Capital G
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| Single by Nine Inch Nails from the album Year Zero |
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| Released | June 11, 2007 | ||||
| Format | Vinyl | ||||
| Recorded | 2006 | ||||
| Genre | Industrial rock | ||||
| Length | 3:49 | ||||
| Label | Interscope | ||||
| Producer | Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross | ||||
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"Capital G" is a single by Nine Inch Nails, the second from their 2007 album Year Zero. It is the seventh track on the album. A promo CD was released on April 2, 2007, and What Records stated the single and was released on June 11 on vinyl.[1] As of May 2007, Trent Reznor has no plans of releasing the single in CD format.
The song was first played on radio on April 4, 2007. As of April 27, 2007, "Capital G" is listed on the Mediabase Jump![2] and Taking Off[3] charts, which record the track's increase in radio airplay over 7 days. "Capital G" officially became available for airplay on May 14-15,[4] although it received the most adds in the alternative category during the week of April 27, according to Radio & Records.[5]
The song is available for download as an "exhibit" in WAV format at exterminal.net, a website within the Year Zero alternate reality game revealed by decrypting a binary code sequence on the Year Zero's thermo-chrome disc when heated.
On April 26, 2007, the official Year Zero website published the multitrack audio files of "Capital G" for Garageband and Logic Pro, as well as WAV files for other applications.[6][7]
"Capital G" reached number 6 on Billboard's Modern Rock Tracks, becoming Nine Inch Nails' fifth consecutive top-ten single in this chart.
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[edit] Meaning
Trent Reznor said that the "G" stands for "Greed,"[8] though numerous reviews of the album speculate that "G" refers specifically to George W. Bush.[9][10][11][12]
[edit] The single
"Capital G" was not released with a Halo number due to Trent Reznor's increasing awareness of the overpricing of retail music, and his record label's alleged plans to overprice Halo releases to take advantage of Nine Inch Nails' dedicated fan base.[13] Art collaborator Rob Sheridan confirmed this fact:
| “ | It will not be a halo. It's a simple 9" vinyl release the record company really wanted to put out - Europe only, I believe. Side A is Capital G, side B is the Dave Sitek Survivalism remix. It will be nice for the people who have the 9" collector box, but we kept a halo # off of it because it doesn't warrant one, and so regular collectors wouldn't feel any pressure to pick it up just for the sake of completeness. | „ |
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[edit] Track listing
[edit] CD: Interscope / NINCAPGCDP1 (US)
- "Capital G" (album) - 3:51
- "Capital G" (edit) - 3:49
- US promo CD
[edit] CD: Interscope / INTR-12230-2 (US)
- "Capital G" (Phones 666 RPM Mix) - 7:23
- "Capital G" (Switch Remix) - 5:01
- US promo CD
[edit] 9": Interscope / 173 613-9 (UK)
- "Capital G" (Album Version) - 3:49
- "Survivalism" (Dave Sitek Remix) - 4:30
[edit] Personnel
- Trent Reznor - lyrics, performance
- Josh Freese – drums
- Geoff "Double G" Gallegos – baritone saxophone
- Matt Demeritt – tenor saxophone
- Elizabeth Lea – trombone
- William Artope – trumpet
- Atticus Ross - production
[edit] Chart positions
| Chart | Peak position |
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| Modern Rock Tracks[14] | 6 |
| Mainstream Rock Tracks[14] | 25 |
| UK Singles Chart[citation needed] | 140 |
[edit] External links
[edit] References
- ^ Capital G [Halo 25]. What Records mailing list (2007-04-26). Retrieved on 2007-04-27.
- ^ 7 Day Charts - Jump! - Alternative. Mediabase (2007-04-19). Retrieved on 2007-04-19.
- ^ 7 Day Charts - Taking Off - Alternative. Mediabase (2007-04-19). Retrieved on 2007-04-19.
- ^ Active & Mainstream Rock Available For Airplay. FMQB (April 2007). Retrieved on 2007-04-27.
- ^ Alternative Most Added. Radio & Records (2007-04-27). Retrieved on 2007-04-27.
- ^ Year Zero. Nine Inch Nails (2007-04-26). Retrieved on 2007-04-27.
- ^ Multitracks for 3 YZ songs posted on nin.com. The NIN Hotline (2007-04-26). Retrieved on 2008-01-10.
- ^ (German) Torsten Groß (2007-04-12). Interview: Nine Inch Nails: Der Apokalyptische Reiter. Retrieved on 2007-04-18.
- ^ Glenn Gamboa (2007-04-17). This apocalypse grooves to a beat. Newsday. Retrieved on 2007-04-19. “He hangs satiric attacks on President George W. Bush and the Republican party in "Capital G."”
- ^ Dan Aquilante (2007-04-15). A Good 'Year'. New York Post. Retrieved on 2007-04-19. “Even though the "Year Zero" story is set 12 years in the future, the 16-song disc is anchored in the present with not-so-veiled references to President Bush, who's portrayed as a war monger in "Capital G."”
- ^ James Munson (2007-04-18). Nine Inch Nails - Year Zero Review [2]. 411mania. Retrieved on 2007-04-19. “He mutters the insult “mo-tha-fu-ckers” in the most absurd manner possible on the 80’s synth-pop, Bush-bashing “Capital G”.”
- ^ Jason Nahrung (2007-04-19). Dark days ahead. The Courier-Mail. Retrieved on 2007-04-19. “Nowhere is the target of his ire more obvious than on the bouncy little ditty, Capital G, which embraces the big end of town as well as Dubya.”
- ^ Daniel Kreps. "Nine Inch Nails’ Trent Reznor Slams Records Labels for Sorry State of the Industry", Rolling Stone, 2007-05-14. Retrieved on 2007-06-02.
- ^ a b Billboard Music Charts - Search Results - Nine Inch Nails. Billboard. Retrieved on 2007-09-28.
