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| versions = March Of The Pigs<br>March Of The Pigs (Instrumental)<br>March Of The Pigs (Clean)<br>All The Pigs, All Lined Up<br>March Of The Pigs (Video Version)<br>March Of The Pigs (''Fortnite Festival'' Version)<br>March Of The Pigs (''Closure'')<br>March Of The Pigs (''[[And All That Could Have Been (halo)|And All That Could Have Been]]'')<br>March Of The Pigs (''[[Beside You In Time (halo)|Beside You In Time]]'')
| live = [[Self Destruct Touring Cycle]] through present
}}'''"March Of The Pigs"''' is the fourth track on 1994's ''[[The Downward Spiral (halo)|The Downward Spiral]].'' It has one of the most unusual metres of any song to enjoy popular radio play, alternating three measures of 7/8 time with one measure of 4/4 time in the verses (in effect, a 29/8 time signature). The chorus is in the common 4/4 time signature. As a result, with eighth notes getting the count, the song has a BPM rate of 269.
Lyrically, the song could be about society or [[NIN]]'s fans, but Trent Reznor has stated in the interview bootleg titled ''Disturbed'' that the "pigs" in this song refer mainly to "anywhere from the media to people he thought were friends around him." Furthermore, he said, "The issue I was addressing was... when we attained a certain level of success, it was surprising to see the legion of people starting to fuck with you, can't wait to see you fail, hoping that you'll fuck up, ripping you off, trying to use you... The fact that American media, in 'underground world,' you go from being the darling to 'well, we accidentally started selling some records,' so they have to turn their backs on us." He also occasionally referred to fans as 'pigs' at live performances.
According to the Filter biography on their official website, former live guitarist [[Richard Patrick]] reportedly received the nickname "[[Piggy]]" while in Nine Inch Nails. As well, "Piggies" is a song on The Beatles' 1968 self-titled (or 'white') album, a noted influence on Charles Manson, who scrawled the word "pig" in blood on the front door of the [[Le Pig|Sharon Tate mansion]] wherein he and his 'Family' killed Tate and several others on August 8, 1969. The mansion was also where Reznor recorded ''The Downward Spiral'' in 1993-4 and Reznor kept the Tate door when he moved to [[Nothing Studios]] in New Orleans. However, Reznor debunked rumors of song connections to the Tate murders in an interview[http://www.nin-pages.de/2003_Metal_Hammer_April_english.htm]:
<blockquote>I had "[[Piggy]]" written long before it was ever known that I would be in that house. "March of the Pigs" has nothing to do with the Tate murders or anything like that, I’m not going to say what it is about, but it’s not about that. Yeah, the name of the studio being "Pig", that was a definite bad taste joke. It was written on the front door at one time, I’ll admit to that.</blockquote>
==Appearances==
===Video Games===
*''[[Rock Band]]'' (available for download)
*''Fortnite'' (available as in-game purchase)
==Versions==
===March Of The Pigs (Video Version)===
This is the version used in the studio performance music video for the song. It can be found in audio form on the US cassette release of "Closer To God" and an Australian CD compilation entitled "Obdurate: The Best Music Around", billed as "March Of The Pigs (Live)." The music video itself can be found on ''Closure'' and the 10th Anniversary DualDisc version of ''The Downward Spiral.'' Unlike most live performances of the song since its release, this one does not include an extended ending, though it does feature new pig squeal samples at the beginning.
===March Of The Pigs (''Fortnite Festival'' Version)===
This version only appears in the ''Fortnite'' game mode ''Fortnite Festival'' and differs from the album version in a few ways. The vocal track is the original as it appears on ''The Downward Spiral'', but it is clean, without any of the processing or distortion effects heard on the album version, probably to make it easier to play the game to. For censorship purposes, the two instances of the "take the skin and peel it back" lyric are removed entirely, and "I want to fuck it up" has been replaced with the preceding "I want to smash it up" lyric repeated. At the conclusion of the album version portion, there is an outro section attached. It contains a newly recorded studio version of the "all the pigs all lined up" outro that is typically played in live performances. The outro section ends abruptly.
===March Of The Pigs (''Closure'')===
*Editor: Philip Richardson
A previous version of the video was partially shot but abandoned, and is included in glimpses on the ''Closure'' DVD. The band performs the song in a red, cave-like set with water at their feet, with a dwarf in troll-like costume running in and out of the set. Photographer Joseph Cultice, A camera man who was worked on set to document the shoot, NIN videos once elaborated on the original video for ''Revolver'' Magazineshoot:
<blockquote>It looked too much like a video they'd done before with I worked on the director [one by Peter Christopherson]. So we stayed [in the studio] the next day and they shot that ... You'March of the Pigs' [performance] videoll have to excuse me because it was a real real long time ago since I worked on it .. They came up with the idea at night: a one-camera shot. And they We shot it maybe five times all in two days around the way throughend of January 1994. The thing was, and that was itI don't think we shot everything we were supposed to ... Trent's in a big black plastic pool they madeyou see, basically there was supposed to be a kiddie poolthird day of production .. . never happened! What we did shoot was supposed to happen stuff with the entire band (not just Trent) in the scene was therevarious 'dark's creature hands that come up situations. Essentially trashing instruments and grab his head and pull him underwaterother items along the way. So heWe did a lot of 's laying there getting ready for thatdutch' angles, a lot of fast-paced stuff ... And underneath him is a guy all in a black outfit that you can barely see himall, but [those are his] hands. That water was really really warmto me, it was seemed like a Jacuzzi. It's inside thisan angry, likeaggressive, cave they built inside with water ''Evil Dead II'' meets ''Hellraiser'' mini-movie ... a lot of hanging chains and smoke machinesalways a watered-down set . They just jumped around there really.. but, really loudly to I don'March of the Pigst know if it was ever cut together, or if it is in somebody' for 20 million takess closet somewhere...[httpshttp://wwwnothing.revolvermagnin.comnet/culture/nine-inch-nails-march-pigs-scrapped-original-video-iconic-final-cutninfaq.html]</blockquote>
==Covers==
*[http://vimeo.com/3554852 "March Of The Pigs" music video]
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjX7yXA_fL0 "March Of The Pigs" live from ''Beside You In Time'']
*[https://wwwarchive.youtubeorg/details/remix-nin-com-audio-02949 "March Of The Pigs" (Instrumental) at archive.com/watch?v=BSDbeGnCg14 Snippet from the original music videoorg]
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