Bites (album)

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Bites
Studio album by Skinny Puppy
Released	1985
Recorded	1984 - 1985 (Mushroom Studios, Vancouver)
Genre	Industrial
Length	40:09 (original) 72:53 (re-issue)
Label	Nettwerk (Canada, U.S.) Play It Again Sam (Europe)
Producer	cEvin Key, Dave Ogilvie
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Skinny Puppy chronology
Remission (1984) Bites (1985) Mind: The Perpetual Intercourse (1986)

Bites is an album by Skinny Puppy released as an LP under Nettwerk in 1985. In 1993, it was reissued on CD with additional material originally performed by Hell-O Death Day, a pseudonym used for the band while they toured as an opener for the electronic act Chris and Cosey.

[edit] Track listing (original)

1. "Assimilate" – 6:54
2. "The Choke" – 6:30
3. "Blood On the Wall" – 2:57
4. "Church" – 3:12
5. "Deadlines" – 6:11
6. "Last Call" – 5:54
7. "Basement" – 3:28
8. "Tomorrow" – 4:54

[edit] Track Listing (Cassette 1984/85)

Side 1

1. "Assimilate"
2. "Blood on the Wall"
3. "Deadlines"
4. "Icebreaker"
5. "Film"
6. "Church"

Side 2

1. "Choke"
2. "Christianity"
3. "Social Deception"
4. "Basement"
5. "Last Call"
6. "Tomorrow"
7. "Love"

[edit] Track listing (re-issue)

1. "Assimilate" – 6:56
2. "Blood On the Wall" – 2:58
3. "Deadlines" – 6:13
4. "Church" – 3:16
5. "Icebreaker" – 3:14
6. "Tomorrow" – 4:53
7. "Dead Doll" – 2:28
8. "Film" – 2:18
9. "Love" – 1:51
10. "The Choke" – 6:29
11. "Social Deception" – 2:57
12. "Christianity" – 1:32
13. "Basement" – 3:25
14. "Last Call" – 5:54
15. "Falling" – 4:20
16. "The Centre Bullet" – 9:42
17. "One Day" – 4:20

[edit] Personnel

• cEvin Key (production, engineering, synths, sequencers, tapes, digital sampling, treatments, acoustic and metallic percussions, drums, rhythm programming, bass guitar)
• Nivek Ogre (voices, lyrics, synth, metallic percussions, treatments and objects)
• Dave Ogilvie (as David Ogilvie) (production, engineering)
• Wilhelm Schroeder (bass synth on "Icebreaker" and "The Choke")
• Tom Ellard (production, mixing, tapes, treatments, and digital sampling on "Assimilate")
• D. Pleven (bass guitar destruction on "Blood on the Wall")
• Terry McBride (executive production)

[edit] Production notes

• The cover art was designed by Steven R. Gilmore.
• The first CD release of Bites was on the compilation Bites and Remission in 1987. Unfortunately, this release did not include all of the tracks featured on the earlier cassette release, which was significantly longer, and replaced the songs "Assimilate" and "The Choke" with remixed versions. A similar CD called Remission & Bites was released by Play It Again Sam in Europe during the same year.
• On the 1993 reissue, the song "One Day" is not listed anywhere in the artwork or credits.
• The song "Assimilate" contains a sample from the movie Marathon Man–"Is it safe?"
• The song "Blood on the Wall" contains a sample from The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)–"You see? They say it's just an old man talking. You laugh at an old man. There's them that laughs and knows better." It also contains samples from The Tenant.
• The song "The Choke" contains samples from 1976 film The Tenant–"If you cut off my head, what would I say? Me and my... Me and my head, or me and my body?".
• The songs "Church", "Icebreaker", "Love" and "Basement" contain samples from the movie The Legend of Hell House–"Get out before I kill you all!"
• The song "The Center Bullet" appears with vocals by the Key/Goettel side-project Tear Garden on their "The Tear Garden EP" and "Tired Eyes Slowly Burning" albums.