{"id":2185,"date":"2016-07-09T18:20:28","date_gmt":"2016-07-09T22:20:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bandsiusetalike.com\/biul\/?p=2185"},"modified":"2016-08-12T13:07:11","modified_gmt":"2016-08-12T17:07:11","slug":"when-broken-broke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bandsiusetalike.com\/biul\/when-broken-broke\/","title":{"rendered":"When Broken<\/i> Broke"},"content":{"rendered":"

From 1989 to 1992, all anyone knew of Nine Inch Nails was p<\/em>rettyhatemachine<\/em>. Your opinion of that one album was your opinion of Nine Inch Nails.<\/p>\n

Before\u00a0Broken<\/em>, NIN’s sophomore EP, you could be forgiven for thinking Trent Reznor was the heir apparent of electronic Goth, following the dark path of Joy Division and Depeche Mode. Reznor was the scion of a venerable HVAC company (founded 1888!), and probably spent much of his young life in the presence of gigantic, droning machines. “Industrial” was already wired into his veins.<\/p>\n

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I was not at all a fan of NIN at first. When “Head Like A Hole” was a hit, I learned to\u00a0detest<\/em> the sounds of it starting up, that goddamned\u00a0“prrrrt-pp-pt \u00a0prrrrrt-pp-pt\u00a0RANGYEAH!!! RANGYEAH!!!\u00a0<\/strong>hoot! hoot! hoot!”\u00a0<\/em>DEVO covered this single, and if you’d like an example of why great music requires the use of drugs, listen to a sober version. (While you can: it’s WMG, after all.)<\/p>\n