And All That Could Have Been is a double album by the American industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails, released on January 22, 2002, by Nothing and Interscope Records. The live album contains music recorded during the Fragility v2.0 US tour in 2000. Disc one is a live album of most of the band's normal set list of the time, while disc two contains a studio album titled Still, containing "deconstructed" versions of previous Nine Inch Nails songs and some new material. The double DVD set, sold separately, includes video recordings of the songs performed on the CD, as well as additional song performances and footage from the tour.
Fragility
Trent Reznor said that work on this release would serve as a transition between the tour and the next album.
He spent most of a year producing it in a manner similar to his studio production, with the songs flowing into each other.
The release was delayed from late 2001 to January 2002.
Although Reznor said "I thought the show was really, really good when we were doing it" while producing the DVD,
CD version
There are two retail versions of the CD set: a 'deluxe' limited edition, packaged in a gray cloth case
Live
The Live disc is a "loud" recording of performances from the Fragility 2.0 tour. Without introduction, it begins immediately with "Terrible Lie".
Still
Still contains subdued renditions of older songs and five new songs. According to the NIN website, four of the songs were "recorded live in a deconstructed fashion."
Some of the tracks off Still are evolutions of rejected themes that were originally written for Mark Romanek's One Hour Photo.
"Leaving Hope" is also the name under which Reznor has published music since the beginning of his songwriting career. Reznor later allowed "Leaving Hope" to be used in a public service announcement for Hurricane Katrina disaster relief.
Videos for the performances of "Something I Can Never Have", "Gone, Still" (with Jerome Dillon), and "The Becoming" (with Dillon and Danny Lohner) were published on the official NIN website.
The band also performed an intimate acoustic set at the Chicago Recording Company during the Fragility 2.0 tour, which is available online and on bootleg CD, as The CRC Sessions; it includes arrangements of "Something I Can Never Have" and "The Day the World Went Away" that prefigure their Still recordings, as well as two versions of "Hurt" and full band performances of "The Fragile", "Even Deeper", and "The Big Come Down". Nine Inch Nails' studio musician, Keith Hillebrandt, had filled in on keyboards for the absent Clouser at the session.
Track listing
Weekly charts
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! scope="row"| Canadian Albums (Nielsen SoundScan)
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| 86
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| 62
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Year-end charts
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! scope="row"| Canadian Alternative Albums (Nielsen SoundScan)
| 99
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! scope="row"| Canadian Metal Albums (Nielsen SoundScan)
| 45
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DVD
The DVD version, produced by Trent Reznor and directed by Rob Sheridan, comprises video footage from the 2000 Fragility 2.0 tour. Sheridan and other members of the band's crew filmed the tour using consumer DV cameras, and the DVD was then put together internally at Reznor's New Orleans studio, where Sheridan and Reznor edited it on a Mac using Final Cut Pro and compiled it with DVD Studio Pro.
Although Reznor originally hired a filming company, he changed his mind based on cost
The DVD package includes a clear, plastic slip with a message from Reznor.
Video artist Bill Viola created the multi-screen magnified imagery for "La Mer", "The Great Below", and "The Mark Has Been Made".
Bonus features and easter eggs
The DVD version has a number of bonus features and hidden easter eggs. In disc 1, there are alternate stationary camera angles for "La Mer", "The Great Below" and "The Mark Has Been Made". A stationary angle version for "Gave Up" is found by hitting ENTER at 26:58, or from the supplemental content menu on the DTS version.
Disc 2 includes a photo gallery and an audio commentary by Bill Viola discussing his video effects for "La Mer", "The Great Below" and "The Mark Has Been Made". The NinetyNine commercial (0:30) can be viewed by highlight "Main Menu" in the supplemental content menu, then pressing LEFT, UP, then ENTER. A performance of "Reptile" (6:24) can be found by pressing UP then ENTER during "Suck" at 1:06. A performance of "The Day the World Went Away" (6:36) featuring clips from a scrapped music video can be viewed by pressing LEFT, RIGHT, DOWN, UP, ENTER at 16:10.
If ENTER is pressed at 24:15 during "Starfuckers, Inc.", then a video plays in which Marilyn Manson appears on stage to sing the end of that song, followed by a performance of "The Beautiful People" by Nine Inch Nails and Manson at the Madison Square Garden. the "Beneath The Surface" menu appears, which allows access to the aforementioned easter eggs as well as promo spots for The Fragile (0:30) and its remix album Things Falling Apart (1:02).
Track listing
Also contains an unlisted mix of "The New Flesh" and "Pinion" that serves as an introduction before "Terrible Lie". The DVD version comes on two discs, splitting the concert between "Complication" and "Suck".
Personnel
- Trent Reznor – vocals, guitar, keyboards, bass guitar, Prophet VS
- Danny Lohner – bass guitar, guitar, synthesizer, backing vocals
- Robin Finck – guitar, synthesizer, E-bow, backing vocals
- Charlie Clouser – synthesizer, theremin, vocoder, backing vocals
- Jerome Dillon – drums, acoustic guitar
References
External links
- And All That Could Have Been (halo) at the Nine Inch Nails Wiki
- at NIN Collector
- Halo 17 lyrics