Sin (Nine Inch Nails song)

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"Sin"

Single by Nine Inch Nails
Released	October 10, 1990
Format	CD, 12"
Recorded	1989, 1990
Genre	Industrial Rock, Synth-pop
Length	19:29
Label	TVT Records
Producer(s)	Adrian Sherwood, Keith LeBlanc, Hypo Luxa
Chart positions
#35 (UK)
Nine Inch Nails singles chronology
"Head Like a Hole" (1990)	"Sin" (1990)	"Happiness in Slavery" (1992)
Alternate cover

UK release

"Sin" (also known as Halo 4) is a single by Nine Inch Nails for the song of the same name released in 1990.

1 The Single
2 The Video
- 2.1 Releases
- 2.2 Track listing
  - 2.2.1 US version
  - 2.2.2 UK version
3 External links

[edit] The Single

"Sin" is the fourth official Nine Inch Nails release and the final single for the album Pretty Hate Machine. It contains three remixes of "Sin" from Pretty Hate Machine and Nine Inch Nails' first cover song. Even though the front has a stylized graphic that simply says "Sin" and everyone calls it "Sin" (including the official NIN webite), the spine of the US version refers to the album as "Sin Long, Dub & Short".

"Get Down, Make Love" is a cover of the Queen song originally released on News of the World.

[edit] The Video

A video was released, using the "(short)" remix of the song, which featured two girls dancing with each other at the beginning, cutting to a black and white footage of a woman, naked except for what looks like straps to spelunking gear and a halogen lamp, walking a wrist bound Trent Reznor with a bag over his head through what looks like an industrial warehouse complex and eventually to strap him into a large rotary harness where she spins him throughout the video. These scenes are intercut with two young gay lovers who eventually fight, a man and woman wearing ritualistic dressings and dancing, as well as visuals of a pierced phallus and clitoris, all reflecting the song's dark, sexual aspects.

This version of "Get Down Make Love" samples Dan O'Herlihy from The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari.

[edit] Releases

TVT Records TVT 2617-0 - US 12" Vinyl
TVT Records TVT 2617-1 - US 12" Vinyl
TVT Records TVT 2617-2 - US CD
Island Records CID 508 866 151/2 - UK CD

[edit] Track listing

[edit] US version

"Sin (long)" (remixed by Adrian Sherwood, Keith LeBlanc) - 5:51
"Sin (dub)" (remixed by Sherwood, LeBlanc) - 5:00
"Get Down, Make Love" (engineered by Jeff "Critter" Newell, Al Jourgensen, Trent Reznor, Sean Beaven) - 4:19
"Sin (short)" (remixed by Sherwood, LeBlanc) - 4:19

[edit] UK version

"Sin (short)" (remixed by Sherwood, LeBlanc) - 4:19
"Sin (long)" (remixed by Sherwood, LeBlanc) - 5:51
"Get Down, Make Love" (engineered by Jeff "Critter" Newell, Alien Jourgensen, Trent Reznor, Sean Beaven) - 4:19
"Sin (dub)" (remixed by Sherwood, LeBlanc) - 5:00