Last Rights (album)

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Last Rights
Studio album by Skinny Puppy
Released	June 28, 1992
Recorded	1991 - 1992
Genre	Industrial
Length	52:48
Label	Nettwerk
Producer	Dave Ogilvie, cEvin Key
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Skinny Puppy chronology
Too Dark Park (1990) Last Rights (1992) The Process (1996)

Last Rights is an album released in 1992 by Canadian electronic group Skinny Puppy. The album included an attempt at a ballad ("Killing Game"), a first for the group, as well as the dance-floor friendly track "Inquisition", and dense sound sculptures like "Download" and "Riverz End" (a joint remix of two tracks from the Rabies album, "Rivers" and "Choralone" ). The album was supported by a tour, which would be Skinny Puppy's last for over 12 years.

[edit] Track listing

1. "Love In Vein" – 5:35
2. "Killing Game" – 3:48
3. "Knowhere?" – 4:18
4. "Mirror Saw" – 3:51
5. "Inquisition" – 5:17
6. "Scrapyard" – 3:54
7. "Riverz End" – 6:40
8. "Lust Chance" – 3:54
9. "Circustance" – 4:36
10. "Left Handshake" (see "Notes")
11. "Download" – 11:01

All songs by Ogre/Key/Goettel.

[edit] Personnel

• Nivek Ogre (vocals)
• cEvin Key (production, various instruments)
• Dwayne Goettel (various instruments, mixing)
• Dave Ogilvie (production, mixing)
• Ken Marshall (recording, mixing)
• Anthony Valcic (editing)
• I, Braineater (cover painting)
• Martijn de Kleer (synths - uncredited)
• John Rummen (cover layout)

[edit] Notes

Track 10, "Left Handshake", was omitted from the album because the band was unable to get clearance for the Timothy Leary samples taken from Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out, a recording for recreational background settings during LSD parties. Henry Saperstein, owner of the copyright on the recordings in question, denied the band to use the samples (even though Leary himself didn't mind). Bootlegs of the track were highly sought after by fans. It was later released by the band as a limited edition CD called "Track 10" in 2000. Ironically, the same samples were used later in 1992 on the Nine Inch Nails remix album Fixed. Several different mixes of "Left Handshake" appear to exist, one of which does not have Ogre's lyrics and has a much denser instrumental mix.

Some releases of the album have a blank track 10 where the song should be; others were mastered as if the song never existed and make "Download" track 10.

Initial pressings of the disc released in Australia, and possibly elsewhere, were flawed in that the track divisions were out by 4 seconds. This meant the first 4 seconds were missing from the album, and that there are an extra 4 seconds of silence at the end. Other copies released in North America had the same issue, except the first 39 seconds of the album were missing. It should also be noted, on this pressing, the track markers follow the original track times, and thus the first song ends 39 seconds before the end of track 1, and likewise, each song after starts within the track before it.

This was Skinny Puppy's last studio release for Nettwerk.

The original release on Nettwerk included ornate, hand-painted lettering by cover artist Jim Cummins (aka "I, Braineater"). Other releases, including the U.S. edition on Capitol Records, simply say "Skinny Puppy / Last Rights" in block type on the cover.

No lyrics are included in the packaging, as Ogre considered them to be too personal. Recent interviews, as well as ones from around the time period, have made it clear that Ogre had become heavily dependent on heroin after years of experimentation. An urban legend surrounding the band claims that during the recording of "Knowhere?", Ogre shot up and overdosed, going into convulsions while the equipment was still recording, and that the sounds are present on the album, disguised with intense soundscaping.^{[citation needed]}