NIN songs never played live

This is an ongoing list of songs that Nine Inch Nails have never played live, ordered by album and their album order. Remixes or songs appearing on scores by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross are not included in this list.

Notable unplayed songs

Despite being released as standalone singles or having been nominated for an award, the following songs have never been played live:

• "The Perfect Drug"
• "34 Ghosts IV"
• "Everything"

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.

Pretty Hate Machine Era

• "Purest Feeling"

Broken

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

The Downward Spiral Era

• "Memorabilia"
• "A Violet Fluid"
• "TOH (Top Of The Hour)"
• "The Perfect Drug"

The Fragile Era

• "Where Is Everybody?"
• "10 Miles High"
• "+Appendage"
• "The New Flesh"
• "I'm Looking Forward To Joining You, Finally"
• "Underneath It All"
• "Ripe/Ripe (With Decay)"
• "The March"
• "Can I Stay Here?"
• "Missing Places"
• "Taken"
• "White Mask"
• "Was It Worth It?"
• "Feeders"
• "Claustrophobia Machine (Raw)"
• "Last Heard From"
• "Untitled (from thingsfallingapart.com)"
• "The Great Collapse"
• "And All That Could Have Been"
• "The Persistence Of Loss"
• "Leaving Hope"

With Teeth Era

• "Sunspots"

With Teeth Rehearsal Audio

Unofficially released tour rehearsal audio for the Live: With Teeth tour was made available by Echoing The Sound user mofoboy25, which included live audio of the song "Sunspots". This means that, whilst as-live audio of this song exists, it was not played to an audience and thus doesn't strictly count as "live".

Year Zero Era

• "My Violent Heart"
• "Zero-Sum"

Ghosts I–IV Era

• "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 Era

• "The Four Of Us Are Dying"
• "Demon Seed"
• "Theme For Tetsuo: The Bullet Man"
• "Zoo Station"

Hesitation Marks Era

• "Everything"