Nine Inch Nails - Broken
NME.COM feature on Nine Inch Nails - Broken album including album review, artwork, tracks, listen now, tour dates, discography and more.
Release date: 23 March 2004
Tracklisting click track to read more
More Nine Inch Nails Reviews
Nine Inch Nails - Broken YouTube Videos
More Nine Inch Nails - Broken YouTube Videos
Nine Inch Nails News
Nine Inch Nails' Trent Reznor: 'My songwriting voice needs to speak up'
Singer says he needs to push forward so he doesn't become stagnant
Trent Reznor's side project How To Destroy Angels to release debut album in early 2012
Nine Inch Nails man also reveals why he put touring his old band on hold
Trent Reznor's 'The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo soundtrack' gets Golden Globe nod
Nine Inch Nails man follows 'Social Network' victory with new nomination
Nine Inch Nails - Broken: Wikipedia Album Entry
In 1992 Nine Inch Nails released Broken, an EP featuring six songs and two bonus tracks. In the liner notes, Reznor credited the 1991 Nine Inch Nails touring band as an influence on the EP's sound. Reznor characterized Broken as a guitar-based "blast of destruction", and as "a lot harder than Pretty Hate Machine". Songs from Broken have earned NIN its only two Grammy Awards: a performance of the EP's first single "Happiness in Slavery" from Woodstock '94, and the second single "Wish".
Peter Christopherson of the bands Coil and Throbbing Gristle directed a performance video for "Wish", but the EP's most infamous video accompanied "Happiness in Slavery". The video was almost universally banned for its graphic depiction of performance artist Bob Flanagan disrobing lying on a machine that pleasures, tortures, then kills him. A third video for "Pinion", partially incorporated into MTV's Alternative Nation opening sequence, showed a toilet that apparently flushes into the mouth of a person in bondage. Reznor and Christopherson compiled these three clips along with footage for "Help Me I Am In Hell" and "Gave Up" into a longform music video also called Broken. It depicts the murder of a young man who is kidnapped and tortured while forced to watch the videos. This footage was never officially released, but instead appeared covertly among tape trading circles.
A separate performance video for "Gave Up" featuring Richard Patrick and Marilyn Manson was filmed at 10050 Cielo Drive (then renamed "Le Pig studios" by Reznor), site of the Tate murders; a live recording of "Wish" was also filmed, and both videos appeared on the Closure video compilation in 1997. Broken was followed by the remix EP Fixed in late 1992. Rather than tour in support of the new material, Reznor began living and recording full-time at Le Pig, working on a follow-up free of restrictions from his record label.
User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License and may also be available under the GNU FDL.
Like Nine Inch Nails? You might also like...
Artist/Album artwork images hosted by Last.fm. For copyright enquiries please see here.
Nine Inch Nails - Broken Lyrics
Nine Inch Nails - Happiness In Slavery Lyrics
slave screams he thinks he knows what he wants
slave screams thinks he has something to say
slave screams he hears but doesn't want to listen
slave screams he's being beat into submission
Nine Inch Nails - Last Lyrics
gave up trying to figure out my head got lost along the way
worn out from giving it up my soul i pissed it all away
still stings these shattered nerves
pigs we get what pigs deserve
Nine Inch Nails - Physical Lyrics
You're so physical
Reach your heart out to it
Your heart out to it [Incomprehensible]
