Nine Inch Nails – The Fragile

I had a 67 euros coupon and it was costing 68 euros online! Best deal I could've gotten! Such an amazing sounding LP - The Fragile (3×LP, Album, Reissue, Remastered, Stereo, Definitive Edition, Gatefold, 180g) B0025682-01

The Downward Spiral is undeniably Trent's masterpiece, but I actually prefer this album. The left side is better, filled with masterpieces, but the album is amazing the whole way through.

Still reeling from the downward spiral 25 years later, I finally took the plunge with this album. Boy does it deliver. Well Disc one does. More melodious, textured but totally rocks out. I don’t think I could get bored with this album for a long while.

... until disc 2. Trent you need things called songs mate. This sounds like Nitzer Ebb.

Just winding you up. They sound like a night on the tiles with Clive Barker

Where s Captain Oakie - he could have done some real destruction with this album

Oh Trent, where's the 5.1 surround mix you said had been completed back in 2014? Do we have to wait till 2019 for an epic 20th-anniversary reissue? We'll see.

I ordered The Fragile Deviations, and it arrived just wrecked from Sandbag. Very heavy creasing near 3 of the 4 corners. No padding inserts used. Interesting to learn it's a persistent problem. Credit to NIN customer service for refunding me in full, and actually refusing to accept the record back. Do contact customer service if you have trouble.

The Fragile is the 1990's equivalent of Roger Water's The Wall. It's a concept album, so if you're looking for a typical singles based effort, look elsewhere. Like The Wall, the listener is meant to take a journey through both discs and experience, sonically and emotionally what Trent was going through during this period of his life. To skip through songs or pass them by is to cheat yourself of the entire story. Would you skip chapters in a book? No? Then you shouldn't skip tracks while listening to The Fragile. Taken as a whole, this record may very well be Trent's master work. I give it 5/5.

Don't cry, my friends, for the fucking speculators. PRESALE of REISSUE in spring 2017 of this one and many other from NIN. :D
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Ignored this album for a _LONG_ time and realized how stupid I was.
I will rank this one as one of the more remarkably Nine Inch Nails masterpieces.
Yes, it's pretty long, some songs are unnecessary even.
Let's put this way: The "Left" CD is by itself good enough to sport an evolution from The Downward Spiral.

The "Right" CD starts pretty okay with a few slips along the way.
This is a must have. The masterpieces here are "The Frail / The Wretched", "La Mer (The Sea) / The Great Below", with some catching tunes like the opening track "Somewhat Damaged" and the splendid "Just Like You Imagined".

This album really need a good vinyl reissue... I'm surprised there's even no unnoficial/bootleg releases