Closer

“Closer” is one of Nine Inch Nails‘ more famous songs, and was released as Halo 9 (with different US and UK versions), the second single from their second studio album The Downward Spiral. The song samples the drum track from Iggy Pop’s 1977 single “Nightclubbing”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3OaMZojJRg The music video for “Closer”, directed by Mark Romanek, was inspired by a 21 minute long stop animation film called Street of Crocodiles, released in 1986.

Écriture

Trent Reznor

Production

Flood, Trent Reznor

Sample de

Nightclubbing — Iggy Pop · Take a Chance with Me — Roxy Music

Samplé par

Animal — Ph0ton · EXTREME SOUNDCLOWN MEGAMIX VI: The Finale — Gyrotron · ImSorry — Nicotine Nicole

Reprend

The Downward Spiral — Nine Inch Nails

Repris dans

Wanna New Drug — Greenskeepers · The Beginning of the End (ladytron) — Nine Inch Nails · Help Me — N.E.R.D.

Repris par

Closer — Palaye Royale · Closer to Hogs — Nine Inch Richards · Closer — Halocene

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