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- Artist:
- Nine Inch Nails
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- 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:
- Head Like a Hole
- Terrible Lie
- Down in It
- Sanctified
- Something I Can Never Have
- Kinda I Want To
- Sin
- That`s What I Get
- Only Time
- 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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