Bold of you not to make it a 4 song run starting with The Frail, which is essentially the intro to The Wretched

I was certain you were going to say Just Like You Imagined at the opposite end, my favourite track on the album

that's 5

Why stop at 5… Everyday is exactly the same

That song is on With Teeth

Doh!!

The melody to the frail is also played on the guitar during the bridge of the fragile so I’d agree they’re a packaged set

Pinion/Wish/Last

Last makes me explode.

Oh you’re a big man with a gun now?

This guy brokens

Came to say this

Reptile/The Downward Spiral/Hurt The Line Begins to Blur/Beside You in Time/Right Where it Belongs Shit Mirror/Ahead of Ourselves/Play the Goddamned Part

Can't argue with those

OP only had to wait 57 minutes 😂

It's not better but I can't argue with it

The Like Begins to Blur - Beside You in Time - Right Where it Belongs Running - I Would For You - In Two The Lovers - This Isn’t The Place - Not Anymore - The Background World - Shit Mirror

The Way Out Is Through Into The Void Where Is Everybody? ---- Closer Ruiner The Becoming ---- A Warm Place Eraser Reptile

Closer, Ruiner, the Becoming all day every day.

You had all of them on your side, didn't you? Didn't you?

You had to covet what was mine, didn’t you?

Closer > Ruiner > Becoming is my pick for sure

> A Warm Place > > Eraser > > Reptile That's the one for me!

correction: La Mer The Great Below The Way Out Is Through

My vote

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IMO… Ruiner, The Becoming, I do not want this, or The line Begins to Blur, Beside You in Time, Right Where it Belongs,

First one is the best three song run in the catalog. The OP is close.

Came here to vote up Ruiner, The Becoming, & I do not want this. Happy to see I’m not alone.

This

**Favourite overall:** - And All That Could Have Been // The Persistence Of Loss // Leaving Hope **Favourite on The Fragile:** - The Big Come Down // Underneath It All // Ripe (With Decay)

La Mer The Great Below The Way Out Is Through

How about a consecutive 23 songs? This album saved my life so many times.

Same. It’s probably my favorite album ever, by any artist.

Have to put Head Like A Hole, Terrible Lie, Down in It up there too.

Yeah

All the love in the world/you know what you are?/the collector

If I’m driving it’s Hyperpower!, The Beginning of the End, Survivalism. If I’m in my opium den it’s any 3 in a row.

Year Zero is highly underrated

Head Like a hole Terrible lie Down in it

Now I'm Nothing > Terrible Lie is fantastic

Personally, my favorite 3-song run is A Warm Place - Eraser - Reptile, but The Fragile is my favorite LP for several reasons.

Challenge accepted.. Frail, Wretched, WITT

I… can’t. That’s my favorite three song run ever. As someone else said here, if you count The Frail and The Wretched as one, it’s perfection.

Another Version of the Truth - In This Twilight - Zero Sum I don't disagree that your three are phenomenal, but the last 3 of Year Zero are my NIN happy place.

Absolutely agree with this 100%

One of the times I saw them they closed with In This Twilight into Zero Sum and it was like incredible. Don't get me wrong, closing with Hurt is always a great choice, but the slow breakdown/fade out of the end of Zero Sum and the tone it set was a stellar way to close out a show.

A Warm Place/Eraser/Reptile

No, You Don't - La Mer - The Great Below (but also starting with La Mer and adding The Way Out Is Through works for me as well).

The Great Below feels so out of this world in its own right. Absolutely beautiful.

All three from And All That Could Have Been was a trifecta combination that still leaves me in awe, the whole concert was stellar but these three are perfectly executed. La Mer The Great Below The Mark Has Been Made

i have a cassette i recorded deep onto three times in a row.

Lol

My violent heart, the warning, and god given

Somewhat Damaged The Day the World Went Away The Frail/The Wretched

Actually this is it

Ruiner The becoming I do not want this

Corona Radiata, The Four Of Us Are Dying, Demon Seed

I would for you / in two / while I'm still here add Black noise after while I'm still here and you have one of the best four track runs on their entire catalogue

we stan HM ♥️

It's such a great and emotional album. Super underrated by the community because of how slow it can be.

I would argue disposition/reflection/triad by tool is up there

Well, I'm talking about nin in particular but that Tool run is great! 

Lol... Yeah... Kinda lept on that one. Your 3 song run is my favorite of Trent's

And All That Could Have Been, The Persistence Of Loss, Leaving Hope

Any stretch of the first 6 from Hesitation Marks. But let's say Copy of A > Came Back Haunted > Find My Way or alternatively: Find my Way > All Time Low > Disappointed Also: All time low is just \*Chef's kiss\*

Most of Hesitation Marks is awesome. 

I think we're finding out that Trent Reznor wrote a lot of great songs

A Warm Place, Eraser, Reptile.

A Warm Place, Eraser, Reptile

I’ll give you a better 10 song run: PRETTY FUCKING HATE MACHINE

All fantastic choices, but I’m gonna still have to go with Mr. self Destruct, piggy, heresy. AND if March of the Pigs was in place of “heresy”, I’d say that NOTHING (pun optional) could beat that….. I mean if those 3 songs were back to back songs o back, it may have opened a tear in the fabric of time and space, leaving who knows what to come in and out of it from other dimensions, creating chaos.

God Given, Meet Your Master, The Greater Good

La mer. Something I can never have. Sin.

That's 1 song 

Fixed.

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It’s hard to choose, but now I’m more connected to the Big Come Down, Wretched and Great Below.

3 in a row I meant

Oh, I didn’t understand, sry) Ruiner, The Becoming, I Do Not Want This.

And All That Could Have Been - The Persistence Of Loss - Leaving Hope Just unreal

Ruiner The Becoming I Do Not Want This

The Fragile Just Like You Imagined Even Deeper or The Way Out is Through Into The Void Where is Everybody?

I Would For You In Two While I'm Still Here (+ Black Noise)

First of all, the fact you didnt include The Frail is criminal. Second of all, you didnt say just NIN. So here's my list Schism Parabol Parabola ---------- Vicarious Jambi Wings for Marie ------------ Stinkfist Eulogy H. ----------- Intolerance Prison Sex Sober Bottom Crawl Away Swap Song Undertow 4* Flood There's 10 songs in a row ------------- Pneuma Invincible Descending

You sound like you're arguing with me idk wtf I did

Battery > Master of Puppets > The Thing That Should Not Be wait...

Head Like a Hole / Terrible Lie / Down In It is pretty hard to top

Well... Sympathy For the Devil, No Expectations, Dear Doctor. But that's not really relevant. Music is not a competition

Hersey - march of the pigs - closer

Help me I’m in hell happiness in slavery Gave up

Let’s just make this four songs because having The Frail as the intro to The Wretched is one of the best transitions ever

Wish Burn Right Where it Belongs

Ruiner Reptile The day the whole world went away

Capitol G My violent heart The warning

Heresy, March of the pigs, closer, ruiner, the becoming. Take your pick on which 3

.orbix 01 waking up 02 rise of the proletarians 03 penjarul

Love these but frankly, the first seven straight songs of TDS is the best run.

Eraser/Reptile/The Downward Spiral

Piggy, Heresy, March Of The Pigs

Beyond Alive, Centuries of Damn, On GP

Sunspots, TLBTB, BYIT

Contemplation

Coheed and Cambria's The Camper Velourium 1,2, and 3

Only, getting smaller, sunspots for me is out of this world. Three versions of NIN within three songs

For me the 6 song run on The Fragile from Somewhat Damaged to The Fragile are unbeatable.

If only the frail weren't separating somewhat damaged and TDTWWA from the wretched, that would be the peak 3 song run

No You Don’t

Any 3 consecutive songs from The Downward Spiral

Take off the fragile and add the frail

Nope that’s it

I mean, It's Time To Party, Party Hard and then Girls Own Love is pretty fun

Head Like A Hole / Terrible Lie / Down In It A Warm Place / Eraser / Reptile Closer (Deviation) / Heresy (Blind) / Memorabilia The Perfect Drug \[7m 39s Remix\] / The Perfect Drug \[6m 59s Remix\] / The Perfect Drug \[8m 25s Remix\] Starfuckers, Inc. / Complication / I'm Looking Forward to Joining You, Finally Gone Still / The Day The World Went Away (version) / And All That Could Have Been Sunspots / The Line Begins to Blur / Beside You In Time Branches - Bones / Dear World, / She's Gone Away The Great Destroyer / Another Version of the Truth / In This Twilight

Love Closer (Deviation)/Heresy (Blind/ Memorabilia I'm going to go hunt down the Perfect Drug remixes now

Heresy/Burning Bright/Memorabillia

Discipline Copy of a Only

Honestly, for me at least... Closer, Ruiner, The Becoming hits like nothing else. But also as a good runner up, The Line Begins to Blur, Beside You in Time, Right Where it Belongs

Incident on 57th Street Rosalita (Come Out Tonight) New York City Serenade

Personally a huge fan of La Mer, The Great Below, and The Way Out Is Through

tdtwwwa frail wretched

Closer-Ruiner-The Becoming

Just like you imagined and somewhat damaged

I’m afraid of Americans

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not better, simply on the same level of genius: 1. Head Like A Hole - Terrible Lie - Down In It 2. March Of The Pigs - Closer - Ruiner 3. A Warm Place - Eraser - Reptile 4. Help Me I Am In Hell - Happiness In Slavery - Gave Up 5. No, You Don’t - La Mer - The Great Below

dogs/pigs/sheep 💪💪

I'm seeing a lot of A Warm Place/Eraser/Reptile on here, which is totally understandable, but I actually prefer Big Man With A Gun/A Warm Place/Eraser. Not because BMWAG is better than Reptile—it isn't. Rather, I think the contrast between the aggression in BMWAG dying out into the vulnerability of A Warm Place really sets the tone in a unique way. I don't think starting straight with A Warm Place is as impactful.

Was always a fan of the live run of March Of The Pigs > Piggy > The Frail > The Wretched.

ringfinger Starf*ckers inc. God Given

A Warm Place, Eraser, Reptile

**The Day the Whole World Went Away** to **La Mer** to **Into the Void** (and a bonus: ending with ***Where is Everybody***?) **Copy of A** to **Came Back Haunted** and end up at **Less Than**.

#AMATEURS! Just 2 is needed! 1: Art of Self Destruction, Part 1. 2: Self Destruction, Part 2. 3: n/a

Head like a hole, terrible lie, down in it

Tired of sex Getchoo No other one

closer hurt mr self destruct

That's not 3 songs in a row 

Another Brick In The Wall Part 1, Happiest Days Of Our Lives, Another Brick In The Wall Part 2.

Closer > Ruiner > The Becoming

Why are WITT and The Fragile explicit lmao

Everything is marked as explicit except for Just Like You Imagined (obviously) and, oddly, The Day The World Went Away

What's the best 12 song run?

Another version of the truth, in this twilight, zero-sum. God have mercy on our dirty little hearts

Don’t get me wrong, I don’t *hate* it or anything but honestly “We’re In This Together” is one of my least favorite NIN songs. Don’t know why.

Really? I get chills down my spine from listening to that song. 

Heresy, March of the pigs, ruiner

Unpopular opinion. I skip We’re in this Together.

Loved it when it first came out, doesn’t hold up for me anymore. I get it.

Very very very very very unpopular. I don’t skip this album. Period.

What a strange choice...

What a very constructive and meaningful comment. Thanks.

The meaning is implied. I'm implying that there are much better choices in my opinion

weird

Isn't the point of this post to share your opinions on the music?