Song · Nine Inch Nails
“Less Than” by Nine Inch Nails
From the EP Add Violence (2017)
“Less Than” by Nine Inch Nails appears on 8 radio countdowns from 8 stations in 2017. It was first released in 2017 on the EP Add Violence. Its best result is #22 on the WBER Listener Countdown 2017. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #36 alternative song of 2017.
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"Less Than" opens Add Violence, the 2017 Nine Inch Nails EP, and when it arrived that July as the lead single it was the band's first since "Everything" in August 2013. Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross wrote, arranged and produced it, Reznor wrote the words and sings them, Alan Moulder mixed it, and it came out on the Null Corporation.
The video is a sly bit of paranoia. The camera stays tight on a woman locked onto a retro arcade game that spells out the lyrics as it plays, her eyes glazing over until a hand pushes out of the screen, a nod to Videodrome. The game is Polybius, the urban legend about an addictive cabinet supposedly used by shadowy government agents to harvest data on players, built for real by English designer Jeff Minter. The song reached No. 10 on Billboard's Mainstream Rock chart.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
Indie & Adult Alternative
Hard Rock & Metal
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 50 | 91X San Diego, CA / Tijuana | 91X Top 91 Songs of 2017 | 91 |
| 2017 | 59 | The Buzz Burlington, VT / Plattsburgh, NY / Montreal, QC | The Buzz Top 99 Songs of 2017 | 99 |
| 2017 | 60 | WERS 88.9 Boston, MA | WERS Top 88 Songs of 2017 | 88 |
| 2017 | 59 | 99 Rock Lebanon-Hanover-White River Junction, NH-VT | 99Rock WFRD Top 99 of 2017 | 99 |
| 2017 | 46 | X96 Salt Lake City, UT | X96 Top 50 Songs of 2017 | 50 |
| 2017 | 49 | 98KUPD Phoenix, AZ | 98KUPD Top 98 of 2017 | 98 |
| 2017 | 22 | WBER Rochester, NY | WBER Listener Countdown 2017 | 104 |
| 2017 | 71 | 102.7 WEQX Southern Vermont and the Capital District of New York (Albany) | WEQX Top 102.7 of 2017 | 103 |
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