Something I Can Never Have

"Something I Can Never Have"
Song by Nine Inch Nails
from the album Pretty Hate Machine
Released October 20, 1989
Genre Dark ambient
Length 5:55
Label TVT
Songwriter(s) Trent Reznor
Producer(s) Trent Reznor, Flood, Adrian Sherwood, Keith LeBlanc, John Fryer
Pretty Hate Machine track listing
"Sanctified"
(4)		 "Something I Can Never Have"
(5)		 "Kinda I Want To"
(6)

"Something I Can Never Have" is the fifth track on the Nine Inch Nails' 1989 debut album, Pretty Hate Machine. The song was used in the film Natural Born Killers.[1][2] According to Loren Coleman, the song deals with suicidal themes.[3]

Tom Breihan from Pitchfork Media gave a positive review to the song, stating that the song portrays "an absolute mastery" with "its haunted, minimal piano figure and a few hushed synth tones slowly, letting in sputtering static, faraway door-slam drums, and quiet little counter-melodies."[4] Nevertheless, the initial reception of Pitchfork to the song was mixed, with being called as a "'Goodbye Blue Sky' rip-off" in a previous review by Rob Mitchum, in 2006.[5]

A "deconstructed" version of the song was also included in the live album And All That Could Have Been. The accompanying live music video, with Jerome Dillon was also released.[6]

Covers

This song has been covered by Dutch dark wave band, Clan of Xymox, in its 2012 album Kindred Spirits; and by the band Flyleaf for Underworld: Evolution OST.[7] In July 2014, Tori Amos covered the song on her Unrepentant Geraldines Tour.[8] A version of the song was used in the fifth episode of the HBO series Westworld in 2016.[9]

References

  1. ↑ Lochhead, Judy (2001). Postmodern Music/Postmodern Thought. Taylor & Francis, ISBN 9780815338208
  2. ↑ Buckley, Peter (2003). The Rough Guide to Rock. Rough Guides. ISBN 1858284570. Retrieved December 1, 2012.
  3. ↑ Coleman, Loren (2004). The Copycat Effect: How the Media and Popular Culture Trigger the Mayhem in Tomorrow's Headlines. Simon & Schuster. p. 184. ISBN 1416505547. Retrieved December 1, 2012.
  4. ↑ Breihan, Tom (November 24, 2010). "Nine Inch Nails Pretty Hate Machine". Pitchfork Media. Retrieved November 8, 2012.
  5. ↑ Mitchum, Rob (January 12, 2006). "Nine Inch Nails Pretty Hate Machine". Pitchfork Media. Retrieved November 8, 2012.
  6. ↑ "Nine Inch Nails - Something I Can Never Have". NME. Retrieved November 8, 2012.
  7. ↑ "Marco Beltrami – Underworld: Evolution (Original Score)". Discogs. Retrieved December 8, 2012.
  8. ↑ Cinquemani, Sal (August 21, 2014). "The 10 Best Cover Songs from Tori Amos's Unrepentant Geraldines Tour". Slant Magazine. Retrieved August 22, 2014.
  9. ↑ Vineyard, Jennifer (November 2, 2016). "Why Did Westworld Choose That Downer of a Nine Inch Nails Song During the Orgy Scene?". Vulture. Retrieved November 2, 2016.


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