Pretty Hate Machine

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Pretty Hate Machine (also known as Halo 2) is an album by Nine Inch Nails released in 1989. Pretty Hate Machine is the second official Nine Inch Nails release and the band's first major release. It is followed by Broken.

Working nights at a recording studio cleaning toilets, Trent Reznor saved enough money to purchase time in a recording session. Playing all of the keyboards, drum machines, guitars, and samplers himself, he recorded a demo and sent it to various record labels. Not expecting any real response, Reznor was surprised when he received serious offers from many of the labels.

Teaming up with agent John A. Malm, Jr., Reznor signed a deal with TVT Records, a company mainly known for producing novelty and television jingle records. TVT paired Trent up with well-known producers Adrian Sherwood and Flood, as well as some lesser-knowns who Reznor later claimed to hate working with.

The album was released October 20, 1989 and was a critical success. It received radio airplay for the songs "Down in It", "Head Like a Hole" and "Sin". The album also gained popularity through word-of-mouth and developed an underground following. Reznor quickly hired a band for touring with The Jesus and Mary Chain, including guitarist and future Filter frontman Richard Patrick. NIN's live set was notorious for louder, more aggressive versions of the studio songs, and also for destroying their instruments at the end. Reznor preferred using the heel of his boots to strip the keys from expensive keyboards.

The term "pretty hate machine" is considered by some a term for an angst-filled youth who tries too hard to look the part of a rebellious teen.

However, one rumor has it that it is actually a reference to Reznor's ex-girlfriend prior to producing this album, a "Pretty Hate Machine," whom he appears to refer to as "the devil" throughout several tracks (e.g., on "Kinda I Want To" he declares, "I can't shake this feeling from my bed / there's a devil sleeping in my bed"; also, on "The Only Time," he opens by stating "I'm drunk / and right now, I'm so in love with you / and I don't wanna think too much about what we / should or shouldn't do / Lay my hands on heaven and the sun and the moon and the stars / while the devil tries to fuck me in the back of his car"). In fact, numerous fans have held that the entire album is a sendup of his feelings over the entire broken relationship and where it had left at the time. Repeated listenings certainly seem to verify this assumption, although it cannot be held dogmatically.

The entire album was covered by a string quartet in 2005 as The String Quartet Tribute to Nine Inch Nails' Pretty Hate Machine, arranged by Eric Gorfain.

This release had been out of print through TVT Records, but was put back in print on November 22, 2005 through Rykodisc Records with slight changes in the packaging.

¹Demos are available on the bootleg recording Purest Feeling.

Contents

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Releases

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Track listing

  1. "Head Like a Hole" - 4:59
  2. "Terrible Lie" - 4:38
  3. "Down in It" - 3:46
  4. "Sanctified" - 5:48
  5. "Something I Can Never Have" - 5:54
  6. "Kinda I Want To" - 4:33
  7. "Sin" - 4:06
  8. "That's What I Get" - 4:30
  9. "The Only Time" - 4:47
  10. "Ringfinger" - 5:40
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Personnel

  • Doug d'Angelis - Engineer
  • Tony Dawsey - Mastering
  • Flood - Programming, Producer, Engineer
  • John Fryer - Producer, Engineer, Mixing
  • Kennan Keating - Engineer
  • Keith LeBlanc - Producer, Engineer, Remixing, Mixing
  • Richard Patrick - Guitar
  • Ken Quartarone - Engineer
  • Trent Reznor - Arranger, Programming, Producer, Engineer, Digital Editing, Mixing
  • Adrian Maxwell Sherwood - Producer, Engineer, Mixing
  • Jeffrey Silverthorne - Photography
  • Gary Talpas - Cover Design
  • Chris Vrenna - Programming, Digital Editing
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Chart positions

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Album

1990   Pretty Hate Machine     The Billboard 200                      75
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Singles

1989    Down in It              Hot Dance Music/Club Play              16
1989	Down in It	 	Hot Dance Music/Maxi-Singles Sales     20
1989	Down in It	 	Modern Rock Tracks	               16
1990	Head Like a Hole	Hot Dance Music/Club Play	       17
1990	Head Like a Hole	Hot Dance Music/Maxi-Singles Sales     34
1990	Head Like a Hole	Modern Rock Tracks	               28
1990	Sin	 	        Hot Dance Music/Club Play	       10
1990	Sin	 	        Hot Dance Music/Maxi-Singles Sales     13
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