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Hi,
Inspired by some nostalgic messages w/ mlbot, I've been revisiting much of the old Skinny Puppy catalog. I just want to open the floodgates of love for those guys in their heydays. I mean, seriously, Rabies, Cleanse Fold & Manipulate, Vivisect6 etc. everything through Last Rights really are such gorgeous gems of indignant, righteous protest music, with soooo much innovative sound design and approaches to e-composition.
Skinny Puppy is the shit.
So there.
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05/29/08
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mlbot
One of the songs off Last Rights sounds like Deep Down trauma Hounds or Addiction.
But I am not sure which cuz the track markers are all fuxored
05/29/08
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EsromCole
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Just downloaded Too Dark Park for like $3!!!
INDUSTRIAL FTW!!
05/29/08
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nightowl
skinny puppy was deranged, that why i liked them. they were great.
05/29/08
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utofbu
dude. they are awesome. And when they did that theme music for Descent the videogame back in the day it was WHASOME!
05/29/08
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Psyingo
rabies? really? rabies was WEAK
05/30/08
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Dizzygotheca
oh the joys...  this brings back so many mammories .. early nin, cabaret voltare... never got the whole nitzer ebb things tho.. ( although caught them live here in australia last year ) ..
i pulled out some of my old front 242 cd's the other day too... sigh
05/30/08
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deltasleep
yeah it's a real shame industrial "died." I never figured that out, because nobody ever stopped liking it. People just stopped making it and labels just didn't pick anybody new up to take their place.
I'll go grab a skinny puppy torrent now, I miss those records.
05/30/08
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deltasleep
oh man this reminded me how much I love bauhaus too.
05/30/08
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jkn
I had a couple of the 'back and forth' albums on the other day - some of the early 4-track type stuff... always fun. Cleanse, Fold was always my favorite entire album.
I saw Too Dark Park tour with about 20 people total in the audience... it was quite the crazy show. Even with the no turn out - they had the full stage show up, buckets of fake blood etc... It was a spectacle. Ironically - it made me a bit sick to my stomach... love the music infinitely more than the imagery and such they enjoyed.
Early haujobb is very skinny puppyish. Early covenant was more front 242 but had shades of puppy. Neither continued in that vein for very long. I'm still a haujobb fan though - love most of what daniel myer puts out.
Nitzer Ebb was fantastic live - opening for Depeche Mode (Violator / Showtime era).
I was a stupidly huge Cabaret Voltaire fan... I think I've got 30+ records from them and that's just on vinyl...
05/30/08
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mlbot
I saw Nitzer open up for DM, too.
I think people are still totally into industrial these days... its just that industrial music became nothing more than EBM and Electro-Synthpop.
Zzzzzzzzzz.
I miss the chaos of Skinny Puppy, which perhaps was a leftover from all the "true" industrial bands like TG, SPK, etc etc etc, or maybe was due to the fact that their equipment was, well, less-than-controlled. Sequencers with 500 VST plugins which can be 100% automated have led to music being very... sterile, imo. A little too precise.
thank got for Ruin + Wesen and the others and their little noise boxes. I might even forgive Ruin and his distaste for Rabies. Dumb kid. FTW?
05/30/08
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mlbot
Also, big LOL today, when I realized that Skinny Puppy is guilty of what so many Skinny-Puppy-wannabe bands were guilty of: naming themselves after Skinny Puppy lyrics and/or song titles.
aka Download.
05/30/08
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tantan
also saw too dark park tour in Portland, I thought it was totally mindblowing at the time
05/30/08
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RogerRoger
Last Rights is like a movie for your ears. An experience every time, for me. Fix the track markers yourself like I did, ml!
I like the pre-sampler, more progressive stuff on the early albums now, because of the gear, and how they used it in such a unique way.
I should get back into the later material, but atm I had a few listens to Hilt and Doubting Thomas, which was fun. Cyberaktif wasn't too bad either.
Every time I'm reminded of DRG and the fatal Heroin dose, it sickens me to think this drug exists. It's destroyed so many great musicians.
05/30/08
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MonkeyPlus1
rabies might not be their best album, but "Worlock" is a fucking masterpiece
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05/30/08
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tantan
yes, Worlock is possibly my favorite of their songs ever, so I can forgive any other weaknesses Rabies might have (although overall I'm pretty fond of that album)
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