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List Price: $11.99 | | Label: Universal/Polygram
Salesrank: 259767
Released: August 23, 2002 |
| Our Price: $44.92 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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Closer Pt.1 Track Listing:
1. Closer
2. Closer (Deviation)
3. Closer (Further Away)
4. Closer (Precursor)
5. Closer (Internal)
Editorial Review:
Hit single from 1994's 'The Downward Spiral'. Pt.1 is agatefold digipak with an extra CD tray for Pt.2 & featuresfive mixes of 'Closer': Album Version, Deviation, FurtherAway, Precursor and Internal. A TVT/ Interscope release.
Closer Pt.1 Reviews:
Closer remixes Remixed 
2005-11-09 - Take a dark Nine Inch Nails song and make it four times darker. Each remix is a bit different from each other. all in all, portray a dark and dismal atmosphere, in an audio-theatrical presentation. each remix tells a different story of closer. some of the sounds produced from this session could be described as a scraping, shredding sound with rythmic pounding and animal instinctive foreplay of industrial rock, with pulverizing smashes and crippling, flesh wrenching fiascos, produced in sounds. in regards to an older review, there is a closer two disc, it must not have been available back in 2000, but there is an EP from 1994 that was recently reissued (late `00/early `01) it's the Closer to God ep. it's a combo of both Parts 1 and 2 (Halo 9), you'll notice that neither Part One nor Part Two has a Halo number with it......Closer and it's remixes are great in every aspect, buy this disc, or Closer To God for the the full effect.
NIN's best song
2000-11-11 - Just buy it. Trust what all these folks are saying. This is NIN's best song of the 90's.
Buy it for, if anything, the MBM and Coil mixes
2000-10-11 - While it's true that this is the song that people accuse Nine Inch Nails for selling out, one listen to this single will prove you wrong in a heartbeat. Other than the original, the 4 remixes on the first disc of this single will stop you in your tracks. They're all pretty radical reworkings, with the Coil and Meat Beat Manifesto remixes taking center stage over everything. MBM's mix is very laid back with strong nuances of traditional elements. It remains incredibly faithful to the original while sounding extremely different. Coil's remix takes the cake though. Clocking in at a whopping 7 minutes, you never see what direction the song will go into next. One minute will be incredibly dark and atmospheric and then you'll be lead into straight forward beats and guitars playing under Trent's heavily processed voice. If you've seen the movie "Seven", this is the song that plays during the opening credits. Very unforgetable. The Further Away remix leans more towards traditional industrial. Very noisy and overdriven. And the Internal remix is a sparse cut and paste collage, not bad, but gets overlooked by the rest of the disc. If you liked the original song, you might be incredibly intrigued by these remixes. If you're a NIN fan, this breathes new life into an otherwise dead song. It's definitely worth getting.
Where is Closer pt. 2?????????
2000-07-22 - Closer is one of those songs that made the `90's memorable. The originality in the sounds, video, music and lyrics. Halo 9 is the US version of Closer, but the import is not marked with a halo number. WHERE CAN I FIND closer part 2??? Can't find it anywhere!!!!
One of NIN's best 
2000-04-11 - I've got to hand it to Trent, though - he is definately one of the masters of the remix. The only bad thing is the best mix of "Closer" - "Closer to God" isn't included on this CD. However, the best mixes of Closer are deviation and precursor. I found the "further away" mix to be a little irritating. Overall, a good selection of remixes. I'd give it 4.5 stars. Love that cover, too.
