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Originally Posted by Mals Marola
i've never thought of Fragile as more rock-oriented than Downward Spiral, really
more like if Downward Spiral was a briefcase, but you realized a few years later that case could invert & had 4+ more layers to it, & wasn't actually a briefcase at all
that analogy probably wasn't as cool as i thought it was when I started typing it, but basically: 'sa GOOD album
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I think in a weird way despite being arguably their most commercially successful record, The Fragile is actually the hardest NIN album to "get". It's not my favourite by a ways, but it's full of really great songs and some of the best little deviations in their catalogue. The funny thing about it is that I don't think i've ever listened to it all in one go, or even really regularly played either disc end-to-end. It was always two or three songs at a time that i really loved and then i'd notice others. It's a really rich record that can be difficult to take in cause of how varied it is in tone and shape an accessibility.