Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine (Original Version)

Nine Inch Nails released their groundbreaking debut album Pretty Hate Machine in 1989. The synth-driven industrial rock record features the singles "Down in It", "Head Like a Hole" and "Sin". Although some influences can be detected, such as Skinny Puppy, The The, and New Order, the album as a whole sounds like nothing that ever came before it, and nothing that has come since sounds quite like it.

On Pretty Hate Machine, Trent Reznor sounds tough but also strained and vulnerable. There's a huge, frustrated mall-kid aspect to his voice, to the way it goes from defeated mutter to impotent yowl in no time flat. It's like he knows how petty he can sound, but he can't help himself. Arguably what makes the album so memorable is that the texture and abrasive intensity is matched with very catchy and well written songs, which never sound self-indulgent or meandering.

Heavyweight vinyl produced by The Bicyle Music Company in partnership with Concord Music Group in 2011. Mastered by Wes Garland at Nashville Record Productions.

TRACKLISTING:

1. Head Like A Hole
2. Terrible Lie
3. Down In It
4. Sanctified
5. Something I Can Never Have
6. Kinda I Want To
7. Sin
8. That'S What I Get
9. The Only Time
10. Ringfinger