Pretty Hate Machine (studio album) by Nine Inch Nails

Pretty Hate Machine by Nine Inch Nails
Year: 1989
Overall rank: 534th   Overall chart historyOverall chart history
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79/100 (from 668 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top 10 albums of 1989 (9th)
Award Top 100 albums of the 1980s (81st)
Award Top 1,000 albums of all time (534th)
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Nine Inch Nails bestography

Pretty Hate Machine is ranked 2nd best out of 23 albums by Nine Inch Nails on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Nine Inch Nails is The Downward Spiral which is ranked number 162 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 9,854.

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79/100 (from 668 votes)
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This album is rated in the top 2% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 79.3/100, a mean average of 78.6/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 79.4/100. The standard deviation for this album is 14.9.

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85/100
From 05/06/2023 18:31
Very good debut album, they brought some fresh stuff to the table mixing alternative dance with industrial sounds and punk delivery. Not consistently great, there are some really bad tracks here (Down In It), but good ones overshadow them and are pretty catchy - Head Like A Hole, Sin and Terrible Lie are anthemic bangers. There is also surprisingly good slower-paced emotional Something I Can Never Have with grim tone to it and great lyrics, which is not always the case. The Only Time sounds great, but I can't say the same about lyrics.
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80/100
From 03/29/2023 22:32
A pegada dance é mto foda!
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From 07/20/2022 04:48
Debut Album from Trent Reznor and is a 100/100
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85/100
From 07/15/2022 08:59
Album Rating: 82.00
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1.Head Like A Hole. 83
2.Terrible Lie. 83
3.Down In It. 79
4.Sanctified. 78
5.Something I Can Never Have. 92
6.Kinda I Want To. 80
7.Sin. 86
8.That's What I Get. 85
9.The Only Time. 77
10.Ringfinger. 77
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80/100
From 10/25/2021 18:32
I've liked this album since its release. Very interesting.
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90/100
From 04/11/2021 06:25
Excellent album. Head like a hole is a great opener setting the tone for the rest of the album. A brilliant track one side one. The rest of the album is really solid, no filler tracks. Succinct and to the point.
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75/100
From 02/16/2021 04:47
I definitely seem to get more personal enjoyment out of this synth-pop sound than what comes in the albums thereafter.
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90/100
From 01/08/2020 04:55
A terrific and really hard to categorize debut.
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95/100
From 06/27/2019 18:07
Really good debut album.

Favorites: Head Like A Hole, Terrible Lie, Down In It, Something I Can Never Have, Sin.
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From 02/22/2019 18:12
Lyrics from angsty/edgy Trent are little corny, but I really liked synth-pop music and dancy beats.
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