Welcome to the new Rare Songs Page at Above The Trees. I've expanded and added some more songs, and I am currently in the progress of upgrading many of the current files to higher quality MP3's, as well as adding more sound clips. Because of my limited server space, the last 6 rare songs are links from the archive at nineinchnails.net. If you ever find that those links don't work for any reason, please notify me. If you have any suggestions of songs you'd like to see on this page, please e-mail me.
If you need audio help, or applications to play these songs, click here.
HALO 11 AUDIO SAMPLES ARE HERE!
Rare Songs
| SONG | DESCRIPTION | FILENAME | TYPE | SIZE | QUALITY |
| The Perfect Drug Remix By Aphrodite | A remix of TPD that was not available on Halo 11, and can only be found on the Perfect Drug promotional vinyls (see the discography) for more info. Click here for Perfect Drug lyrics and info. | tpd-aphr.mp3 | MPEG 3 | 5246537 bytes | Excellent |
| Supernaut | 1000 Homo DJ's song with Trent on vocals. Click here for lyrics and info. | supernaut.mp3 | MPEG 3 | 6282215 bytes | Excellent |
| Butch Vig's Last Remix | Unreleased remix of Last by Butch Vig (who is now a member of Garbage). Click here for lyrics and info. | bvlast.ra | RealAudio | 2617488 bytes | Poor |
| Coil's Gave Up Remix | Unreleased remix of Gave Up by Coil. Appeared in the movie Young Americans, but was not on the soundtrack. Click here for lyrics and info. | coilgu.mp3 | MPEG 3 | 1215843 bytes | Good |
| The Perfect Drug Original Version | Original version of TPD that was leaked to the net before the official release. Click here for TPD info, lyrics, pics, and more. | perfect.ra | RealAudio | 3177748 bytes | Good |
| Now I'm Nothing | A song played live during the Now I'm Nothing tour as an intro to Terrible Lie. Click here for lyrics and info. | nothing.ra | RealAudio | 1562528 bytes | Excellent |
| Happiness In Slavery Sherwood Slaves Remix | A rare remix of Happiness In Slavery by Adrian Sherwood, from the Happiness In Slavery VIP Promo. Click here for lyrics and info. | sherwood.mp3 | MPEG 3 | 2136607 bytes | Excellent |
| Happiness In Slavery PK Slavery Remix | Paul Kendall's remix of Happiness In Slavery from the Happiness In Slavery VIP Promo. Click here for lyrics and info. | pkslave.mp3 | MPEG 3 | 5318112 bytes | Excellent |
| Purest Feeling | An officially unreleased demo song recorded before the release of Pretty Hate Machine. It can be found on the bootlegs Purest Feeling, Welcome To The Hate Machine, and Painful Convictions. Click here for lyrics and info. | feeling.mp3 | MPEG 3 | 2550857 bytes | Excellent |
| Maybe Just Once | Another unreleased demo song from the same bootlegs as Purest Feeling. Click here for lyrics and info. | maybe.mp3 | MPEG 3 | 4954070 bytes | Excellent |
| Twist | The original version of Ringfinger, from the same bootlegs as Maybe Just Once and Purest Feeling. This is the Purest Feeling version of the song, which is less evolved than the Demos & Remixes version (see below) and does not contain the spoken segment towards the end. Click here for lyrics and info. | twist-pf.ra | RealAudio | 3622228 bytes | Good |
| Twist (Version) | A more evolved version of Twist (original ringfinger) from the bootleg Demos & Remixes. Contains a segment of spoken word that does not appear in the Purest Feeling version (above). For lyrics and info, click here. | twist-dr.mp3 | MPEG 3 | 4608835 bytes | Excellent |
| Intro and Original Sanctified | The original version of Sanctified, plus the instrumental lead-in. Both from the bootleg Purest Feeling. For lyrics and info, click here. | sanct.zip (sanct.mp3 intro.mp3) | Zipped MPEG 3 | 6665411 bytes | Excellent |
| Trent On Saxaphone | Trent playing saxaphone with David Bowie singing. An intro to Bowie's Scary Monsters recorded live at Lakewood Amphitheater, Atlanta, October 9, 1995, during the NiN/David Bowie Outside tour. From the bootleg You Can't Stop Us. For bootleg info, click here. | sax.ra | RealAudio | 2794716 bytes | Excellent |
| Hurt Live With David Bowie | This is a live recording of Trent and David Bowie singing Hurt from the 1995 NiN/Bowie Outside tour. This recording is from the bootleg Children Of The Night. For lyrics and info, click here. | hurtlive.mp3 | MPEG 3 | 4857856 bytes | Excellent |
| Light Remix By NiN | This is NiN's "fatbackdub" remix of the KMFDM song Light. It is available on KMFDM's Light EP, which can be a little hard to find. | kmfdm_light_ (fatbackdub).mp3 | MPEG 3 | 6131712 | Excellent |
| March Of The Pigs Live | March Of The Pigs as performed live during the 1995 NiN/Bowie Outside tour (from the bootleg children of the night). This contains an additional segment at the end of the song where Trent sings "all the pigs, all lined up" over and over again (and closing with "every little fucking pig..."), which was only performed for live versions of the song. For lyrics and info, click here. | 02-march_of_the_pigs.mp3 | MPEG 3 | 3721090 bytes | Excellent |
| Original Kinda I Want To | From the same set of demo songs as Purest Feeling and Maybe Just Once, this is an early demo version of Kinda I Want To from the bootleg Purest Feeling. For lyrics and info, click here. | 05-kinda_i_want_to_ (original).mp3 | MPEG 3 | 3889737 bytes | Excellent |
| Something Blue | A "remix" of The Downward Spiral by the Hitman, from the popular bootleg Rusty Nails II. For bootleg info, click here. | 03-something_blue.mp3 | MPEG 3 | 802899 bytes | Excellent |
| Live In Me | An instrumental track from Rusty Nails 2 by the Hitman. This song is only related to NiN in that it appears on an NiN bootleg, but it's still a cool song. For bootleg info, click here. | 14-live_in_me_ (old_unreleased).mp3 | MPEG 3 | 1855738 bytes | Excellent |
| Symphony Of Destruction Remix by NiN | Trent's remix (the "gristle mix") of this Megadeth song appears on Megadeth's Holland import single Foreclosure Of A Dream. | symphony_of_destruction_ (the_gristle_mix).mp3 | MPEG 3 | 9445041 bytes | Excellent |
Other Stuff:
| FILE | DESCRIPTION | FILENAME | TYPE |
| Homer Simpson On NiN | A short sound clip from the 1996 "Hullabalooza" episode of The Simpsons, in which, at one part, Homer is in a record store and is shocked to find that his favorite bands from the '70's are no longer popular. He then looks up at the wall where there are posters for Sonic Youth and Nine Inch Nails. This sound clip is of him saying, "Now here are some of your no-name bands... Sonic Youth? Nine Inch Nails?" See the May 4th, 1997 News report for more info. | hulla3.wav | WAV Audio File |
| "Welcome Nine Inch Nails!" | Larry Bud Melman (the old guy from the 1-800-COLLECT commercials)'s great introduction for NiN's performance at Woodstock '94. For a wonderful picture of Melman hanging out with the band, click here. | welcome.mp3 | MPEG 3 |
| Trent Speaks | A brief soundclip of Trent talking about his music, an exclusive from early 1997's SpinOnline interview. | trent.wav | WAV Audio File |
| Paul Schaffer Playing Closer | A short clip from the June 4th, 1997 Late Show With David Letterman of Paul Schaffer, Dave's musical sidekick, playing what sounds very much like a cover of NiN's Closer as a lead-in to a commercial break. | pscloser.wav | WAV Audio File |
| Past The Mission Sample Coming Soon | A sample of the chorus from the Tori Amos song Past The Mission (from the album under the pink), in which Trent supplies back-up vocals. You'll have to listen carefully, but you can clearly hear Trent's deeper voice behind Tori's singing "past the mission, behind the prison doors..." etc. | mission.mp3 | MPEG 3 |
| Halo 11 Audio Samples | Fifteen 40-second RealAudio samples from every remix on the Perfect Drug Versions EP are available via my Perfect Drug Page. | n/a | RealAudio |
| NiN MIDI Files | A small selection of MIDI files which alternate as background music on the frames version of Above The Trees. | n/a | MIDI |
Help:
The files on this page come in four basic formats: .MP3, or MPEG Layer 3; .RA, or RealAudio; .WAV or WAV Audio File; and .ZIP or ZIP Compressed File. MP3's have become the new standard for digital audio on the internet. .MP3 files allow stereo near-cd quality duplications at relatively small file sizes. RealAudio is another high quality digital sound format, and it is also the standard for streaming over the net. Many slower computers will not be able to handle some of the longer .RA files on this page (i.e. "the perfect drug"). .WAV files can be extremely high quality, but do not use any sort of compression mechanism and thus are usually only used for small sound files. A .ZIP file is a file that has been compressed to save space. It must be decompressed before the file can be used.
If you have problems downloading or saving these files to your hard drive (i.e. when you click on the link all you get is gibberish text), click on the link to the file with your right mouse button (assuming you're using netscape for windows; otherwise you may have to do this a different way) and choose "Save Link Location..." This will allow you to save the file directly to your hard drive. For Macintosh users, click on the link and hold the button down, then a menu will come up and you can choose "Save Link Location..."
If you need an .MP3 player, click here to download WinPlay3, an excellent MPEG Audio player for Windows (see the "regcode" text file for the registration number).
If you're using a Mac, go here for info on MP3 players for the Macintosh.
A RealAudio player can be downloaded at www.realaudio.com.
.WAV files will play in Netscape or MSIE, and most computers come with .WAV players pre-installed. If you don't have one, try shareware.com.
You can find utilities to UNZIP compressed files at www.pkware.com.
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