@mcc I remember someone else on some social media platform say something like, "You either die young, or live long enough to see Nine Inch Nails become 'Dad Rock'." Which is really the most upsetting thing to consider in this whole scenario!

@ellie in my opinion both and Year Zero and The Slip are better than With Teeth. Year Zero was a Big concept album that was almost a sci fi rock opera with a whole ARG of websites from the what-if-the-gwb-administration-went-on-20-years world of the album that's probably offline now. The Slip was a short sweet one that he gave away free on his website that's a bit insubstantial made of 6 fun dumb rock tracks and then a 4-track mostly-instrumental run that's some of his best work

@c0dec0dec0de What?

There have been exactly two "Ghosts" projects— the CC0 dump you're referring to and a later one from more recent.

If u dropped off there you're missing The Slip which is short but magnificent, Hesitation Marks which as noted above I'm not so fond of (but the remixes are good), the EP trilogy which is maybe his greatest work, several full film scores with the 12 Rounds guy (two of which won Oscars), and an enigmatic one-off Hurricane Katrina benefit https://mastodon.social/@mcc/109037958139279222

@pkraus Year Zero is amazing and I think there is consensus it is amazing, but IMO the album before it ("With Teeth") is a bit of a down note, and the major album after it ("Hesitation Marks") is often treated as a down note, and a lot of people don't like "The Slip" but they're wrong because "The Slip" rules

@wtrmt note: if you literally mean you found the playlist on tidal, be advised that two of the 3 EPs are currently unavailable on tidal and so what actually happened is you just listened to the single EP "bad witch". Which honestly. Is a very good idea that I endorse doing

"She's Gone Away" is literally designed to be a song that, if Nine Inch Nails existed in the universe of "Twin Peaks" but in the "Twin Peaks" universe Nine Inch Nails had never found mainstream popularity so in 2015 NIN was just touring with no budget playing small bars, "She's Gone Away" is the song Reznor would perform to the drinking crowd at the "Bang Bang Bar" outside the sleepy, haunted town of Twin Peaks, Washington with his wife playing the tambourine behind him. That's why it exists