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?"
- "10 Miles High"
- "+Appendage"
- "The New Flesh"
- "I'm Looking Forward To Joining You, Finally"
- "Underneath It All"
- "Ripe/Ripe (With Decay)"
The Fragile: Deviations 1
With Teeth
All songs from this album have been played at some point.
Year Zero
"Zero-Sum" has never been played as a standalone piece; however, a piano version was regularly used as an outro to "In This Twilight".
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
All songs from this album have been played at some point.
Not The Actual Events
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"