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Album of the Month - Pretty Hat Machine
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I'm probably going to get flack for this one, but I don't care.
Pretty Hate Machine has to be one of those albums that I could easily put in my top 10 and I'd go so far as to say that I'd stick this sucker in my top 5 for purely personal reasons.
Now, I was a little industrial jackoff during high school. I was all about Front 242, Skinny Puppy and Ministry. This was coming out of a Depeche Mode/Cure/U2 thing I had through junior high. Like I said before, the first Lollapalooza was a pretty big deal to me and it was at that show that I discovered NIN. I had actually seen their vides on channel 56 Total Request Video Live (props to the hardcore Los Angeles crowd that remembers that cable access show) but they just didn't stick, you know. Well, after seeing them perform, in the middle of the day, in scorching heat and kicking all kinds of ass, they made what some people would call industrial pop into a kickass live performance.
Since then, I have seen NIN maybe half a dozen times and enjoyed each and every single show.
PHM has those songs that you would be joyously singing along to before you realized you were actually singing along to them. I can pretty much sing each and every song on this album from memory, it just stuck to me like that. Songs like Something I Can Never Have still get to me.
I think this is one of those albums that just about anyone can appreciate. I loved Broken and subsequent NIN albums, but PHM really has that freshman appeal to it. If you've heard the demo stuff for this album and even the demo for Ringfinger, you might have a better idea what I mean. If I remember correctly, the actual NIN record contract was tied up forever because of some disputes with TVT records, which is why there was a big gap between PHM and Broken. Once NIN was freed up, Reznor was really able to do as he wished. I've read comparisons before between PHM and Ministry's first new wave disco album, which they won't EVER perform songs from and how Reznor would say it wasn't the album he wanted to make, but TVT pushed for that, but whatever. It's still a great album.
NIN also gets a lot of hate because SPIN named him leader of the industrial revolution at a time when bands like Ministry and Skinny Puppy were doing some outrageously awesome stuff and I think the whole industrial tag thing kind of had some backlash from those kinds of fans. I mean, compared to Too Dark Park or The Mind is a Terrible thing to Taste, PHM sounds really Depeche Mode(ish).
There were a ton of bands that came along that tried to mimic NIN, Sister Machine Gun (which I actually kind of like), Machines of Loving Grace and fuck me in the ass Stabbing Westward fuckfaces, but none could match what PHM had to offer. I would say it was industrial angst with a passion. I had a gf in high school where things were and off with and I had percieved that PHM was written about a bitch girlfriend. Either way, musically and lyrically, I really dig PHM.
But like I said, I really think that the album itself can stand on its own. Head Like a Hole and Sin are still classics, while tunes like Sanctified and That's What I Get can still make your hair stand up. I really do love this album and thought it would be a good addition to Album of the Month. With a new NIN album on the horizon, what better time.
as always, these are my own opinions, feel free to hate and disagree
Pretty Hate Machine has to be one of those albums that I could easily put in my top 10 and I'd go so far as to say that I'd stick this sucker in my top 5 for purely personal reasons.
Now, I was a little industrial jackoff during high school. I was all about Front 242, Skinny Puppy and Ministry. This was coming out of a Depeche Mode/Cure/U2 thing I had through junior high. Like I said before, the first Lollapalooza was a pretty big deal to me and it was at that show that I discovered NIN. I had actually seen their vides on channel 56 Total Request Video Live (props to the hardcore Los Angeles crowd that remembers that cable access show) but they just didn't stick, you know. Well, after seeing them perform, in the middle of the day, in scorching heat and kicking all kinds of ass, they made what some people would call industrial pop into a kickass live performance.
Since then, I have seen NIN maybe half a dozen times and enjoyed each and every single show.
PHM has those songs that you would be joyously singing along to before you realized you were actually singing along to them. I can pretty much sing each and every song on this album from memory, it just stuck to me like that. Songs like Something I Can Never Have still get to me.
I think this is one of those albums that just about anyone can appreciate. I loved Broken and subsequent NIN albums, but PHM really has that freshman appeal to it. If you've heard the demo stuff for this album and even the demo for Ringfinger, you might have a better idea what I mean. If I remember correctly, the actual NIN record contract was tied up forever because of some disputes with TVT records, which is why there was a big gap between PHM and Broken. Once NIN was freed up, Reznor was really able to do as he wished. I've read comparisons before between PHM and Ministry's first new wave disco album, which they won't EVER perform songs from and how Reznor would say it wasn't the album he wanted to make, but TVT pushed for that, but whatever. It's still a great album.
NIN also gets a lot of hate because SPIN named him leader of the industrial revolution at a time when bands like Ministry and Skinny Puppy were doing some outrageously awesome stuff and I think the whole industrial tag thing kind of had some backlash from those kinds of fans. I mean, compared to Too Dark Park or The Mind is a Terrible thing to Taste, PHM sounds really Depeche Mode(ish).
There were a ton of bands that came along that tried to mimic NIN, Sister Machine Gun (which I actually kind of like), Machines of Loving Grace and fuck me in the ass Stabbing Westward fuckfaces, but none could match what PHM had to offer. I would say it was industrial angst with a passion. I had a gf in high school where things were and off with and I had percieved that PHM was written about a bitch girlfriend. Either way, musically and lyrically, I really dig PHM.
But like I said, I really think that the album itself can stand on its own. Head Like a Hole and Sin are still classics, while tunes like Sanctified and That's What I Get can still make your hair stand up. I really do love this album and thought it would be a good addition to Album of the Month. With a new NIN album on the horizon, what better time.
as always, these are my own opinions, feel free to hate and disagree
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I really didn't like too much after The Downward Spiral. The live album was for the most part good though. I only saw "Album of the Month - Pretty" on the index and was hoping it'd be this album.
WAM is onto something here...
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I too saw them live recently
p.s. god save the queen
you wouldn't believe sometimes i don't believe them myself and i decided i was
never coming down. just then a tiny little dot caught my eye it was just about
too small to see. but i watched it way too long and that dot was pulling me
down.
Chorus: i was up about it.
i was up above it.
now i'm down in it
i was up above it.
i was up above it.
now i'm down in it
Maybe the worst music video in the history of the medium, though.
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echoing your voice just like the ringing in my ears.
my favorite dreams of you still wash ashore.
scraping through my head 'till i don't want to sleep anymore.
Chorus: come on tell me.
make this all go away.
you make this all go away.
i'm down to just to thing.
and i'm starting to scare myself.
make this all go away.
you make this all go way.
seriously for all the hate linkin park gets on the internet i am seeing some similarities here
The set was amazing, but god do I hate the song With Teeth.
Well goddamn if I couldn't say the exact same words and they would be true.
Did you come to St. Paul for them?
Yeah, it's trash. nothing on that album does much for me. I don't really listen to anything after Downward Spiral.
when I saw 'em they opened with Mr. Self Destruct. that is how you start a show
no I saw them here in Winnipeg.
The Fragile was awesome, you're missing out.
Another thing you guys miss out on is the St. Paul Irish Festival
They play for free twice over the Festival weekend!
I am a little nervous about the quality of Year Zero
Me, I'm Not, and In This Twilight are fucking awesome songs.
Survivalism is shit.
I don't know which is worse.
or
Yeaaaah. Fist Fuck!
did you not see my post you faggot
And something is going to be leaked tonight
Have you ever seen the video for Judas Priest's Breakin' the Law?
Maybe anything by Laibach?
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I'm pretty sure I that's a Radiohead avatar.
I'm pretty sure, because I have it on a Radiohead T-shirt.
Sick.
h5
The Fragile is my favorite NiN album. It seems so unappreciated though.