Track Listing
1. Mr Self Destruct
2. Piggy
3. Heresy
4. March Of The Pigs
5. Closer
6. Ruiner
7. Becoming
8. I Do Not Want This
9. Big Man With A Gun
10. Warm Place
11. Eraser
12. Reptile
13. Downward Spiral
14. Hurt
| Details | | Number of CDs: | 1 | | Producer: | Flood, Trent Reznor | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Distributor: | Universal Music | | Recording Mode: | Stereo |
Album Notes
Nine Inch Nails: Trent Reznor (vocals, various instruments).Additional personnel: Danny Lohner, Adrian Belew (guitar); Flood (synthesizer, programming); Andy Kubiszewski, Chris Vrenna, Stephen Perkins (drums).Engineers: Sean Beavan, Chris Vrenna, Alan Moulder.Recorded at Le Pig, Beverly Hills, California; The Record Plant A&M Studios, Los Angeles, California.THE DOWNWARD SPIRAL was nominated for a 1995 Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Performance."Hurt" was nominated for a 1996 Grammy Award for Best Rock Song.Beginning with a barrage of gunshots and then exploding into a furious sonic onslaught, this record is like taking a hellride on the back of a bullet. Blistering recklessly toward its target on a wave of guitar, synthesizer, treated vocal, and beat Beat BEAT, THE DOWNWARD SPIRAL is like a virtual reality version of ATOMIZER (see Big Black) or even CONSUMER REVOLT (see also Cop Shoot Cop). It thrashes, it roars, it even retreats on occasion--pausing to reflect on its destruction (perhaps this bullet has a conscience). But it keeps pushing forward, toward its target, curdling into your ears and exploding inside your head. Dig the pain.
Editorial Reviews
Included in Rolling Stone's Essential Recordings of the 90's.
Rolling Stone (05/13/1999)
Ranked #2 in the Village Voice's 1993 Pazz & Jop Critics Poll.
Village Voice (03/01/1994)
Included in Vibe's 100 Essential Albums of the 20th Century
Vibe (12/01/1999)
Included in Q Magazine's Best Gothic Albums Of All Time - ...the migraine masterpiece that catapulted [Reznor] to #2 in the Billboard charts....it's a day at the dentist's: all screeching and pulsing, but sexy with it...
Q (12/01/1999)
Included in Q's 50 Heaviest Albums of All Time.
Q (07/01/2001)
...beneath all that bad attitude and aural aggro lies music of extraordinary insight, intelligence, and, yes, beauty....An astonishing piece of work....
Musician (05/01/1994)
4 Stars - Excellent - ...Nine Inch Nails achieve a new kind of loud on THE DOWNWARD SPIRAL: accessible hard rock moves overlaid with a scrim of electronic racket...THE DOWNWARD SPIRAL is music the Blade Runner might throw down to: low-tech futurism that rocks....
Rolling Stone (03/24/1994)
Ranked #9 in the Village Voice's 1994 Pazz & Jop Critics Poll.
Village Voice (02/28/1995)
Included on Jon Pareles' list of the Top 10 Albums Of '94 - Trent Reznor orchestrates the terrors of adolescence...with creepy-crawly sounds and a clandestine sense of melody.
New York Times (01/05/1995)
Rankded #4 in Spin's list of the `20 Best Albums Of '94' - ...transfixes you with the heaviest metal, the most trance-inducing rave, and the silliest synth-pop you're ever likely to hear in songs this hummable...
Spin (12/01/1994)
Ranked #11 in Spin Magazine's 90 Greatest Albums of the '90s.
Spin (09/01/1999)
Ranked #24 in AP's list of the `Top 99 Of '85-'95' - ...This recording, coming some five years after Reznor's full-length debut, [is] a stark expose of the darkest regions of the soul: those places where our personal demons reign, and God feels unwelcome...
Alternative Press (07/01/1995)
Included in Q's 50 Heaviest Albums of All Time.Rolling Stone (5/13/99, p.54) - Included in Rolling Stone's Essential Recordings of the 90's.Spin (9/99, p.124) - Ranked #11 in Spin Magazine's 90 Greatest Albums of the '90s.Q (12/99, p.171) - Included in Q Magazine's Best Gothic Albums Of All Time - ...the migraine masterpiece that catapulted [Reznor] to #2 in the Billboard charts....it's a day at the dentist's: all screeching and pulsing, but sexy with it...Vibe (12/99, p.158) - Included in Vibe's 100 Essential Albums of the 20th CenturyVillage Voice (3/94, p.5) - Ranked #2 in the Village Voice's 1993 Pazz & Jop Critics Poll.Spin (12/94, p.76) - Rankded #4 in Spin's list of the `20 Best Albums Of '94' - ...transfixes you with the heaviest metal, the most trance-inducing rave, and the silliest synth-pop you're ever likely to hear in songs this hummable...New York Times (1/5/95, p.C15) - Included on Jon Pareles' list of the Top 10 Albums Of '94 - Trent Reznor orchestrates the terrors of adolescence...with creepy-crawly sounds and a clandestine sense of melody.Village Voice (2/28/95) - Ranked #9 in the Village Voice's 1994 Pazz & Jop Critics Poll.Alternative Press (7/95, p.82) - Ranked #24 in AP's list of the `Top 99 Of '85-'95' - ...This recording, coming some five years after Reznor's full-length debut, [is] a stark expose of the darkest regions of the soul: those places where our personal demons reign, and God feels unwelcome...Rolling Stone (3/24/94, p.92) - 4 Stars - Excellent - ...Nine Inch Nails achieve a new kind of loud on THE DOWNWARD SPIRAL: accessible hard rock moves overlaid with a scrim of electronic racket...THE DOWNWARD SPIRAL is music the Blade Runner might throw down to: low-tech futurism that rocks....Musician (5/94, p.72) - ...beneath all that bad attitude and aural aggro lies music of extraordinary insight, intelligence, and, yes, beauty....An astonishing piece of work....
Q (07/01/2001)
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