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Broken is the 1992 EP follow up to Nine Inch Nails debut ‘Pretty Hate Machine’. Although it is not a full-length album it is a brilliant CD and the music is amazing. The production sounds excellent (much better than Pretty Hate Machine) and this makes the music sound even better.
Nine Inch Nails sing about emotions, painful emotions. Broken is therefore a dark CD and it sounds very angry and tormented in places. This is music from the heart. The sound is ‘Industrial Metal’. Guitars and drums mix perfectly with distortion and electronic samples.
The track listing is as follows:
1. pinion 2. wish 3. last 4. help me I am in hell 5. happiness in slavery 6. gave up
98. physical 99. suck
NB – tracks 98 and 99 on the CD are bonus tracks that come after tracks 7-97 being 3 second blank tracks… They are not actually listed on the CD case.
‘Pinion’ and ‘help me I am in hell’ are instrumentals. Pinion is in fact just a short intro to the CD but it does sound good! ‘Help me I am in hell’ is a slow track and it is great. I thought it would make a cool intro to a song.
‘Gave up’ had a proper video made for it (which featured Marilyn Manson without makeup or costume!), probably because it is a standout track. ‘Wish’ is also incredibly good. ‘Happiness in slavery’ is probably the heaviest track on the EP and ‘last’ is probably the slowest of the songs. The two bonus tracks are also great but they don’t quite fit the flow of the others so it’s understandable that they were separated.
I would recommend this CD to anyone who has heard one of the Nine Inch Nails albums and liked it. This CD is cheap (because of the few tracks) so it is a good addition to a collection! The music is fantastic but not everyone will like it because it is dark and the sound is original and complex.
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I wouldn't have said this was a good intro to NIN. An entire album full on intense anger about the way Trent's label treated him compared to the Fragile or The Downward Spiral - nah, I don't think so :)
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Broken packs a serious punch. Angrier and less poppy than "Machine", this EP is full of noisy hooks, if such a thing is possible (check out that guitar riff on th...
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Jun 11th, 2001
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