Chainsaw (Skinny Puppy song)

"Chainsaw"
"Chainsaw"
Single by Skinny Puppy
Released	1987
Recorded	1986
Genre	Industrial
Length	27 min 27 s
Label	Nettwerk/Capitol/EMI
Songwriter(s)	Kevin Crompton, Dwayne Goettel, Dave Ogilvie, Tom Ellard
Producer(s)	Dave Ogilvie and cEvin Key
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Chainsaw is a single by the band Skinny Puppy. It contains new material, as well as additional material taken from their albums Bites and Mind: The Perpetual Intercourse.^[4]

Track listing

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Chainsaw"	5:55
2.	"Assimilate (Remix) (R:23)"	6:32
3.	"Cage" (Not included on the American release)	2:20
4.	"Stairs and Flowers (Def Wish Mix)"	6:05
5.	"Stairs and Flowers (Too Far Gone)"	6:35

Engineered by cEvin Key and Dave Ogilvie.
Tracks 1-3 mixed by Key, Ogilvie, and Ogre, assisted by Ric Arboit.
Additional production, instrumentation and engineering on tracks 4-5 by Justin Strauss and Murry Elias, with edits by Chep Nunez. Remixed by Justin Strauss and Murry Elias.
Sleeve photography, typography and design by Steven R. Gilmore.^[5]
The front cover art features The Vision of Death and the back cover features Babylon Fallen, both by Gustave Doré.^[5]^[6]
Two different versions were released on vinyl; one featuring the original labels (light orange) and one with new labels (pink and green).^[7]

^ "Chainsaw - Skinny Puppy". allmusic.com. AllMusic. Retrieved March 19, 2018.
^ Brunet, Ivan (April 8, 1987). "Skinny Puppy, Chainsaw, Capitol". Nanaimo Daily News: 6.
^ Riches, Hester (March 28, 1987). "Dreamlike Songs with a Nightmarish Edge". The Vancouver Sun: G11.
^ *Wolanski, Coreen (2002). "Skinny Puppy: Every Dog Has Its Day". Exclaim!. Retrieved 2010-07-20.
^ ^a ^b Kern, Jay (2010). Skinny Puppy: The Illustrated Discography (Second ed.). Mythos Press. p. 77.
^ "Skinny Puppy: Chainsaw". Archived from the original on 2011-07-16. Retrieved 2010-07-20.
^ Lim, Stacy. "Brap...The Skinny Puppy Discography". Retrieved 2010-07-20.