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| You'll Rebel to Anything | 
 enlarge | Artist: Mindless Self Indulgence
Label: Metropolis Records
Category: Music
List Price: $11.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  61 reviews
Sales Rank: 49445
Format: Enhanced, Explicit Lyrics
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 80365
UPC: 782388036528
EAN: 0782388036528
ASIN: B0007WFXMQ
Release Date: April 12, 2005
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 Doesn't meet the standard set by Frankenstein Girls April 18, 2005
6 out of 15 found this review helpful
It's a tough call. The songs are good and it's a good album, but it's a real let down after Frankenstein Girls. After all this time, 10 breif songs is all they can give us? One is not even new and another is a cover.
It's still nice to listen to, but I would have just expected more from them. I guess now they've set the pace for future efforts. Expect 10 songs every couple of years.
I also find the album art a little curious. Why are they moving away from the cartoon look that we've become accustomed to?
Perhaps this is the end of MSI. They do appear to be on a downhill slide.
Great album but very poor and underhanded marketing! March 12, 2006
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
I'll break this review in to three parts. First, the review of the album itself. Second, the review of the tactics used by MSI and Metropolis Records to sell this album. Lastly, my advice on getting everything that should have been included on one album.
1. The review of the album:
Simply put, if you like previous MSI albums, Babyland or stuff like Korn you'll eat this up. It's another top notch hybrid electronic, punk/metal, lofi quasi-hip hop, quasi-post-industrial genre-bending album. I suppose this would have fallen in to the label "coldwave" circa mid-90's post-industrial labeling. It's not exactly coldwave, not exactly anything other than the sum of its influences, which seem to be mainly hip-hop, post-industrial and punk/metal. The highlights of the album are definitely "Shut Me Up" and "Stupid MF", although there isn't really a weak track here. Another bonus is a positively weird cover of Rush's "Tom Sawyer". Be sure to put the CD in your computer as there is a video for "You'll Rebel To Anything" (it's a neat collage of old 50's propaganda footage mixed with weird cartoons, vintage stock film interspersed with just general weirdness.)
2. Commentary about questionable gouging of consumer by label/band:
There is absolutely no reason for there to be three different versions of this album except to rip off the consumer. Period. In an interview Jimmy Urine said they released a clean version for people who couldn't buy the album in places like Wal-Mart. Who cares about Wal-Mart? For someone so outspoken and inspired by punk, it bothers me that he'd cave to pressures to release an edited version of anything, let alone an entire album. That leads me to believe it wasn't an effort to cater to the imbeciles who buy music at Wal-Mart but rather a flimsy excuse to release a different version of the album, with different artwork and different bonus tracks.
When I used to buy a lot of electro/industrial (circa mid-90's) I remember this type of crap burning the hell out of me. I'd buy the import of a particular artist (say, someone like Haujobb) and then a year or so later a domestic version would come out with bonus tracks. And it'd cost LESS to boot! So all the "early adopters" and people on the cutting edge would get burned over and over. I can't tell you how many CDs I bought like that when I used to buy a lot of obscure electro/industrial music. It's a trick in order to separate you from your money, nothing more. If they cared only about exposing underground music to a new audience then they'd simply license the album and release it exactly as it was originally in Europe. But I digress.
3. My advice:
Buy this explicit version, then download the bonus tracks "La-Di Da-Di" (bonus track on vinyl) and "Mic Commander" (bonus track on clean version) off teh intarweb and say fsck you to Metropolis Records/MSI for forcing us to buy three versions of the same album in order to get two extra tracks, different artwork and a bonus video (the clean version of this album has a "bonus rehearsal video for 'Diabolical'"). Alternately, if you feel like giving MSI more of your hard-earned money, you can at least get the track "Mic Commander" on iTunes Music Store by itself.
In summation, MSI are a great band and if you like punk, electro-industrial, metal with electronic influences (Fear Factory), hip-hop, nu-metal, coldwave/aggro-industrial (Ministry) then you'll probably totally dig this album.
Also, check out Jhonen Vasquez's video for "Shut Me Up" on myspace (or just do a google search for it). The ex-Johnny the Homicidal Maniac/Squee/Invader Zim/etc. mastermind pulls off one of the funniest videos in a long time.
 Worth the cost, worth the wait, worth trading for virginity. April 13, 2005
5 out of 8 found this review helpful
YRTA is quite possibly the best full cd I've heard since, well, FGWSS. This is NOT fan bias, this is a statement of fact. The lyrics are fresh and sinister with the same old MSI spin we know and love, the beats rock out even harder than previous albums. MSI is one of the best bands America has to offer, no wonder they don't get mass media attention. If this album doesn't get your adrenaline flowing, check your pulse.
I laughed
I cried
I put this cd in my walkman so I could play pocket pool in public
quit your complaining April 23, 2005
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
this is a great album!!!!!!! this is what happens when a band progresses, if bands wouldn't try new things then their sound would always be the same, and all their songs would sound the same. this album is soooo great, and like everything else MSI it is an aquired taste! and takes a while to get used too.
Best Mindless album to date April 24, 2005
5 out of 8 found this review helpful
Too short... seriously...
Remember that album called Tight, that had only 14 tracks? And 3 of them were fillers? And one of them was a live version of another one?
Frankenstein Girls? Come on... Seriously, there are so many tracks I skip on this cd... I always listen to the same few songs: Backmask, Boomin, Clarissa, Dicks are for my friends, Faggot, Kill the rock, Last time and London Bridge.
This album, though, is pure, non-stop pleasure. The band has matured, the songs are darker, the themes too. More melodies everywhere. And most of all: THIS IS DEFINITELY THEIR BEST SOUNDING RECORD TO DATE. They actually use live drums on a few tracks, the bass is upfront... the mix is killer!
I have to say it is my favourite album with Alienating our audience. I'm delighted this doesn't suck like Despierta... When I heard "JOKE" for the first time, I thought "How ironic!"... The lyrics pretty much spoke for themselves: "IT'S ALL DOWNHILL FROM HERE!" But then, this little gem came and saved the day.
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