{"id":271,"date":"2005-03-29T23:21:36","date_gmt":"2005-03-30T07:21:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ryanspeck.com\/blog\/?p=271"},"modified":"2023-06-24T00:51:18","modified_gmt":"2023-06-24T07:51:18","slug":"skinny-puppy-the-greater-wrong-of-the-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ryanspeck.com\/blog\/skinny-puppy-the-greater-wrong-of-the-right\/","title":{"rendered":"Skinny Puppy – “The Greater Wrong Of The Right”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Skinny Puppy<\/span><\/h4>\n

Category<\/span>: Industrial
\nAlbum<\/span>: The Greater Wrong Of The Right<\/em><\/p>\n

Almost everything than can be said about Skinny Puppy\u2019s latest album has been said. It\u2019s been said and re-said. It\u2019s been folded, spindled, and mutilated. It\u2019s be hashed and re-hashed. And you still have one opinion or another: it\u2019s fantastic or it\u2019s crap that\u2019s not suited to carry the Skinny Puppy name.<\/p>\n

The naysayers make the point that too much has changed, the tone is all wrong and that it\u2019s not the same band anymore. \u201cThey never should have dishonored Dwayne\u2019s memory by going on,\u201d they lament. Well, to tell you the truth, I didn\u2019t hear anyone complain that Skinny Puppy changed when Bill Leeb left. The band is as it ever was, Ogre and cEvin Key doing what they do best: making the music that they enjoy.<\/p>\n

Give it a rest. Ten years have passed. Much has changed. The technology is new and different. Music has come a long way since Nirvana, Bush, and Hootie & The Blowfish. This is a new day, a new age, a new sound and a new message. And maybe we ought to accept it and give it a try before throwing it out as not sounding like \u201cDig It\u201d or \u201cTesture\u201d or \u201cWorlock\u201d or whatever was your favorite Skinny Puppy track. Because, to tell you the truth, I don\u2019t want to hear the same Skinny Puppy album four or five more times.<\/p>\n

The lyrical content this go-round is a new variation on the usual Skinny Puppy repertoire. No more are the days of harping on animal rights or detailing the internal struggle of Ogre as drug user. More astute and topical than usual, though still sprinkled throughout Ogre\u2019s jagged thoughts, are diatribes belittling the social condition of a country under the thumb of George W.\u2019s intense rhetoric. While his message might not be the most clear, it\u2019s sure to say that his disapproval of our condition, our leaders, our war, our society is at its peak, generating ire currently with conservative groups across the country, filling their forums with thinly-veiled and totally-unveiled threats and pleas to shoot this \u201ctraitor to America\u201d on sight. For Skinny Puppy, the thoughts and message of this album may be their most pertinent to date and deserve some consideration by their fans.<\/p>\n

Musically, this album brings you things in a new light. It\u2019s the same old Skinny Puppy structures, some of the same sounds, keys, and pads, just with a new rhythm, a new attitude, and a faster beat. It\u2019s as much an evolution and extension of The Process as anything. Songs like \u201cI\u2019mmortal\u201d and \u201cd0wnsizer\u201d deliver many of the earmarks of older Skinny Puppy with new tones. Other tracks show more of Ogre\u2019s evolution to actual singing in their similarity to OhGr\u2019s albums. \u201cPro-test\u201d comes off as a bitter, driving Prodigy song, while \u201cPast Present\u201d takes the electronica of \u201cBlue Serge\u201d and pounds it into a new shape.<\/p>\n

I would say that many of the tracks, like \u201cUse Less\u201d and \u201cDaddyuWarbash\u201d stand up as some of Skinny Puppy\u2019s best, if not nearly their most experimental. And thousands would disagree with me. But the point is: isn\u2019t it just nice to have something new, different, inventive, and with a verifiable message to listen to?<\/p>\n

So, lose the chip on your shoulder, give it a try, and just enjoy it, without all that nasty baggage. And maybe you\u2019ll find a CD that you can really enjoy, even if it isn\u2019t your father\u2019s Skinny Puppy.<\/p>\n

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from ReGen Magazine (~4\/2005)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Skinny Puppy Category: Industrial Album: The Greater Wrong Of The Right Almost everything than can be said about Skinny Puppy\u2019s latest album has been said. It\u2019s been said and re-said. It\u2019s been folded, spindled, and mutilated. It\u2019s be hashed and re-hashed. And you still have one opinion or another: it\u2019s fantastic or it\u2019s crap that\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"index","bgseo_robots_follow":"follow","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[25],"class_list":["post-271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-regen"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ryanspeck.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ryanspeck.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ryanspeck.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ryanspeck.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ryanspeck.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.ryanspeck.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":444,"href":"http:\/\/www.ryanspeck.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271\/revisions\/444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ryanspeck.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ryanspeck.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ryanspeck.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}