I mostly wrote a story about a concert. It was an amazing concert. I also wrote a missive about banning Trent Reznor from IRC three decades ago.

At the show, the music was good (of course it was -- I like NIN and have for decades), but the musicality of its performance was also very good. They all played it both with expert precision, and a great deal of passion. The endurance was staggering. And the technicals -- the management of different spaces (3 stages!), the PA, the lights, effects, video projections -- they all combined to alter my perspective of what is possible in a temporary, physical performance space.

I love going to concerts, big and small. This was my 4th NIN show. I've never been to any concert like that before.

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Anyway, you've already elected to change channels. So let's change channels.

You think Pretty Hate Machine was the embodiment of everything that Trent Reznor ever learned, or performed?

How does Broken fit into that picture? (It's very different, to me.)

How does the period-correct Purest Feeling fit into it? (It's very similar, but the horns are a bit much.)

How do the various Ghosts albums fit in there?

How do the rest of them?

What fits together, and what falls apart?

Please elaborate. While I'm not a musician and I don't have the background to dissect it myself, I do appreciate the elaborations of technical makeups of music when those who can take it apart elect to do so.

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The dude, Trent Reznor, has been publishing recorded music since 1989. I find the claim that it's all the same to be pretty extraordinary. I think that satisfaction of that claim would require extraordinary proof. (And I welcome that proof.)