I am a walking epic fail

Playlist: C=Crap
Lee Michaels, "You are what you do"
The Who, "I can't explain"
David Bowie, "Oh! you pretty things"
Joe Jackson, "You can't get what you want til you know what you want"
Goodie Mobb, "Beautiful skin"
Phil Collins, "I missed again"
Traffic, "Sometimes I feel so uninspired"
The Smiths, "The headmaster's ritual"

Oh my damn where have I been?

Nine Inch Nails, "We're in this together now"

On: The Fragile (1999)

A bit of a back story...I'm pretty sure that I bought The Fragile so that I had something to talk about with the goth chicks in my high school gym class (they were so cool! I was so not!). I think I listened to it once to get the gist of the album--which at the time I thought was simply loud noises and screaming--and then immediately went back to listening to Silverchair (don't judge me). I guess it took me a a decade to catch up, because I f-ing love this album now, namely the title track and "We're in this together now."

Why this song surprised me...I was in fourth grade when I first heard of NIN, and like most people is was because Trent Reznor was screaming through my stereo speakers that he wanted to f*ck me like an animal. Since it's kind of difficult for a nine-year-old to appreciate the poetry in that, I never really thought much of the band lyrically. Shortly after I bought The Fragile, I bought the Lost Highway soundtrack, to which Reznor contributed largely. The combination of the two made me a fan of NIN's beats, however, if you held a gun to my head, I still couldn't sing along to any of the songs. It's wasn't until about a month ago that I broke out The Fragile again and, well, actually listened to the words behind the screaming...and I was pretty impressed. "We're in this together now" stuck out for me because it had a (non-carnal/sexual) lyrical intensity that I wasn't expected. There is no shock value...it's just a damn good love song.

Best lyric: "The farther I fall, I'm beside you/As lost as I get I will find you/The deeper the wound I'm inside you/For ever and ever I am a part of/You and me, We're in this together now..."