I heard "Love Rollercoaster" playing in public recently and actually got legitimately confused when Trent Reznor didn't come in. And then I realized 'Oh wait, this is like an actual song isn't it'. Congratulations Neil, you officially broke me.
He's using all of the common supermarket top 100 tracks they never stop playing to gaslight your ass every time you go out in public. If that ain't art I don't know what is.
Eventually, after listening to these songs enough, the samples stop being samples. They start to bleed together until they're indistinguishable from each other and you start to forget the original songs. The reach a fluid state until you hear one on the radio months later and go "Oh yeah, that's an _actual song!_" The _Mouth_ saga is a trip, man.
I went to Germany and heard this song at a Hard Rock Café. I was first like, "cool, people here like Love Rollercoaster", then I heard "I wanna FUNK YA like an animal" and I was like oh, you got me.
Okay but imagine a music video for this song. Trent Reznor in a skating rink, doing some funky moves, but the place is all gross and decayed, with hanging bodies in BDSM garb everywhere, and theres this weird filter on the camera to make everything a little more grey scaled. But Trent is skating and having a good ol' time.
+Brandon Shaffer I actually _found_ Neil through Hank Green. Apparently he's a big fan. I listened to Mouth Sounds on his recommendation in his podcast and never looked back. I owe a lot to Hank Green.
companion robot More specifically, it's the last syllable of "SHED" that's in 6.25% speed. Nails, preferably the nine inch variety, are the sharpest tool in the shed.
THE FACT THAT YOU CAN STILL FAINTLY HEAR THE SCREAM FROM LOVE ROLLERCOASTER IS TERRIFYING You'll only hear it when you *know* it's there.. like you're waiting for it..
Brings back unpleasant memories of being 5 and sneaking downstairs at night to watch MTV and the video for the original "Closer" coming on and SCARING ME HALF TO DEATH.
The scream heard at 2:13 is from Trent Reznor getting beaten up by the Ohio Players and the ghost of Ester Cordet after he broke into their studio and interrupted their song
You know, this was the first Neil Cicierega song I heard and I didn't know he did mashups, nor did I know the two original songs, and I honestly thought this was an original song. Also, I'd unironically walk down the aisle to this song if I ever were to get married.
watching someone experience this for the first time is beautiful. they were so happy for 25 seconds and then they broke down laughing and saying “its a closer mashup”
Ah, Neil kept the infamous Rollercoaster blood curdling scream at 2:32 ... when the song came out, rumors abounded that a woman was murdered adjacent to the studio the Ohio Players were recording in, and the mics picked up her scream. (Seriously, look it up ... those urban legends persist to this day.)
I finally figured it out. Music is like alchemy. The sound of the vocals and sound of the instrumental combined make a band. Mixing two different bands results in a different sound. This sounds like a New Radicals song, for example, and Mullet with Vampire Wings sounds like a Billy Idol song. Neil has mastered the theoretical "lead to gold" of this alchemy and has created much more valuable things besides.
NeilQue2t: Neil, meanwhile, rides a rollercoaster in peace, before hearing a repeated cry of 'help me'. Leaving his old life behind, Neil proceeds to follow his otherworldly calling.
when i listen to this i imagine that trent is still trying to be all dark and broody in spite of the funk going on in the background around him and he keeps getting cut off during the chorus when he tries to say “fuck you” and he just gets increasingly frustrated as it goes on (as evidenced by his screaming of “liKE AN ANIMAL” the second time in the second chorus)
I’m in the same boat here. I’ve listened to this so, so many times though. If I focus really hard I can hear the original Closer if I imagine the vocals from this track and the Instrumentals from Closerflies from Mouth Dreams
I love how the intro actually fits the album cover. Edit: what I mean by this, is that the intro sounds like you are in a blank room, and then suddenly the music fades in very slowly. The album cover seems to have a blank room type background.
tbh i like how the “You can help my [I don’t understand what this says.]! You can help the hate that it brings! You! Can! Help! My! Absence of faith! You can help my everything!” sounds like an ad
Every time I listen to the original Love Rollercoaster(or the RHCP cover), my mind automatically puts "you get me closer to God" at the end of the chorus, it just fits too well
Love Rollercoaster reminds me of growing up in the seventies, and Closer reminds me of my early twenties when Nine Inch Nails was the soundtrack to my life. So thank you, Neil!
Really funny that Closer floods my tiktok feed now and I can't not think of this version. I'm waiting for someone to start using it, it seems inevitable.
its crazy how the mellotron choir from closer sounds like some deep south church choir in this song. if you would've told me it was lifted from a nine inch nails song i wouldn't believe you
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One thing I will never get tired of when it comes to Neil’s music is just finding out little things that make you think “Huh! Maybe that’s why these two songs are paired!” Like, of course there’s the infamous rumor of the woman being murdered during the recording of Love Rollercoaster, that alone has a certain Downward Spiral je ne sais quoi, but also Funny enough, the album that Love Rollercoaster comes from is named Honey! I wonder if Neil thinks about these kinda things, it wouldn’t surprise me LMAO
honestly never expected to like this mashup as much as i do. i feel like if i were to go back and listen to the original 'closer' id start throwing in 'say what's where they dont belong lmao
“You let me violate you ...” “Say WHAT!?”
This must have been what Yaoi Shipping between Gandhi and George Washington Carver was like.
@@TheAzureNightmare the WHAT
@@jay-tbl A jokey reference to Clone High's "Say WHAAAAAT?" meme.
0:25
☠
this is just Oingo Boingo
*_christ_*
I'd compare it to New Radicals.
Ah I really was six years late.
Needs more exotic percussion instruments to be Oingo Boingo.
PLEASE OMYJDJHDKXHJSSK
I heard "Love Rollercoaster" playing in public recently and actually got legitimately confused when Trent Reznor didn't come in. And then I realized 'Oh wait, this is like an actual song isn't it'.
Congratulations Neil, you officially broke me.
LMAO
Neil has ruined every song for me, The crafty bugger
This happened to me with the backing song to Tiger from Mouth Moods
He's using all of the common supermarket top 100 tracks they never stop playing to gaslight your ass every time you go out in public. If that ain't art I don't know what is.
this happened to me in the car the other day, and i had to explain to my mother in a fit of laughter why i reacted like that
My husband is so lucky I didn't hear this before our wedding.
Why?
@@cazalugias1135 She would have left him for Neil.
@@ddpnh8223 oh, like if she could?
@@cazalugias1135 I thought they meant they'd use this song at their wedding, lmao
this
this funny.
i'll keep this in mind
I really like how more and more of Trent's instrumentation creeps in as the song plays on, yet the funk is never ruined.
yo can't stop the funk baby!
To be fair, the original is pretty funky too. Somewhat.
This is such a good observation!!
Closer isn't exactly not funky.
@@maztergamer1016closer is funky as hell. NIN are in general. There's a reason he thanks Prince in the pretty hate machine liner notes.
Eventually, after listening to these songs enough, the samples stop being samples. They start to bleed together until they're indistinguishable from each other and you start to forget the original songs. The reach a fluid state until you hear one on the radio months later and go "Oh yeah, that's an _actual song!_"
The _Mouth_ saga is a trip, man.
I heard the opening of Wonderwall on the radio recently and I knew all the lyrics, entirely from Neil.
ConSolo even the Full House theme?
Imagine what it's like if Neil Cicierga is your first exposure to a song. Like, I never heard Cloudbusting before Orgonon Gurlz.
Rusty Shackleford Cloudbusting actually feels a bit emptier without Katy Perry in it.
Happens to me with "Swet Dreams Are Made Of Seven Nation Army"
The original songs now sound empty.
had this song stuck in my head for months, came back for some RollerClosure
**points finger guns** Ayyyyyyyy
He could probably even make Rollercoaster of Love and Closure by Chevelle work
I fucking hate you.
Danielle Stanley what do you mean
I love him. 10/10 punplay gunplay
That's my boy
Angry Disco is a genre we need more of.
this is horny disco. get your facts correct before you comment.
Agreed
Someone already said it but.... Oingo Boingo.
Isnt that just Industrial
Grumble Groove?
I W A N N A B O O G I E L I K E A N A N I M A L
G E T D O W N
SAY WHAT?
O O H O O H O O H O O
*Brazilian dancing dog*
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I went to Germany and heard this song at a Hard Rock Café. I was first like, "cool, people here like Love Rollercoaster", then I heard "I wanna FUNK YA like an animal" and I was like oh, you got me.
The fact that you heard this anywhere in public is absolutely amazing
Absolutely
I love germany
How in the fuck.
YOU MEAN YOU HEARD A NEIL CICIEREGA SONG, IN A HARD ROCK CAFE?
Okay but imagine a music video for this song. Trent Reznor in a skating rink, doing some funky moves, but the place is all gross and decayed, with hanging bodies in BDSM garb everywhere, and theres this weird filter on the camera to make everything a little more grey scaled. But Trent is skating and having a good ol' time.
Why aren't we funding this?
I will give Trent all of my money for this to exist
SteelStringD20 It's what he deserves
We should animate this!
There should be a shot where he's skating down, and high-fiving all the hanging bodies.
It's surprisingly hard to worry about death while listening to this.
Andrew Fullerton life finds a way
best review ever.
Same as fapping at funerals.
I find it difficult to think about anything while listening to this. Except maybe "I wanna boogie like an animal."
That's because this is the backing track to one's self-destruction
So I have no previous knowledge of either of these songs by themselves, so it all sounds just like one song
basically my experience with like half the songs
Meanwhile I, a fan of Love Rollercoaster as performed by Red Hot Chili Peppers and Closer by Nine Inch Nails, am losing my goddamned mind
Martyred Markus is the pain as excruciating as I would imagine
@@DirectorTaffy It's sublime
odd that you would point that out without knowing of either song, it makes me think maybe you did know about at least one of them
Neil Cicierega is a national treasure
We just can't let Nicholas Cage steal him. (Harder then you'd expect, trust me)
*Nicolas Cage bursts in*
" *I'M GONNA KIDNAP NEIL CICIEREGA.* "
@@bronzewolf6464 LOVED the National Treasure movies!
One of the most underrated parts is 1:57 where it has the background singers singing the synth part from Closer.
Yeah!
Woah lol I didn't even notice that till I read your comment
This whole time I legit thought that was the actual synth part ripped from Closer
HOLY SHIT HOW DID I NOT NOTICE THAT
Wow! great ear! Totally missed that.
That first "SAY WHAT?" really hits different here.
i heard this over the speakers at a purity ring concert last night i could not believe my ears
+Alexander Villiers Astounding.
+Alexander Villiers Purity Ring is awesome
This was playing as filler music in between sets during Hank Green's concert a couple weeks ago
Wow, awesome!
+Brandon Shaffer I actually _found_ Neil through Hank Green. Apparently he's a big fan. I listened to Mouth Sounds on his recommendation in his podcast and never looked back. I owe a lot to Hank Green.
“I wanna *boogie* like an animal”
Wholesome :)
💃💃💃
why isn’t this track called Nine Inch Neils
PornHub is why.
C.W. Rudy you got me there
@@CWargh63 ???
@@clamdove3292 there could already be a star on there named neil, no need to go stepping on potential toes
he doesn't like to brag
i know the drone at the beginning is part of all star slowed down but god damn if it doesnt make the intro sound 100x more awesome
companion robot More specifically, it's the last syllable of "SHED" that's in 6.25% speed.
Nails, preferably the nine inch variety, are the sharpest tool in the shed.
It's interesting because I've actually seen this done in TV shows to create wind and low air conditioner sounds.
that can't be right, as mouth silence doesn't have any smash mouth samples in it AT ALL as said by Neil himself, hence the name
ThatoneBritishidiot Oh, that’s not the only Smash Mouth reference, bud.
@@ineedabetterpfp2485 oh no way. tell me some.
THE FACT THAT YOU CAN STILL FAINTLY HEAR THE SCREAM FROM LOVE ROLLERCOASTER IS TERRIFYING
You'll only hear it when you *know* it's there.. like you're waiting for it..
I like to picture Trent Reznor performing this with the Ohio Players, and nobody warned them about Trent's lyrics.
I'm 10 seconds in. I'm gonna fucking lose it if this is NIN....
+Derpancakes Were you lost
Nine inch Nails lmfao
he's lost, son.
Try not to lose what ever you have
Vaping Fury He lost it so hard hes in Timbuktu
This brings me closer to god
glad there's another trans person in the comments tbh????
Alex O'Leary yes
@@aster_nova neil cicierega might just be the lgbtq+ community's favourite music artist lol
@@neoncaelestis Can confirm
@@neoncaelestis How so?
Brings back unpleasant memories of being 5 and sneaking downstairs at night to watch MTV and the video for the original "Closer" coming on and SCARING ME HALF TO DEATH.
Oh wait, you're the same person from the Smooth comment section
SAME
I GOT EXTREMELY SCARED OF THE LIVE VERSION TOO
@@ChickenTenderBender Yeah but I was fine next time I saw the video
i love closer but whenever i listen i always think to myself "say what" and "oo hoo hoo hoo" whenever mr reznor starts singing
alternatively, people who listen to love rollercoaster can now only hear “help me” :D
The scream heard at 2:13 is from Trent Reznor getting beaten up by the Ohio Players and the ghost of Ester Cordet after he broke into their studio and interrupted their song
When I first heard this, and the vocals kicked in, I felt like I was having a stroke
Neil’s default STATE is that of a stroke.
You know, this was the first Neil Cicierega song I heard and I didn't know he did mashups, nor did I know the two original songs, and I honestly thought this was an original song. Also, I'd unironically walk down the aisle to this song if I ever were to get married.
S A Y W H A T
watching someone experience this for the first time is beautiful. they were so happy for 25 seconds and then they broke down laughing and saying “its a closer mashup”
>Is going through Neil Cicierega music
>Sees "Rollercloser"
Oh my god, did he do what I think he has? Yes he has.
10/10
I WANNA~boogie~LIKE AN ANIMAL
this is going in my "going on holiday with family while chronically depressed" playlist
Ah, Neil kept the infamous Rollercoaster blood curdling scream at 2:32 ... when the song came out, rumors abounded that a woman was murdered adjacent to the studio the Ohio Players were recording in, and the mics picked up her scream. (Seriously, look it up ... those urban legends persist to this day.)
Dont know whats worse, this or getting tanned to death
That's an interesting one. However it was explained by one of the band members as Billy Beck doing an "inhaling scream" over several guitar tracks.
Spooky.
@@mrlevinielsen That just makes it funny.
@@logoncal3001 i was thinking that tooo
I finally figured it out. Music is like alchemy. The sound of the vocals and sound of the instrumental combined make a band.
Mixing two different bands results in a different sound. This sounds like a New Radicals song, for example, and Mullet with Vampire Wings sounds like a Billy Idol song.
Neil has mastered the theoretical "lead to gold" of this alchemy and has created much more valuable things besides.
neil IS the philosopher's stone
Neil is inhumanly good at it! I would say he’s not even human!
maverick FAKE
NeilQue2t: Neil, meanwhile, rides a rollercoaster in peace, before hearing a repeated cry of 'help me'. Leaving his old life behind, Neil proceeds to follow his otherworldly calling.
listen to the *mouth* trilogy too long and you stop hearing what normal music sounds like
oh so that's what's been happening
its quadrilogy now
I DONT KNOW ANY OF THE ORIGINAL SONGS BUT THIS ACTUALLY SLAPS
after you have heard the cicierega versions you dont have to know the originals anymore as they only sound as rough demos in comparison
Closer - Nine Inch Nails
@@butter5084 Pretty much the best song of the 90's
@@philipguess1609 So true my friend
I can imagine a whole bunch of 80 year old people square dancing to this song and it scares me
LMAO!!
Grandma let’s take you home I think you got a bit too drunk
that would be a cool music video ngl
*NO*
Lots of fringe, bell bottom jeans, plunging necklines, glittery jewelry. And that's just the men.
0:24 sounds like the drummer tripped while descending some stairs & only _barely_ regained his balance in time to avoid a broken neck
Some of the artists sampled in Neil's albums need to perform these mashups at a concert.
Imma be honest this song is kinda hot
it’s true
TRUE the groove makes it so you can’t think too hard abt the lyrics
no it dfeinitely is
indeed it is
when i listen to this i imagine that trent is still trying to be all dark and broody in spite of the funk going on in the background around him and he keeps getting cut off during the chorus when he tries to say “fuck you” and he just gets increasingly frustrated as it goes on (as evidenced by his screaming of “liKE AN ANIMAL” the second time in the second chorus)
"You get me closer to God."
Sounds about right.
*My whole existence is flawed...*
*I ROLLERCOASTER TO GOD*
the rollercoaster to God sounds terrifying
Basically ride warriors
i rollercloser to god...
This song cheers me up whenever I feel down in a way that "regular" groovy songs never could.
This is INSANE! I love it. Industrial Disco.
play it at 1.25 speed,,, whole diff song,wow
kstarpictures Now that would be a delicious genre
AlwaysGonnaSing I want that to be a genre now
kstarpictures check out My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult if you're interested in industrial disco (depends on the album you listen to)
The Gay Robot Sheep Fucker Ooh that sounds very cool! Thanks!
For once I haven't heard any of the songs this is made of, so this actually sounds like a pretty good piece of regular music.
The instrumental is Love Rollercoaster by the Ohio Players while the vocals are Closer by Nine Inch Nails. They're both great songs on their own
I’m in the same boat here. I’ve listened to this so, so many times though. If I focus really hard I can hear the original Closer if I imagine the vocals from this track and the Instrumentals from Closerflies from Mouth Dreams
This has "my whole existence is fun" vibes
Nobody told me what the "love" in "Love Rollercoaster" actually meant
I love how the intro actually fits the album cover.
Edit: what I mean by this, is that the intro sounds like you are in a blank room, and then suddenly the music fades in very slowly.
The album cover seems to have a blank room type background.
The “say what?” at 0:28 absolutely kills me every time!
this is an utterly brutal, hilarious, and disturbing mashup.
I love reading everyone's comments freking out about this mashup, because ive never heard either of these songs before and it sounds completely normal
When the goth kid hangs out with the theater kid
tbh i like how the “You can help my [I don’t understand what this says.]! You can help the hate that it brings! You! Can! Help! My! Absence of faith! You can help my everything!” sounds like an ad
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I CAN NOT BELIEVE NIEL DID A REMIX OF MY GRANDPAS BAND I can die happy now
Sofia Martinez
Please elaborate
@@Vitorio582 the original creator of the song love rollercoaster is my grandpa. Ohio players. His name is Leroy Bonner
@@Dogsnacc oh that's really cool. Your grandpa was very talented
@@Dogsnacc WHAT
this was a rollercloser from start to finish
my last two brain cells arguing with each other
This is probably one of the best songs on earth. I mean that.
Oh my God, this is fucking amazing.
Imagining Trent Reznor doing the Brooklyn Shuffle and pointing to the sky as he sings the line "closer to God."
Love Rollercoaster came on in public today and I had to fight the urge to sing along with an imaginary Trent Reznor…I lost.
Omg. You took two,of my favorite songs and made a beautiful baby
+TheBassgurl My thoughts exactly
You don't need a comma there, and you need a space after the comma anyway. Stop listening to music and do your english homework. Turn that F into a C.
+COYADD are you alright m8?
Bless this mess
This is the perfect example of TH-cam comments
I've heard a shitload of Closer remixes, even made one of my own, but this is the best by far.
Have you heard Closebusters?
Have you heard Neil's new one? Is closerflies from mouth dreams
@@howaboutnow1895 closerflies doesnt touch this at all
I WANNA boogie LIKE AN ANIMAL
*my whole existence is F U N K*
Every time I listen to the original Love Rollercoaster(or the RHCP cover), my mind automatically puts "you get me closer to God" at the end of the chorus, it just fits too well
I fucking love how the second verse legitimately sounds like funk singing lmfao
im getting rollercloser to a panic attack amirite up top
I see this in my head being a song played when rolling around killing zombies when the ever-impending Zombpacolypse happens for some reason
Definitely
With Khary Payton, of course!
Love Rollercoaster reminds me of growing up in the seventies, and Closer reminds me of my early twenties when Nine Inch Nails was the soundtrack to my life. So thank you, Neil!
Really funny that Closer floods my tiktok feed now and I can't not think of this version. I'm waiting for someone to start using it, it seems inevitable.
sᴏᴍᴇᴏɴᴇ ᴀᴄᴛᴜᴀʟʟʏ ᴍᴀᴅᴇ ᴛɢᴇ ᴡʜᴏʟᴇ ᴍᴀsʜᴜᴘ ᴀ sᴏᴜɴᴅ ɪᴛ’s ɢʀᴇᴀᴛ :))
And this is the reason why I will be late to class
Sorry teacher, I was listening to Mouth Silence
Sorry teacher, I was getting closer to god
this is honestly the greatest song ever produced
HOW DID I ONLY JUST REALIZE THIS SONG IS CALLED ROLLERCLOSER AND NOT ROLLERCOASTER
That's the pun
Goodbye actually blends into this quite well, with the drone at the start being the end of Goodbye.
its crazy how the mellotron choir from closer sounds like some deep south church choir in this song. if you would've told me it was lifted from a nine inch nails song i wouldn't believe you
So if I hear this right, its Nine Inch Nails to the beat of Ohio Players plus random bits of Kool & The Gang for good measure?
Todd Howard Pretty much. Funny thing is, the Ohio Players hail from Dayton, Ohio... NiN was formed in Cleveland, Ohio.
ye
Wow, so observant.
Todd what are you doing hear instead of harassing joel
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50% of the time i think that Closer is gonna just say
"I wanna *BOING* you like an animal"
and the other 50% is "funk you"
Yeah, Weird Al and Neil changed me too
I'm here for the closer rollercoaster. My daughter sent it to me from uni, and I have enough years to remember both separately, yet together ❤️!
i don’t even know what songs Neil sampled from so as far as i know these are the Originals
Lyrics: Closer by Nine inch Nails
Instrumental: Love Rollercoaster by Ohio Players
oh my god. im a huge nin fan and i approve
i feel like i just ate a pan of brownies with vodka
I wanna *_B O O G I E_* like an animal.
One thing I will never get tired of when it comes to Neil’s music is just finding out little things that make you think “Huh! Maybe that’s why these two songs are paired!”
Like, of course there’s the infamous rumor of the woman being murdered during the recording of Love Rollercoaster, that alone has a certain Downward Spiral je ne sais quoi, but also
Funny enough, the album that Love Rollercoaster comes from is named Honey! I wonder if Neil thinks about these kinda things, it wouldn’t surprise me LMAO
he is too genius for us mortals
Easily one of my favorite Neil mashups.
Someone should make a tier list of Neil’s mashups
Apparently Neil murdered someone while making this song
The scream is Billy Beck doing the thing Minnie Ripperton did to reach her high levels.
*Nice!*
He got burned by honey
i'd totally believe it if i hadn't seen the way he acts outside of his music
I'm happy that this is referencing the urban legend scream in Love Rollercoaster. I love this.
YOU GET ME CLOSER TO THE SUN
I can absolutely see someone murdering to this song.
i hate that this is how i got into nine inch nails
honestly never expected to like this mashup as much as i do. i feel like if i were to go back and listen to the original 'closer' id start throwing in 'say what's where they dont belong lmao
This gets stuck in my head almost as much as the two songs that make it up.
Ah yes it's a fine day for a Neil binge
This has to be my favourite track, it keeps getting in my head even if I've not listened to it for months.
Some real great stuff you're putting out, Neil. Definitely my favorite song on the album. Even if I can't listen to it on this platform.
Why do I envision Trent riding a tricycle while singing at 1:25
I've listened to this so many times that whenever Love Rollercoaster comes on I immediately go into fight or flight.
this song is slowly becoming the centre of my life
Best track on the album.