Track 10

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"Track 10"
Single by Skinny Puppy
from the album Last Rights
ReleasedAugust 20, 2000
GenreElectro-industrial
Length4:39
LabelSubconscious Communications
Songwriter(s)Skinny Puppy
Producer(s)
Skinny Puppy singles chronology
"Candle"
(1996)
"Track 10"
(2000)
"Politikil"
(2007)
Audio sample

"Track 10", originally titled "Left Handshake", is a song by Canadian

reunion performance
in Germany.

Background and content

Skinny Puppy's seventh album, Last Rights, was originally going to end with the song "Left Handshake", which prominently featured a number of samples of Timothy Leary's voice from his 1967 release Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out.[1] Because so many clips of Leary speaking were employed in the song, Skinny Puppy sought him out to ask for permission to use the sound bites.[2] Leary agreed, and so the song was completed. [3] Shortly after that, Henry G. Saperstein, the holder of the rights to the album from which Leary's voice was sampled, threatened to sue the band if they released "Left Handshake".[3] The track was pulled from the album and replaced with "Download",[2] an eleven-minute experimental song that became a critical favorite.[4][5] Some releases of Last Rights preserve blank tenth track where "Left Handshake" should be.[6]

"Left Handshake" saw release on various

Dresden, Germany.[6][7] The cover art of "Track 10" is based on John Rheaume's frontispiece for the tenth issue of Hellraiser.[8] The disc was issued in a cardboard sleeve with no catalog number, credits, or mention of the band's name.[8]

Track listing

No.TitleLength
1."Left Handshake"4:39

Personnel

All credits adapted from Last Rights' liner notes.[9]

Skinny Puppy

Additional personnel

References

  1. ^ Cigéhn, Peter. "The Top Sampling Groups List: Skinny Puppy". Internet Archive: Wayback Machine. Archived from the original on October 30, 2004. Retrieved 19 July 2016.
  2. ^ a b c Free, J. "Skinny Puppy: the cEVIN kEY interview". The New Puritan ReView. Archived from the original on October 2, 2002. Retrieved May 14, 2018.
  3. ^ a b DeBonis, Mark (1993). "An Interview with cEvin Key of Skinny Puppy". Skin Trade (6). Retrieved May 15, 2018.
  4. ^ Bush, John. "Skinny Puppy – Last Rights". AllMusic. Retrieved May 14, 2018.
  5. ^ D., Willie. "Skinny Puppy – Last Rights". Sputnikmusic. Retrieved May 14, 2018.
  6. ^ a b c "Brap...The Skinny Puppy Discography". Prongs. Retrieved May 11, 2018.
  7. ^ "Skinny Puppy – Track 10 CD Single (Mint, Rare, Numbered and Autographed by cEvin Key)". Subconscious Communications. Retrieved May 17, 2018.
  8. ^ a b Kern, Jay (January 2014). Skinny Puppy – Synthesis. Mythos Press. p. 95.
  9. ^ Last Rights (CD liner notes). Skinny Puppy. Nettwerk. 1992. W2-30072. Retrieved May 14, 2018.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)

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