Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine

Artist:

Nine Inch Nails

See Also:

Kraftwerk Velvet Underground (The) Eno, Brian Various Artists - Radiant Decay: A Tribute To Nine Inch Nails The Ya Baby String Quartet - The String Quartet Tribute To Nine Inch Nails: Pretty Hate Machine *

Description:

Nine Inch Nails: Trent Reznor (vocals, various instruments).
Additional personnel includes: Richard Patrick (guitar); Chris Vrenna (drums).
German version.
Although Nine Inch Nails mastermind Trent Reznor became the poster boy for industrial rock in the early 1990s, his `89 debut, PRETTY HATE MACHINE, actually has a stronger foothold in `80s synth-pop. The guitar-heavy opener, "Head Like a Hole," is the most aggressive track on the album and proved to be the signature song for Reznor`s initial breakthrough, but much of the disc sounds like Depeche Mode in a particularly bad mood.
All of the tracks on PRETTY HATE MACHINE are based on synthesizer lines and programmed beats, with other elements--such as the distinctive bass on "Sanctified" and sampled explosions on "That`s What I Get"--filling out the sound. Despite Reznor`s morose lyrics, a number of HATE MACHINE`s finest moments are energetic dance tunes, particularly "Down in It" and the surging "Sin." Oddly enough, Reznor`s fiercer--and seemingly less accessible--subsequent work (the BROKEN EP and THE DOWNWARD SPIRAL) led directly to his mainstream success, but PRETTY HATE MACHINE reveals where the Nine Inch Nails aesthetic started out.

Track Listing:

DISC 1

1. Head Like a Hole
2. Terrible Lie
3. Down in It
4. Sanctified
5. Something I Can Never Have
6. Kinda I Want To
7. Sin
8. That`s What I Get
9. Only Time
10. Ringfinger

Album Information

Release Date:

09/24/1991

Type:

Performer

Genre:

Rock & Pop

Subgenre:

Industrial

Label:

Universal Records (Germany)

Catalog Number:

8483582

Original Release Year:

1989

# of Discs:

1

Studio/Live:

Studio

Mono/Stereo:

Stereo

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