The official nine inch nails website. On this date, 25 years ago, Nine Inch Nails performed at the Woodstock ’94 concert in Saugerties, NY in the midst of the band’s Self Destruct Tour. Closure is a double VHS set by Nine Inch Nails released on November 25, 1997, and is the 12th official Nine Inch Nails release. It consists of one tape of live concert and behind-the-scenes footage from their Self-Destruct and Further Down the Spiral tours and one tape of music videos. The first cassette's footage highlights the backstage antics by Nine Inch Nails and their tour guests.

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'Closer' is an industrial rock song by American industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails from their second studio album, The Downward Spiral (1994). It was released on May 30, 1994 as the album's second single. Most versions of the single are titled 'Closer to God', a rare example in music of a single's 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.) Labeled 'Halo 9', the single is the ninth official Nine Inch Nails release.

A promotional single provided by the label to radio stations included both long and short vocal-censored-i.e.: silenced profanity-versions.^[1] In spite of misinterpretations of the song as a lust anthem, 'Closer' became Nine Inch Nails' most successful single up to that time, cemented Reznor's status as an industrial rock icon, and remains arguably his best-known song. Censored versions of the song and its Mark Romanek-directed music video received substantial airplay on radio and MTV.

• 4Formats and track listings

Composition[edit]

'Closer' has been described as industrial rock,^[2][3][4][5]techno,^[6] and alternative rock.^[7][8] 'Closer' uses elements of funk,^[9]avant-garde,^[10] and electronic music.^[11] The drum track of 'Closer' features a heavily modified bass drumsample from the Iggy Pop song 'Nightclubbing' from his album The Idiot. The bass drum in 'Nightclubbing' was from a Rolanddrum machine. The samples were produced using two AkaiS1100samplers, each with an expander (essentially four samplers). The samples were then combined with beats produced by a Roland R-70 drum machine.^[12] The production features sound effects such as a bass squelch, synth echo, and feedback growl.^[13]

Radio edits of 'Closer' were created by muting the vocal track for the duration of each deleted obscenity.^[5]

Lyrically, 'Closer' is a song about self-hatred and obsession, but to Reznor's dismay, the song was widely misinterpreted as a lust anthem due to its chorus, which included the line 'I wanna fuck you like an animal'.^[14] In 2003, VH1 ranked the song at number 93 in its countdown of the '100 Greatest Songs of the Past 25 Years.' The song was ranked at the number 2 position on AOL's '69 Sexiest Songs of All Time,' mostly due to the explicit frankness of the chorus.^{[citation needed]} 'Come on dude: 'I wanna fuck you like an animal'?' remarked Mötley Crüe drummer and The Downward Spiral contributor Tommy Lee. 'That's the all-time fuck song. Those are pure fuck beats – Trent Reznor knew what he was doing. You can fuck to it, you can dance to it and you can break shit to it.'^[15]

In July 2009, the song was voted in at number 62 on Triple J's Hottest 100 of all time, and in 2010 it was number 42 on Pitchfork Media's Top 200 Tracks of the 90s.^[16]

Music video[edit]

The music video was directed by Mark Romanek and first aired on May 12, 1994, having been filmed in April of that year. It was cut down from its original length to 4:36. The video was popular and helped bolster the success of the band. Set in what appears to be a 19th-century mad scientist's laboratory, the video's imagery involves religion, sexuality, animal cruelty, politics, and terror, including:

• A heart connected to some sort of device; the beat of the heart corresponds to the beat of the song^[17]
• A little girl lounging on a chair
• A nude, bald woman with a crucifix mask.
• A monkey tied to a cross.^[18]
• A severed pig's head spinning on some type of machine.^[19]
• A diagram of the vulva/vagina.
• Reznor wearing various fetish gear, such as an S&M mask, ball 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 being blown back by a wind machine while wearing aviator goggles.

These images were inspired by the work of Joel-Peter Witkin,^[18] as well as by the Brothers Quay's animated short film Street of Crocodiles.^[20] For the television version, certain removed scenes were replaced with a title 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 appear as if the stop was a result of defective film (this was supposedly done to make sure the flow of the song was not affected).^[21] According to Romanek, the video was filmed using 'a slightly out of date film stock but it was still a contemporary film stock.'

They had stopped making it three years before and we found some of it. All the new color film stocks have this T-Grain, like little Ts that are interlocking. The film stock we used had the original old granular grain. The new stocks are just really modern looking, really sharp, really contrasty, very fine grain. We didn't want that. Normally you don't want to use that kind of stock because the colors will be off. It does have a shelf life but in this case we didn't care, the more fucked up it was the happier we were.^[22]

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

In 2006, 'Closer' was voted number one in a VH1 Classic poll titled '20 Greatest Music Videos of All Time.' ^[23]

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.'^[24]

The unedited video is included in Closure, The Downward Spiral (DualDisc), Directors Label Volume 4: The Work Of Director Mark Romanek and VEVO, and it is available for download from the United States iTunes Store under the band's page. Behind-the-scenes footage with commentary by Romanek is included in Closure (DVD) and Directors Label. It is also available on YouTube, and was previously flagged there before this restriction was lifted.

Chart performance[edit]

'Closer' had some radio airplay before it was released as a single. This factor increased within weeks, leading Interscope to release the song as a single in May 1994.

When it premiered, the single charted on several Billboard magazine music charts; debuting near the bottom spot of the Billboard Hot 100, it missed the Top 40 spot (peaking at No. 41). It crawled to No. 11 on the Modern Rock Tracks, and went on to reach No. 35 on the Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks, No. 29 on the Dance Music/Club Play Singles, and No. 29 Hot Dance Music/Maxi-Singles Sales, this is the band's first crossover hit and remains their most popular song to date. It was a massive success in Canada on the Canadian pop charts and the Alternative 30 charts both hitting No. 5. ^[25]

Formats and track listings[edit]

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The version of 'Closer' on the single is 13 seconds longer than the album version; on the album, the piano tune at the end of the song is abruptly cut off in order to segue into the next track, 'Ruiner'. On the single, the piano and background sounds of 'Closer' are allowed to play out longer.^[5]

In addition, the U.S. CD single contains five guest remixes of 'Closer', a remix of its fellow The Downward 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 Non Stop Ecstatic Dancing. The UK single releases contain the same tracks split between two discs (each sold separately). A cassette single was issued in the U.S. and Australia, pairing 'Closer' with a live-performance version of NIN's previous single, 'March of the Pigs'.

The single’s cover artwork was done by photographer Joseph Cultice.^[26]

U.S. CD[edit]

• TVT Records / Interscope Records / Atlantic Records 95905–2
• TVT Records / Interscope Records 0694959052 (Reissue)

U.K. CD[edit]

• Island Records CID 596 854 059–2 (Disc 1)
• Island Records CIDX 596 854 061–2 (Disc 2)

U.S. cassette[edit]

• Nothing Records / TVT Records / Interscope Records / Atlantic Records 98263-4

U.K. 12' vinyl – Part 1: Further Away[edit]

• Island Records 12IS 596 854 059–1 – UK 12' Vinyl 1

U.K. 12' vinyl – Part 2: Closer to God[edit]

• Island Records 12ISX 596 854 061–1 – UK 12' Vinyl 2

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

Personnel[edit]

• Trent Reznor – vocals, guitar, bass guitar, keyboards, synthesizers, programming
• Chris Vrenna – drum samples (drum sample taken from Iggy Pop's 'Nightclubbing')
• Flood – hi-hat

Charts[edit]

Live performances[edit]

During the Self Destruct and Fragility tours, bassist Danny Lohner and guitarist Robin Finck joined Reznor on keyboards for the song, with Reznor performing an extended synth solo.

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

In the tours following the release of With Teeth, Nine 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 song appear on Beside You in Time.

Cover versions[edit]

• 'Closer' has been covered by many musical acts, including MGMT, Blood on the Dance Floor, Richard Cheese and Lounge Against the Machine, Eric Gorfain, Maroon 5, Maxwell, The Asylum Street Spankers, Asking Alexandria, Rosetta Stone, 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 Hair Day, a section of the song was used in which the word 'fuck' is replaced with a cartoon sound effects.^[27][28] 'Germs' on his Running with Scissors album is a style parody of several Nine Inch Nails songs.^[29][30]
• The Asylum Street Spankers occasionally perform a bluegrass version, available at the Live Music Archive.^[31]
• In 1995, the Australian novelty act Nine Inch Richards covered the song under the title 'Closer To Hogs'. Sung in a southern drawl, it combined Trent Reznor's sexually charged lyrics with barnyard animal samples, humorously implying that the song is about bestiality. A video clip of the parody^[32] was taken at the Sydney Royal Easter Show. This single peaked at #51 in Australia.^[33]
• In 2008, Sy Smith performed the song as 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's 2 has been covered by British metalcore Asking Alexandria.
• In 2016, singer-songwriter Father John Misty covered the song live in Chicago during two separate performances.^[34]
• Fellow Interscope act Limp Bizkit parodied^[35] 'Closer' (as well 'The Perfect Drug' and 'Burn') in their song 'Hot Dog'. The chorus goes, 'You wanna fuck me like an animal, You'd like to burn me on the inside, You like to think that I'm a perfect drug, Just know that nothing 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.^[36]

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External links[edit]

• Halo 9 at NINCollector
• Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
• Closer to God at Discogs (list of releases)

American industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails have released nine studio albums, one live album, three remix albums, one box set, six extended plays, 20 singles, nine promotional singles, four video albums and 31 music videos. Nine Inch Nails has also contributed to numerous film soundtracks as well as the soundtrack to the video game Quake.^[1]

Initial ambitions for Nine Inch Nails in 1988 were to release one 12-inch single on a small European label.^[2] With the addition of future singles 'Head Like a Hole' and 'Sin', many of these demo tracks would later appear in revised form on Pretty Hate Machine in 1989, an album co-produced by Adrian Sherwood and Mark 'Flood' Ellis which peaked at number 75 in 1990. In response to pressures from TVT Records for a follow-up to Nine Inch Nails' commercially successful debut, Reznor began recording the Brokenextended play in secret. The EP was released in 1992 and reached the top 10 on the Billboard 200.^[3] Nine Inch Nails' second studio album, The Downward Spiral, entered the Billboard 200 in 1994 at number two, sold over four million copies in the US^[4] and remains the highest-selling Nine Inch Nails release in the United States.^[5]

Five years elapsed before Nine Inch Nails' next major album, The Fragile, a double album that debuted at number one on the Billboard 200, selling 228,000 copies in its first week, but dropped from the top 10 afterward.^[1] Another six years elapsed before Nine Inch Nails' next studio album, With Teeth, which also debuted at the top of the Billboard 200.^[6] In 2007, the band released Year Zero alongside an accompanying alternate reality game.^[7] Reznor announced in late 2007 that Nine Inch Nails had fulfilled its contractual obligations with Interscope Records, and would distribute its next major album independently. The last Interscope release from Nine Inch Nails was a remix album based on material from Year Zero.^[8] The first Nine Inch Nails album released independently was the instrumental Ghosts I–IV in 2008, followed two months later by The Slip. Hesitation Marks was released through Columbia Records on August 30, 2013. After teasing a release in early 2016, Reznor began releasing a trilogy of new releases: the EPs Not the Actual Events on December 23, 2016 and Add Violence on July 21, 2017, followed by the LP Bad Witch on June 22, 2018.

• 1Albums
• 3Singles
• 5Guest appearances
• 6Videography

Albums[edit]

Studio albums[edit]

Live albums[edit]

Remix albums[edit]

Box sets[edit]

Extended plays[edit]

Singles[edit]

Promotional singles[edit]

Chronology[edit]

Each official Nine Inch Nails release is chronologically ordered with a sequential number prefixed by the word 'Halo'. For example, the fifth Nine Inch Nails release, Broken, is identified with the phrase 'Halo Five'. These numbers are sometimes modified for alternate versions of a release, such as the multiple releases of The Downward Spiral. Promotional-only releases do not have their own numbers, although the promotional singles for 'Piggy' and 'Hurt' were both labeled as 'Halo Ten', a title later officially used for Further Down the Spiral. A US promo for 'Into the Void' is mislabeled as Halo 16 because this number actually belongs to the Things Falling Apart remix album.

Guest appearances[edit]

Remixes[edit]

Videography[edit]

Video albums[edit]

Music videos[edit]

Broken, the unreleased short film directed by Peter Christopherson, contains the videos for 'Pinion', 'Wish', and 'Happiness in Slavery' as well as a video for 'Help Me I am in Hell' and a different video for 'Gave Up' than the one on Closure. The short film contains graphic depictions of a seemingly helpless victim being tortured and forced to watch Nine Inch Nails videos.^[68]

Notes[edit]

1. ^The Fragile is considered double platinum since it is a double album with length exceeding 100 minutes.
2. ^Two versions of And All That Could Have Been were released, a limited edition and a general release, and each charted separately on the Billboard 200: the limited edition peaked at number 26, and the general release at number 37.
3. ^Fixed did not enter the Billboard Hot 100, but peaked at number 35 on the Hot Singles Sales chart.^[30]
4. ^Not the Actual Events did not enter the NZ Top 40 Albums Chart, but peaked at number one on the NZ Heatseekers Albums Chart.^[31]
5. ^'Head Like a Hole' did not enter the Billboard Hot 100, but peaked at number nine on the Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles chart.^[36]
6. ^'Head Like a Hole' was re-released in Australia in 1995, peaking at number 57 on the Australian chart.
7. ^'Came Back Haunted' did not enter the Billboard Hot 100, but peaked at number nine on the Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles chart.^[36]
8. ^'Less Than' did not enter the Canadian Singles Chart, but peaked at number 47 on the Hot Canadian Digital Song Sales chart.^[37]

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External links[edit]

• Nine Inch Nails at AllMusic
• Nine Inch Nails discography at Discogs
• Nine Inch Nails discography at MusicBrainz