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| Length = 31:35 (8-track version) 33:09 (99-track version) | Label = Nothing/TVT/Interscope | Producer = | Last album = ''Pretty Hate Machine'' (1989) | This album = ''Broken'' (1992) | Next album = ''Fixed'' (1992) | Misc = }} ''Broken'' is an EP released on September 22, 1992. American industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails' second extended release after ''Pretty Hate Machine'', it consists entirely of new material and was their major label debut. Produced by frontman Trent Reznor and Flood, it replaces the electronica and synthpop style of ''Pretty Hate Machine'' with a considerably heavier sound. Its influences are industrial metal and noise rock. The music videos that accompanied 5 of the 8 total tracks were widely censored from television airplay due to their disturbing content. Nevertheless, "Wish" won the 1993 Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance as did "Happiness in Slavery" (live performance at Woodstock '94) in 1996. Contributing to the band's growing mainstream success, ''Broken'' debuted to generally positive reactions, and peaked at number 7 on the ''Billboard'' 200 chart. A companion remix EP, ''Fixed'', was released in late 1992. ==Background== After the commercial and critical success of ''Pretty Hate Machine'' (1989), TVT Records, the first record label to sign the band, pressured Trent Reznor to record a very similar album with the hope that it would have similarly successful singles. Steve Gottlieb, the CEO of TVT Records, was insistent that he would not release anything other than an album much like ''Pretty Hate Machine''. Reznor demanded his label terminate his contract, due to their restriction of his creative control of the Nine Inch Nails project. They ignored his plea. Reznor then objected to the label's attempted interference with his intellectual property. This much-publicized feud with TVT led Reznor to use a variety of monikers for the production of his next studio release.〔Rule, Greg (1999). ''Electro Shock!: Groundbreakers of Synth Music''. Backbeat Books. ISBN 0-87930-582-7.〕 Reznor later said that he hated TVT, in part due to their classification of Nine Inch Nails as a synthpop band. He reached a deal with the record label Interscope Records: We made it very clear we were not doing another record for TVT. But they made it pretty clear they weren't ready to sell. So I felt like, well, I've finally got this thing going but it's dead. Flood and I had to record ''Broken'' under a different band name, because if TVT found out we were recording, they could confiscate all our shit and release it. Jimmy Iovine got involved with Interscope, and we kind of got slave-traded. It wasn't my doing. I didn't know anything about Interscope. And I was real pissed off at him at first because it was going from one bad situation to potentially another one. But Interscope went into it like they really wanted to know what I wanted. It was good, after I put my raving lunatic act on.〔Duemling, Keith (March 1996). ''Sympathy for the Devil'' ((transcript )). ''Spin''. Retrieved 2011-06-02.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Broken (EP)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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