Dig It (Skinny Puppy song)
{{short description|Song by Skinny Puppy}}
{{Infobox song
| name = Dig It
| cover = Dig_It_(1986)_cover.png
| alt =
| type = single
| artist = Skinny Puppy
| album = Mind: The Perpetual Intercourse
| released = 1986
| recorded = 1986
| studio =
| venue =
| genre = Post-industrial
| length = 16:26
| label = Nettwerk/Capitol/EMI
| writer = Kevin Crompton, Kevin Ogilvie
| producer = Dave Ogilvie and cEvin Key
| prev_title =
| prev_year =
| next_title = Chainsaw
| next_year = 1987
| misc = {{Audio sample
| type = single
| file = Dig_It_(1986).ogg
}}
}}
{{album ratings
|rev1 = AllMusic
|rev1score = {{rating|2|5}}{{cite web|title=Skinny Puppy – Dig It|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/dig-it-mw0000105671|publisher=AllMusic|accessdate=May 28, 2018}}
}}
"Dig It" is a single by industrial rock band Skinny Puppy, off their 1986 album Mind: The Perpetual Intercourse. Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor said "Dig It" was a primary influence for the first Nine Inch Nails song, "Down in It".{{cite web |title=Holland Interviews |url=https://www.theninhotline.com/archives/articles/manager/display_article.php?id=580 |publisher=The NIN Hotline |accessdate=2022-05-22}}
In 2015, Treble magazine named "Dig It" one of the ten most essential industrial songs to come out of the 80s.{{cite web |last1=Terich |first1=Jeff |last2=Blyweiss |first2=Adam |last3=Green |first3=Liam |title=10 Essential '80s Industrial Tracks (October 8, 2015) |url=https://www.treblezine.com/25819-10-essential-80s-industrial-tracks/ |website=Treble |publisher=Treblezine |accessdate=24 February 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180817205259/https://www.treblezine.com/25819-10-essential-80s-industrial-tracks/ |archive-date=August 17, 2018 |url-status=live }}
Track listing
{{tracklist
| all_writing =
| headline =
| total_length =
| title1 = Dig It (12" Version)
| length1 = 7:24
| title2 = The Choke (Re-Grip)
| length2 = 6:11
| title3 = Film
| length3 = 2:51
| note3 = Only included on the Play It Again Sam 12" release.
}}
Personnel
- Nivek Ogre – vocals
- cEvin Key – drums, percussion, keyboards, guitar, bass guitar, synthesizers
=Guests=
- D. Rudolph Goettel (gadgetry – 1)
Notes
{{multiple image
| footer = Etchings by Gustave Doré.
| width = 150
| image1 = Dore woodcut Divine Comedy 01.jpg
| caption1 = Farinata degli Uberti
| image2 = 017.The Burial of Sarah.jpg
| caption2 = The Burial of Sarah
}}
- Engineered by cEvin Key and Dave Ogilvie.
- Sleeve photography, typography and design by Steven R. Gilmore. The cover art itself is a Gustave Doré print from his illustrations for Dante's Inferno. The back cover art is The Burial of Sarah, also by Gustave Doré.{{cite book |title=Skinny Puppy: The Illustrated Discography |last=Kern |first=Jay |year=2010 |publisher=Mythos Press |page=74|edition=Second }}
- The song "Dig It" samples the Twilight Zone episode Elegy.
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. MuchMusic banned the video because the bars were perceived as containing subliminal messages.{{cite interview |last=Key |first=cEvin |subject-link=cEvin Key |interviewer=Nardwuar the Human Serviette |title=Nardwuar interviews Skinny Puppy's cEvin Key |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXQrfHP-YZI |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211213/xXQrfHP-YZI |archive-date=2021-12-13 |url-status=live|publisher=CITR-FM |location=Vancouver |date=August 13, 2010 |access-date=May 21, 2018}}{{cbignore}}
References
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External links
- [http://www.discogs.com/Skinny-Puppy-Dig-It/master/3436 Dig It] at Discogs
- {{YouTube|id=CDKkRSUrTd8|title=Dig It}}
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Category:Capitol Records singles
Category:Nettwerk Records singles