Things Falling Apart

1	Slipping Away 6:11
2	The Great Collapse 4:42
3	The Wretched 5:52
4	Starfuckers, Inc. 5:11
5	The Frail 2:47
6	Starfuckers, Inc. 6:06
7	Where Is Everybody? 5:07
8	Metal 7:06
9	10 Miles High 5:11
10	Starfuckers, Inc. 5:09

Barnes & Noble

Trent Reznor has made a habit of releasing a remix disc based on every "official" Nine Inch Nails album, and this one is a look back at The Fragile, stripping away its bulk and conceptual heft to reveal a jagged, nasty, industrial-rock machine. In some ways, it's a "thank you" to the past masters of Reznor's art: One of the new tracks here is a version of steel-and-glass new waver Gary Numan's "Metal" (featuring what seems to be a sample from ESG's proto-alt-rock club standard "UFO"), and the anti-Marilyn Manson rant "Starfuckers Inc." gets remixed by both Skinny Puppy's Dave Ogilvie and On-U Sound dub master Adrian Sherwood. (You can't hear Trent scream that title too many times, it turns out.) But it's also a glimpse at what The Fragile might have been as a bunch of songs rather than a rock opera. The psychotic dirge "10 Miles High," previously banished to the vinyl version of The Fragile, gets rehabilitated and promptly vivisected in the mix; the brief piano interlude "The Frail" is developed into a more fully realized composition for strings. There's nothing hugely surprising here (you were expecting maybe a cover of "Sunshine, Lollipops and Rainbows"?), but if Reznor's limited to a single emotional tone, he still articulates it better than anyone. Douglas Wolk

All Music Guide

After Nine Inch Nails' 1999 double album, The Fragile, came Things Falling Apart, a collection of remixes with three versions of "Starfuckers Inc." ~ Adam Bregman, All Music Guide