Nine Inch Nails
Pretty Hate Machine

 

   Wheeee. Talk about the record guaranteed to offend your parents; this might have been the very one that Bill Watterson wrote about in that one Calvin and Hobbes strip. Ironically, the subject of that strip was about an album where the music was barely listenable and was only worthwhile as shock value, so as someone who actually listened to the music and kept it hidden, I had my priorities all wrong. These days I'm inclined to agree with Watterson, and since neither the lyrics nor the musicianship are really on par with The Fragile, this one has been moldering away in the wallet for a few years.

    Track listing:
  1. Head Like A Hole
  2. Terrible Lie
  3. Down In It
  4. Sanctified
  5. Something I Can Never Have
  6. Kinda I Want To
  7. Sin
  8. That's What I Get
  9. The Only Time
  10. Ringfinger