Dig It (Skinny Puppy song)

"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".^[2]

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

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]

In 2015, Treble magazine named "Dig It" one of the ten most essential industrial songs to come out of the 80s.^[3]

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.[4])	2:51

Personnel

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

Guests

• D. Rudolph Goettel (gadgetry – 1)

Notes

Farinata degli Uberti

The Burial of Sarah

Etchings by Gustave Doré.

• 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.^[4]
• 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.^[5]

References

1. "Skinny Puppy – Dig It". AllMusic. Retrieved May 28, 2018.
2. "Holland Interviews". The NIN Hotline. Retrieved 2022-05-22.
3. Terich, Jeff; Blyweiss, Adam; Green, Liam. "10 Essential '80s Industrial Tracks (October 8, 2015)". Treble. Treblezine. Archived from the original on August 17, 2018. Retrieved 24 February 2019.
4. Kern, Jay (2010). Skinny Puppy: The Illustrated Discography (Second ed.). Mythos Press. p. 74.
5. Key, cEvin (August 13, 2010). "Nardwuar interviews Skinny Puppy's cEvin Key" (Interview). Interviewed by Nardwuar the Human Serviette. Vancouver: CITR-FM. Archived from the original on 2021-12-13. Retrieved May 21, 2018.

External links

• Dig It at Discogs
• Dig It on YouTube