Ghosts I-IV - Nine Inch Nails
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Universal acclaim- based on 51 Ratings

  • Summary: Nine Inch Nails releases a mostly instrumental album, with some tracks falling under the Creative Commons License instead of being copyrighted.
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 12
  2. Negative: 0 out of 12
  1. Finer minds than mine may find these pieces worthy of continuous attention. I say they're background music, there waiting when your mind drifts speakerward, just distracting enough to change up your mood in a useful way.
  2. 80
    Without Reznor's shouting, they're more hypnotic, even, at times, soothing. [June 2008, p.98]
  3. This album is surely a success, its just there is a lot of things that a great album like 'My Life in the Bush of The Ghosts' (which Ghosts sincerely seems indebted to) have that are missing here.
  4. At 36 tracks, Ghosts is as impressively ambitious as it is uneven and stunted.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 16 out of 19
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 19
  3. Negative: 3 out of 19
  1. BobS.
    10
    Ghosts is Amazing! Trent is the most vital artist in the music industry today. The man is a f*cking genius!
  2. AlvaroG.
    8
    I don't like NIN, but this instrumental ambient-industrial album amused me. oh, and metacritic: according to http://ghosts.nin.com, ALL of the tracks are licensed under a Creative Commons license. Expand
  3. EricC.
    7
    I'm not a NIN fan (I don't have anything against Reznor or his music, I just never took the time to get in to him) I am a huge fan of instrumental music. So I decided to pick up my first NIN album, and I really am surprised by how much I enjoyed it. I know NIN is supposed to be the tough guy's experimental music, but at times this album was simply beautiful. And when those rough drones and menacing pianos get going, it only gets better. It may not be the high point of Reznor's career, but Ghosts is a very moody and pleasantly dark album that I would recommend to most people. It's far from perfect and may not be the most intellectually engaging album (look to Autechre for your artsy experimental epic) but it's definately worth checking out and is easy to appreciate. Expand
  4. Sam
    3
    Its shit. clearly recorded in no time, little effort for origianlity or progression, in danger of sounding like his own cliche. The vocals on year zero were whispered...then none at all on ghosts. RUBBISH. I regret paying $5 for this, AND given how important it is that people do actually pay for music from NIN in future I'm less inclined to WANT TO next time round. I'm sure I heard a sample from Downward Spiral. You can't regurgitate that!! Jesus. Move on and up trent not down and across. NEXT! Collapse

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