No Problem!

Which reminds me, I find it strage that most people formerly liked Nine Inch Nails don't like them anymore because:

A) They want every album released to sound exactly like Pretty Hate Machine.

B) They are bitter that The Fragile wasn't The Downward Spiral part II.

Not taking cheap shots at anyone in this thread, it's just something I noticed, and I don't get it. If NIN still sounded like Pretty Hate Machine to this day, I don't think many people would be interested anymore. 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 feel that if The Fragile was just another Downward Spiral, the very same people who lost interest because they viewed The Fragile as too big of a departure from how they thought NIN should sound would be disappointed that they waited five years to hear the same record released in 1994.

I mean, I can understand why people think this way, but I just don't get it. Every band is going to have their style, sure...but I rather hear variety in between each record unlike [insert most of today's music here].