Nine Inch Nails has sampled numerous parts of songs, movies, and other audio into its songs. This page will attempt to catalog each usage.
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Pretty Hate Machine:
Ringfinger-"Alphabet St."-by Prince
-Had a Dad" by Jane's Addiction
Head Like A Hole [single]:
Head Like A Hole (Copper) - "Body Language" by Queen
Head Like A Hole (Opal) - "Tamborine" by Prince
Track 11- "let's hear it for nine inch nails-- woo, they're good!"
being said by Kelly Ripa
Sin [single]:
Get Down Make Love-talking at the beginning from the movie "The Cabinet
of Caligari "
-moaning from Japanese porno movies
-"News of the World" by Queen
Broken:
Pinion-"It's No Game" by David Bowie
Physical-recordings of Trent's old dog Maise barking, "ow!...fucker!"
being said by Sean Beavin after Maise bit him
Fixed:
Fist Fuck-"i could feel that way too... i bet you will someday" from
the movie "Showboat"
The Downward Spiral:
Mr. Self Destruct- begins with a sample from the film "THX 1138"
Closer-"Nightclubbing" by Iggy Pop
The Becoming - screams in the background sampled from the film "Robot Jox"
Reptile-looping female voice from the movie "Nekromantik"
-intro machine sounds sampled from the film "Leviathan"
The Downward Spiral-watery noise at the beginning from the movie "Alien."
Closer To God:
Memorabilia-("what do your nipples look like?") is Robin Finck talking
to a phone sex woman
Further Down the Spiral:
Self Destruction, Part Two-"Time" by David Bowie
Piggy (Nothing Can Stop Me Now) - "Put Your Love (In My Tender Care)"
by The Fatback Band
Heresy (Version) - Aron Ranen's Religion "In Suburbia" and "Television
Believers"
The Fragile:
Starfuckers, Inc. (fireworks and yelling at the end) - "Shout It Out Loud"
from by Kiss
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