Use Your Fingers

The Bloodhound Gang - Use Your Fingers

Use Your Fingers
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Artist: The Bloodhound Gang
Edition: Music CD
Format: Explicit Lyrics
CD Release Date: 1995-07-18
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:
  1. Rip Taylor Is God
  2. We Are The Knuckleheads
  3. Legend In My Spare Time
  4. B.H.G.P.S.A.
  5. Mama Say
  6. Kids In America
  7. You're Pretty When I'm Drunk
  8. The Evils Of Placenta Hustling
  9. One Way
  10. Shitty Record Offer
  11. Go Down
  12. Earlameyer The Butt Pirate
  13. No Rest For The Wicked
  14. She Ain't Got No Legs
  15. We Like Meat
  16. Coo Coo Ca Choo
  17. Rang Dang
  18. Nightmare At The Apollo
  19. K.I.D.S. Incorporated
  20. Bonus Track 1

Free Music Notes for Use Your Fingers

Free Music Review: The totally unofficial Bloodhound Gang `Use Your Fingers' Q&A
Hit: 2 Stars

Q: So was the mega-successful, multi-platinum Rock/Hip-Hip crossover masterpiece `One Fierce Beer Coaster' the Bloodhound Gang's first album?
A: No, it wasn't. The band's first album was `Use Your Fingers', released in 1995.

Q: So how come I've never heard of it?
A: You haven't been looking in the bargain bin at your local record store.

Q: Was it any good?
A: The record-buying public didn't seem to think so, and neither did the band. Bloodhound Gang actually split up after the release of `Use Your Fingers' because of the poor response it received, but reformed again.

Q: So what's the title all about then? Is it referring to Guns n Roses or female masturbation?
A: Yes to both.

Q: So what's it sound like?
A: It sounds just how you might imagine the predecessor to `One Fierce Beer Coaster' would sound.

Q: So it's got the funky beats then?
A: Er, sort of.

Q: And it's got the silly lyrics?
A: Yes.

Q: And the dumb bits between the songs?
A: Of course it does. It's a Bloodhound Gang album isn't it?

Q: And does the CD have some dumb instructions on it?
A: Yes! These questions are really dumb!

Q: Sorry, but I'm doing my best. There are lots of obscure references to American pop culture here. Can you help me out?
A: I'll try...

Q: Is that really Rip Taylor on the first track?
A: Yes, it is.

Q: So who's Rip Taylor?
A: A camp American comedian, famous for being fat, having spiky hair, throwing confetti when he tells jokes, and being camp. Also known as the Prince of Pandemonium.

Q: Who are Vera, Flo and Mel?
A: All three are characters from the sitcom "Alice". Vera and Flo are waitresses, while Mel is the cook who owns Mel's Diner.

Q: Who are Jerry's Kids, and why do they need a sponsor?
A: Comedian Jerry Lewis got all serious when he started getting old, and started a charity for disabled children. The children helped by the charity are known as Jerry's Kids.

Q: What was the Rockford Files?
A: It was a 1970s police show starring James Garner.

Q: What are spaghettios?
A: Little rings made of spaghetti, shaped like the letter O.

Q: What was Barbara Eden doing in a bottle?
A: She was Jeannie in the sitcom "I Dream Of Jeannie", where she was a genie who lived in a bottle. Look, this is getting boring. Ask some questions about the music!

Q: Er, OK, I'll try. Um, did Bloodhound Gang write all the music?
A: Of course not! They ripped stuff off all over the place and covered Kim Wilde's "Kids In America". However, The Cure wouldn't let them rip off a sample, which is probably a good thing, because this album is bad enough on it's own.

Q: Is it as good as Lawnmower Deth's "Kids In America"?
A: No.

Q: Is "One Way" a Blondie cover, "Go Down" an AC/DC cover, and "No Rest For The Wicked' an Ozzy Osbourne cover?
A: No.

Q: Are any of the songs clever and funny?
A: No, but some are stupid and funny, like `You're Pretty When I'm Drunk', and he's pretty ...ing drunk.

Q: So what else can you tell us about the music?
A: That's a stupid question! Um, well, it sounds like the demo tunes on tinny little hand held keyboards, but it took five guys to make the sounds. Occasionally a guitar pops up, but not often enough.

Q: So, um, is this like, any good, or worth getting?
A: It depends. If you like other Bloodhound Gang albums, then you might like this. If you are just a casual observer, who quite liked "Fire Water Burn" then you'd probably be very disappointed.

Q: So it's rubbish then.
A: I wouldn't go quite that far, but it's not a masterpiece. Finished with the questions?

Q: Yes.
A: Good.

Use Your Fingers Poster

White rappers generally divide into two camps: the Beastie Boys disciples and the House of Pain clique. For the former, honky hip-hop has nothing to do with the African-American experiences that gave birth to the rap form; rather, it is borrowed to express the middle-class, often suburban, ennui that comes from too much pop culture and too much time on one's hands. In the latter, groups attempt to co-opt the Afrocentrism and identity worship from black rap and use it as a template for their own particular ethnic trumpeting--Irish, in HOP's case. On their debut album, Use Your Fingers, Bloodhound Gang make it clear which group they expect to be confused with: "No, I'm not the guy from the Beastie Boys!" yells Jimmy Pop (or is it his partner Daddy Long Legs?). Hailing from suburban Philadelphia, BG are a self-contained frat party dying to offend anyone who'll listen with their often hilarious, in-your-face political incorrectness. They fight for their right to be moronic throughout--whether worshiping Rip Taylor or invoking the Cavity Creeps from an old toothpaste ad. It's not all just fat-chick and cripple jokes, though: BG back up their obnoxious idiocy with some fairly wise musical maneuvering. While their age and background lead them to repeatedly mine the '80s for material--Duran Duran and Cure samples, Michael Jackson and Blondie interpolations, a "Kids in America" cover--their sly comments and ingenious a cappella snippets prove they're surprisingly sharp and able lads. --Roni Sarig

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