Description
Nine Inch Nails – Pretty Hate Machine
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.
Tracklist
A1 | Head Like A Hole | 4:59 | |
A2 | Terrible Lie | 4:38 | |
A3 | Down In It | 3:46 | |
A4 | Sanctified | 5:48 | |
A5 | Something I Can Never Have | 5:54 | |
B1 | Kinda I Want To | 4:33 | |
B2 | Sin | 4:06 | |
B3 | That’s What I Get | 4:30 | |
B4 | The Only Time | 4:47 | |
B5 | Ringfinger | 5:45 |