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Song by Ix Inch Nails

1994 single past Nine Inch Nails

"Closer"
US CD single comprehend
Single by Ix Inch Nails
from the anthology The Downward Spiral
B-side	"March of the Fuckheads" "Memorabilia"
Released	May xxx, 1994 (1994-05-30)
Studio	Le Grunter (Los Angeles) The Tape Plant (Los Angeles) A&G Studios (Los Angeles)
Genre	Industrial rock alternative stone
Length	half-dozen:15
Label	Zippo TVT Interscope Atlantic
Songwriter(s)	Trent Reznor
Producer(s)	Flood Trent Reznor
Nine Inch Nails singles chronology
"March of the Pigs" (1994) "Closer" (1994) "The Perfect Drug" (1997)
Halo numbers chronology
Halo 8 (1994) Halo 9 (1994) Halo 10 (1995)
Sound sample
"Closer" file aid
Music video
"Closer" (Director'south Cut) on YouTube

"Closer" is a vocal past American industrial rock band Ix Inch Nails, released as the second single on their second studio album, The Downward Spiral (1994). Released on May thirty, 1994, it is considered one of Nine Inch Nails' signature songs and remains their almost pop song. Nearly versions of the unmarried are titled "Closer to God", a rare case in music of a single'south title differing from the title of its A-side ("Closer to God" is also the title of an alternate version of "Closer" featured on the single, which was too released as a divide promotional single for gild-play). ^{[1] [2] [3]} The single is the 9th official Nine Inch Nails release, making information technology "Halo nine" in the ring's official Halo numbering system.

A promotional single provided by the label to radio stations included both long and curt song-censored (i.east. silenced profanity) versions. ^[4] Although the song addresses themes such as self-hatred and obsession, its sexually ambitious chorus led to widespread misinterpretation of the song every bit an anthem of lust, which helped it get Nine Inch Nails' near successful single up to that time and cemented Trent Reznor's status equally an industrial stone icon. Commercially, "Closer" reached No. 41 on the Usa Billboard Hot 100, No. 25 on the Britain Singles Nautical chart, and No. three on the Australian Singles Nautical chart. Censored versions of the song and its Marking Romanek-directed music video received substantial airplay on radio and MTV.

Composition [ edit ]

"Closer" has been described as industrial rock ^{[5] [vi] [seven] [8] [9]} and culling rock. ^{[10] [xi] [12]} "Closer" uses elements of funk, ^[13] advanced, ^[xiv] and electronic music. ^[15] The pulsate runway of "Closer" is built around a heavily modified sample of the bass drum from the 1977 Iggy Pop song "Nightclubbing", which was performed by a Roland pulsate machine. The samples were produced using two Akai S1100 samplers, each with an expander, essentially making up four samplers. The samples were and so combined with beats produced by a Roland R-seventy drum machine. ^[16] The production features sound effects such as a bass squelch, synth repeat, and feedback growl. ^[17] Radio edits of "Closer" were created by muting the song rails for the duration of each deleted obscenity. ^[8]

Lyrically, "Closer" is a song about self-hatred and obsession; to Reznor'due south dismay, the song was widely misinterpreted as a lust anthem due to its chorus, which famously includes the lines "I wanna fuck you similar an brute / I wanna feel you from the inside". ^[eighteen] In 2003, VH1 ranked the song at No. 93 in its inaugural of the "100 Greatest Songs of the Past 25 Years." The song was ranked at No. 2 on AOL's "69 Sexiest Songs of All Fourth dimension" due to the explicit frankness of the chorus. ^[19] Mötley Crüe drummer Tommy Lee, said of the song, "Come on dude: 'I wanna fuck yous similar an animal'? That's the all-fourth dimension fuck song. Those are pure fuck beats—Trent Reznor knew what he was doing. You tin fuck to it, you tin trip the light fantastic to it and you lot can break shit to information technology." ^[20]

Although there were numerous remixes of "Closer", the version titled "Closer to God" was heavily reworked, every bit the vocals were completely re-recorded and the overall song retained merely a few elements from the original version. "Closer to God" was as well released equally a promotional single separate from "Closer", mainly intended for lodge-play. ^[1]

Reception [ edit ]

"Closer" had some radio airplay before it was released as a single. This factor increased inside weeks, leading Interscope to release the song every bit a single in May 1994. When it premiered, the single charted on several United states of america Billboard magazine music listings. Debuting near the lesser spot of the Billboard Hot 100, it barely missed the summit 40, peaking at No. 41. ^[21] Information technology climbed to No. 11 on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks nautical chart, ^[22] and likewise went on to reach No. 35 on the Billboard Album Rock Tracks chart and No. 29 on the Billboard Hot Dance Music/Maxi-Singles Sales chart. ^[23] "Closer" was the band'southward showtime crossover hitting and remains their well-nigh popular song to appointment.

The single was successful in several other countries besides. Information technology charted the highest in Australia, where it rose to No. 3 on the week of November thirteen, 1994, ^[24] and was the country'due south 87th most successful single of 1994. ^[25] Although "Closer" did not initially appear on Canada'due south official music chart during its original release, it reached a acme of No. v on the Canadian Singles Chart in February 2002. ^[26] It also did not nautical chart in Denmark until 2007, when it reached No. 12 in July. ^[27] In the United Kingdom, the unmarried reached No. 25. ^[28]

The aforementioned "Closer to God" version of the song charted at No. 29 on the Billboard Trip the light fantastic Music/Club Play Singles. ^[29]

The song was voted in at No. 62 on Triple J'south Hottest 100 of all time in 2009, and ranked No. 42 on Pitchfork Media's "Height 200 Tracks of the 90s" in 2010. ^[thirty]

Music video [ edit ]

One of the many controversial images from the "Closer" music video.

The music video was directed past Mark Romanek and first aired on May 12, 1994, having been filmed in April of that year. It was cutting down from its original length to 4:36. The video was pop and helped eternalize the success of the ring. Fix in what appears to exist a 19th-century mad scientist's laboratory, the video'south imagery involves religion, sexuality, creature cruelty, politics, and terror, including:

• A center continued to some sort of device; the crush of the middle corresponds to the beat of the song ^[31]
• A little girl lounging on a chair
• A nude, bald woman with a crucifix mask.
• A monkey, scared, panicked, tied to a cross. ^[32]
• A severed grunter'south head spinning on some type of machine. ^[33]
• A diagram of the vulva/vagina.
• Reznor wearing various fetish gear, such as an South&G mask, brawl gag, and long leather gloves while swinging in shackles.

Several times, Reznor, wearing leather pants, floats and rotates through the air, suspended by invisible wires. There are also scenes of Reznor existence diddled dorsum by a current of air machine while wearing aviator goggles. Marker has stated:

We made prints, and I personally spent a couple of days dragging them effectually the parking lot and spraying droplets shellac and belongings lighters under them. We were only making it for art's sake, and YouTube didn't exist then, so it was a pretty epic and extravagant thing for Trent to exercise. Merely MTV liked it, so that started a long negotiation of how we can go it on the air. I desire to keep record about the monkey: That monkey was not in any danger fifty-fifty though he appears to be in distress. The monkey was just munching on bits of banana and enjoying himself. Nosotros had an ASPCA person on the set. It wasn't harmed, and actually got paid more than some of the crew. ^[34]

These images were inspired by the piece of work of Joel-Peter Witkin, ^[32] besides every bit by the Brothers Quay's animated short flick Street of Crocodiles . ^[35] For the telly version, certain removed scenes were replaced with a championship card that read "Scene Missing," and the instances of the word fuck being edited out were accompanied by a stop in the video motion, making it announced every bit if the stop was a event of defective motion-picture show (this was supposedly done to make sure the menstruum of the vocal was not afflicted). ^[36] Co-ordinate to Romanek, the video was filmed using "a slightly out of appointment film stock but it was still a contemporary movie stock."

They had stopped making it three years before and we institute some of it. All the new color motion picture stocks have this T-Grain, similar little Ts that are interlocking. The film stock we used had the original former granular grain. The new stocks are just really modern looking, really sharp, actually contrasty, very fine grain. We didn't want that. Unremarkably you don't want to use that kind of stock considering the colors volition exist off. It does accept a shelf life only in this example nosotros didn't intendance, the more than fucked upwards information technology was the happier we were. ^[37]

The unedited version of the video was shown on Playboy Idiot box'south music video evidence Hot Rocks in 1994. In mid-2002, the unedited version aired on MTV2 as part of a special countdown showcasing the most controversial videos e'er to air on MTV. This inaugural was only shown late at night due to the sexually explicit imagery of "Closer" and several other videos.

In 2006, "Closer" was voted No. one in a VH1 Classic poll titled "20 Greatest Music Videos of All Time." ^[38]

In retrospect, Reznor said of the video that "The rarest of things occurred: where the song sounded better to me, seeing it with the video. And it's my song." ^[39]

The unedited video is included in Closure , The Downward Spiral (DualDisc), Directors Label Volume 4: The Piece of work Of Manager Mark Romanek and VEVO, and it is available for download from the U.s. iTunes Store under the ring's page. Behind-the-scenes footage with commentary by Romanek is included in Closure (DVD) and Directors Label. It is as well available on YouTube, and was previously flagged there before this brake was lifted.

Live performances [ edit ]

During the Self Destruct and Fragility tours, bassist Danny Lohner and guitarist Robin Finck joined Reznor and full-time keyboardists James Woolley (during the start one-half of the Self Destruct Tour) and Charlie Clouser (during the remaining tours) on keyboards for the song, with Reznor performing an extended synth solo. 9 Inch Nails performed the "Closer to God" rendition of the song live during their 1995 bout on numerous occasions, omitting the original song from the setlist when washed so.

There are performance videos of "Closer" on And All that Could Have Been and Beside You lot in Time .

In the tours following the release of With Teeth , 9 Inch Nails performed a shorter version of "Closer" with the keyboard solo played as a guitar solo and a breakdown incorporating a portion of "The Only Time," a track from Pretty Hate Machine . Two performances of this version of the vocal appear on Beside You in Time .

Formats and track listings [ edit ]

The version of "Closer" on the single is 13 seconds longer than the anthology version; on the album, the pianoforte melody at the end of the song is abruptly cut off in order to segue into the next track, "Ruiner". On the single, the pianoforte and groundwork sounds of "Closer" are allowed to play out longer. ^[8]

In addition, the U.Due south. CD unmarried contains five guest remixes of "Closer", a remix of its young man The Downwardly Spiral track "Heresy", an instrumental track "March of the Fuckheads" (unrelated to "March of the Pigs"), and a cover version of Soft Cell's song "Memorabilia", from their 1982 EP Not End Ecstatic Dancing . The UK single releases contain the same tracks split between ii discs (each sold separately). A cassette single was issued in the U.S. and Commonwealth of australia, pairing "Closer" with the music video version of 9 Inch Nails' previous single, "March of the Pigs" (which was recorded alive in the studio by the then-current lineup of the band).

The single's cover artwork was done by lensman Joseph Cultice. ^[40]

US CD

• TVT Records / Interscope Records / Atlantic Records 95905–ii
• TVT Records / Interscope Records 0694959052 (Reissue)

No.	Title	Remixers / contributors	Length
i.	"Closer to God"	Trent Reznor Sean Beavan Brian Pollack	5:05
2.	"Closer (Forerunner)"	Whorl Danny Hyde	7:sixteen
three.	"Closer (Deviation)"	Jack Dangers Craig Silvey	half-dozen:15
iv.	"Heresy (Blind)"	Dave Ogilvie Anthony Valcic Joseph Bishara (misspelled every bit "Bisara")	v:32
5.	"Memorabilia"	Reznor Robin Finck Beavan Chris Vrenna Pollack John van Eaton "Carbohydrate and his friend"	7:21
6.	"Closer (Internal)"	Pecker Kennedy Scott Humphrey John "Geetus" Aguto Paul Decarli Eric Claudiex	4:xv
7.	"March of the Fuckheads"	Adrian Sherwood	4:43
8.	"Closer (Farther Away)"	Kennedy Humphrey Aguto Decarli Claudiex	v:45
ix.	"Closer"	Reznor Flood	6:26

Us cassette

• Aught Records / TVT Records / Interscope Records / Atlantic Records 98263-4

Side A

No.	Championship	Contributors	Length
i.	"Closer"	Reznor Flood	6:25

Side B

No.	Title	Contributors	Length
ii.	"March of the Pigs (Live)"	Reznor Finck Vrenna Danny Lohner James Woolley	3:12

UK CD

• Isle Records CID 596 854 059–2 (Disc one)
• Island Records CIDX 596 854 061–2 (Disc two)

Disc 1: Further Abroad

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Closer"	6:26
2.	"Closer (Departure)"	6:15
3.	"Closer (Further Away)"	5:45
4.	"Closer (Precursor)"	7:xvi
v.	"Closer (Internal)"	four:15

Disc 2: Closer to God

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Closer to God"	5:05
2.	"Heresy (Bullheaded)"	five:32
3.	"Memorabilia"	7:21
4.	"March of the Fuckheads"	4:43

U.K. 12-inch vinyl – Part 1: Further Away

• Island Records 12IS 596 854 059–1 – UK 12-inch vinyl ane

Side A

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Closer (Deviation)"
ii.	"Closer (Further Away)"
3.	"Closer"

Side B

No.	Title	Length
4.	"Closer (Precursor)"
5.	"Closer (Internal)"

UK 12-inch vinyl – Function 2: Closer to God

• Island Records 12ISX 596 854 061–i – UK 12-inch vinyl 2

Side A

No.	Title	Length
ane.	"Closer to God"
2.	"March of the Fuckheads"

Side B

No.	Title	Length
3.	"Heresy (Bullheaded)"
4.	"Memorabilia"

Other versions in other formats and countries take the same track listing as the U.South. CD release.

Personnel [ edit ]

• Trent Reznor – lead and bankroll vocals, guitar, bass guitar, keyboards, synthesizers, programming, sampling
• Chris Vrenna – drum samples
• Flood – special hi-hat programming

Charts [ edit ]

Cover versions [ edit ]

• "Closer" has been covered past many musical acts, including MGMT, Blood on the Dance Flooring, Richard Cheese and Lounge Confronting the Machine, Eric Gorfain, Maroon 5, Maxwell, The Asylum Street Spankers, Request Alexandria, Rosetta Rock, In This Moment and Japanese Voyeurs.
• Thirty Seconds to Mars uses samples from "Closer" when they perform "The Fantasy."
• Toronto-based Alternative R&B act The Weeknd samples "Closer" in the song "House of Balloons/Glass Table Girls."
• "Weird Al" Yankovic has paid tribute to "Closer" twice: in "The Alternative Polka" on his album Bad Pilus Day , a department of the song was used in which the word "fuck" is replaced with a cartoon sound furnishings. "Germs" on his Running with Scissors album is a manner parody of several Ix Inch Nails songs. ^{[45] [46]}
• The Asylum Street Spankers occasionally perform a bluegrass version, available at the Live Music Archive. ^[47]
• In 1995, the Australian novelty act Nine Inch Richards covered the song nether the title "Closer To Hogs". Sung in a southern drawl, it combined Trent Reznor's sexually charged lyrics with undiscriminating creature samples, humorously implying that the song is about bestiality. A video clip of the parody ^[48] was taken at the Sydney Royal Easter Show. This single peaked at No. 51 in Commonwealth of australia. ^[49]
• In 2008, Sy Smith performed the song equally part of her "Conflict Tour". In August 2010, Smith performed the song again at "Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Heights Plaza".
• In 2014, from the compilation album in the Punk Goes 90'due south two has been covered by British stone Asking Alexandria.
• In 2016, vocalist-songwriter Begetter John Misty covered the vocal live in Chicago during ii separate performances. ^[50]
• Swain Interscope deed Limp Bizkit parodied ^[51] "Closer" (every bit well "The Perfect Drug" and "Burn") in their vocal "Hot Canis familiaris". The chorus goes, "You wanna fuck me like an animal, You'd similar to burn down me on the inside, You like to remember that I'm a perfect drug, Simply know that goose egg you do will bring you closer to me." Limp Bizkit frontman Fred Durst said he was a big fan of Nine Inch Nails, who has additionally inspired his music. ^[52]

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Bibliography [ edit ]

• Huxley, Martin (September 1997). Ix Inch Nails: Self Destruct . St. Martin's Press. ISBN 0-312-15612-X – via the Cyberspace Archive.
• Vernallis, Ballad (2004). Experiencing Music Video: Aesthetics and Cultural Context. New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN 0-231-11798-1 .

External links [ edit ]

• Halo 9 at NINCollector
• Closer to God at Discogs (list of releases)

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