Nine Inch Nails Pretty Hate Machine | CD

Nine Inch Nails: Trent Reznor (vocals, various instruments).Additional personnel includes: Richard Patrick (guitar); Chris Vrenna (drums).Personnel: Trent Reznor (programming).Recording information: Blackwing, London; Roundhouse, London; Synchro Sound, Boston, MA; The Right Track, Cleveland, OH; Unique, NY.Photographer: Jeffrey Silverthorne.Arranger: Trent Reznor.Although Nine Inch Nails mastermind Trent Reznor became the poster boy for industrial rock in the early 1990s, his '89 debut, PRETTY HATE MACHINE, actually has a stronger foothold in '80s synth-pop. The guitar-heavy opener, "Head Like a Hole," is the most aggressive track on the album and proved to be the signature song for Reznor's initial breakthrough, but much of the disc sounds like Depeche Mode in a particularly bad mood.All of the tracks on PRETTY HATE MACHINE are based on synthesizer lines and programmed beats, with other elements--such as the distinctive bass on "Sanctified" and sampled explosions on "That's What I Get