We were just kids when me and my circle of weirdo friends first heard Social Distortion, but something in that music connected with us. To see them live again after all these years is a blessing.
Happy 18th birthday to the fifth studio album by NIN! Now, this my personal favorite album by NIN for a lot of reasons.
I'm going to be talking about the story behind this concept album in another post soon. But we can all agree that Trent is a genius, but teasing your new album worldwide by putting hard drives into the bathrooms with mp3s of your new songs and static that gave us a phone number and the presence ( the hand on the album cover ) when tagged into wave form is just... beyond genius. And not only that but the hundreds of hidden websites and emails and phone numbers. All to piece together this dystopian, apocalyptic, end of the world story that's just--crazy.
Meet your master, God Given, The Good Soldier, these are all some of the greatest songs ever by NIN and my personal favorites. God Given is such a good song. Such a good song. From the intro to the beat drop when Trent begins singing, I think I actually came a little bit when I first heard it. Literally, my mouth kept dropping the first time I heard it and I legit could not stop screaming. I would like to add, that if you listen to The Greater Good, towards the end you can heard what seems to be a siren of some sort. I just felt like adding that because I thought it was interesting.
Anyways, this is an incredible, amazing album. The best of the best. Please listen to it if you haven't, and maybe check out what it's about because there's so much to cover from it. Happy birthday, Year Zero!!!!