Mindless Self Indulgence Frankenstein Girls Will Seem Strangely Sexy CD

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Mindless Self Indulgence: Steve, Righ? (vocals, guitar); Little Jimmy Urine (vocals, programming); Vanessa Y.T. (bass); Kitty (drums).
Additional personnel: Scud (background vocals).
Engineers: Ray Martin, Little Jimmy Urine, Flam.
Principally recorded at The Theater Studio & Mindswerve, New York, New York.
Personnel: Steve, Righ? (guitar).
Audio Mixer: Mario Caldato, Jr.
Recording information: The Theater Studio, New York Ci.
Illustrator: Gideon Kendall.
Arranger: James Galus.
Mindless Self Indulgence's brilliantly named The Frankenstein Girls Will Seem Strangely Sexy collects more of the group's outré, hip-hop-tinged industrial thrash. Singer Urine's bizarre falsetto sounds like a sped-up Jello Biafra, especially on tracks like "Boomin'" and "I Hate Jimmy Page." The album's 30 songs -- which sport titles like "Dicks Are for My Friends," "Cocaine and Toupees," "Faggot," and "Royally Fucked" -- are all pretty much slight variations on the group's fast-and-shocking style. Though The Frankenstein Girls Will Seem Strangely Sexy doesn't quite deliver on the sleazy humor of its title, Mindless Self Indulgence does provide a quick, sensationalistic fix for fans of groups like Insane Clown Posse or A.C. ~ Heather Phares

Rolling Stone (3/2/00, pp.99-100) - 3 stars out of 5 - "...cpmbines the processed sonics of Marilyn Manson with the screechy hysterics of the B-52's....The Ritalin-ready, irreverant din...could be just the thing for teens tiring of rap-metal's relentless lack of humor."
Alternative Press (5/00, p.96) - 4 out of 5 - "...Self-appointed kings and queens of industrial jungle pussy punk, shorter and sharper than a short, sharp stick, and every 'song' takes a different take on the same sort of sickness....with Ramones-like economy...every track is a nugget..."
CMJ (1/31/00, p.23) - "...[an] industrial, jungle, pussy-punk opera....entirely self-indulgent, but hardly mindless....Think Bart Simpson-style ornery-ness paired with Atari Teenage Riot's freneticism..."