As promised last week, here’s a very different “best of Nine Inch Nails” mix. The inspiration here was a comment I remember Trent Reznor making regarding the song “Only,” which is a great big bass-slappin’ monster of a dance song–he said something to the effect that he had to work really hard to overcome being embarrassed about releasing a disco song. I instantly thought, “But you’ve recorded TONS of them! And they’re GOOD!” So here’s a collection of Trent at his toe-tapping, head-nodding, floor-filling, ass-shaking best. (Titular parentheses courtesy of Matthew Perpetua.)
Let’s Go Dancing (On the Backs of the Bruised): Nine Inch Nails Dance Music
The Hand That Feeds (DFA Remix) / Head Like a Hole / Only / The Perfect Drug / Heresy / The Hand That Feeds / Sin / Closer / Ruiner / Discipline / Complication / Down In It / God Given / Head Like a Hole (Opal) / Ringfinger / Let’s Hear It for Nine Inch Nails
Originally I’d planned on including either more or perhaps different examples of his groove-oriented work–I was thinking of slower almost-funk songs like “Into the Void,” “Where Is Everybody?”, “The Only Time,” “The Big Comedown,” “Capital G” and so on–but I couldn’t figure how to make it all work together, so I dropped that stuff with the exception of “Closer” (because, c’mon, it’s “Closer”). Also, I could have included a lot of remixes, but I decided to stick with internally produced work, so the only non-Trent-produced song on here is the DFA remix of “The Hand That Feeds” (because, c’mon, it’s the DFA).
I hope you like this side of Nine Inch Nails as much as these folks did!
Clips of Dance Party USA that fail to show what “Princess” is wearing don’t count.
Well, you know the purple teardrop is there, and that’s all that matters.
Proving Trent Reznor’s dance-a-bility: Devo covered “Head Like a Hole” in the ’90’s.
“I’d rather die than give you control.” (or Adolf Hitler, Quentin Tarantino, Eli Roth, and Trent Reznor walk into a blog)
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