Samples In NIN Songs
Nine Inch Nails has sampled numerous parts of songs, movies, and other audio into its songs. This page will attempt to catalog each usage.
Pretty Hate Machine:
"Sanctified" samples:
- The film "Midnight Express", the talking that begins at about 3:20 and also the screaming that can be heard right before it segues into "Something I Can Never Have".
"Ringfinger" samples:
- "Alphabet St." by Prince
- "Had a Dad" by Jane's Addiction
"Head Like A Hole":
"Head Like A Hole (Copper)" samples:
- "Body Language" by Queen
"Head Like A Hole (Opal)" samples:
- "Tamborine" by Prince
Track 11 samples:
- "Let's hear it for Nine Inch Nails— woo, they're good!" cheered by Kelly Ripa
"Sin"
"Get Down, Make Love" samples:
- Moaning from Japanese pornography films
- "News of the World" by Queen
Broken
"Pinion" samples:
- "It's No Game" by David Bowie
"Physical (You're So)" samples:
- Recordings of Trent Reznor's dog Maise barking
- "Ow!...fucker!" said by Sean Beavan after Maise bit him
Fixed
"Fist Fuck" samples:
- "I could feel that way too... I bet you will someday" from the film Showboat
The Downward Spiral
"Mr. Self Destruct" samples:
- Begins with a sample from the film THX 1138
"Closer" samples:
- "Nightclubbing" by Iggy Pop
"The Becoming" samples:
- Screams in the background from the film Robot Jox
"Reptile" samples:
- Intro machine sounds from the film Leviathan
- Looping female voice from the film Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)
- Watery noise at the beginning from the film Alien
Closer to God
"Memorabilia" samples:
- "What do your nipples look like?" said by Robin Finck talking to a phone sex woman
Further Down the Spiral
"Self Destruction, Part Two" samples:
- "Time" by David Bowie
"Piggy (Nothing Can Stop Me Now)" samples:
- "Put Your Love (In My Tender Care)" by The Fatback Band
"Heresy (Version)" samples:
- "In Suburbia" and "Television Believers" by Aron Ranen's Religion
The Fragile
"Starfuckers, Inc." samples:
- Fireworks and yelling at the end from "Shout It Out Loud" by Kiss (only in The Day The World Went Away)