This is an ongoing list of songs that [[Nine Inch Nails]] have never played live, ordered by album and their album order/EP. [[Remixes ]] or songs appearing on [[soundtracks|scores]] by [[Trent Reznor]] and [[Atticus Ross]] are not included in this list.
==Notable unplayed songs==
Despite having been nominated for an award and being sampled, "[[34 Ghosts IV]]" has never been played live. In addition, the song "[[Lights In The Sky (song)|Lights In The Sky]]" was never played on its [[Lights In The Sky Tour|eponymous tour]], nor was "[[And All That Could Have Been (song)|And All That Could Have Been]]" played on [[Fragility 2.0]] despite the accompanying [[And All That Could Have Been (halo)|live album and film]] being named for the song. Similarly, "[[Not Anymore]]", from which the [[I Can't Seem To Wake Up 2017]] tour name is derived, was not played on said tour, or any subsequent tour dates.
==''[[Pretty Hate Machine]]''== Era''All songs from this album have been played at one some point.''====Rare / Retired Songs====* [[Down In It (song)|Down In It]]* [[Kinda I Want To]] * [[That's What I Get]]* [[The Only Time]]* [[Ringfinger]]* [[Now I'm Nothing]]
==''[[Broken]]''==''All songs from this album have been played at one some point.''
====Rare / Retired Songs====* ''[[Last]] The Downward Spiral (first played in 2007halo)* [[Happiness In Slavery|The Downward Spiral]]''==* [[Physical (You're So)]]'All songs from this album have been played at some point.''
==''[[The Downward Spiral Fragile (halo)|The Downward SpiralFragile]] Era''==* "[[A Warm PlaceWhere Is Everybody?]]" (though [[Charlie Clouser]] states that it was rehearsed)*"[[10 Miles High]]"*"[[+Appendage]]"*"[[I'm Looking Forward To Joining You, Finally]]"* "[[MemorabiliaUnderneath It All]]"* "[[The Perfect Drug Ripe|Ripe/Ripe (songWith Decay)|The Perfect Drug]]"
====Rare "[[The New Flesh]]" has never been played as a standalone piece; however, an instrumental version was combined with "[[Pinion]]" starting on the [[Fragility|Fragility Tour]], and with an instrumental version of "[[The Downward Spiral (song)|The Downward Spiral]]" in [[NIN 2013-2014|2014]], both as prerecorded introductions. At a [[2000/ Retired Songs====01/14 Yokohama, Japan|Yokohama show in 2000]], Trent Reznor sang some of the lyrics to "The New Flesh" during the introduction.
===''[[The Fragile: Deviations 1]]''===* "[[Missing Places]]"*"[[The March]]"*"[[One Way To Get There]]"*"[[Taken]]"*"[[Can I Do Stay Here?]]"*"[[Not Want ThisWhat It Seems Like]]"*"[[White Mask]]"* "[[Big Man With a GunWas It Worth It?]]"* "[[The Downward Spiral Feeders]]"*"[[Claustrophobia Machine (songRaw) | The Downward Spiral]]"*"[[Last Heard From]]"
==''[[The Fragile With Teeth (halo)|The FragileWith Teeth]] Era''==* [[Pilgrimage]] ''Played only as taped introductory musicAll songs from this album have been played at some point.''* [[Where Is Everybody?]]* [[I'm Looking Forward To Joining You, Finally]]* [[Underneath It All]]* [[Ripe (With Decay)]]* [[Metal]]* [[10 Miles High]]* [[Gone, Still]]* [[And All That Could Have Been (song)|And All That Could Have Been]]* [[The Persistence of Loss]]* [[Leaving Hope]]
====Rare / Retired Songs====* ''[[We're In This Together (song)|We're In This TogetherYear Zero]] (''First played in 2007'')* [[Just Like You Imagined]]* [[The Great Below]]* [[The Way Out Is Through]]==* "[[The Mark Has Been MadeMy Violent Heart]]* [[Complication]]* [[Adrift And At Peace]] (''performed at the [[Bridge School Benefit|2006 Bridge School Benefit]] concert'')"
=="[[With Teeth (halo)|With TeethZero-Sum]] Era==* " has never been played as a standalone piece; however, snippets have been played live on the [[All the Love in the WorldLights In The Sky Tour]]* and the [[SunspotsPeel It Back Tour]].
==''[[Year ZeroGhosts I–IV]]''==* ''"[[2 Ghosts I]]"*"[[Hyperpower!3 Ghosts I]]''"* "[[The Good Soldier4 Ghosts I]]"* "[[Vessel7 Ghosts I]]"* "[[Me, 9 Ghosts I'm Not]]"*"[[11 Ghosts II]]"*"[[12 Ghosts II]]"*"[[13 Ghosts II]]"*"[[15 Ghosts II]]"*"[[16 Ghosts II]]"*"[[18 Ghosts II]]"*"[[20 Ghosts III]]"*"[[22 Ghosts III]]"* "[[Capital G23 Ghosts III]]"* "[[My Violent Heart26 Ghosts III]]"* "[[The Warning (Year Zero song)|The Warning27 Ghosts III]]"* "[[God Given29 Ghosts IV]]"* "[[Meet Your Master30 Ghosts IV]]"* "[[The Greater Good33 Ghosts IV]]"*"34 Ghosts IV"* "[[The Great Destroyer35 Ghosts IV]]"* "[[Another Version of the Truth (song) | Another Version of the Truth36 Ghosts IV]]"* "[[In This Twilight37 Ghosts]]"* "[[Zero-Sum38 Ghosts]]"
====Rare / Retired Songs==''[[The Slip]]''==* "[[Survivalism (song)|SurvivalismThe Four Of Us Are Dying]] (first played in 2007)"* "[[The Beginning of the EndDemon Seed]] " (first played in 2007though video/audio footage has confirmed it has been rehearsed)
==''[[Hesitation Marks]]''=="[[The Eater Of Dreams]]" has never been played as a standalone piece; however, an instrumental version was combined with "Pinion" in 2014, and continued to appear during the [[NIN 2017-2018]] tour. ==''[[Not The Actual Events]]''==*"[[The Idea Of You]]" ==''[[Add Violence]]''==*"Not Anymore" ==''[[Bad Witch]]''==*"[[Play The Goddamned Part]]" (though it was played over the PA as an intro in [[2018/07/12_Lisbon,_Portugal|Lisbon, Portugal]] in July, 2018)*"[[I'm Not From This World]]" ==''[[Ghosts V: Together]]''==*"[[Letting Go While Holding On]]"*"[[Together (song)|Together]]"*"[[Out In The Open]]"*"[[With Faith]]" *"[[Apart]]" *"[[Your Touch]]"*"[[Hope We Can Again]]" *"[[Still Right Here]]" ==''[[Ghosts VI: Locusts]]''==*"[[The Cursed Clock]]"*"[[Around Every Corner]]" *"[[The Worriment Waltz]]" *"[[Run Like Hell]]"*"[[When It Happens (Don't Mind Me)]]"*"[[Another Crashed Car]]"*"[[Temp Fix]]"*"[[Trust Fades]]"*"[[A Really Bad Night]]" *"[[Your New Normal]]"*"[[Just Breathe]]"*"[[Right Behind You]]" *"[[Turn This Off Please]]"*"[[So Tired]]" *"[[Almost Dawn]]" ==Other Material==*"[[Purest Feeling (song)|Purest Feeling]]"*"[[TOH (Top Of The Hour)]]"*"[[Memorabilia]]"*"[[March Of The Fuckheads]]"*"[[A Violet Fluid]]"*"[[The Great Collapse]]"*"[[The Persistence Of Loss]]"*"[[Leaving Hope]]"*"[[Theme For Tetsuo The Bullet Man]]"*"[[Zoo Station]]" ===''[[Quake Soundtrack]]''===*"[[Quake Theme]]"*"[[Aftermath]]"*"[[The Hall Of Souls]]"*"[[It Is Raped]]"*"[[Parallel Dimensions]]"*"[[Life]]"*"[[Damnation]]"*"[[Focus]]"*"[[Falling (Quake song)|Falling]]"*"[[The Reaction]]" ===''[[Tron: Ares (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)]]''===*"[[Init]]"*"[[Echoes]]"*"[[This Changes Everything]]"*"[[In the Image Of]]"*"[[I Know You Can Feel It]]"*"[[Permanence]]"*"[[Infiltrator (Tron: Ares song)|Infiltrator]]"*"[[100% Expendable]]"*"[[Still Remains]]"*"[[Who Wants To Live Forever?]]"*"[[Building Better Worlds]]"*"[[Target Identified]]"*"[[Daemonize]]"*"[[Empathetic Response]]"*"[[What Have You Done?]]"*"[[A Question of Trust]]"*"[[Ghost in the Machine]]"*"[[No Going Back]]"*"[[Nemesis]]"*"[[New Directive]]"*"[[Out in the World]]" [[Category:NIN Songs|*]][[Category:NIN Songs Never Played Live|*]]