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''Pretty Hate Machine'' is the debut album by American industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails, released October 20, 1989 on TVT Records. ''Pretty Hate Machine'' is compiled of reworked tracks from the ''Purest Feeling'' demo, as well as songs composed after its original recording. Three singles were released from the album, the most successful being "Head Like a Hole", which has become a staple in Nine Inch Nails live performances. The album became one of the first independently released records to attain platinum certification. On May 12, 2003 the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) certified the album triple platinum, indicating sales of three million copies in the United States.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=Recording Industry Association of America ) Note: User must define search parameters, i.e. "Nine Inch Nails".〕 Although it was critically and commercially successful for an independent label, Trent Reznor (Nine Inch Nails' only constant band member) feuded with TVT (the album's original label) during its promotion. The album was out of print from 1997 to 2005, because of the much publicized disagreement between Reznor and the record label. Rykodisc re-released the album worldwide in 2005, effectively putting the album back into print. A remastered version was released on November 22, 2010. ''Slant Magazine'' listed the album at number 50 on its list of "Best Albums of the 1980s", saying "before attempting suicide in ''The Downward Spiral'' and living with the wrist scars in ''The Fragile'', ''Pretty Hate Machine'' sent out sleek, danceable warning shots". ==Background== During working nights as a handyman and janitor at the Right Track Studio in Cleveland, Ohio, Reznor used studio "down-time" to record and develop his own music. Playing most of the keyboards, drum machines, guitars, and samplers himself, he recorded a demo. The sequencing was done on a Macintosh Plus. With the help of manager John Malm, Jr., he sent the demo to various record labels. Reznor received contract offers from many of the labels, but eventually signed with TVT Records, who were known mainly for releasing novelty and television jingle records. ''Pretty Hate Machine'' was recorded in various studios with Reznor collaborating with some of his most idolized producers: Flood, Keith LeBlanc, Adrian Sherwood, and John Fryer. Much like his recorded demo, Reznor refused to record the album with a conventional band, recording ''Pretty Hate Machine'' mostly by himself. "A lot of it sounds immature to me now," he stated in 1991 of the recordings that were then two years old. "At first it totally sucked. I became completely withdrawn. I couldn't function in society very well. And the LP became a product of that. It's quite small scale, introverted, claustrophobic – that's the feel I went for."〔''Select'', March 1991〕 After the album was released, a recording known as ''Purest Feeling'' surfaced. This bootleg album contains the original demo recordings of most of the tracks featured on ''Pretty Hate Machine'', as well as a couple that were not used ("Purest Feeling", "Maybe Just Once" and an instrumental introduction to "Sanctified" called "Slate"). 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「Pretty Hate Machine」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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