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I remember hearing "While the devil wants to f** me in the back of his car" and thinking, "wow, I'm sure as a 12 year old, I'm supposed to find this thrilling..
by nobleach 5y ago
I remember hearing "While the devil wants to f** me in the back of his car" and thinking, "wow, I'm sure as a 12 year old, I'm supposed to find this thrilling... such aggression , such anger... this guy seems really mad at things he doesn't even believe in." I just wasn't interested in it. Not saying Trent isn't a genius. Or that I don't appreciate all the cool experimentation he was doing back then (sending instruments and vocals through an ARP 2600!!). That lyric just felt like a cop-out to me.
Church camp did get me listening to Metallica though! Fade To Black was such an amazing song... and no amount of "this song was written by the devil to make kids kill themselves" could ever change that.
- jmcgough 5y agoI appreciate PHM for what it was - important from a technical perspective and a precursor for what was to come. But Trent was in his early 20s so not his most emotionally complex work ;)
- dylan604 5y agoI always joked that I wanted to meet the girl that did him so wrong that led to that album.
- nobleach 5y agoHis reaction to Johnny Cash's version of Hurt made me have a great deal of more respect.
- hiptobecubic 5y agoY'all are crazy. PHM is a banging album.
- partomniscient 5y agoAfter that he got Broken, then he got Fixed. But well before that he was a keyboard salesman. I have seen him get angry at a keyboard live. Trent 1, Keyboard 0.