Song · Skinny Puppy
“Testure” by Skinny Puppy
From the album VIVIsectVI (1988)
“Testure” by Skinny Puppy appears on 1 radio countdown from 1 station in 1991. It was first released in 1988 on the album VIVIsectVI. Its best result is #202 on the CFNY Top 1002 Songs of All-Time (1991 Edition). In the combined RockLists rankings it is #4,505 alternative song of all time.
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Skinny Puppy aimed "Testure" straight at the laboratory. The centerpiece of 1988's VIVIsectVI, as See Magazine saw it, the song drops the album's title into its lyrics and hammers on the record's obsessions, animal rights and animal testing, across five minutes of sleek electronics, fretless bass and a thicket of samples taken from Martin Rosen's 1982 film The Plague Dogs.
Ogre, cEvin Key, Dwayne Goettel and Dave Ogilvie share the writing, with Key and Ogilvie producing. When it went out as a single in 1989, the S.F. Mix cut it to four minutes, pushed Dale Plevin's fretless bass and the Plague Dogs samples further forward, and scored a video that stirred up controversy. It also gave the Canadian band its one and only entry on Billboard's Dance Club Songs chart.
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 | 202 | CFNY 102.1 The Edge | CFNY Top 1002 Songs of All-Time (1991 Edition) | 1002 |
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