Song · Skinny Puppy
“Dig It” by Skinny Puppy
From the album Mind: The Perpetual Intercourse (1986)
“Dig It” by Skinny Puppy appears on 2 radio countdowns from 1 station between 1991 and 1999. It was first released in 1986 on the album Mind: The Perpetual Intercourse. Its best result is #148 on the CFNY Top 1002 Songs of All-Time (1991 Edition). In the combined RockLists rankings it is #4,055 alternative song of all time.
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"Dig It" crawls out of Skinny Puppy's 1986 album Mind: The Perpetual Intercourse, a cold, grinding piece of industrial rock that cEvin Key and Ogre wrote between them, with Dave Ogilvie in the producer's chair. It sounds like it was welded together in a basement out of scrap, and that is meant as praise.
Its long shadow is well documented. Trent Reznor has pointed to "Dig It" as a main inspiration for "Down in It", the very first Nine Inch Nails song. In 2015 Treble magazine counted it among the ten most essential industrial songs the '80s produced.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
All Rock Formats
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1991 | 148 | CFNY 102.1 The Edge | CFNY Top 1002 Songs of All-Time (1991 Edition) | 1002 |
| 1999 | 811 | CFNY 102.1 The Edge | CFNY Top 1002 Songs of All-Time (November 1999) | 1002 |
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