Performer: | Nine Inch Nails |
Title: | Pretty Hate Machine |
Country: | US |
Released: | 2011 |
Style: | Industrial |
Category: | Electronic |
Rating: | 4.6 ✦ |
Other format: | VQF XM AAC TTA MIDI ASF AAC |
The album is compiled of reworked tracks from the Purest Feeling demo, as well as songs composed after its original recording. Production of the record was handled by Flood and Trent Reznor, among other contributors.
But Pretty Hate Machine is haunted, synthetic dance-pop through and through. The beats have muscle, but it's not metal muscle or pigfuck muscle or even post-punk muscle . Much of Pretty Hate Machine concerns a simple scenario: Being young but feeling that your life is already over, that your best days are already behind you. On "Down in It": "I used to be somebody.
Pretty Hate Machine, the first Nine Inch Nails album, was released on 18 October 1989, as Halo 2 and featured three singles: Halo 1: Down in It. Halo 3: Head Like a Hole. It was immensely successful, and was one of the first independent records to achieve RIAA platinum status. In 2010 the album was re-released as HALO 2R, with new artwork and the bonus song Get Down, Make Love, a Queen cover song that was originally released on Halo 4. Pretty Hate Machine Q&A.
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1 | Head Like A HoleEngineer – Doug De Angelis*, Flood, Keith LeBlanc, Ken Quartarone, Kennan KeatingMixed By – Keith LeBlancProducer – Flood, Trent ReznorProducer [Additional Remix Production] – Keith LeBlanc |
4:59 |
2 | Terrible LieEngineer – Doug De Angelis*, Flood, John FryerMixed By – John Fryer, Trent ReznorProducer – Flood, Trent Reznor |
4:38 |
3 | Down In ItEngineer – Adrian Sherwood, Keith LeBlanc, Kennan Keating, Trent ReznorMixed By – Adrian SherwoodProducer – Adrian Sherwood, Keith LeBlanc, Trent Reznor |
3:46 |
4 | SanctifiedEngineer, Mixed By – John FryerProducer – John Fryer, Trent Reznor |
5:48 |
5 | Something I Can Never HaveEngineer, Mixed By – John FryerProducer – John Fryer, Trent Reznor |
5:54 |
6 | Kinda I Want ToEngineer – John Fryer, Keith LeBlanc, Ken Quartarone, Kennan KeatingMixed By – John Fryer, Keith LeBlanc, Trent ReznorProducer – John Fryer, Trent Reznor |
4:33 |
7 | SinEngineer – John Fryer, Keith LeBlanc, Ken Quartarone, Kennan KeatingMixed By – Keith LeBlanc, Trent ReznorProducer – John Fryer, Trent ReznorRemix – Keith LeBlanc |
4:06 |
8 | That's What I GetProducer, Engineer, Mixed By – John Fryer |
4:30 |
9 | The Only TimeEngineer – John Fryer, Keith LeBlanc, Ken Quartarone, Kennan KeatingMixed By – Keith LeBlancProducer – John Fryer, Keith LeBlanc, Trent Reznor |
4:47 |
10 | RingfingerEngineer – John FryerProducer, Mixed By – John Fryer, Trent Reznor |
5:45 |
Category | Artist | Title (Format) | Label | Category | Country | Year |
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TVT 2610-2, 2610-2 | Nine Inch Nails | Pretty Hate Machine (CD, Album) | TVT Records, TVT Records | TVT 2610-2, 2610-2 | US | 1989 |
ICT 9973, 848 358-4 | Nine Inch Nails | Pretty Hate Machine (Cass, Album, Cle) | Island Records, TVT Records | ICT 9973, 848 358-4 | UK | 1989 |
B0015099-02 | Nine Inch Nails | Pretty Hate Machine (CD, Album, RE, RM, Dig) | UMe | B0015099-02 | US | 2010 |
AMCY-345 | Nine Inch Nails | Pretty Hate Machine (CD, Album, Promo) | TVT Records, Interscope Records, Atlantic | AMCY-345 | Japan | 1992 |
UICY-91219, | Nine Inch Nails | Pretty Hate Machine (CD, Album, RE, SHM) | Interscope Records, TVT Records, Universal International | UICY-91219, | Japan | 2008 |