Song · Nine Inch Nails
“Burn” by Nine Inch Nails
Released 1994
“Burn” by Nine Inch Nails appears on 3 radio countdowns from 2 stations between 1994 and 1999. It was first released in 1994. Its best result is #81 on the Q101 Top 101 Songs of 1994. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #244 alternative song of 1994 and #4,428 alternative song of all time.
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"Burn" was Trent Reznor's contribution to the soundtrack of Natural Born Killers in 1994, sent out on Nothing Records as a promotional single rather than tucked onto a Nine Inch Nails album. Reznor wrote, produced and engineered it himself, with Chris Vrenna adding extra drums, and it's industrial metal at full scorch.
Reznor co-directed the video with Hank Corwin, performing in front of a projection screen that flickers with stock footage and scenes from the film, the same rear-projection trickery the movie itself leans on; the critic Csaba Toth later read it as a comment on the ruins of modern progress. The song finally found a home on The Downward Spiral when its 10th anniversary deluxe edition arrived in 2004, and live versions turned up on KROQ Christmas 2005 and the concert film Beside You in Time.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1994 | 81 | Q101 Chicago, IL | Q101 Top 101 Songs of 1994 | 101 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 318 | Q101 | Q101 Top 1,011 Songs of All-Time (December 1999) | 1017 |
| 1999 | 924 | 107.7 The End | The End Top 1077 Songs of All-Time (December 1999) | 1077 |
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