nine inch nails - Halos

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( Nine Inch Nails albums (and singles, etc) are, for some reason, numberedand called "Halos". For example, the "broken" EP is called "halo five". )

The Halos - Official NIN Releases

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1. down in it

  • down in it (skin)
  • down in it (shred)
  • down in it (single)

This, in case you couldn't guess, is a single. If you want to start listening to NIN, you could do better than to start with this.

2. pretty hate machine

  • head like a hole
  • terrible lie
  • down in it
  • sanctified
  • something i can never have
  • kinda i want to
  • sin
  • that's what i get
  • the only time
  • ringfinger

If you do nothing else with the rest of your life, at least make the effort to listen to "something i can never have".

3. head like a hole

  • head like a hole (slate)
  • head like a hole (clay)
  • terrible lie (sympathetic mix)
  • head like a hole (copper)
  • you know who you are
  • head like a hole (soil)
  • terrible lie (empathetic mix)
  • down in it (shred)
  • down in it (single)
  • down in it (demo)

This is a maxi-single, and you might note that it almost contains Halo 1. The last track, "down in it (demo)", is of notably lesser quality than other tracks - an insite into the origins of NIN.

4. sin

  • Sin Long
  • Sin Dub
  • Get Down Make Love
  • Sin Short

Another single, but "Get Down, Make Love", written by the late Freddy Mercury of Queen, doesn't appear anywehere else, so it is worth getting.

5. broken

  • pinion
  • wish
  • last
  • help me i am in hell
  • happiness in slavery
  • gave up
  • physical
  • suck

This EP is available in a couple of different flavours: a 2 disc set (a 3" disc for the last two tracks) which is rather more difficult to come by, and as a single 99 track CD, with the last two songs on tracks 98 and 99, with 7 through 97 "blank".

6. fixed

  • gave up
  • wish
  • happiness in slavery
  • throw this away
  • fist fuck
  • screaming slave

These are remixes of tracks from Halo 5. Note: don't automatically think your stereo is playing up when you first hear "screaming slave"...

7. march of the pigs

  • march of the pigs
  • reptilian
  • all the pigs all lined up
  • a violet fluid
  • underneath the skin

This is a pretty good single, especially "reptilian".

8. the downward spiral

  • mr self destruct
  • piggy
  • heresy
  • march of the pigs
  • closer
  • ruiner
  • the becoming
  • i do not want this
  • big man with a gun
  • a warm place
  • eraser
  • reptile
  • the downward spiral
  • hurt

This is probably the most widely popular NIN release, with probably their most well-known song "closer".

9. closer to god

  • closer to god
  • closer (precursor)
  • closer (deviation)
  • heresy (blind)
  • memorobilia
  • closer (internal)
  • march of the fuckeads
  • closer (further away)
  • closer

Not long after I got this I saw the movie "Seven" for the first time, and noted that "closer (precursor)" was in the intro scene. Kewlies.

10v2. further down the spiral

  • piggy (nothing can stop me now)
  • the art of self destruction, part one
  • self destruction, part three
  • heresy (version)
  • the downward spiral (the bottom)
  • hurt (live)
  • at the heart of it all
  • ruiner (version)
  • eraser (denial; realization)
  • self destruction, final

Another remix album (of the "originals" in Halo 8). Some people don't like it, but I love it.

11. "the perfect drug" versions

"THE PERFECT DRUG"
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This list of releases is by no means comprehensive, and probably not even accurate. If anyone wants to take the time to point out glaring errors and/or ommissions then I will probably make the relevant changes.

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