*Production: [[Trent Reznor]]
==Music videosVIdeo==The music video for "Pinion" was directed by Eric Goode and Serge Becker, who also directed "[[Help Me I Am In Hell]]" and was relleased in 1992. The video was made for this song shows (from a firstfilmed entirely in black-and-person perspective) white and starts in a journey beginning in restroom. The camera focuses on a toilet bowlcontaining a dark substnace, continuing typically assumed to be blood. The water and the substance are fushed down as the camera follows. As the viewer is led through the pipingpipes to see where the water is going, the camera cuts between exterior views and emerging interior views of the pipes. As the music crescendoes, the water pressure increases. Finally the camera comes to reveal a white room as water is pumped through a pressurized machine, which is forcing the pipe is leading water into the mouth of a figure that is blindfolded. bound completely in vinyl (or patent leather) and strapped to the wall. Because of the distubing nature of the video, MTV would only play it late at night before yanking it altogether. However, part of the video's finale became an S&M-clad individualintegral part of the opening sequence for the network's "Alternative Nation."
==Performed Live==
This song has been featured as an introduction as the band takes the stage.
[[Category:NIN Songs]]