, but years ago, in the wee hours of the morning, this video hit MTV and changed my musical tastes forever. Love it. Also, I always wondered why the crowd was trying to get in...
2 men enter, 1 man make angry music
trent and uncle al/ministry are industrial rock godz
Ooooh yeeeeeah, along with Sascha K from KMFDM too!
Ministry started the change with The Land of Rape and Honey in 88, and was full force on A Mind is a Terrible Thing to Taste in 89. Pretty Hate Machine was also 89, but Broken went full on heavy like Ministry with Broken in 92, same year Ministry's Psalm 69 came out. Ministry set the standards, but NIN continued to converge their two different album styles, and we got The Downward Spiral.
Skinny puppy?
Godflesh beats all.
And Sascha K
This is THE song that made me a lifelong back NIN fan back in 1992. "Pretty Hate Machine" was a bit too tame compared to heavy stuff like Ministry and other industrial music I was listening to at the time. I later came to love "Pretty Hate Machine" with all my black little heart when I got out of my industrial only phase.
who knew that dr. house loved N.I.N
I love Vicodin and NIN xD
I'm kinda the opposite of you. I loved NIN from beginning through Downward Spiral and only a few months afterwards. I never heard "Wish" in my youth... Then my interests changed and I didn't listen to NIN again until 2014. If I had heard "Wish" I think I would be a very different person now. For better or worse I cannot say.. but music heavily influenced my life back then and I'm certain I'd be a different person. I'm pretty sure I'd be slightly improved somehow =)
I know, pretty hate machine was out forever before Broken hit. When broken came out, it Was heavy. imean i came to love halo2. When halo5 arrived. that really expressed my energy at the time. Gave up summed what i was feeling at that time
Pretty hate machine "mainstreamed" industrial. I still think it's edgy, danceable, but with Reznor's rage, and with lyrics that provoke. Pretty much everything he puts out is great, but his music got rawer and more intense
This song transformed my entire teenaged life and therefore turned me into the BEAST I am today! Thank you NIN!!!
Qaew
I remember back in high school when this first came out, saw it on MTV, yes it used to play music videos, but I was hooked immediately, this musical creation was what I've always wanted to hear, thank you Trent
I've seen NIN four times live. This is the song that always takes me back to my 17 year old self every time I see him. I'm glad I'm not in that place anymore..... most of the time, we all go there from time to time. I'm glad Trent is on a better place as well from what I've seen.
One of my favorite NIN songs! Love how heavy it is! So aggressive! Just like me.
yep, you definitely are heavy
+Jackity Yax Agreeeee
You took the easy layup, like a tool. I guess somebody had to, this is UA-cam after all.
That's fucked up dude
Arguably the best song ever. If you ever find yourself saying "Boys will be boys", and someone asks you what that means, well, you just show them this video!
RIP James Woolley :(
Tight, black leather shorts & fishnet stockings. Such a nice group of boys.
I'm 45. Old enough to have grandkids. This song reminds me of my younger days at Lollapalooza and makes me want to stomp through my living room and break something precious. NIN kills.
I love Trent’s hair in this video
The O'Keefe Music Foundation brought me here.
This has been my turn to band for 20yr! And they still move me to tears. I would do anything to see them in person! I've bleed for them I've worshiped them! I love them.
One of the best tracks
Director how much crazy people do you want in this video
Nine inch nails yes
How many times can you repeat the same joke
WJ- how many times can you repeat the same joke
Degenerates- yes
@@AestheticAudio ???
trent lookin cute ngl
Almost a quarter decade on this video has lost none of its raw, brutal power. STILL one of the best promos I've ever seen.
Quarter decade? Two and a half years?
I wish more industrial bands would have done music videos like this, but maybe that shit's expensive
depends on the label and the budget they’re willing to give you based on how many units they think you will sell
イントロの高揚感がハンパない！
バイパス走ってる時にこの曲かけてるとスピード出過ぎちゃう（笑）
:おじや かっこいいよね！！
I'm just here remembering when music was good and music videos were art.
I remember hearing this on m tv. They played music once, long ago. This song opened my eyes to all the different musical genres inside the umbrella term of metal. Thanks Mr. Reznor.
The guitarist to the right of Trent is Richard Patrick from the band Filter
I've always considered NIN and songs like this to be Easy Listening Music. I just find it real EASY to LISTEN to this over and over and over again!
Sleazy from Coil directed this classic. Sleazy was a genius he directed this video and influenxed Trent musically! How to Destroy Angels is a Coil mini album title and Trent named his side project after that.
The first NIN record I bought! Nice to see Richard Patrick on guitars too.
One of the best bands, albums, songs and videos to have ever seen the light of day!!!
my introduction to NIN was the Broken video when I was 13… 😂 dude, just…. dude.
Been a NIN fan since 89 when I first heard Trent on Headbangers Ball. Hooked ever since...
one of my top 5 of all time fav songs
This video blew my mind when I was age 12. It’s still melting my face off.
Still remember being a kid and my friend got a bootleg copy of The Broken videos on VHS from a flea market, it blew my mind.
Life changing moment
If that's the vhs with the snuff film mixed in with the nin videos that you're talking about, then I have a copy of that as well!
The first industrial song I ever heard and I’ve been hooked ever since.
Being a music theory addict, I love that there is still rock with these time signatures. And Wish topped the scales first time I heard it live. It was perfect. Rick on, Trent. See you in htown next time!
Pretty sure this song is just in plain old 4/4
It sounds like jazzy 4/4 to me
one of my fav NIN songs
i still remember chester special for did sing it that song in 2004 summer my birth year. :-')
A classic song that never dies
I love how in expressing his wish for reality and truth, he created a song that is both real and true. It's like in the search for the cure to his nihilism he cured his nihilism.
Genius stuff.
"Wish there was something real wish there was something true wish there was something real in this world full of you"!
When i was a kid listening to this i thought the lyrics were “we share when somethings real, we share when somethings true, we share when somethings real in this world full of you!’
Nobody like NIN then and nobody like them now. Songs like this af and will live on in eternity of badassness. Rock & Roll Hall of Fame class of 2020 well deserved.
Mad Max vibes
Chaneling his inner Ministry
Imagine when this came out and you could tell your parents: "this man will win an oscar someday"
Chester covered this song like a pro! He'll never be forgotten!
SInce I was a teen I´ve had a crush with Trent, apart from his good looks, I love this music, makes me feel like inside my dark mind, just having fun with being a dark person.
Jimena Melgarejo 😮
Wish there was something for you... Wish there was something REAL... WISH THERE WAS SOMETHING TRUE 🎤🎸🥁!!!!
Takes me back to my freshmen year,great times ,Trent was a musical genius!
Danzig, Al Jourgensen, skinny puppy and others at various times asserted Trent had ‘ ripped off their act’ … I was 22 when TDS was released, following Broken (92) and PHM (89); PHM was first called ‘Purest Feeling’ and some of the lyrics and riffs were different. But we all already loved NIN as the sound was so much more truly industrial and , at times, as light and sensitive as dew on the morning lillies.. it could be brutal and sexy (or brutally sexy) and strong and weak all at the same time. it added devastating emotional turns and expressions of Rage, Love, Hate, sorrow, regret and self hatred/self destruction. As much as I loved the other bands mentioned as well as Tool, who had released Undertow in ‘93 and were gaining serious traction as the best and most original progressive band, beyond even Dream Theater .. none of them were comparable to NIN. Trent took the entire Industrial genre and added emotional and creative depth and brought the sound mainstream. Kinda. But just far enough out that it was too much for most.
The Downward Spiral was / is his Magnum opus, swan song, etc and was the most artistically creative and technically brilliant album since “The Wall”. Curiously, both albums follow similar paths of the despicably selfish hero. The two legendary releases also create their own ‘realm’ of distinctive sound only on those particular albums, respectively.
There was no way to follow TDS other than to change gears again, (Phm, broken and tds all have their own distinct sound throughout). And so did the Fragile. We drove to St Louis to see A Perfect Circle on tour for Met de Noms open for NIN on the Fragility tour.
And the show was fucking surreal. As APC launched into the encore’Judith’ a massive storm hit the Riverport Amphitheater, complete with puple/black skies lit up with huge lightning bolts. The crowd on the lawn began to run but security would not let them under the amphitheater and repulsed their attempts and people were falling, running, etc and even trampling each other. My brother (RIP Nicholas) and I looked at each other and at our youngest brother and my girlfriend and just closed our eyes and threw the horns to the Gods just as Maynard obliterated the storm with that 1 minute bellow at the end of Judith… shortly thereafter… the steely sharp metallic monster licks of Pinion began… it was the single greatest show I have ever seen. And I’ve seen some good ones. The sound quality and perfection were unmatched. I’ve seen NIN 6-7 times, Tool and APC 7-8 times each, Pantera, Metallica and other great bands….and they would rank behind NIN -2-Tool, 3 APC…as the best live act to see. And an honorable mention to the Reverend on the Antichrist tour which was a revel of a screaming orgy of overdrive, drugs, filth, violence and talent :)
Anyway, thanks for reading if you did.
I would sum it this way: Trent / NIN are not a band.. the term does not describe the entity .. Trent Reznor is more an advanced, technologically brilliant composer, much like a Beethoven or Bach…maybe more a Chopin.
Best Nine Inch Nails song, Best video!!! NIN are the greatest.