It was sometime in 1990, the year I graduated high school and joined the Army, when I first heard of Nine Inch Nails. I have no idea when exactly nor what local station might have played it but I do remember hearing the first hit from their first album, "Pretty Hate Machine". It was called "Head Like a Hole" and was a major departure from the common music of the day, at least what I most often listened to in the rock and pop genres.
"Head Like a Hole" introduced the music world to the genre of "industrial rock" but NIN did not invent the genre. I don't want to get any further into that except to say NIN quickly became the genre's most recognizable band. This is an obvious "turn it up!" song when lucky enough to hear it on the radio.
Original video:
2013 tour version :
Here is a pretty good cover of "Head Like a Hole":
...and an even better one:
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