NIN aren't very good on the whole

Well I much prefer Ministry to NIN and there are plenty of reasons why.

I can see where you are coming from with the NIN more popular thing but in my case when I first heard of both banRAB it was Ministry who were the bigger band. They were getting loaRAB of media attention from the release of Psalm 69 and going down a storm every night on the Lollapalooza tour. In comparison NIN had released Petty Hate Machine to seeming indifference & you were lucky if you saw Head Like A Hole get a couple of plays on late night music TV.
The main thing I prefer about Ministry is that they seem more multi layered than NIN. My biggest problem with NIN is that I don't see much difference in the material. It just seems to be one self pitying industrial type whine after another.It's just too po faced & stoic for me to muster any enthusiam to listen to it.I remeraber the first time I heard The Downward Spiral. I fell asleep halfway through I was so bored.
In comparison I find Ministry to have a lot of humour in their work , one minute they can make some bone crushingly brutal political statement , the next they'll make some nonsense song like Jesus Built My Hot Rod. Stuff like that breaks up the album & gives it a bit of variety.
Added to that Ministry also use a lot of people like Gibby Hayes , Chris Connolly , Jello Biafra , Martin Atkins and to come in & keep things fresh & give things a bit more variety.
That's not to say they're perfect. I hated Filth Pig so much I don't think i've listened to anything they've made since.
But I would always choose Ministry over NIN.
 
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I agree, I spend a fair of amount of time alone, mainly out of necessity, because I am a people person above all else. But my time spent alone is centered around music, writing to music, reading to music, or thinking about philosophy, scientific theory, or why someone acted the way they did (never politics, I can't really stand to even think about politics, too depressing) while listening to music.

Meditation bugs me, emptying your mind of all thought is a task that seems impossible to me and totally useless.
 
Fixed? FIXED?

What the hell kind of fix is that? Thats like having a perfectly decent chair, sawing off one of it's legs, and calling it better.

I have no real opinion about them, I generally find them less exciting than flat Coke.
 
You're a stuck up **** bag.

I'm glad you don't understand something as precious as NIN.
 
See , this is the kind of arrogant Tool fan propaganda that i`ve had to listen to for the past 10 years and is exactly what I was talking about. Like somehow it`s MY fault because I have not listened to them properly or enough times to see what is so brilliant about what they do.

Personally I happen to like Radiohead , now I realise there are people who don`t like them , and I can see why. I can understand that people might think Thom Yorkes vocals are a bit whiney , I can understand if people are put off by the electronica that they do now as opposed to the guitar rock they used to be known for. I don`t start making excuses how it`s their own fault for not listening to them enough or they`re not listening to them properly (whatever the hell that is supposed to mean).

I like how you say 'Of course there are exceptions'. I would suggest the nuraber of people who don`t like them AND have given them a listen is a lot more higher than you might think.
 
NIN HAD some good stuff, I especially liked a lot of the songs on Fragile, but I will happily agree that the downward spiral was excellent. The backround story on its production is too.
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As all I have seen you do so far is either whine about stuff or ask for people to be banned I can only assume that you are Oojay using a different account.
 
I can see why people don't enjoy Nine Inch Nails. Personally, I think they are ok. Trent does seem to take himself much too seriously a lot of the time.

And wtf at the random tool argument?
 
The problem with NiN is that it all plays into the grunge rock thing of catharsis vindicating music. As long as you're on anti-depressants you can put out any old s*** and its automatically the highest art because its cathartic.

B****cks.
 
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