
“Closer”—Nine Inch Nails
60 Songs That Explain the '90s
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Trent Resner, the Alien Wizard, Invented Industrial Music
Industrial music is defined as sad, angry men emoting disconcertingly amidst noisy machines. Trant resner had the hook also, the disturbingly childlike synthesizer hooks and lyrically he could be childlike, but also supermenacing. He said pretty hate machine was about just opposing human imperfections against very rigid, sterile, cold arrangements. There's a pop song bounce and a pop song gloss to down in it. If you can't rage against the machine, rage with it. Cry with it. Whine with it. Grouse bout various indifferent, sexy ladies.
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