Trent Reznor says: “The only thing I think I really don’t like that much is “The Perfect Drug” song. It was one of those things where you have a week to do a track for a movie, the mindset that you kind of adapt in that situation, or I did, was ‘let’s go in and experiment and see what happens, and it’s not, y’know, whatever comes out of it, it’s not the end of the world’. And I think what came out of it, married with a bloated, over-budget video, feels like … the least thing that I would play to somebody if they said play me, y’know, the top hundred songs you’ve written, that probably wouldn’t be in the top hundred. I’m not cringing about it, but it’s not my favorite piece.”
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Huge NIN fan, having bought up all his albums (and full album remixes) through Ghosts. I really can’t listen to that song anymore.
When it was released, I bought the album it came with and loaded it to my cheap mp3 player without having ever heard the song (or listened to the full album) first. Yeah, it was 6 (or 7?) versions of the same song. Many of the other versions were very very meh.
At the time I didn’t have an easy way to switch up the music on my mp3 player while at work, so for days I was drilled the same song, same lyrics, repeatedly due to the few other albums I had loaded up at the time.
By the time I got my player home and reloaded it, I had developed a cringe reaction when I hear the lyrics “you are the perfect drug”.
All his songs can’t be masterpieces. Lord knows Trent has tons of great and well developed compositions under his belt, so the occasional miss is perfectly OK.
Edit: Those that want to torture themselves like I did, here are all the official versions:
You found slavery in happiness!
All his songs can’t be masterpieces
What’s amazing is that every album he makes has at least 1-2 outstanding classic songs, as well as another 2-3 that are just very very good.