Week Twenty-Three: IIV/SP - Skinny Puppy - "Far Too Frail" - Remission

Week Twenty-Three goes to IIV (Images In Vogue) & SP (Skinny Puppy).  Images In Vogue was a Canadian New Wave band that found fame in the early 80s.  The connection to Skinny Puppy is that Kevin Compton, who was the drummer for Images In Vogue, left the band to focus on his side project, which happened to be Skinny Puppy.  You might be more familiar with him under his moniker of cEvin Key.

I was introduced to Images In Vogue after I had made the acquaintance of the singer in my former band.  He was a huge fan of Skinny Puppy, and he had discovered the Images In Vogue connection.  However, I was actually introduced to Skinny Puppy through a boyfriend that I had in high school many, many years before I ever learned of Images In Vogue.  I have really only known guys to be avid Skinny Puppy fans, but that's not to say that there are not females out there who are equally enamored by them.

Skinny Puppy is definitely an acquired taste, and I never really got into them more than the three songs that I will post during IIV/SP week.  In fact, I know so little about both bands (and I'm seriously overloaded with tests, assignments, and grading right now) that I am just going to re-post this same blurb of info for each song that I speak of this week, but I would like to get their music out there because it is really good!!!  I'll be back to my daily commentary next week - bear with me, s'il vous plait!!!

lovers and legions I've seen your whore try not to reason forsaken I'm poor

fire nerves and dissension flying at a glare a ginger reaction whisper care

a hairpin decision falls against the brain

to formulate the anguish and alleviate the pain

the silence is warning soul search nothing can't regain reach for air

scenes of a cheap thrill summon an old ghost

the foremost and sterile suffering one lost to

face the potential for fantasy and flair forever and forgiving summon

me and dare they keep on the mainstream forging their demise while

playing with the hopeless not facing their own lies

the symptoms of recourse I've seen nothing

overspill far too frail.