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{{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.
==''[[Pretty Hate Machine]]''==
"[[Down In It (song)|Down In It]]" samples:
*"Reality" by Gary Clail & Tackhead (whose member Adrian Sherwood helped create the album version/"SkinStadium Rock" mix)by The Barmy Army*"Mechanical Movements" by Keith LeBlanc (who helped create the album version/*"SkinEinstein" mix)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)
*"Alphabet St." by Prince
*"Had A Dad" by [[Jane's Addiction]]
"[[Kinda I Want To]]" samples:
*Good Old Music by Funkadelic
==''[[Head Like A Hole (halo)|Head Like A Hole]]''==
"[[Head Like A Hole (song)|Head Like A Hole (Opal)]]" samples:
*"Tamborine" by Prince
*"Release It" by PrinceThe Time, which samples "Squib Cakes" by Tower Of Power*"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''
==''[[Sin (halo)|Sin]]''==
"[[Sin (song)|Sin (Short)]]", "[[Sin (song)|Sin (Long)]]" and "[[Sin (song)|Sin (Dub)]]" sample:
*"Mr. President" by Keith LeBlanc
"[[Get Down, Make Love]]" samples:
*Moaning and breathing from Japanese pornography films
*"We Will Rock You" by Queen
*The intro is an extract from 1962's ''The Cabinet Of Caligari''
*''40 Oz of Phat Slammin Hip Hop'' sample CD-ROM by InVision Interactive (specifically, PARTITION A - KITS 89-91 - 90 1.wav)
==''[[Broken]]''==
"[[Pinion]]" (live) samples:
*"It's No Game" by [[David Bowie]]
"[[Physical]]" samples:
"[[Reptile]]" samples:
*Intro machine sounds from the film ''Leviathan'' http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUk4bvrFY2A (at :13)
*Looping female voice ("Kirk, help") from the film ''Texas Chainsaw Massacre '' (1974)''
"[[The Downward Spiral (song)|The Downward Spiral]]" samples:
*Watery noise at the beginning from the film ''Alien''
*Pitched-down strings from the "Twins" cue on the ''Dead Ringers'' score
"[[Ruiner]]" samples:
*"Beat Box" by Art of Noise*Buried scream from the film ''Parents'' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bJd2ZAzPSw*Pitched-up wind elephant noises from the film ''The Elephant Man''
"[[March Of The Pigs (song)|March Of The Pigs]]" samples:
*Buried scream from the film ''Sorcerer''
*Buried scream from the film ''The Exorcist II: The Heretic'' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EFMzJ2dCDs (around 2:30)
==''[[Closer To God (halo)|Closer To God]]''==
"[[Memorabilia]]" samples:
*"What do your nipples look like?" taken from a phone conversation between [[Robin Finck]] and a female impersonator
==''[[Further Down the Spiral]]''==
"[[Mr. Self Destruct|Self Destruction, Part Two]]" samples:*"Time" by David Bowieand "[[Mr. Self Destruct|Self Destruction, Final]]" samplessample:
*"Time" by David Bowie
"[[Piggy (Nothing Can Stop Me Now)]]" samples:
"[[Heresy|Heresy (Version)]]" samples:
*"In Suburbia" and "Television Believers" from Aron Ranen's ''Religion In Suburbia''
==''[[Quake Soundtrack]]''==
"[[Quake Theme]]" samples:
*the scream from "[[The Downward Spiral (song)|The Downward Spiral]]"
"[[Aftermath]]" samples:
*"Blood From The Air" by Coil
==''[[The Perfect Drug (halo)|The Perfect Drug]]''==
"[[The Perfect Drug (song)|The Perfect Drug(Meat Beat Manifesto)]]" samples: *"Amen, Brother" by The Winstons
==''[[The Day The World Went Away (halo)|The Day The World Went Away]]''==
"[[All The Love In The World]]" (''[[The Definitive NIN - Deep Cuts]]'' version) samples:
*''The Twilight Zone'' episode "When The Sky Was Opened"
==''[[Year Zero]]''==
"[[God Given]]", "[[My Violent Heart]]" and "[[Zero Sum]]" sample:
*''Atom Heart's Rather Interesting World Of Digital Drums'' sample CD by Atomizer™
==''[[Ghosts I-IV]]''==
*"This is it" and mechanical sounds from the film ''Real Genius''
==''[[Ghosts VI: Locusts]]''=="[[Another Crashed Car]]" samples:*A telephone call intercept message ==Other=====''[[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===Live Samples=======[[Pretty Hate Machine Tour]]====
various set intros sample:
*"Who do you think you're for?" from an unknown source
*"I've got the sun in my hands, man..." from the film ''The Trip''
====[[NIN 2017-2018]]====
"[[The Great Destroyer]]" samples:
*various Donald Trump speeches
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