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- The Fragile was produced by Trent Reznor and Alan Moulder at Nothing Studios in New Orleans.
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It was produced by Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor and the English producer Alan Moulder, a longtime Reznor collaborator. It was recorded throughout 1997 to 1999 in New Orleans.
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- Track List
- Instrumental Versions
- Sequencing
- The Lost Fragile Tracks
- Proposed Reissue
- Touring
- Live
- Concept and Interpretations
- Recurring Themes and Styles
- Composition and Inspiration
12" Vinyl
A1 "Somewhat Damaged" – 4:31 A2 "The Day The World Went Away" – 5:01 A3 "The Frail" – 1:54 A4 "The Wretched" – 5:36 B1 "We're In This Together" – 7:17 B2 "The Fragile" – 4:35 B3 "Just Like You Imagined" – 3:49 B4 "Even Deeper" – 6:14 C1 "Pilgrimage" – 3:41 C2 "No, You Don't" – 3:35 C3 "La Mer" – 5:02 C4 "The Great Below" – 5:17 D1 "The Way Out Is Through" – 4:17 D2 "Into the Void" – 4:49 D3 "Where Is Everybody?" – 5:40 D4 "The Mark Has Been Made" – 4:43 E1 "10 Miles High" – 5:13 E2 "Please" –...
Cassette Release
The track list for the double cassette releases of The Fragile follow the CD track list, save for the insertion of "+Appendage" onto the end of "Please" on US and some other countries' copies. The first tape splits between "Just Like You Imagined" and "Even Deeper," while the second tape splits between either "Please (+Appendage)" and "Starfuckers, Inc." or "Starfuckers, Inc." and "Complication". "+Appendage" is included on all US cassettes and on several other countries', such as Thailand an...
The Fragile Instrumental
The Fragile Instrumental was made available on June 30th, 2015 exclusively via Apple Music. It contained instrumentals of every track, with some also being alternate versions (see the remixes page for details.) It also contained three previously unheard tracks: "The March" (instrumental), "Hello, Everything Is Not OK" (instrumental) (a demo of "10 Miles High"), and "Can I Stay Here?" (instrumental). It is also notable that it contains the first non-cassette version of "+Appendage". It was rel...
On December 16, 2016 an expanded instrumental version of The Fragile on 180 gram vinyl was announced. Entitled The Fragile: Deviations 1, it began shipping in June 2017 and contains over an hour of unreleased material.
When The Fragile ended up being a double album, Trent Reznorstruggled with the sequencing and sought outside help. He ended up using Pink Floyd producer Bob Ezrin, but had also initially considered Brian Eno.
A photo uploaded to nin.com during The Fragileera hinted at a collection of unused songs called "The Lost Fragile Tracks". No other information was given besides this title for the in-studio CD-R. Interestingly, the same photo also shows another CD-R featuring "Please Part 2" (presumably renamed to "Appendage" for The Fragilecassette version) and "...
In a question and answer session with NIN fans, Reznor hinted at the reissue of The Fragile for early 2010, a statement repeated via the official twitter account, calling it an "ultimate reissue." Rob Sheridan has since mentioned that the project is delayed due to packaging decisions, and as yet there is no new release date. Alan Moulder has comple...
For more information, see Fragility The album was supported by a tour that visited North America, Europe, Australia and Japan. The chaos of earlier tours was beginning to subside and the shows were somewhat more focused on production and precise performance. During the North American portion of the tour, three tall rectangular screens were lowered ...
A number of songs from this album have not been played live, including non-CD tracks "10 Miles High" and "The New Flesh". During the Cold And Black And Infinite Tour in 2018, several shows teased the possibility of hearing The Fragile in its entirety, with the first four songs on the album starting the show, but then breaking the sequence with non-...
Reznor described The Fragilein a 1999 interview: In terms of narrative, the album is an unofficial continuation of The Downward Spiral.Reznor compares the lyrical content of the two albums:
The piano and bassline of "La Mer" is reused for "Into The Void". The piano motif is also played at the end of "We're In This Together" at a slower tempo.The piano in "The Frail" is repeated in the guitar solo of "The Fragile".The descending wah guitar melody played during the intro of "We're In This Together" is similar to the wah guitar that occurs roughly halfway into "Complication".The three note motif used in the first part of "The Great Below" is briefly quoted in the ending of "We're In This Together" two semitones down and at a slower tempo. This melody may also be used t...In one interview, Alan Moulder stated that the album started out with 173 different pieces or musical ideas, and the cover of Gary Numan's "Metal" had been completed when the album sessions began. He also stated in a different interview that 120 songs were recorded, so it is likely that some of the 173 pieces were merely seeds of inspiration that w...
Jul 20, 2024 · Twenty-five years ago, Nine Inch Nails kicked off the campaign for the record that would change the course of Trent Reznor’s career. Their 1994 masterpiece The Downward Spiral had made the industrial-rock dynamos huge but Reznor had no interest in repeating the trick. Instead, The Fragile gently ushered in ambient experimentation and ...
Apr 27, 2024 · Nine Inch Nails’ third album The Fragile has grown in stature since the mixed reception that greeted its release in 1999, a dense one hour and 45 minutes of atmospheric soundscapes, uneasy elec.
Sep 21, 2019 · Features. Louder. Nine Inch Nails’ The Fragile: inside Trent Reznor’s crowning glory. By Louder. last updated 21 September 2020. Trent Reznor called his follow up to The Downward Spiral “ridiculous”. But the epic, sprawling The Fragile would usher Nine Inch Nails into the new millennium.
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Jan 11, 2017 · Reznor and his collaborators—most notably producer Alan Moulder and guest guitarist Adrian Belew —similarly made The Fragile ’s songs sound like vertical constructions, piling element on...
Sep 21, 2024 · Between 1994’s The Downward Spiral and 1999’s The Fragile, Kurt Cobain left this mortal coil, the grinning and gurning world of pop-punk emerged as a global force, and a world that once saw...
