Samples In NIN Songs
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Nine Inch Nails has sampled numerous parts of songs, movies, and other audio into its songs. This page will attempt to catalog each usage.
1 Pretty Hate Machine
2 Head Like A Hole
3 Sin
5 Fixed
6 The Downward Spiral
7 Closer To God
8 Further Down the Spiral
9 The Perfect Drug
10 The Day The World Went Away
11 Things Falling Apart
12 With Teeth
13 Ghosts I-IV
14 The Fragile: Deviations 1
15.1 Purest Feeling
15.2 Live Samples
15.2.1 Pretty Hate Machine Tour
15.2.2 NIN 2017-2018
"Down In It" samples:
"Reality" by Gary Clail & Tackhead / "Stadium Rock" by The Barmy Army
"Mechanical Movements" by Keith LeBlanc
"Einstein" by Keith LeBlanc
"Head Like A Hole" samples:
"Samburu Warriors' initiation (Kenya)" performed by the Samburu Tribe of Kenya and recorded by David Fanshawe http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G08Wvtspmjo
"Sanctified" samples:
The film Midnight Express, the dialog that begins at about 3:20 and also the screaming that can be heard right before it segues into "Something I Can Never Have". This sample is not present on the version from 2010 remaster.
"Something I Can Never Have" samples:
The atmospheric keyboards from an unused This Mortal Coil session.
"Something I Can Never Have (Natural Born Killers Version)" samples:
A thunderclap (at the very beginning)
Nocturnal birds (during the fade off of the thunderclap)
A movie sample of the two main characters (Mickey and Mallory) arguing (just after the piano starts)
A rattlesnake (during the movie sample after the man speaks the second time)
Fire crackling and hissing (towards the end)
Native American chanting (just after the fire sounds)
"Sin" samples:
"Paid In Full" by Eric B. & Rakim, which samples the last few seconds of "Change The Beat" by Fab 5 Freddy (feat. Beside)
"Ringfinger" samples:
"Alphabet St." by Prince
"Had A Dad" by Jane's Addiction
Head Like A Hole
"Head Like A Hole (Copper)" samples:
"Body Language" by Queen
"Head Like A Hole (Opal)" samples:
"Tamborine" by Prince
"Release It" by Prince
"The Wrong Name and the Wrong Number" by Mark Stewart
Track 11 samples:
"Let's hear it for Nine Inch Nails— woo, they're good!" cheered by Heather "Princess" Day on an episode of Dance Party USA
"Get Down, Make Love" samples:
Moaning and breathing from Japanese pornography films
"We Will Rock You" by Queen
The intro is an extract from 1962's The Cabinet Of Caligari
"Pinion" (live) samples:
"It's No Game" by David Bowie
"Physical" samples:
Recordings of Trent Reznor's dog Maise barking
"Ow!...fucker!" said by Sean Beavan after Maise bit him
"Help Me I Am In Hell" samples:
Ambient noises from The Empire Strikes Back (When the Tie Fighters are sending bombs into the asteroid where Han and Leia are hiding)
"Fist Fuck" samples:
"I could feel that way too... I bet you will someday" from the film Showboat
Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out by Dr. Timothy Leary
The Downward Spiral
"Mr. Self Destruct" samples:
Begins with a sample from the film THX 1138 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GysyU8sCdlM&hd=1
"Closer" samples:
"Nightclubbing" by Iggy Pop
"Take A Chance With Me" by Roxy Music
"The Becoming" samples:
Screams in the background from the film Robot Jox http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjRPiBGVFIE (starting at :33)
"I know who I am" from the film Angel Heart (backwards) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTC9Lt3hiWo&t=2m6s (starting at 2:06)
"Reptile" samples:
Intro machine sounds from the film Leviathan http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUk4bvrFY2A (at :13)
Looping female voice ("Kirk, help") from the film Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)
"The Downward Spiral" samples:
Watery noise at the beginning from the film Alien
"Ruiner" samples:
Pitched-up wind noises from the film The Elephant Man
"March Of The Pigs" samples:
Buried scream from the film Sorcerer
"Memorabilia" samples:
"What do your nipples look like?" taken from a phone conversation between Robin Finck and a female impersonator
Further Down the Spiral
"Self Destruction, Part Two" samples:
"Time" by David Bowie
"Self Destruction, Final" samples:
"Piggy (Nothing Can Stop Me Now)" samples:
"Put Your Love (In My Tender Care)" by The Fatback Band
"The Downward Spiral (The Bottom)" samples:
"First Dark Ride" by Coil vs. The Eskaton
"Heresy (Version)" samples:
"In Suburbia" and "Television Believers" from Aron Ranen's Religion In Suburbia
The Perfect Drug
"The Perfect Drug (Meat Beat Manifesto)" samples:
"Amen, Brother" by The Winstons
The Day The World Went Away
"Starfuckers, Inc." samples:
Fireworks and yelling at the end from "Shout It Out Loud" (from Alive II) by KISS
Things Falling Apart
"Metal" samples:
"UFO" by ESG
"M.E." by Gary Numan
"Starfuckers, Inc. (Version) - Adrian Sherwood" samples:
"Shout It Out Loud" (from Alive II) by KISS
With Teeth
"All The Love In The World" (The Definitive NIN - Deep Cuts version) samples:
The Twilight Zone episode "When The Sky Was Opened"
Ghosts I-IV
"11 Ghosts II" samples:
"Songe d'une nuit de sabbat" by Berlioz
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEqZkglTVYE (around 0:12 to 0:18)
"24 Ghosts III" samples:
"Get the door, get the door" from the film The Mothman Prophecies
"30 Ghosts IV" samples:
Saddam Hussein's Trial Verdict, on Nov. 5, 2006
The Fragile: Deviations 1
"Feeders" samples:
"This is it" and mechanical sounds from the film Real Genius
Purest Feeling
The film Angel Heart http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEUUS_kjI4k&hd=1 (until about :23)
"Maybe Just Once" samples:
The film Diner with Mickey Rourke in the opening dialogue
Live Samples
Pretty Hate Machine Tour
various set intros sample:
"Who do you think you're for?" from an unknown source
"Kill or be killed" from an unknown source
"I could fuck ??? right in front of you" from an unknown source
"I told you to stay out of this... give me the gun..." from an unknown source
"Hang around, I'll make a cocksucker out of you" from the film Tough Guys Don't Dance
"Suck" samples:
"I must stress the importance of total, I repeat, total sexual abstinence" from an unknown source
"Could I still excite you?" from an unknown source
"I've got the sun in my hands, man..." from the film The Trip
NIN 2017-2018
"The Great Destroyer" samples:
various Donald Trump speeches
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