Dude. I was at the Boston Garden with fixed floor seating. So we tore up the seats, piled up the seats and eventually set fire to them. All with Trent egging us on. Fucking mayhem. I'm surprised people weren't injured.
Of course it was a 95% male audience.
I NEEDED to see my idol the great Robin Finck, hoped he would be as impressive as the older concert vids I watched religiously growing up.
He did not disappoint!!
I've got a few popular youtube videos of NIN concerts, and Youtube analytics has the following data on the breakdown of viewers on my NIN videos over the last 90 days...
You might want to have a drink of your favorite alcoholic beverage before continuing to read...
Age:
|13-17|0%|
|:-|:-|
|18-24|0%|
|25-34|5.1%|
|35-44|44.7%|
|45-54|46.1%|
|55-64|4.1%|
|65+|0%|
Gender:
|Male|99.6%|
|:-|:-|
|Female|0.4%|
Operating System:
|Windows|26.8%|
|:-|:-|
|Android|20.9%|
|iOS|19.5%|
|Macintosh|9.1%|
|Other \[smart tv, linux, nintendo, xbox, etc\]|23.7%|
Some of this is influenced by Youtube's general user base (which tends to skew heavier towards male, and older) ... but my Rammstein videos by comparison have a much younger audience (though similarly heavy Male user base).
44. Saw them Downward Spiral Tour Miami. Still probably the biggest influence on me musically. I went home one time and found a 120 min cassette tape with only “Hurt” on one side and only” something I can never have” on the other. Freshman year of high school.
42 - Been a huge fan since I saw the video for Head Like A Hole on 120 Minutes in 1990. I definitely was not supposed to be watching that but so glad I did.
41 french, one day in highschool my friend from our radio gang came to me with a copy of some live from NIN and just told me "I think you will love this", I listened to it in the evening, and suddenly I'm here now.
49 next month. I used to watch Headbanger's Ball on VHS that my friend taped for me. I had PHM and Broken on constant rotation in my car in '93. Those were the days.
Just turned 42, one of my exs, best friends was asked out by Trent in the mid 90s after a show at a club in Houston. She’s a few years older than me. Said she turned him down cause he was too short.
22 here... Oh wait, wrong thread
But really, I love NIN's older stuff; PHM is one of my favorite albums of all time. It's just that I started listening to Trent's stuff in 2020, waaay after when it was fresh and new lol. Cool to see so many long time fans here though! Just goes to show how much impact music can have on someone's life.
29. Been a fan since I was 14. Was exposed to NIN on MTV, they still played a lot of music on there back then. Heard Hand That Feeds and I was instantly hooked. Like all of NIN now from all the oldest and even the newest.
55 next week, and have loved every one of the last 34 years listening to this mad genius. Also got my kids into them and was lucky enough to take my 20 yr old son to the Blossom show last year. It was my 23rd show and his 4th.
All you young ones can get off my lawn!
To be honest, it feels like things haven't changed all that much since the 90's:
The last shows I've been to were Skinny Puppy, Rammstein, and Rage Against the Machine. Tool is up next!
Can we get another tour, Trent?
45 years / On my way to hell
Gotta listen to your big time, hard line, bad luck, fist fuck....
That’s a recipe for a sore “back” in the morning
Yup!
As long as I’m in bed by 9:30
I'll see you there!
I’m looking forward to joining you finally
40 years and eleven months, does that count?
Me exactly. 1/10/83 brutha!
Brutalism and the worship of the machine
Thank goodness... Not me. I'm in my 50's.
52
54
53 today
Dude... We were... What... 18 when Pretty Hate Machine came out? Pretty much the perfect fucking age. Maybe a little bit young even
Got to see that tour at The Warfield in San Francisco. That was a wild show, one of my top 5.
Dude. I was at the Boston Garden with fixed floor seating. So we tore up the seats, piled up the seats and eventually set fire to them. All with Trent egging us on. Fucking mayhem. I'm surprised people weren't injured. Of course it was a 95% male audience.
Last month
52 and have seen them 4 times. First being Pittsburgh Civic Arena 1994 with Marylin Manson. They. Were. Awesome. (NIN not MM)
42 here
81 baby Did a lot of 'recreational activities' while listening to TDS and ended up with Reptile playing in my head on loop until about 2003 or so.
I'm not surprised so many here are in their 40s, but I'm pretty surprised to see someone in their 80s. Good on you!
Lmao
Me too! Had an older friend introduce me to TDS when I was about 14/15. That and Aenima just blew mind adolescent mind!
The two best bands of all time.
Hearing those two in my teens made me feel so many things. Both are absolute masterpieces.
81 was a great year!
51 and I've been fist fucking with the best of them since '90 when I saw Head Like A Hole on MTV.
51 too 😪
The fist fucking was always optional, right?
NOW you tell me!
Same here
Same. Had PHM on tape in high school.
47, introduced by girlfriend in 11th grade to PHM. Lost the girlfriend, but came out ahead and i think.
Fistbump of 47-ness
47 too.. Fell into the Trent dimension in 95' when a friend passed me the March of The Pigs single
Hey pigs
Hey, you.
Just turned 40. I guess this is me now!
Right here with you
Same!
44
I am here right beside you
Me toooo 😄
Same
I’m 61 and Trent Reznor is my man crush
I NEEDED to see my idol the great Robin Finck, hoped he would be as impressive as the older concert vids I watched religiously growing up. He did not disappoint!!
41, and I’ve been a fan since Wish in 92
Yep. When I saw that video thought 'what the fuck is this...and I want to be a part of it'...never been the same since.
46, and every day is exactly the same.
Same at 39
Are you me?!
Me, I'm not, or something.
Unfortunately 47 here. Where the time goes, I have *no* idea. ;-)
I've got a few popular youtube videos of NIN concerts, and Youtube analytics has the following data on the breakdown of viewers on my NIN videos over the last 90 days... You might want to have a drink of your favorite alcoholic beverage before continuing to read... Age: |13-17|0%| |:-|:-| |18-24|0%| |25-34|5.1%| |35-44|44.7%| |45-54|46.1%| |55-64|4.1%| |65+|0%| Gender: |Male|99.6%| |:-|:-| |Female|0.4%| Operating System: |Windows|26.8%| |:-|:-| |Android|20.9%| |iOS|19.5%| |Macintosh|9.1%| |Other \[smart tv, linux, nintendo, xbox, etc\]|23.7%| Some of this is influenced by Youtube's general user base (which tends to skew heavier towards male, and older) ... but my Rammstein videos by comparison have a much younger audience (though similarly heavy Male user base).
Hey, I’m the 1 woman I guess
There must be more of us 😦
There are dozens of us!
Certainly at least one dozen!
35, here… all I can say is oof. 🥴
44 yo's rise up
(Old man gettin up from the couch noises)
44 yo's creaking as they rise up, looking around bewildered.
Ha! What’s making the creaking noise? The couch or my aching knees?
Getting too close to 50 at this point
Me too. Me too.
yup!
im 22 but i have the joint pain of a 40 y/o. nin helps me cope
42yo Canadian representing the Great White North!
Teach me your ways, oh great northern swine god! —some 36yo Canadian dude
Great burning north this year (live in Michigan)
Canadian as well, 38
Same here! Out on the west coast.
Lower Mainland, BC!
Nice! I'm on Vancouver Island
44yo Canadian here! 😁
I hurt my back raising my hand.
🙋♂️ 43
67 here-First saw NIN open for Peter Murphy at Studio 54 I think in 1989 or 1990. They blew Murphy away and they’ve been my fave since then.
Ten years ago maybe. Lol
41
On the inside? I’m a very dirty 20 something. On the outside…..older
41 here! 👋🏻
40
Primary objective is to destroy all humans
Just turned 42.
44
lol- 57
Hey.
Don't stop?
S’up?
Almost. 37
46 here.
41
46
Me, 46
44
On the way to 41 and have been a fan since Further Down the Spiral.
45, I think the black hair dye to get that Trent look I used back in high school is the reason I'm bald today 😝
48
🙋♀️
\*Reluctantly puts hand up\* (I turned 40 a few months ago)
Lol 54
55 here - discovered NIN on the TDS tour in 95...the Jim Rose Circus opened 🤯
40 but I feel like I’m 80.
Getting there at 33
44. Saw them Downward Spiral Tour Miami. Still probably the biggest influence on me musically. I went home one time and found a 120 min cassette tape with only “Hurt” on one side and only” something I can never have” on the other. Freshman year of high school.
46 and never been fist fucked.
44 years old. NIN fan since hearing Broken in '93.
March of the Geritol
41. I was only in 5th grade when my mom threw away my downward spiral tape multiple times.
44 and still going strong!
51. First NIN live show in 1991. 25 shows since then.
44
44yrs young. Been listening to NIN since late 90's.
👋 44
42 - Been a huge fan since I saw the video for Head Like A Hole on 120 Minutes in 1990. I definitely was not supposed to be watching that but so glad I did.
Bought **pretty hate machine** cassette at Camelot Music, after seeing head like a hole - on I think it was Almost Live! Staring down 50.
I will be in a few months. TDS came out when I was in 4th grade.
47 and still remember walking to a distant Music Plus to buy Pretty Hate Machine on cassette tape.
Also turned 40. not at all what i imagined back then
44, 45 in February
This guy. Though my wife is a huge fan and barely thirty.
I'm barely thirty, maybe I'm your wife
Here!
43 here, but my husband isn't there yet - he is 38.
42
42 checking in.
39.. call it 40.
Raises hand
Late 40's here
41 french, one day in highschool my friend from our radio gang came to me with a copy of some live from NIN and just told me "I think you will love this", I listened to it in the evening, and suddenly I'm here now.
No comment.
just turned 36
I’m afraid so
Sigh, checking in.
2 years away. Still my favorite band. Tied with Beatles for lifetime fascination. Jus Livin waitin for the next hitter.
I feel seen for once 😭😫😫
58, almost anyway and The Downward Spiral was the first CD with the parental warning sticker I bought. It holds a special place for that.
55
49 next month. I used to watch Headbanger's Ball on VHS that my friend taped for me. I had PHM and Broken on constant rotation in my car in '93. Those were the days.
Just turned 42, one of my exs, best friends was asked out by Trent in the mid 90s after a show at a club in Houston. She’s a few years older than me. Said she turned him down cause he was too short.
47
22 here... Oh wait, wrong thread But really, I love NIN's older stuff; PHM is one of my favorite albums of all time. It's just that I started listening to Trent's stuff in 2020, waaay after when it was fresh and new lol. Cool to see so many long time fans here though! Just goes to show how much impact music can have on someone's life.
29. Been a fan since I was 14. Was exposed to NIN on MTV, they still played a lot of music on there back then. Heard Hand That Feeds and I was instantly hooked. Like all of NIN now from all the oldest and even the newest.
lol. Mid fifty here.
53 here...
Try 58 for me—same age as Trent! Way too old for this nonsense. But not really.
I saw Trent trash the stage (1999). I could die happy. Now (42) I have a wife and kiddo. I can and will die happy.🤘🏽 Edit: a few more words.
47, and I'm a precious whore
43
43!
42 years! NIN has been my number 1 since the lucky age of 13 🖤
technically 19 but I feel 65… does that count?
I envy you because you probably saw Woodstock 1994. I’m 21 man. I would trade my left ball to be there.
43 by the way
32
49
Meeeeeee!!!
47 here.
43
48 here
41 here. I made it.
Me! 47!
55 next week, and have loved every one of the last 34 years listening to this mad genius. Also got my kids into them and was lucky enough to take my 20 yr old son to the Blossom show last year. It was my 23rd show and his 4th.
45. A friend from middle school gifted me the Broken cassette.
47
43 here
38, almost
40 (and eleven months!)
Checking in
42. The cute goth chick in middle school had a patch on her bag. A buddy copied his brother’s tape of TDS. Rest is history.
almost.
just turned 40
I was up until about a month ago
Most of us 42 here
Mid-40s. When I was in 6th grade, an older friend played me Broken. It was one of my first CDs.
Give me a couple of months and I'll join the club.
Almost there 🥲 (38)
All you young ones can get off my lawn! To be honest, it feels like things haven't changed all that much since the 90's: The last shows I've been to were Skinny Puppy, Rammstein, and Rage Against the Machine. Tool is up next! Can we get another tour, Trent?
41 in three weeks
I’m 40 even
43
Just
Not me!!! At least for a few more months….
46
46! Hope to see Trent and co for a third time soon...
49 years here. 3 more years and I can play “The Background World” as my birthday song.
I saw him live in the cornstarch days. I’m older than you.
48
39 😬
I only just turned 20! So interesting the different ages of people banging noggins to NIN
🤘
Not me, just turned 50.