So fucking happy this is back. The breakdown is: 00:13 The Drum Intro That God Wrote 00:39 Mic Stand Circle Pit 01:40 Its Gunna Be Like This Again 01:51 A New Beginning 02:06 This Drum Mic 02:16 This Keyboard 02:18 Microphone Malfunction 02:26 This Keyboard Again 02:31 Another Microphone 03:01 This Microphone Is Also Broken
Allegedly, he had two boxes of cornstarch on the rider. One was to get into and out of leather/vinyl pants, the other was for blacklight/ambience effects. There's a good backstage video where it's "time for cornstarch" and Robin finck walks over to the camera and whispers "I don't know why he makes us do this"
That actually happened to me lol. In France it was only brodcasted at night, I recorded every music video on my parents VCR while there were asleep. This is how I met NIN. "Oh my God who is that guy ? 😍"
You should see him perform live. The stagehands are incredible. Trashing gear is also a way to signal the tech that something is wrong. If they break a string or something, they smash the guitar to let the tech know they... need another guitar.
This came out when I was a junior in high school. Absolutely loved it. Was so fortunate that my father totally dug it too. He surprised me with concert tickets for this tour. Hard to believe that was like 25 years ago.
-30 years now Bro! UNREAL> Stepping back from the instant mosh pit this song created at events back then with Rez & a great group of talent. Music is still cutting-edge to this day.
Man when me and my friends first saw this in 94 it was mind blowing. I will forever be grateful that we had nine inch nails as the soundtrack to our high school years. There will Never be another like Trent Reznor.
NIN came along at the perfect time. Jane's Addiction had just broken up and a fearless new leader was needed, who wouldn't be afraid to break society norms. Nirvana was great, they had the Seattle scene, but NIN created their own scene, if you will; a much darker scene.
An interesting but little known NIN factoid relating to Jane's Addiction is on NIN's debut album, 1989's Pretty Hate Machine, they actually sampled Jane's Addiction & Prince for parts of the song RINGFINGER.
@@NoffisNoff I would say NIN took that little niche and made something quite different and more interesting, and certainly stands apart. Who else from that subgenre sounded anything like Reznor or his songwriting style? Fact is, none were nearly as talented. And I hung around a lot of these guys and they would admit it.
Trent admitted his first hit, DOWN IN IT, was a rip-off of DIG IT. No Puppy, maybe no NIN. I appreciate both acts for different reasons. Both offered soul, but where Ogre brought the catharsis, Trent brought the heartache.
I can't tell if Trent is haphazardly hitting the synth pad while walking away from the keyboard @ 2:24. "i'm here so I might as well do it" or if it's just frantic energy.
@@snorgisborg2 Did you not just watch the same video we all watched? This was obviously the only take they were gonna get out of Trent that day lol..... Source? anyone with at least one functioning eyeball and a pulse 🙄
For all of its esoteric imagery and production value-driven presentation, the video for Closer just doesn’t quite tap into the heart of our generation the same way March Of The Pigs does. This was so impactful to watch, Trent made being a rock star cool again after the grunge boom made everyone dress down in t-shirts and flannelette, and look at their shoes while playing for a few years.
2 styles of directing, I agree with all you said, this might be more representantive of that era, but Romanek's "closer" itself has a lot of value on it's own. I watched that video as a kid (2004) and it certainly made an impression in me, I didn't know any about NIN back then but I never saw anything like that on TV. The second time I knew about Nin was Ghosts, and that was a big shock (the same guy that did Closer did Ghosts? I have to check this guy out). I've been a fan since then.I really like Peter's works, both musical (Coil) and cinematographical (he directed this video and also directed Gave Up).
Oddly, I think this is the ONLY video recorded actually live with no edits, you can hear every drop of every mic, stand, him hitting the keyboard, etc. all live...sounds great.
I've literally seen this video HUNDREDS of times, and I've never seen that end bit with the hand over the camera lens and Trent getting hair and makeup touch up. I remember being in 10th or 11th grade and the teacher had left the classroom for a decent period of time, but I can't remember why...Someone turned on the TV and MTV was on, and this video came on. I already was madly in love/obsessed with Nin and loved this video, and the excitement of seeing it in school where it felt taboo and forbidden was exhilarating. Plus everyone looked to me, as the leading expert on all things goth/industrial as I was the first extreme edgy 90s goth in the area. Those that didn't know me were afraid of me, especially teachers. _I learned from another teacher that a group of teachers (That didn't know me at my school) had a meeting about me because they thought I was a CULT LEADER._ Hahaha This video was a peek at the man behind the curtain of the mysterious underground world I was privy too, shedding some insight into whatever my peers had thought thus far about my life/interests. All I have to say is THANK GODS I GRADUATED THE YEAR BEFORE THE TRAGIC EVENTS AT COLUMBINE.
I remember discovering NIN through my oldest brother when I was like 11-12, subsequently becoming obsessed with them, and I'm now heavily getting back into them after playing Quake Remastered. Such good music, man.
Still dope af. Still gets me hyped up. What a beautiful metamorphosis of sound and vision throughout the years-- I always loved the stuff I grew up with the most but the combination of presentation and image and art with such viseral, catchy, unique sounds and approach made my little teenage girl heart wanna absorb everything Trent Reznor played or produced. Probably one of the only artists I would drag my pneumonia riddled ass to on Halloween to see even though I thought it would probably kill me. But that was back in the salad days. Jesus Fuck I'm old lmao Cheers to the old grizzled bitches like me who still get down to this old folks music! ❤️
The perfect song of visceral delight..Ahhh...memories of mosh pits and bruises, beautiful and blue💙💙💙 When someone says T Reznor, I see this guy right here...
1:40: "Trent please try not to throw the microphones so hard. We only have six of them and they have to last the entire music video - through all the shots." Trent @ 2:17:
I just built 2 new 4 way speakers with pioneer 12 inch poly woofers, infinity mids and altec lansing tweeters, pioneer super tweeters denon amps, old school 31 band equalizer. Ear death.
This video brings me back to the late 90s. I finally got to see them in 2006 Portland Maine. Great show, good memories 🤓🤘this is one of the bands that influenced my interest in guitar. I still suck at it
I always laugh out loud when I watch this video. Probably has to do with my remembrance of the Beavis and Butthead commentary. Haha. Anyway, classic video. Thanks for posting.
Step right up, march, push Crawl right up on your knees Please greed feed (no time to hesitate) I want a little bit I want a piece of it I think he's losing it I want to watch it come down Don't like the look of it Don't like the taste of it Don't like the smell of it I want to watch it come down All the pigs are all lined up I give you all that you want Take the skin and peel it back Now doesn't that make you feel better? Shove it up inside, surprise, lies Stains like the blood on your teeth Bite, chew, suck (away the tender parts) I want to break it up I want to smash it up I want to fuck it up I want to watch it come down Maybe afraid of it Let's discredit it Let's pick away at it I want to watch it come down All the pigs are all lined up I give you all that you want Take the skin and peel it back Now doesn't that make you feel better? The pigs have won tonight Now they can all sleep soundly And everything is all right
Dude he was in a seriously dark place, probably one of the darkest and scariest tracks ever written in my opinion, I was on the edge of the car seat everytime it comes on...
Oh my god! Look at him! He looks like a freaking teenager! Hahahaha, Wow this is a total mind blow, I first saw NIͶ live back in the late 90s and I remember him looking like and adult hahaha Mind you, I was like 12 at the time... _Oh, And then when I was about 14 they changed laws so you couldn't see a decent concert unless you where like 16! I missed out on so much! ...Although I guess people that age these days miss out completely... So I can't really complain... Damn._
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So fucking happy this is back. The breakdown is:
00:13 The Drum Intro That God Wrote
00:39 Mic Stand Circle Pit
01:40 Its Gunna Be Like This Again
01:51 A New Beginning
02:06 This Drum Mic
02:16 This Keyboard
02:18 Microphone Malfunction
02:26 This Keyboard Again
02:31 Another Microphone
03:01 This Microphone Is Also Broken
this might be one of the best YT comments I've ever read.
Alternately, 1:51 could be "Mic Guy Like A Boss"
"These guys need to like practice more." - Butthead
Lmaooo
Remember that
Lol classic 🤣
🤣🤣
omg I remember that!!
Best drum intro ever
YES
absolutely!!!
Breathe by ministry is cool too
badass
@@DayInDaLife yeah that’s what I meant
This is the same man who made the soundtrack for Soul
sobriety is one hell of a drug
all jokes aside Trent seems way happier and I'm glad he's been doing good
No fuckin way!!
@@samdeck9246 right no fucking way
True genius can do it all
And David Fincher’s film either!
All these years and I still wish I owned those leather pants, those are so awesome
They are vinyl pants they are too shiny to be leather.
@@MikeMike-cz3pi that makes sense tbh, they do also seem too flexible/stretchy for leather
Allegedly, he had two boxes of cornstarch on the rider. One was to get into and out of leather/vinyl pants, the other was for blacklight/ambience effects. There's a good backstage video where it's "time for cornstarch" and Robin finck walks over to the camera and whispers "I don't know why he makes us do this"
trents leather pants look like johnny silverhand in cyberpunk 2077
@@Neklassica You mean the other way around
And then everyone, including I, immediately fell literally in love with this bastard
I remember first time I saw this was on Beavis and Butthead. It was so raw and angry.
That actually happened to me lol. In France it was only brodcasted at night, I recorded every music video on my parents VCR while there were asleep. This is how I met NIN.
"Oh my God who is that guy ? 😍"
Same. I was like 12-13 years old when I first saw this upload... AOL dial up on a bright red Mac ... I’m 35 now and still kinda 💕. Bawha. 🤣🤦🏽♀️😳.
This video seems to disappear from RUclips and then reappear
Yeah been looking for this for a while. While the other ones great. Doesn’t have the same scattered charm as this one
It's an echo, nice.
Because they want to keep you from it.
All the pigs are alled nined up...
This is the one
Trent is GOD
true hero’s that stage handler.
Yeah, "Reset-reset-reset!"
Lol truly made me laugh 😂 and I don’t laugh easily
You should see him perform live. The stagehands are incredible. Trashing gear is also a way to signal the tech that something is wrong. If they break a string or something, they smash the guitar to let the tech know they... need another guitar.
He recruited straight from Wimbledon
@@sidewalkshitter499 lmfao where do our ball boys keep disappearing to?
Ah, 90's rage...
I miss it so.
what, you haven't seen daughters go live?
It was the best
@@poisonfruit7357 Daughters are a great band if that's who you are referring to? (the Grindcore band?)
@@creekandseminole yeah, their latest record while touring are fucking sick, and the songs really remind me of NIN stuff
It’s not gone. It lives in our hearts. So fuck you! 😻
This came out when I was a junior in high school. Absolutely loved it. Was so fortunate that my father totally dug it too. He surprised me with concert tickets for this tour. Hard to believe that was like 25 years ago.
That’s cool. I saw NIN, and David Bowie, with my dad. We both had a great time!
im a junior in high school right now haha, nice hearing your story!
@@photondanceDad and I saw that tour as well...
-30 years now Bro! UNREAL>
Stepping back from the instant mosh pit this song created at events back then with Rez & a great group of talent.
Music is still cutting-edge to this day.
Man when me and my friends first saw this in 94 it was mind blowing. I will forever be grateful that we had nine inch nails as the soundtrack to our high school years. There will Never be another like Trent Reznor.
Maybe there will be only time can tell
Nine Inch Nails was very much part of the soundtrack to my high school life.
Yep...I was 17 in Fall 94.
Bout a NIN black rectangle sticker at a skater shop.
I had be the first at my HSchool with it
NIN came along at the perfect time. Jane's Addiction had just broken up and a fearless new leader was needed, who wouldn't be afraid to break society norms. Nirvana was great, they had the Seattle scene, but NIN created their own scene, if you will; a much darker scene.
An interesting but little known NIN factoid relating to Jane's Addiction is on NIN's debut album, 1989's Pretty Hate Machine, they actually sampled Jane's Addiction & Prince for parts of the song RINGFINGER.
"but NIN created their own scene", absolutly not =>Skinny puppy
@@NoffisNoff I would say NIN took that little niche and made something quite different and more interesting, and certainly stands apart. Who else from that subgenre sounded anything like Reznor or his songwriting style? Fact is, none were nearly as talented. And I hung around a lot of these guys and they would admit it.
Thank you gahdamm I’ve been looking for this!! You should be sainted for this! Bless!!!
Remember when music felt dangerous?
Not technically punk, but it sort of captures the spirit
Whole Lotta Red, by Playboy Carti.
@@lifeaxx8368 fr
@@lifeaxx8368 bruh 😭
Why we call it Industrial...LOL
Punk, except they know how to play and have interesting musical ideas, aka "not punk"
This is one of their best tracks
THIS is why you don't give Trent a shit ton of money and then DEMAND he produce you a video. 🤣
The hard slamming of the microphone gives me life.
I was 18 when this song came out. 18 the first time I went to a NIN concert. It has the same effect on me today.
The drummer had to make an executive decision and” start the tape.”
You can definitely feel the old school Skinny Puppy in this
Good call...ogre and cevin ftw
My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult as well ,
He toured with and learned a lot from Ministry.
Trent admitted his first hit, DOWN IN IT, was a rip-off of DIG IT. No Puppy, maybe no NIN.
I appreciate both acts for different reasons. Both offered soul, but where Ogre brought the catharsis, Trent brought the heartache.
That time signature is crazy AF!!!
I think it changes from 7/8 to 4/4 a couple times; I could be wrong though.
This album changed my world in '94. This video is still in my top ten of all time favs.
I feel so violent and pumped when I hear this song. Still awesome in 2020 as it was when it first came out.
top comment from the original deleted video: “eminem is a good drummer”
Lmfao
LOL!
@StraightOuttaTheTrashCan That explains the NIN reference in the censored version of My Name Is.
OAML
Not the hero we deserved, but the hero we needed. Thank you for the reupload
I just watched the interview with him about making this video, that talk makes it 100% more interesting to watch this!
I spent like 3 hours searching for this before and couldn’t find it anywhere and like magic here it is...
At 1:35 Trent Reznor invents the mic drop 20 years before its time.
Pretty sure the mic drop was around before 2014.
This is from '94 though
Jim Morrison was a good mic dropper too
@@SeanGundlach AHAAHAH!
@@SeanGundlach this guy really thought this video was from 2014
Much better than the album version. I cant imagine why this exact version isnt on the downward spiral.
It was the single version I had. Red cover, black cassette.
"We're Nine Inch Nails, thank you for coming, good night."
"okay dude...lets get this started..."
Beavis and Butthead, right?
@@ryan82scott BINGO
This was after he had already recorded an expensive and highly produced video.
Said fuck it, record it live on a white soundstage.
Was the other video released?
Never mind, found it!
@@tdolan500 kinda shitty, right?
This is an homage to Adam & the Antz 'Plastic Surgery' clip.
@@quxfoobar Yeah kinda wish I hadn’t have found it now
I can't tell if Trent is haphazardly hitting the synth pad while walking away from the keyboard @ 2:24. "i'm here so I might as well do it" or if it's just frantic energy.
11:11
@@frankrizzo5952 Did you get free brain surgery again?
@@TheWaynelds we all have..some know it..most don't
Kraftwerk used to make "errors" to show the show was live and not prerecordered
You can hear it when he hits the pad, so it was likely intended just to be like "fuck it, we're already mad and it'll sound good right here"
The whole video?! I've been looking for this for so long, thank youuuuu
No Problem, Im Just Here to make yall happy :)
@@waxtrax1234 doesn't it make you feel better?
A few years ago it disappeared from RUclips, but I guess it's back. Yayy ^^
@@waxtrax1234 finally. How long do you think before this one goes too?
Henry Ambrose it should never go, I won the copywrite thing so it should never get claimed. I would only remove if trent or the band asked
Cheers to all the out of work roadies in 2020
The drumming on this song! 🖤
One of the best music videos ever. I wonder how many takes they did.
One take.
@@goodtimes5023 source?
@@snorgisborg2 Did you not just watch the same video we all watched? This was obviously the only take they were gonna get out of Trent that day lol.....
Source? anyone with at least one functioning eyeball and a pulse 🙄
@@elbeetlebeasto you were there that day?
@@jasonking454 Did you eat paint chips as a child?
1994 this came out n i was only18 yrs old n now 2022 im 46 n im still listened 2 it!!#GENX#NIN
For all of its esoteric imagery and production value-driven presentation, the video for Closer just doesn’t quite tap into the heart of our generation the same way March Of The Pigs does. This was so impactful to watch, Trent made being a rock star cool again after the grunge boom made everyone dress down in t-shirts and flannelette, and look at their shoes while playing for a few years.
2 styles of directing, I agree with all you said, this might be more representantive of that era, but Romanek's "closer" itself has a lot of value on it's own. I watched that video as a kid (2004) and it certainly made an impression in me, I didn't know any about NIN back then but I never saw anything like that on TV. The second time I knew about Nin was Ghosts, and that was a big shock (the same guy that did Closer did Ghosts? I have to check this guy out). I've been a fan since then.I really like Peter's works, both musical (Coil) and cinematographical (he directed this video and also directed Gave Up).
one of my favorite vids to watch over and over back in the 90s
Oddly, I think this is the ONLY video recorded actually live with no edits, you can hear every drop of every mic, stand, him hitting the keyboard, etc. all live...sounds great.
1 9 9 4..
I was 17 in Aug94, Sr yr coming...
Obsessed with this song.
I introduced "TDWS" to my High School
How is this not considered the best music performance that has ever been created
I haven't seen this in a long time.
Thank you.
Bring back 1994
Love! It doesn't feel ANY BETTER!!
One of the mos5t awesome videos I will ever Frigging See! Fk, it's so good.
I need those pants
Same
Shinny pants( Beavis and Butthead).
Just by regular pants and get them shined.
I douche shine my pants. ruclips.net/video/lyKsqzZS_1M/видео.html
I just flashed back to being 14 and hearing this for the first time. ❤️
I've literally seen this video HUNDREDS of times, and I've never seen that end bit with the hand over the camera lens and Trent getting hair and makeup touch up.
I remember being in 10th or 11th grade and the teacher had left the classroom for a decent period of time, but I can't remember why...Someone turned on the TV and MTV was on, and this video came on. I already was madly in love/obsessed with Nin and loved this video, and the excitement of seeing it in school where it felt taboo and forbidden was exhilarating.
Plus everyone looked to me, as the leading expert on all things goth/industrial as I was the first extreme edgy 90s goth in the area. Those that didn't know me were afraid of me, especially teachers. _I learned from another teacher that a group of teachers (That didn't know me at my school) had a meeting about me because they thought I was a CULT LEADER._
Hahaha
This video was a peek at the man behind the curtain of the mysterious underground world I was privy too, shedding some insight into whatever my peers had thought thus far about my life/interests.
All I have to say is THANK GODS I GRADUATED THE YEAR BEFORE THE TRAGIC EVENTS AT COLUMBINE.
this song/video was awesome then and it is just as awesome now.
God those drums Greatest band around that time
I remember discovering NIN through my oldest brother when I was like 11-12, subsequently becoming obsessed with them, and I'm now heavily getting back into them after playing Quake Remastered.
Such good music, man.
Still dope af. Still gets me hyped up.
What a beautiful metamorphosis of sound and vision throughout the years-- I always loved the stuff I grew up with the most but the combination of presentation and image and art with such viseral, catchy, unique sounds and approach made my little teenage girl heart wanna absorb everything Trent Reznor played or produced. Probably one of the only artists I would drag my pneumonia riddled ass to on Halloween to see even though I thought it would probably kill me. But that was back in the salad days. Jesus Fuck I'm old lmao
Cheers to the old grizzled bitches like me who still get down to this old folks music! ❤️
All my years I've never seen a full version of this video. One of my favorites
Top5 vid of 90s.
My 2nd fav song off "Downward Spiral."
My fav, "A Warm Place."
hadnt seen this version of the video! love the vocal effects
Truly inspirational. Greatest musician ever.
Finally this video come back. I love it.
And this video alone will eternally show why I love this band the way that I do. NIN is life.
I like the drum track the most.
Danny trying to hide his laugh in the end always gets me.
The perfect song of visceral delight..Ahhh...memories of mosh pits and bruises, beautiful and blue💙💙💙 When someone says T Reznor, I see this guy right here...
Sooo happy this made it back onto youtube🖤 thank you
It's actually on the official NIN channel, but I always miss the "Start the tape.. Somebody?" and the glitched out end
Yes!
Start the fuckin tape somebody or you will feel the wrath of the Trent
This video DOES appear and dissapear from RUclips. It is AMAZING!
Aw yeah its back! Thanks for reuploading this vid! Love it!
Thank you for re-uploading this. I had to watch it Vimeo.
Damn I’m glad I was a teen in the 90’s
I wish I knew where Robin Finch got his jackets from? He always wore great leather jackets during this era !!
1:40: "Trent please try not to throw the microphones so hard. We only have six of them and they have to last the entire music video - through all the shots."
Trent @ 2:17:
🤣😂
This is the peak of 90's rock n' roll...maybe rock n' roll forever...ain't far from it...
Yes, it does make me feel better.
Those drums holy crap! I subbed to you btw
I'm loving these NIN videos
Thank for the video dude n.n
Awesoooome song 🤟
Back in the 90's
this is fucking awesome
Well doesnt it make you feel better?!
Brillant vid3o
I just built 2 new 4 way speakers with pioneer 12 inch poly woofers, infinity mids and altec lansing tweeters, pioneer super tweeters denon amps, old school 31 band equalizer. Ear death.
Cameraman is the real hero here...
Yay!!!! Looks what's back on RUclips!!!
This video brings me back to the late 90s. I finally got to see them in 2006 Portland Maine. Great show, good memories 🤓🤘this is one of the bands that influenced my interest in guitar. I still suck at it
I'd like to thank cocaine and Sleazy for making this video so viscerally timeless.
ITS FINALLY BACK!
I always laugh out loud when I watch this video. Probably has to do with my remembrance of the Beavis and Butthead commentary. Haha. Anyway, classic video. Thanks for posting.
Oh yes that’s back! Thank you
It’s back!!!
This reminds me to my crazy teenage years.
Step right up, march, push
Crawl right up on your knees
Please greed feed (no time to hesitate)
I want a little bit
I want a piece of it
I think he's losing it
I want to watch it come down
Don't like the look of it
Don't like the taste of it
Don't like the smell of it
I want to watch it come down
All the pigs are all lined up
I give you all that you want
Take the skin and peel it back
Now doesn't that make you feel better?
Shove it up inside, surprise, lies
Stains like the blood on your teeth
Bite, chew, suck (away the tender parts)
I want to break it up
I want to smash it up
I want to fuck it up
I want to watch it come down
Maybe afraid of it
Let's discredit it
Let's pick away at it
I want to watch it come down
All the pigs are all lined up
I give you all that you want
Take the skin and peel it back
Now doesn't that make you feel better?
The pigs have won tonight
Now they can all sleep soundly
And everything is all right
still shocks me... how someone could come up with this song and this video concept.... and that drum beat
Dude he was in a seriously dark place, probably one of the darkest and scariest tracks ever written in my opinion, I was on the edge of the car seat everytime it comes on...
@Beau Williams It made dark realities more evident, He was so fucked up during this era, that album is a Carl Jung quote.
Love this!
Love it
Great song
Peter Christopherson from COIL directed the video. Check it out, kids
ty for the reupload holy shit
Oh my god! Look at him! He looks like a freaking teenager! Hahahaha, Wow this is a total mind blow, I first saw NIͶ live back in the late 90s and I remember him looking like and adult hahaha
Mind you, I was like 12 at the time... _Oh, And then when I was about 14 they changed laws so you couldn't see a decent concert unless you where like 16! I missed out on so much! ...Although I guess people that age these days miss out completely... So I can't really complain... Damn._
ohhhh he looks so good in that outfit 😵💫
Mark Daniel Mason and Winston Mason Jr
The Mason Family are the ones who got me into this kinda music!
I have this on dvd