Well, I think they address why they loved it so much in the article, hell, before the first section is finished, even.
Music can be many things at once, and you can be touched by some of the things it is, even if others don't hit for you.
Music can be many things at once, and you can be touched by some of the things it is, even if others don't hit for you.
As a peer comment noted, an outlet for anger is part of it, a starting point, and was useful to me too. My comment is about how that album more than others invited me to stay stuck there, remain clad and "protected" from my vulnerability. Tearing down, destroying, and randomizing are always easier than solving, creating, healing, loving, and seeing things just/right. More relevant in this context, startups are hard. Being useful is work.
The beauty in the brashness of NIN is what I believe starts with feeling less alone in your heart and leads to loving yourself and spreading that into your ambient surrounds.
As you note, I am sharing what this art is to me. I cannot say that must or should be what it is to any other person. I still hope that we can be less ashamed and equally vigorous with our caring.
For me it was The Knife. Making me realize there are other people feeling the same way.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDdVVPOcLhM
edit:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UeQLO43a2Y
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPD8Ja64mRU
you might know a cover of this one
I feel a bit sad that The Knife evolved into a strange place in their later work that I don't really understand. I guess my tastes are a little too basic to follow along.