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The biggest difference between a kick-ass studio album and a kick-ass live album? Intensity. And All That Could Have Been, recorded on Nine Inch Nails' 2000 "Fragility 2.0" US tour, provides that trait in abundance. It helps that Trent Reznor has a band, instead of just a battery of keyboards, to help him work through 16 tracks of the raging
The biggest difference between a kick-ass studio album and a kick-ass live album? Intensity. And All That Could Have Been, recorded on Nine Inch Nails' 2000 "Fragility 2.0" US tour, provides that trait in abundance. It helps that Trent Reznor has a band, instead of just a battery of keyboards, to help him work through 16 tracks of the raging yet surprisingly listenable musical vitriol that made him a star. The live musicians, who allow him some freedom to play with tempo, help kick "Closer" up a notch and lend some atmospheric weight to a slow version of "The Frail". The band rips into older material with gusto; Reznor sounds just as pissed off performing "Head Like a Hole" as he did in 1989. The CD closes with "Hurt", which might seem like an odd choice, but somehow, after everything that's come before, it's like the denouement of a tragedy. While a CD can only capture a piece of NIN's onstage energy, their first live album is an intense, sometimes overwhelming recording, further vindication of NIN's continuing popularity and influence. --Genevieve Williams
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Track listing1. Terrible Lie 2. Sin 3. March Of The Pigs 4. Piggy 5. Frail 6. Wretched 7. Gave Up 8. Great Below 9. Mark Has Been Made 10. Wish 11. Suck 12. Closer 13. Head Like A Hole 14. Day The World Went Away 15. Starfuckers Inc 16. Hurt
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