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| live =[["Pretty Hate Machine" Promotional Tour]] <br> through [[Performance 2007Wave Goodbye Tour]]<br>[[Cold And Black And Infinite Tour]]}}'''"Sin"''' is the seventh track on the 1989 release ''[[Pretty Hate Machine]].'' Obviously, this song is about sex, visceral desires, lust and guilt. Remixes were featured on the ''[[Sin (halo)|Sin]]'' single along with a B-side (a cover of Queen's "[[Get Down, Make Love]]"). The song is often amped up when played live , usually featured at the beginning of setlists. The "sha" samples used at the beginning and end of the song appear to be from "Paid In Full" by Erik B & Rakim, though they may also have sampled the same source. The line "Stale incense, old sweat, and lies, lies, lies" is a more danceable version direct quote of Clive Barker from his short story "In the songHills, the Cities" from ''Books Of Blood'', in which he uses it to describe old European churches.

*Production: [[Trent Reznor]], [[John Fryer]]*Remix: [[Keith LeBlanc]]*Engineering: John Fryer, Keith LeBlanc, [[Kennan Keating]], [[Ken Quartarone]]

*''[[Purest Feeling IIDemos and Remixes]]''

This is the original album version from ''Pretty Hate Machine.'' The loud cry from the end of "[[Kinda I Want To]]" segues into the track as the hisses jump back and forth between the left and right audio channels (, stereo panning being a prominent feature of the song itself utilizes extensive panning throughout)track. The song itself is very beat driven with heavy synthetic base (and bass) much synthesized layering and uses the lyrics as the melody for most of the song, lacking any real "lead" parts. It's also notable for its unique sample of a loud whistle (the origin of whistling, which is unknown)most likely a sped up sample of a saxophone.

*Remix: [[Adrian Sherwood]], Keith LeBlanc

This live version is known for its features a theremin introsolo during the introduction and live drums, otherwise remaining close to the studio arrangement on ''Pretty Hate Machine''.

The song's intro seems to be performed differently by every NIN keyboardist. For example, [[Danny Lohner]] in the [[Woodstock '94]] performance is seen playing an additional melody to the intro. [[Charlie Clouser]] in ''And All That Could Have Been'' uses a theremin before the guitar intro is played, while [[Alessandro Cortini]]'s performance of the intro is a tad closer to the original. Other than that, the rest of the song is performed closely to the album version in most live performances, though when [[Jeordie White]] played the song, he played its harmonic progression on bass guitar rather than the keyboards used in most other live arrangements.

[[Image:Sinstill.jpg|thumb|Screenshot from the "Sin" video]]A [[Nine Inch Nails music videos|music video ]] was released in 1990, using the "(Short)" remix of the song. It was directed by [[Brett Turnbull]]. The video contains two women dancing with each other at the beginning before cutting to the main focus of the video. A woman, nude except for what looks like straps to spelunking gear and a halogen lamp, walking a shirtless, wrist-bound Reznor with a bag over his head through what looks like an industrial warehouse complex. He is then strapped into a large rotary harness where she spins him throughout the remainder of the video. These scenes are intercut with two young gay lovers, a man and woman wearing ritualistic dressings and dancing, as well as visuals of pierced genitalia (both male and female), all reflecting the song's dark, sexual aspects. The video was banned from MTV and most major outlets. A partial version of the video can be found on ''Closure.'' There were reports that the complete video was shown at dance clubs in the early 1990s and can now be found on the internet, as the full video became available through [[TVT Records|TVT]]'s website.[http://www.theninhotline.net/news/archives/backissue.php?y=01&m=11#1004906701] [http://web.archive.org/web/20020311020744/http://www.tvtrecords.com/artists/select-video.jsp?art_id=110]