Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine POLL

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Yeah, at the moment I'm thinking that it's possibly between 'Sin' and 'Something I Can Never Have' for me, but man, this is a seriously good record.

yeah "Sin" also.

GOD MONEY I'LL DO ANYTHING FOR YOU

sin and the only time are prob better songs tbh but w/o head like a hole I wouldn't have adored this band for 16 years

ringfinger is pretty sick tho

ahhhhhhhhhhMOTHERFUCKER!

Head like a hole, hands down.

Love 105 played down in it to death in the early 90s, quite sick of it and don't want to hear it again

Love this record lots. Went with "Down In It."

They probably spent $100 on the video and it looks and sounds dated but I still adore both it and the track.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrrEo3hZABU

And everything I never liked about you is kinda seeping into me resonated with me in many a relationship ever since I first heard Trent sing it.

My instinct says Terrible Lie, but I might go for Sanctified so it's not forgotten.

he started playing sanctified again live on the 2013 tour and it was greaaaaat.

NIN would be great if Trent didn't sing.

Yeah I increasingly agree with that, lyrics and vox are far and away the weakest part of the package.

foom foom chuffchuff............................................. psssssssssssssshhhhhhhh
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Head Like A Poll... come on!

I love how this album is like a who's-who of hip producers c. this time. Flood, John Fryer, Keith LeBlanc, Adrian Sherwood.

Also: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHLSiIVxjUs

I heard this album the first time because my girlfriend's roommate was like, "This guy my mom used to babysit put out an album." She ended up with the promo copy that was sent to her mom, because her mom was all, "That's ... nice, Trent. Good for you!" So then when "Head Like a Hole" showed up on 120 Minutes, we were all excited. "It's that guy!" Which probably explains why that's still my favorite NIN song. I had a fifth-party sense of investment in his success. Then he got crazy famous and I didn't feel like he needed me cheering him on anymore.

lyrics and vox are far and away the weakest part of the package.

At least he worked on the Ringfinger demo a bit longer:

(Twist twist twist) it can go a little deeper
(Twist twist twist) I'm wearing these chains
(Twist twist twist) you make it hurt real good
(Twist twist twist) I love the pain

(I only know this from hearing it coming out of someone's tent at a music festival some twenty years ago)

Yeah, at the moment I'm thinking that it's possibly between 'Sin' and 'Something I Can Never Have' for me, but man, this is a seriously good record.

― You’re being too simplistic and you’re insulting my poor heart (Turrican), Friday, July 24, 2015 12:36 AM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Ended up voting for 'Something I Can Never Have', since 'Sin' and 'Head Like A Hole' are already getting a lot of love!

'something i can never have' is what sticks for me from this album, the guy i knew who turned me on to nin was a huge depeche mode fan and this seems like a really good fake depeche mode song.

Yeah, I can see why Depeche Mode fans would take to Nine Inch Nails, particularly this album.

Love this record lots. Went with "Down In It."

They probably spent $100 on the video and it looks and sounds dated but I still adore both it and the track.

The video has its own bizarre history.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gV8yQc0m7g

I voted for Sin, but That's What I Get is my secret favorite song on the album.

NIN would be great if Trent didn't sing.

― brotherlovesdub, Saturday, July 25, 2015 10:29 AM (12 hours ago)

what? NO!

this album is 9/10 classic tracks ... just listened to it twice and the only one i managed to cross of the list was "terrible lie"

*cross off

hearing "Closer" in Magic Mike XXL made me realize that whatever its limitations, Trent's voice has a very specific value that I don't think it would be helpful for NIN to shed

just listened to it twice and the only one i managed to cross of the list was "terrible lie"

I'm surprised that anyone would rank "Terrible Lie" last!

I voted "Down In It" for sentimental reasons, it's the first NIN song I ever heard. I still love it, but many other songs get to me in a more personal way.

I just read Daphne Carr's 33 1/3 book on PHM, it was easily my favourite of the series (at least out of the five or six that I've read).

yeah, you're right, i don't know what i was thinking. 10/10 classic album.

Went for Ringfinger. Just love how unassuming it is at the beginning and then it hits you

I actually don't mind Trent's voice, but agree that the lyrics are probably the weakest part of the package.

Ringfinger

i love trent's voice, his lyrics have been terrible forever but their awfulness vacillates between charming and distracting

It's a lot of fun to play "predict the rhyme" with him - I don't think I've ever been wrong.

I got the re-mastered version of this with the Get Down Make Love cover tacked on at the end. It slays, can't believe I've never heard it.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

it comes down to this

your kiss

your fist

frankly the gayest album ever made by a straight(? idk trent's life) guy

pretty straight machine

that doesn't mean anything, just a dumb pun.

fwiw i totally agree with you. on the other hand pretty much all 80s / 90s industrial music seems fairly queer to me, though i wonder how much of that is just down to the prevalence of bdsm imagery

+ inevitably getting homophobic abuse in junior high and high school for listening to industrial music, new wave and/or techno!

that weirdly hit close to home

Trent's ickiness over his own lust (and the objects of it) on this album maps very neatly onto the traumas of adolescent queer desire overlaid with internalised homophobia.