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“Closer”—Nine Inch Nails

60 Songs That Explain the '90s

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Prince and Closer - The Uncensored Version of the Closer Video

The three minute industrial funk keyboard breakdown that constitutes the whole second half of closer is awesome. I memorized every keyboard sound in this song the same way i memorized all the battles in the civil war in history class. The censored version of the closer video, which i saw ten thousand times on m t v, was better and more dangerous and subversive. There's something so fragile and vulnerable about this whole sequence because it's important to me as a person. It occurs on the song ruiner. This is arguably my favorite part of the whole outemporaneous music show.

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