“Head Like a Hole” gets all the attention, and understandably so. But Nine Inch Nails’ landmark debut, which combined industrial intensity and pop songwriting without sacrificing any of the former, contains a lot of great songs, from “Sanctified”’s slinky funk to the 4AD-esque gloom of “Something I Can Never Have.” But it’s always been “Down in It” for me.

Trent Reznor’s hip-hop delivery can sound a little dated, but his lyrics (“I used to have something inside/Now just this hole that’s open wide/I used to want it all/I used to be somebody”) are still absolute catnip for my inner angst-ridden high schooler. (Yes, he’s still in there.) And as the song continues, Reznor works himself up into a lather that’s lost none of its urgency with time.

Fun fact: For the song’s music video, footage of a dead-looking Reznor was shot with a camera attached to a weather balloon, only for the balloon to escape its tether and land in a Michigan cornfield. The farmer handed the camera over to the FBI, who initially thought it might be a snuff film until Reznor was found alive and well. The story was subsequently covered by trash tabloid TV program Hard Copy, which likened the footage to — big surprise — a satanic ritual.