"Still" just may be the BEST Nine Inch Nails EP, EVER!

This is an extremely spendy bargain, but a good one to save toward.



Here you get the entire 16 track live album, which is absolutely brilliant! It contains some songs that are better done live than in studio such as "The Day the World Went Away", and "The Great Below." It spans on tracks that are on every single major NIN LP, such as Pretty Hate Machine, Broken, The Downward Spiral and The Fragile. All of the LIVE portions tracks, come from those recordings.



Live cd I give a 4/5, cause some of it could be better, and some more instrumentals should be on it such as the DVD version only, "La Mer."



ALSO you get a brand new EP entitled, "Still", which is Halo 17. CD/Pt. 2. Still, is ABSOLUTELY MAGNIFICENT! It's a nine track disc that spans over the past years of the Nine Inch Nails career. Taking a track from The Downward Spiral, a track from Pretty Hate Machine, and 2 tracks from The Fragile, Trent Reznor (the genius behind Nine Inch Nails) "unplugs" so to speak, these songs, and deconstructs them into pure acoustic versions of the tracks with little to no synthesizer work at all.



The re-done acoustic tracks are:



1-Something I can Never Have

2-The Becoming

3-The Fragile

4-The Day The World Went Away



and all of them are extremely beautiful, and some even better on this disc, than on the album they came from. Such as, "Something I can Never Have." It's alot better on the Still recording, than on Pretty Hate Machine, it shows more emotion and anger. Absolutely beautiful!



Aside from the remakes, we have a brand new song entitled, "And All That Could Have Been", which is the title track for the album, but it never made it onto the live portion of the album, sadly. It's a song completely acoustic guitar driven, and piano driven...as are most of the songs on the Still disc, with some drums (which are in some of the others as well).



The title track is the MAIN reason to get the deluxe edition.



The song is somewhat like the song, "Hurt", but in my opinion, alot better. Or atleast, it has a "Hurt" feel to it. Definantly one of the most beautiful songs i've ever heard Trent write and compose.



Then finally, we have 4 brand new instrumental songs. All of which once again, are acoustic guitar, and piano driven, with little to no synthesizer work within them. The 2 best of the 4 instrumentals are "Gone, Still", and "Adrift and at Peace." They are 2 of the most BEAUTIFUL instrumental pieces i've ever heard Trent perform!



Consider "Still", a Nine Inch Nails unplugged cd, but one def. worth the extra money unlike most other unplugged albums.



I consider "Still" one of the best EPs EVER done by Trent, as it is NOT a remix EP but just an EP of acoustic renditions.



Still, gets a 100/10.

Yeah, it's just THAT good!



So kiddies, I actually reccomend getting this version of AATCHB over the original single disc version, but only if you're willing to spend extra cash on the greatest EP in the world, "Still." Bare in mind though, this 2 cd version of the album IS out of print, and the Still cd, is no longer in print as well. So you may have to pay more than retail price to obtain it. But I guarintee you, it'll def. be worth it it in the end, for Still!

Begs for multiple listens / "Still" CD is beautiful stuff

I had high expectations for this live album, not just because I'm a huge NIN fan, but because I was lucky enough to see NIN during the Fragility tour, and I knew what Trent and that particular incarnation of the touring band were capable of. That concert was an EVENT, and one of my best experiences seeing an artist perform live.

This album does an excellent job of capturing not only the raw intensity of that experience, but also the sonic details and the nuances in Trent's singing. My feelings after listening to this album were similar to what I felt after the concert: "This is an artist who works hard at what he does, and who makes music because he needs to."



One of the things I especially love about these songs is that they are not simply live reproductions of the album versions. There are some different interpretations and added embellishments here that sound great and feel completely natural.



The bonus disc, Still, blew me away. I don't think anyone saw that coming. I have always loved NIN's instrumentals, but the new ones on this CD are a huge leap forward. I am especially fond of "The Persistence of Loss" (like the inner workings of a thermal slowly rising from a wasted summer) and "Leaving Hope." One of the new songs, "And All That Could Have Been," has vocals and some of Trent's best lyrics.

The stripped down versions of previous songs are fascinating. The album version of "The Becoming" (one of my all-time favorites) is very dense and detailed, but this rough, bare-boned version works surprisingly well. Hopefully "Still" will be available again soon. You might want to check the status on the official NIN site.

Buy It For Still

I had this CD, but someone stole it from me.

This disc is awesome, the tour stuff is cool, but "Still", that has to be the greatest thing to ever come from Nine Inch Nails. It sounds so calm, like "A Warm Place", but for the whole disc. I highly recommend buying this.