Nine Inch Nails Farewell Setlist Should Look A Lot Like This
A few months ago at the Bonnaroo Festival, Trent Reznor announced that his band's show there would be the final Nine Inch Nails performance in North America, at least for the time being. Now that the band's tour dates in Europe with Jane's Addiction are winding down, the band has announced they will do a series of farewell shows in small venues in a handful of cities starting at the end of August. The final dates have not been confirmed, but Reznor says he'll take Nine Inch Nails to intimate locations like New York's Bowery Ballroom, Los Angeles' Echoplex and Chicago's Aragon Ballroom. "Upon reflection, the NIN/JA tour felt like we had to rush through sets due to a limited allotted set length and many shows were in daylight," Reznor wrote on the band's official site. "It just didn't feel right to end NIN that way."
Reznor says the shows will contain longer set lists and special guests, which is exciting. But a Nine Inch Nails concert is a slippery slope, and though Reznor and his tour band remain some of the best and most dynamic rock shows on the road, it's hard to get excited over the forays into moody instrumentals in between "Happiness in Slavery" and "March of the Pigs."
So as a service to Reznor, here's the ideal Nine Inch Nails set list for what will be their final, no-seriously-this-is-the-last-time-no-takebacks set of shows. Obviously there's plenty of room for variation, but it shouldn't deviate far from this group of songs. And seriously: Nothing from Ghosts I-IV.
"Somewhat Damaged"
"1,000,000"
"Discipline"
"Last"
"You Know What You Are?"
"Piggy"
"The Collector"
"Reptile"
"Terrible Lie"
"Heresy"
"Happiness in Slavery"
"Hurt"
"That's What I Get"
What favorites have were left off? Drop your dream setlist into the comments!
