Back and Forth
Back and Forth is Skinny Puppy's self-published debut, released in 1984. Though the material calls it an album in places, it is in fact an EP, and a tiny one in terms of circulation: the plan was a limited run of 50 copies, but only 35 were made. The first 15 were dubbed at normal speed, while the other 20 were dubbed fast, leaving them slightly inferior.
It sits at the very start of a discography that runs through Remission, released the same year, and on to Weapon in 2013. The sleeve is part of the appeal: alien illustrations from Robert Emenegger's book UFOs Past, Present, and Future appear on the front and back, while the inner sleeve carries a detail from George Tooker's 1950 painting Subway. In 1992 it was remastered and reissued with extra tracks as Back and Forth Series Two, which is the easier way in for most listeners.
Back and Forth: tracklist and credits
7 tracks · 28:05Tracklist
- 1Sleeping Beast
- 2K-9cEvin Key and Dave Ogilvie3:34
- 3Quiet Solitude
- 4The Pit
- 5Dead of Winter
- 6A.M. / Meat Flavour
- 7Edge of Insanity1:21
- Produced by
- Skinny Puppy, cEvin Key
- Recorded
- November 1983 – January 1984
- Label
- [no label]
- Length
- 28:05
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How we know the release date only year precision available
| Source | Date | Note |
|---|---|---|
| MusicBrainz | 1984 | |
| Wikipedia infobox | 1984 | |
| Wikidata | 1984 |
1 editions
| Date | Country | Label | Barcode | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1984 | CA | [no label] | original |
Cover art sources
coverartarchive · padded: padded: 283x231 cover placed on a 1500px square (not square at source)
| Source | Size | Verdict |
|---|---|---|
| coverartarchive ✓ | 283×231 | padded: padded: 283x231 cover placed on a 1500px square (not square at source) |