Nine Inch Nails - Was It Worth It? [HD/HQ] [Fragile Deviations 2016]

Track #24 from Nine Inch Nail's "The Fragile: Deviations" release.

[@OkRiver06]

Trent Reznor in studio be like: "Yeah, this shit is fire. Don't drop it."

[@aldude999]

This song is great, but there's like nowhere to put it in The Fragile without it sounding out of place, so I get why it wasn't released.

[@levadura7]

@@aldude999 there are a lot of songs in the fragile that feel and sound out of place, i think it would be great alongside where its everybody? and complication

[@levadura7]

hell even with into the void

[@kalerug]

@@aldude999 I mean, when your album has Starfuckers Inc. on it, something sounding out of place would be the least of my worries.

[@Pufflers]

SO TRUE

[@shuplitz2257]

“No one has a full album worth of outtakes that didn’t make it to the original album but still so good as to work as a stand-alone album.” Trent: “hold my tambourine”

[@personman1148]

Korn has one too look up the hidden ones

[@shuplitz2257]

@@personman1148 thanks for the recommendation, I’ll have a look

[@arachosia]

The fact that this didn’t make the cut shows how great The Fragile is.

[@craigmills1012]

I started listening to NIN a few months back, best band I've heard by a mile. Just discovered this track, absolutely sick. Fragile is my favourite album

[@arachosia]

@@craigmills1012 nice! The Fragile is my all time favorite album too. Welcome to the fan club!

[@JockMatrix]

Was there a similar Deviations made for The Downward Spiral? That would've been something to savour!

[@andewa8964]

@@craigmills1012 Yeah bro welcome to the club. This music has such a broad range of sound and emotion, it's stood the test of time.

[@Arklelinuke]

@@JockMatrix There is not. There's only one known cut song and as far as anyone knows it wasn't ever recorded.

[@powerlinemisfortune]

This one blew me away the first time I listened to it. The main reason was because it sounds nothing like the rest of the songs from The Fragile. I don't know how to describe it, really. I hope Trent releases this with vocals someday. Hell, even a multitrack would be killer.

[@CaptainResident]

Reminds me a lot of a hybrid of eras. Like the electronics of Hesitation Marks with TDS-styled guitars.

[@jonnywas9641]

Ende Neu . Hey there

[@WhoIsTheEdman]

It feels like a remix of The Big Come Down

[@kalerug]

4:14 Now we know where the blender/leaf blower synth from Sunspots came from

[@phoenixlazarus4464]

The Fragile was a great album. Reznor is one of the most beautifully brilliant minds ever, no matter the field

[@reck0n3r]

Totally agree.

[@amandamostyn5432]

Agreed.

[@rad1930]

Such a beautifully tortured soul, I can just imagine Trent sitting down by himself, leaning over the studio at 3am in the heat of the moment, the "creative hours" completely absorbed & wrapped up in his aligning musical, tone & rhythm space, mixing & putting all the parts together while trying his best to get the right sounds & feeling right for this tune, it's just amazing.😎😎👍😎😎

[@nphillips1501]

reminds me a lot of "The Big Come Down" almost like a sibling track

[@SomberSora]

Intro to the track was a direct rework for The Big Come Down

[@nphillips1501]

@@SomberSora Interesting, that makes a lot of sense. Did you read or hear that somewhere?

[@zavier_1877]

BRILLIANT! How this song escaped the original cut of the fragile will forever be one of life's great mysteries...

[@DocteurRipeur]

It took a really long time to put The Fragile together. Reznor brought in some help from an external producer (whose name escapes me ATM) to try to turn the mismatch of tracks into a coherent album (well…albumS). Therefore throwing away a lot of great material. Also bear in mind this is the follow up of the MASSIVE hit that was Downward Spiral and fans and producers alike wanted something as dark and angry as the previous album… which Trent obsiously wasn't planning to do. So I guess there's also a lot of compromises and a bit of fear that went into the making of the fragile. It took only 20 years for that pressure to fade away. That says a lot.

[@alekazattic6622]

Trent was running a marathon of brilliant pharmaceuticals around the time of the Fragile. it just got lost in the mix

[@zavier_1877]

@@DocteurRipeur Bob Ezrin... He helped segue Pink Floyd's Wall Album together too, if memory serves...

[@zavier_1877]

@@alekazattic6622 At least we eventually got to hear it!

[@fishplatski5348]

Trent has said in multiple interviews that he wanted the album to sound fragile and like it could fall apart at any time so he didn’t want to be too synth heavy, which may be the reason that this track isn’t on The Fragile. Still a sick track though

[@MyEgoMyThoughts]

Damn Trent was on his deconstructed club shit back in 1999 with this one and all that glass breaking in the background for the beat

[@fadjeb8254]

maybe even 1-2 years earlier since recording began early

[@dopey473]

Trent straight up made a masterpiece and trashed it for whatever reason.

[@arachosia]

Makes you wonder how much music he’s made that never will see the light of day.

[@Kizunaut]

Man, this would have been one of the better tracks on The Fragile.

[@johnirby4791]

Yeah but not the vibe of fragile....

[@johnirby4791]

Sounds like bamboo

[@johnirby4791]

My vibe tells me, slam.bamboo...1st synth...fragile..trents grandma....maybe a slam bamboo on the synthetic one last time type of vibe I got rolling here.....

[@giantjulez9632]

Agree but definitely not a track that fits in at all with the album

[@rockkiller124]

In a way yeah but I understand why they took it out thou

[@jamesonjeffery4069]

How the fuck did he not put this on the original album

[@clivethecactus5794]

I'd like to hear the non instrumental version, I'm curious...

[@jamesonjeffery4069]

If there is one. I love this instrumental just how it is

[@clivethecactus5794]

For sure, it's ace how it is. Definitely the track off Deviations that jumped out at me the most

[@nicknizzi3142]

Jameson Jeffery it's all sycological

[@rad1930]

Such a beautifully tortured soul, I can just imagine Trent sitting down by himself, leaning over the studio at 3am in the heat of the moment, the "creative hours" completely absorbed & wrapped up in his aligning musical, tone & rhythm space, mixing & putting all the parts together while trying his best to get the right sounds & feeling right for this tune, it's just amazing.😎😎👍😎😎

[@pppcorn]

hell yes bro

[@ralphchunksoup4234]

Trent was born to have that place. Modern music would be shit without him and a few others

[@KevsHardLemonade]

I love this. Has a little bit of a Faith No More vibe with the keyboard sound. Great b side

[@peanutbutter946]

The reason they didn’t add it was because it’s too godlike. This is the best song I’ve ever heard in my entire life.

[@zanfr123]

First time ever I hear this; it is highly addictive

[@andydufresne87]

Trent is more "punk" than anything in the music industry over the last 30 years... Establishing himself against the "politics" of the big producing companies, creative freedom against anything or anyone....

[@jamisbillson4872]

andydufresne87...Trent for President.

[@megalorain]

There are few things I'm more proud of - than letting Trent influence myself *and* my children. To spite the fact that one of them thought stating into the sun was a good idea! 😃 We need more influences like this!

[@wikiprion]

@@megalorain maybe youre letting trent influence your kids a little TOO much if they're taking the lyrics to sunspots to heart...

[@megalorain]

@@wikiprion it was/is like the toothpaste situation. Now I have an adult who bites people and laments about what side of a cage he's on 👌 good times.

[@saintjabroni]

@@wikiprion Damn, ease up. lol

[@incognito3862]

Goddamn. This. Is. Catchy. AF. Time to listen to this like 10 times in a row.

[@autumn702]

Keep coming back to this one. Love it!

[@kevincee7784]

I absolutely love the way this song makes me FEEL ❗💯 some kinda nostalgic natural high❗

[@caviar_dreamz]

Cool mix, glad I got the Vinyl.

[@jaylegleiter6669]

This would have fit perfectly on Things Falling Apart

[@Arklelinuke]

It's shameful that Starfuckers is on there 4 times and this isn't lol

[@lily91109]

I read somewhere that tracks which have (instrumental) in its title used to have vocals at some point. This song has (instrumental)... I wonder what it was like...

[@MadLikeDog]

The Fragile intro has yet leave a dry eye ...always and a day ~forevermore

[@johnweber4029]

Man I can't believe that I haven't heard this before. I love the unreleased songs and the different fragile versions. 😎

[@anthonymcilwain4426]

Utterly beautiful

[@leghump]

Just stumbled into this yesterday and it has held my ears hostage since. No really...someone call in a Seal Team to free my ears. Jokes aside, I was not a fan of Trent's later all instrumental work after "The Fragile" (save for the soundtracks). But this is different and obviously being from "The Fragile" has that feel. I absolutely love "Just Like You Imagine"...it ranks in my top 10 NIN. This is working it's way up there as well... and, please call the authorities to rescue my ears.

[@SoulDelSol]

That's some funky ish, grooves, tell me your body didn't start moving

[@humanharddrive1]

this goes so hard. he should play this live

[@caviar_dreamz]

I just realized this is probably an early demo for Deep.

[@twinkgaming420]

This is certainly better than Deep IMO. To me Deep sounds like some movie producers wanted Trent to make a really edgy "nine-inch nailsy" song for the movie so Trent gave them what was almost a stylistic parody of nine inch nails. Still love the song.

[@caviar_dreamz]

@@twinkgaming420 agreed

[@rainbowrotcod]

WTF I NEVER HEARD THIS. OH MY GOD

[@zachthomas8973]

I wonder how he would sing to this, if there was a demo version

[@ashleyrichards5194]

Thinking Last vibes

[@chrissteiger4199]

Some of these tracks feel like he came up with them much later. This doesn't feel or sound like a authentic piece from the fragile.

[@candleg72]

I Love❤ this! Almost reminds me of a song by the group Underworld!🎶🔥🎶🔥🎶🔥🎶🔥🎶🔥🎶

[@g-plan9future204]

It was worth itt

[@redskies4530]

Hi I Recommend an Indie Song Called: the bond villain by Robert Nix

[@ralphchunksoup4234]

Trent till this day is just him,..halo 1000

[@LxzT23]

this is fucking beautiful I love it so much

[@mud8723]

in terms of buying the album, yeah

[@elektrozil9728]

This is wonderful

[@phoenixlazarus4464]

Sounds like a remix for The Big Come Down

[@threedog14]

Yes… it was worth it

[@thekmfdmmachine3919]

Tight af

[@sengirsagrav7255]

This reminds me of Gary Numan

[@zanfr123]

it has a certain 80s vibe at time I think

[@musicaleuphoria8699]

Are you able to upload Taken from this album as well?

[@GANTZBeneviolent]

I love it. Getting shin megami tensei vibes for some reason.

[@RobertSmith-sg1op]

Ya da da outdated

[@ryobibattery]

Sounds like it should play in the NYC bar in the vidya game Deus Ex released in the year 2000

[@BluntedWax]

It was......

[@5Flake]

Трент гений в плане музыки

[@5Flake]

Охренеть ни разу не слышал 😮😊

[@Adrian-k7x]

Ho Lay hoy lay ❤❤❤ 3:13

[@michaelteofilov9959]

It was fucking worth it, every fucking second of pain during decades, as it made me pure and real enough to be worthy of my wife. Kisses, bitchez!

[@MaddisonStomp]

the intro gives me my singing monsters vibes

[@david_aria]

I have solid lyrics for this that deliberately sound Fragile-era.. but I can't scream like Trent anymore. To be honest I never really could, it always sounded weaker because I was just frying my head voice or whatever. I wish I could capture Trent's voice from this era and reproduce them with AI just to sing my vocals for this thing. Trent's Blue microphone set-up was the punchiest and his vocals while recording the Fragile were the most intensely brutal and punchy I've ever heard from him. I might have to sing it myself but I already know the NIN fanbase won't particularly love that unless I can get past the uncanny valley of Trentness, lol.

[@mud8723]

send me the lyrics and how they should be sung. i can’t sing like trent either but i’d love to try

[@david_aria]

@@mud8723 I forgot to respond to this, sorry. I will try to do that when I have some time!

[@JoannaLang-on4qo]

What's worth?

[@seniorsdavidhdavidhenley5422]

🥦

[@estevancarlos]

how strange

[@IntrusiveCuckholeGenerator]

how steve strange

[@dogma6713]

I don't know about NIN for that matter with this that I can sure here Patrick from Filter singing hey yo man got something for you hey old man got a really good tip something is wrong and you don't know it... how did that song goes LOL from The Crow City of Angels soundtrack I can never remember the name of that song but it's a badass song

[@causeyoudontneedtolookatme]

Trip Like I Do

[@robdaniel3211]

Jurrasitol

[@jefferycorley8006]

Every Filter song from the first few years could be compiled in a box set titled “My Old Man’s Case”

[@rebekah1216]

NO .

[@sacaperros9940]

No it wasnt

[@samanthasneller1539]

Nobody actually realized how much I cost.

[@samanthasneller1539]

We finna find out

[@dmitriy21rrrr]

Sounds repetitive and boring. I see why it's not in the main album.

[@JoshuaCazares-c8e]

Fuck you it's awesome go listen to enya