#17
Artist: Nine Inch Nails
Album: The Downward Spiral
Year of Release: 1994
Label: Interscope
If you wanna get reductive, the two most common entry points into this album are a Johnny Cash cover and a hit single that's essentially a better version of Bloodhound Gang's "The Bad Touch." This may sound like a detriment to its legacy but it's the opposite. These two most famous songs actually serve to represent the variety and genre-bending present in every single track. There's also punishing beats ("Mr Self Destruct") and slow jams ("Piggy"). Overblown synths ("Ruiner") and muted acoustic guitars ("The Becoming"). And a song about a man and his...gun. It's incredibly cool that Trent Reznor took his incredible skill for crafting pop music and did this with it.
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