Nine Inch Nails

"IT'S NOT like I'm a horribly depressed person trying to come across as having a noose around my neck," says Trent Reznor, the sole member of Nine Inch Nails. NIN's debut album, Pretty Hate Machine, is shot through with angst-ridden sex, identity crises and religious doubt — but Reznor's explanation is simple enough. "The music I always liked as a lad was stuff I could bum out to and realize, 'Hey, someone else feels that way, too.' So if someone can do that with my music, it's mission accomplished."