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{{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.
''Note: Some early samples likely come courtesy of the producers who worked on the tracks, as some of the sounds also appeared on other projects created by or worked on by the same personnel.''
==''[[Pretty Hate Machine]]''==
"[[Head Like A Hole (song)|Head Like A Hole]]" samples:
*"Samburu Warriors' initiation (Kenya)" performed by the Samburu Tribe of Kenya and recorded by David Fanshawe http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G08Wvtspmjo
"[[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
"[[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)
"[[Kinda I Want To]]" samples:
*"Good Old Music" by Funkadelic
*"A Surf M.C. New Year" by Surf MC's
*"Let The Jingle Bells Rock" by Sweet Tee
"[[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)
"[[The Only Time]]" samples:
*Female background vocals recorded for "So Alive" by Love And Rockets
"[[Ringfinger]]" samples:
*"Alphabet St." by Prince
*"Had A Dad" by [[Jane's Addiction]]
==''[[Head Like A Hole (halo)|Head Like A Hole]]''==
"[[Head Like A Hole (song)|Head Like A Hole (Copper)]]" samples:
*"Body Language" by Queen
"[[Head Like A Hole (song)|Head Like A Hole (Opal)]]" samples:
*"Tamborine" by Prince
*"Release It" by The Time, which samples "Squib Cakes" by Tower Of Power
*"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''
"[[Sin (song)|Sin (Short)]]", "[[Sin (song)|Sin (Long)]]" and "[[Sin (song)|Sin (Dub)]]" sample:
*"Mr. President" by Keith LeBlanc
"[[Get Down, Make Love]]" samples:
*Moaning and breathing from Japanese pornography films
*"We Will Rock You" by Queen
*The intro is an extract from 1962's ''[https://youtu.be/jcsJAkacQKM?t=3274 The Cabinet Of Caligari]'' (at 54:34).
*Beats from ''40 Oz of Phat Slammin Hip Hop'' sample CD-ROM library by InVision Interactive (specifically, PARTITION A - KITS 89-91 - 90 1.wav)
==''[[Broken]]''==
"[[Pinion]]" samples:
*"It's No Game" by [[David Bowie]]
"[[Help Me I Am In Hell]]" samples:
*Ambient noises from ''The Empire Strikes Back'' (When the Tie Fighters are sending bombs into the asteroid where Han and Leia are hiding)
"[[Physical]]" samples:
*Recordings of [[Trent Reznor]]'s dog Maise barking
*"Ow!...fucker!" said by [[Sean Beavan]] after Maise bit him
==''[[Fixed]]''==
"[[Mr. Self Destruct]]" samples:
*Begins with a sample from the film ''THX 1138'' http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GysyU8sCdlM&hd=1
"[[March Of The Pigs (song)|March Of The Pigs]]" samples:
*Buried scream from the film ''Sorcerer''
*Buried scream from the film ''The Exorcist II: The Heretic'' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EFMzJ2dCDs (around 2:30)
"[[Closer]]" samples:
*bass Bass drum from "[[Nightclubbing]]" by Iggy Pop*intro Intro from "Take A Chance With Me" by Roxy Music (reversed and pitched-up)*Synth bass from ''A Poke in the Ear With a Sharp Stick, Vol. 2'' sample library by Rarefaction (specifically, a piece called "Circular2") "[[Ruiner]]" samples:*"Beat Box" by Art of Noise*Buried scream from the film ''Parents'' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bJd2ZAzPSw*Pitched-up elephant noises from the intro of the film ''The Elephant Man'' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHswu1Ad_wI
"[[The Becoming]]" samples:
*Screams in the background from the film ''Robot Jox'' http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjRPiBGVFIE (starting at :33)
*"I know who I am" from the film ''Angel Heart'' (reversed) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTC9Lt3hiWo&t=2m6s (starting at 2:06)
"[[Reptile]]" samples:
*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
==''[[Closer To God (halo)|Closer To God]]''==
*"Pinch" by Can
*"Mountain of Needles" by Brian Eno and David Byrne
"[[Closer|Closer (Precursor)]]" samples:
*Robotic sound from ''A Poke in the Ear With a Sharp Stick, Vol. 1'' sample library by Rarefaction (specifically, a piece called "Electroglurp")
"[[Memorabilia]]" samples:
*"What do your nipples look like?" taken from a phone conversation between [[Robin Finck]] and a female impersonator
==''[[Further Down the Spiral]]''==
"[[Piggy (Nothing Can Stop Me Now)]]" samples:
*"Put Your Love (In My Tender Care)" by The Fatback Band
"[[Mr. Self Destruct|Self Destruction, Part Two]]" and "[[Mr. Self Destruct|Self Destruction, Final]]" sample:
*"Time" by David Bowie
"[[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''
"[[Eraser|Eraser (Denial; Realization)]]" samples:
*Slowed-down speech ("yours is the plague of blasphemy and fornication") from the film ''At Play In The Fields Of The Lord''
==''[[Things Falling Apart]]''==
"[[10 Miles HighStarfuckers, Inc. (song)|Starfuckers, Inc. (Version) - Adrian Sherwood]]" samples:*flute/Mellotron sound from "[[The Downward Spiral Shout It Out Loud" (songfrom ''Alive II'')|The Downward Spiral]]"by KISS
"[[Metal]]" samples:
*"UFO" by ESG
*"M.E." by [[Gary Numan]]
"[[Starfuckers, Inc. (song)|Starfuckers, Inc. (Version) - Adrian Sherwood10 Miles High]]" samples:*Flute/Mellotron sound from "Shout It Out Loud" [[The Downward Spiral (from ''Alive II''song) by KISS|The Downward Spiral]]"
==''[[With Teeth (halo)|With Teeth]]''==
"[[11 Ghosts II]]" samples:
*"Songe d'une nuit de sabbat" by Berlioz
"[[15 Ghosts II]]" samples:
*http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEqZkglTVYE (around 0:12 to 0:18)
"[[24 Ghosts III]]" samples:
*"Get the door, get the door" from the film ''The Mothman Prophecies''
"[[30 Ghosts IV]]" samples:
*Saddam Hussein's Trial Verdict, on Nov. 5, 2006