"Just Like You Imagined" is an

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from their 1999 album '' The Fragile''. It features Mike Garson on

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, who is known for his work with

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and

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. Additional layers of guitars are performed by

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and

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. There is a thick fuzz texture to some of the guitar tracks, while others trigger

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patches rather than traditional guitar sounds. The song's

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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'', with some of Garson's technically challenging piano tracks substituted by a

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played by Charlie Clouser. There is a video of live rehearsal footage at

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from 2000 on the Nine Inch Nails website. The song was played during the encore in the Fragility tour.

In popular culture

* The song was used in trailers for the 2007 film ''

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''. * The song was used as background music in the Japanese reality show '' Terrace House: Boys × Girls Next Door''. *It was used by

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in one of the promotional trailers of the 2011 first-person shooter, '' Crysis 2''.

References

External links

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