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Title: "Nine" on the ten scale.
Review: This is the new album from Nine Inch Nails. Just Kidding. "Pretty Hate Machine" was originally released in 1989, and did for industrial music what "Nevermind" did for grunge. Much of the success of this debut came because of the time of release (the beginning of the alt-revolution), as well as it's appeal to metal-heads, goths, punks, and alternative types in general. If the masses couldn't handle Skinny Puppy, they could handle NIN. Many would call this industrial-pop, but regardless of how you classify it, it's extremely good. "Head Like A Hole" is still one of their best songs, and my favorite "Down In It" and "Sin" were also popular singles. However, some of the other tracks are what really make this disc, underrated cuts like "The Only Time", "Ringfinger", and the moody "Something I Can Never Have". Overall, I do believe that 1994's "The Downward Spiral" is the one essential NIN album, but saying that "Pretty Hate Machine" is no good is simply a "Terrible Lie".
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