Release and Reception
| Professional ratings | |
|---|---|
| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic | |
| The Baltimore Sun | (favorable) |
| Robert Christgau | |
| CMJ | (favorable) |
| Entertainment Weekly | B |
| Los Angeles Times | |
| NME | |
| Q | |
| Rolling Stone | |
| Washington Post | (favorable) |
The EP sold well upon release, and eventually went platinum despite a complete absence of touring in support of Broken. The lead single "Happiness in Slavery" received moderate airplay, but its music video, which depicted Bob Flanagan being pleasured, tortured, and killed on a device led to MTV banning the video outright. This stunted the single's growth, but the single "Wish" was much more successful with an aggressive live performance on the music video, then later winning a Grammy for Best Metal Performance. Reznor commented about winning the Grammy that on his gravestone, he wanted it to read "Said Fist Fuck, Won a Grammy."
The companion EP Fixed included six remixes of material from Broken and was released three months later, in December 1992.
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