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Nine Inch Nails – Closer
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“Closer” is one of Nine Inch Nails‘ more famous songs, and was released as Halo 9 (with different US and UK versions), the second single from their second studio album The Downward
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Nine Inch Nails – Please
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The fifth track on the Right disc of the album, it opens immediately with the verse drum loop, synthesized bass, and manipulated guitars for eight bars before reducing to the first
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Nine Inch Nails – No, You Don't
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One of the most metal-oriented NIN songs, it begins with a subversive ambient pad fading in from the end of “Pilgrimage”, which builds and sweeps in the drum loop. After 16 bars
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Nine Inch Nails – The Becoming
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The seventh track on The Downward Spiral describes a transformation from man to machine, possibly figuratively, as Trent Reznor loses his ability to feel. This loss of feeling is
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Nine Inch Nails – Me, I'm Not
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“Me, I’m Not” is the sixth track on the 2007 release Year Zero. The song features a consistent drum loop and manipulated bass riff throughout. On top are layered various
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Nine Inch Nails – Last
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This song was featured in the film Cabin in The Woods, as well as being DLC for the video game series Rock Band.
Despite being on the 1992 release Broken, “Last” was not played
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Nine Inch Nails – Heresy
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In an interview with U. Magazine published April 1994, Reznor spoke about the meaning behind the lyrics of this song:
“I was trying to explore some of the paranoia I have as a
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Nine Inch Nails – Less Than
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Released as the first single of the 5-song EP Add Violence, this song marks a return to the more electronica-flavored sound of the band’s last full-length album Hesitation Marks
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Nine Inch Nails – Apart
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[Instrumental]
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Nine Inch Nails – We’re in This Together
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“We’re in This Together” was released as a triple single, Halo 15. It took two weeks for the band to record and compile the diverse sounds of the song together.
[the] whole song
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Nine Inch Nails – Mr. Self Destruct
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The opener of The Downward Spiral, Nine Inch Nails' second studio album.
Its loud and abrasive verses and choruses as well as the contrast in the quiet bridge and use of samples
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Nine Inch Nails – The Downward Spiral
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One of the final songs on The Downward Spiral and an extraordinarily disturbing treatise on suicide. The song notably features stripped-down instrumentation with a sole piano
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Nine Inch Nails – March of the Pigs
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“March of the Pigs”, its single also being known as Halo 7 stands as the fastest NIN song ever recorded (coming it at 269 BPM) and features an aggressive verse followed by a
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Nine Inch Nails – Somewhat Damaged
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“Somewhat Damaged” is the first track on the Left side of the double disc The Fragile, the third studio album from Nine Inch Nails, released in 1999.
It primarily builds using
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Nine Inch Nails – Into the Void
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“Into the Void” is one of several songs on The Fragile that shares a melody with one or more other songs. It is a sister-track to “La Mer”, also from The Fragile; both songs grew
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Nine Inch Nails – Only
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“Only” was the second single released from Halo 19, Nine Inch Nails' fourth album, With Teeth. It was the last song completed during the With Teeth recordings.
The song was
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Nine Inch Nails – The Perfect Drug
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“The Perfect Drug” was written for the Trent Reznor produced Lost Highway soundtrack in 1997. Although it does not appear on any Nine Inch Nails album, it was released as an
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Nine Inch Nails – A Warm Place
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“A Warm Place” functions as a sliver of hope before the protagonist ultimately succumbs to the inhuman “voice” in his mind. The song is a pseudo-interlude between the bombastic “
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Nine Inch Nails – Capital G
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“Capital G” is about a politician, most likely about the fictional President of the United States of America within the plot of Year Zero, and his greed and sense of self
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nascar aloe (Ft. Myagi) – Nine Inch Nails
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[Intro: Myagi] / Turn that fuckin' music down / Turn that fuckin' music down / Fuck you, you fuckin' idiots / You and your fuckin' skateboards / Fuck you, suck my tit (Yeah, yeah
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Nine Inch Nails – Something I Can Never Have
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“Something I Can Never Have” is the fifth track on Nine Inch Nails' 1989 debut album, Pretty Hate Machine. It’s a song about lost love and missed chances. An extended and edited
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Nine Inch Nails – Eraser
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“Eraser” heralds the final thematic section of The Downward Spiral in that the protagonist finally realizes the magnitude of the inhuman entity that has corrupted him. The song
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Nine Inch Nails – Your Touch
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[Instrumental]
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Nine Inch Nails – The Only Time
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The song references “Down in It” in its use of the same recognizable melodic synth voice.
A distorted guitar overdub in the instrumental end of the song segues directly into “
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Nine Inch Nails – Vessel
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“Vessel” consists of heavily distorted drum loops, a wall of percussive synthesized sound, and ending improvization using a set batch of synthesized loops that distort and glitch
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Nine Inch Nails – Zero-Sum
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The last song on Year Zero, “Zero Sum” describes what could be seen as either divine retribution or human-triggered apocalypse.
The title is in reference to the economic or
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Nine Inch Nails – Burn
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“Burn” is a song initially written for the Natural Born Killers Soundtrack, which was produced by Trent Reznor. It is a very intense track containing lyrics with anti-social and
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Nine Inch Nails – The Collector
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The Collector is the third track on the 2005 release With Teeth. It is characterized by a very odd time signature, with the verses in a ¾-¾-¾-4/4 pattern and the chorus in a 4/4-4/
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Nine Inch Nails – The New Flesh
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“The New Flesh” appears exclusively on the vinyl version of The Fragile, as well as the first disc of the European and Japanese single for We’re in This Together and the Australian
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Nine Inch Nails – Terrible Lie
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“Terrible Lie” is the second track on Nine Inch Nails‘ first album Pretty Hate Machine and still a staple at their live shows, being the first track on both Closure and And All
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