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Wednesday, September 18, 2013

Song of the Week: March of the Pigs

You gotta love Trent Reznor.  He goes his own way, refusing to kowtow to the corrupt music industry, and manages to keep a large fan base happy while winning an Academy Award for the soundtrack to The Social Network.  I have previously used one of the pieces from that soundtrack as SOTW, so I won’t belabour the biographical details,

Here’s a very old song, off of The Downward Spiral.  Marchof the Pigs comes off as a fairly standard thrash/industrial number, with the requisite screaming and distortion, and 29/8 time signature.  But what distinguishes it is the jazzy, Joe Jacksonesque ending, which is more creepy than the main part of the song.  The pigs have won indeed.


Here’s a video:




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