Bites (album)

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Bites is the first full-length studio album by Canadian industrial band Skinny Puppy, released as an LP through Nettwerk in 1985. It was reissued in 1993 on CD with additional material compiled from cassette releases, international releases, and previously undistributed tracks.

The cover art was designed by Steven R. Gilmore.

Video Bites (album)

Background

The first CD release of Bites was on the compilation Bites and Remission in 1987. This release replaced the songs "Assimilate" and "The Choke" with remixed versions and it did not include all of the tracks featured on the earlier cassette release, which was significantly longer. A similar but discrete 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 Tear Garden's self-titled EP from 1986 (one year after Bites originally saw release) includes a track called "The Center Bullet", a song that runs nearly ten minutes and that later appeared on the 1993 CD release of Bites as an instrumental titled "The Centre Bullet" (notice the slight spelling variation). The two songs are identical save for the presence of vocals by Edward Ka-Spel of The Legendary Pink Dots on The Tear Garden version. Late reissues of The Tear Garden album Tired Eyes Slowly Burning also feature that version of "The Center Bullet". Having both been made by cEvin Key and Dave Ogilvie, it is unclear whether the track was originally a creation of Skinny Puppy or of The Tear Garden.

Maps Bites (album)

Track listing

Samples

• The song "Assimilate" contains a sample from the 1976 film 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 the 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 1973 film The Legend of Hell House - "Get out before I kill you all!"

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Personnel

Credits from AllMusic.

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References

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