Anyone who’s seen a live Nine Inch Nails show could tell you that no CD version possibly could live up to the experience. With a nice but brief selection of tracks from the Fragility v2.0 tour, “And All That Could Have Been” is exciting, but still missing something.

It may have a little to do with its absent companion disc, “Still,” which can be ordered online at www.nin.com/still.

Without the vision of a massive screen projected with richly beautiful, dark and earthy imagery looming over the five small forms that comprise NIN’s live show, it’s impossible to convey the show’s intensity. But the CD is not without its moments.

A few extra notes added to “The Frail,” along with the tense, underlying layer of the audience’s screams, makes it an even more stirring introduction to “The Wretched” than the original album version. Some of the weight seems to have been lifted from the original “The Wretched,” however, causing it to fall a bit flat after the build-up created by the intense introduction.

The interweaving of pounding, rhythmically relentless older tracks like “Gave Up” and “Wish” with softly flowing, warmer pieces like “The Great Below” and “The Mark Has Been Made” lend Trent Reznor’s characteristic style of arrangement to the album.

For fans of the radio-friendly, Reznor included “Closer,” which barely seems to vary from the album version on this disc. Reznor seems to have the words so completely burned into his vocal chords that the song just doesn’t offer much newness – which can be said for most, if not all, of the tracks on the album.

The subtle differences in sound that alter perfectly mastered LP’s into the personal, human experiences of a live show should be conveyed in a live CD. This one fails to do that.

If you’re a collector and just have to have the CD for NIN’s trademark unique cover art (which isn’t all that exciting in this one either), then drop the $18 for it. Otherwise, you’re better off downloading it for a lot cheaper.