BAND WARS Rd2: Nine Inch Nails vs REM

Nine Inch Nails.

 

Tough one.

Went with REM.

 

Nails were good for about an album and a half. R.E.M.

 

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Pretty hate Machine was the one good album...

 

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I pretty much agree. There are some other songs that I think are ok to good though. and I don't find REM that special.

Plus NIN made "hurt" and without that Johnny Cash couldn't have made his last masterpiece.

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REM would have been my vote here. NIN have a few great albums, but REM is classic.

 

R.E.M. was the schizz. NIN was very good, kind of made the spearhead to industrial music, but R.E.M. is one of the few bands who literally bent the mainstream in their direction. NIN to a lesser degree, but they (Trent Reznor) couldn't sustain it the same way as, to quote Neil Young, "them REM boys." I would argue that only U2 did it better than REM from that standpoint.