[275] "Closer" concludes with a chromatic piano motif: the melody is debuted during the second verse of "Piggy" on organ, then reappears in power chords at drop D tuning throughout the chorus of "Heresy", while an inverted (ascending) version is used throughout "A Warm Place", and then recurs in its original state for the final time on "The Downward Spiral". Over the course of the performance, all the other six inductees, as well as former members Richard Patrick and Charlie Clouser, joined Reznor on stage and even covered Patrick's Filter hit, "Hey Man Nice Shot". for their resemblance to the modern Hebrew characters of the Tetragrammaton. The band (or Trent Reznor, to be precise) has always issued challenging and uncommon videos, more short films than music videos. Rykodisc, which did not win the auction but was able to license the rights from Prudential, reissued the out-of-print Pretty Hate Machine CD on November 22, 2005. [38] "March of the Pigs" and "Closer" were singles. [298] The Recording Industry Association of America certified sales for 10.5 million units of the band's albums in the United States,[299] which accounted for roughly half of the band's reported sales worldwide at that time. [104] All three singles topped the Billboard Alternative Songs chart. Allmusic's review described the album's laptop-mixed sound: "Guitars squall against glitches, beeps, pops, and blotches of blurry sonic attacks. [190][191] This leg of the tour was documented and released in the spring as Nine Inch Nails Tension 2013. [123], Reznor planned a film adaption of the album[124] and noted Year Zero as "part of a bigger picture of a number of things I'm working on. The planned music video for its third single, "Every Day Is Exactly the Same", was directed by Francis Lawrence but reportedly scrapped in the post-production stage. 94 in their The 100 Greatest Artists of All Time list. The incident pushed Reznor into entering rehab, putting Nine Inch Nails on hold while he attempted to become sober.[91]. The band performed "Copy of A" and "My God Is the Sun" with Queens of the Stone Age, Lindsey Buckingham, and Dave Grohl towards the end of the broadcast; however, the performance was not shown in full to the audience at home as advertisements had cut-in midway through the second song. Nine inch nails banned music video (might be repost) : creepy 37 votes, 15 comments. The label considered releasing a deluxe edition, just as Interscope had done for The Downward Spiral. "And I did it without regard for MTV and what was showable and not showable, because that's what he asked me to do.". ", "Multitracks for 3 YZ songs posted on nin.com", "Nine Inch Nails Y34RZ3R0R3M1X3D Album Review", "Nine Inch Nails Announce Remix Album Details", "Kerrang discusses movie possibility with Trent Reznor", "Nine Inch Nails Ready Apocalyptic Year Zero TV Show", "Nine Inch Nails' Trent Reznor approaches the future a free man", "Trent Reznor and HBO moving forward with 'Year Zero' sci-fi series", "Trent Reznor Tells Fans "Year Zero" Is In A Holding State", "Reznor makes $750,000 even when the music is free", "Nine Inch Nails releases Ghosts I-IV under a Creative Commons license", "New Nine Inch Nails Single Possibly From 'Year Zero 2'? Pretty Hate Machine (Remastered) [322], In 2006, after being alerted by a fan website, Reznor issued a cease and desist to Fox News Channel for using three songs from The Fragile on air without permission. Nine Inch Nails were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2020, after being nominated in 2014 (their first year of eligibility) and again in 2015. The release of Nine Inch Nails' debut, Pretty Hate Machine, in 1989, had produced two alternative-rock hits in "Down in It" and "Head Like a Hole," cementing the multi-instrumentalist frontman's position at the forefront of industrial metal and earning him a spot on the bill for the very first Lollapalooza. With lyrics written from the perspective of multiple fictitious characters, Year Zero is a concept album criticizing the United States government's policies and their impact on the world 15 years in the future. ", Without running it by his new label, Reznor envisioned a short film that pushed the boundaries of good taste. [1]:41 The overall sound on Purest Feeling is lighter than that of Pretty Hate Machine; several songs contain more live drumming and guitar, as well as a heavier use of film samples. [97] The entire album was made available in streaming audio on the band's official MySpace page in advance of its release date. About Press Copyright Contact us Creators Advertise Developers Terms Privacy Policy & Safety How YouTube works Test new features Press Copyright Contact us Creators . Nine Inch Nails. Closure [Video] Review. [292] Bob Ezrin, producer for Pink Floyd, Kiss, Alice Cooper, and Peter Gabriel, described Reznor in 2007 as a "true visionary" and advised aspiring artists to take note of his no-compromise attitude. And leak it did: The video started being sold as a bootleg. [49] It depicts the murder of a young man who is kidnapped and tortured while forced to watch the videos. They were replaced by Foo Fighters . [282] The 2005 single "Only" exemplifies the disco-style beats and synthesizers drawn from Numan's persuasion. Stream songs including "Somewhat Damaged", "The Day the World Went Away" and more. When Reznor returned to the studio after the Pretty Hate Machine tour, he was beset by personal and professional woes. The songs "La Mer", "The Great Below", and "The Mark Has Been Made" appeared in an episode of War Stories with Oliver North detailing the battle of Iwo Jima. For those unfamiliar with the term . On August 10, 2007, Reznor announced that they would be taking the concept to television networks in an attempt to secure a deal: "We're about to pitch it to the network, so we're a couple of weeks away from meeting all of the main people, and we'll see what happens. . [281] Other artists of significance to Nine Inch Nails include acts such as Depeche Mode,[283] Queen, King Crimson, Devo,[284] The Cure, Joy Division, U2, Bauhaus,[285] Adam Ant,[281] Coil,[286] and Soft Cell. Similar to the announcement that ultimately led to the release of Ghosts IIV, a post on the band's website in April 2008 read "2 weeks! He did not, in any way, want to be branded as approachable pop, and the band members were actively antagonistic toward their record label, TVT. In 2002, Johnny Cash covered the Nine Inch Nails' "Hurt" for his album, American IV: The Man Comes Around, to critical acclaim. #3 - Nine Inch Nails: "Closer" (1994) The explicit mixture of pleasure, pain and torture depicted in "Happiness in Slavery" almost guaranteed it wouldn't be seen on TV in its entirety. Much to their surprise, they were booked on the show, and made an appearance. "[113] The project moved into the television medium because of high costs for Year Zero as a film, then Reznor found American film producer Lawrence Bender and met with writers. Year Video Album including the song I wanted to make a 'f*** you' record.". Nine Inch Nails: Happiness In Slavery (Uncensored) (1992) from Nine Inch Nails on Vimeo. In 1993 Nine Inch Nails released the 20 minutes short film "Broken" (often referred to as "The Broken Movie") featuring 4 music videos from the "Broken" EP. Their score, which was released on September 15, 2017, included original compositions, and it also includes reworked pieces from other Nine Inch Nails songs and their award-winning scores forThe Social NetworkandThe Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. [51] The unedited version appeared on the internet as an 8-bit mono 11kHz 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 p2p networks (Reznor subsequently made it available in higher quality (256kbit/s mp3) at remix.nin.com). [172][173][174] In February 2013, Reznor announced the return of Nine Inch Nails and revealed the Twenty Thirteen Tour. [264][265] AllMusic's Steve Huey states that "Nine Inch Nails were the most popular industrial group ever and were largely responsible for bringing the music to a mass audience". So I felt like, well, I've finally got this thing going but it's dead. But Interscope went into it like they really wanted to know what I wanted. Nine Inch Nails. Following a man who calmly and almost ritualistically undresses and buckles himself into a sinister looking machine, the heart-pounding music accompanies the masochistic torture scene that plays out. [203] However, they once again did not get inducted. Nine Inch Nails, commonly abbreviated as NIN (stylized as NI), is an American industrial rock band formed in 1988 in Cleveland, Ohio. A curated selection of classic NIN T-shirts that have been painstakingly recreated and approved by Trent Reznor, Mariqueen Maandig Reznor, and NIN Art Director John Crawford. Not many fans would likely be able to peg this Fragile single which wasn't a radio hit, and never even saw its music video officially released as Nine Inch Nails' highest-charting. [303] As producers for the song, Reznor and Ross won a CMA Award for the 'Musical Event of the Year', along with Lil Nas X, featured artist Billy Ray Cyrus and producer YoungKio. [65] The video shows events in a laboratory dealing with religion, sexuality, animal cruelty, politics, and terror; controversial imagery included a nude bald woman with a crucifix mask, a monkey tied to a cross, a pig's head spinning on some type of machine, a diagram of a vulva, Reznor wearing an S&M mask while swinging in shackles, and of him wearing a ball gag. 3. Reznor and his co-producers expanded upon the Right Track Studio demos by adding singles "Head Like a Hole" and "Sin". Known for: Friday (1995), Straight Outta Compton (2015), The Fate of the Furious (2017) F. Gary Gray's career as a film director is nearly entirely owed to his career as . [235][236], Due to the pandemic, the live induction ceremony for the 2020 Hall of Fame Induction was cancelled on July 15, 2020, and simultaneously, an induction special was announced to be broadcast and available for streaming through HBO and HBO Max, respectively, on November 7, 2020. The following albums, The Downward Spiral (1994) and The Fragile (1999), were released to critical acclaim and commercial success. He serves as the lead vocalist, multi-instrumentalist, and principal songwriter of the industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails, which he founded in 1988 and of which he was the sole official member until 2016. Reznor announced on October 8, 2007, that Nine Inch Nails had fulfilled its contractual commitments to Interscope Records and was now free to proceed as a "totally free agent, free of any recording contract with any label". It's Free", "NINE INCH NAILS Mainman On New CD: 'I Wrote The Soundtrack To A Movie That Doesn't Exist', "Weird web trail: conspiracy theoryor marketing for nine inch nails LP? Reznor recorded the band's debut album, Pretty Hate Machine (1989), while . April 2, 2020. "[208] Three days later, Reznor announced an EP titled Not the Actual Events,[209] along with reissues of Broken, The Downward Spiral, and The Fragile, with subsequent reissues of With Teeth, Year Zero, and The Slip to be released later in 2017, these plans however fell through. [201] While they were not inducted that year, the band placed second in the 2015 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Nominees Fan Vote. This installment in the Tap Tap video game franchise was themed after Nine Inch Nails, and included tracks from Ghosts IIV and The Slip. There was no context provided, no Wiki page to reference And when I unveiled it with my friends on my bedroom VHS player, it was worth every penny: Scary and gross and awesome.". [276] Many of the songs on Year Zero contain an extended instrumental ending, which encompasses the entire second half of the three-minute long "The Great Destroyer". [130] The album is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike licence. 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All 2,500 copies of the $300 package sold out in three days. [168] The project was named "Daisy"; a digital music service was announced in January 2013. In the early 1990s, Trent Reznor should have been on top of the world. [317] Reznor also speculated that he would release the next Nine Inch Nails album online in a similar fashion to The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of NiggyTardust!, which he produced. Essentially, I wrote the soundtrack to a movie that doesn't exist. [204] In an interview promoting the service, Reznor mentioned he has started "messing around with some things" in regards to a new Nine Inch Nails album, stating "It's not a record I'm trying to finish in a month. But Broken's shorter running time was also a byproduct of Reznor's desire to escape that particularly jaundiced headspace. After a poor European reception opening for Guns N' Roses,[34] the band returned to America amid pressure from TVT to produce a follow-up to Pretty Hate Machine. Sheridan spoke to the difference between the early 1990s and now on his blog, writing, "Kids today can't possibly appreciate the feeling of tracking down a rare video artifact, because everything now is a mere Google search away [Broken] was never meant for searchable, on-demand access, never meant for the soft-hearted masses who put no effort into seeking it out.". 488 in the book The Top 500 Heavy Metal Albums of All Time by Martin Popoff. It is based on an idea by Trent Reznor, founder of industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails, and is a companion piece to the 1992 Nine Inch Nails EP Broken . 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Several songs from the album became regulars on alternative rock radio stations, however the album dropped to number 16 and slipped out of the Billboard Top 10 only a week after its release, resulting in the band setting a record for the biggest drop from number one, which has since been broken. Everything from Seven's jagged opening credits to the post9/11 torture porn of Saw owes a debt to Broken's jarring visual disharmony. [335][336] The band initially included live band members Danny Lohner and Charlie Clouser, but eventually expanded to include other frequent Nine Inch Nails contributors Josh Freese, Atticus Ross, and Alan Moulder. [117] Fan participation in the alternate reality game caught the attention of media outlets such as USA Today and Billboard, who have cited fan-site The NIN Hotline, forum Echoing the Sound, fan club The Spiral, and NinWiki as sources for new discoveries. 73K views 2 months ago The story of Trent Reznor and Nine Inch Nail's Banned Snuff Film SIGN UP for 10 of the Craziest Stories in Rock N' Roll [Secret Playlist]: https://bit.ly/3vV Show more. They wanted a very commercial, easily digestible, disposable product that would sell a lot, make them a lot of money right away and then who cares if they're around in a couple of years. Reznor and Ross received two awards for the score, a 2010 Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score for a Motion Picture,[159] and a 2010 Oscar for Best Original Score. We're In This Together. [16][17] The logo features the band's initials, with the second N mirrored. [15][failed verification] The Nine Inch Nails logo first appeared on the music video for their debut single, "Down in It". [232], On March 26, 2020, Nine Inch Nails released Ghosts V: Together and Ghosts VI: Locusts, their tenth and eleventh studio albums and the sequels to their 2008 instrumental album Ghosts IIV. [62] The Downward Spiral, alike Broken, was recorded at Le Pig Studios. In January 2017, the band announced that it would be performing at the Panorama Music Festival in New York on July 30. [43] 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. It's quick-fix. [256], Songs such as "Wish" and "The Day the World Went Away" exhibit terraced dynamics. Welcome to WatchMojo.com and today we're counting down our picks for the top 10 Nine Inch Nails songs. The album was the band's second record to top the Billboard album charts and the band was set to perform on June 4, 2005 at the MTV Movie Awards to promote the album's first single, "The Hand That Feeds" when suddenly the band pulled out of the show. Our mobile site works way better when you have JavaScript enabled. [211][212] Not the Actual Events was released on December 23, 2016, with fans who pre-ordered it receiving their download links one day earlier. [165] This led to further collaboration with Reznor and Homme on the 2013 album from Queens of the Stone Age titled Like Clockwork. [216] On March 21, the band announced on their official Facebook page that it would be headlining Day 3 of FYF Fest in Los Angeles on July 23. [1]:42[4] The band used it to record Broken, an extended play (EP) that was the first Nine Inch Nails release distributed by Interscope Records[39] and reached the top 10 on the Billboard 200. If there are any legal options that can be realistically taken they will be aggressively pursued, with any potential monetary gains donated to human rights charities. [2], The first Nine Inch Nails performance took place at the Phantasy Theater in Lakewood, Ohio, on October 21, 1988. So why did it go out of sight for decades? [11], Reznor chose the name "Nine Inch Nails" because it "abbreviated easily" rather than for "any literal meaning". A performance by Foo Fighters replaced Nine Inch Nails' time slot on the show. Reiss thought of Flanagan as Flanagan's wife Sheree Rose later explained, "[Reiss] attended the 'Nailed' performance in Los Angeles in 1989, where he witnessed Bob in a torture chair being 'attacked' by clothespins attached to his genitals." So go forth and enable it. A song would start with a drum loop or a visual and eventually a song would emerge out of it and that was the song. [Somehow] that winds up reinterpreted by a music legend from a radically different era/genre and still retains sincerity and meaningdifferent, but every bit as pure. The first collection of Nine Inch Nails Definitive Edition Tees. [137] The Slip has since been released on CD as a limited edition set of 250,000. The government is a Christian fundamentalist theocracy, maintaining control of the populace through institutions like the Bureau of Morality and the First Evangelical Church of Plano. [167] In October a project with Dr. Dre and Beats Electronics was announced that Reznor wrote was "probably not what you're expecting [from me]". [12] Other rumored explanations have circulated, alleging that Reznor chose to reference Jesus' crucifixion with nine-inch spikes,[13]:57 or Freddy Krueger's nine-inch fingernails. [295], In 1997, Reznor appeared in Time magazine's list of the year's most influential people, and Spin described him as "the most vital artist in music". It wasn't my doing. [63] as well as a cover of the Joy Division song "Dead Souls" on the soundtrack to the film The Crow, which went to number 1 on the Billboard 200 album chart. "And it's a label that has no idea of what integrity means and they thought we were a nice pop band. The music video features Trent Reznor singing under a spotlight at a concert while archival video clips are projected on a screen behind him. I guess it's interesting that it's achieved a certain notoriety. I'm glad it's on his website. "I was coming out of a weird relationship," he told Spin in 1996. Director: F. Gary Gray. [197] Two weeks prior to the tour, Death Grips announced its breakup and cancelled all subsequent live shows. In February 2009, Reznor posted his thoughts about the future of Nine Inch Nails on his official website, stating that "I've been thinking for some time now it's time to make NIN disappear for a while. [75] Released in 1997, the Closure video documented highlights from the tour, including full live videos of "Eraser", "Hurt" and a one-take "March of the Pigs" clip directed by Peter Christoperson. Their eighth album, Hesitation Marks (2013), was followed by a trilogy which consisted of the EPs Not the Actual Events (2016) and Add Violence (2017) and their ninth album Bad Witch (2018). Working with his production collaborator Flood, Reznor had to record in secret quickly because he didn't want TVT to know that he was finalizing a new deal with Interscope. The release of Nine Inch Nails' debut, Pretty Hate Machine, in 1989, had produced two alternative-rock hits in "Down in It" and "Head Like a Hole," cementing the multi-instrumentalist frontman's position at the forefront of industrial metal and earning him a spot on the bill for the very first Lollapalooza.