Just Like You Imagined

"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(s)	Trent Reznor
Producer(s)	Trent Reznor, Alan Moulder

"Just Like You Imagined" is an instrumental by Nine Inch Nails from their 1999 album The Fragile .

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 in trailers for the 2007 film 300 . ^{[7] [8]}

• 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 .

References

1. Reznor, Trent (1999). The Fragile (last page) [CD liner notes]. New Orleans: Nothing Records.
2. Derek Donovan (1999-09-29). "This side up Nine Inch Nails' The Fragile exhibits a refined formula" (fee required). The Kansas City Star . Retrieved 2008-02-21.
3. Ted Reinert (2002-02-01). "Reznor and co. shine with new live album". The Bowdoin Orient . Archived from the original on 2008-10-07. Retrieved 2008-02-19.
   Mark Brown (2002-01-25). "Live Nails anything but rusty" (fee required). Rocky Mountain News . Retrieved 2008-02-21.
   Clint Zavodny (2002-01-24). "DVD Review: Nine Inch Nails DVD a Reznor D.I.Y. project". Daily O'Collegian . Archived from the original (fee required) on 2011-05-17. Retrieved 2008-02-21.
4. Nine inch nails - Just Like You Imagined Rehersal(sic) on YouTube
5. "'Fragile' not the word for Nine Inch Nails \ Reznor and company blast into centrum" (fee required). Telegram & Gazette . 2000-05-03. Retrieved 2008-02-21.
6. "The Twenty-Five Best Rock Instrumentals |Rolling Stone". Rolling Stone . 2013-08-03. Archived from the original on 2013-08-03. Retrieved 2018-11-25.
7. Tim Swift (2007-03-17). "Dominic West bats '300' in new flick: 'The Wire' actor to answer questions from audience at the Senator tonight". Baltimore Sun . Retrieved 2008-02-21.
   Josh Friedman (2007-03-12). "Word of mouth feeds record debut for '300'; The Spartan-heroism epic scores the highest March opening ever, grossing $70 million" (fee required). Los Angeles Times . pp. C1. Retrieved 2008-02-21.^{[ permanent dead link ]}
   Sébastien Delahaye, Bruno Icher (2007-03-14). "Puissance "300"". Libération (in French). Retrieved 2008-02-21.
8. "ITunes Movie Trailers".

External links

• "Just Like You Imagined" live @ Henry Fonda Theater, LA 9.08.09 at Vimeo