Comments for Nine Inch Nails, Pretty Hate Machine

Could someone please explain to me why Nine Inch Nails would not be considered industrial? They sound pretty industrial to me. I love this album. It's so damn depressing. "Something I Can Never Have" is a beautiful song. "Sin" is one of my all time favorite NIN songs. "Terrible Lie," "That's What I Get," and "Ringfinger" are also some of my favorites. They played "Ringfinger" at a goth club once in LA. Cool. This is a great debut album. I look forward to the next NIN album.

Terrible Lie and Sin were the songs that sucked me into Reznor's musical grip. I never hear anyone talk about how great the pinball sound effects were in Terrible Lie, so I'M saying it. Every time I heard it on K Rock I thought it had just been released, it seemed so refreshing and stuff, a change of pace from all of that Green Day bullcrap and Nirvana ... which sucks, as well as Bush and a lotta other wuss bands. But then I see it on Pretty Hate Machine, from 1989, and I was just shocked that someone, alone, had programmed all of that pinball plinks and plinkers at a time when music was just starting to move out of rock and molding itself until it became what it's known for today: alternative. Head Like A Hole is great lyrically, so is Terrible Lie and ... well, let's just say Trent Reznor's the next Shakespeare, once he gets out of his smashing-equipment-up-on-stage phase.

Terrible Lie and Sin were the songs that sucked me into Reznor's musical grip. I never hear anyone talk about how great the pinball sound effects were in Terrible Lie, so I'M saying it. Every time I heard it on K Rock I thought it had just been released, it seemed so refreshing and stuff, a change of pace from all of that Green Day bullcrap and Nirvana ... which sucks, as well as Bush and a lotta other wuss bands. But then I see it on Pretty Hate Machine, from 1989, and I was just shocked that someone, alone, had programmed all of that pinball plinks and plinkers at a time when music was just starting to move out of rock and molding itself until it became what it's known for today: alternative. Head Like A Hole is great lyrically, so is Terrible Lie and ... well, let's just say Trent Reznor's the next Shakespeare, once he gets out of his smashing-equipment-up-on-stage phase.

All you fucking thirteen year old wannabes who started liking Nails after the Downward Spiral should realize that this is the only good albulm by them. Get a life and quit treating Trent like he's God or something...Oh yeah, this album pretty much kicks ass.

I agree with avon!!!!This is the best nin album of all time. downward spiral actually sucked cock and you 13 year olds should reall ylike the music, not go with the trend

Incredibly angst-ridden mainstream industrial releasefrom Trent Reznor.

Pretty Hate Machine is one kick ass album. The lyrics to every song on the album I can relate to especially something I can never have. Can't wait for the new album.

best ever! nothing else to say ;-)