20 Years Ago…Pretty Hate Machine
I failed to play nothing but Nine Inch Nails’ Pretty Hate Machine today. Why? Because twenty years ago Trent Reznor dropped this on the music world.
PHM wasn’t the beginning of industrial music, but it was the genre’s most important album. Reznor combined metal, electronic music, and goth with pop hooks that instantly made him a musical force to be reckoned with. To start up PHM with the instant classic “Head Like a Hole” is to have believed music was going in a new direction. Reznor pulled that feat off a few years before Nirvana changed everything.
NIN was my gateway into the world of electronic music. It started with NIN’s metal crunch and synthetic beats. Then it moved to NIN remixes which opened my ears to bombastic electronica from The Chemical Brothers and The Crystal Method. From there my sonic journey moved to trance and house.
I thank Trent Reznor. He may have never found a way to top his debut album, but he’s given me much enjoyment. PHM is on repeat right now to make up for what I should have been doing all day.
“Nine Inch Nails’ Pretty Hate Machine Turns 20 Today”
Can’t say much about 9″N, but remembering your previous life I thought you’d get a kick out of this: http://www.lifein3d.net/?p=1167