10 Albums That You Need To Listen To More Than Once

During most of the '90s revolution, people didn't like to concern themselves with concept albums all that often. Though you'd get the occasional turn to the dramatic on something like Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, most of the grunge movement were just concerned with songs that were straight and to the point. While Trent Reznor unpacked his synthesizer and made history with the Downward Spiral, the fans weren't exactly as kind to it at the outset.

For anyone's first exposure to the industrial rock genre, this might sound like putting your eardrums through a woodchipper when you first hear it, with blasts of noise blowing up all over the place. It's caustic for sure, but you do get subtle hints of brilliance across nearly every single track. Though Closer is probably the closest thing that you could hope for in terms of accessible material, the pure bombast of March of the Pigs and the loneliness of I Do Not Want This makes everything feel dirty in the greatest way possible.

By the time you finally make it to Hurt at the end, it almost feels like you're being cleansed of the horrendous filth that you had to weather through over the past hour or so. It's wretched, it's vile and offensive...and it demands to be be played over and over again because it is that damn good.