Nine Inch Nails' Pretty Hate Machine
1st Edition
Published on 24. March 2011
192 pages
978-1-4411-8637-9 (ISBN)
Description
What is the world that Nine Inch Nails made, and what was the world that made Nine Inch Nails? These are the questions at the heart of this study of the band's 1989 debut, Pretty Hate Machine.
The album began as after-hours demos by mercenary new wave keyboardist Trent Reznor, and was disciplined into sparse industrial dance by a handful of the UK's best industrial producers. Carr traces how the album became beloved in the underground, found its mass at Lollapalooza, and its market at the newly opened mall store Hot Topic. For fans, Nine Inch Nails was a vehicle for questioning God, society, the family, sex, and the body. In ten raw, heartbreaking oral histories woven through the book, fans living in the post-industrial Midwest discuss the successes and failures of the American dream as they are articulated in Nine Inch Nails' music. Daphne Carr illuminates Pretty Hate Machine as at once singular and as representative of how popular music can impact history and change lives.
The album began as after-hours demos by mercenary new wave keyboardist Trent Reznor, and was disciplined into sparse industrial dance by a handful of the UK's best industrial producers. Carr traces how the album became beloved in the underground, found its mass at Lollapalooza, and its market at the newly opened mall store Hot Topic. For fans, Nine Inch Nails was a vehicle for questioning God, society, the family, sex, and the body. In ten raw, heartbreaking oral histories woven through the book, fans living in the post-industrial Midwest discuss the successes and failures of the American dream as they are articulated in Nine Inch Nails' music. Daphne Carr illuminates Pretty Hate Machine as at once singular and as representative of how popular music can impact history and change lives.
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Series
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
Professional and scholarly
ISBN-13
978-1-4411-8637-9 (9781441186379)
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Daphne Carr
Nine Inch Nails' Pretty Hate Machine
Book
05/2011
Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
€14.50
Article in reprint
Person
Daphne Carr is a Manhattan-based writer. She is the series editor of Best Music Writing and an editor at Current Musicology. Her music writing has appeared in numerous anthologies and publications including Out of the Vinyl Deeps, Listen Again: A Momentary History of Pop, the Village Voice, MOJO, The Nation, Stop Smiling, and Venus Zine. Find her at www.funboring.com.
Content
Introduction
Map
The Becoming
Mercer, Pa.
"Head Like a Hole"
"Terrible Lie"
"Down in It"
Youngstown, Ohio
"Sanctified"
"Something I Can Never Have"
"Kinda I Want To"
"Sin"
Cleveland, Ohio
"That's What I Get"
"The Only Time"
"Ringfinger"
Leader of the Black Parade
Notes
Credits
Bibliography
Map
The Becoming
Mercer, Pa.
"Head Like a Hole"
"Terrible Lie"
"Down in It"
Youngstown, Ohio
"Sanctified"
"Something I Can Never Have"
"Kinda I Want To"
"Sin"
Cleveland, Ohio
"That's What I Get"
"The Only Time"
"Ringfinger"
Leader of the Black Parade
Notes
Credits
Bibliography
