Things Falling Apart

Things Falling Apart
Remix album by Nine Inch Nails
Released November 21, 2000
Recorded Nothing Studios, New Orleans – HALO 16
Genre Post-industrial
Length 53:22
Label Nothing
Producer Trent Reznor
Nine Inch Nails chronology
The Fragile
(1999)
Things Falling Apart
(2000)
And All That Could Have Been
(2002)
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic [1]
NME (As a joke)[2]
Pitchfork Media (0.4/10)[3]
Rolling Stone [4]

Things Falling Apart is a remix album by Nine Inch Nails released in 2000. Things Falling Apart is the sixteenth official Nine Inch Nails release and is the companion remix disc to The Fragile. The unofficial U.S. promo CD for Into the Void is also labeled as Halo 16. Unlike The Fragile, it is not a double album.

Unlike The Fragile's mixed to positive reception, Things Falling Apart was released to critically panning reviews upon release. Among the album's detractors was NME, who rated it "10/10" as a joke in contrast to the text describing the magazine's dislike of the album. Reviewers have continued to consider Things Falling Apart the worst of the act's catalog, as well as the worst of the catalog of Nothing Records. In comparison, The Fragile divided and alienated a portion of NIN's fanbase but had a better reception critically and commercially.

"10 Miles High" is the only song that was a b-side of a Nine Inch Nails single to be included on the album. It didn't make it to The Fragile, but appeared as a b-side to "We're in This Together", released in September 1999.

Contents

Track listing

CD version

No. Title Remixer(s) Length
1. "Slipping Away"   Trent Reznor, Alan Moulder 6:11
2. "The Great Collapse"   Reznor, Moulder 4:42
3. "The Wretched (Keith Hillebrandt Mix)"   Keith Hillebrandt 5:52
4. "Starfuckers, Inc. (Adrian Sherwood Mix)"   Adrian Sherwood 5:11
5. "The Frail (Benelli Mix)"   Benelli 2:47
6. "Starfuckers, Inc. (Dave Ogilvie Mix)"   Dave Ogilvie 6:06
7. "Where Is Everybody? (Danny Lohner Mix)"   Danny Lohner, Telefon Tel Aviv 5:07
8. "Metal (Gary Numan cover)"     7:05
9. "10 Miles High (Keith Hillebrandt Mix)"   Hillebrandt 5:11
10. "Starfuckers, Inc. (Charlie Clouser Mix)"   Charlie Clouser 5:09

Vinyl version

Disc one
No. Title Remixer(s) Length
1. "Slipping Away"   Reznor, Moulder 6:11
2. "The Great Collapse"   Reznor, Moulder 4:42
3. "The Wretched (Version)"   Hillebrandt 5:52
4. "Starfuckers, Inc. (Version)"   Sherwood 5:11
Disc two
No. Title Remixer(s) Length
1. "The Frail (Version)"   Benelli 2:47
2. "Starfuckers, Inc. (Version)"   Ogilvie 6:06
3. "10 Miles High (Version)"   Hillebrandt 5:11
4. "Metal"     7:05
5. "Where Is Everybody? (Version)"   Lohner, Telefon Tel Aviv 5:07
6. "Starfuckers, Inc. (Version)"   Clouser 5:09

Chart positions

Chart (2000) Peak
position
UK Albums Chart[5] 98
The Billboard 200[6] 67

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