Skinny Puppy - Chainsaw Lyrics

I've always thought this would be a great song for a Halloween party!

best song ever

Anyone know which song this is sampling? Been wondering for years.

Skinny puppy.eu

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I love how you can hear Severed Heads in this!

Saw them when Godflesh opened for them

Credits for this video have the ramones listed as the writers.

That bassline is chilling.

my favorite groupe when i was an punk

Eh... people have talent in other genres but plz don’t put punk and industrial in one group... I can’t comprehend it... skinny puppy will always be my overlord afterlife

such creativity

such creativity

such creativity

Somebody really likes the twilight zone episode “elegy”.

I just came to this song

my brother committed suicide, thank all fuckers. Just find this number after 25 years. My nightmare hate number. one off the. fuck you fuckers!!

Wasnt Sisters of Mercy already doing this, like 15-20 years before?

Never did I hear The Sisters refer to chainsawing in this fashion. Well, uhm... There isn't enough room on the internet for my rant. And definitely not enough wine in my refrigerator.

But of course, there were razors. So you may be right after all. I can't say for sure because my perception of time is fucked. That is because I don't care. Life - Des'ree, have a listen. :p

Sisters of mercy weren't industrial. they were good in there own right but not alike.

Thanks for the tip David. U r king of rap!

The 80s! the best decade!.

Nitzer Ebb my Phone only knows English

Don't forget Throbbing Gristle and Neither Ebb I think they were some of the first to experiment in this style of music

TG flat out created the genre, hands down.

Throbbing Gristle yes, Nitzer Ebb came later along with Skinny Puppy in the early 80's. Cabaret Voltaire would be more suitable here.

Don't forget Throbbing Gristle and Neither Ebb I think they were some of the first to experiment in this style of music

Skinny puppy is the best industrial band ever nothing has ever come close

Steven Harvey I’d say alien sex fiend and kidney thieves would

@Jake Holland lol

Jake Holland alien sex Fiend I agree and Throbbing Gristle lol! If I say SP is the best I’ll have TG behind my
Mind when I say it, love Alien good call 👍 people don’t appreciate Alien 👽 enough they have a lot of great material. Today I learned about Swan another industrial band but not distinctive, it’s meh.

Ever heard of Throbbing Gristle ? They are pretty genius and created Industrial Music.

Hashtag Fucking Fact

I must be sick in the head . The music the government tortures prisoners with I listen to on my free time lol I'm a sick puppy lol

no. only means you're sane. others aren't ;-)

oh the irony...

Steven Harvey Government actually plays it loudly enough to damage the ears. Also, the tracks used are remixed (badly!) to become harmful, instead of the soothing sound you hear in this song.

Steven Harvey Not the only one. lol

hot pavaratti jams

when this hit the club scene in san jose, CA ('one step beyond') ...was the diirtiest shit ever. until many years later in drug#6 in SF ......still a dirty track 2 this day. listen. comprehend. dance. enjoy.

Amazing! So that one guy who says SP had no influences and were the first to do this kind of music, nice thought guy. But wrong. In the Northwest (albeit I was in the States and SP was in Canada. But Vancouver is just a hop away) I was listening to Kraft work in like 1973?'74? We were lucky in that a local FM radio station allowed their night time djs to play whatever they wanted. So I was introduced to a lot of killer music through Bob Church of KLAY in Tacoma. Kraftwerk + Alice Cooper + William Burroughs = Skinny Puppy! Everyone has influences. No one (nothing) is a blank slate.

they do have influences, joy division and cabaret Voltaire for instance

Love it.

What kind of synths/drum machines was cEvin Key using back in the days??

Fuuuuuuck! These SP beats are so hard, Yo. This is totally dance music, we where all using these same samples and breaks in rap music back in the day too. Notice I say rap because in 1984 all rap music had at least 10min or so of pure instrumentation so people could dance. Ive even seen footage of Oghr break dancing to his own music at concerts!!!!!

you mean in this clip:
https://youtu.be/9RLoP8hQ2_8?t=1m27s

So happy I went to see them at the Studio 54, or what ever it was called back in the day NYC, for the Too Dark Park Tour, they almost broke up around that time so glad they where too tight for that shit..

+Djoel Taveras would have loved to see them when last rights tour was around didn't get into them until cpl years after first song I heard and saw was spasmolytic video_ too dark park bought that album fist with the sleeve cd pamphlet of those dimensional monsters was hooked since

Me, too, Albert!! I had some younger guy friends who made tapes for me of "this killer new band!" back in like '85, '86. I was hooked! Except my then boyfriend/partner couldn't listen to them for a while there. They felt too dark and sinister to him, and they'd give him the creeps. Pshaw! Some people never really got that punks and dark punks looked and sounded like they did not becuase they were dark, negative, evil people, but because they had an interior that was still worth protecting! (Well, along with a few other reasons...) So the intimidating exterior often kept those people at bay who were only capable of relating on an superficial exterior level. Because once you looked past the outside, you'd find a creative, caring, passionate human. And it is the same with the music. Skinny Puppy music often invoked the hideous side of human behaviors, systems and processes, but it did/does so in order to instigate change! So, it didn't surprise me to find here on Youtube, the interviews with SP members talking about their political and ethical commitments to human, animal, and earth well-being. These guys lived what they preached. No hypocrits here!   

@darkmaitri
Mix Tapes! My god, I got handed one from my brother in 90 or so, SP, KMFDM, and some TKK, He didn't like them, he was a giant hair metal pussy at the time. One listening to Virus and I was hooked bad. There was a beautiful moment around 88-94 or so that was the beautiful birth of second wave industrial. I love to queue up long lists and just close my eyes and zone out, fly back there with my minds eye.

+darkmaitri Agreed.

Skinny Puppy is the best antidote for those suffering from Christmas music. I highly recommend it.

shitmass is for merca cunts anyways.

we gonna need a ton of SP antidotes cuz shitmass gettin near

Funny its xmas right now

Skinny Puppy fan since 1987!  45 yrs old now and still must blast my Skinny Puppy out my speakers, headphones, car!  Whatever it takes to get my dose of SP!  Too hard to kill the habit.  Even when I do the laundry, Cleanse, Fold, Manipulate manages to slime its way into the darkest crevices of my mind!  Soothing it is!

fan of SP since 1984.  born in the 1960s but don't tell the year.  it's good you play SP in your car.  show those metal,  rap,  and country fans what good music truly is!

+Albert Otero 1993 here im 36 so process was completed when I was jr in h.s. dedicating to there bassist d.r. goetell

Existence before essence at it's finest, is the experience of skinny puppy in itself

baked out of his mind?

i'm pretty sure your caucasian friend is also an idiot.

You meet a lot of ignorance given the circumstances of America. You guys are digging your own grave lol. Indigenous people kept these lands in harmony but it’s okay. You have your fun ... lol mars cuz earth can’t handle your shitt

They claim Portion Control as one of their influences. If you listen to really early PC, it does sound somewhat like the first few Puppy albums.

Kraftwerk and Cabaret Voltaire from the 70s. Giorgio Moroder produced some outstanding techno dance hits in the 70s. Even Bowie and Eno did some of this in the 70s. But as Bernard Sumner says, "the synthesizer is the ultimate punk instrument."

I love all the albums up to Last Rights and I have to say this one was my all around favorite, Rabies may be a rather not so close second, I just loved this one, from Dig It to Three Blind Mice to Maggot, I loved this one.

Well then those chaps owe it to kraftwerk.. Hell let's just go with pink floyd for the originators of electronic experimentation, or that one guy before them who's name escapes me....

One of my favorite old Skinny Puppy songs.

One of my favorite old Skinny Puppy songs.

You're not alone ^^ and as I say on an metal video 20 min ago, music has no colors !

No matter how these guys are musically classified ( Genre Classed ) , they are in a class by themselves, because they have a multitude of followers, and I happen to be one of the many. Can someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think they as a whole have any mentors, or anyone they pay homage to.

They've set a trend.
They've been listed as an influence by many musical personalities.

In conclusion, it don't get any more EPIC than this !

And the techno scene was given birth here in Detroit on radio station WGPR by the Electofying Mojo, which started about the spring of 1980 if memory serves me correctly.

Cybotron is from Belleville,Mi. → Model 500 → Juan Atkins, Derrick May, Claude Young... all from the Detroit Metro area. The DEMF was given birth here.

If Mojo would have never given them the airplay, probably no one would know of them today.

Musically I've always been not only left, but right of centre.
I will go left.
I will go right.
I always find my way back to the Centre of my comfort zone.

I kinda follow the path that most don't wanna venture down musically.
It's a odd ball flaw I have, that I tend to embrace.

Skinny Puppy is one of those groups that I embrace.

thats funny

Well alrighty then... Party of three it is ( lol )

And by the way, other than the techno\house head I know ( ahemmm that happen to be black like myself ) don't really care to much for Puppy...weird right ?

But I march to my own drum ( even know how to play them and work a drum machine ).

The friend in question was playing me a compliment, and that friendship still exist today from 15 years ago, in actuality this month.

So I think there were \ are a few that read into this the wrong way

At the time this came out, the radio market here as a whole in Metro Detroit was in the toilet ( and in reality still is as far as i'm concerned ) . One had to know the public radio stations in where to discover material of this kind.

I got lucky and got this groups material put in my ear on a loading dock in Mississauga, Ont back in 1985.

Been following them ever since.

Thanks for sharing this great fucking song!!!

Cevins face in the middle looks like a young billy corrigan. Please make it stop.

I read PREDATED way wrong. I thought it said Penetrated at first ._.

"NIN, ministry, and SP.." ??!?!?!? never put Skuppy at the end. Skuppy PREDATED NIN and ministry...

Good on ya' fella!

@Gene3875 If it makes you feel better my friend and I are pretty much the only dudes in our town who listen to this type of music. Together we can be party of 3.

@NathanPaulPrince Dude, chillax, go to McD's, and order yourself a nice big extra-Valium meal. Your in YouTube, not the Matrix.

@Gene3875 You are not the only one

you have ALL been assimilated... school. work, paper with numbers on it that you run around buying things with because someone gave them to you for doing something... Assimilation

@Gene3875

That's funny because the industrial scene owes a HUGE debt to the oldschool Electro scene, which was almost 100% African American. Listen to Cybotron, Afrika Bambaata, Herbie Hancock etc, and you´ll find most of the more common tropes of industrial music. Just more funk and less distortion pedals ;)

My Caucasian friend told me that I was probably the only "BLACK " person that he knows that listens to this kind of music... I glad to be in the party of one !

bizzarelove triangle from new order ???

Well, fuck me gently with a chainsaw.

overture assassination Nation

played this song in 3 different programs at the same time... its ... invigorating

mindfuck

old school synthesizers ..i like ARP and MOOG and other mystic synt... best regards from me....

SP is just 1 of those bands whos drove industrial music into 1 of my greatest pleasures. :)

@kassylion thanks for the suggestions.

They are pioneers. Also worth checking out the dark sounds of acts like Cabaret Voltaire, NiNE, Coil, Front line Assembly, Wumpscut, KMFDM, AllFlaws

wicked song and i love the picture.

there'll never be music like this anymore, everything's so processed these days!

@manchius01 The song is "The Choke" on Bites

@manchius01 Song is "The Choke" on Bites. Enjoy!

I have been searching for a track from these guys. The only phrase that comes to mind is I have my kidneys,my spleen, me and my intestines. Do you know what the name of this track is?MvS..

@RofloI3east Whatever moves you. No need to be a music racist.

No one did it like Skinny Puppy in the '80s. Finding a well attended club with a DJ spinning this is one of my ideas of paradise.

This sounds a lot like Oomph!'s first album. If you like this then check them out too. They are a German band if you're not familiar with them. They were a huge influence on bands like Rammstein. They started making this same kind of music at the same time SP did. Check them out.

Oomph! - Mein Herz

@FistSaidToTheFace There's a 1988 version (cassette) and a 1984 (casette) version..the 1988 (cassette)version was easy to find..You never said anything about some esoteric bootleg version. Its very common for alot of bands to release "dry run verions" of an LP before the actual studio, record company version was out. OK...so you have the original Back and Forth cassette. what would you do with it? sell it for maybe like $60 or just listen to it???????????

@FistSaidToTheFace
I may actually have one

Yes!!!!!!! SP rules!!

who gives a shit .....skinny puppy are great..

@kaubey


Uh you're both retards

How can 13 peps dislike PUPPY?!?!?! That is nuts!

I'M inventing a time machine and stealing a Back and Forth cassette.

mid eighties puppy for me.
not this.

industrial metal thanks

@fcukinlasttry It didn't happen like that. It wasn't so linear. In the early days (and I mean, I've heard recordings from Guy Debord - era Situationist stuff that's industrial) Original Industrial wasn't electronic. Metal most certainly didn't lead to Industrial. Nothing really leads linearly to anything else, with regard to music.

the singer is pavi largo thumbs up if you know what i mean

@TheOMGfactor it's on Mind : The Perpetual Intercourse . From the mid 80ies.

Rock led to Metal, metal led to Industrial, then Thrash, Then,....fuck....wicked ride.

@Bassistpluck get everything from all of the band members all great stuff enjoy there all geniuses too bad dwaynes dead i miss him

@AntiMusick very interesting ty:)

@katastrophy It could have been Genesis P-Orridge shirt since at that time of the photo was when Gen worked with Download and Puppy Gristle. Gen is seen with that same shirt in the Infinite Beat promo photos.

@AntiMusick that's Aleister is it not on the shirt? Some style.

@RofloI3east watching Brit on mute is not enjoying her music...but I get it anyhow.:P

industrail and experimental sample. thats what skinny puppy is

i have that same shirt that Ogre is wearing in this photo (process era)

great for S&M

@thiefelent It follows a pop music format. That is roughly intro/verse/chorus/verse/chorus/verse/bridge/chorus/outro, whiling having a singer. Punk is a form of pop music. Pop refers to structure then sound. As opposed to Classical, that goes in movements, or jazz, which can be totally unpredictable, or house/disco or minimal techno that has very long slowly evolving mixes.

Skinny Puppy is post punk! 100% industrial!