Bites (album)
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| Bites | ||
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| Studio album by Skinny Puppy | ||
| Released | 1985 | |
| Recorded | 1984 - 1985 (Mushroom Studios, Vancouver) |
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| Genre | Industrial | |
| Length | 40:09 (original) 72:53 (re-issue) |
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| Label | Nettwerk (Canada, U.S.) Play It Again Sam (Europe) |
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| Producer(s) | cEvin Key, Dave Ogilvie | |
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| Skinny Puppy chronology | ||
| Remission (1984) |
Bites (1985) |
Mind: The Perpetual Intercourse (1986) |
Bites is an album by Skinny Puppy released as an LP under Nettwerk in 1985. In 1993, it was reissued on CD with additional material from the era added as bonus tracks.
Contents |
[edit] Track listing (original)
- "Assimilate" – 6:54
- "The Choke" – 6:30
- "Blood on the Wall" – 2:57
- "Church" – 3:12
- "Dead Lines" – 6:11
- "Last Call" – 5:54
- "Basement" – 3:28
- "Tomorrow" – 4:54
[edit] Track listing (re-issue)
- "Assimilate" – 6:56
- "Blood on the Wall" – 2:58
- "Dead Lines" – 6:13
- "Church" – 3:16
- "Icebreaker" – 3:14
- "Tomorrow" – 4:53
- "Dead Doll" – 2:28
- "Film" – 2:18
- "Love" – 1:51
- "The Choke" – 6:29
- "Social Deception" – 2:57
- "Christianity" – 1:32
- "Basement" – 3:25
- "Last Call" – 5:54
- "Falling" – 4:20
- "The Centre Bullet" – 9:42
- "One Day" – 4:20
[edit] Personnel
- cEvin Key (production, engineering, synths, sequencers, tapes, digital sampling, treatments, acoustic and metallic percussions, drums, rhythm programming, bass guitar)
- Nivek Ogre (voices, lyrics, synth, metallic percussions, treatments and objects)
- Dave Ogilvie (as David Ogilvie) (production, engineering)
- Wilhelm Schroeder (bass synth on "Icebreaker" and "The Choke")
- Tom Ellard (production, mixing, tapes, treatments, and digital sampling on "Assimilate")
- D. Pleven (bass guitar destruction on "Blood on the Wall")
- Terry McBride (executive production)
[edit] Notes
- The cover art was designed by Steven R. Gilmore.
- The first CD release of Bites was on the compilation Bites and Remission in 1987. Unfortunately, this release did not include all of the tracks featured on the earlier cassette release, which was significantly longer, and replaced the songs "Assimilate" and "The Choke" with remixed versions. A similar CD called Remission & Bites was released by Play It Again Sam in Europe during the same year.
- On the 1993 reissue, the song "One Day" is not listed anywhere in the artwork or credits.
- The song "The Choke" contains samples from 1976 film The Tenant.
- The song "The Center Bullet" appears with vocals by the Key/Goettel side-project Tear Garden on their "The Tear Garden EP" and "Tired Eyes Slowly Burning" albums.
