The Fragile by Nine Inch Nails

Pros: Composition and sonic layering. Imagination (especially if you've never heard NIN before). A fundamental power.
Cons: Melodies and lyrics; I hope it was just a one-time failure.

The first album I played in my new home in Greensboro last night, after three entire days without recorded music, was Nine Inch Nails’s most recent (still) album the Fragile. I’ll take til the first row of asterisks to explain why that ...

Pros: Dark and challenging yet accessible and brilliant
Cons: Its length makes it hard to get into.

Five years after the landmark Nine Inch Nails album The Downward Spiral took the rock world by storm, Trent Reznor hadn't gotten much happier.  The 1999 follow-up was titled The Fragile and conveyed, over the course of two discs and ...

Pros: Brilliant, moving, a masterpiece.
Cons: Under-appreciated by most fans.

Man, that took forever. A full 5 years after the release of Halo 8 (and 3 years after my conversion to NINaholic), Trent Reznor FINALLY returned with a brand new full-length Nine Inch Nails album in 1999. Halo 14: The Fragile. Not only that, it was, ...

Pros: Production, Arrangements, Versatile Styles, Lyrics, Performances, Mixes, & Vocals.
Cons: None Though at Times, Very Dense & Bloated in Some Spots.

Throughout the history of rock n’ roll, one of the most common releases in the record industry is the double album. The double album gave music fans not only more music but also a side of the band or artist’s creative side whether ...

Pros: Very inspired, highly original double-disc with very little filler; sincere feelings
Cons: Occasionally drawn-out, ends on a bad foot

Hindsight is 20/20. If only I weren’t so close minded in regards to electronic music when this release first came out back in 1999, well, then I would have been a rabid Nine Inch Nails fan for that much longer. At the time, the beeps, blips ...

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Every problem with this two-disc album comes down to the following two facts. The first: Trent Reznor goes out of his way to make his songs vague and opaque. He has commented before that whenever he writes painful, complex lyrics that reveal more of him ...

Pros: Good melodies, has some awesome moments, especially choruses; Left
Cons: Bad filler, forgettable moments, Right

The Fragile is Trent's third full-length album (and fourth very significant release: Pretty Hate Machine, Broken, The Downward Spiral, The Fragile, and the most recent With Teeth). It's been revered by some, called a masterpiece; others have torn it ...

Pros: Most of the left disk.
Cons: Most of the right disk.

I really wished the Charlie Kaufman film Adaptation (Which I do recommend) could have been released before The Fragile was so that Trent Reznor could watch it and maybe understand that the best way to tackle writer's block is to cheat, to ...

Pros: Musical variety, could satisfy a classical fan as well as a KMFDM junkie.
Cons: Lyrics sometimes sound like they were plucked from a depressed high school sophomore's diary.

Freshman psychology class was generally a bust. It was crowded with three hundred ugly Polo T-shirted kids, the seventy year old professor's brain had probably turned to 20% water (I learned that actually does happen. Teehee.), and it was held at noon, ...

Pros: Almost everything
Cons: Unclear story line, some simple lyrics, some duds.

Reviewing this album will be extremely hard, as I find it hard to review any concept album. In this case it's particularly difficult being that the concept is never quite clear. We're able to spot main characters but never exactly what they're going ...

Pros: Musically impressive
Cons: Lyrically pointless

-Oh, Lord. I know I mentioned this in a previous review, but my review titles really are getting worse and worse. I'll probably rewrite my review of 'The Downward Spiral' and title it 'Big Man With A Pun!' Wait, that's actually somewhat ...

Pros: The instrumentals are fantastic, I've always greatly enjoyed Reznor's singing, no song could really be classified as anything worse than "boring".
Cons: None of the drums/guitars hit nearly as hard as they did on "Closer", the bewildering variety of sound found on "The Downward Spiral" isn't evident at all here, the lyrical content is so depressing that you wind up thinking that Reznor'

So blah blah blah I'm a long time NIN fan blah blah the beat to "Closer" rocked my world blah blah ever hear "Happiness In Slavery"? Yeah that rocked blah blah blah couldn't wait for Reznor's next...

Pros: great tracks.Reznor's mastery.wonderful and painful lyrics
Cons: can be hard to listen to the whole album in one time

I’ve decided to write a review about this album because I’ve found it remarkable. I heard the name of the band years ago but I never dared to listen to any of their album. A few months ago, I’ve made up my mind to discover this music and I must say that...

Pros: Many good songs
Cons: There is absolutely no sense of a whole, only the first cd works to any extent

If you ask me, Trent could have left this release as a single cd and it would be a whole lot better. I'm afraid that if this is a concept album in any shape or form, then the concept is: "I am trying very hard to be a very screwed up person"....

Pros: Emotionally and visually evocative, fantastic and sprawling array of sounds
Cons: Can be difficult for some listeners to sit through in its entirety

I've been a nin fan for a long time, and anxiously awaited The Fragile through all of its annoying and unending release date pushbacks, and when it finally arrived, I was thrilled. I listened to the album over and over, and was simply floored by it. But...