“The Hand That Feeds”
by Nine Inch Nails
from the album With Teeth
2005
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I have weird tastes in albums, particularly from established artists. Masterpieces that everyone else fawns over, I end up feeling meh about. My go-to example is Pinkerton. Sometimes it has to do with which album was my first with that artist. The Blue Album ruined me for all future entries in their discography. The same thing happened with The Downward Spiral, while it’s harder and more raw that Pretty Hate Machine (these are good things), I’ll never love it as much. But sometimes certain albums just speak to you. With Teeth was the album I needed exactly when I needed it. And consequently, it’s my favorite Nine Inch Nails album. That’s heresy for most NIN fans, but these lyrics, the raw sound of the production (after the super-indulgent Fragile) and the big-ass beats courtesy of the heaviest right foot in rock, Dave Grohl, delivered exactly what I wanted.
