IT’S THE 20TH ANNIVERSARY OF NINE INCH NAILS’ PRETTY HATE MACHINE
Tuesday, October 20th, 2009 at 1:00pm by Axl RosenbergA tweet from former Nine Inch Nails touring member Danny Lohner has alerted us to the fact that Pretty Hate Machine, Trent Reznor’s awesome debut, was released twenty years ago today.
Wow. Hard to believe that that’s true – and it’s funny that so many people forget that Reznor actually started doing his thing in the 80s.
Anyways, to celebrate, here’s the video for “Head Like a Hole.” Like most people, I imagine, this video made me aware of NIN for the first time. And it’s still an awesome song.
-AR
Well that makes me feel old.
In that case you probably are old.
“Pretty Hate Machine” was the first ‘heavy’ cd I ever purchased, at age 12, and it still remains one of my favorite albums ever; can’t believe it’s 20 years old!
One of the best industrial albums ever and still one if Trent’s best.
Ah yes, skinny Trent… good times. Trippy fucking video, too. Love that album.
I remember when it first came out and I believe it was Music Plus that put it on sale with a “If you don’t like it, return it policy” which was rare at that time. But i had never heard of TVT records so i figured it wasn’t going to be any good. Man was I wrong.
speaking of skinny….
“Down in it” was partial rip off of “DIG IT” from the far superior Skinny Puppy (Trent himself has confirmed this)
Skinny Puppy Dig it
NIN DIT
From Orge’s amazing lyrics and complicated vocal production, Goettle and Cevin’s insane layered and multi instrumental genius, they always were far superior to most industrial bands, including NIN if you want to call them industrial.
They have always put on an amazing live show with props and some sort of unifying narrative.
Skinny Puppy Live 1991
NIN are a good band, of course its only my opinion that SP are better.
But if you like NIN you should check out Skinny Puppy too.
Mind the Perpetual intercouse, Too Dark Park, and Last Rights are good places to start.
Their more guitar oriented albums are The Process and Rabies (w/Al Jourgenson).
Wow I’ve been hearing this song in metal clubs for about 5 years now and I never knew what it was… fail.