History Trivia / NineInchNails

* OldShame:
** Trent has admitted that it was selfish of him to have recorded ''Music/TheDownwardSpiral'' in the house where Sharon Tate had been murdered for no reason other than his own morbid curiosities, especially after Tate's sister called him out on it.
** He also disowned the one album he recorded with Option 30, particularly a notoriously cheesy cover of [[Music/{{Falco}} "Der Kommissar"]], largely because it had been released without the band's permission.

** ''Bad Witch'' was intended to be the third EP in the unnamed EP trilogy that preceded ''Not the Actual Events'' and ''Add Violence''; however, Trent wanted the release to garner more attention and instead had it labelled as a full-length release.
*** Arguably, this was a response to a mild case of ExecutiveMeddling (particularly by Nine Inch Nails' standards; see that item's examples above), as streaming sites like Spotify tend to ignore EP releases (though ''Not the Actual Events'' and ''Add Violence'' are available on Spotify now). Of course, some people will find that a more reasonable justification than others will.

* WhyFandomCantHaveNiceThings: Various nasty and overly-personal comments are the reason Trent isn't as active on Website/{{Twitter}} these days. Mostly, he posts news updates now. He even [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded this]] in a now-deleted Tweet.

* WriterRevolt: The entire ''Broken'' EP is a concentrated blast of this. During his time with his original label TVT Records, Trent Reznor often had to fight ExecutiveMeddling; TVT was initially not pleased to hear ''Pretty Hate Machine'' (one executive calling it "an abortion"), only to demand that Trent record a followup in the same style after ''Machine'' became a success. In addition, they refused to release Trent from his contract when he tried to leave the label. This resulted in ''Broken'' being secretly recorded, and it has Trent comparing his experience with them to slavery and telling TVT founder Steve Gottlieb to eat his heart out at the beginning of "Physical". Even the liner notes contain sentences like "no thanks: you know who you fucking are" and "the slave thinks he has been released from bondage only to find a stronger set of chains". Years later, ''Machine's'' 2010 remastered release say "fuck you" to TVT - which has been defunct since 2008.

** ''The Broken Movie'' was found to be too extremely violent to be released (being filmed as a ''[[NightmareFuel very convincing]]'' SnuffFilm probably had something to do with it), but finally saw a public leak on the Pirate Bay that was probably from Trent himself. Additionally, there was a failed attempt to release the film on the band's official Vimeo account. As of now, it can be found in full and in high quality on archive.org; bits and pieces have also survived for a surprisingly long time on [=YouTube=].

* TheWikiRule: [[http://www.ninwiki.com/Main_Page Yup.]]

* TropeNamer: HappinessInSlavery

** Initial CD releases of ''Broken'' came with a 2-track mini-CD in addition to the EP's main 6-track disc. This bonus disc was unavailable in vinyl versions until the 2017 definitive edition, which featured it in the form of a 7-inch record. Said edition also rearranged the CD version into a single disc wherein there were a large number of silent tracks (tracks 7-97) between the main tracks and bonus ones (placed as tracks 98-99).

!! Trivia tropes that apply to the band as a whole:

*** Arguably, this was a response to a mild case of ExecutiveMeddling (particularly by Nine Inch Nails' standards; see the entry's examples above), as streaming sites like Spotify tend to ignore EP releases (though ''Not the Actual Events'' and ''Add Violence'' are available on Spotify now). Of course, some people will find that a more reasonable justification than others will.

** ''Bad Witch'' was intended to be the third EP in the unnamed EP trilogy that preceded ''Not the Actual Events'' and ''Add Violence''; however, Trent wanted the release to garner more attention and instead had it be a full-length release.
*** Arguably, this was a response to a mild (particularly by Nine Inch Nails' standards; see above) case of ExecutiveMeddling, as streaming sites like Spotify tend to ignore EP releases (though ''Not the Actual Events'' and ''Add Violence'' are available on Spotify now). Of course, some people will find that a more reasonable justification than others will.

** ''Bad Witch'' was intended to be the third EP in the unnamed EP trilogy that preceded ''Not the Actual Events'' and ''Add Violence''; however, Trent wanted the release to garner more attention and instead had it be a studio release.

** ''Ghosts I-IV'' has four discs in both its vinyl and CD releases, with each disc corresponding to one of the "volumes" within the album.

** A recording of Sean Beaven being bitten by Trent's dog Maisy no in "Physical".

** Oddly enough, ''Pretty Hate Machine'' was out of print for a while between the late '90s and 2005, owing to Trent's dispute with TVT. Prudential Financial had actually seized control of the masters along with some other TVT material when the label defaulted on a loan from Prudential, and Rykodisc got the rights to reissue the album on their behalf...for about one year with no remastering. It finally got a proper remaster in 2010 when Prudential sold its TVT holdings to Bicycle Music, with Reznor fully overseeing the effort.

** A recording of Sean Beaven being bitten by Trent's dog Maisy appears in "Physical".

* ''Music/TheDownwardSpiral''
* ''Music/TheFragile1999''
* ''Music/WithTeeth''
* ''Music/YearZero''
* ''Music/GhostsIToIV''
* ''Music/TheSlip''

* LimitedSpecialCollectorsUltimateEdition: ''Ghosts I-IV'' got this treatment by its release in five different packages: a digital download of the full album in FLAC with digital extras; a 2CD format; a 4 LP format; a Deluxe Edition featuring the [=CDs=], a 24/48 blu-ray and a DVD-ROM with multitrack stems for the full album; and an Ultra-Deluxe Limited Edition, which paired the Deluxe Edition with the vinyl copy, a coffee table book of the artwork and two exclusive Giclée prints. A free torrent of the first 9 songs (''Ghosts I'') also existed.