NIN songs never played live

This is an ongoing list of songs that Nine Inch Nails have never played live, ordered by album/EP. Remixes or songs appearing on 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" was never played on its eponymous tour, nor was "And All That Could Have Been" played on Fragility 2.0 despite the accompanying 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

All songs from this album have been played at some point.

Broken

All songs from this album have been played at some point.

The Downward Spiral

All songs from this album have been played at some point.

The Fragile

• "Where Is Everybody?" (though Charlie Clouser states that it was rehearsed)
• "10 Miles High"
• "+Appendage"
• "I'm Looking Forward To Joining You, Finally"
• "Underneath It All"
• "Ripe/Ripe (With Decay)"

"The New Flesh" has never been played as a standalone piece; however, an instrumental version was combined with "Pinion" starting on the Fragility Tour, and with an instrumental version of "The Downward Spiral" in 2014, both as prerecorded introductions. At a 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 Stay Here?"
• "Not What It Seems Like"
• "White Mask"
• "Was It Worth It?"
• "Feeders"
• "Claustrophobia Machine (Raw)"
• "Last Heard From"

With Teeth

All songs from this album have been played at some point.

Year Zero

• "My Violent Heart"

"Zero-Sum" has never been played as a standalone piece; however, snippets have been played live on the Lights In The Sky Tour and the Peel It Back Tour.

Ghosts I–IV

• "2 Ghosts I"
• "3 Ghosts I"
• "4 Ghosts I"
• "7 Ghosts I"
• "9 Ghosts I"
• "11 Ghosts II"
• "12 Ghosts II"
• "13 Ghosts II"
• "15 Ghosts II"
• "16 Ghosts II"
• "18 Ghosts II"
• "20 Ghosts III"
• "22 Ghosts III"
• "23 Ghosts III"
• "26 Ghosts III"
• "27 Ghosts III"
• "29 Ghosts IV"
• "30 Ghosts IV"
• "33 Ghosts IV"
• "34 Ghosts IV"
• "35 Ghosts IV"
• "36 Ghosts IV"
• "37 Ghosts"
• "38 Ghosts"

The Slip

• "The Four Of Us Are Dying"
• "Demon Seed" (though 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 Lisbon, Portugal in July, 2018)
• "I'm Not From This World"

Ghosts V: Together

• "Letting Go While Holding On"
• "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"
• "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"
• "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"
• "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"