Nine Inch Nails - Closer to God
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Artist: Nine Inch NailsEdition: Music CD
Format: Import, Single
CD Release Date: 1994-05-19
Music Label: Nothing
Soundtracks:
- Closer To God
- Closer (Precursor)
- Closer (Deviation)
- Heresy (Blind)
- Memorabilia
- Closer (Internal)
- March Of The Fuckheads
- Closer (Further Away)
- Closer
Music reviews of Closer to God
Music Review: Varied and interesting.
Rating: 4 Stars
The "Closer" single, featuring no less than six mixes of the title track (including the album mix), two other remixes and one unreleased cover. What is amazing is that while being longer 50 minutes and having a relative lack of variety of material, this one doesn't end up being terrible.
The "Closer" remixes seem to be exercises in mood-- "Closer to God" (mixed by Reznor, Sean Beavan, and Brian Pollack) takes some of the seductiveness out of the track and exchanges it for aggression-- Reznor's vocal sounds hopped up over a staticy, overfunked beat. This same funky feel is emphasized even further on the deviation mix (by Jack Dangers and Craig Silvey), which completes reconstructs the song around a funky beat and intermittent instruments and effects. The internal mix (both it and the further away mix are by a bunch of producers/engineers) feels the most like a remix-- the original song structure is nearly abandoned into one of those sort of danceish things that I largely find completely unlistenable, although this one is brief enough not to really get in the way. The further way mix is totally bizarre, moving from ambient modes to extremely heavy, in many ways it belies the mood of the original better than the rest of the remixes, capturing a subtlety and then moving into an aggressive strain. And check out the venom in Reznor's vocal on the second verse-- wow! Where did this go in the original? Muddled up with the music or just not there at all?
The problem is that while many of these are quite good, none of them match the strength of the original mix-- its no accident that "Closer" was a hit, the song is brilliantly constructed and
Dave Ogilvie's remix of "Heresy" is like a new song-- incorporating a number of vocals (including one that sounds lifted from the demo on the Deluxe Edition of "The Downward Spiral"), the thrashy guitars are replaced with bouncy, techno synths, and double tracking electronic vocals with the chorus takes the bite away. I'm not certain what the goal was, but while its extremely listenable, it seems to totally miss the point of the song. This does flow rather nicely into the cover of Soft Cell's "Memorabilia"-- this is an interesting piece, while the beat and backing track can get downright irritating after seven minutes, Reznor's vocal is brilliantly haunting. I just wish someone would remix out the backing track. Adrian Sherwood does a mix titled "March of the F***heads" that I suppose is theoretically "March of the Pigs", but is really just nearly five minutes of a beat.
Bottom line-- this is a great value for the money, and there's enough interesting stuff on here to make it worth getting ahold of.
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