Nine Inch Nails

The Perfect Drug

(Promo mcd - Nothing Records)

 Although we received lots of promo CD's here at the side-line office, this is an expectation. Normally we wouldn't have mentioned that this was a promo, but in this case it's special. First of all, this CD is widely available in shops, but there will be another release of this single in about one month, and it be something completely different. This CD only contains two versions of the perfect drug, while the actual single will feature 6 remixes, including All Jurgenson and of course these two nin versions. So don't let them misguide you, this is not the real single of the perfect drug. This is a single for the collectors. But enough about the CD itself, it's the music that interests us the most, isn't it?

 The perfect drug is a real complex song that clearly shows what nin is all about. It takes a while before you see the structure true this complex wall of sound, but before you'll now it you'll be singing along, anticipating all the sudden changes. I especially like the piano part at the end. Trend once again turns love into something dark en inevitable. With song lines like "without you everything falls apart. Without you it's so much fun to pick up the pieces". Last thing I heard, the perfect drug was 9 in the billboard chart. But nin hasn't turned main stream. Although when you consider that he has sold 5 million copies of the downward spiral, I guess you could call it main stream. But I think that the main stream is just getting closer to nin, instead of the other way round.