19 years and counting ...

1989. Nine Inch Nails. Pretty Hate Machine.

Nineteen years and counting from the release of one of the most influential albums in rock history. Genre changing, it became a bastion of escape before grunge took over the angst-filled hearts of teenagers everywhere.

I suggest digging through your CDs, tapes or MP3s and listen to this album. For those of us who spent sleepless nights listing to "Something I Can Never Have" or "Terrible Lie" for hours on end, it will be a reminder the depths of despair-induced bliss.

For those of you too young to have experienced the album when it was fresh and new; take a copy and give it a few hours of listen. While I hope a remastered version, that will raise the low-end will come out around the 20th anniversary of it's release, the original is still relevant for it's lyrical content alone.