The Singles Collect [Original recording reissued]

Skinny Puppy | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 19, 2001)
• Original Release Date: 1999
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Original recording reissued
• Label: Nettwerk Records
• ASIN: B00005LOQZ
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #155,532 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #45 in Music > Alternative Rock > Goth & Industrial > Industrial > General

Customer Reviews

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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A good SP starter CD, September 27, 2001

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Chris (West Jordan, UT United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Singles Collect (Audio CD)

This CD is great for those who are wondering what SP is all about. The selection of songs is good, but it definately doesn't showcase any of their more challenging work. Unlike other reviewers, I actually love the inclusion of the remixed Worlock and Far Too Frail. If you're new to the band, this is a great start. Older fans will have all of these songs already, but it's still a nice compilation of some of their more accessable songs. Check out the B-Sides compilation or pick up Too Dark Park to see what kind of brilliance SP is truly capable of. Besides, it has "Killing Game" which is possibly the greatest song ever written, by ANY band!

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant Music, November 13, 2004

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ARR-TURR - See all my reviews

This review is from: Singles Collection (Audio CD)

I will rate this CD based on music, not how it relates to other CDs. This CD is filled with brilliant music. Everyone will have a different opinion on the song choices. However, there are many songs that everybody can agree on. I would prefer the regular version of Worlock and I often find myself skipping Censor, and Tin Omen. Other than that I think the song choices are great. This CD provides solid 70 minutes of music. I absolutely love it. It is obviously useless to buy it if you own many SP CDs. It is a great starter CD, and it offers a very broad choice of songs instead of one particular style.

However, it's called the Singles Collection and it has no Chainsaw!

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars good songs, though better inside the albums, March 28, 2001

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D. M. MATALLIN "Origami" (Valencia, Spain) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Singles Collection (Audio CD)

I used to abhor Skinny Puppy; now I love it. Radical change, it's true. When I listen to this collection of singles I realise of two things: 1st, that Puppy have composed really good songs. 2nd, that I prefer listening to them inside their original albums, they sound better in a context. I would recommend 'Too Dark Park' or 'Bites' to commence with, and then 'Last Rights' or 'VIVISectVI' to get immersed in their difficult works of arts. Cos Skinny Puppy is art, and a very good one. This collection contains some of the best Puppy songs from 'Remission' to 'Last Rights', if it's true that some marvellous songs are missing (obviously since they're not singles: 'VX Gas Attack, Revenge's Nature, Mirror Saw, Amnesia...) But here there're the most representative songs by SP. From the marvellous 'Testure' (the 1st Puppy song I loved), through the effective 'Tormentor', or the agressive 'Spasmolytic', the mesmerising tune of 'Assimilate' (maybe their first master song), or the chaotically beautiful 'Killing Game' (maybe my favourite song ever by any band.) Not to speak to the classic 'Worlock', the strange 'Censor' or 'Inquisition'. This collection is recommended to: 1) those who would like to listen to the most direct (not necessarily the best) songs by SP. 2) those who don't want to spend much money on 9 magnificent albums. 3) those who are afraid of entering the challenging darkness of the music of a band which is among the 2 or 3 best electronic-industrial bands (or call it what u like) But I insist, this collection, while being formed by some of the best Puppy songs, don't fully represent the complex music they created throughout 12 years and 9 works (3 or 4 masterpieces, the rest simply good: they have not a bad album, except 'Rabies' in mmy opinion, which is not exactly bad but I don't consider it good enough for Skinny Puppy) These singles are very good, anyway, even though they sound out of context.