Pretty Hate Machine

Nine Inch Nails

Genre: music4me > Rock > Industrial

Format: CD Album

Released: Mon 6 May 1996

Catalogue Number: IND918342

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Description:
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:

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, The
10.	Ringfinger