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'''"Discipline"''' is a single from [[Nine Inch Nails]] and also the fourth track on ''[[The Slip]].'' . It contains a beat reminiscent of "[[Only (song)|Only]]" from ''[[With Teeth (halo)|With Teeth]]'', and its lyrics seem to have a sado-masochistic overtone.
It is the first radio single from NIN since becoming an independent recording act, following their final release under a major record label, 2007's ''[[Y34RZ3R0R3M1X3D]].'' . Due to the advertisement and short notice of the release, the song was posted on YouTube almost immediately after release. The [[Multitracks|multitrack files]] for this track were released at [[Remix.nin.com|remix.nin.com]].
==About==
The song was released to radio stations simultaneously around 2:30pm EST on April 22, 2008, being mastered only the day before, and was then made available as a free download via discipline.nin.com, which eventually redirected to [[theslip.nin.com]]. When downloaded, it comes with track art and a note found in the comments box of the song info saying "Go to [[nin.com|www.nin.com]] on May 5", which was the release date of the then-unannounced album ''The Slip.'' . The lyrics are also contained.
==Track artwork==
The track opens with a disco style drum pattern, followed by a heavily distorted synth bass. [[Trent Reznor]]'s vocals enter and the instrumentation remains generally the same until the second verse, when a bass guitar is used alternately with the synth bass and a piano melody enters. For the bridge, the drum pattern becomes more minimal and is accompanied only by the piano and some undistorted synth bass notes as Reznor's vocal gradually returns with a different lyrical section. The full instrumentation returns and the song continues this way until it fades out.
The version on ''The Slip'' is 4:19 and starts to fade out at the end, but then abruptly cuts off as it segues into "[[Echoplex]]"." You can find in the scrapped 24/96 WAV format download, a 4:34 version that fades out slower and to a more complete silence than the MP3 version. However the final WAV24/96 does have the regular 4:19 version.
===Discipline (MP3 download version)===