Album: Mind: The Perpetual Intercourse by Skinny Puppy (1986)
Genre: Electro-Industrial | Style: Electronic
Record Label: Metropolis Records
Format: Album

Description: Mind: The Perpetual Intercourse is the second album by Skinny Puppy, released in September 1986. It contained the single "Dig It", which inspired several industrial music contemporaries, including Nine Inch Nails.
The cover photo, taken by Steven R. Gilmore, was from a pornographic film that happened to come on the TV in a hotel in New York. The cover caused Tipper Gore to place it on one of her lists for the Parents Music Resource Center as an example of why there should be parental advisory stickers on albums.

Artist Background: Skinny Puppy formed in 1982 from the partnership of cEvin Key (Kevin Crompton) and Nivek Ogre (Kevin Ogilvie) in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Key was dissatisfied with the pop direction of his then-current band Images in Vogue, and began Skinny Puppy with the intention of doing something more raw and experimental. Initially Key had planned Puppy to be a side project while he continued his work in Images, however, when Images in Vogue relocated to Toronto, Key made Skinny Puppy his ful... Part of the Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada music scene. Emerged in the 1980s era. Associated with Electro-Industrial movement. Known for Electronic style.

Music Scene: Part of the Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada music scene. Emerged in the 1980s era. Associated with Electro-Industrial movement. Known for Electronic style.

Tags: Electro-Industrial, Electronic, 1980s, Album, Metropolis Records

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Mind: The Perpetual Intercourse is the second album by Skinny Puppy, released in September 1986. It contained the single "Dig It", which inspired several industrial music contemporaries, including Nine Inch Nails.
The cover photo, taken by Steven R. Gilmore, was from a pornographic film that happened to come on the TV in a hotel in New York. The cover caused Tipper Gore to place it on one of her lists for the Parents Music Resource Center as an example of why there should be parental advisory stickers on albums.

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