Quote Originally Posted by Sephex View Post
Hell, most music critcs would say that the most sucessful peroid for NIN was 94-97. Sure, they don't have the mainstream exposure that they did during 94-97 anymore, but there are still many, many fans that enjoy NIN (example: The servers to download the new album crashed because there were much more people downloading it than expected).
I think it was more popular then because NIN's musical genre was fairly new back then. Now there are a bunch of copycats and wannabes that want to be as good, so obviously Reznor's style had to change so he remained more unique. Genius, IMO.