The Fragile

The Fragile
Studio album by Nine Inch Nails
Released September 21, 1999
Recorded January 1997–February 1999
Nothing Studios
(New Orleans, Louisiana)
Genre Industrial rock, electronica, dark ambient
Length 103:39 (CD)
106:25 (CS)
112:20 (LP)
Label Nothing/Interscope – HALO 14
Producer Trent Reznor, Alan Moulder
Nine Inch Nails chronology
The Downward Spiral
(1994)		 The Fragile
(1999)		 With Teeth
(2005)
Singles from The Fragile
  1. "The Day the World Went Away"
    Released: July 20, 1999
  2. "We're in This Together"
    Released: September 27, 1999
  3. "Into the Void"
    Released: January 10, 2000
  4. "Starfuckers, Inc."
    Released: May 2, 2000

The Fragile is the third studio album by American industrial rock act Nine Inch Nails, released September 21, 1999, on Interscope Records. The album was produced by Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor and long-time collaborator Alan Moulder. In contrast to the heavily distorted instruments and gritty industrial sounds of Nine Inch Nails' previous album, The Downward Spiral,[1] the double relies more on soundscapes, electronic beats, ambient noise, rock-laden guitar, and the usage of melodies as harmonies. Lyrically, the album is more introspective and personal than the act's previous releases.[2][3]

The Fragile peaked at number one on the US Billboard 200 chart in its debut week, before dropping to number 16 the following week.[4] The album has been certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America, for shipments of one million copies in the United States.[5] Despite some criticism for its length and lyrical substance,[6][7] the album received positive reviews from most music critics.

Contents

Writing and recording

Alan Moulder had credit under the mixing role for Nine Inch Nails' predecessor, but did not produce it, whereas he was co-producer of The Fragile; he had one more credit, audio engineer, and again mixed the album. Production on The Downward Spiral did not take place at Nothing Studios. No orchestra or choir received credit in The Downward Spiral. Andy Kubiszewski and Chris Vrenna, who formed Tweaker, were replaced by Bill Rieflin and Jerome Dillon. Charlie Clouser and Danny Lohner did not play synthesizers on The Downward Spiral. Tom Baker mastered The Fragile as he did for The Downward Spiral. Russell Mills and Gary Talpas, creators of the artwork of The Downward Spiral, were not involved in The Fragile, where David Carson and Rob Sheridan developed the packaging. There is no mention of TVT Records throughout, as that record label did not participate in The Fragile, when presented in both packaging and the liner notes. Stephen Perkins, Sean Beavan, Bill Kennedy, and John Aguto are other people not associated with The Fragile.

Themes and lyrics

"About 10 years ago or so I locked myself away in a house on the ocean, and I tried to... I said I was trying to write some music. Some of which wound up on The Fragile. But what I was really doing was trying to kill myself. And the whole time I was away by myself, I managed to write one song, which is this song. So when I play it I feel pretty weird about it, because it takes me back to a pretty dark and awful time in my life. It's weird to think how different things are now: I'm still alive, I haven't died yet. And I'm afraid to go back to that place because it feels kind of haunting to me, but I'm going to go back. I'm going to get married [to Mariqueen Maandig] there."

 —Reznor, on the origins of the first instrumental written for the album "La Mer" at a 2009 performance in Mansfield, MA.[8]

In terms of narrative, virtually no references are made to the aspects depicted in The Downward Spiral. Like The Downward Spiral, The Fragile is a concept album, but, as a double album, is nearly twice the length of its predecessor. Reznor's vocals, for the most part, are much more melodic and somewhat softer, in contrast to his harsh and often angry singing in previous works. Unlike The Downward Spiral — an album with a plot detailing the destruction of a man — The Fragile — an album dealing with personal issues — has no storyline, and many of its themes contrast with The Downward Spiral's. The evidence of lyrics is not heavy.[9]

Despite 44 uses of profanity (inaugurating the majority of them evident on the album is "fuck", with "Starfuckers, Inc." having an intentional reliance on the word), The Fragile was not directly packaged with a Parental Advisory sticker, something added to most copies of The Downward Spiral. It was, however, printed on the sticker on the shrinkwrap.

In some ways, The Fragile is a response to The Downward Spiral. Reznor compared the lyrical content of the two albums:

I wanted this album to sound like there was something inherently flawed in the situation, like someone struggling to put the pieces together. The Downward Spiral was about peeling off layers and arriving at a naked, ugly end. This album starts at the end, then attempts to create order from chaos, but never reaches the goal. It’s probably a bleaker album because it arrives back where it starts — (with) the same emotion. The album begins "Somewhat Damaged" and ends "Ripe (With Decay)".[10]

The song "I'm Looking Forward to Joining You, Finally" is credited in the album's booklet as "for clara", suggesting that the song's topic, like "The Day the World Went Away", is about Reznor's grandmother, Clara Clark.

The Fragile motif

Listeners of the album have noticed two obvious uses of a chromatic trick known as "The Fragile motif". The first of these progressions is debuted on "The Frail", an instrumental piano piece (in G Minor), which later reappears as a basis for the guitar solo on the album's title track. The second motif is introduced on "La Mer". Its main melodic elements and bassline are taken in a different direction with "Into the Void".

Packaging

The cover artwork was designed by David Carson. A section within his book Fotografiks[11] reveals that the top section of the album cover is from a photo of a waterfall and the bottom section is from a closeup photo of the inside of some kind of seashell. Carson elaborated on this further in an image on his website:

[The] back was going to be the front until the last moment. Trent changed it saying 'it was kinda irritating' yet something about it we liked so maybe it fit the music. Front cover flowers I shot outside of Austin, Texas. The 1 hour place called and said they messed up and used the wrong chemicals and the film was ruined. I said 'lemme see 'em anyway'. This is how they came out. Cover image is a waterfall in Iceland and a seashell in the West Indies.[12]

Promotion

The first single, "The Day the World Went Away", was released two months before the album. "Into the Void" and "We're in This Together" proved to be the album's most successful singles. The B-side "Starfuckers, Inc." was released on the album as a track at the last minute , and became The Fragile's last single.

In support of The Fragile, the Nine Inch Nails live band reformed for the Fragility tour. The tour began in late 1999 and lasted until mid-2000, spanning Europe, Japan, New Zealand, Australia, and North America.[13] The tour consisted of two major legs, labeled Fragility 1.0 and Fragility 2.0. The live band lineup remained largely the same from the previous tour in support of The Downward Spiral, featuring Robin Finck on guitar, Charlie Clouser on keyboards, and Danny Lohner on bass guitar.[14][15] Reznor held open auditions to find a new drummer, eventually picking then-unknown Jerome Dillon.[16]

Nine Inch Nails' record label at the time, Interscope Records, reportedly refused to fund the promotional tour following The Fragile's lukewarm sales. Reznor instead committed himself to fund the entire tour himself, which had quickly sold-out. He concluded that "the reality is, I’m broke at the end of the tour," but also added "I will never present a show that isn’t fantastic."[17]

The tour featured increasingly large production values, including a triptych video display created by contemporary video artist Bill Viola.[18] Rolling Stone magazine named Fragility the best tour of 2000.[19]

In 2002, the tour documentary And All That Could Have Been was released featuring performances from the Fragility 2.0 tour. While making the DVD, Reznor commented on the tour in retrospect by saying "I thought the show was really, really good when we were doing it",[20] but later wrote that "I can't watch it at all. I was sick for most of that tour and I really don't think it was Nine Inch Nails at its best."[21]

Reissue

On September 21, 2009 (the tenth anniversary of the album's release), a Nine Inch Nails official Twitter update hinted that a deluxe 5.1 surround audio reissue of The Fragile was in the works and was scheduled for a 2010 release.[22]

During an interview with The New York Times that was broadcast on January 7th 2011, after questioned about the album Reznor explained:

The Fragile is weird because when it came out it felt like everyone hated it to me, and now it feels like it's everyone's favorite album, fan-wise. I was probably going to save this for some other announcement, but Alan Moulder's spent a couple of months restoring all the multitracks, prepping for a surround mix, and we plan on doing that this spring, and I'm not sure when it's going to come out but it's just something I'd like to get done and there's no record better than that to get surround mixed. It has to be Alan Moulder, and we both look back at that record - I've just spent some time with him now, he's still a very good friend of mine - and the experience of doing it in the bound that we had in literally two years, every day working together on that, was one of the best times in our lives. I think, in hindsight, I should have had [The Fragile] two single records, much Radiohead style with Kid A and Amnesiac, recorded at once, broken into two digestible chunks. Hey, it is what it is, but I thought about going back, redoing bits that I would mess around with to see how it would be if I were to do that record now, but I don't know if I should phase. Sometime this year expect something to come out surround-wise.[23]

Release and reception

Commercial performance

The Fragile was not as much of a commercial success as The Downward Spiral. Despite a strong start at #1 on the Billboard chart, selling 228,000 copies in its first week,[24] the album quickly slipped out of the top 10 the following week. This resulted in Nine Inch Nails setting a record for the biggest drop from number one.[25] Marilyn Manson's The Golden Age of Grotesque would go on to break the record in 2003. Nine Inch Nails would later return to the top spot with With Teeth (2005), which debuted at number one, selling faster than The Fragile.[26] On January 4, 2000, the album was certified double platinum in sales by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), following sales in excess of two million copies in the United States.[5]

Critical response

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic [27]
Robert Christgau (B)[28]
Entertainment Weekly (A-)[29]
Los Angeles Times [30]
The New York Times (favorable)[2]
Pitchfork Media (2.0/10)[6]
Rolling Stone [31]
Spin (9/10)[32]
USA Today [33]
The Village Voice (favorable)[34]

Upon its release, The Fragile received positive reviews from most music critics. It earned maximum ratings from publications such as the Alternative Press, Kerrang! and USA Today.[33][35][36] Ann Powers of Spin called it "a good old-fashioned strap-on-your-headphones experience", noting elements of "the art rock of King Crimson and Roxy Music, his classic inspirations, or the rhythmic symphonettes of electronica artists such as Autechre and Squarepusher" and writing that the album "interpolat[es] them with funk bass lines, North African minor-key modalities, and the floating tones of Symbolist composers like Debussy. For the fans, there's also plenty of guitar-generated, mechanically enhanced crunch".[32] Rolling Stone writer Rob Sheffield noted a "prog-rock vibe" and commented that "The Fragile is his version of Pink Floyd's The Wall, a double album that vents his alienation and misery into paranoid studio hallucinations, each track crammed with overdubs until there's no breathing room".[31]

However, Pitchfork Media panned the album and perceived overly melodramatic lyrics.[6] In his consumer guide for The Village Voice, critic Robert Christgau gave The Fragile a B rating and named it "Dud of the Month",[28] indicating "a bad record whose details rarely merit further thought".[37] Christgau commented that "Reznor delivers double-hoohah, every second remixed till it glistens like broken glass on a prison wall. Is the way he takes his petty pain out on the world a little, er, immature for a guy who's pushing 35? Never mind, I'm told—just immerse in the music".[28] The Fragile was included on several magazines' "end-of-year" album lists, including The Village Voice (#14), Rolling Stone (#4), and Spin (#1).[38]

Track listing

All songs written and composed by Trent Reznor, except where noted. 

Left disc
No. Title Length
1. "Somewhat Damaged" (Reznor, Danny Lohner) 4:31
2. "The Day the World Went Away"   4:33
3. "The Frail"   1:54
4. "The Wretched"   5:25
5. "We're in This Together"   7:16
6. "The Fragile"   4:35
7. "Just Like You Imagined"   3:49
8. "Even Deeper" (Reznor, Lohner) 5:48
9. "Pilgrimage"   3:31
10. "No, You Don't"   3:35
11. "La Mer"   4:37
12. "The Great Below"   5:17
Total length:
 54:51
Right disc
No. Title Length
1. "The Way Out Is Through" (Reznor, Keith Hillebrandt, Charlie Clouser) 4:17
2. "Into the Void"   4:49
3. "Where Is Everybody?"   5:40
4. "The Mark Has Been Made" (includes a hidden intro to "10 Miles High") 5:15
5. "Please"   3:30
6. "Starfuckers, Inc." (Reznor, Clouser) 5:00
7. "Complication"   2:30
8. "I'm Looking Forward to Joining You, Finally"   4:13
9. "The Big Come Down"   4:12
10. "Underneath It All"   2:46
11. "Ripe (With Decay)"   6:34
Total length:
 48:46
Cassette version

This release is identical to the CD pressing, with the exclusive addition of "+appendage" attached to the end of "Please".

Side One.A
No. Title Length
1. "Somewhat Damaged" (Reznor, Danny Lohner) 4:31
2. "The Day the World Went Away"   4:33
3. "The Frail"   1:54
4. "The Wretched"   5:25
5. "We're in This Together"   7:16
6. "The Fragile"   4:35
7. "Just Like You Imagined"   3:49
Total length:
 32:03
Side One.B
No. Title Length
1. "Even Deeper" (Reznor, Lohner) 5:48
2. "Pilgrimage"   3:31
3. "No, You Don't"   3:35
4. "La Mer"   4:37
5. "The Great Below"   5:17
Total length:
 22:48
Side 2.A
No. Title Length
1. "The Way Out Is Through" (Reznor, Keith Hillebrandt, Charlie Clouser) 4:17
2. "Into the Void"   4:49
3. "Where Is Everybody?"   5:40
4. "The Mark Has Been Made" (includes a hidden intro to "10 Miles High") 5:15
5. "Please (+appendage)"   6:19
Total length:
 26:20
Side 2.B
No. Title Length
1. "Starfuckers, Inc." (Reznor, Clouser) 5:00
2. "Complication"   2:30
3. "I'm Looking Forward to Joining You, Finally"   4:13
4. "The Big Come Down"   4:12
5. "Underneath It All"   2:46
6. "Ripe (With Decay)"   6:34
Total length:
 25:15
Vinyl version

This release of The Fragile contains the songs "10 Miles High" and "The New Flesh" (both of which were later released as part of the "We're in This Together" single.) The latter track appears on the vinyl version of The Fragile, disc 1 of the European and Japanese "We're in This Together" 3-disc single, and the Australian "Into the Void" single.

"The Day the World Went Away", "The Wretched", "Even Deeper" and "La Mer" are all extended mixes, while the opening and closing of each side eliminates the crossfading between songs found on the CD and cassette versions, due to the nature of the vinyl medium. Finally, "Ripe" was shortened by removing the conclusive "(With Decay)" portion of the song.

Disc 1 Side A
No. Title Length
1. "Somewhat Damaged" (Reznor, Danny Lohner) 4:31
2. "The Day the World Went Away"   5:01
3. "The Frail"   1:54
4. "The Wretched"   5:36
Total length:
 17:02
Disc 1 Side B
No. Title Length
1. "We're in This Together"   7:16
2. "The Fragile"   4:35
3. "Just Like You Imagined"   3:49
4. "Even Deeper" (Reznor, Lohner) 6:14
Total length:
 21:54
Disc 2 Side A
No. Title Length
1. "Pilgrimage"   3:31
2. "No, You Don't"   3:35
3. "La Mer"   5:02
4. "The Great Below"   5:17
Total length:
 17:25
Disc 2 Side B
No. Title Length
1. "The Way Out Is Through" (Reznor, Keith Hillebrandt, Charlie Clouser) 4:17
2. "Into the Void"   4:49
3. "Where Is Everybody?"   5:40
4. "The Mark Has Been Made"   4:43
Total length:
 19:29
Disc 3 Side A
No. Title Length
1. "10 Miles High"   5:13
2. "Please"   3:30
3. "Starfuckers, Inc." (Reznor, Clouser) 5:00
4. "Complication"   2:30
5. "The New Flesh"   3:40
Total length:
 19:53
Disc 3 Side B
No. Title Length
1. "I'm Looking Forward to Joining You, Finally"   4:13
2. "The Big Come Down"   4:12
3. "Underneath It All"   2:46
4. "Ripe"   5:15
Total length:
 16:26

Personnel

Credits for The Fragile adapted from liner notes:[39]

  • Tom Baker – mastering
  • Adrian Belew – guitars (7, 12, 15)
  • Heather Bennet – backing vocals
  • Clinton Bradley – programming, technical assistant to Bob Ezrin
  • Buddha Boys Choir – choir, chorus, chant
  • Buddha Debutante Choir – backing vocals
  • Di Coleman – backing vocals
  • Charlie Clouser – programming, synthesizers, atmospheres
  • Melissa Daigle – backing vocals
  • Paul DeCarli – programming
  • Jerome Dillon – drums (5)
  • Dr. Dre – mixing assistant (8)
  • Steve Duda – programming, choir, chorus, percussion, violin
  • Eric Edmonson – choir, chorus
  • Bob Ezrin – album sequencing assistant
  • Mike Garson – piano (7, 13, 23)
  • Page Hamilton – guitar (10)
  • Tracy Hardin – backing vocals
  • Leo Herrera – engineer
  • Keith Hillebrandt – programming, additional sound design, choir, chorus
  • Cherry Holly – trumpet
  • Doug Idleman – choir, chorus
  • Mason Kemmer – violin, donair supplier
  • Danny Lohner – drum programming, ambiance, synthesizers, guitar (1, 7, 12, 19)
  • Marcus London – choir, chorus
  • Clint Mansell – choir, chorus
  • Denise Milfort – vocals (11)
  • Judy Miller – backing vocals
  • Alan Moulder – producer, engineer, mixing
  • Gary I. Neal – backing vocals
  • Matthew Nicholls – backing vocals
  • Dave Ogilvie – engineer
  • Christine Parrish – backing vocals
  • Adam Persaud – choir, chorus
  • Brian Pollack – engineer
  • Kim Prevost – vocals
  • Trent Reznor – vocals, guitars, bass guitar, cello, piano, synthesizers, programming, producer
  • Elquine Rice – backing vocals
  • Terry Rice – backing vocals
  • Bill Rieflin – drums (12)
  • M. Gabriela Rivas – backing vocals
  • Nick Scott – choir, chorus
  • Rodney Sulton – backing vocals
  • Stefani Taylor – backing vocals
  • Nigel Wiesehan – choir, chorus
  • Willie – cello
  • Barbara Wilson – backing vocals
  • Leslie Wilson – backing vocals
  • Martha Wood – backing vocals

Chart history

Chart positions

Album
Chart (1999) Peak
position
Australian Albums Chart[40] 2
Austrian Albums Chart[41] 14
Belgium Albums Chart (Flanders)[42] 36
Canadian Albums Chart[43] 2
Finnish Albums Chart[44] 10
French Albums Chart[45] 27
German Albums Chart[46] 17
New Zealand Albums Chart[47] 28
Norwegian Albums Chart[48] 9
Swedish Albums Chart[49] 18
UK Albums Chart[50] 10
US Billboard 200[43] 1

Singles

Year Song Chart peak positions
US
[51]		 US
Mod.
[51]		 US
Main.
[51]		 AUS
[40]		 CAN
[52]		 NZ
[47]		 UK
[50]
1999 "The Day the World Went Away" 17 — — 31 1 15 —
"We're In This Together" — 11 21 — — — 39
2000 "Into the Void" — 11 27 — 4 — —
"Starfuckers, Inc." — 39 — — — — —
"—" denotes a release that did not chart.

Chart procession and succession

Preceded by
Ruff Ryders' First Lady by Eve		 Billboard 200 number-one album
October 9–15, 1999		 Succeeded by
Human Clay by Creed

Certifications

Country Certifications
(sales thresholds)
Canada[53] 2x Platinum
United States[54] 2x Platinum

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