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| title =The Perfect Drug
| album =''[[Lost Highway Soundtrack]]''
| length =5:4215
| BPM = 149
| versions =The Perfect Drug<br>The Perfect Drug (Edit)<br>The Perfect Drug (''We're In This Together'' version)<br>The Perfect Drug (Instrumental)<br>The Perfect Drug ([[Meat Beat Manifesto]])<br>The Perfect Drug (Plug)<br>The Perfect Drug ([[Nine Inch Nails]])<br>The Perfect Drug (Spacetime Continuum)<br>The Perfect Drug (The Orb)<br>The Perfect Drug (Aphrodite)
===The Perfect Drug (Aphrodite)===
'''''Running Time: 6:10(Vinyl version), 5:38 (DJ Aphrodite upload)'''''
This remix is exclusive to the vinyl edition of ''"The Perfect Drug" Versions.'' It's set in a different key than the other remixes and has a fast, electronic beat. As with most of the other remixes, it is light on lyrics, consisting only of "can't keep control/can't keep track," "taking me," and "you are perfect." A CD-quality The track as released in 1997 was mastered at a slower speed. An MP3 file of the track this version was uploaded by Reznor on remix.nin.com.The original, unaltered track was eventually uploaded to Soundcloud by DJ Aphrodite, who stated: "This is the original speed the remix was made at. For the vinyl, [[Nothing Records]] slowed it down to around 160bpm, perhaps to lower the vocals, and at the time the general music loving public were still not used to the speed and energy of Jungle/D&B."
==Live==
Fellow NIN fan Whiskers had previously asked the same when he had lunch with the drummer. [http://forum.nin.com/bb/read.php?30,234801,665605#msg-665605 link]
Reznor answered a question about playing "The Perfect Drug" live directly during a 2017 Q&A in Chicago. He said:
<blockquote>"We've tried it. The unsexy answer is it just doesn't sound that good live. And it's hard to sing, and it ends up making me angry, so we don't do it."</blockquote>
==Music Video==
[[Image:TPDstill.jpg|thumb|Screenshot from the "The Perfect Drug" video]]
[[Mark Romanek]], who also directed "[[Closer]]," directed the [[Nine Inch Nails music videos|music video]] for "The Perfect Drug" in 1997. It was one of the most expensive videos at the time, costing over $850,000 to make. Building the two main sets (a refrigerated set and a rooftop set) and commissioning the giant hand sculpture were some of the larger expenses.[http://www.nin-pages.de/perfect_drug_video_quelle.htm]
The concept of the video is widely interpreted as Trent Reznor portraying a man mourning the death of a child and detaching himself from reality through absinthe. [[Charlie Clouser]], [[Danny Lohner]], and [[Chris Vrenna]] appear in the video, most notably playing string instruments at the beginning of the video. The aesthetics were heavily influenced by the illustrations of 20th-century artist Edward Gorey (1925–2000), the most obvious reference coming from the boy sitting on the cushion in front of the painting.
==External Links==
*[http://vimeo.com/3612941 "The Perfect Drug" music video]
*[httphttps://remixaphroditerecordings.nindatabeats.com/playdownload/mix?id=60 amix1 "The Perfect Drug" (Aphrodite Mix) at remix.nin.comas uploaded by DJ Aphrodite]
*[http://theninhotline.net/archives/articles/manager/display_article.php?id=827 Interview] with VIVA 2 Magazine