VIVISectVI (studio album) by Skinny Puppy

VIVISectVI by Skinny Puppy
Year: 1988
Overall rank: 5,783rd   Overall chart historyOverall chart history
Average Rating: 
73/100 (from 51 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1988 (80th)
Award Top albums of the 1980s (851st)
Award Best albums of all time (5,783rd)

Skinny Puppy bestography

VIVISectVI is ranked 2nd best out of 24 albums by Skinny Puppy on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Skinny Puppy is Too Dark Park which is ranked number 3958 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 363.

Skinny Puppy album bestography « Higher ranked (3,958th) This album (5,783rd) Lower ranked (8,738th) »
Too Dark ParkVIVISectVIMind: The Perpetual Intercourse

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VIVISectVI track list

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73/100 (from 51 votes)
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 72.5/100, a mean average of 72.5/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 72.5/100. The standard deviation for this album is 18.5.

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If you can get through the bleak tone and jarring noise, this album has a pretty scathing message about animal rights. The sound and lyrics together are hard to ignore.
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From 01/29/2012 00:09
The output is both surreal and nightmarish, fueled by angst, doubt, fear, rage, uncertainty and unrelenting introspection. Imagine being inside a world designed by Edvard Munch and Salvadore Dali while a horror movie is projected on the wall and a radio turned up too loud spits out war coverage news. The sound often intentionally lacks cohesion allowing the music and lyrics to wildly ramble along to some bizarre stream of consciousness. Chopped phrases are parsed together to form a sort of dark poetic montage as opposed to even attepting sentence structure. The music follows a similar process whereby spoken samples, noises, electronic stabs and harsh, often reverse sounding, beats come together forming a wicked, evil brew. To the neophyte listener the sound is imposing ans scary barely bordering on "music". However it really does start to make sense with time. I think that is the true brilliance of this album; after hundreds of listens the hidden beauty is not only apparent, it's glaringly obvious. My friends are always amazed that I can clearly hear every word and discern each melody. Somehow this album that at first seems like a wall of noise and chaos seeps into your soul and becomes as clean to you personally as though it were a single violin.

If you find that the album is just too dense and impenetrable then focus on the first half which is slightly more direct. The singles "Who's Laughing Now?" and "Testure" have fairly accessible beats. Another favorite from the first half, "Harsh Stone White", is very creepy but there is also clarity. Industrial heads revere this album as one of the all-time greats; it has always been a Puppy fan favorite probably 2nd only to 'Too Dark Park'. The album, and the band in general, will be difficult for newcomers, requiring a conscious effort to fight through the madness. This isn't easy listening, but nothing that matters is easy.
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