One of the most epic masterpieces ever created. so bruting with layers and textures galore. You can feel the all real emotion oozing out of this album. It's hard to believe that someone actually wrote this. you can just sense the anger and pain they must of went through during the making of this album. It's like a trip to the core of insanity and chaos. 31 years old and music still hasn't caught up to this day. Many a band has tried to sound like The Pup but no one ever has been able to make music like this. It's a shame how forgotten they are considering their influence on darker electronic music. Too Dark Park is amazing as well.
Then you watch interviews with CEvin key and see he looks like every gay marketing director you have ever met in corporate setting, plus dread locks. And Ohger off stage is one of the happiest people you could ever meet. I agree, the music is intense and best describes one’s anxious journey through society, yet when you meet the humans that pulled that off, it seems hard to believe it came from them. Goes to show how dynamic our souls can be when driven.
I was always more of a Ministry fan than Skinny Puppy growing up. Over the years I tried listening to Too Dark Park and Rabies and just couldn't get into it. But I decided to give this another go the other day and OH MY GOD HOW DID I SLEEP ON THIS ALBUM FOR SO LONG?! This is an incredible record, holy shit.
@@kryptichands968 yeah, that's a good point. The later albums (mythmaker, greater wrong, etc) and Ohgrs solo stuff were always more accessible to me, so it would stand to reason that the throughline to this album means it's a bit easier to get into
Puppy is absolutely an acquired taste. Not everything they did was solid gold, but that's the beauty in experimentation. What really got me into their backcatalog as a teenager was "The Singles Collect" compilation. Really good starting point to check out their late 80s and early 90s material. I hated VivisectVI the first time I heard it.... now it's one of my top 5 favorite albums of all time. It's not accessible in any way.
@@amberdean1263 Yeah, that's how I felt about "Too Dark Park". Growing up, a lot of my friends raved about it, but I just wasn't hearing what they were. Thanks for the suggestion, I'll have to check it out 👍
@@Muteleight It's totally subjective but I always considered Last Rites their best release. I was fortunate enough to get to see them live on that tour, with Godflesh opening for them.
This had that “organic sound,” the live drums really adjusted the overall sound nicely, giving it a looser feel, gosh I remember buying this when cd’s came in a tall rectangular box, and of course cutting out and putting on looseleaf
I had really pissed off modern puppy fans by pointing out the obvious, that what is sorely missing on the modern albums is cevins drumming and the spontaneity of this era. This album feels like it was largely improvised live in the studio, and it is to me anyway, their most definitive work, save for tdp and vv6
Riverz End is probably my all time favorite song in the world. It weaves in and through beauty and then twists into really dark places☠all within 7min👽
Though this album is not as even as Too Dark Park in terms of being unified statement, the peaks are much higher. The technical production wizardry and overall conception set a standard for 'industrial' music that hasn't been touched since.
Yea I agree..Too Dark Park is more solid and compact as a whole and it's shorter..This is not as unified but more looser, abstract,varied and tracks stand out more individually...I love them equally for different reasons..
GREAT way of putting it. This is my absolute favourite SP album and I'm always a bit disappointed when people compare it to Too Dark Park which I find far less interesting
TDP is a much finer record than this, it’s Puppy’s best. Nature’s Revenge > Killing Game, Tormentor > Inquisition, Shore Lined Poison & Morpheus Laughing are better than anything on Last Rights. Lots of annoying whining and emo-tendencies on LRs. I do love Riverz End tho.
you might want to check out Ken Marshall's channel...his videos dive sort of deep into his engineering and production on Skinny Puppy's albums..and he's a hell of a guy
I saw this tour and it changed me as an artist. I love them, big fan. This album is so huge, menacing, beautiful, terrifying….it’s a real artistic achievement.
When this album dropped in 1992, I was 19 and already a long time SP fan...but the first single that was played over the radio in my area was Download and it took me and my friend at the time COMPLETELY by surprise. We were transfixed the moment we heard those unnerving piano string brushes right through the 8+ minute ambient drone outro and it wasn't until the DJ said "and that was the track Download from the latest Skinny Puppy album..." that my I even clued into the fact that I had been listening to one of my favourite bands. This album (and THAT track in particular) are such a departure from anything they had ever done previously, or have ever done subsequently. This work is, by any fair assessment, a masterpiece of electronic music. It is a sprawling sonic playground. It takes the listener to places that most probably hadn't thought possible - it's at once chaotic and cohesive, and they push both their synths, programming and vocals into some very pioneering territory. I now listen to jazz, classical, hiphop and pop too...but this album still gets more than a few listens every year. After all this time, and perhaps because of it, I'm stilled awed by how the guys pulled this on off. It is genius, gorgeous, challenging and ear-candy all at the same time. "I taught the game first!"
I was a bit late to the party and this was my first Puppy CD. Fan for life! For some reason I find Lust Chance to be one of the greatest tracks of all time
I made a custom tshirt with the gargoyle and nude statue with the logo when this came out. It was a dark period for me - spent many nights in a dark room listening to this and Too Dark Park.....
I feel so wholesome reading the comments and most of you feeling the same about this album as 'ive been feeling for almost 30 years. Not only SP's best but one of the greater albums in general. Everything is right about it. A true masterpiece.
92 was was such a big year for alternative music from Industrial to Trip Hop, Ministry went Metal, NiN with Broken ep and SP with Last Rights and Massive Attack with Blue Lines, great times!
@Kmart goth I actually bought tickets for this tour. Gonna see them this Sunday in Boston. I can barely contain my excitement. I really wish Dwayne was still alive but it's going to be awesome anyway.
@@belleepoque4597 it was so good, you’re gonna love it. Didn’t care much for the guitarist and would’ve swapped a couple songs out for others but it was a 10/10 show overall. I liked it better than when I saw them in 2007 (better setlist). Edit: Without spoiling anything, you also get 2 songs from Too Dark Park :)
@@kmartgoth8313 sweet. I'm really hoping they play Knowhere/Mirror Saw, but that's probably not going to happen. I do love every track on TDP, so that will still be awesome. Thanks for hyping the show!!!!
Whilst Process is still my favourite album this is just such a delight! It is so dense and full of ideas and sounds, I feel I will never truly get to grips with it fully! So beautifully experimental, but just so listenable at the same time. Forgive me, I'm drunk.
Rivers End, played late at night, in the dark, on massive paradigm tower speakers , fueled by a Harmon Kardon amp/pre amp, cd player. Played low volume - sit in the center of the room and blow your mind. EPIC
Oh man how many days and nights have I had this playing in the background and most of my friends just never really got it. I'm from the middle of nowhere and I have always tended to be drawn to the darker side of everything, whether it's music, movies, fashion and art. I had no idea what Industrial music was when I was young but I was waaaay fucking industrial from the jump. My folks were hicks being into hick-ish stuff. I don't want to seem like I was a little douche being against the grain-abrasive just to show the family and friends that I hated every aspect of where I'm from, but I knew from my elementary school days and on from there that I was just not into the same stuff that I was being raised around. There was a guy that I met at the only skate shop within 50 miles of my house and I started talking to him about where I lived and he was actually from right down the road. He was now living in a town between where the shop was and where I'm from. He was a decent number of years older than me and physically disabled from a Motorcycle accident which was in my lane because at the time I was a sponsored GNCC racing fiend of a kid. I ended up hanging out with my new friend that weekend and we have been dear friends since, but there's one very important thing that this person is responsible for, it's the first time I was able to hear this album and it was like scratching an itch that was always there but it's never been reached before. I was 14 then, riding a RM 125 all over the place, no lights, full race bike that I had retired from the life but repurposed into my own Mad Max Moto Monster: rattle can paint job, crazy retreads that were some of my first attempts at cutting my own tires(the old man had a tire cutter) and I brushed the metal if it wasn't painted so I could not be seen in the dark.My new friend saw me on the bike and instantly realized that we were going to be around each other for the long haul. This man still loves to tell people that are around both of us that he is responsible for the variety of the musical taste that I have. This is not totally the case but he is absolutely responsible for the real Industrial music of what I would say is the "Golden Era" of the genre. Now there are so friggin many different names for so many types of the same thing really(I know that I will be crucified by my peers here in the YT comment section) but the music is the most important thing that this is really about anyhow, right? Skinny Puppy,Nitzer Ebb, Frontline Assembly, Front 242, Consolidated, Ministry, Revolting Cocks,KMFDM,Die Krupps and the list keeps going but the message is getting across hopefully. Thanks John for the injection of the angry heroin fueled, angry electronic music that is really truly appreciated by a narrow few people who are very hard to find growing up in the middle of nowhere, Indiana farmland. Long winded, sorry but I'm feeling nostalgic today.😊
I always said in the 80's anyway Skinny Puppy were more metal than all the metal bands of the era. I mean in attitude, in their live performances, in how dark they were.
It's also their best because it's the hardest to digest for newbies. Puppy invented many genres. One you could call spit rock. You know what I mean. Last Rites is definitely an album that spits at you like, well, a barking dog.
Skinny Puppy are the true parents of deep electronica. There is a clear difference between the second half of the album and the first, divided at minute 26:30. While the first half accommodates somewhat more conventional music, the second half plunges us into deeper electronica. With an open and never-before-seen sound instrumentation, perhaps a very distant evolution of John Cage and a perverse auditory machine exploring the world. Somehow it slowly immerses us in that labyrinthine electronic environment of an amusement park with no exit.
@@uncleruckus3149 It's not the old or new stuff I don't like, it's certain styles of songs, sounds and album sequencings. There are great songs in almost every album though. The problem is they were too prolific. Most SP albums are bloated with redundant songs that go on for too long. At least half of the material is really corny too. My favourite era is Too Dark Park/Rabies/Last Rights plus Greater Wrong of the Right. In retrospect I much prefer Download to SP, even though SP has made some of my favourite music ever.
@@hericiumcoralloides5025 agreed, but I don't think mythmaker or weapon have any good songs, handover had 2 good songs... But I like nearly every song on bites and mind I think the puppy with goettel was infinitely superior...
@@uncleruckus3149 You're right actually, Mythmaker and Weapon are terrible through and through. I didn't even think of them actually. I really dislike ohGr's modern vocal style and music and I think he has dragged the band in a very uninteresting direction.
@@hericiumcoralloides5025 agreed, but I do like some of his solo stuff, his latest solo album had some decent songs... Yeah i don't really like his newer style, liked when he used to yell and growl with effects
Hi, Netwerk. It’s been 30+ years. Mixing Lefthand shake back between Circustance and Download wouldn’t make this a better album. It’s a track, not a song. It wouldn’t disrespect Timothy Leary’s estate…it would only bring a few more drops of attention to…whatever fiim was sampled. Mostly? It would make a vinyl reissue sell REALLY well right about now.
God damn this is like sandpaper sonically. Cevin is a genius. I saw him on the sidewalk at n Chicago….I looked up…smiled….and kept walking. My wife said,” Hey, that’s Cevin Key!” Still just kept walking. Couldn’t bring myself to be a fan boy. The show that night was EPIC!
When is Nettwerk & Skinny Puppy gonna kiss & make up ? So new "re-mastered" versions of the cd's can come out or just put out the original pressings back in stores (like Sunrise Rec) so i can finish my collection.
@@victimasdelspleen the last rights remaster vinyl blew my mind. Cleanse Fold and Too Dark Park not so much... I think cevin just turned down Ogre on those, ha ha. I agree with Saint Martins that it would be basically awesome to get remasters, or at least vinyl issues of essential works like The Process and To Be an Angel Blind... damn, how nice would that be.
I learned about skinny puppy from a tool interview where maynard said remember listening to skinny puppy, so I looked them up and bought a CD It was IDK maybe 7 years ago... lol. I love Neuwerld!
tool was what I rocked out on as I got into skinny puppy--they grow well together! Hard to believe Aenima and the Process were hot off the press around the same time
This was one of the 1st SP albums i bought...the song love in vein used to narrate this picture of some haunted corner of my mind. I can't paint but i wanted to paint that song the way i envision it.
@@scotchallenguarde1 Last Rights is debatedly their heaviest album, as well as being genius Dwayne Goettel's last appearance before his departure from SP. Check out Too Dark Park and ViViSectVi if you haven't already. Don't sleep on LaHuman8 and Left Hand Shake, which were two of the unreleased tracks for Last Rights. Another few things I would recommend to you regarding SP, is to listen to these three albums in reverse, starting from their last track. Also, normally at 1/2. Nice talking to you.
@@scotchallenguarde1 process wasn’t really regarded as their best work. Not saying you shouldnt hold that opinion since I think it is underrated. This album and too dark park are my personal faves though.
@@zachary7573 saw them on Mythrus tour in 2007 myself (my first time), and saw them a few nights ago on their final one. Edit: they’re playing songs from Last Rights this time. Got to hear Love in Vein and Inquisition
Ogre was working on an album separately from Key and Goettel. They just couldn't stand each other to that degree. Ogre bailed during the recording of The Process.
Actually, there have been albums that are close on par with Last Right and they just happen to come from the mind of Cenin Key as well. Eyes of Stanley pain for one
Their best album in my opinion. Their old stuff is too 80's which is great but holds it back. Same with CFM. A little flat. Non-explosive. You can argue they were better like that and you could be right. CFM nailed the horror angle so it is their most special and valuable album. Too Dark and Process are dark but in many ways are actually bright and nice and very Canadian. All good things. No doubt. But Last Rites brings it all together to perfection. You could call it a Hollywood sequel to CFM, meaning it's the same but the action is crank up.
This album is amazing. I think I love this a little more than Too Dark Park, it's got the experimental priority of the older 80s albums. (Bites to VIVIsect VI) The puppies were the best thing to happen to my ears in such a long time.🖤🖤
my h.s. sweet hearts younger brother used to cry and get scared at the end track 11 the sample in scrapyard is the bowling ball falling on john candy head in uncle buck
No.10 is "The Left Handshake"; it had to be excluded from the album for legal reasons as it contains parts of a Timothy Leary speech. It has been released as a one track special edition of 100(?) copies at Skinny Puppys reunion appearance at Doomsday-Festival in Dresden 2000 (Yes, I got one as I was there... ;-) )
Still can’t recommend experiencing this album w commercial interruptions…but having one RIGHT at the Down to Load transition in Download is something 😏
My favorite album of all time, plain and simple. Even inspired my one and only music article if anyone cares to read: medium.com/@rashreflection/the-billion-year-voyage-skinny-puppys-last-rights-b679e9b0ece1
Really good article! Someone linked it on r/skinnypuppy on reddit and I had to give it a read. Very informative, definitely makes me appreciate this album even more.
Inquisition Lyrics: Latent manner Speak parting Bonding cement no longer holds Parting fits Too young to grow old Addicted romance Love tested Healing from substance abuse Wicked resenting Never faces itself Torturer taints Animal waits No environment Torturer laughing Righteous Real-time intrusion Fears filtered For reasons unknown Cancer attack Leaching Desserts so sweet Leaves bitter taste in the mouth Forever Torturer taints Animal waits Corners creeping fear Tasting force-fed lies of the wicked Acting out fears False truths turned around Wicked torture Wicked, wicked Pain The wicked words of the torturer Abusing and controlling anyone That's useful to him Wicked waiting of the torturer Wicked waits the torturer (Torture, torture, torture) Reads story Truth seething Believed poison Eaten, swallows Turning away Torturer taints animal With hate, enlightenment Turned away No change The wicked Not facing himself Controls turning away Wicked torturer Force-fed torment Animal torture Torturer turning away Wicked torturer Wicked not facing his self Wicked turning away Wicked turning away Turning away Disappearing from himself Tortures the animal Tortures the animal
30 years of listening to this album. Loud. This album is home.
One of the most epic masterpieces ever created. so bruting with layers and textures galore. You can feel the all real emotion oozing out of this album. It's hard to believe that someone actually wrote this. you can just sense the anger and pain they must of went through during the making of this album. It's like a trip to the core of insanity and chaos. 31 years old and music still hasn't caught up to this day. Many a band has tried to sound like The Pup but no one ever has been able to make music like this. It's a shame how forgotten they are considering their influence on darker electronic music. Too Dark Park is amazing as well.
Yes so much beig an artist
True fans never forget! Too dark park is the sickest 38 mins of music ever written in the history of human existence!👽
Been a fan since 88. Their influence on me was profound from the first listen. One of the most unique and underrated bands ever.
Then you watch interviews with CEvin key and see he looks like every gay marketing director you have ever met in corporate setting, plus dread locks.
And Ohger off stage is one of the happiest people you could ever meet.
I agree, the music is intense and best describes one’s anxious journey through society, yet when you meet the humans that pulled that off, it seems hard to believe it came from them. Goes to show how dynamic our souls can be when driven.
I could not agree more.
I go through all seven stages of grief everytime I hear this album.
Ohmigosh, that’s the cutest thing ever. 💗
I haven't heard this for a quarter of a century.Good to remember.
I feel so comfortable reading all the comments. Dwayne gave a hidden harmony holding all this noise and chaos together.
One of the best albums of all-time
I had there shirt for last rights it would still look new if I had it didn't wear it that much
A master piece sorry dark park
This is my best album of all time. I freakin love it.
@@TubeHorus dark atmospheric and organic feeling yet with hard electro; perfect album
That's it
I was always more of a Ministry fan than Skinny Puppy growing up. Over the years I tried listening to Too Dark Park and Rabies and just couldn't get into it. But I decided to give this another go the other day and OH MY GOD HOW DID I SLEEP ON THIS ALBUM FOR SO LONG?! This is an incredible record, holy shit.
Funny, i slept on this too, kinda think this was an insight into their sounds progression, I hear elements in this that are relative to mythmaker
@@kryptichands968 yeah, that's a good point. The later albums (mythmaker, greater wrong, etc) and Ohgrs solo stuff were always more accessible to me, so it would stand to reason that the throughline to this album means it's a bit easier to get into
Puppy is absolutely an acquired taste. Not everything they did was solid gold, but that's the beauty in experimentation. What really got me into their backcatalog as a teenager was "The Singles Collect" compilation. Really good starting point to check out their late 80s and early 90s material. I hated VivisectVI the first time I heard it.... now it's one of my top 5 favorite albums of all time. It's not accessible in any way.
@@amberdean1263 Yeah, that's how I felt about "Too Dark Park". Growing up, a lot of my friends raved about it, but I just wasn't hearing what they were. Thanks for the suggestion, I'll have to check it out 👍
@@Muteleight It's totally subjective but I always considered Last Rites their best release. I was fortunate enough to get to see them live on that tour, with Godflesh opening for them.
i used to play this album nonstop for days at a time, even when sleeping. even when making my own music
Wow! That's amazing.
My first, and still favorite, SP. Brilliant. The sound of "SP dying" at the end... And then briefly reborn via The Process. RIP Dwayne.
There is nothing that compares to this symphonic onslaught of terrific wonder. The ear and mind entwined.
This album is so massive, it really holds up, I love it so much.
P.S. Scrapyard slaps, it's hard AF
One of the best albums I've listened to, it changed my mind, opened my eyes. Such beautiful dark textured music. One of Best SP album.
This had that “organic sound,” the live drums really adjusted the overall sound nicely, giving it a looser feel, gosh I remember buying this when cd’s came in a tall rectangular box, and of course cutting out and putting on looseleaf
I had really pissed off modern puppy fans by pointing out the obvious, that what is sorely missing on the modern albums is cevins drumming and the spontaneity of this era.
This album feels like it was largely improvised live in the studio, and it is to me anyway, their most definitive work, save for tdp and vv6
I've admired Skinny Puppy for 20yrs.
Riverz End is probably my all time favorite song in the world. It weaves in and through beauty and then twists into really dark places☠all within 7min👽
Amazing song
I agree 100%!! It takes me literally all around the universe & underworld!✌️🍾🧛♀️🐈⬛🔥🐉
One of my favorites too
@@test-user5t3 it's crazy this cd came out 30 yrs ago! Seen them during too dark park, and last rites tours very hypnotic and memorable 👽
@@test-user5t3 really? Didn't know they were touring again. Last time I saw them was in 2010 I think, hope it was a good show
Though this album is not as even as Too Dark Park in terms of being unified statement, the peaks are much higher. The technical production wizardry and overall conception set a standard for 'industrial' music that hasn't been touched since.
Yea I agree..Too Dark Park is more solid and compact as a whole and it's shorter..This is not as unified but more looser, abstract,varied and tracks stand out more individually...I love them equally for different reasons..
GREAT way of putting it. This is my absolute favourite SP album and I'm always a bit disappointed when people compare it to Too Dark Park which I find far less interesting
TDP is a much finer record than this, it’s Puppy’s best. Nature’s Revenge > Killing Game, Tormentor > Inquisition, Shore Lined Poison & Morpheus Laughing are better than anything on Last Rights. Lots of annoying whining and emo-tendencies on LRs. I do love Riverz End tho.
you might want to check out Ken Marshall's channel...his videos dive sort of deep into his engineering and production on Skinny Puppy's albums..and he's a hell of a guy
@@travisdsimmon thanks for this information!
I saw this tour and it changed me as an artist. I love them, big fan. This album is so huge, menacing, beautiful, terrifying….it’s a real artistic achievement.
When this album dropped in 1992, I was 19 and already a long time SP fan...but the first single that was played over the radio in my area was Download and it took me and my friend at the time COMPLETELY by surprise. We were transfixed the moment we heard those unnerving piano string brushes right through the 8+ minute ambient drone outro and it wasn't until the DJ said "and that was the track Download from the latest Skinny Puppy album..." that my I even clued into the fact that I had been listening to one of my favourite bands. This album (and THAT track in particular) are such a departure from anything they had ever done previously, or have ever done subsequently.
This work is, by any fair assessment, a masterpiece of electronic music. It is a sprawling sonic playground. It takes the listener to places that most probably hadn't thought possible - it's at once chaotic and cohesive, and they push both their synths, programming and vocals into some very pioneering territory.
I now listen to jazz, classical, hiphop and pop too...but this album still gets more than a few listens every year. After all this time, and perhaps because of it, I'm stilled awed by how the guys pulled this on off. It is genius, gorgeous, challenging and ear-candy all at the same time. "I taught the game first!"
I was a bit late to the party and this was my first Puppy CD. Fan for life! For some reason I find Lust Chance to be one of the greatest tracks of all time
Heroin Addiction: The Album. Man, this album is hard listen when you know what was going on behind the scenes.
fucking Al Jourgensen
Was very lucky to see alot of bands throughout the 80s,90s and 2000s.But I haven't seen Skinny Puppy.
Killing game is an amazing track!
I made a custom tshirt with the gargoyle and nude statue with the logo when this came out. It was a dark period for me - spent many nights in a dark room listening to this and Too Dark Park.....
I feel so wholesome reading the comments and most of you feeling the same about this album as 'ive been feeling for almost 30 years.
Not only SP's best but one of the greater albums in general. Everything is right about it. A true masterpiece.
I just found this thread and I feel so good reading it as well. This is my favorite album of all time.
Skinny Puppy is my beautiful teen angst
Totally ahead of their time and timeless
Brilliant with the bleakness and the void and daughter destruction complete genius
Hand down my favorite SP album
have you never heard Mind?
@@JANXDPDX oh yeah. It's good for me last rights is perfect the only one I don't like is dark park 😥
@@gabrielpadilla7839 Dark park is awesome wym
Lol you can’t be a puppy fan and not LOVE TDP
@@fatorias8586 too dark park is the best skinny puppy album tentacles down
92 was was such a big year for alternative music from Industrial to Trip Hop, Ministry went Metal, NiN with Broken ep and SP with Last Rights and Massive Attack with Blue Lines, great times!
One of the best shows I’ve seen or heard. Being in my seat ahead of time. NOLA circa early 2000’s? Thank you Rave and all.
The best Skinny Puppy album.
This tour was one of the most incredible live shows possible. Absolute destruction and mayhem. Nothing else has ever come close.
One of my regrets in life is that I never had the opportunity to see Puppy live for this album's tour. The stories I've heard are incredible.
@@belleepoque4597 try to catch them now, just saw them for my second time the other night and they played 2 songs from Last Rights
@Kmart goth I actually bought tickets for this tour. Gonna see them this Sunday in Boston. I can barely contain my excitement. I really wish Dwayne was still alive but it's going to be awesome anyway.
@@belleepoque4597 it was so good, you’re gonna love it. Didn’t care much for the guitarist and would’ve swapped a couple songs out for others but it was a 10/10 show overall. I liked it better than when I saw them in 2007 (better setlist). Edit: Without spoiling anything, you also get 2 songs from Too Dark Park :)
@@kmartgoth8313 sweet. I'm really hoping they play Knowhere/Mirror Saw, but that's probably not going to happen. I do love every track on TDP, so that will still be awesome. Thanks for hyping the show!!!!
So dark, but so bright
love the early years but this is the best!
ANTIFA SWEDEN
it was really cool when that amazon commercial with the folksy music interrupted.
and now it's Raymoor and Flangan
dunkin donuts!
fuck nettwerk.
Whilst Process is still my favourite album this is just such a delight! It is so dense and full of ideas and sounds, I feel I will never truly get to grips with it fully! So beautifully experimental, but just so listenable at the same time. Forgive me, I'm drunk.
The first song is so good,and it really sets the tone for the rest of the album 🤘
I died and came back to this album.
haven't felt that good in a long time.
Can’t believe they performed 2 songs from this the other night!
Rivers End, played late at night, in the dark, on massive paradigm tower speakers , fueled by a Harmon Kardon amp/pre amp, cd player. Played low volume - sit in the center of the room and blow your mind. EPIC
Riverz End is such a masterpiece.
...this has so many edges it turned square. Appreciate still!
A sonic blast to the heart of the mind! Mirror Saw is the soundtrack to this evening
Oh man how many days and nights have I had this playing in the background and most of my friends just never really got it. I'm from the middle of nowhere and I have always tended to be drawn to the darker side of everything, whether it's music, movies, fashion and art. I had no idea what Industrial music was when I was young but I was waaaay fucking industrial from the jump. My folks were hicks being into hick-ish stuff. I don't want to seem like I was a little douche being against the grain-abrasive just to show the family and friends that I hated every aspect of where I'm from, but I knew from my elementary school days and on from there that I was just not into the same stuff that I was being raised around. There was a guy that I met at the only skate shop within 50 miles of my house and I started talking to him about where I lived and he was actually from right down the road. He was now living in a town between where the shop was and where I'm from. He was a decent number of years older than me and physically disabled from a Motorcycle accident which was in my lane because at the time I was a sponsored GNCC racing fiend of a kid. I ended up hanging out with my new friend that weekend and we have been dear friends since, but there's one very important thing that this person is responsible for, it's the first time I was able to hear this album and it was like scratching an itch that was always there but it's never been reached before. I was 14 then, riding a RM 125 all over the place, no lights, full race bike that I had retired from the life but repurposed into my own Mad Max Moto Monster: rattle can paint job, crazy retreads that were some of my first attempts at cutting my own tires(the old man had a tire cutter) and I brushed the metal if it wasn't painted so I could not be seen in the dark.My new friend saw me on the bike and instantly realized that we were going to be around each other for the long haul. This man still loves to tell people that are around both of us that he is responsible for the variety of the musical taste that I have. This is not totally the case but he is absolutely responsible for the real Industrial music of what I would say is the "Golden Era" of the genre. Now there are so friggin many different names for so many types of the same thing really(I know that I will be crucified by my peers here in the YT comment section) but the music is the most important thing that this is really about anyhow, right? Skinny Puppy,Nitzer Ebb, Frontline Assembly, Front 242, Consolidated, Ministry, Revolting Cocks,KMFDM,Die Krupps and the list keeps going but the message is getting across hopefully. Thanks John for the injection of the angry heroin fueled, angry electronic music that is really truly appreciated by a narrow few people who are very hard to find growing up in the middle of nowhere, Indiana farmland. Long winded, sorry but I'm feeling nostalgic today.😊
love the titles that are written in that girl's-journal, American hometown cafe menu font
Accurate description!
Still heavier than most metal albums.
especially when Uncle Buck gets hit with the bowling ball... "ow!"
Nothing can touch their depth of even 20 years ago.
I always said in the 80's anyway Skinny Puppy were more metal than all the metal bands of the era. I mean in attitude, in their live performances, in how dark they were.
Check out dark fortress
@@waondererable don't tell me what to do!
Lol
Brings back memories of high school, listening to this cd and getting high af
Key is really a great drummer, too. "Mirror Saw" is so fucking good. Riverz End, too!
It's also their best because it's the hardest to digest for newbies. Puppy invented many genres. One you could call spit rock. You know what I mean. Last Rites is definitely an album that spits at you like, well, a barking dog.
This is easy listening compared to TDP
@@CutieSenussiyea I never understood how ppl think this is more darker and less accessible than tdp
Skinny Puppy are the true parents of deep electronica.
There is a clear difference between the second half of the album and the first, divided at minute 26:30. While the first half accommodates somewhat more conventional music, the second half plunges us into deeper electronica. With an open and never-before-seen sound instrumentation, perhaps a very distant evolution of John Cage and a perverse auditory machine exploring the world. Somehow it slowly immerses us in that labyrinthine electronic environment of an amusement park with no exit.
The creative and aesthetic peak of Skinny Puppy. Almost completely devoid of what I don't like about the band. So good.
What didnt u like about the old puppy??
@@uncleruckus3149 It's not the old or new stuff I don't like, it's certain styles of songs, sounds and album sequencings. There are great songs in almost every album though. The problem is they were too prolific. Most SP albums are bloated with redundant songs that go on for too long. At least half of the material is really corny too.
My favourite era is Too Dark Park/Rabies/Last Rights plus Greater Wrong of the Right. In retrospect I much prefer Download to SP, even though SP has made some of my favourite music ever.
@@hericiumcoralloides5025 agreed, but I don't think mythmaker or weapon have any good songs, handover had 2 good songs... But I like nearly every song on bites and mind I think the puppy with goettel was infinitely superior...
@@uncleruckus3149 You're right actually, Mythmaker and Weapon are terrible through and through. I didn't even think of them actually. I really dislike ohGr's modern vocal style and music and I think he has dragged the band in a very uninteresting direction.
@@hericiumcoralloides5025 agreed, but I do like some of his solo stuff, his latest solo album had some decent songs... Yeah i don't really like his newer style, liked when he used to yell and growl with effects
Hi, Netwerk. It’s been 30+ years. Mixing Lefthand shake back between Circustance and Download wouldn’t make this a better album. It’s a track, not a song. It wouldn’t disrespect Timothy Leary’s estate…it would only bring a few more drops of attention to…whatever fiim was sampled. Mostly? It would make a vinyl reissue sell REALLY well right about now.
@ 41:47 - I love Download! So glad Kevin Key created his side project.
God damn this is like sandpaper sonically. Cevin is a genius. I saw him on the sidewalk at n Chicago….I looked up…smiled….and kept walking. My wife said,” Hey, that’s Cevin Key!” Still just kept walking. Couldn’t bring myself to be a fan boy. The show that night was EPIC!
When is Nettwerk & Skinny Puppy gonna kiss & make up ? So new "re-mastered" versions of the cd's can come out or just put out the original pressings back in stores (like Sunrise Rec) so i can finish my collection.
No need to remaster.
@@victimasdelspleen the last rights remaster vinyl blew my mind. Cleanse Fold and Too Dark Park not so much... I think cevin just turned down Ogre on those, ha ha.
I agree with Saint Martins that it would be basically awesome to get remasters, or at least vinyl issues of essential works like The Process and To Be an Angel Blind... damn, how nice would that be.
yeah i miss my collection it took me along time to collect that discography and lost it in my moves
"You can get worked by Nettwerk but I'll never get played again Sam!" - Consolidated
great for ears and soul
I learned about skinny puppy from a tool interview where maynard said remember listening to skinny puppy, so I looked them up and bought a CD It was IDK maybe 7 years ago... lol. I love Neuwerld!
tool was what I rocked out on as I got into skinny puppy--they grow well together! Hard to believe Aenima and the Process were hot off the press around the same time
Tool are ghey tho
Definitely an album that is compounded as a whole. WOW.
Puppy ppl reunion blessed
This was one of the 1st SP albums i bought...the song love in vein used to narrate this picture of some haunted corner of my mind. I can't paint but i wanted to paint that song the way i envision it.
Skinny PUPPY , we are humbled by your existence.
23:12 best guitar solo ever!
Lol!
I wouldn't call this 'better' or 'worse' than 2DP --- amazing tracks on both. Both addressing themes of insanity and horror in their own way.
A lot of us seem to really like Last Rights. Good.
It's not as good as the process or rabies, but it's still one of their heavier albums. And because of that it holds a special spot on my SP list
@@scotchallenguarde1 Last Rights is debatedly their heaviest album, as well as being genius Dwayne Goettel's last appearance before his departure from SP. Check out Too Dark Park and ViViSectVi if you haven't already. Don't sleep on LaHuman8 and Left Hand Shake, which were two of the unreleased tracks for Last Rights. Another few things I would recommend to you regarding SP, is to listen to these three albums in reverse, starting from their last track. Also, normally at 1/2. Nice talking to you.
@@danielchez9356 Is there some kind secret hidden message or meaning?
@@mgg121288able No, it just sounds good to me. That's all that I meant.
@@scotchallenguarde1 process wasn’t really regarded as their best work. Not saying you shouldnt hold that opinion since I think it is underrated. This album and too dark park are my personal faves though.
This album is just an average day in Toronto
I saw them on this tour in orlando at the Edge in like...92?
@King of Sweden : ¿ King Diamond ?
Lucky! I saw them on the mythmaker tour but it would have epic to have been at that one.
Too dark park tour was supposedly the best
@@zachary7573 saw them on Mythrus tour in 2007 myself (my first time), and saw them a few nights ago on their final one. Edit: they’re playing songs from Last Rights this time. Got to hear Love in Vein and Inquisition
knowhere? is also a reworking of a track called uranus cancelled, if memory serves
Yup, you're right. I remember that track being on one of the Back and Forth comps.
I feel like this album is underrated. I know Ogre is missing on a portion, but we still haveGoettel and Key.
Ogre was working on an album separately from Key and Goettel. They just couldn't stand each other to that degree. Ogre bailed during the recording of The Process.
Using "underrated" on RUclips means you don't know what you are talking about.
@@clvrswine no, I've only been a fan for 34 years... definitely not.
Tripping or not love it
Actually, there have been albums that are close on par with Last Right and they just happen to come from the mind of Cenin Key as well. Eyes of Stanley pain for one
Their best album in my opinion. Their old stuff is too 80's which is great but holds it back. Same with CFM. A little flat. Non-explosive. You can argue they were better like that and you could be right. CFM nailed the horror angle so it is their most special and valuable album. Too Dark and Process are dark but in many ways are actually bright and nice and very Canadian. All good things. No doubt. But Last Rites brings it all together to perfection. You could call it a Hollywood sequel to CFM, meaning it's the same but the action is crank up.
Fantastic album to trip to.
try Mind The Perpetual Intercourse
@@JANXDPDX good for tripping but I have to give the edge to Last Rights
This album is amazing. I think I love this a little more than Too Dark Park, it's got the experimental priority of the older 80s albums. (Bites to VIVIsect VI)
The puppies were the best thing to happen to my ears in such a long time.🖤🖤
my h.s. sweet hearts younger brother used to cry and get scared at the end track 11 the sample in scrapyard is the bowling ball falling on john candy head in uncle buck
"SONG 10 IS MISSING?"
no, the Missing is over there, on one of those ministry albums
something to do with Leary voice over ''Left Handshake''
10 tried
u alone nnn0w
No.10 is "The Left Handshake"; it had to be excluded from the album for legal reasons as it contains parts of a Timothy Leary speech. It has been released as a one track special edition of 100(?) copies at Skinny Puppys reunion appearance at Doomsday-Festival in Dresden 2000 (Yes, I got one as I was there... ;-) )
I saw that Last Rights tour also in St.Louis. Also Too Dark Park, but can’t remember which one I liked best.....
I saw a teen wearing a Skinny Puppy t-shirt the other day! I wanted to ask her if she actually listened!
Society is cooked
Cyber dogs crunching
The best!!!!!!!!
My dad and brothers called Doggie 1 brother had last rights read to him few times over the years ✌💖
need a copy of this bad. god damn
Still can’t recommend experiencing this album w commercial interruptions…but having one RIGHT at the Down to Load transition in Download is something 😏
Delicious!
Acid in NYC for this tour, best night never
It's a shame we can't get decent vinyl pressing of all the early SP albums.
Nettwerk should be ashamed of themselves.
I thought they reissued them all except for Too Dark Park? I just ordered this on LP. I think it came out in 2020-2021.
My favorite album of all time, plain and simple. Even inspired my one and only music article if anyone cares to read:
medium.com/@rashreflection/the-billion-year-voyage-skinny-puppys-last-rights-b679e9b0ece1
Really good article! Someone linked it on r/skinnypuppy on reddit and I had to give it a read. Very informative, definitely makes me appreciate this album even more.
To materiał muzyczny z zaświatów Chrystusa Jozuego Cienia. Miłość w Bobolicach.
do bblic mam jakies 40km..
I have the 2lp 45rpm vinyl version of this. Apparently it sells for around $800. Not that I'm ever going to sell it though....
Best album 2025
30th anniversary this year
Still sounds fresh in 2021
Imagine if Nettwerk had given this tour a decent production video...
Imagine if this album was better
My GOWD!!
This was great on acid back in the day
This is great on acid today
Inquisition Lyrics:
Latent manner
Speak parting
Bonding cement no longer holds
Parting fits
Too young to grow old
Addicted romance
Love tested
Healing from substance abuse
Wicked resenting
Never faces itself
Torturer taints
Animal waits
No environment
Torturer laughing
Righteous
Real-time intrusion
Fears filtered
For reasons unknown
Cancer attack
Leaching
Desserts so sweet
Leaves bitter taste in the mouth
Forever
Torturer taints
Animal waits
Corners creeping fear
Tasting force-fed lies of the wicked
Acting out fears
False truths turned around
Wicked torture
Wicked, wicked
Pain
The wicked words of the torturer
Abusing and controlling anyone
That's useful to him
Wicked waiting of the torturer
Wicked waits the torturer
(Torture, torture, torture)
Reads story
Truth seething
Believed poison
Eaten, swallows
Turning away
Torturer taints animal
With hate, enlightenment
Turned away
No change
The wicked
Not facing himself
Controls turning away
Wicked torturer
Force-fed torment
Animal torture
Torturer turning away
Wicked torturer
Wicked not facing his self
Wicked turning away
Wicked turning away
Turning away
Disappearing from himself
Tortures the animal
Tortures the animal
In tears as I again listen in my drunken stupor
I cry for myself as I morn for the world you poor bastards 💔 I love you all
Me too
That is indeed the problem with this album. Too emo. Puppy died in 1990 with their greatest work, TDP
to jest KURWA!!!! DOSKONAŁE!!!
Please release a 180gm deluxe version of this.
не самая весёлая музыка ... но самая страшная в мире музыка !!!!