{{expand}}[[Nine Inch Nails]] has sampled numerous parts of songs, movies, and other audio into its songs. This page will attempt to catalog each usage.
==''[[Purest Feeling (halo)|Purest Feeling]]''==
"[[Down In It (song)#Down In It|Down In It]]" samples:
*The film ''Angel Heart'' http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEUUS_kjI4k&hd=1 (until about :23)
==''[[Pretty Hate Machine]]''==
"[[Down In It (song)|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 (song)|Head Like A Hole]]" samples:
*"Samburu Warriors' initiation (Kenya)" - East Africa Ceremonial & Folk Music performed by the Samburu Tribe of Kenya and recorded by David Fanshawe http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0f7u2rU_3AIG08Wvtspmjo
"[[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 |Something I Can Never Have (Natural Born Killers Version)]]" samples:
*A thunderclap (at the very beginning)
*Fire crackling and hissing (towards the end)
*Native American chanting (just after the fire sounds)
"[[Sin (song)|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)
*"Tamborine" by Prince
*"Release It" by Prince
*"The Wrong Name and the Wrong Number" by Mark Stewart[[Untitled_(from_Head_Like_A_Hole)|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''
*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 (song)|The Downward Spiral]]"samples:
*Watery noise at the beginning from the film ''Alien''
*Pitched-down strings from the "Twins" cue on the ''Dead Ringers'' score
"[[Ruiner]]" samples:
*"Beat Box" by Art of Noise
*Buried scream from the film ''Parents''
*Pitched-up elephant noises from the film ''The Elephant Man''
"[[March Of The Pigs (song)|March Of The Pigs]]" samples:
*Buried screams from the films ''Sorcerer'' and ''The Exorcist II: The Heretic''
==''[[Closer To God (halo)|Closer To God]]''==
"[[Memorabilia]]" samples:
*"What do your nipples look like?" taken from a phone conversation between [[Robin Finck]] and a female impersonator
==''[[Further Down the Spiral]]''==
"[[Mr. Self Destruct|Self Destruction, Part Two]]" samples:*"Time" by David Bowieand "[[Mr. Self Destruct|Self Destruction, Final]]" samplessample:
*"Time" by David Bowie
"[[Piggy (Nothing Can Stop Me Now)]]" samples:
*"Put Your Love (In My Tender Care)" by The Fatback Band
"[[The Downward Spiral (song)|The Downward Spiral (The Bottom)]]" samples:
*"First Dark Ride" by [[Coil]] vs. The Eskaton
"[[Heresy|Heresy (Version)]]" samples:
*"In Suburbia" and "Television Believers" from Aron Ranen's ''Religion In Suburbia''
==''[[The Fragile (halo)|The FragileQuake Soundtrack]]''=="[[Starfuckers, Inc. (song)|Starfuckers, Inc.Quake Theme]]" samples:*Fireworks and yelling at the end scream from "Shout It Out Loud" by Kiss (appears only on the version on ''[[The Day The World Went Away Downward Spiral (halosong)|The Day The World Went AwayDownward Spiral]]""[[Aftermath]]'' single)" samples:*"Blood From The Air" by Coil
==''[[The Perfect Drug (halo)|The Perfect Drug]]''==
"[[The Perfect Drug (song)|The Perfect Drug(Meat Beat Manifesto)]]" samples: *"Amen, Brother" by The Winstons ==''[[The Day The World Went Away (halo)|The Day The World Went Away]]''=="[[Starfuckers, Inc. (song)|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. (song)|Starfuckers, Inc. (Version) - Adrian Sherwood]]" samples:
*"Shout It Out Loud" (from ''Alive II'') by KissKISS
==''[[With Teeth (halo)|With Teeth]]''==
"[[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''