G. Nova✅️

I fell madly in love with Nine Inch Nails around the age of 14. It was 1997, and while away at 4-H summer camp, I devoted my evenings to repeatedly listening to The Lost Highway soundtrack on my Sony Discman. Trent Reznor's curated musical content to Lynch's vision truly aligned with my own teenage moodiness. Years passed and I absorbed all that NIN offered. I grew more devout in my fandom with each album. No one could compare to the genius that is Trent. Eventually I simmered down and broadened my musical horizons, but NIN remains my favorite band 25 years later.

@toodarkmark once posited that the music you loved around the age of 14 years old, is the music that you love for the remainder of your life.

Or something along those lines.

I agree with this. Do you?

#Music #Musings #NIN #NineInchNails #TrentReznor

Nov 15, 2022 at 4:49amWeb
Show threadJvtrainNov 15, 2022
@GeeNova @toodarkmark I would tend to agree with that. To this day, #PearlJam #soundgarden and #toolband are still my favorites and I was heavily into them from 13 on. #nin was on the list but didn't hit that same place the others did
Show threadG. Nova✅️Nov 15, 2022
@JVTrain I saw #Toolband live during their Lateralus era. Amazing show. Loved and still love #Soundgarden and "PearlJam as well. Eddie Vedder is a National Treasure.
Show threadRuby RooNov 21, 2022
@GeeNova @toodarkmark It was a bit later for me but still teen years, the trajectory was brothers-> motorbikes-> rock bars-> heavy rock music, and although tastes have broadened it's still my base. I heard a tune I hadn't heard for decades (747 Strangers in the Night, Saxon) and I was back there in an instant.
Show threadMamageminiNov 23, 2022
@GeeNova @toodarkmark I saw them when they first started touring with Jesus and Mary Jane! I saw them at theater downtown San Diego. I've seen them four times total so far Trent reznor and Nine Inch Nails! Pretty hate machine is my favorite album of all time by Nine Inch Nails!
Show threadG. Nova✅️Nov 23, 2022
@livingdedgrl @toodarkmark I've seen them 4 times as well. 1st show was in Buffalo, NY for their Fragility tour. Wish I could see them 4 more times though.
Show threadOnward for Win the EraNov 23, 2022
@GeeNova @toodarkmark Well, yes, since I also fell in love with #NIN around that same age.
Show threadkilled.by.asteroidNov 23, 2022
@GeeNova @toodarkmark it depends on when you were 14, I'd guess.
Show threadDennis JernbergDec 12, 2022
@GeeNova Actually, this is almost precisely true of me. It was my 15th birthday. The album was Permanent Waves by Rush, as a birthday gift. You can easily guess what happened after that. My favorite song remains "Freewill" from that very album. @toodarkmark
Show threadWendy LadyDec 12, 2022
@GeeNova @toodarkmark Bjork, Weezer, Green Day, Weird Al, Tenacious D (although that came into my life in my early 20s) will listen to those albums for the rest of my life.
Show threadG. Nova✅️Dec 12, 2022
@NerdRage42 did you watch the Weird Al biopic?
Show threadWendy LadyDec 12, 2022
@GeeNova haha. Yes. Really funny.
Show threadminusavenueDec 12, 2022

@GeeNova @toodarkmark overall premise, absolutely. Teen years for me was the 90s & I still love the music from that time.

NIN I *did* love, but I lived right around the corner from Trent in the Garden District in the early 2000s.

We are not friends :/

Show threadG. Nova✅️Dec 12, 2022
@minusavenue the Garden District is so beautiful. My husband proposed to me in a hurricane there.
Show threadminusavenueDec 12, 2022
@GeeNova Nice! :D I do miss those days. Early 20s, working as a bartender in the Quarter & we had a beautiful apartment above a florist right on St. Charles. Magical time.
Show threadB-riDec 12, 2022
@GeeNova @toodarkmark I'd say that's true for me. Most of the bands I listened to then I still love now. Sound garden, Stone Temple Pilots, Alice in Chains, System of a Down, and a couple more.
Show threadG. Nova✅️Dec 12, 2022
@bri those are all really good bands.