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Latest revision as of 00:50, 16 December 2024
The Mark Has Been Made (Alternate Version)
The Mark Has Been Made (And All That Could Have Been)
"The Mark Has Been Made" is the fourth track on the Right disc of The Fragile. It is an instrumental track.
Contents
Appearances
Halos
- The Fragile
- The Fragile: Deviations 1
- And All That Could Have Been (CD/DVD/VHS)
Seeds
Other
- Unbreakable (2000): Played during trailer.
- Man On Fire (2004): Used in scenes to showcase Denzel Washington as a contemplative badass.
- CSI: Crime Scene Investigation: "Abra Cadaver" (Season 3 Episode 5, 2002-10-31)[1]
- On certain commercials in the Los Angeles area (circa August 2007) for Bryman college, the intro to this song could be heard in the final seconds of the commercial.
- Need For Speed: Undercover: Played during introduction to the game. Also plays a snippet after completing a race or being caught by the police.
- The Sopranos: The entire track was used to score the trailer for Season 6.
- "The darkness 2" (2012) : Appears in the official game trailer.
- "Sons Of Anarchy" (2013) : Short cut of the song in the season 6 teaser trailer presented at the Comic-con.
Versions
The Mark Has Been Made
The piece consists of a dark and quiet introduction, featuring a beat with a wah effect, deep synthesizers, strings, and guitar. This section ends suddenly, quickly transitioning to a lone wah guitar melody. It is soon joined by a loud beat and percussive bass and guitar and the return of the guitar melody from the first section. This is followed by a buildup with a new distorted guitar riff, increasing in intensity until it gives way to a beatless reprise of the introduction. On the CD and presumably cassette versions of The Fragile, "The Mark Has Been Made" ends with a short fragment of the song "10 Miles High," a track cut from these formats but that appears after "The Mark Has Been Made" on the vinyl versions of "The Fragile," albeit on a different side.
The Mark Has Been Made (Alternate Version)
Running Time: 4:45
Released on The Fragile: Deviations 1. Also known as "The Mark Has Been Made" (Alt) when it was originally released on Apple Music as part of The Fragile Instrumental. This is a significantly different mix of the album arrangement.
The Mark Has Been Made (And All That Could Have Been)
See Live below.
Live
"The Mark Has Been Made" made its live debut on April 3, 2000. Backed by watery and flaming visuals from Bill Viola, the live structure remained basically the same except for the ending: the first section before the wah guitar was shortened, and the buildup following it was more concise. The last section saw the band erupting into an entirely new riff, one that seems to echo the ascending notes and rhythmic motif of "Somewhat Damaged" and "The Wretched", with Reznor wailing on top. It segued directly into "Wish."
Musical notation of the live ending bassline:
"The Mark Has Been Made" was performed at every show of the Fragility v2.0 tour, but has not appeared since. It is one of a small number of live NIN songs to feature Trent Reznor on bass.
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