That and Mr Self Destruct. Best opening tracks ever...

The fragile album is a masterpiece.

I can see the dislike for video quality, but god this song is out of control

I so wish i could have seen them during Fragility.

man cant help but think this is trent's most passionate song, i think in part due to how masterfully the lyrics are crafted near the end in contrast with the start of the song. towards the end, the sentence structure just starts breaking down and turns into fragmented screams. how i wish i could write something 5% as eloquent.. bravo. this is my favorite nin song and i much prefer the original arrangement over the newer more acapella live version. perhaps the original strains the vocal chords more

I like the new intro too, but this one is raw, and would blow my socks off if it started a show.

Whats more crazy is that most bands only have a handful of great songs, not an entire album full of greatness let alone Fragile double disc epicness. Every Track from start to finish all perfectly synced. I was 13 when i first heard this album and my older brother never got it back :) Still to this day It puts most albums to shame.

Best live performance of this song I've seen. Despite the video quality, the sound captures the spirit of the album better than the more recent covers. The guitars are brutally distorted as they were on The Fragile. I'd love to see the actual DVD of this! Thanks for posting.

it's crazy, they open with this song, most bands don't even have a song this good to close with

All these bands that try to rip-off NIN and Manson fail because they miss all the things that actually made them great and memorable

Hey there, I thought it was pretty awesome to find this on youtube. I still have the masters from it somewhere. That took me the better part of 6 months to make, collecting all the bootleg footage, then sync'ing it up to the best sound board copies I could find at the time. Also did a bit of remixing on them. Cheers Scott Fitzpatrick / Silent Narcotic.

this song saved my life

I seen this show twice in a 4 day span once at the Gorge in George Washington followed up by a second show in Spokane.... probly the most memorable set of shows I've ever seen....I mean not every day your gonna get APC (original line up)as a under card band .... hell i have a broken keyboard key.from the Spokane show its priceless to me ...

I so wish that they would perform the studio intro to this song again, the new one is good but the original is better.

Such an insane performance!

awesome song from a great band! this was NIN in their prime.

I was there at Brixton Academy back in the day and they opened with this song. My friend was so smashed in there that he nearly missed the whole concert! This was a great concert

best live version ever

my local rock station is gay they only play edited version of Closer and Head Like a Hole.

Old school bootleg quality. Awesome!

A true master of dynamics. It's damn beautiful

Too Fucked Up to Care Anymore!!!!

THIS SONG SLAYS THE WORLD.

Thanks for sharing. Fragility tour was the best, followed them from NC, SC,GA, LA, TX. WHERE THE FUCK WERE YOU????!!

The real guy that shaped real music fo 30years. We all tore off this guys genius

one of my best song ever

whoah trent`s voice is great here :)

Yes, it's my favorite album, with the Downward Spiral as a close second.

Thanks 👍🇸🇪😘

This song and reptile are my favorite NIN songs. :D

you are amazing ac1d. i love all your nin videos. thnks for exsisting

I saw them on this tour in Hartford Conn. I always thought it was weird they performed this song behind a curtain at that show. It was the opening song.

Phenomenal performance, just love this song so much!!

This song has so much energy! I hope they play it when i see them in Tulsa in November.

Incredible

THOSE ARE MY FAVS TOO!!!!

anyone went to the first london brixton gig back in march? they started off with somewhat damaged - that was a unforgettable mental trip!!!

Absolutely.

THE NAILS ARE BACK!!!!

the wall of fucking guitars

Best!

WOOT!

Best tour ever

All of NINs albums openers can translate amazingly into a live set opener, but this is definately my favourite for it. That said, I prefer the way they've been playing it on the latest tour, the start of its a bit different, more toned down.

God, this is mezmorizing.

Aww you cut off the part where they mess up. Thing is, when they messed it up it REALLY fit the song and made it better

I think they used a backing track here. Still sounds amazing.

same here

Finck is back!!!

This is so heavy..really heavy.

3:55 Jesus fucking fuck that was intense. That shit made my hair stand on end. Meanwhile, my dumb ass was still a freshman in high school not even knowing who the fk NIN even was at the time. Sigh..

RAW

fuck i love this song.

This is compiled from many live shows all within one audio track. The entire Fragile DVD is set up that way, and it's most obvious on the guitarist since his hair changes from city to city...

cool, intro sounds good, fucking awesome

@Brendo2345 So very True!

this SD version is from 1999, btw.

@steverzilly, Fuck yes and amen. Regarding it's placement on the album, it sets up the central tonic theme for The Fragile as a whole unlike any other work I can recall or care about.

Sounds like someone tried to mash this up with the album version tbh.

Su ptm pa rola más chingona.

totally fuckin badass

The ending is just... divine. Where the fuck were you?

@socialbenthos same here my first nin album

NIN old school lives always remind of a David Fincher movie. They just had that gloomy and violent look to them.

The sound quality is awesome is there anyway I can download this? I'm been waiting years to get this version of Somewhat Damaged (live).

anybody else notice that trent wears a lot of longsleeve shirts in the fragile era??

i didnt know he played guitar during this song

adónde está el registro entero de este concierto? no solo de está canción?

some of NIN's best songs aren't played on the radio.

still good though

i could not agree more, i had to listen to some of this after listening to this new "NIN" song Everything...... it was.... it felt wrong.

not played in kansas city in 06. But that was ok, i got loaded anyway.

Primus inspirratioonns

This is so much better than the new live version.

don't know what i would give to see this now.... this performance is better than all the shitty pseudo-industrial band of today

maybe try downloading realplayer onto your computer then downloading this video with it. find a programme to extract the audio files or if you had some sort of a recorder or a mini disc player that

oigan para los que entienden español, porque dejaron de tocar en vivo actualmente???

@StinkyGreenBud well really he is the whole band just not live

Too fucked up to care anymore...

Very clever with the time signatures and stuff. I like it, but I'm guessing that the average bear hasn't paid much attention to the lyrics.

why he using two guitars?? , the first one was acoustic???

nah, aaron is the man ;)

Wow that's one angry man.

The walking dead