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Nine Inch Nails’ Ghosts I-IV Review
20 May 2008, Kevin @ 5:21 pm

After listening to all 36 songs on NIN’s Ghosts I-IV, I would pigeonhole this album along with all NIN remix albums into an “experimental” category rather than include it in the NIN discography. If you bought this album expecting good new NIN materials, you’ll be very disappointed.

Ghosts I-IV consists of 36 instrumental tracks. Most of the songs aren’t very instrumental and there’s a lot of bass and static and distortion sounds. All the tracks on this album sounds basically like old NIN classics without the vocal, guitars, or energy. This is kind of disappointing because they did make the theme for Fight Club and it was so good.

There are some tracks that are quite nice and relaxing to listen to but the way they’re mixed together just sort of made everything a mess and nothing is very memorable. After the first couple of songs, everything actually start to sound kind of similar. I can group every track on this album into two categories: “hurt”-sounding and “closer”-sounding.

All in all, It would make a nice soundtrack to life and is something I would listen to while doing homework or working or maybe even sleeping if I take all the distortion noise tracks out but it’s nothing to rock out to.

1 Ghosts I

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Download Ghosts I here.

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3 Comments for “Nine Inch Nails’ Ghosts I-IV Review”

1. Damien — May 21, 2008 @ 9:35 am
   

   NIN Didn’t do the theme for Fight Club, The Dust Brothers did.
   If you don’t like Ghosts, you might prefer The Slip which Reznor released for free from nin.com. Its far more accessible than the ambient material on this one.

2. Anonymous — May 21, 2008 @ 10:35 am
   

   whoops ma bad

3. Kevin — June 12, 2008 @ 3:44 pm
   

   I meant the Opening theme not the actual theme… I dont know what cd its off of but according to most sites and torrent sharing programs its by NIN

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