Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine
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Free Music Review: Where it all began
Hit: 5 Stars
Trent Reznor's first album as Nine Inch Nails and still to this date one of his best pieces of work. I haven't listened to this in such a long time, that I had forgotten just how raw, yet powerful, it was. I highly recommend this album to anyone curious about NIN. I think it speaks volume of Reznor's head space at this time in his life. He has really grown as a person, his music reflects that growth, but the depth of his older work still rings true today. This album really helped put industrial music on the map and change the shape and form of our music today. Pick it up, and get blown away.Free Music Review: Pounding Rhythms and Angst Ridden Lyrics
Hit: 5 Stars
Singer Trent Reznor (who pretty much is Nine Inch Nails writing the majority of music and lyrics on the album) made a great album with Pretty Hate Machine. He brought this particular form of harsh industrial dance music into the mainstream. Singles "Head Like A Hole" and "Terrible Lie" became immediate underground classics, still played on the dance floors of clubs year after year. I still see strippers dancing to it in the local strip clubs or should I say "gentlemen's clubs".
Pretty Hate Machine is filled with unforgettable synthesizer hooks, pounding rhythms and angst ridden lyrics song after song. Most lyrics are about relationships or love gone wrong, but he writes in the abstract aloof way which does make it more interesting. Trent Reznor is an extremely talented artist.
Free Music Review: Pounding Rhythms and Angst Ridden Lyrics
Hit: 5 Stars
Singer Trent Reznor (who pretty much is Nine Inch Nails writing the majority of music and lyrics on the album) made a great album with Pretty Hate Machine. He brought this particular form of harsh industrial dance music into the mainstream. Singles "Head Like A Hole" and "Terrible Lie" became immediate underground classics, still played on the dance floors of clubs year after year. I still see strippers dancing to it in the local strip clubs or should I say "gentlemen's clubs".
Pretty Hate Machine is filled with unforgettable synthesizer hooks, pounding rhythms and angst ridden lyrics song after song. Most lyrics are about relationships or love gone wrong, but he writes in the abstract aloof way which does make it more interesting. Trent Reznor is an extremely talented artist.
Free Music Review: Fantastic Album
Hit: 5 Stars
A must for any NIN fan. Not quite as dark as many of Trent Reznor's other albums, it's staccato beats, frenzied synthesizers, and deep lyrics are still blissfully depressing. Free Music Review: God Money, Let's go dancing on the backs of the bruised
Hit: 5 Stars
Young Trent Reznor, full and engorged on a diet on Ministry, Devo, Depeche Mode and (according to the CD liner notes) Prince and Public Enemy, decided to make the music that really spoke to his angst and general teen-aged misery. On his first try, he created a masterpiece. Thick with synths and sampled beats, he snarled and shouted, bashing his way through his conflicts.
From the opening zap of "Head Like A Hole" to the surprisingly funky "Down In It," Reznor threw down his blueprint for world domination. It strikes a nerve even today, almost 20 years later. His soft/loud dynamic would soon be the formula every grunge band would adopt, while his self-flagellating anger captured the souls of a fresh generation of teens dead certain that they were the downtrodden new caste of misunderstoods. As Reznor put it in the brilliant "Sin"
"You gave me the reason, you gave me control.
I gave you my Purity, my Purity you stole."
At the same time Reznor was venting his frustrations, his music was packing dance floors with the disenfranchised. The singles from "Pretty Hate Machine" were notoriously remixed for clubs where the candy-coated RnB of the Jacskon clan (in 1989, think of Control or Bad) was not as welcome, but the forboding Ministry or Skinny Puppy might not have fit in. Nine Inch Nails bridged that gap with the debut...and then launch into Reznor's singularly twisted visions. When you consider that the follow-up, The Downward Spiral, was about one man's descent into suicidal madness, "Pretty Hate Machine" is light-hearted by comparison. As the 80's drew to their close, Trent Reznor delivered the first indispensable CD of the 90's.