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“Worlock” by Skinny Puppy
From the album Rabies (1989)
“Worlock” by Skinny Puppy appears on 1 radio countdown from 1 station in 1991. It was first released in 1989 on the album Rabies. Its best result is #389 on the CFNY Top 1002 Songs of All-Time (1991 Edition). In the combined RockLists rankings it is #5,000 alternative song of all time.
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"Worlock" came off Skinny Puppy's 1989 album Rabies, and it's a genuinely nasty piece of work: the band lifts the guitars from the Beatles' "Helter Skelter" and splices in Charles Manson singing the same song. cEvin Key, Ogre and Dwayne Rudolph Goettel wrote it, and Dave Ogilvie produced it and mixed it with Goettel and Marc Ramaer. Ogre, the band's singer, counted it among their better songs.
The video goes further, stitching together graphic scenes pulled mostly from horror and giallo films, Suspiria, Hellraiser and Re-Animator among them, and the X-rated cut opens on a transmission sound borrowed from Videodrome. There's even a mispressed CD release out there that holds Sinéad O'Connor's "The Emperor's New Clothes".
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 | 389 | CFNY 102.1 The Edge | CFNY Top 1002 Songs of All-Time (1991 Edition) | 1002 |
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