Nine Inch Nails - Year Zero

Them's some mighty big nails. Particularly if they're finger nails. Mighty big and mighty disgusting.

Track one: 'HYPERPOWER'. That's in capitals as well. Just how much power can one song possibly contain? I'm not sure whether 'hyperpower' or 'POWER' is greater, but I think we can all agree that 'HYPERPOWER' is pretty much the high-water mark when it comes to power.

If I'm to apply my rules about song titles making sense in the context of the album, track two, 'Beginning Of The End' is either spectacularly inaccurately named, or the album is largely end-heavy, containing no fewer than 15 tracks at the end and only one on the whole of the rest of the album.

Track 11, 'Meet Your Master' is a good title. I only really obey giants and consider them to be my masters, being as they're benevolent overlords from another planet. I'd love to meet one to try and wheedle the secrets of alien technology out of him.

Track 13, 'Great Destroyer' is also a good title. It probably refers to a wronged and enraged giant who has been duped into revealing his alien technological secrets.

Maybe the Nine Inch Nails belong to a giant. That puts a whole new complexion on things. Maybe it's from these Nine Inch Nails that our oversized royalty gain their HYPERPOWER and maybe that HYPERPOWER is at the heart of all their technological developments.