| Album Features | | UPC: | 606949234621 | | Artist: | Nine Inch Nails | | Format: | CD | | Release Year: | 1994 | | Record Label: | Interscope (USA) | | Genre: | Industrial, Rock & Pop | | Number Of Discs: | 2 |
Track Listing 1. Mr. Self Destruct 2. Piggy (Nothing Can Stop Me Now) 3. Heresy 4. March of the Pigs 5. Closer 6. Ruiner 7. Becoming, The 8. I Do Not Want This 9. Big Man With a Gun 10. Warm Place, A 11. Eraser 12. Reptile 13. Downward Spiral, The 14. Hurt
| Details | | Playing Time: | 65 min. | | Contributing Artists: | Adrian Belew, Stephen Perkins | | Producer: | Trent Reznor, Flood | | Distributor: | Universal Distribution | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
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.Personnel: Trent Reznor (vocals, guitar, drums, electronics); Danny Lohner, Adrian Belew (guitar); Flood (synthesizer, drums, hi-hat); Chris Vrenna (drums, programming, sampler); Stephen Perkins (drums); Andy Kubiszewski (drums).Audio Mixers: Alan Moulder; Sean Beavan; Bill Kennedy.Recording information: A&M Studios, Hollywood, CA; Le Pig, Beverly Hills, CA; Record Plant.Photographer: David Buckland.Unknown Contributor Roles: Flood; Tommy Lee.Arranger: Trent Reznor.
Editorial Reviews 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
4 stars out of 5 - Reznor's industrial-blues masterpiece still drips with vileness. Mojo
Ranked #98 in Mojo's 100 Modern Classics -- More than a celebration of nihilism,...SPIRAL was an anguished cry for something to believe in. Mojo
Displaying breathtaking invention and variety, it's a deeply textured work... Kerrang
Ranked #9 in the Village Voice's 1994 Pazz & Jop Critics Poll. Village Voice (19950228)
Ranked #2 in the Village Voice's 1993 Pazz & Jop Critics Poll. Village Voice (19940301)
...beneath all that bad attitude and aural aggro lies music of extraordinary insight, intelligence, and, yes, beauty....An astonishing piece of work.... Musician (19940501)
Included in Vibe's 100 Essential Albums of the 20th Century Vibe (19991201)
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 (19950701)
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 (19991201)
Included in Q's 50 Heaviest Albums of All Time. Q (20010701)
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 (19941201)
Ranked #11 in Spin Magazine's 90 Greatest Albums of the '90s. Spin (19990901)
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 (19940324)
Included in Rolling Stone's Essential Recordings of the 90's. Rolling Stone (19990513)
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