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All my fellow edgy 90s goth/headbanger friends: "He called it 'Nine Inch Nails' because that was the size of the nails that were used to nail Jesus to the cross"
Then watching an interview with Trent in a documentary 20 years later: "I just thought it sounded cool at the time".
Never ask your fav musicians for the reasoning behind something. It always means less to them than it does to you.
I'm pretty sure that the band "Free Beer," later known as "BareNakedLadies." Knew exactly what they were doing.
Type o negative was supposed to be subzero. They got band tattoos already when they found out there already is band called subzero so they had to think something that would fit the tattoos
Dave Grohl said that if he had known it was going to be such a hit he would have picked a cooler name for his band.
Laura Jane Grace’s band naming lives up to her. She just scrawled Against Me! on her first demo tape
actual nine inch nails are probably too big to nail someone to a cross with, they're huge!
The nails in the NIN branded nail gun ammo crates in Quake sure as fuck weren’t nine inch long.
But they still gave enemies a….
Head like a hole 😎
YEEEEAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!
You are all wrong! It was always about manicure!
It's been like twenty years but I think Animorphs did this joke. I will say that KA Applegate made a good bet on which edgy teenage band would still be at least somewhat relevant decades later.
Just like Trent in Exotic Birds.