Mind: Perpetual Intercourse [Original recording reissued]

Skinny Puppy | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 19, 2001)
• Original Release Date: 1986
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Original recording reissued
• Label: Nettwerk Records
• ASIN: B00005LOQU
• Also Available in: Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #108,897 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars a master/monsterpiece, June 29, 2004

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J (Saskatoon Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Mind: Perpetual Intercourse (Audio CD)

All i can say about this album is that i have been listening to it for the last 13 or so years and I love it as much as the day i first purchased it. I had never heard something so solid raw,enigmatic and fresh from beginning to end all the while finding myself asking "How do they get sounds like that recorded on a cd?".

Forget lotsa hair, headbanging and playing guitars at 200 mph (altho some bands do this very well) the experience this album gives is something that I cannot define. I play this record for friends, many of them death metal fans and i get this creeped out, uneasy initial response and then a sort of reserved and cautious groove as the songs progress. When they see photos from the TDP tour they realise why SP, before Jim Rose were receiving "falling ovations".

This is a serious milestone in music, the analogue beats and sounds are unprecedented. It separates itself from other industrial music as it shy's away from the same bland drum-machine generated 4/4 beats that plagued a great deal of 80's industrial music. The brief use of Gregorian chants in "Dig It" is just an example of the plethora of snippings that Puppy used to create its collage of sound ( an idea Enigma used 5 years later to sell millions of albums) but to do what Skinny Puppy did would require some seriously open-minded masses to sell albums on that scale. When I listen to this album today I can barely, with the exception of a few synth sounds, date the music. In some ways it sounds better than much of today's production - drum sounds especially. I also enjoy the use of Gustav Dore's wonderful etchings as the interior sleeve art melded with SRG's as always brilliant album covers.

This album is kind of like Chinese medicine in the West - It was years ahead of its time and even by todays standards, with all the technological advances, still has a few secrets and advantages that even though when imitated, dissected, or scrutinized and misunderstood, it still stands as a unique and timeless masterpeice. Brap.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars IT'S ALL BECAUSE OF THEM..., November 4, 2001

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Stephen Lindow "a stream with bright fish" (Valrico, FL) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Mind: Perpetual Intercourse (Audio CD)

I visited a Toronto record store in 1985 & found 2 bands that I'd never heard of--didn't know which LP to get: Cabaret Voltaire or Skinny Puppy. Ten years later I was still listening to Skinny's MIND:The Perpetual Intercourse. Before there was NIN, et al, there were these guys and this recording. This is easily the best
Puppy. The ferocity, horror, sound-bytes, speed, and rythums are superb. Many bands have learned a lot from recording. It has not lost its edge, in fact , it sounds fresher than NIN's 1st release. As the years went on Puppy's later releases were not that polished. Cleanse ,Fold & Manipulate is also quite good.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Classic Puppy., February 12, 2006

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Jonathan Duran "Jonathan" (Albuquerque, New Mexico) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Mind: Perpetual Intercourse (Audio CD)

Well this isn't The Puppy's best release but it has several essential tracks such as "One Time, One Place", "Dig It", "200 years", "Three Blind Mice" and "Chainsaw" which is pretty much one of the freakn coolest SP songs ever! Not as dark or disturbing as their later stuff but with more of a dance vibe. A couple of the songs are a bit weak for Skinny Puppy standards but when the songs are good they tend to be damn good.