{{expand}}[[Nine Inch Nails]] has sampled numerous parts of songs, movies, and other audio into its songs. This page will attempt to catalog each usage.
==''[[Purest Feeling (halo)|Purest Feeling]]''==
"[[Down In It (song)#Down In It|Down In It]]" samples:
*The film ''Angel Heart'' http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEUUS_kjI4k&hd=1 (until about :23)
"[[Maybe Just Once]]" samples:
*The film ''Diner'' with Mickey Rourke in the opening dialogue
==''[[Pretty Hate Machine]]''==
"[[Down In It (song)|Down In It]]" samples:
*"Reality" by Gary Clail & Tackhead / "Stadium Rock" by The Barmy Army
*"Mechanical Movements" by Keith LeBlanc
*"Einstein" by Keith LeBlanc
"[[Head Like A Hole (song)|Head Like A Hole]]" samples:
*"Samburu Warriors' initiation (Kenya)" performed by the Samburu Tribe of Kenya and recorded by David Fanshawe http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G08Wvtspmjo
"[[Sanctified]]" samples:
*The film ''Midnight Express'', the dialog that begins at about 3:20 and also the screaming that can be heard right before it segues into "[[Something I Can Never Have]]". This sample is not present on the version from 2010 remaster.
"[[Something I Can Never Have]]" samples:
*The atmospheric keyboards from an unused This Mortal Coil session.
"[[Something I Can Never Have |Something I Can Never Have (Natural Born Killers Version)]]" samples:
*A thunderclap (at the very beginning)
*Fire crackling and hissing (towards the end)
*Native American chanting (just after the fire sounds)
"[[Sin (song)|Sin]]" samples:
*"Paid In Full" by Eric B. & Rakim, which samples the last few seconds of "Change The Beat" by Fab 5 Freddy (feat. Beside)
*"Tamborine" by Prince
*"Release It" by Prince
*"The Wrong Name and the Wrong Number" by Mark Stewart[[Untitled_(from_Head_Like_A_Hole)|Track 11 ]] samples:
*"Let's hear it for Nine Inch Nails— woo, they're good!" cheered by Heather "Princess" Day on an episode of ''Dance Party USA''