- industrial, industrial rock, synthpop, rock
- 49 min
- 10 tracks
- Island
Pretty Hate Machine is the debut studio album by the American industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails, released by TVT Records on October 20, 1989. Since 2011, the album has been released by the Bicycle Music Company. Frontman Trent Reznor sang and played most of the instruments, also producing the album alongside Keith LeBlanc, John Fryer and Flood, with a few other contributors.
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Character
Character-led, grave, bleak and overwhelming.
- character-ledplot-driven
- gravecomic
- warmbleak
- cooloverwhelming
- contemporarynostalgic
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- AllMusic5/5 ★
- The A.V. ClubB−
- Chicago Tribune2/4 ★
- Mojo4/5 ★
- Pitchfork5.6/10
- Q4/5 ★
- Rolling Stone4/5 ★
- The Rolling Stone Album Guide4.5/5 ★
- Select4/5
- Sounds4/5 ★
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Tracks
- 1Head Like a Hole5:02
- 2Terrible Lie4:39
- 3Down in It3:48
- 4Sanctified5:50
- 5Something I Can Never Have5:54
- 6Kinda I Want To4:35
- 7Sin4:05
- 8That’s What I Get4:30
- 9The Only Time4:50
- 10Ringfinger5:41
10 tracks, 49 minutes.
About the album
- Artist
- Nine Inch Nails
- Label
- Island
- Released
- 1989
- Type
- Album
- Format
- CD
- Country
- DE
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