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Song by Nine Inch Nails

1994 unmarried by Ix Inch Nails

"Closer"
US CD single cover
Single past 9 Inch Nails
from the album The Down Spiral
B-side	"March of the Fuckheads" "Memorabilia"
Released	May thirty, 1994 (1994-05-xxx)
Studio	Le Pig (Los Angeles) The Record Plant (Los Angeles) A&Thou Studios (Los Angeles)
Genre	Industrial stone culling stone
Length	6:fifteen
Label	Zippo TVT Interscope Atlantic
Songwriter(due south)	Trent Reznor
Producer(s)	Flood Trent Reznor
Ix Inch Nails singles chronology
"March of the Pigs" (1994) "Closer" (1994) "The Perfect Drug" (1997)
Halo numbers chronology
Halo viii (1994) Halo 9 (1994) Halo ten (1995)
Audio sample
"Closer" file help
Music video
"Closer" (Director'due south Cut) on YouTube

"Closer" is a vocal past American industrial rock ring Ix Inch Nails, released as the 2nd single on their second studio album, The Downward Spiral (1994). Released on May thirty, 1994, it is considered one of Ix Inch Nails' signature songs and remains their virtually popular vocal. Nigh versions of the single are titled "Closer to God", a rare instance in music of a single's title differing from the title of its A-side ("Closer to God" is also the championship of an alternate version of "Closer" featured on the unmarried, which was also released as a separate promotional unmarried for club-play). ^{[one] [2] [3]} The single is the ninth official Ix Inch Nails release, making information technology "Halo 9" in the band'south official Halo numbering arrangement.

A promotional single provided by the label to radio stations included both long and brusque vocal-censored (i.e. silenced profanity) versions. ^[four] Although the song addresses themes such as self-hatred and obsession, its sexually aggressive chorus led to widespread misinterpretation of the song equally an canticle of animalism, which helped it go Ix Inch Nails' most successful single up to that time and cemented Trent Reznor'due south status equally an industrial rock icon. Commercially, "Closer" reached No. 41 on the United states 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 as industrial rock ^{[5] [half-dozen] [vii] [8] [ix]} and alternative rock. ^{[ten] [11] [12]} "Closer" uses elements of funk, ^[13] avant-garde, ^[14] and electronic music. ^[15] The drum track 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 car. The samples were produced using two Akai S1100 samplers, each with an expander, substantially making upward 4 samplers. The samples were and so combined with beats produced by a Roland R-lxx pulsate machine. ^[xvi] The product features sound effects such as a bass squelch, synth echo, and feedback growl. ^[17] Radio edits of "Closer" were created by muting the song track for the elapsing of each deleted obscenity. ^[viii]

Lyrically, "Closer" is a song nigh self-hatred and obsession; to Reznor'south dismay, the song was widely misinterpreted equally a lust anthem due to its chorus, which famously includes the lines "I wanna fuck yous like an beast / I wanna experience you from the within". ^[18] In 2003, VH1 ranked the vocal at No. 93 in its countdown of the "100 Greatest Songs of the By 25 Years." The vocal was ranked at No. 2 on AOL'due 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 similar an animal'? That's the all-fourth dimension fuck song. Those are pure fuck beats—Trent Reznor knew what he was doing. Y'all can fuck to it, you tin can trip the light fantastic to it and you can suspension shit to it." ^[20]

Although there were numerous remixes of "Closer", the version titled "Closer to God" was heavily reworked, equally 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 separate from "Closer", mainly intended for club-play. ^[i]

Reception [ edit ]

"Closer" had some radio airplay before it was released equally a unmarried. This factor increased within weeks, leading Interscope to release the song as a unmarried in May 1994. When it premiered, the unmarried charted on several US 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] It climbed to No. 11 on the Billboard Mod Rock Tracks chart, ^[22] and also went on to achieve No. 35 on the Billboard Album Stone Tracks chart and No. 29 on the Billboard Hot Dance Music/Maxi-Singles Sales chart. ^[23] "Closer" was the band's first crossover hit and remains their most popular song to date.

The single was successful in several other countries as well. It charted the highest in Australia, where it rose to No. 3 on the week of November 13, 1994, ^[24] and was the country's 87th virtually successful single of 1994. ^[25] Although "Closer" did not initially appear on Canada'south official music chart during its original release, information technology reached a peak of No. v on the Canadian Singles Chart in Feb 2002. ^[26] It also did non chart in Denmark until 2007, when it reached No. 12 in July. ^[27] In the United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland, the single reached No. 25. ^[28]

The aforementioned "Closer to God" version of the song charted at No. 29 on the Billboard Dance Music/Club 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 "Pinnacle 200 Tracks of the 90s" in 2010. ^[xxx]

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 twelvemonth. Information technology was cut down from its original length to iv:36. The video was popular and helped bolster the success of the ring. 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 centre continued to some sort of device; the beat of the middle corresponds to the beat out of the song ^[31]
• A little girl lounging on a chair
• A nude, bald adult female with a crucifix mask.
• A monkey, scared, panicked, tied to a cross. ^[32]
• A severed pig'southward head spinning on some type of machine. ^[33]
• A diagram of the vulva/vagina.
• Reznor wearing various fetish gear, such every bit an S&Grand 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 existence blown dorsum by a air current automobile while wearing aviator goggles. Mark has stated:

We fabricated prints, and I personally spent a couple of days dragging them around the parking lot and spraying aerosol shellac and belongings lighters nether them. We were simply making it for art's sake, and YouTube didn't exist so, so information technology was a pretty ballsy and extravagant thing for Trent to do. Merely MTV liked information technology, so that started a long negotiation of how we can get information technology on the air. I want to get on tape nigh the monkey: That monkey was non in any danger even though he appears to exist in distress. The monkey was just munching on bits of banana and enjoying himself. We had an ASPCA person on the set. It wasn't harmed, and actually got paid more than than some of the crew. ^[34]

These images were inspired by the work of Joel-Peter Witkin, ^[32] as well as past the Brothers Quay's animated curt picture Street of Crocodiles . ^[35] For the television version, certain removed scenes were replaced with a title card that read "Scene Missing," and the instances of the discussion fuck being edited out were accompanied past a stop in the video motion, making information technology announced as if the terminate was a result of defective picture show (this was supposedly done to make sure the flow of the song was not affected). ^[36] According to Romanek, the video was filmed using "a slightly out of appointment film stock only information technology was still a contemporary film stock."

They had stopped making information technology iii years before and nosotros found some of it. All the new color motion picture stocks have this T-Grain, similar petty Ts that are interlocking. The film stock we used had the original old granular grain. The new stocks are merely actually modern looking, really sharp, actually contrasty, very fine grain. We didn't want that. Commonly you don't want to use that kind of stock because the colors will exist off. It does have a shelf life but in this instance nosotros didn't care, the more fucked up it was the happier we were. ^[37]

The unedited version of the video was shown on Playboy Television set'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 just shown belatedly at dark 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 "20 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 Downwards Spiral (DualDisc), Directors Label Volume 4: The Work Of Director Mark Romanek and VEVO, and it is available for download from the U.s. iTunes Shop under the ring's folio. Behind-the-scenes footage with commentary by Romanek is included in Closure (DVD) and Directors Characterization. It is likewise available on YouTube, and was previously flagged there before this restriction was lifted.

Live performances [ edit ]

During the Cocky Destruct and Fragility tours, bassist Danny Lohner and guitarist Robin Finck joined Reznor and full-fourth dimension keyboardists James Woolley (during the kickoff 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. Nine Inch Nails performed the "Closer to God" rendition of the vocal live during their 1995 tour on numerous occasions, omitting the original song from the setlist when washed so.

At that place are performance videos of "Closer" on And All that Could Take Been and Abreast Y'all 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 every bit a guitar solo and a breakdown incorporating a portion of "The Only Time," a track from Pretty Detest Machine . Two performances of this version of the song appear on Beside You in Fourth dimension .

Formats and runway listings [ edit ]

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

In add-on, the U.Due south. CD single contains five guest remixes of "Closer", a remix of its beau The Downward Spiral runway "Heresy", an instrumental track "March of the Fuckheads" (unrelated to "March of the Pigs"), and a cover version of Soft Cell's vocal "Memorabilia", from their 1982 EP Non Cease Ecstatic Dancing . The UK single releases incorporate the same tracks split between two discs (each sold separately). A cassette single was issued in the U.South. and Australia, pairing "Closer" with the music video version of Nine Inch Nails' previous single, "March of the Pigs" (which was recorded live in the studio by the then-current lineup of the band).

The unmarried'due south cover artwork was done past photographer Joseph Cultice. ^[40]

US CD

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

No.	Title	Remixers / contributors	Length
1.	"Closer to God"	Trent Reznor Sean Beavan Brian Pollack	five:05
2.	"Closer (Forerunner)"	Curl Danny Hyde	7:sixteen
iii.	"Closer (Difference)"	Jack Dangers Craig Silvey	6:15
4.	"Heresy (Blind)"	Dave Ogilvie Anthony Valcic Joseph Bishara (misspelled equally "Bisara")	v:32
five.	"Memorabilia"	Reznor Robin Finck Beavan Chris Vrenna Pollack John van Eaton "Saccharide and his friend"	7:21
6.	"Closer (Internal)"	Pecker Kennedy Scott Humphrey John "Geetus" Aguto Paul Decarli Eric Claudiex	4:15
7.	"March of the Fuckheads"	Adrian Sherwood	4:43
8.	"Closer (Further Away)"	Kennedy Humphrey Aguto Decarli Claudiex	5:45
9.	"Closer"	Reznor Flood	vi:26

US cassette

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

Side A

No.	Title	Contributors	Length
1.	"Closer"	Reznor Flood	6:25

Side B

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

Britain CD

• Island Records CID 596 854 059–two (Disc ane)
• Island Records CIDX 596 854 061–2 (Disc ii)

Disc 1: Further Away

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Closer"	6:26
2.	"Closer (Deviation)"	half-dozen:15
3.	"Closer (Farther Away)"	5:45
iv.	"Closer (Precursor)"	7:sixteen
5.	"Closer (Internal)"	4:15

Disc 2: Closer to God

No.	Championship	Length
1.	"Closer to God"	v:05
two.	"Heresy (Bullheaded)"	5:32
iii.	"Memorabilia"	seven:21
4.	"March of the Fuckheads"	iv:43

U.K. 12-inch vinyl – Function 1: Further Abroad

• Island Records 12IS 596 854 059–1 – United kingdom 12-inch vinyl 1

Side A

No.	Championship	Length
1.	"Closer (Deviation)"
two.	"Closer (Further Abroad)"
3.	"Closer"

Side B

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

Great britain 12-inch vinyl – Office two: Closer to God

• Island Records 12ISX 596 854 061–1 – United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland 12-inch vinyl ii

Side A

No.	Title	Length
ane.	"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 have the aforementioned track listing as the U.S. CD release.

Personnel [ edit ]

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

Charts [ edit ]

Comprehend versions [ edit ]

• "Closer" has been covered by many musical acts, including MGMT, Claret on the Trip the light fantastic toe Floor, Richard Cheese and Lounge Against the Automobile, Eric Gorfain, Maroon 5, Maxwell, The Aviary Street Spankers, Request 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 "Firm of Balloons/Drinking glass Tabular array Girls."
• "Weird Al" Yankovic has paid tribute to "Closer" twice: in "The Alternative Polka" on his album Bad Pilus Solar day , a section of the song was used in which the word "fuck" is replaced with a cartoon sound effects. "Germs" on his Running with Pair of scissors anthology 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 Annal. ^[47]
• In 1995, the Australian novelty human activity Nine Inch Richards covered the vocal under the title "Closer To Hogs". Sung in a southern drawl, information technology combined Trent Reznor's sexually charged lyrics with barnyard animal samples, humorously implying that the vocal is well-nigh animality. 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 vocal as office 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'southward ii has been covered by British rock Request Alexandria.
• In 2016, singer-songwriter Father John Misty covered the vocal alive in Chicago during ii separate performances. ^[l]
• Boyfriend Interscope act Limp Bizkit parodied ^[51] "Closer" (as well "The Perfect Drug" and "Fire") in their song "Hot Dog". The chorus goes, "You wanna fuck me like an fauna, You'd like to burn me on the within, You like to think that I'1000 a perfect drug, But know that nothing you exercise volition bring yous 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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• Huxley, Martin (September 1997). Nine Inch Nails: Cocky Destruct . St. Martin'southward Printing. ISBN 0-312-15612-10 – via the Internet Archive.
• Vernallis, Carol (2004). Experiencing Music Video: Aesthetics and Cultural Context. New York: Columbia University Printing. ISBN 0-231-11798-one .

External links [ edit ]

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

Who Sings I Wanna Fuck U Like an Animal

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