Only (Nine Inch Nails song)

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"Only"

Single by Nine Inch Nails
from the album With Teeth
Released	July 25, 2005
Format	CD, DVD, vinyl
Recorded	??
Genre	Alternative Rock
Length	4 min 22 sec
Label	Interscope Records
Producer(s)	Trent Reznor, Alan Moulder
Chart positions
#90 (US Hot 100) #1 (US Modern Rock) (Seven weeks) #22 (US Mainstream Rock) #20 (UK)
Nine Inch Nails singles chronology
"The Hand That Feeds" (2005)	"Only" (2005)	"Every Day Is Exactly the Same" (2006)

"Only" (also known as Halo 20) is a single by Nine Inch Nails released on July 25, 2005. "Only" is the twentieth official Nine Inch Nails release and is the second single for the album With Teeth. It peaked at number one on the Billboard Modern Rock chart, where it stayed for seven weeks.

1 The song
2 The single
- 2.1 Releases
- 2.2 Track listing
3 Music video
4 External links

[edit] The song

Like the previous single, "The Hand that Feeds", "Only" was released as a GarageBand multitrack file, as well as for DigiDesign Protools, Ableton Live, and Sony ACID Pro, and a fan remix community was set up on Myspace.com

The lyrics of the song relate to those of "Down in It" off of Pretty Hate Machine.

From "Down in It":

Just then a tiny little dot caught my eye; it was just about too small to see. But I watched it way too long; it was pulling me down.

From "Only":

Well the tiniest little dot caught my eye and it turned out to be a scab and I had this funny feeling like I just knew it's something bad.

David Fincher directed the video based on the single.

[edit] The single

Like the previous Nine Inch Nails single, "The Hand that Feeds", "Only" was only widely-released in Europe. European releases include a CD, a DVD, and a 9" vinyl. Again, the only United States release is a vinyl format—a remix record with mixes from Richard X and El-P.

[edit] Releases

Island Records CID903 - CD
Island Records CIDV903 - DVD
Island Records 9IS903 - 9" vinyl
Interscope Records B0005465-11 - 12" vinyl with remixes

[edit] Track listing

CD

"Only" (4:24)
"The Hand that Feeds" [DFA Remix] (9:01)
"Love Is Not Enough" [Live at Rehearsals] (3:50)

DVD

"Only" (Video)
"Only"
"Love Is Not Enough" [Live at Rehearsals]

9"

"Only"
"The Hand that Feeds" [DFA Remix]

12" Vinyl & Promo CD

"Only" [Richard X Remix] (7.24)
"Only" [El-P Remix] (4.21)
"Only" [Richard X Dub] (7.51)
"Only" [Richard X Edit] (3.46)
"Only" [El-P Instrumental] (4.21)

[edit] Music video

The music video for "Only," directed by David Fincher and relying almost entirely on computer graphic animation, featured various objects in an executive's office coming to life with the crescendo of the song and was released to wide acclaim on July 12, 2005 at NIN.com (link below). The main focus is Trent Reznor's face appearing on an imagemaker that children play with. The only non-cgi components of the video was a person's hand (Fincher's, who owns the PowerBook in the video) and the bowlfull of green apples, which caused significant difficulty to the band trying to knock them down without messing up the video.