Re:Great for Educational Uses (Score 1)

This gives students a chance to better understand how much creativity it takes to make what basically sounds like a simple rock song.

Absolutely. Not just students, even, but anybody who's interested in peeking behind the curtain to see a small part of what goes into making, as you say, what sounds like a simple rock song. (Though in a sense, it is simple - most of the tracks are synth keyboards, guitars, or percussion - in other words, the building blocks of rock.)

More important, it might even win him some new fans - folks who used to be somewhat jaded about listening to the music of a rocker who primarily seems to record for video games. I know I'll be checking into NIN a lot more than I would have considered had my only exposure to it been Quake and the T-shirt worn by a certain youthful slacker culture.

As for the song itself, the only change I can consider making is replacing Trent's vocals with the voice track from the Animaniac's song I'm Cute. (If you've heard the song, turn off the vocal track and sing along with the lyrics on the other end of that link - you'd be amazed how well they fit the rhythm, for the most part.)

Anybody know where I can find a 16-track Animaniacs remix?

Pauper