Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral Album

You can't get better than The Downward Spiral album for industrial music with a pop flair. In fact it's the pop aspects of his recordings have allowed Trent Renznor to lift the Nine Inch Nails into the musical mainstream. In The Downward Spiral, Reznor builds his constructions of doom and gloom around warm, fuzzy melodies. On the album's first single, "March of the Pigs," for example, Reznor screams about swine lined up for slaughter with guitars screeching in pain. Suddenly the guitars fall away to reveal a vocal-and-piano track that's as catchy as anything by Elton John. You can't beat this combination, as Reznor has found out by breaking out of the industrial ghetto.