Purest Feeling is a collection of the demos Trent Reznor recorded before signing with TVT Records and creating Pretty Hate Machine.
The intro, Maybe Just Once and Purest Feeling didn’t appear on the debut album, and Twist was adapted into “Ringfinger”
Purest Feeling was released as a bootleg in 1994 – after the success of the debut album, the EP Broken and the magnum opus “The Downward Spiral”.