"Memorabilia" is a Soft Cell cover that appears as the fifth track on Closer To God. This version contains audio samples that include a prank phone sex call and other samples that seem to have come from pornographic sources. Video of the group listening to the prank call can be seen on the DVD version of Closure. The original appears on the Soft Cell album Non Stop Ecstatic Dancing.
Other nods to Soft Cell's influence on NIN include the names of "Mr. Self Destruct" and its remixes, and the incomplete or simply unreleased cover of "Sex Dwarf."
Song Credits
- Written by David Ball and Marc Almond
- © 1981 Phonogram Ltd. (London)
- Trent Reznor, Robin Finck, Sean Beavan, Chris Vrenna, Brian Pollack, John Van Eaton, Sugar and his friend
Appearances
Halos
- The Downward Spiral (Deluxe Edition)
- Closer To God
Versions
Memorabilia
This is the only version currently available. Footage of its production can be found in the bonus video on Disc One of the Closure DVD.
Live
"Memorabilia" has never been played live.
Lyrics
Wherever I go
I take a little piece of you
I collect
I reject
Photographs I took of you
The towns I passed through
So many faces
So many places
I have got to have a memory
Or I have never been there
I have never had you
I can't remember
Give me a reminder
I collect
I reject
Memorabilia
(Now girl… only it's flavor… bow down here)
Keychains and snowglobes
The taste of your sweat
The look in your eye
I have been inside you
I know what it feels like
(Wet as it is… the whiter the honey)
I collect
I reject
Memorabilia
(Goodies come in here all day)
Give me a reminder
I can't remember
I collect
I reject