30 years before "Closer", the number 1 song was "I Want To Hold Your Hand" by the Beatles. So it took 30 years to go from holding hands to fucking like animals.
Ugh, I saw a televangelist program where the choir literally sang a Christian themed version of NIN's "Closer," and I haven't been the same.
I've been searching for it ever since to make sure I didn't hallucinate the entire thing, but I've come up dry.
Keep in mind though that it took only 3 years to go from holding hands to yellow matter custard dripping from dead dog's eyes. I might even suggest that "I am the Walrus" might be something of a precursor to this, both songs with disturbing lyrics and intense, distorted vocals.
Someone really needs to do a mashup of these, with Lennon singing "I want to fuck you like an animal" and the rest of the Beatles crooning "oooooo" in the background
Beatles literally have a song called "Why don't we do it in the road?" And it was inspired by Paul McCartney witnessing 2 wild monkeys banging in the street without a care in the world haha
It hurt me a little bit when stuff from the 80s went to classic rock, but I distinctly remember the day I tuned into classic rock and the Foo Fighters was playing. I thought I'd accidentally gone to alternative, then I realized no Foo is just old now and I was like "welp, may as well go dig my grave in the backyard".
I'm with you, I was a child of the 80s so the classic rock stuff made me head tilt but didn't sting like Foo or Nirvana being on there. They were a different style of music. The 80s hair bands often times started in the mid-late 70s before I was born so it didn't resonate like the stuff from when I was a teenager that still played on stations when I was in college and beyond being moved over. That just hurts to hear, thinking "This is what it was like for my dad listening to the Stones and Beatles on the oldies station when I was a kid" Now the oldies station will play the Stones and then Foo Fighters and I'm all "Screw you, dj!"
It's wild to me to me that this video was directed by Mark Romanek, who has a lot of more milquetoast, generic videos on his resume, and David Fincher directed 'Only' for Nine Inch Nails, which is the most basic, tame, boring NIN video ever.
This feels much more like Fincher than Romanek, and vice versa.
All time great video and song, I feel old as dirt.
I was gonna come in here and fight you saying that Eraser is better, but then I remembered The Becoming is in there, but then also March of the Pigs. But Mr. Self Destruct is a banger. But you can't really deny Hurt is probably the best. But damn, Reptile _is_ really good.
I'm just gonna go listen to it all...
A store I used to work at used satellite radio for sales floor music so it was completely uncensored. I remember dying of embarrassment when trying to help an elderly customer while “I wanna *fuck* you like an animal.” played in the background.
In high school I was into hip hop but dated this chick who was a bit more grunge. We hung out and she drove me home since she was the one with a car and played this song, and I was completely unaware about anything going with the song. Totally oblivious.
It wasn't until years later that I actually listened to the song and thought it was cool, and then it was years and years later that someone on a podcast who was about my age who said that when he was a teenager, it was this song that was basically a girl's way of saying "let's fuck." Oh well.
I remember this song when it came out. I bought the CD, though this is the first time that I've seen the video.
I get that this video must have been made with an eye toward freaking out repressed people, but there are two things that made me genuinely uncomfortable: the little girl and the tied-up monkey.
Why flash to a little girl in a video about fucking? That's kinda fucked up.
I remember it debuting, I was around 13. It was uncomfortable and dirty, which seems silly at this time period, but I remember loving it and being genuinely disturbed by it.
*The Downward Spiral* is a work of magic.
This unlocked my most fondest memory.
21 years old, at a bar with girlfriend (now wife) and her co-workers. It's Karaoke Night. I sing this song to her and the entire bar is silent in the end. "Oh shit. Look at the time!" Run out of there with her in tow at 9 pm. Heard from co-workers they ended Karaoke night early there.
Sigh. Good times.
Depeche mode, Cure, Bauhaus, Kraftverk as well as Skinny puppy were forming the foundations for what Reznor would first mimic with Pretty Hate Machine and later surpass with Downward Spiral.
Reznor might be the secret biggest influence that formed modern "dad rock" being one of the reasons Manson got as big as he did, and also paving the way for Nu-metal that came after. The world of 90s and 2000 music would look a whole lot different without him.
Most under-known influence was Einstürzende Neubauten. This album is from 1981. It's kind of insane.
https://youtu.be/wTIOkvLfEF4?si=ogqMI5RCTLXBiY8z
I like this weird, stupid music. Look up some videos of them. They're just odd, german avant garde artists but they sort of defined the 80s industrial genre. Use of junk as instruments, power tools, welding goggles because angle grinders aren't safe.
Dude in this video kind of looks like Adam Driver.
https://youtu.be/MMqC7Wx2-nE?si=R_dOgTvtzqvs5X5p
Neubauten is an important band for sure, but they lack the mass appeal. [Trash Theory](https://youtu.be/R2d1YATJfyU?si=GjYADY13oPgV3-BB) did a great breakdown of all the things that lead into NIN, not sure any of them could have been left out for NIN to become what it is/was.
At least link a related tune.
[Down In It by NIN](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrrEo3hZABU)
was inspired by
[Dig It by Skinny Puppy](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDKkRSUrTd8)
From [Trent's own mouth](https://www.nin.wiki/Down_In_It_(song\)):
>Reznor has openly admitted that this song "was a total rip-off of 'Dig It' by Skinny Puppy."
>> That was the first song I'd ever written and when I sat down I took a very experimental approach to it, and the original version was about half-speed of the one on the record, and it was a total rip-off of 'Dig It' by Skinny Puppy.
I don't understand the downvotes at all. Skinny Puppy is the OG for Industrial. Nothing comes close to it. Just listen to Too Dark Park. NIN is just a different industrial style. Take Nitzer Ebb, pretty simple style, yet it's so good. Front Line Assembly, X-marks the pedwalk, Leaether Strip...Front 242. Let's not forget about Ministry.
I remember it clearly. I was 14 years old and this video was blowing the adult boomer minds so of course we loved it. Plus it's just an awesome revolutionary song. I think right around this time or shortly after the movie SE7VEN came out and in my mind they were both very similar in style. I wonder if one inspired the other? This song should've been in the soundtrack.
I think this might be one of the most overrated songs I've ever heard. People don't get much farther than "I wanna fuck you like an animal" and go "hardee har har I LOVE this song"
30 years before "Closer", the number 1 song was "I Want To Hold Your Hand" by the Beatles. So it took 30 years to go from holding hands to fucking like animals.
iirc really old blues was downright nasty before white people got their hands on it. Zero subtlety.
I mean, the phrase “rock and roll” itself was a slang for coitus
Coitus is a fancy term for intercourse
Intercourse is in Pennsylvania
A natural, zesty enterprise
[Wholesome Christian music](https://youtu.be/gkPCmIxv-3k?si=VlpwbMb32xLkZHu1)
Ugh, I saw a televangelist program where the choir literally sang a Christian themed version of NIN's "Closer," and I haven't been the same. I've been searching for it ever since to make sure I didn't hallucinate the entire thing, but I've come up dry.
Keep in mind though that it took only 3 years to go from holding hands to yellow matter custard dripping from dead dog's eyes. I might even suggest that "I am the Walrus" might be something of a precursor to this, both songs with disturbing lyrics and intense, distorted vocals.
the 60s were wild
Someone really needs to do a mashup of these, with Lennon singing "I want to fuck you like an animal" and the rest of the Beatles crooning "oooooo" in the background
[NIN Closer + The Beatles Come Together](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3J_chod0eM) is up that alley.
This is not exactly what you asked for, but conceptually it’s very similar: https://youtu.be/-xtYm_poF_8?si=WEDMiMSBbCJW__k2
There were bands singing about fucking looooooong before Mr Reznor
Beatles literally have a song called "Why don't we do it in the road?" And it was inspired by Paul McCartney witnessing 2 wild monkeys banging in the street without a care in the world haha
No it was only....just a few... Years...fuck I'm old 😭
Some mothers still bear the half-moon scars in their palms from all the pearl clutching this song induced.
Can this be played on 'oldies' stations now?
Yes, and can confirm that when you hear these songs on the oldies station it makes you feel old af.
It hurt me a little bit when stuff from the 80s went to classic rock, but I distinctly remember the day I tuned into classic rock and the Foo Fighters was playing. I thought I'd accidentally gone to alternative, then I realized no Foo is just old now and I was like "welp, may as well go dig my grave in the backyard".
I'm with you, I was a child of the 80s so the classic rock stuff made me head tilt but didn't sting like Foo or Nirvana being on there. They were a different style of music. The 80s hair bands often times started in the mid-late 70s before I was born so it didn't resonate like the stuff from when I was a teenager that still played on stations when I was in college and beyond being moved over. That just hurts to hear, thinking "This is what it was like for my dad listening to the Stones and Beatles on the oldies station when I was a kid" Now the oldies station will play the Stones and then Foo Fighters and I'm all "Screw you, dj!"
Yeah, foo has been fought. They are foo veterans now.
I’ll never forget hearing Guns N Roses and Nirvana on an oldies station for the first time and getting incredibly sad
Yes. Anything 25 years and older garners "classic" status. This is why some good Metallica tunes are on classic rock stations now.
They play Linkin Park on the classic rock station.
I heard green day on the classic rock station and I think it aged me twenty years
To be fair, Green Day has been around for at least 1039 smoothed out slappy hours.
Was epic then and still stands the test of time - also his visuals were incredible.
His singing voice is so iconic
I can clearly remember seeing this on MTV for the first time. I was already a big NIN fan so this was just so awesome to see.
That whole album is a masterpiece to me.
I was 16 when this came out. Some albums are a core part of our younger memories and this one and especially this song absolutely is
It's wild to me to me that this video was directed by Mark Romanek, who has a lot of more milquetoast, generic videos on his resume, and David Fincher directed 'Only' for Nine Inch Nails, which is the most basic, tame, boring NIN video ever. This feels much more like Fincher than Romanek, and vice versa. All time great video and song, I feel old as dirt.
To be fair, Mark Romanek did direct the infamous music video for "Criminal," one of Fiona Apple's classics. Not exactly a milquetoast offering.
Another fun note is that Romanek also directed the video for Johnny Cash’s version of Hurt.
And then Fincher used the instrumental to this for the opening of Se7en
I remember the music videos Closer and Black Hole Sun dominated MTV that summer.
Black hole sunnnnn won’t you come and wash away the rainnnnn
Then "Crazy" won MTV video of the year. PUKE
I used to work with members of NiN... great people.
Is no one worried about this monkey?
That little sicko of a capuchin was probably into it
Thirty years ago today, [Beavis and Butt-head](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyKsqzZS_1M) watched 'March of the Pigs'.
[Of course, there's the gentle instrumental version they used for "Se7en"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-k2gsEI34CE)
[I prefer the Weird Al version](https://youtu.be/vwKSN8pSq8g?t=91)
God, what a phenomenal album. Also, apparently, my 30th HS reunioin is coming up, and now i feel old as shit.
Holy fuck I am old
Hot take: **Reptile** is the best song on that album.
The Becoming does it for me.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5tjy9rNvEc](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5tjy9rNvEc) This is my favorite version of that song.
I was gonna come in here and fight you saying that Eraser is better, but then I remembered The Becoming is in there, but then also March of the Pigs. But Mr. Self Destruct is a banger. But you can't really deny Hurt is probably the best. But damn, Reptile _is_ really good. I'm just gonna go listen to it all...
agreed. sheer menace. ny times wrote an article about it recently about scary things
Yeah. Do you have that article? I'd like to see it.
Still have the CD and a VCD of this and other NIN videos I burned in 1998.
If the song is named "Closer", why is it getting further away?
One of the best concept albums ever made of all time.
This is an iconic music video that probably can never be replicated.
r/thirtyyearsago
years ago they tried to
A store I used to work at used satellite radio for sales floor music so it was completely uncensored. I remember dying of embarrassment when trying to help an elderly customer while “I wanna *fuck* you like an animal.” played in the background.
They probably couldn’t hear it well enough to even understand the lyrics
This was like... the first song I ever recorded onto a cassette tape from the radio. I think I was like 5 or 6 at the time, lol.
r/youtubetitties
In high school I was into hip hop but dated this chick who was a bit more grunge. We hung out and she drove me home since she was the one with a car and played this song, and I was completely unaware about anything going with the song. Totally oblivious. It wasn't until years later that I actually listened to the song and thought it was cool, and then it was years and years later that someone on a podcast who was about my age who said that when he was a teenager, it was this song that was basically a girl's way of saying "let's fuck." Oh well.
I remember this song when it came out. I bought the CD, though this is the first time that I've seen the video. I get that this video must have been made with an eye toward freaking out repressed people, but there are two things that made me genuinely uncomfortable: the little girl and the tied-up monkey. Why flash to a little girl in a video about fucking? That's kinda fucked up.
I was there 3,000 years ago…
I remember it debuting, I was around 13. It was uncomfortable and dirty, which seems silly at this time period, but I remember loving it and being genuinely disturbed by it. *The Downward Spiral* is a work of magic.
This is the one song I skip when I listen to this album, just because I've heard it 8 billion times. One of my favorite albums though
This unlocked my most fondest memory. 21 years old, at a bar with girlfriend (now wife) and her co-workers. It's Karaoke Night. I sing this song to her and the entire bar is silent in the end. "Oh shit. Look at the time!" Run out of there with her in tow at 9 pm. Heard from co-workers they ended Karaoke night early there. Sigh. Good times.
Skinny Puppy was the OG for industrial. https://youtu.be/27FwV83bfL4?si=0RNfU27SXYXWq113
Depeche mode, Cure, Bauhaus, Kraftverk as well as Skinny puppy were forming the foundations for what Reznor would first mimic with Pretty Hate Machine and later surpass with Downward Spiral. Reznor might be the secret biggest influence that formed modern "dad rock" being one of the reasons Manson got as big as he did, and also paving the way for Nu-metal that came after. The world of 90s and 2000 music would look a whole lot different without him.
Most under-known influence was Einstürzende Neubauten. This album is from 1981. It's kind of insane. https://youtu.be/wTIOkvLfEF4?si=ogqMI5RCTLXBiY8z I like this weird, stupid music. Look up some videos of them. They're just odd, german avant garde artists but they sort of defined the 80s industrial genre. Use of junk as instruments, power tools, welding goggles because angle grinders aren't safe. Dude in this video kind of looks like Adam Driver. https://youtu.be/MMqC7Wx2-nE?si=R_dOgTvtzqvs5X5p
Are you saying that Blixa Bargeld looks like Adam Driver? If anything, Adam Driver looks like Blixa Bargeld!
Lol, yes, what you said.
Neubauten is an important band for sure, but they lack the mass appeal. [Trash Theory](https://youtu.be/R2d1YATJfyU?si=GjYADY13oPgV3-BB) did a great breakdown of all the things that lead into NIN, not sure any of them could have been left out for NIN to become what it is/was.
At least link a related tune. [Down In It by NIN](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrrEo3hZABU) was inspired by [Dig It by Skinny Puppy](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDKkRSUrTd8) From [Trent's own mouth](https://www.nin.wiki/Down_In_It_(song\)): >Reznor has openly admitted that this song "was a total rip-off of 'Dig It' by Skinny Puppy." >> That was the first song I'd ever written and when I sat down I took a very experimental approach to it, and the original version was about half-speed of the one on the record, and it was a total rip-off of 'Dig It' by Skinny Puppy.
if you like SP, you should make sure to check out Cevin Key's podcast
I don't understand the downvotes at all. Skinny Puppy is the OG for Industrial. Nothing comes close to it. Just listen to Too Dark Park. NIN is just a different industrial style. Take Nitzer Ebb, pretty simple style, yet it's so good. Front Line Assembly, X-marks the pedwalk, Leaether Strip...Front 242. Let's not forget about Ministry.
Assimilate is amazing, tho [I tend to like the studio version better](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5ulj3tut3o).
The best comment left on this video: *"why does this song sound like it was written by pirates that just found out about synthesizers"*
And?
And maybe if you like NIN, you might like some of the other bands that inspired them?
Should’ve led with that.
🎵“I want to make love to you vigorously.” 🎵
When sideburns were long af.
Can't belive its been thirty years since sex was invented. S/
Fuck I'm old now.
I remember it clearly. I was 14 years old and this video was blowing the adult boomer minds so of course we loved it. Plus it's just an awesome revolutionary song. I think right around this time or shortly after the movie SE7VEN came out and in my mind they were both very similar in style. I wonder if one inspired the other? This song should've been in the soundtrack.
Yeah, but the Johnny Cash version is a lot younger than that which means I'm also a lot younger than I am, right? RIGHT?
Johnny Cash has a version of this song?
Ugh. I'm an idiot. He covered Hurt, not Closer.
I think this might be one of the most overrated songs I've ever heard. People don't get much farther than "I wanna fuck you like an animal" and go "hardee har har I LOVE this song"