Dig It (Skinny Puppy song)

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"Dig It"
Post-industrial
Length16:26
LabelNettwerk/Capitol/EMI
Songwriter(s)Kevin Crompton, Kevin Ogilvie
Producer(s)Dave Ogilvie and cEvin Key
Skinny Puppy singles chronology
"Dig It"
(1986) 		"Chainsaw"
(1987)
Audio sample
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]

"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 primarily influenced the first song he wrote, "Down in It".[2]

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.TitleLength
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

Notes

Farinata degli Uberti
The Burial of Sarah
Etchings by Gustave Doré.

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

MuchMusic banned the video because the bars were perceived as containing subliminal messages.[5]

References

  1. ^ "Skinny Puppy – Dig It". AllMusic. Retrieved May 28, 2018.
  2. ^ "Holland Interviews". The NIN Hotline. Retrieved 2022-05-22.
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ^ a b Kern, Jay (2010). Skinny Puppy: The Illustrated Discography (Second ed.). Mythos Press. p. 74.
  5. Nardwuar the Human Serviette. Vancouver: CITR-FM. Archived
    from the original on 2021-12-13. Retrieved May 21, 2018.

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