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Pretty Hate Machine by: Nine Inch Nails

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Rating: - fantastic

dont delay buying this just because its 20 years old get it now. totally fantastic

Rating: - Cutting Edge Creativity

It all makes sense now: I became aware of Trent Reznor's work via a certain Mr David Bowie or at least I thought that was the case until finally getting around to buying Pretty Hate Machine - some of the songs I had been listening to at clubs long ago were here, including the song that makes you feel good about your dismay at modern society where money and sycophancy (stand up most Radio 1 DJs) gets you everywhere ala "Head Like A Hole". Second only to Rage Against the Machine's "Killing In The Name" for its sheer musical power and inventiveness. Both ahead of the rest of the pack at the time.

Pretty Hate Machine is timeless. Yes some of the beats and treatments are primative, but they are compelling. Above all what comes through is the quality (and often darkness) of Reznor's writing which was to go on to far greater heights in later work.

Long live Nine Inch Nails and creativity.

Rating: - Excellence of its time

thankfully 'A Customer' and 'Toybum' don't represent the great majority of NIN fans who think Pretty Hate Machine, 'Excellence of its time'. It's not Psychic TV, Throbbing Gristle, it's not so many things other than being a fantastic slab of tech-industrial metal by a young guy called Trent Reznor.

All that 'A Customer' hates is what makes THIS customer love the album. I don't regard there being a duff track. There has been plenty of music since by NIN that has made me raise my eyebrows, thinking 'Hmmm, not sure about that'.

REMEMBER! THIS WAS A 'LONG' TIME AGO. Nearly 20 years ago. This, for the non-'WIRE' magazine reader brought up reading Sounds, NME and Kerrang! was totally different to Whitesnake and Gillan and the concept-shift from 'Hair' metal and 'Bay Area Thrash' to what Trent was offering.

Don't judge it by the now. It's good enough to hold it's own. ENJOY. You've got 4-5* reviews by many others than those wanting to hold themselves as knowing music you don't know. Lose these guys.

BUY THIS ALBUM.

Rating: - Nine Inch Nails ~ Pretty Hate Machine ~

The Holy Grail of Industrial music. Personally I think this is the album that put Industrial on the map. Still to this day it has its own unique sound and a sort of futuristic feel. If you see a copy, buy it straight away. Its intelligent, its unique and still to this day it sounds fresh.

Rating: - amazing music

when i first heard about nine inch nails i thought they were a metal band and put off listening to them. Then i listened to this and realized i was completely wrong. what i found was music based on beats and clever sampling. guitars and other conventional instruments are only used to provide noise here and there instead of being the focus which gives nine inch nails a very unique sound. there's nobody else who makes music like nine inch nails and that alone makes them worth listening to once.

this album raises the bar so high that i look at my other cd's as crap. if that isn't a recommendation, i don't know what is

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