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The Fragile |  | Artist: Nine Inch Nails
Label: Universal / Island
Category: Music
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Rating:  58 reviews
Sales Rank: 10436
Format: Box set, Explicit Lyrics
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 2
Running Time: 104 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.4
MPN: 90473
UPC: 606949047320
EAN: 0060694904732
ASIN: B00001P4TH
Release Date: May 18, 2001
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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| Tracks:
Disc 1
| • | Somewhat Damaged | | • | The Day The World Went Away | | • | The Frail | | • | The Wretched | | • | We're In This Together | | • | The Fragile | | • | Just Like You Imagined | | • | Even Deeper | | • | Pilgrimage | | • | No, You Don't | | • | La Mer | | • | The Great Below |
Disc 2
| • | The Way Out Is Through | | • | Into The Void | | • | Where Is Everybody? | | • | The Mark Has Been Made | | • | Please | | • | Starfuckers, Inc. | | • | Complication | | • | I'm Looking Forward To Joining You, Finally | | • | The Big Come Down | | • | Underneath It All | | • | Ripe (With Decay) |
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 Reznor's Most Complex and Unique Masterpiece May 6, 2003
Michael Crane
20 out of 20 found this review helpful
Trent Reznor has NEVER disappointed me, and I doubt he ever will. While some people might've overlooked this album and didn't appreciate it, I think "The Fragile" is a true and unique Nine Inch Nails masterpiece from start to finish. There is not one wasted second on the entire album. It's all good, all well-constructed, and all perfectly executed.pThe last full length NIN album, "The Downward Spiral" is considered a dark and controversial album, but "The Fragile" proves to be more of a softer and melodic piece (although there is still plenty of anger and surprises to go around). With each album you can sense how much NIN's music has evolved. And this album is certainly no exception. There are soft songs and there are heavy songs. There are angry songs and there are emotional songs. There's songs with lyrics, and there are some that are just purely instrumental. No two songs sound alike and no two songs make you feel the same way. That is the genius to Trent Reznor. He can always impress and surprise you.pThis double-album is the most complex thing Reznor has done, or at least in my mind. Which is why it took so long for it to come out. There is NOT ONE BAD SONG on the entire two disks. As soon as you're finished listening to them, you want to listen to them again. My favorites are songs like "somewhat damaged," "we're in this together," "the great below," "please," "the mark has been made," "the frail," "the big come down," "where is everybody," "the fragile," and "into the void." But the bottom line is they're all good and this isn't an album you'll want to go around skipping tracks. You will want to absorb it all in its entirety and nothing less.pWhat can I say; I think Trent Reznor is a musical genius. And I know I'm not the only one who feels that way. Sure, there were people who were disappointed with this album, but if you really do appreciate everything that NIN has done, then you will fall in love with this double-album masterpiece. From start to finish, "The Fragile" is a unique experience that can never be duplicated.
Pure Unadulterated Genius December 7, 2000
15 out of 15 found this review helpful
There have been pretenders in his absence. There was Marilyn Manson, there was Filter. And yet, they could not break away from the shadow of their mentor, Mr. Trent Reznor. 5 years was a long time, would the world remember him? To ensure, NIN returned with one of the most sensational recordings of the last decade.p I got into NIN recently, and The Fragile was my first album. I'm always wary of art-rock prog-rock, but this is so stylish and cunningly put together, it made me love it. Reznor is complicated but never pretentious - he remembers he is actually a musician underneath it all, something Radiohead seemed to forget with Kid A. There are so many brilliant tracks it is difficult to describe. Highlights: The passion of We're In This Together, the beauty-beast of No You Don't, the anger of Starf*ckers, the nihilsm of The Day...., the guitar jangles and screamed vocals on The Big Come Down, the danceability of Into The Void, the growing bass of Somewhat Damaged. Even on the loudest, most obnoxious moments have hidden melodies, begging to be picked out. It even has good instrumentals, which i usually hate. You can be a complete music illiterate like me and still be touched by the manipulation of instruments.p The strartingly odd cover, cardboard box and inside lyrics booklet complete a magnificent purchase. Now even his own mentor Gary Numan is taking the industrial-goth route, we have to ask weather music could live without Trent Reznor and his Nine Inch Nails
Gut wrenching December 15, 2005
Mr. D. S. Simmons (UK)
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
As is an ever present theme of NIN albums The fragile #x27;halo fourteen#x27; invites you into a deeply emotive world of self indulgent remorse, pain, and confusion. If you are familiar with their work this will be of no surprise to you and will in fact be a pre-requisite of your nails experience.pIt would be of little use to highlight any tracks of particular interest as each one complements the other, and in turn the theme of the album; although, unable to resist temptation the gut wrenching emotivism of #x27;The great below#x27;, the raw power of #x27;We#x27;re in this together#x27; and the seductively destructive #x27;big come down#x27; will really hit you where it hurts.pMany people comment on nails as being suicide music, and without any fear of reducing their opinions to drivle i will simply say that they can only be denying something that dwells deep within us all. This album will suck you in and emrace you with its iron grip, you#x27;ll experience crushing riffs, turbulent synthesized beats and a wealth of percussion effects, with of course the prolific sound of trents agonisingly raw vocal talent to transcend the lot into another dimention of expression through music. pRaw, industrial and thoroughly enjoyable
Unadulterated Genius November 22, 2000
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
For me, Nine Inch Nails is a band that provides a refreshing break from the same-old-same-old rock music of today. Everything about them, right down to the CD cases, is original and unusual. Trent Reznor is a genius. He writes music that goes beyond being music, it's a state of mind. Take 'The Day the World Went Away' I've listened to that song a million times and I still treat it as if I've never heard it before. It's a song with a million quirks and intricacies that I am constantly finding. The other highlights of the album are Somewhat Damaged, The Wretched, Starf*ckers Inc, Complication, Into the Void. But ultimately, 'The Fragile' is an album that should be recognised as one of those very special albums, where every song is wonderful. It is true, unadulterated genius, and, dare I say it? Better than 'The Downward Spiral'. I'm gonna get lynched for saying that.
A near-perfect progressive industrial album February 28, 2001
Sashisawarinonai
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
IGNORE the 'Explicit' tag - unless you want to send this to your grandmother. For once in Trent Reznor's decade-long history of releases, 'The Fragile' is not merely intended to shock. Yes, there is the delightfully-named 'Starf**kers, Inc' included here (a kitchsy metal paean to Courtney Love, so I hear). This, however, is not indicative of 'The Fragile' as a whole.pUnlike 'The Downward Spiral', 'The Fragile' is infused with a sense of warmth and hope. In view of comments made in interviews, it seems apt that after hitting rock-bottom during the previous promotional tour, the new album should have a lighter touch. Gone are the epic tales of woe and despair, replaced with touchingly raw proclaimations of love [I won't let you fall apart, from the title track].pThe 'concept' of Reznor's latest concept album is somewhat subtler than earlier NIN records, bearing more in common with, say, The Smashing Pumpkins' 'Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness'. This time, NIN experiment with texture and instrumentation, with organic-sounding live drums, not industrial machinery. 'The Fragile' will provoke more debate over its intellectual structuring than its lyrics - wait for the discussion over the theme/response setup of 'La Mer' and 'Into The Void'.pIf 'The Downward Spiral' was Pink Floyd's 'The Wall', 'The Fragile' is 'Dark Side of the Moon'. It is an effortless fusion of Floyd, Queen, Prince and Bowie - taking in drum 'n' bass, electrometal, industrial and jazz along the way.pIt takes a few listens, granted - but 'The Fragile' is even more worth the effort than Radiohead's devastating 'OK Computer'. From the shouty technopunk of 'Pretty Hate Machine', Reznor has matured, creating one of the most truly progressive and listenable albums in existence. Classical music for the twenty-first century.
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