From mailer.acns.fsu.edu!usenet.ufl.edu!tcad.ee.ufl.edu!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!news.ultranet.com!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.duke.edu!news-feed-1.peachnet.edu!emory!swrinde!howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state.edu!news.acns.nwu.edu!merle.acns.nwu.edu!yeh Tue Sep 13 11:36:32 1994 Path: mailer.acns.fsu.edu!usenet.ufl.edu!tcad.ee.ufl.edu!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!news.ultranet.com!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.duke.edu!news-feed-1.peachnet.edu!emory!swrinde!howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state.edu!news.acns.nwu.edu!merle.acns.nwu.edu!yeh From: yeh@merle.acns.nwu.edu (c. spencer yeh) Newsgroups: alt.music.nin Subject: (BFPT) PHM and "That Gets Me Whet" Date: 11 Sep 1994 00:16:22 GMT Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston IL Lines: 78 Message-ID: <34ti8m$m3j@news.acns.nwu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: unseen3.acns.nwu.edu ...While I was unpacking recently after moving into my dorm room over here in Evanston, I couldn't help but to look through my stacks and stacks of rare NIN recordings... and I came up with this super-early demo for the demo (for the demo) of PRETTY HATE MACHINE. Don't ask me to dub it because A) it's on aluminum foil (which is extra special, because I think it was the exact same piece of foil that Trent used to wrap cucumbers in. You remember that time when he was stopped in a German airport at the metal detector because he had one of these bad boys down his pants... anyways...) it's on aluminum foil, and B) I'm an asshole and I won't ;-). Anyways, the little piece-of-scotch-taped-paper label says merely "PHM"--scrawled in crayon (no doubt a crayon Trent stole from the Denny's children menu--he stuck it down his pants...). I don't think he planned PHM to mean anything at the time of naming this recording--I think he just liked the abbreviation, and planned to figure out what it stands for later. Of course, this ties in with that anecdote about when he and Flood were trying to decided what PHM stood for whilst finishing up all the gratuitous MIDI hi-hat on the "official" PHM. Apparently Trent decided on PRETTY HATE MACHINE but Flood hated that title... so Trent tied up Flood with the Pigface GUB mastertapes (which he stuck down his pants while Martin Atkins wasn't looking). Trent left Flood all tied up for about two weeks (just long enough for the name to clear) and the rest, they say, is history... Anyways, I suspect PHM, at the time of the recording of this demo (for a demo for a demo) stood for "Porno Hemp Masturbation." I believe this to be true, because this was at the "smoke pot and jack off while watching SHOWTIME and CINEMAX"-stage of Trent's life. The fact that CINEMAX and SHOWTIME stopped showing all them great soft-porn flicks at the turn of the decade would support this... The music itself on this recording is very basic--we're talking those trendy musical-watches (you know, the ones with preprogrammed Beethoven) and cheep Casio drums. The lyrical matter, believe it or don't, is *very* sexual. It's very sophomoric bathroom humor-esque (luckily, the NIN view of sex matured over the years...), with a message. That message is revealing Mr. Rezz's deepest, darkest, dankest sexual urges... it's a baring of his id, in all its hope-and-vaseline-covered glory... Anyway, enough blabber... I figured I should go ahead and post the lyrics for one of the tracks--"That Gets Me Whet." I figure the title is pretty self-explanatory. No doubt practicing the belowmentioned antics would make *anyone* break up with you... no matter how cutey you are... THAT GETS ME WHET just before we have some fun tonight i warn you that i'm difficult to excite just listen to instructions i give you i'm going to tell you everything to do that gets me wet (x4) give me a mouthful of sour piss give me a big gene simmons kiss i want you to lick me til i'm dry pledge my fraternity: smegma pi yes, that gets me wet (x4) here it cums a big surprise watch the fruit drop from the tree sorry i took from you so much was it as good for you as me? etc. There. Straight from PORNO HEMP MASTURBATION, which would be filed under BFPT -69, I believe... ...there'll be more to come if I ever get up enough nerve to post... -- mr. horse-style c.s.y.