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i used to not really like trent reznor, but i think this video and knowing a little bit more backstory into his life has made me much more interested in NIN. thank you, uploader.

666 aren't Mondays the worst

imagine your whole family dying and after a weirdo go to your house and record a clip where a guy gets mutilated and raped by a another guy, veri funi video would recommend for everyone. And here funi meme, what i listen when i am complaining to my grandfather about he punishing me for doing something wrong and he explains how much worst punishments were in his time 17:40

Broken has always been my favorite NIN album - even though it was, technically, an EP - and the fun thing about it was that Reznor was disgusted with his then-label, TVT, which had put out his 1st album, Pretty Hate Machine. So just after Jimmy Iovine signed Trent to Interscope (which is, ugh, a corporate label, being a subsidiary of Time Warner, but they at least reserve that label for some of the better stuff that can be less-than-compromising, at best. Oh well, you take what you can get & get the best deal out of it. Really, the fact that it's a "corporate" entity is, well, it sucks for the ability of quality and not just quantity (record sales vs. critical acclaim), but if you're a good enough artist/musician, etc. & can pull off something amazing, having one or 2 previous albums which have already proven that this band is a winner and in cases like that the artist/band can be in a position to dictate the terms which he/she/they want out of the label viz a contract, probably the most important part (that must be in writing, as a clearly stated clause in the contract) of this is the demand of "complete control, PERIOD." and that means the final word on the final cut. Anyway, getting back to this super-cool, underground, snuff-ish film that Reznor collaborated on with the late, great, legendary Sleazy (Peter Christopherson), who was a co-founder of super-influential industrial outfit, Throbbing Gristle, was in the post TG dancier (acid/house, etc) group, Psychic TV and finally, with John Balance (who often went by "Jhonn", though his real name was Geoff Rushton...go figure), Sleazy & Balance were Coil, which was really intense. Very beautiful music and quite haunting, simultaneously. One other thing: Though I don't believe he really did anything that stood out the way Storm Thorgerson or Aubrey Powell's work did, nevertheless, he was made an "associate partner" at the legendary, awesome Hipgnosis firm which made record covers; theirs were probably the most art-worthy, meaning worthy of standing alone in a place like MOMA, etc. Plus they had such a demand for their services that they did a LOT of albums; so many in fact, that I can guarantee you, you have seen Hipgnosis covers, probably many of them; they did many of Led Zeppelin's albums, most of Pink Floyd's, Peter Gabriel's 1st 3 self-titled solo albums, almost all of UFO's album covers, and into the more modern era, they've done some work on at least 2, maybe 3 Muse albums, and there's more. WAY more. So, you can see, Sleazy (RIP), had a real knack for art, for the kind of aggro-industrial stuff which Reznor was into and Reznor, being familiar w/Christopherson, contacted him at his home in Bangkok, where he'd been living as a British expatriate for some years by then and asked him if he'd work w/him on this film to go with the music on the EP he had just done (Broken) and Sleazy who was such a nice, easy-going guy and if he was your friend he was a great friend to have. So when you watch this, remember Sleazy!!

Thank you!!! Thank you so much for finding this clean copy! I bought the VHS bootleg back in 1996 that I uploaded to here to the archive as well as other NIN things. I've been a fan big of NIN since 1992 (when I was 11 years old), before they became really famous after Woodstock 1994. The album Pretty Hate Machine and the Get Down Make Love cover song were in my walkman on a loop. I am delighted NIN went from obscurity to stardom and retained originality and soul since the late 1980s! What a gem to find the clean version of the Broken videos, a real grotesque horror show!!

Broken was one of the first albums I owned. 2 years old when it came out, 12 when I found the cassette under a school bleacher. At this age I was mostly listening to hip hop and street punk; mostly Dead Boys, The Distillers, Rage & Zibrahead, Del The Funky Homosapein. Finding this tape was the reason for me picking up guitar, drums, music production & audio engineering and everything else related to music. Yeah, NIN was the breakthrough. Seeing this video, the old vhs effects, and it's quality in artistic production takes me back to the early 90's and ultimately the music that shaped who I am and where I am today.