Broken (EP)
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EP |
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8th |
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31 m 32 s |
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Hell, New Orleans ; Royal Recorders , Lake Geneva, Wisconsin ; South Beach Studios, Miami Beach ; Village Recorder & A&M, Los Angeles ; Pig, Beverly Hills |
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Broken (also known as Halo 5 ) is an EP and the fifth release by Nine Inch Nails , which contains only new material. Before that came Pretty Hate Machine and then (after a remix EP) The Downward Spiral .
History of the album
Broken was released in the fall of 1992 after a multi-year conflict between Trent Reznor and his TVT Records label. After the success of the previous album Pretty Hate Machine , TVT tried to exert more influence on the music, but Trent Reznor refused. The record deal signed with TVT prevented Nine Inch Nails from recording for another label, but Reznor didn't want to release anything through TVT. So a lawsuit that lasted for years developed, which eventually led to the establishment of Reznor's own record company Nothing Records . In the meantime, despite legal difficulties, Reznor played on the publications of other artists, e. B. Pigface or 1000 Homo DJs and went on tour. Reznor's conflict with his label culminated in a dedication that can be seen on the album packaging. After a long list of greetings it says: “no thanks: you know who you fucking are” , followed by “the slave thinks he is released from bondage only to find a stronger set of chains.” The result of this history are loud mixes and more distortion effects with every instrument used; even for those who don't listen to it right away (e.g. a classic Mellotron MKIV that can be heard in the song Gave Up ).
Reznor said he recorded the EP "during one of the ugliest parts of his life". Despite the “angry and morbid” mood, Broken was a commercial success. The album peaked at # 7 on the Billboard 200 and the song Wish received a 1993 Grammy for Best Metal Performance . Also in 1992, Nine Inch Nails released an EP remixing Broken's songs called Fixed .
Track list
- 1. Pinion (1:02)
- 2. Wish (3:46)
- 3rd load (4:44)
- 4. Help Me I Am In Hell (1:56)
- 5. Happiness in Slavery (5:21)
- 6. Gave Up (4:08)
- 98. Physical (You're So) (5:29)
- 99. Suck (5:06)
The original was released on a separate 3 ″ CD containing the last two songs Physical (You're So) and Suck . Later versions were in the order above; tracks 7 to 97 contain only one second of silence each. Since this collided with the minimum track length of four seconds of the CD standard, the silent tracks were lengthened to four seconds.
Physical (You're So) is the cover version of a song by Adam and the Ants . During the 1995 tour for The Downward Spiral , he was also played live twice by Nine Inch Nails with Adam Ant . Suck is originally from Pigface, of which Trent Reznor was a member.
Chart positions
- 1992 Happiness In Slavery - Modern Rock Tracks No. 13
- 1993 Wish - Modern Rock Tracks No. 25
literature
- Randi Reisfeld: If It Ain't “Broken…” In: This Is the Sound: The Best of Alternative Rock . Simon and Schuster, 1996, ISBN 978-0-689-80670-4 , pp. 104 f .
Web links
Remarks
- ↑ a b c Randi Reisfeld: If It Ain't “Broken…” In: This Is the Sound: The Best of Alternative Rock . Simon and Schuster, 1996, ISBN 978-0-689-80670-4 , pp. 104 .
- ↑ Randi Reisfeld: If It Ain't “Broken…” In: This Is the Sound: The Best of Alternative Rock . Simon and Schuster, 1996, ISBN 978-0-689-80670-4 , pp. 105 .