Skinny Puppy - The Greater Wrong of the Right


Speaking of strained relationships, Skinny Puppy made an album in 2004. Making The Process in 1996 kind of killed them. Hard drugs and just plain being sick of each other sent cEvin and Nivek in opposite directions (i'm pretty proud of that one). But, through the process of not taking hard drugs anymore, working on each others' solo albums, and working with bands who were inspired by Skinny Puppy in the first place, they decided to be friends again because they were a huge part of each others' lives. The greater wrong of the right is corporatization, by the way. They sent an invoice to the Pentagon for using their music without proper authorization to torture people in one of our other torture prisons. I suspect they got stiffed on that one. 

Everybody nowadays imagines 27 shades of left/right, but it's only 2: social heirarchy on the right, social equality on the left. That distinction is not the same as Republican/Democrat, or conservative/liberal. Corporate hierarchy is just about as right wing as you can get, and Skinny Puppy is just about as shocking a reaction to it as anyone could imagine. 

Who's a good little bloodthirsty mongrel glitch-demon? You are. Yes you are. 

More importantly, are these the actual androids at war with their stupid barnyard animal raising human oppressors? Yeah, i like that; i don't care if it makes any sense, don't care if people weren't really thrilled with its commercial feel and total midi/vocorder approach to the human condition, i'm just happy these icons of industrial depravity got back together and started making music again. 

Are we all completely useless? Sometimes it sure feels like it. All i'm saying is, this isn't torture for me at all. I love this stuff. 

And with that, we end the loosely based on a Philip K. Dick novel portion of the year. Time to get emotional....

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