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Skinny Puppy
Band Vancouver Canada Active 1982–2023
Skinny Puppy formed in 1982 in Vancouver, Canada and was active until 2023. Skinny Puppy has 7 chart appearances on 3 radio countdowns from 2 stations on RockLists, spanning 1991–2003. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Dig It”, which appears on 2 lists with a best position of #148. The station that charted Skinny Puppy most often is CFNY 102.1 The Edge (Toronto, ON), with 6 appearances.
Skinny Puppy came crawling out of Vancouver in 1982, and they sounded like a horror film being rewired while it played. It started as a side project for cEvin Key (Kevin Crompton), who was then in the new wave band Images in Vogue, and turned into a full-time monster once Nivek Ogre (Kevin Ogilvie) stepped in to snarl and gargle over the top. Key and Ogre were the only constants; around them came Bill Leeb (as Wilhelm Schroeder), Dwayne Goettel from 1986, and producer Dave "Rave" Ogilvie, no relation to Ogre, twiddling the knobs from 1984 to 1996.
After a self-released cassette in 1984 they became the backbone of Vancouver's Nettwerk label, and from Remission through Bites ("Assimilate"), Mind: The Perpetual Intercourse ("Dig It"), Cleanse Fold and Manipulate, VIVIsectVI and Rabies they helped build electro-industrial from the ground up: sampled dialogue, funk-damaged grooves, noise and cold new wave synths. Their shows were horror-show theater, taking aim at chemical warfare and animal testing.
The move to American Recordings in 1993 went badly, with drugs and tension dogging the sessions for The Process (1996). Ogre walked out in June 1995, and two months on, Goettel was dead of a heroin overdose. Key and Ogre reformed the band in 2003 with Mark Walk, carried on through The Greater Wrong of the Right, Mythmaker and HanDover, and in 2013 made Weapon, an album sparked by allegations that their songs had served as a torture tool at Guantanamo Bay.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Skinny Puppy on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dig It | 2 | #148 | – | – | |
| 2 | Assimilate | 1 | #89 | – | – | |
| 3 | Smothered Hope | 1 | #156 | – | – | |
| 4 | Testure | 1 | #202 | – | – | |
| 5 | Worlock | 1 | #389 | – | – | |
| 6 | Addiction | 1 | #1872 | – | – |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
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