In 2020, Nine Inch Nails were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame, an inclusion that would have seemed unthinkable at one point but by then seemed well overdue. It was a sign of the Rock Hall finally, begrudgingly, moving past its All Boomers Everything roots. In the introductory video, Annie Clark talks about NIN mastermind Trent Reznor’s impact on music. With a voice tinged with both admiration and astonishment, she makes a very good point: “‘Head Like a Hole’ has two choruses!” And you know, when she’s right, she’s right.
