Last Rights (album)
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| Studio album by Skinny Puppy | ||||
| Released | June 30, 1992 | |||
| Recorded | 1991 - 1992 | |||
| Genre | Post-industrial, noise | |||
| Length | 52:54 | |||
| Label | Nettwerk | |||
| Producer | Dave Ogilvie, cEvin Key | |||
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| AllMusic |   |
| Entertainment Weekly | B+ |
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Last Rights is the seventh studio by Canadian industrial band Skinny Puppy, released in 1992. The album included a ballad ("Killing Game"), a first for the group, as well as the dance-floor friendly track "Inquisition", and dense sound sculptures like "Download" and "Riverz End" (a joint remix of two tracks from the Rabies album, "Rivers" and "Choralone"). Amongst the numerous samples on the album, there are two taken from "The White Album" by The Beatles, with Revolution 9 and Helter Skelter featuring on "Love in Vein" and "Inquistion" respectively.
Last Rights received generally favorable reviews from critics and was the first Skinny Puppy record to chart on the Billboard 200. The album was supported by a tour, which would be Skinny Puppy's last for over 12 years. This was Skinny Puppy's last studio release for Nettwerk. In 1998, Alternative Press named Last Rights as one of the best albums of the decade.
Track 10, "Left Handshake", was omitted from the album because the band was unable to get clearance for the Timothy Leary samples taken from Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out, a recording for recreational background settings during LSD parties.Henry Saperstein, owner of the copyright on the recordings in question, denied the band use of the samples (even though Leary himself did not mind). Bootlegs of the track were highly sought by fans. It was later released by the band as a limited edition CD called "Track 10" in 2000. Several different mixes of "Left Handshake" appear to exist, one of which does not have Ogre's lyrics and has a much denser instrumental mix.
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