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And All That Could Have Been (2002)

Where the lyrics of And All That Could Have Been take you, and where it was really made.

The double album is a live record, but its second disc, Still, is a studio album of deconstructed older songs and new material.

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And All That Could Have Been: double album by the American industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails
Released January 22, 2002, by Nothing and Interscope Records
Disc one: live recording of most of the band's regular set list of the time, from the Fragility v2.0 US tour in 2000
Disc two: studio album titled Still, with "deconstructed" versions of earlier Nine Inch Nails songs and some new material
The double DVD set, sold separately, adds video of the CD songs plus extra performances and tour footage

Trent Reznor said the release would serve as a transition between the tour and the next album
Reznor spent most of a year producing it, in a way similar to his studio work, with the songs flowing into each other
The release was delayed from late 2001 to January 2002
Personnel credited on the album: Trent Reznor, Danny Lohner, Robin Finck, Charlie Clouser, Jerome Dillon

DVD footage was shot by Rob Sheridan and other crew members on consumer DV cameras during the tour
The DVD was put together internally at Reznor's New Orleans studio, edited on a Mac with Final Cut Pro and compiled with DVD Studio Pro
The DVD was produced by Trent Reznor and directed by Rob Sheridan
The live disc is a loud recording of the Fragility 2.0 tour performances, with songs arranged differently from their studio versions

Formed in 1988 in Cleveland, Ohio, by singer-songwriter Trent Reznor.
Reznor was the sole permanent member until Atticus Ross officially joined in 2016.
The first live performance took place at Graffiti in Pittsburgh on October 27, 1988.
Signed with TVT Records and later moved to Interscope Records.

Core members are Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross.
Robin Finck, Josh Freese, and Stu Brooks form the current live lineup.
Many former live members have been named, including Chris Vrenna, Danny Lohner, and Charlie Clouser.

Released Pretty Hate Machine (1989), Broken (1992), The Downward Spiral (1994), The Fragile (1999), and With Teeth (2005).
Released Year Zero (2007), Hesitation Marks (2013), Bad Witch (2018), and Ghosts V and VI (2020).
Won Grammy Awards for "Wish", "Happiness in Slavery", and "As Alive as You Need Me to Be".
Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2020.

A hype sticker on the DVD set cites Rolling Stone magazine and calls the tour the best tour of the year
The same sticker describes the DVD set as the complete Fragility 2.0 concert experience, with surround audio, commentary and a Still gallery
The DVD video was shot on consumer cameras and is dark and smoky rather than polished, with shaky shots and no sweeping crane shots

Reznor later wrote that he could not watch the DVD at all, because he was sick for most of that tour
He added that he did not think the shows were Nine Inch Nails at their best
While producing the DVD, he had said the show was really good when they were doing it, so his later view differs from his view during production
The DVD's rough look followed from the decision to film with the band's own cameras rather than a filming company

Reznor said "Adrift and at Peace" concludes "La Mer" from The Fragile.
Some Still tracks evolved from rejected themes originally written for Mark Romanek's One Hour Photo.
Reznor later let "Leaving Hope" be used in a public service announcement for Hurricane Katrina disaster relief.
Video artist Bill Viola made the multi-screen imagery for "La Mer", "The Great Below", and "The Mark Has Been Made" on the DVD.
Reznor first hired a filming company, then dropped the plan over cost and his experience on the Downward Spiral tour.
The live disc opens with "Terrible Lie" without any introduction.