The Fragile - Original 1999 US Nothing/Interscope label 25-track 3LP Set

Rare 1999 US Nothing/Interscope limited edition 25-track triple LP - the master of industrial noise-rocks 3rd album under the Nine Inch Nails moniker - a step away from the thematic irritability, alianation and stark furiosity of Pretty Hate Machines and Downwards Spiral and a deep plunge into the unsettling and disquieting introvert.

The vinyl version features "10 Miles High" and "The New Flesh" and "The Day the World Went Away", "The Wretched", "Even Deeper" and "La Mer" are all extended mixes compared to CD versions.

Vinyls has custom pictur labels and comes complete with 24-page full colour lyric booklet - gatefold picture sleeve


Condition: 3xVG++ (Vinyl and Labels)/M- (Booklet)/VG+(+) (Cover):

Vinyls has from almost none to a touch of sleeve wear only - labels from a single short and barely noticeable and on a couple of labels less than a handfull of slightly more complex and scattered spindletraces - all in all very minor signs of play or handling inducing a close to mint grading.

Booklet has no signs of handling or age - cover has faint imprint of vinyl and a little wrinkling in corner regions from milder cover bends - inner spread has this to a much lesser degree.
Seams are perfect and straight and corners very nice with just a touch of denting or rubbing - a very nice cover which overall is graded close to near perfect/excellent.

Not perfect but a way above awerage copy of this rare 1990ies alt rock-industrial classic.

Tracklisting:

Side 1:
1. Somewhat Damaged
2. The Day The World Went Away
3. The Frail
4. The Wretched

Side 2:
1. We're In This Together
2. The Fragile
3. Just Like You Imagined
4. Even Deeper

Side 3:
1. Pilgrimage
2. No, You Don't
3. La Mer
4. The Great Below

Side 4:
1. The Way Out Is Through
2. Into The Void
3. Where Is Everybody?
4. The Mark Has Been Made

Side 5:
1. Ten Miles High
2. Please
3. Starfuckers, Inc.
4. Complication
5. The New Flesh

Side 6:
1. I'm Looking Forward To Joining You, Finally
2. The Big Come Down
3. Underneath It All
4. Ripe (With Decay)

Recorded January 1997 - February 1999 at Nothing Studios in New Orleans

Credits:
Trent Reznor - vocals, guitars, bass guitar, cello, piano, synthesizers, programming

Denise Milfort - vocals (La Mer)
Kim Prevost - vocals (Into the Void)
Adrian Belew - guitars (Just Like You Imagined, The Great Below, Where Is Everybody?)
Page Hamilton - guitar (No, You Don't)
Clinton Bradley, Paul DeCarli - programming
Charlie Clouser - programming, synthesizers, atmospheres
Steve Duda - programming, percussion (Pilgrimage), violin (Ripe (With Decay))
Keith Hillebrandt - programming, additional sound design, choir
Jerome Dillon - drums (We're in This Together)
Bill Rieflin - drums (La Mer)
Danny Lohner - drum programming, ambiance, synthesizers, guitar (Somewhat Damaged, Just Like You Imagined, The Great Below, Complication)
Mike Garson - piano (Just Like You Imagined, The Way Out Is Through, Ripe (With Decay))
Cherry Holly - trumpet (Pilgrimage)
Mason Kemmer - violin, donair supplier
Willie - cello (La Mer)

Heather Bennett, Buddha Debutante Choir, Melissa Daigle, Judy Miller, Christine Parrish, M. Gabriela Rivas, Martha Wood, Fae Young - backing vocals (The Day the World Went Away")
Di Coleman, Tracy Hardin, Gary I. Neal, Traci Nelson, Elquine L. Rice, Terry L. Rice, Rodney Sulton, Stefani Taylor, Barbara Wilson, Leslie Wilson - backing vocals (Even Deeper)
Eric Edmonson, Doug Idleman, Marcus London, Adam Persaud, Nick Scott, Nigel Wiesehan - choir, chorus (Starfuckers, Inc.)
Steve Duda, Clint Mansell, Buddha Boys Choir, Keith Hillebrandt - choir, chorus, Chant (Pilgrimage, Starfuckers, Inc.)
Matthew Nicholls - backing vocals

Technical Credits:
Trent Reznor - production
Alan Moulder - production, engineer, mix
Bob Ezrin - album sequencing assistant
Clinton Bradley - Technical assistant to Bob Ezrin
Leo Herrera, Dave Ogilvie, Brian Pollack - engineer
Dr. Dre - mixing assistant (Even Deeper)
Tom Baker - mastering

Artwork:
David Carson - Cover Atwork/Photography