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Song by Nine Inch Nails

1994 unmarried by 9 Inch Nails

"Closer"
United states of america CD unmarried cover
Unmarried by Nine Inch Nails
from the anthology The Downward Screw
B-side	"March of the Fuckheads" "Memorabilia"
Released	May 30, 1994 (1994-05-30)
Studio	Le Pig (Los Angeles) The Tape Establish (Los Angeles) A&M Studios (Los Angeles)
Genre	Industrial rock alternative rock
Length	six:15
Label	Nothing TVT Interscope Atlantic
Songwriter(s)	Trent Reznor
Producer(due south)	Flood Trent Reznor
Ix 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 ten (1995)
Sound sample
"Closer" file aid
Music video
"Closer" (Managing director'southward Cutting) on YouTube

"Closer" is a song by American industrial stone band Nine Inch Nails, released equally the second unmarried on their second studio album, The Downward Spiral (1994). Released on May 30, 1994, it is considered one of Nine Inch Nails' signature songs and remains their nigh popular vocal. Well-nigh 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 also released equally a separate promotional single for club-play). ^{[1] [2] [3]} The single is the ninth official Nine Inch Nails release, making it "Halo 9" in the band'south official Halo numbering system.

A promotional unmarried provided past the label to radio stations included both long and short song-censored (i.e. silenced profanity) versions. ^[4] Although the song addresses themes such as self-hatred and obsession, its sexually aggressive chorus led to widespread misinterpretation of the song as an anthem of lust, which helped information technology become Nine Inch Nails' most successful unmarried up to that time and cemented Trent Reznor's status every bit an industrial stone icon. Commercially, "Closer" reached No. 41 on the United states Billboard Hot 100, No. 25 on the UK Singles Nautical chart, and No. 3 on the Australian Singles 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 stone ^{[v] [6] [7] [eight] [9]} and culling rock. ^{[10] [xi] [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 drum machine. The samples were produced using two Akai S1100 samplers, each with an expander, essentially making up four samplers. The samples were and then combined with beats produced by a Roland R-lxx drum machine. ^[16] The production features sound furnishings such as a bass squelch, synth echo, and feedback growl. ^[17] Radio edits of "Closer" were created by muting the vocal rail for the elapsing of each deleted obscenity. ^[viii]

Lyrically, "Closer" is a vocal about cocky-hatred and obsession; to Reznor's dismay, the song was widely misinterpreted every bit a lust anthem due to its chorus, which famously includes the lines "I wanna fuck you similar an animal / I wanna feel you from the inside". ^[18] In 2003, VH1 ranked the song at No. 93 in its countdown of the "100 Greatest Songs of the Past 25 Years." The song was ranked at No. ii on AOL'south "69 Sexiest Songs of All Time" due to the explicit frankness of the chorus. ^[19] Mötley Crüe drummer Tommy Lee, said of the vocal, "Come on dude: 'I wanna fuck y'all similar an brute'? That's the all-time fuck vocal. Those are pure fuck beats—Trent Reznor knew what he was doing. You can fuck to it, yous can dance to it and you lot can pause shit to it." ^[twenty]

Although in that location 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 too released as a promotional single separate from "Closer", mainly intended for club-play. ^[one]

Reception [ edit ]

"Closer" had some radio airplay before information technology was released as a unmarried. This factor increased within weeks, leading Interscope to release the song as a single in May 1994. When information technology premiered, the single charted on several US Billboard magazine music listings. Debuting near the bottom spot of the Billboard Hot 100, it barely missed the peak forty, peaking at No. 41. ^[21] It climbed to No. 11 on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks nautical chart, ^[22] and also went on to reach No. 35 on the Billboard Album Rock Tracks chart and No. 29 on the Billboard Hot Trip the light fantastic toe Music/Maxi-Singles Sales chart. ^[23] "Closer" was the band's first crossover hit and remains their almost popular song to date.

The single was successful in several other countries besides. 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 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 peak of No. v on the Canadian Singles Chart in February 2002. ^[26] Information technology also did non chart in Denmark until 2007, when it reached No. 12 in July. ^[27] In the Britain, the unmarried reached No. 25. ^[28]

The same "Closer to God" version of the vocal charted at No. 29 on the Billboard Dance Music/Order Play Singles. ^[29]

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

Music video [ edit ]

1 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 twelvemonth. Information technology was cut down from its original length to four:36. The video was pop and helped bolster the success of the band. Ready 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 center connected to some sort of device; the beat of the heart corresponds to the beat of the vocal ^[31]
• A niggling girl lounging on a chair
• A nude, bald woman with a crucifix mask.
• A monkey, scared, panicked, tied to a cross. ^[32]
• A severed pig's head spinning on some type of machine. ^[33]
• A diagram of the vulva/vagina.
• Reznor wearing various fetish gear, such as an South&1000 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 besides scenes of Reznor being diddled back by a current of air machine while wearing aviator goggles. Marking has stated:

Nosotros made prints, and I personally spent a couple of days dragging them around the parking lot and spraying droplets shellac and holding lighters under them. We were just making it for art's sake, and YouTube didn't exist then, and then it was a pretty ballsy and extravagant thing for Trent to practise. But MTV liked it, so that started a long negotiation of how we can get it on the air. I want to go on record about the monkey: That monkey was non in whatsoever danger even though he appears to be in distress. The monkey was just munching on $.25 of banana and enjoying himself. We had an ASPCA person on the set. It wasn't harmed, and actually got paid more some of the crew. ^[34]

These images were inspired by the work of Joel-Peter Witkin, ^[32] as well every bit by the Brothers Quay's blithe curt film Street of Crocodiles . ^[35] For the television version, sure removed scenes were replaced with a title carte that read "Scene Missing," and the instances of the give-and-take fuck existence edited out were accompanied past a finish in the video move, making it appear every bit if the end was a issue of lacking film (this was supposedly done to brand sure the flow of the vocal was not affected). ^[36] According to Romanek, the video was filmed using "a slightly out of date film stock but it was still a contemporary motion picture stock."

They had stopped making it three years before and we found some of it. All the new color pic stocks have this T-Grain, like petty Ts that are interlocking. The motion-picture show stock nosotros used had the original sometime granular grain. The new stocks are only really modern looking, actually sharp, really contrasty, very fine grain. We didn't want that. Usually you don't desire to utilize that kind of stock because the colors will exist off. It does accept a shelf life but in this case 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 TV's music video show Hot Rocks in 1994. In mid-2002, the unedited version aired on MTV2 every bit office 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 No. i 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 vocal sounded better to me, seeing it with the video. And information technology's my song." ^[39]

The unedited video is included in Closure , The Downward Spiral (DualDisc), Directors Label Book 4: The Work Of Director Marker Romanek and VEVO, and information technology is available for download from the United States iTunes Store nether the ring'due south folio. Behind-the-scenes footage with commentary by Romanek is included in Closure (DVD) and Directors Label. It is besides 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 first half of the Cocky Destruct Bout) 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 done and 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 , 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 Merely Fourth dimension," a track from Pretty Detest Machine . 2 performances of this version of the vocal announced on Beside Y'all in Time .

Formats and rails listings [ edit ]

The version of "Closer" on the single is thirteen seconds longer than the album version; on the anthology, the piano melody at the end of the vocal is abruptly cutting off in club to segue into the side by side rails, "Ruiner". On the single, the piano and groundwork sounds of "Closer" are allowed to play out longer. ^[8]

In addition, the U.Due south. CD single contains five guest remixes of "Closer", a remix of its fellow 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'due south song "Memorabilia", from their 1982 EP Non End Ecstatic Dancing . The United kingdom single releases contain the aforementioned tracks split between two discs (each sold separately). A cassette single was issued in the U.South. and Commonwealth of 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 past the then-current lineup of the band).

The single's embrace artwork was done by 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
i.	"Closer to God"	Trent Reznor Sean Beavan Brian Pollack	5:05
2.	"Closer (Precursor)"	Coil Danny Hyde	7:16
3.	"Closer (Deviation)"	Jack Dangers Craig Silvey	6:15
4.	"Heresy (Bullheaded)"	Dave Ogilvie Anthony Valcic Joseph Bishara (misspelled as "Bisara")	5:32
v.	"Memorabilia"	Reznor Robin Finck Beavan Chris Vrenna Pollack John van Eaton "Carbohydrate and his friend"	vii:21
6.	"Closer (Internal)"	Beak Kennedy Scott Humphrey John "Geetus" Aguto Paul Decarli Eric Claudiex	4:15
7.	"March of the Fuckheads"	Adrian Sherwood	four:43
8.	"Closer (Further Away)"	Kennedy Humphrey Aguto Decarli Claudiex	5:45
9.	"Closer"	Reznor Flood	6:26

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 (Alive)"	Reznor Finck Vrenna Danny Lohner James Woolley	three:12

United kingdom CD

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

Disc 1: Further Away

No.	Championship	Length
1.	"Closer"	6:26
2.	"Closer (Departure)"	6:fifteen
3.	"Closer (Further Away)"	five:45
4.	"Closer (Forerunner)"	seven:16
5.	"Closer (Internal)"	4:15

Disc two: Closer to God

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

U.Thou. 12-inch vinyl – Part i: Farther Away

• Island Records 12IS 596 854 059–one – Uk 12-inch vinyl 1

Side A

No.	Championship	Length
1.	"Closer (Difference)"
ii.	"Closer (Farther Away)"
iii.	"Closer"

Side B

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

United kingdom 12-inch vinyl – Part 2: Closer to God

• Isle Records 12ISX 596 854 061–i – Britain 12-inch vinyl two

Side A

No.	Title	Length
1.	"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 have the same 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 – pulsate samples
• Flood – special howdy-hat programming

Charts [ edit ]

Cover versions [ edit ]

• "Closer" has been covered past many musical acts, including MGMT, Blood on the Dance Floor, Richard Cheese and Lounge Against the Car, Eric Gorfain, Maroon 5, Maxwell, The Asylum Street Spankers, Asking Alexandria, Rosetta Stone, In This Moment and Japanese Voyeurs.
• 30 Seconds to Mars uses samples from "Closer" when they perform "The Fantasy."
• Toronto-based Culling R&B act The Weeknd samples "Closer" in the vocal "Firm of Balloons/Drinking glass Table Girls."
• "Weird Al" Yankovic has paid tribute to "Closer" twice: in "The Alternative Polka" on his anthology Bad Hair Day , a department of the song was used in which the word "fuck" is replaced with a drawing sound furnishings. "Germs" on his Running with Pair of scissors album is a style parody of several Nine Inch Nails songs. ^{[45] [46]}
• The Asylum Street Spankers occasionally perform a bluegrass version, available at the Alive Music Archive. ^[47]
• In 1995, the Australian novelty human action 9 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 creature samples, humorously implying that the vocal is about animality. A video clip of the parody ^[48] was taken at the Sydney Regal Easter Show. This unmarried peaked at No. 51 in Australia. ^[49]
• In 2008, Sy Smith performed the song every bit part of her "Conflict Tour". In August 2010, Smith performed the vocal once more at "Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Heights Plaza".
• In 2014, from the compilation album in the Punk Goes 90'south 2 has been covered by British stone Asking Alexandria.
• In 2016, vocaliser-songwriter Father John Misty covered the song live in Chicago during two separate performances. ^[50]
• Boyfriend Interscope act Limp Bizkit parodied ^[51] "Closer" (likewise "The Perfect Drug" and "Fire") in their song "Hot Domestic dog". The chorus goes, "You wanna fuck me like an animal, You'd like to fire me on the within, Yous like to recall that I'thousand a perfect drug, Just know that nix yous do will bring you lot 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). 9 Inch Nails: Self Destruct . St. Martin's Press. ISBN 0-312-15612-X – via the Internet 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 nine at NINCollector
• Closer to God at Discogs (list of releases)

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