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[[Image:Option 30.jpg|thumb|Album Cover]]'''Option 30''' was founded in the early 1980s founded 1982 by Tim "TK " Smith on guitars and vocals, Jim Nordstrom on bass and saxophone, Todd Nero on drums, and a teenage [[Trent Reznor ]] on keyboards and lead vocals. Following Reznor's departure from the band in 1984, Option 30 continued as a trio and later a duo when Nero left the group in the late 1980s. This was Reznor's first band and his time in it was followed by a stint in [[The Urge]].

==''Option 30''Discography ==The band has only released one album consisting of demos from 1983, except for first release by Option 30 was a live recording of "Ice House". The album was reself-titled CD released in 1997 by on Shriek Records. It consists of demos and an interview at a college radio station in Edinboro, with bonus interview clips with Pennsylvania, recorded in the summer of 1983. Only 1000 copies of the band from 1984album were made. Soon after After a [[Nine Inch Nails fan ]] website linked to Shriek's site, the label seemed to have disappeared. Since the release of the Shriek Records websiteCD, it vanished; only 1000 copies two albums were pressedreleased digitally on the Timothy K. Smith Bandcamp page: ''Option 30: Live'' and ''Option 30: Almost''. Reznor is featured on the latter, and they are extremely hard to findplaying keyboards on "No Way Out".

Despite his later career, Reznor had little to no input in the songwriting input; all process, as most of the songs were written by Nordstrom and Smith and Nordstrom. In addition to the original songs on the album, with the exception of there are also three covers: "Ice HouseIcehouse" (a cover of a song originally recorded by the band Icehouse), "LiesDer Kommissar" (a cover of a song originally recorded in German by Falco, covered with English lyrics by After The Thompson TwinsFire), and "Der KommissarLies" (a cover, with English lyrics, of a song originally by FalcoThompson Twins).

==Track =Self-titled CD track listing===# "Ice HouseIcehouse" – 4:24

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