Dig It (Skinny Puppy song)

"Dig It"
Single by Skinny Puppy
from the album Mind: The Perpetual Intercourse
Released 1986
Format CD, Vinyl, 12"
Recorded 1986
Genre Post-industrial music
Length 16:26
Label Nettwerk/Capitol/EMI
Producer(s) Dave Ogilvie and cEvin Key
Skinny Puppy singles chronology
Dig It
(1986)
"Chainsaw"
(1987)

"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".[1]

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.[2]) 2:51

Personnel

Guests

Notes

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 letterboxing, that utilizes the extra space at the top and bottom of the screen with various distorted imagery.

References

  1. "Holland Interviews". The NIN Hotline. Retrieved 2010-07-20.
  2. 2.0 2.1 Kern, Jay (2010). Skinny Puppy: The Illustrated Discography (Second Edition). Mythos Press. p. 74.

External links

Single

Video