Yeah, from memory the sleeve of 'Pretty Hate Machine' gives thanks / props / acknowledged influence to acts like Prince and Public Enemy, which suggests to me there's a reason why I like it most. Still, having sold off the CD probably a good decade ago I decided to download it a month back and give it another listen... shit, it's dated badly.
BTW, the version of 'The Downward Spiral' I bought had totally fucked up CD times ... like, half of some tracks was lost in the -0:30 lead-in times for the next track and things like that. Not sure if this was just the first run or what?
How about Coil's remix of
Closer? Their 3 remixes of NIN are pretty amazing. I was so confused when I went to see Se7en and this one came up over the opening credits. What a nasty fucking movie.