Pretty Hate Machine

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Editorial reviews

Amazon.co.uk Review
Considered the breakthrough album that delivered a more palatable version of industrial music to the commercial audience, Pretty Hate Machine left its dingy mark on pop culture. The abrasive "sonarchy" of the album was first churned by despondent club-goers who roiled with the rhythms and aligned with the angst-ridden convictions. Since its release, the album's tempered deviations came to signify an aesthetic reverie for machine-driven martyrdom. Permeated by hissing engines and dissonant strains, the tracks cascade outside channels of modern complacency. Hits like "Head Like a Hole" and "Down in It" are recognized by the acidic beats, piercing riffs, and lyrical hostilities which snare the listener with disparaging rhapsody. Not for the light-headed, Pretty Hate Machine afflicts the inner sanctum and strikes a nerve. --Lucas Hilbert

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Customer reviews

review by: Porl! date: 2008-09-25 rating:
Excellence of its time
thankfully 'A Customer' and 'Toybum' don't represent the great majority of NIN fans who think Pretty Hate Machine, 'Excellence of its time'. It's not Psychic TV, Throbbing Gristle, it's not so many things other than being a fantastic slab of tech-industrial metal by a young guy called Trent Reznor.

All that 'A Customer' hates is what makes THIS customer love the album. I don't regard there being a duff track. There has been plenty of music since by NIN that has made me raise my eyebrows, thinking 'Hmmm, not sure about that'.

REMEMBER! THIS WAS A 'LONG' TIME AGO. Nearly 20 years ago. This, for the non-'WIRE' magazine reader brought up reading Sounds, NME and Kerrang! was totally different to Whitesnake and Gillan and the concept-shift from 'Hair' metal and 'Bay Area Thrash' to what Trent was offering.

Don't judge it by the now. It's good enough to hold it's own. ENJOY. You've got 4-5* reviews by many others than those wanting to hold themselves as knowing music you don't know. Lose these guys.

BUY THIS ALBUM.

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review by: Khristian Rainford date: 2008-02-03 rating:
Nine Inch Nails ~ Pretty Hate Machine ~
The Holy Grail of Industrial music. Personally I think this is the album that put Industrial on the map. Still to this day it has its own unique sound and a sort of futuristic feel. If you see a copy, buy it straight away. Its intelligent, its unique and still to this day it sounds fresh.

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review by: emotionsickness86 date: 2008-02-01 rating:
amazing music
when i first heard about nine inch nails i thought they were a metal band and put off listening to them. Then i listened to this and realized i was completely wrong. what i found was music based on beats and clever sampling. guitars and other conventional instruments are only used to provide noise here and there instead of being the focus which gives nine inch nails a very unique sound. there's nobody else who makes music like nine inch nails and that alone makes them worth listening to once.

this album raises the bar so high that i look at my other cd's as crap. if that isn't a recommendation, i don't know what is

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review by: date: 2007-09-26 rating:
Nailgasm
I wish i didn't already have this album so i could buy it again and experience it all from fresh.

For new comers..this is some very interesting music, i suggest you give it a try..and if you don't like it..you cant really do wrong at amazons prices!

Trents music has matured a lot over the years, this album is very 80's industrial rock pop with a dirty twist.


review by: date: 2007-07-28 rating:
pop for rockers
this is where industrial music first entered the mainstream....yes it is a dark and nasty piece of pop music but it is still effectively an 80's electro pop record with a dark heart beating away at its core.
the depeche mode references abound all over the album except instead of dave gahan's pained croon you have trents anguished screams.
its a very good album that cannot be denied..the guitars are low in the mix and seem to serve only to flesh out the angry bits.the real secret to this album are the beats and the goove of the album..its very dancable and very very catchy....quite possibly the most catchy depressing album ever made!!!
the stand outs are head like a hole..a great song that still gets aired in rock clubs to this day and the mighty sin...a much faster up beat song and then quite possibly one of the most depressing songs ever written something i can never have...a beautiful and haunting song!!!
overall a very good album..a few dull songs that can get a bit repetitive but the stand out songs outnumber the poor

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