Skinny Puppy discography

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Skinny Puppy discography
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Studio albums12
EPs2
Live albums4
Compilation albums11
Singles14
Video albums3
Music videos10

The Canadian electro-industrial band Skinny Puppy has released twelve studio albums and two extended plays along with a number of live albums, compilations, and singles. The group formed in 1982 and released its debut EP, Back & Forth , in 1984. [1] Later that year, Skinny Puppy was picked up by Nettwerk and released another EP, Remission , in December 1984. The band's first studio album, 1985's Bites , [2] was its last with the original lineup of vocalist Nivek Ogre and producer / multi-instrumentalist cEvin Key; Dwayne Goettel joined in 1986, [3] and the band released its next two albums, Mind: The Perpetual Intercourse and Cleanse Fold and Manipulate , in 1986 and 1987 respectively. [1]

Contents

VIVIsectVI (1988), Skinny Puppy's fourth album, was one of the band's most well-received efforts, placing on Melody Maker's best of 1988 list and garnering several retrospective accolades. [4] [5] [6] Bradley Torreano of AllMusic hailed the album as a masterpiece, and Jim Harper of the same publication saw VIVIsectVI as the beginning of electro-industrial music. [7] [3] Rabies followed VIVIsectVI in 1989 and marked the band experimenting with industrial metal thanks to the influence of Ministry frontman Al Jourgensen. [8] [9] Key and Goettel expressed dissatisfaction with the album, [10] and Skinny Puppy quickly returned to the studio for its sixth album, 1990's Too Dark Park .

Too Dark Park was another critical highlight of the band's career, [3] [11] [12] [13] and Key described it as a return to form for Skinny Puppy. [10] [14] [15] In 1992, with the band on the brink of dissolution due to Ogre's worsening drug addiction, [16] [17] Last Rights was released and saw the band pushing further into extreme noise territory. [18] [19] The making of Skinny Puppy's next and eighth album, The Process (which would eventually be released in 1996), was fraught with difficulties both internal and external; the band shifted to a new record label with a new recording studio and new producers, Ogre left, Goettel died of a heroin overdose, and the band ultimately dissolved with the album unfinished. [20] Following dissolution, Skinny Puppy released several compilations and a live improvisation album titled Puppy Gristle (which had been recorded in 1993). [21] Ogre and Key reunited in 2000 and a year later released a live album documenting Skinny Puppy's revival. [22] The band returned to the studio and released The Greater Wrong of the Right in 2004, Mythmaker in 2007, HanDover in 2011, and Weapon in 2013. [1]

Albums

Studio albums

TitleAlbum detailsPeak chart positionsNotes
US
[23] 		US Heat
[24] 		US Taste
[25] 		US Indie
[26] 		US Dance
[27] 		CAN
[28] 		SWE
[29] 		GER
Alt
[30]
Bites ————————
  • Reissued in 1993 with eight bonus tracks [31]
  • Certified gold in Canada in 1994 [32]
Mind: The Perpetual Intercourse
  • Released: September 5, 1986
  • Label: Nettwerk, Play It Again Sam
  • Format: LP, CD, cassette
————————
Cleanse Fold and Manipulate
  • Released: June 25, 1987
  • Label: Nettwerk
  • Format: LP, CD, cassette
——————55
[33] 		—
  • The end of the last track segues into the beginning of the first track, forming a loop [34]
VIVIsectVI
  • Released: September 12, 1988
  • Label: Nettwerk
  • Format: LP, CD, cassette
—————94——
  • Only Skinny Puppy album to credit Dave Ogilvie as a full member of the band [35]
Rabies
  • Released: November 20, 1989
  • Label: Nettwerk
  • Format: LP, CD, cassette
—————88——
Too Dark Park
  • Released: October 30, 1990
  • Label: Nettwerk
  • Format: LP, CD, cassette
————————
  • Regarded by the band as a return to form after the musical departure of Rabies [14] [15]
Last Rights
  • Released: March 1992
  • Label: Nettwerk
  • Format: LP, CD, cassette
19310——————
  • Much of the album features extended instrumental passages due to Nivek Ogre's drug addiction preventing him from producing complete vocals [37]
The Process 1021———3048—
  • Last Skinny Puppy album to feature contributions from Goettel (died in 1995) [3]
The Greater Wrong of the Right 1767—9———1
  • Skinny Puppy's first reunion album after dissolving in 1995 [1]
Mythmaker
  • Released: January 30, 2007
  • Label: Synthetic Symphony
  • Format: CD, LP
200412175———
  • Vinyl issues included three bonus tracks [38]
Handover
  • Released: October 25, 2011
  • Label: SPV GmbH
  • Format: CD
168318379———
  • Experienced the longest recording period of any Skinny Puppy album [39]
Weapon
  • Released: May 28, 2013
  • Label: Metropolis
  • Format: CD, LP
140224214—601
  • Based on the band learning that its music had been used for torturing prisoners in Guantanamo Bay [40]
  • Originally intended to be released with a manual detailing how to use the music to torture people [41]
"—" denotes a title that did not chart or was not released in that territory.

Extended plays

TitleEP detailsNotes
Back & Forth
  • Released: 1984
  • Label: self-released
  • Format: cassette
Remission
  • Released: December 1984
  • Label: Nettwerk
  • Format: LP, CD, cassette
  • Reissued in 1985 and 1993 with five bonus tracks, retroactively expanding it to the length of a studio album [43]
  • Certified gold in Canada in 2000 [44]

Compilation albums

TitleAlbum detailsNotes
Bites and Remission
  • Released: 1987
  • Label: Nettwerk
  • Format: CD
  • Mixes the track listings of various Remission and Bites issues and substitutes two songs for remixes [45]
Remission & Bites
  • Released: 1987
  • Label: Play It Again Sam
  • Format: CD
  • Preserves Remission and Bites releases in their original forms [46]
Twelve Inch Anthology
  • Released: 1989
  • Label: Nettwerk
  • Format: LP, CD, cassette
Back and Forth Series Two
  • Released: October 13, 1992
  • Label: Nettwerk
  • Format: CD
  • A remastered, expanded, and reissued version of Skinny Puppy's debut EP, Back & Forth [42]
Brap: Back and Forth Series 3 & 4
  • Released: April 30, 1996
  • Label: Nettwerk, EMI
  • Format: CD
  • First disc comprises mostly instrumental demos from 1983 and 1984 while the second comprises mostly live recordings from 1990 [49] [50]
  • Charted on Billboard 's Top Heatseekers at 39 [24]
Skinned
  • Released: 1998
  • Label: Time + Space
  • Format: CD
  • Compiles many of the samples employed in Skinny Puppy's music [51]
The Singles Collect
  • Released: November 16, 1999
  • Label: Nettwerk
  • Format: CD
  • Compiles the band's singles up to and through 1992's Last Rights alongside a few tracks that were not released individually [52]
B-Sides Collect
  • Released: November 16, 1999
  • Label: Nettwerk
  • Format: CD
  • Compiles many of the B-sides from Skinny Puppy's singles [53]
Back and Forth 06Six
  • Compiles early (1982–85) Skinny Puppy improvisations, live recordings, and demos as well as unreleased material from The Process (1996) [54]
Back & Forth Vol7
  • Released: May 2007
  • Label: Subconscious Communications
  • Format: CD

Live albums

TitleAlbum detailsPeak chart positionsNotes
US Heat
[24] 		GER
Ain't It Dead Yet? ——
  • Recorded on May 31, 1987 at Toronto Concert Hall [56]
Doomsday (Back and Forth 5)
  • Released: August 21, 2001
  • Label: Nettwerk
  • Formats: CD
—15
The Greater Wrong of the Right Live
  • Released: September 27, 2005
  • Label: Nettwerk
  • Formats: DVD
——
  • Recorded over two nights (November 9 and 11, 2004) in Montreal and Toronto [58]
  • The second disc includes a documentary on the Iraq War titled Information Warfare (directed by William Morrison) as well as archival live footage from 1988, 1990, and 1992 [58]
Bootlegged, Broke and in Solvent Seas
  • Released: June 12, 2012
  • Label: Metropolis
  • Formats: CD
462
  • Recorded over several dates on a 2010 tour of Europe [59]
"—" denotes a title that did not chart or was not released in that territory.

Other releases

TitleAlbum detailsNotes
Video Collection (1984–1992)
  • Released: 1996
  • Label: Nettwerk
  • Format: VHS, DVD
Remix Dystemper
  • Released: October 20, 1998
  • Label: Nettwerk
  • Format: CD
Puppy Gristle

Singles

TitleYearAlbumNotes
"Dig It"1986 Mind: The Perpetual Intercourse —
"Addiction"1987 Cleanse Fold and Manipulate
"Chainsaw"Non-album single
"Stairs and Flowers" Mind: The Perpetual Intercourse
"Censor"1988 VIVIsectVI
  • Single for the song "Dogshit", censored for marketability [62]
"Testure"1989
"Tin Omen" Rabies —
"Worlock"1990
"Tormentor" Too Dark Park
"Spasmolytic"1991
"Inquisition"1992 Last Rights
"Candle"1996 The Process
"Track 10"2000 Last Rights
"Politikil"2007 Mythmaker
"Salvo"2013 Weapon
  • Track title stylized as "saLvo" [64]
  • Released ahead of Weapon as a streamed single [65]
"Illisit"
  • Track title stylized as "illisiT" [64]
  • Released as a music video on November 19, 2013 [66]

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