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'''''Watchmen (Music From The HBO Series)''''' was composed by [[Trent Reznor]] and [[Atticus Ross]]. The score was released digitally and on vinyl in three separate volumes, each with different cover art. Volume 01 was released November 4, 2019 on vinyl and November 6, 2019 on digital. Volume 02 was released November 25, 2017 on vinyl and November 27, 2019 on digital. Volume 03 was released December 16, 2019 on vinyl and December 18, 2019 on digital. The three volumes collectively bear the number [[Null numbers|Null 10]], in keeping with [[The Null Corporation]]'s numbering system.The release dates were as follows:
==Tracklistings==
====Vinyl/digital conflict====
The vinyl of Volume 03 does not include tracks 3, 10, 11, 14, and 15. It does, however, include a track not on the digital release, "Let Him Ride". Trent Reznor explained this with the following on nin.com: "You will notice there are a few tracks on the digital release that are not included on the vinyl. The simple truth of the matter is vinyl has a long lead time to manufacture and we weren't completely finished scoring the later episodes when the deadline came (and… Damon kept throwing things at us last minute!)." Those who had ordered the vinyl through [[nin.com ]] were given the ability to download the digital-only tracks. ==About==The official website statement about the release reads:<blockquote>"Three unique LPs specifically timed to be released throughout the first season of HBO's Watchmen. Created in collaboration with the show's writers, each LP features the score from Academy Award winners Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross as well as artwork and packaging exclusive to this vinyl release that explores the culture of Watchmen America and provides revealing insights into the saga's mythology and mysteries."</blockquote>
About the decision to release the score in three volumes, Reznor stated the following in an interview with ''Billboard'':[https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/rock/8542712/trent-reznor-interview-old-town-road-watchmen]
<blockquote>"Well, we had quite a bit of music. And we decided to do something fun with the way it’s released. I think that putting out an hour and a half of music today is like throwing it out the window -- it’s asking too much of a kind of short attention span audience that we’ve all become. So breaking it up into chunks felt like something we wanted to do.
Reznor and Ross also created the theme for the end credits of the show, which is a mashup of three tracks from Volume 01: "Nun With A Motherf*&*ing Gun", "Never Surrender", and "Owl Hunts Rat". An extended version of this composition was posted to the official [[Nine Inch Nails]] YouTube channel.[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQBmALfSFEU]
==Vinyl presentation==
The vinyl versions of each volume are referential to in-world content from the series, and each one is detailed with faux artwork, artists, tracklistings, and credits. The music actually contained on them is the same as above. Volume 03 does not contain any NIN songs, only references.
There are references to ''Twin Peaks''/[[David Lynch]] and [[David Bowie]] in the artwork. "The Nine Inch Nails" referred to by all three volumes is the name given to NIN when they appeared on ''Twin Peaks: The Return'' (in addition, the entire presentation of Volume 03 is an alternate history of NIN.) Volume 02 also mentions "Owl Cave Music" in its faux credits, and Lynch is referenced with the Volume 02 faux song title "Crazy Klown Time". Volume 02 references Bowie with the title of side one ("We Can Be Heroes") and the faux song title "Plastic Soul", and an instrumental cover of "Life On Mars?" appears on Volume 03.
===Volume 01 (''The Book of Rorschach'' by Sons of Pale Horse)===