The Fragile [VINYL]

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He was brilliant and feverishly recording and mixing in 3 rooms at the same time to complete the project on time for its scheduled release.

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Although it may not sound like it, most of the album is actually guitar - and that includes the orchestral sounds and weird melodic lines.Rob Sheffield observes a "prog-rock vibe" akin to Pink Floyd's 1979 album The Wall and feels that The Fragile is similarly "a double album that vents . In contrast to the heavily distorted instruments and gritty industrial sounds of their previous album, The Downward Spiral, [6] The Fragile relies more on soundscapes, electronic beats, ambient noise, rock-laden guitar, and the usage of melodies as harmonies.

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Reznor and his collaborators—most notably producer Alan Moulder and guest guitarist Adrian Belew—similarly made The Fragile’s songs sound like vertical constructions, piling element on element, often with dizzying rapidity.

It doesn't sound terrible or anything, but I personally don't believe there is any real fidelity to be gained from it. Village Voice critic Robert Christgau was even less receptive: "After six fucking years, genius-by-acclamation Trent Reznor delivers double- hoohah, every second remixed till it glistens like broken glass on a prison wall.

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The Fragile (also known as Halo 14), released on September 21, 1999, is the fourth studio album by Nine Inch Nails. He also revealed that the majority of the guitar sounds on the album were played on a Parker Fly guitar, utilizing its piezo pickup. The Fragile debuted atop the Billboard 200 with first-week sales of 229,000 copies, earning the band their first number-one album on the chart. There is visible no-fill and also some white stuff embedded in the vinyl that a wet cleaning didn’t remove. This unique version of NIN’s classic record was created by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross and features 37 instrumental, alternate and unreleased tracks, many of which have never been heard before anywhere.Given the concrete purpose they serve, perhaps it’s unsurprising that they’re the best of the the new tracks. Most bafflingly, “10 Miles High (Instrumental)” builds up the regular version’s secondary guitar riff—played so quietly in the original that its presence seems almost sarcastic, like a mockery of the whole idea of riffs—into a dull cock-rock stomp and strut.

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The lyrics of "The Great Below" and "Underneath It All" are similarly composed, and both use the refrain "I can still feel you". Mike Garson's piano improvisations are prominently featured on "Just Like You Imagined", "The Way Out is Through", and "Ripe (With Decay)". Will show some signs that it was played and otherwise handled by a previous owner who took good care of it. I have a lot of ideas that could eat up immense amounts of time and I'm trying to weigh out - just think it through.

Over a year before the album's release, Reznor suggested, perhaps with intentional or dismissive misdirection, that the album would "be irritating to people because it's not traditional Nine Inch Nails. A repetitive, sour-sounding guitar joins in just before initial chorus bursts through the murk: Reznor shouts “I tried to get so high/I made it ten miles high,” each “high” echoing like a sonic exclamation point through the crunch of the guitar and drums that sound like they’ve been covered in cast iron.