So Saturday I had the privlege of seeing Nine Inch Nails and Jane's Addiction on their co-headling NIN/JA tour. Needless to say the show was breath taking. Full hour-and-a-half sets from both bands, plus a thiry minute set from Tom Morello's new band Street Sweeper Social Club (it was also Morello's birthday).
This is all beside the point.
This is all beside the point.
Ultimately, the show reminded me what brilliant hard rock opus Nine Inch Nails' Broken really was. Songs like "Wish", "Happiness in Slavery", and "Gave Up" - are true masterworks in every sense of the word. And his nothing short of stunning reinterpretations of Adam Ant's "Physical" and Pigface's "Suck" are nothing short of inspired. While the whole thing is only 8 songs (and a few of those are short instrumentals), Broken is a practice in the very concept of less-is-more.
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