Broken [EP] by Nine Inch Nails

Pros: Heavy, hard hitting, evocative, angry, and musically important...
Cons: Themes may not be for everybody...

I can’t help but love nine inch nails. Trent Reznor’s music has always appealed to me on it’s own level…a level completely separate from all other music and all other artists.

From my earliest experiences with Pretty Hate...

Pros: Sexy, self-depricating, Trent Reznor
Cons: A few of the songs have aged to the point of no return

Caution: the lyrics referenced in this review may disturb younger or more sensitive readers. It's Nine Inch Nails, folks. There are those albums that define an era in our lives we wouldn't trade for anything - but would also never live all ...

Pros: Industrial metal with great melodic instincts. Hooray!
Cons: Unrelenting in its attack

Hide the kids and cover granny's sensitive ears, folks, I use the forbidden F-word a few times in this review. Here's hoping you don't hold it against me. F*CK YOU. See now, that wasn't so nice, was it? It takes just under a second ...

Pros: Raw and angry but still oozing talent
Cons: Leaves you wanting (lots) more

When I first started getting into Nine Inch Nails, I started with The Downward Spiral, followed by Pretty Hate Machine. Then one day I noticed Broken in a record store. I looked at the back and thought, "Only ...

Pros: Trent does angry well. The blueprint for the whole industrial metal trend.
Cons: Nothing at all here for the fan of Richard Marx.

Has anybody seen Trent Reznor lately? The man is BUFF! I saw some photos of him from the recent Coachella Festival, and initially thought I was looking at Lou Ferrigno's first guitar lesson. The man now has the ability to literally rip people apart, ...

Pros: Every second of it, BROKEN is a work of genius.
Cons: I wish there were more. I'd like the same thing, twice as long.

The Nine Inch Nails EP BROKEN is a soundtrack. It’s the soundtrack to all those days you wake up, put the coffee on, and only find out after it's brewed that the filter was folded in and grounds have filled the carafe. It’s the soundtrack for the days ...

Pros: Want something with energy, something with substance? Look no further...
Cons: 99 tracks=8 songs? Whatever. It still kicks all-immortal **s.

Yeah, I'm back, and better than ever, and boy, do I have a lot saved up for this review (and I'm not apologizing for the last review, it was a (favorite expletive) umbrella). The beginning of this CD is something else, as it begins to play, you don't h ...

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What's the point in anything? No really, I mean, why bother? Why f***ing bother? I hate the world, I hate everyone. I look around me, I just see everything that's wrong with the world. It's obsessive. I can't help but see the underlying ...

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Broken is a concise, brutal EP fueled by frustration and impotent rage. Reznor had to record it secretly against the wishes of TVT Records, the label he was on. It was Steve Gottlieb, TVT's manager and owner, and his constant micromanaging and ...

Pros: An Abrasive, Loud, In-Your-Face EP from Reznor & Co.
Cons: None.

(Note: Originally done on 8/1/00 but now re-edited and extended). In the summer of 1991 when Nine Inch Nails went on the inaugural Lollapalooza tour headlined by Jane’s Addiction, things were looking up for NIN mastermind Trent Reznor as his 1989 ...

Pros: Everything you want from Nine Inch Nails.
Cons: Couple fillers.

Somedays you just need to throw a bowl against a wall or something, and I am not talking Superbowl, I mean like a real bowl. On a 75 degree day, fill a bowl full of Wheaties or Frosted Mini Wheats and fill it with milk, and to take your frustrations out, ...

Pros: Blood, sweat, tears, salt, skin, lust, sickness, depravity, hatred, fear, anxiety, perversion, self-destruction, bang.
Cons: The devils of truth steal the souls of the free. What? That IS a con.

If you like Nine Inch Nails you probably like your blood to pump a little. You probably like your heart to race and your teeth to itch a little in hopes of biting someone if they get a little too personal, or impersonal for that matter. You probably ...

Pros: Loud, angry, absolutely massive and totally rocks
Cons: Not for everyone. May offend.

Well, a few nights ago I decided on two little rules for when I write music reviews on epinions. First of all, I'm going to try to write a review a week. But, hey I missed a review last week, so now I'm going to put myself under additional ...

Pros: Aggressive and Angry.
Cons: Sometimes just angry and aggressive for the sake of being angry and aggressive

I don't know if Reznor was listening to a lot of Ministry albums when he released this monster, but it's a big jump from the more pop-oriented Pretty Hate Machines. Broken is an (unfortunately) small slab of aggressive industrial metal at ...

Pros: The more menacing the record, the better - Broken wins hands down
Cons: Trent seems to be holding back something.

Broken is a strange lit-tle bird of an album. I call it the rough draft for The Downward Spiral, because of the themes of self-loathing and despair. On the other hand, Broken still shows the light at the end of the tunnel, whereas Spiral leaves the...