When I was maybe a junior in high school I had the good fortune of seeing Skinny Puppy play live at the Hollywood Palladium with Dave, my good friend Darin, and the guys from Fear Factory. I say I had the good fortune not just because they are a fantastic band, but because up till that point I'd never listened to them before. I'd heard of them, but back then the only band I listened to that was not metal, speed metal or death metal wsa Godflesh, and that was mainly because one of the two members of that band (Justin) was a founding member of Napalm Death, one of my favorite bands at the time.
Anyway, I went to see Skinny Puppy simply because Godflesh was opening for them, and since I wanted to see Godflesh, we figured we'd stick around for Skinny Puppy (the guys from Fear Factory were there mainly to see Skinny Puppy; we were clearly in the extreme minority of people there that night to only see Godflesh). Even though I didn't know anything by Skinny Puppy, and wasn't even into that kind of music at the time, I was impressed by their show. Dave was more impressed, and he went right out and bought the album they were touring to support, "Last Rights" (I later followed Dave's lead and bought a bunch of their albums as well).
One of the things that Dave and I both thought was odd about "Last Rights" was that the band seemed to have put the track starting points all about 40 seconds into the song, so if you skipped to a song it would already been well into it. Because Skinny Puppy is so experimental, we just figured they were being weird and tinkering with the CD format (other bands were into doing weird stuff like this too, with Nine Inch Nails releasing the EP "Broken" with 8 songs on it, but 99 tracks, which was the most allowable on a CD, where after the 6th song, the CD had 91 straight blank tracks before getting to tracks 98 and 99, which were the last two songs on the CD).
On a CD putting the track points at weird places like that didn't matter too much as long as you were playing straight through, since there were no gaps at where the track points were; but now having put my entire music collection into mp3 format, it was annoying as there is a one second gap at each track point. I got annoyed by this and went in and used SoundEdit to re-do all the trackpoints so that it would play properly in mp3 format, Skinny Puppy's weird stylistic choice be damned. However, I learned yesterday that the weird track points was not a stylistic choice at all, and was in fact a mistake on the first pressing of the CD. The reason for the mistake was that apparently they were going to include a 40 second clip of Timothy Leary speaking, which he had agreed to, but which his agent (or whomever) nixed at the last minute; so when they yanked that audio, it screwed up the track points and it threw them all off. Skinny Puppy later re-released the album with a sticker on it that said "Quality Control by Skinny Puppy" which had the fixed track points. Anyway, being someone who does quality control for a living, and being a big Skinny Puppy fan, I thought this was an interesting tale, so I thought I'd recount it here.