Talk:The Downward Spiral

message: The discussion of the album's concept is really biased and unimaginative.  Surely someone has a more interesting and though-provoking interpretation of the album. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.154.95.133 (talk • contribs) 
:That, and it was clearly cut & paste from another website, so I removed it. — RevRagnarok Talk Contrib 10:59, 29 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Concept exploration lacking 

message: On the subject of looping sounds on "Reptile" ... somebody put 'citation needed' on the metal clanks being from Leviathan. The first time I watched Leviathan, I jumped out of my chair because I recognized the clanks as being used in "Reptile". How can we cite this? Has anybody written about it?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.99.41.235 (talk) 21:03, 5 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Trivia Incorrect? 

message: Entire concept exploration is ripped from a dissertation posted to the internet on 1998, wouldn't be as pissed off if it was cited as a source at least. At the other extreme, should be removed shouldn't it?
I think it would be ideal to cite it, and then reword a lot of it so that not only is it no longer direct plagiarism, but is also in a more Encyclopedic format. D Boland 19:06, 25 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: My bad, there's no lyrics section. I must be hallucinating... Litis 14:14, 27 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  rip 

message: Regarding , my main point of contention is the legend
: "—" denotes releases that did not chart.
I don't think it can be interpreted any other way. –Pomte 16:27, 29 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Ah, I see what your point was now.  But I don't think it can hurt to be clear.  Besides, it's lifted directly form the NIN discography article. Drewcifer (talk) 16:35, 29 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Chart table 

message: Who did the cover art for this and the singles? Шизомби (talk) 16:28, 28 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Russell Mills (artist)  –Pomte 11:09, 25 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  cover art artist? 

message: Is the song heresy a reference to Friedrich Nietzsche's God is Dead philosophy? Or is it just an expression of dislike for Christianity? If it's a reference to Friedrich Nietzsche I think it should be mentioned. KMFDM FAN (talk!) 15:23, 22 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Friedrich Nietzsche 

message: In the controversy section, the word "bullshit" is censored. It's censored on the source, but it's one of the only instances of profanity that is censored there. Since Wikipedia shouldn't be censored and the quote would be accurate, should it be changed to "bullshit" or left as-is? Nich148 9 (talk) 23:45, 15 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Controversy 

message: I recall this album receiving a terrible review from a popular magazine, summarizing it as terrible noise and nothing you can't hear by listening to mechanical equipment. I can't for the life of me find the review now and it might make an interesting addition to the article. Anyone recall this review? --Skintigh (talk) 20:30, 17 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Terrible review 

message: What a coincidence! I was looking at this article earlier today, as I picked up Pretty Hate Machine yesterday at a record store in Indianapolis. I even visited this talk page and thought it was odd that the article wasn't already a GA and had had no formal attempts made in years. Tezero (talk) 03:48, 30 March 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: I've been a fan of Nine Inch Nails since the With Teeth days, and I even saw them live. I had to turn this article about The Downward Spiral into a Good Article (GA) because it was the album that just made people crazy for Nine Inch Nails. Yes, there was a failed attempt to do so back in 2011, but I improved this article a lot in 2013 and 2014 since it's my favorite NIN album. And of course I have all Nine Inch Nails albums including Pretty Hate Machine and The Downward Spiral. How do you think of The Downward Spiral and Nine Inch Nails? Were you considering improving any Nine Inch Nails-related articles? Mr*|(60nna) 05:04, 30 March 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  GAN 

message: :In December 1993, Reznor was confronted by Patti Tate, who asked if he was exploiting Sharon Tate's death in the Tate house. Reznor responded, "No, it's just sort of my own interest in American folklore. I'm in this place where a weird part of history occurred."
This quote is repeated for a second time in the subsequent block quote.  It's generally considered poor form/style to repeat the same words twice, whether you are quoting or not.  Instead, paraphrase the first instance of the quote you are trying to highlight and then follow it with the direct blockquote. Viriditas (talk) 11:23, 11 April 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: In December 1993, Reznor was confronted by Patti Tate, who asked if he was exploiting Sharon Tate's death in the house. Reznor responded that he was interested in the house as her death happened there.
How do you think? }IMr*|(60nna)I{ 14:13, 11 April 2014 (UTC)

text: Much better, thanks. Viriditas (talk) 09:14, 13 April 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Repeated quotes

message: This is stated in the article. Don't know when it occurred. A Warm Place, to my knowledge, does not contain this whatsoever and is note-wise following a far more consonant pattern. Just because the Downward Spiral motif is descending doesn't mean that a repeating ascending part (that stems from a segment of Bowie's Crystal Japan anyways) has to be it inverted, and it takes Audacity and about ten seconds to confirm this.
The only tracks that obviously contain the motif or a variation of it are, as known for years (chronologically):
Piggy,
Heresy,
Closer, 
The Downward Spiral.  
Swim Jonse (talk) 10:23, 22 October 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for the comment! I didn't notice this before. I fixed that issue for you. =D }IMr*|(60nna)I{ 01:20, 7 December 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  "inverted Downward Spiral motif in A Warm Place"?  

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: The writing and recording section is so fucking terrible I find myself commenting for the first home in decades? 87.198.43.132 (talk) 01:44, 16 February 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: You can click the Edit button at the top of the page and make improvements. --ZimZalaBim talk 02:00, 16 February 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Writing and recording