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1994 single by Nine Inch Nails

"Closer"
U.s. CD single cover
Single by Nine Inch Nails
from the anthology The Downwards Spiral
B-side	"March of the Fuckheads" "Memorabilia"
Released	May 30, 1994 (1994-05-30)
Studio	Le Pig (Los Angeles) The Record Constitute (Los Angeles) A&M Studios (Los Angeles)
Genre	Industrial stone alternative rock
Length	half-dozen:15
Label	Nada TVT Interscope Atlantic
Songwriter(south)	Trent Reznor
Producer(due south)	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's Cutting) on YouTube

"Closer" is a vocal by American industrial stone band Ix Inch Nails, released every bit the 2d single on their 2nd studio album, The Downward Spiral (1994). Released on May 30, 1994, it is considered one of 9 Inch Nails' signature songs and remains their virtually popular song. Most versions of the unmarried 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 likewise the title of an alternate version of "Closer" featured on the single, which was also released as a separate promotional single for lodge-play). ^{[1] [two] [iii]} The unmarried is the 9th official 9 Inch Nails release, making it "Halo 9" in the band's official Halo numbering organization.

A promotional single provided by the label to radio stations included both long and short vocal-censored (i.east. silenced profanity) versions. ^[iv] Although the song addresses themes such as self-hatred and obsession, its sexually aggressive chorus led to widespread misinterpretation of the vocal equally an anthem of lust, which helped it become 9 Inch Nails' most successful single up to that fourth dimension and cemented Trent Reznor's status as an industrial rock icon. Commercially, "Closer" reached No. 41 on the US Billboard Hot 100, No. 25 on the Uk Singles Chart, and No. 3 on the Australian Singles Nautical chart. Censored versions of the song and its Mark Romanek-directed music video received substantial airplay on radio and MTV.

Composition [ edit ]

"Closer" has been described equally industrial stone ^{[5] [six] [7] [8] [9]} and culling rock. ^{[x] [11] [12]} "Closer" uses elements of funk, ^[13] avant-garde, ^[fourteen] and electronic music. ^[15] The drum track of "Closer" is congenital around a heavily modified sample of the bass pulsate from the 1977 Iggy Popular vocal "Nightclubbing", which was performed by a Roland drum machine. The samples were produced using two Akai S1100 samplers, each with an expander, essentially making up iv samplers. The samples were and so combined with beats produced by a Roland R-seventy pulsate machine. ^[16] The production features sound effects such equally a bass squelch, synth echo, and feedback growl. ^[17] Radio edits of "Closer" were created by muting the vocal track for the elapsing of each deleted obscenity. ^[8]

Lyrically, "Closer" is a song nigh self-hatred and obsession; to Reznor's dismay, the vocal was widely misinterpreted equally a animalism canticle due to its chorus, which famously includes the lines "I wanna fuck you like an animal / I wanna feel yous from the within". ^[18] In 2003, VH1 ranked the vocal at No. 93 in its inaugural of the "100 Greatest Songs of the By 25 Years." The song was ranked at No. 2 on AOL'south "69 Sexiest Songs of All Time" due to the explicit frankness of the chorus. ^[nineteen] Mötley Crüe drummer Tommy Lee, said of the song, "Come on dude: 'I wanna fuck you lot like an animate being'? That's the all-fourth dimension fuck vocal. Those are pure fuck beats—Trent Reznor knew what he was doing. You can fuck to it, you lot can dance to it and you tin can interruption shit to information technology." ^[twenty]

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

Reception [ edit ]

"Closer" had some radio airplay before it was released every bit a single. This factor increased within weeks, leading Interscope to release the vocal as a single in May 1994. When it premiered, the single charted on several Usa Billboard magazine music listings. Debuting near the bottom spot of the Billboard Hot 100, it barely missed the top 40, peaking at No. 41. ^[21] Information technology climbed to No. 11 on the Billboard Mod Rock Tracks nautical chart, ^[22] and too went on to achieve 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's starting time crossover hitting and remains their most popular vocal to appointment.

The single was successful in several other countries every bit well. It charted the highest in Australia, where it rose to No. 3 on the week of November xiii, 1994, ^[24] and was the country'southward 87th most successful single of 1994. ^[25] Although "Closer" did not initially appear on Canada's official music chart during its original release, it reached a peak of No. five on the Canadian Singles Chart in Feb 2002. ^[26] It also did not chart in Kingdom of denmark until 2007, when information technology reached No. 12 in July. ^[27] In the Great britain, the single reached No. 25. ^[28]

The same "Closer to God" version of the vocal charted at No. 29 on the Billboard Trip the light fantastic toe Music/Gild Play Singles. ^[29]

The song was voted in at No. 62 on Triple J's Hottest 100 of all fourth dimension in 2009, and ranked No. 42 on Pitchfork Media's "Summit 200 Tracks of the 90s" in 2010. ^[30]

Music video [ edit ]

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

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 cutting down from its original length to four:36. The video was popular and helped bolster the success of the ring. Set in what appears to exist a 19th-century mad scientist'due south laboratory, the video's imagery involves religion, sexuality, animal cruelty, politics, and terror, including:

• A centre connected to some sort of device; the beat of the heart corresponds to the beat of the song ^[31]
• A niggling girl lounging on a chair
• A nude, baldheaded woman with a crucifix mask.
• A monkey, scared, panicked, tied to a cross. ^[32]
• A severed squealer'southward head spinning on some blazon of automobile. ^[33]
• 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 likewise scenes of Reznor being diddled dorsum by a air current machine while wearing aviator goggles. Mark has stated:

We fabricated prints, and I personally spent a couple of days dragging them effectually the parking lot and spraying droplets shellac and property lighters under them. We were just making it for fine art's sake, and YouTube didn't be then, then it was a pretty ballsy and improvident thing for Trent to do. Just MTV liked information technology, so that started a long negotiation of how nosotros can get it on the air. I want to keep record about the monkey: That monkey was not in whatsoever danger fifty-fifty though he appears to exist in distress. The monkey was only munching on bits of assistant and enjoying himself. We had an ASPCA person on the ready. It wasn't harmed, and actually got paid more than some of the crew. ^[34]

These images were inspired by the work of Joel-Peter Witkin, ^[32] likewise as by the Brothers Quay'southward animated brusque movie Street of Crocodiles . ^[35] For the television version, sure removed scenes were replaced with a title card that read "Scene Missing," and the instances of the discussion fuck being edited out were accompanied by a cease in the video motion, making it announced as if the stop was a upshot of defective film (this was supposedly done to make sure the flow of the song was non affected). ^[36] According to Romanek, the video was filmed using "a slightly out of date motion-picture show stock but it was still a contemporary film stock."

They had stopped making it three years before and we institute some of it. All the new color moving-picture show stocks have this T-Grain, similar piffling Ts that are interlocking. The picture show stock we used had the original erstwhile granular grain. The new stocks are simply really modern looking, really sharp, really contrasty, very fine grain. We didn't desire that. Normally y'all don't want to use that kind of stock because the colors will exist off. Information technology does have a shelf life simply in this case we didn't care, the more fucked up it was the happier we were. ^[37]

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

In 2006, "Closer" was voted No. 1 in a VH1 Classic poll titled "xx Greatest Music Videos of All Time." ^[38]

In hindsight, 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 Screw (DualDisc), Directors Label Volume four: The Work Of Managing director Mark Romanek and VEVO, and it is available for download from the United States iTunes Store nether the band'southward 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.

Alive 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 beginning 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. Nine Inch Nails performed the "Closer to God" rendition of the vocal alive during their 1995 bout on numerous occasions, omitting the original song from the setlist when done then.

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

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 Just Time," a track from Pretty Hate Machine . Two performances of this version of the song appear on Beside You in Fourth dimension .

Formats and track listings [ edit ]

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

In addition, the U.S. CD single contains v guest remixes of "Closer", a remix of its young man The Downward Spiral track "Heresy", an instrumental track "March of the Fuckheads" (unrelated to "March of the Pigs"), and a encompass version of Soft Cell's vocal "Memorabilia", from their 1982 EP Non Terminate Ecstatic Dancing . The UK single releases contain the same tracks divide between two discs (each sold separately). A cassette single was issued in the U.S. and Australia, pairing "Closer" with the music video version of Nine Inch Nails' previous unmarried, "March of the Pigs" (which was recorded live in the studio by the then-current lineup of the band).

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

US CD

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

No.	Title	Remixers / contributors	Length
one.	"Closer to God"	Trent Reznor Sean Beavan Brian Pollack	5:05
2.	"Closer (Precursor)"	Curl Danny Hyde	vii:16
three.	"Closer (Deviation)"	Jack Dangers Craig Silvey	6:15
4.	"Heresy (Blind)"	Dave Ogilvie Anthony Valcic Joseph Bishara (misspelled every bit "Bisara")	five:32
v.	"Memorabilia"	Reznor Robin Finck Beavan Chris Vrenna Pollack John van Eaton "Sugar and his friend"	7:21
half-dozen.	"Closer (Internal)"	Beak Kennedy Scott Humphrey John "Geetus" Aguto Paul Decarli Eric Claudiex	4:15
seven.	"March of the Fuckheads"	Adrian Sherwood	4:43
8.	"Closer (Farther Away)"	Kennedy Humphrey Aguto Decarli Claudiex	5:45
nine.	"Closer"	Reznor Inundation	6:26

The states cassette

• Zero Records / TVT Records / Interscope Records / Atlantic Records 98263-four

Side A

No.	Title	Contributors	Length
one.	"Closer"	Reznor Inundation	6:25

Side B

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

Britain CD

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

Disc 1: Farther Away

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Closer"	6:26
2.	"Closer (Deviation)"	half-dozen:15
3.	"Closer (Further Away)"	5:45
iv.	"Closer (Forerunner)"	7:16
v.	"Closer (Internal)"	4:15

Disc two: Closer to God

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

U.Thou. 12-inch vinyl – Function 1: Farther Away

• Island Records 12IS 596 854 059–1 – U.k. 12-inch vinyl 1

Side A

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Closer (Deviation)"
two.	"Closer (Further Away)"
three.	"Closer"

Side B

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

UK 12-inch vinyl – Part two: Closer to God

• Island Records 12ISX 596 854 061–1 – Britain 12-inch vinyl 2

Side A

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Closer to God"
ii.	"March of the Fuckheads"

Side B

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

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

Personnel [ edit ]

• Trent Reznor – lead and bankroll vocals, guitar, bass guitar, keyboards, synthesizers, programming, sampling
• Chris Vrenna – pulsate samples
• Flood – special hullo-lid programming

Charts [ edit ]

Cover versions [ edit ]

• "Closer" has been covered by many musical acts, including MGMT, Claret on the Trip the light fantastic Floor, Richard Cheese and Lounge Against the Machine, Eric Gorfain, Maroon 5, Maxwell, The Aviary 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 vocal "House of Balloons/Drinking glass Table Girls."
• "Weird Al" Yankovic has paid tribute to "Closer" twice: in "The Alternative Polka" on his album Bad Hair Solar day , a department of the song was used in which the word "fuck" is replaced with a cartoon sound effects. "Germs" on his Running with Scissors album is a style parody of several Nine Inch Nails songs. ^{[45] [46]}
• The Aviary Street Spankers occasionally perform a bluegrass version, bachelor at the Live Music Archive. ^[47]
• In 1995, the Australian novelty human activity Ix Inch Richards covered the vocal nether the title "Closer To Hogs". Sung in a southern drawl, it combined Trent Reznor'southward sexually charged lyrics with undiscriminating animal samples, humorously implying that the song is about animality. A video clip of the parody ^[48] was taken at the Sydney Majestic Easter Show. This single peaked at No. 51 in Australia. ^[49]
• In 2008, Sy Smith performed the vocal as function of her "Conflict Tour". In Baronial 2010, Smith performed the song again at "Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Heights Plaza".
• In 2014, from the compilation anthology in the Punk Goes ninety's 2 has been covered past British rock Asking Alexandria.
• In 2016, singer-songwriter Father John Misty covered the song live in Chicago during 2 carve up performances. ^[50]
• Fellow Interscope act Limp Bizkit parodied ^[51] "Closer" (likewise "The Perfect Drug" and "Burn") in their song "Hot Dog". The chorus goes, "Y'all wanna fuck me like an animal, You'd like to burn me on the inside, Yous like to think that I'm a perfect drug, But know that cipher yous do will bring yous closer to me." Limp Bizkit frontman Fred Durst said he was a big fan of Ix Inch Nails, who has additionally inspired his music. ^[52]

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• Huxley, Martin (September 1997). Nine Inch Nails: Self Destruct . St. Martin'south Press. ISBN 0-312-15612-X – via the Internet Archive.
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External links [ edit ]

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

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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closer_(Nine_Inch_Nails_song)