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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 (''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 Warm-upTouring Cycle]] through [[Wave Goodbye Tour]]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 unique 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.The chorus of this song shares its chord progression with the bridge of "[[Wish (song)|Wish]]."
===Meaning===
Lyrically, the song could be about society or NIN's fans, but [[Trent Reznor]] has stated in the interview 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 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. Whether or not Patrick or the Tate murders are directly related to this song is unknown, though 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]:
===Song Credits===
===All The Pigs, All Lined Up===
'''''Running Time: 7:25'''''
This version is entirely in 4/4 and has en extended ending that incorporates the lyric "Don't you feel a whole lot better?" This version is also much less guitar oriented, with extra synth layers added as well as additional crowd noises and pig squeals not prominent in the original. It ends in a loud, distorted drum pattern before collapsing to noise feedback, which segues directly into "[[A Violet Fluid]]."
==Music Video==
[[Image:MOTPstill.jpg|thumb|Screenshot from the "March Of The Pigs" video]]
A music video was made for this song, directed by [[Peter Christopherson]] and released in March of 1994. The video features the band performing the song live in front of a white wall backdrop. Reportedly, around a dozen takes were done, and the final video take was the one that "did not suck." It's filmed in one shot, a rare occurrence for music videos. This video was the last video to be played on MTV2's ''Increase the Beat'', on Memorial Day weekend 2002. At 269 BPM, it had the fastest tempo of the 400+ videos that were played that weekend.
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 troll-like midget in costume running in and out of the set.
*Director: Peter Christopherson
*Producer: Scott Shapiro
==Live==
Being a staple NIN song with its high energy segued by two piano breakdowns, there is a live performance video of "March of the Of The Pigs" on each of their live releases. In the live set, the band extends the song by including an amped up version portion of "All The Pigs, All Lined Up" at the end of almost every performance. In most performances in the pre-''[[With Teeth (halo)|With Teeth]]'' eras, the songs starts with similar high pitched squeals as it does in the performance music video for the song. The [[Live: With Teeth|With Teeth Tour]] arrangement started with [[Alessandro Cortini ]] playing the synthesized bassline twice, stopping for Josh Freese to play eight bars of the drum pattern before the band launched directly into the first verse. Reznor typically starts the song with the spoken lyrics "C'mon you pigs... march!".
==Lyrics==
*[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'']
*[http://ninlivewww.youtube.com/audio/Disturbed/Disturbed.MP3 Direct linkwatch?v=Idchc6FjSNw Snippet from the original music video] to Disturbed interview audio
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