Editing Nine Inch Nails (section)

===''Broken'' (1992–1993)===
{{See also|Broken (Nine Inch Nails EP)}}
After a poor European reception opening for [[Guns N' Roses]],{{sfn|Huxley|1997|pp=69–70}} the band returned to the US amid pressure from TVT to produce a follow-up to ''Pretty Hate Machine''.{{sfn|Huxley|1997|p=52}} After finding out they were hindering control of his project, Reznor criticized the labeling of Nine Inch Nails as a commercially oriented band and demanded his label terminate his contract, but they ignored his plea.<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.theninhotline.net/archives/articles/xart44a.shtml| title = Nine Inch Nails : Happiness Is Slavery| author = Greene, Jo-Ann| magazine = [[Goldmine (magazine)|Goldmine]]| date = August 4, 1995| volume = 21| issue = 16 (392)| access-date = January 23, 2018| url-status = dead| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20100617021450/http://www.theninhotline.net/archives/articles/xart44a.shtml| archive-date = June 17, 2010| via = ''The NIN Hotline'' archive}}</ref> In response, Reznor secretly began recording under various pseudonyms to avoid record company interference.<ref name="Musician March '94 Nine Inch Nails">{{Cite magazine| url = http://www.theninhotline.net/archives/articles/musica.shtml| title = Nine Inch Nails| access-date = October 15, 2017| magazine = Musician| date = March 1994| via = ''The NIN Hotline'' archive| url-status = dead| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20100617034805/http://www.theninhotline.net/archives/articles/musica.shtml| archive-date = June 17, 2010}}</ref> Involved in a feud with TVT, he signed a record deal with [[Interscope Records]] and created [[Nothing Records]]:

<blockquote>We made it very clear we were not doing another record for TVT. But they made it pretty clear they weren't ready to sell. So I felt like, well, I've finally got this thing going but it's dead. Flood and I had to record ''Broken'' under a different band name, because if TVT found out we were recording, they could confiscate all our shit and release it. [[Jimmy Iovine]] got involved with Interscope, and we kind of got slave-traded. It wasn't my doing. I didn't know anything about Interscope. And I was real pissed off at him at first because it was going from one bad situation to potentially another one. But Interscope went into it like they really wanted to know what I wanted. It was good, after I put my raving lunatic act on.<ref name="NIN Spin 1996" />{{rp|42}}</blockquote>

In 1992, Nine Inch Nails relocated to [[10050 Cielo Drive, Benedict Canyon, Los Angeles]] (renamed "Le Pig" by Reznor), the site of the [[Tate murders]], when [[Charles Manson]]'s "family" murdered [[Sharon Tate]],{{sfn|Huxley|1997|p=97}} wife of noted film director [[Roman Polanski]], and four of her friends.<ref name="NIN Spin 1996" />{{rp|42}}<ref name = "AMG" /> The band used it to record ''Broken'', an [[extended play]] (EP) that was the first Nine Inch Nails release distributed by Interscope Records{{sfn|Huxley|1997|p=82}} and reached the top 10 on the ''Billboard'' 200.<ref name="US-albums">{{cite magazine |url={{BillboardURLbyName|artist=nine inch nails|chart=Billboard 200}} |title=Nine Inch Nails – Chart history: Billboard 200 |magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]] |access-date=November 9, 2016}}</ref> In the liner notes, Reznor credited the 1991 [[List of Nine Inch Nails live-band members|Nine Inch Nails touring band]] as an influence on the EP's sound.<ref>{{cite AV media notes |title-link= Broken (Nine Inch Nails EP) |title= Broken |publisher=[[Interscope Records]]/[[Nothing Records|nothing]]/TVT |date= September 22, 1992 |type= liner notes |others= Nine Inch Nails}}</ref> He characterized ''Broken'' as a guitar-based "blast of destruction", and as "a lot harder&nbsp;... than ''Pretty Hate Machine''".<ref name="Shock" /> The inspiration for the harder sound came from the way the live band played during concerts such as Lollapalooza.<ref>{{cite book|editor1-last=Larkin|editor1-first=Colin|chapter=Nine Inch Nails|title=Encyclopedia of Popular Music|date=2006|publisher=Oxford University Press}}</ref> Songs from ''Broken'' earned Nine Inch Nails two Grammy Awards: a performance of the EP's first single "[[Happiness in Slavery]]" from [[Woodstock '94]],<ref name = "AwardsDatabase" /> and the second single "[[Wish (Nine Inch Nails song)|Wish]]".<ref name="AwardsDatabase" /> In reference to receiving the [[Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance]] for "Wish", Reznor joked that "Wish" became "the only song to ever win a Grammy that says 'fist fuck' in the lyrics."{{sfn|Huxley|1997|p=86}} Against touring of the brand new material, Reznor began living and recording full-time at Le Pig, working on a follow-up free of restrictions from his record label.<ref name="NIN Spin 1996" />{{rp|42}}

[[Peter Christopherson]] of the bands [[Coil (band)|Coil]] and [[Throbbing Gristle]] directed a performance video for "Wish",<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.9inchnails.com/gallery/wish.php| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070812194149/http://www.9inchnails.com/gallery/wish.php| archive-date=August 12, 2007| title = Wish| publisher = Painful Convictions| year = 2007| access-date = August 7, 2007}}</ref> but the EP's most controversial video accompanied "Happiness in Slavery".{{sfn|Huxley|1997|p=89}} The video was almost universally banned{{sfn|Huxley|1997|p=89}} for its graphic depiction of [[performance art]]ist [[Bob Flanagan (performance artist)|Bob Flanagan]] disrobed and lying on a machine that pleases, tortures, then (apparently) kills him.<ref name="Stone94">{{Cite magazine| url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/nine-inch-nails-love-it-to-death-48072/|title = Love it to death| last = Gold| first = Jonathan| magazine= [[Rolling Stone]]| issue = 690| page = 50| date=September 8, 1994}}</ref> 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 (BDSM)|bondage]].<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.9inchnails.com/gallery/pinion.php| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070715004652/http://www.9inchnails.com/gallery/pinion.php |archive-date=July 15, 2007| title = Pinion| publisher = Painful Convictions| year = 2007| access-date = August 7, 2007}}</ref> Reznor and Christopherson compiled the three clips along with footage for "Help Me I Am in Hell" and "Gave Up" into a longform music video titled ''[[Broken (1993 film)|Broken]]''.{{sfn|Huxley|1997|p=91}} It depicts the murder of a young man who is kidnapped and tortured while forced to watch the videos.{{sfn|Huxley|1997|p=91}} This footage was never officially released, but instead appeared covertly among tape trading circles.<ref name="Stone94" />{{sfn|Huxley|1997|p=91}} A separate performance video for "Gave Up" featuring [[Richard Patrick]] and [[Marilyn Manson]] was filmed at Le Pig. A live recording of "Wish" was also filmed, and both videos appeared in ''Closure''.<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.9inchnails.com/gallery/gave-up.php| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070812194149/http://www.9inchnails.com/gallery/gave-up.php| archive-date=August 12, 2007| title = Gave Up| publisher = Painful Convictions| year = 2007| access-date = August 7, 2007}}</ref>

''Broken'' was followed by the companion remix EP ''[[Fixed (EP)|Fixed]]'' in late 1992.{{sfn|Huxley|1997|p=91}} The only track that was left off the final version of the release is the remix of "Last", produced by [[Butch Vig]] (the outro of the "Last" remix is heard in "Throw This Away", which also includes Reznor's remix of "Suck").{{sfn|Huxley|1997|p=92}} The unedited version appeared on the internet as an 8-bit mono 11&nbsp;kHz file, "NIN_LAST.AIFF", available by [[FTP]] from cyberden.com in 1993; it has been removed from the website, but can still be found on [[Peer-to-peer file sharing|p2p]] networks (Reznor subsequently made it available in higher quality (256&nbsp;kbit/s mp3) at remix.nin.com). Vig later spoke about his remix while answering questions on a music production forum, saying "I started recording a lot of new parts, and took it in a much different direction. When it was finished, Trent thought the front part of the mix didn't fit the EP, so he just used the ending. I'm glad it's on his website. [[Duke Erikson|Duke]] and [[Steve Marker|Steve]] worked with me on the remix, in the very early days of [[Garbage (band)|Garbage]]."<ref>{{cite web |url=https://gearspace.com/board/q-butch-vig/402075-nin-last-remix.html |title=nin – "last" remix |publisher=Gearspace.com |date=June 30, 2009 |access-date=September 13, 2011 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111001105318/http://www.gearslutz.com/board/q-butch-vig/402075-nin-last-remix.html |archive-date=October 1, 2011}}</ref>