Pretty Hate Machine
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| Studio album by Nine Inch Nails | |||||
| Released | October 20, 1989 | ||||
| Recorded | May–June 1989 | ||||
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| Length | 48:42 | ||||
| Label | TVT | ||||
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| AllMusic |  |
| American Songwriter |  |
| The A.V. Club | B− |
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| Pitchfork | 9.5/10 |
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| Select | 4/5 |
Pretty Hate Machine is the debut studio album by American industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails, released on October 20, 1989 by TVT Records in the United States, Island Records in Europe and by Interscope Records and Atlantic Records internationally. The album is compiled of reworked tracks from the band's Purest Feeling demo, as well as songs composed after its original recording. Although it was critically and commercially successful (especially for an independent label), Trent Reznor (Nine Inch Nails' only constant band member) feuded with TVT Records during the album's promotion. Slant Magazine placed the album at number 50 on its list of the "Best Albums of the 1980s", commenting, "before attempting suicide in The Downward Spiral and living with the wrist scars in The Fragile, Pretty Hate Machine sent out sleek, danceable warning shots".
Three singles were released from the album, the most successful being its opening track "Head Like a Hole", which has become a staple of Nine Inch Nails live performances. Pretty Hate Machine became one of the first independently released albums to attain a platinum certification, with the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) certifying the album triple platinum on May 12, 2003, indicating sales surpassing three million copies in the United States. The album went out of print in 1997 because of the much publicized disagreement between Reznor and TVT. Rykodisc re-released the album worldwide in 2005, effectively putting it back into print. A remastered version with updated artwork was released on November 22, 2010.
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