93 in its countdown of the "100 Greatest Songs of the Past 25 Years." The song was ranked at No. Lyrically, "Closer" is a song about self-hatred and obsession to Reznor's dismay, the song was widely misinterpreted as a lust anthem due to its chorus, which famously includes the lines "I wanna fuck you like an animal / I wanna feel you from the inside". Radio edits of "Closer" were created by muting the vocal track for the duration of each deleted obscenity. The production features sound effects such as a bass squelch, synth echo, and feedback growl. The samples were then combined with beats produced by a Roland R-70 drum machine. The samples were produced using two Akai S1100 samplers, each with an expander, essentially making up four samplers. The drum track of "Closer" is built around a heavily modified sample of the bass drum from the 1977 Iggy Pop song " Nightclubbing", which was performed by a Roland drum machine. "Closer" uses elements of funk, avant-garde, and electronic music. "Closer" has been described as industrial rock and alternative rock. Censored versions of the song and its Mark Romanek-directed music video received substantial airplay on radio and MTV. Although the song addresses themes such as self-hatred and obsession, its sexually aggressive chorus led to widespread misinterpretation of the song as an anthem of lust, which helped it become Nine Inch Nails' most successful single up to that time and cemented Trent Reznor's status as an industrial rock icon. The single is the ninth official Nine Inch Nails release, making it "Halo 9" in the band's official Halo numbering system.Ī promotional single provided by the label to radio stations included both long and short vocal-censored (i.e. Most versions of the single are titled " Closer to God", a rare example in music of a single's title differing from the title of its A-side ("Closer to God" is also the title of an alternate version of "Closer" featured on the single, which was also released as a separate promotional single for club-play). Released on May 30, 1994, it is considered one of Nine Inch Nails' signature songs and remains their most popular song.
The title and lyrics of the song allude to the Biblical passage from 2 Corinthians 5:7 which states, "We walk by faith, not by sight" and James 4:8, "Come near to God and he will come near to you." Closer" is a song by American industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails, released as the second single on their second studio album, The Downward Spiral (1994). Hurse direct a performance of it in Kansas City and then brought it to Morris' attention. Morris added some new lyrics and a choral arrangement. In the 1940s, a boom of recordings recorded the number in many genres, ranging from Southern gospel to jazz and brass bands. Elijah Cluke (1907-1974), for the current rendition of the song. "Just a Closer Walk with Thee" became better known nationally in the 1930s when African-American churches held huge musical conventions. In 1940 Kenneth Morris arranged and published for the first time the well-known version after gospel musicians Robert Anderson and R.L. Lankton (a pseudonym for Fanny Crosby) and music by William Kirkpatrick, which was published in 1885. Some references in Atchison, Kansas, credit an African-American foundry worker and vocalist, Rev. Songs with similar chorus lyrics were published in the 1800s, including "Closer Walk with Thee" with lyrics by Martha J. Within two years the song became a standard in gospel music, eventually becoming a standard in Jazz, and then moving into the realm of American folk music, known and sung by many.” Morris wrote down the words and music and published the song “Just a Closer Walk with Thee” that year, 1940, adding a few lyrics of his own to provide more breadth. He paid little attention at first, but after he reboarded the train the song remained with him and became so prominent in his mind that at the next stop, he left the train, took another train back to the earlier station, and asked the porter to sing the song again. “On a train trip from Kansas City to Chicago, Morris exited the train on one of its stops to get some fresh air and heard one of the station porters singing a song. Horace Boyer cites a story that repudiates this claim, stating:
Circumstantial evidence strongly suggested it dated back to southern African-American churches of the nineteenth century, possibly even prior to the Civil War, as some personal African American histories recall "slaves singing as they worked in the fields a song about walking by the Lord's side.". The precise author of " A Closer Walk" was unknown until recently. The Story Behind Just a Closer Walk with Thee
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