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Dig It (Skinny Puppy song)

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Released
  
1986

Recorded
  
1986

Length
  
16:26

Format
  
CD, Vinyl, 12"

Genre
  
Post-industrial

Dig It (Skinny Puppy song)

"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". He would, later in his career, go on to admit in interviews that he outright lifted some samples of the song for "Down in It".

Contents

Personnel

  • Nivek Ogre – vocals
  • cEvin Key – drums, percussion, keyboards, guitar, bass guitar, synthesizers
  • Guests

  • D. Rudolph Goettel (gadgetry – 1)
  • 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

    Dig It (Skinny Puppy song) Wikipedia