Dig It (Skinny Puppy song)
"Dig It" is a single by the band Skinny Puppy, taken from their 1986 album Mind: The Perpetual Intercourse. Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor once mentioned that the song influenced the first song he wrote, "Down in It".[2] He would, later in his career, go on to admit in interviews that he outright lifted some samples of the song for "Down in It".
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| Single by Skinny Puppy | ||||
| from the album Mind: The Perpetual Intercourse | ||||
| Released | 1986 | |||
| Recorded | 1986 | |||
| Genre | Post-industrial | |||
| Length | 16:26 | |||
| Label | Nettwerk/Capitol/EMI | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Kevin Crompton, Kevin Ogilvie | |||
| Producer(s) | Dave Ogilvie and cEvin Key | |||
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| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [1] |
In 2015, Treble magazine named "Dig It" one of the ten most essential industrial songs to come out of the 80s.[3]
Track listing
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Dig It (12" Version)" | 7:24 |
| 2. | "The Choke (Re-Grip)" | 6:11 |
| 3. | "Film" (Only included on the Play It Again Sam 12" release.[4]) | 2:51 |
Personnel
- Nivek Ogre – vocals
- cEvin Key – drums, percussion, keyboards, guitar, bass guitar, synthesizers
Guests
- D. Rudolph Goettel (gadgetry – 1)
Notes
- Engineered by cEvin Key and Dave Ogilvie.
- Sleeve photography, typography and design by Steven R. Gilmore. The cover art itself is a Gustave Doré print from his illustrations for Dante's Inferno. The back cover art is The Burial of Sarah, also by Gustave Doré.[4]
- The song "Dig It" samples the Twilight Zone episode Elegy.
Video
A video was produced for this song. The video begins with cEvin Key in a graveyard with a child. The scene then moves to an office where a man, while working, has a heart attack and dies. In the graveyard Key begins filling in an open grave filled with various office supplies, while this is occurring Ogre is singing a refrain that contains the line, "execute economic slave." The video features a curious style of letterboxing, that utilizes the extra space at the top and bottom of the screen with various distorted imagery. MuchMusic banned the video because the bars were perceived as containing subliminal messages.[5]
References
- "Skinny Puppy – Dig It". AllMusic. Retrieved May 28, 2018.
- "Holland Interviews". The NIN Hotline. Archived from the original on 2018-02-25. Retrieved 2010-07-20.
- Terich, Jeff; Blyweiss, Adam; Green, Liam. "10 Essential '80s Industrial Tracks (October 8, 2015)". Treble. Treblezine. Archived from the original on August 17, 2018. Retrieved 24 February 2019.
- Kern, Jay (2010). Skinny Puppy: The Illustrated Discography (Second Edition). Mythos Press. p. 74.
- Key, cEvin (August 13, 2010). "Nardwuar interviews Skinny Puppy's cEvin Key" (Interview). Interviewed by Nardwuar the Human Serviette. Vancouver: CITR-FM. Retrieved May 21, 2018.