Neil Diamond Classics: The Early Years

If you want something lighter that you could listen to for a while without clicking too much, maybe try going to YouTube and searching for "Nine Inch Nails Quiet." At the top of the results should be Quiet Vol. 1, which is a fan-made mix of NIN tracks from various albums. Quite a bit different from "Wish," the track you listened to before.

If you want some specific tracks to pull up that are more grandma-friendly... maybe try... La Mer from the album The Fragile, A Warm Place from the album The Downward Spiral, Something I Can Never Have from Pretty Hate Machine (or better yet, the acoustic version from Still), And All That Could Have Been from Still, Leaving Hope from Still, Find My Way from Hesitation Marks, Right Where It Belongs from With Teeth, etc... just a few suggestions. Some of those are on the Quiet Vol. 1 mix. Several are not.

And yes, very weird about the seizures. Never heard of that before.

btw And All That Could Have Been is also the name of a live album by NIN. Most searches will point toward that. Put "Still" in the search and it should come up. Some of these songs are instrumentals. Those with lyrics, the lyrics might be hard to make out (Trent likes to pile on layers of noise and distortion). But if they are included in the video notes or something, read along. Much better with the lyrics.

Another lighter song I always liked, but that is not really his, is "Past the Mission." He recorded it with Tori Amos, whom I think he was involved with for a while. He's now married to a beautiful and also talented Filipina girl named Mariqueen. She's got her own band. Trent collaborates. How to Destroy Angels.

oh, and... by far his most covered song, "hurt," is brilliant. Though quite dark. And a bit noisy in its original version which appeared at the end of The Downward Spiral. It has been covered numerous times by many famous artists including Sheryl Crow and, most notably, Johnny Cash shortly before he died. The Cash version is so well known that many people don't realize it is a Trent Reznor song. If you're not familiar, check out the video Cash did. It's quite good. And rather evocative. As Trent himself put it... when he wrote the song he was in his 20s, feeling low, struggling with drug dependency, and toying with thoughts of suicide. But to hear Cash sing the same song, after the passing of his wife, and having struggled with many of the same demons for decades, at the end of a very long career, gave the words more heft and meaning than they ever had before.