Just Like You Imagined
Nine Inch Nails song
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"Just Like You Imagined" is an instrumental by Nine Inch Nails from their 1999 album The Fragile.
| "Just Like You Imagined" | |
|---|---|
| Song by Nine Inch Nails | |
| from the album The Fragile | |
| Released | September 21, 1999 |
| Recorded | Nothing Studios New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S. |
| Length | 3:49 |
| Label | Nothing Records |
| Songwriter | Trent Reznor |
| Producers | Trent Reznor, Alan Moulder |
It features Mike Garson on piano, who is known for his work with David Bowie and The Smashing Pumpkins. Additional layers of guitars are performed by Danny Lohner and Adrian Belew.[1] There is a thick fuzz texture to some of the guitar tracks, while others trigger synth patches rather than traditional guitar sounds.[2] The song's time signature is 4/4 in the intro but once the drums enter it changes to 10/4 (4 + 6).
A live video of "Just Like You Imagined" appears on the DVD version of And All That Could Have Been,[3] with some of Garson's technically challenging piano tracks substituted by a theremin played by Charlie Clouser. There is a video of live rehearsal footage at Nothing Studios in New Orleans from 2000 on the Nine Inch Nails website.[4] The song was played during the encore in the Fragility tour.[5]
In 2013, Rolling Stone rated "Just Like You Imagined" as the 25th best rock instrumental of all time. [6]
In popular culture
- The song was used as background music in the Japanese reality show Terrace House: Boys × Girls Next Door.
- It was used by Electronic Arts in one of the promotional trailers of the 2011 first-person shooter, Crysis 2.
