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Use Your Fingers | 
 enlarge | Artist: The Bloodhound Gang
Label: Sony
Category: Music
List Price: $11.98
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Rating:  50 reviews
Sales Rank: 17090
Format: Explicit Lyrics
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 67225
UPC: 074646722527
EAN: 0074646722527
ASIN: B000002B79
Release Date: July 18, 1995
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| Tracks:
| • | Rip Taylor Is God | | • | We Are the Knuckleheads | | • | Legend in My Spare Time | | • | Mama Say | | • | Kids in America - The Bloodhound Gang, Wilde, Ricki | | • | You're Pretty When I'm Drunk | | • | One Way | | • | Shitty Record Offer | | • | Go Down - The Bloodhound Gang, Franks, J. | | • | No Rest for the Wicked - The Bloodhound Gang, Franks, J. | | • | She Ain't Got No Legs | | • | Coo Coo Ca Choo | | • | Rang Dang | | • | Nightmare at the Apollo - The Bloodhound Gang, Cruz, M. | | • | K.I.D.S. Incorporated - The Bloodhound Gang, |
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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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 The totally unofficial Bloodhound Gang `Use Your Fingers' Q&A September 7, 2006
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
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.
 Worst Ive heard from Bloodhound Gang July 24, 2006
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
I was excited about this cd...then I started listening to it. If I wanted Beastie Boys I would have bought Beastie Boys. Its nothing but lame 80's rap loops and a few butt rock tracks. Nothing like the Bloodhound gang of old. What happened to the techno/pop? What happened to somewhat punk? The only good song on the cd is Kids incorporated. I would consider this their joke cd since about half of the tracks are garbage and only 40 seconds long. One word...lame.
 The funniest one of the bunch... April 19, 2006
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
'Bloodhound Gang is here to get it on, so rock on brothers, rock on' - There are a lot of positive things to say about Beer Coast and Boobies, but Use Your Fingers is still the most unique! Rip Taylor, Duran Duran, Blondie and The Cure samples, trying to find his wife's placenta, then turning her upside-down to hold Jimmy's beer, and the nastiest last bonus track of all time! The only things that I would omit is Kids In America and Sh*tty Record Offer, but that certainly doesn't affect me giving this full length 5 stars.
The one bad thing about this album March 25, 2006
After listening to some of the newer seemingly un-inspired Bloodhound Gang records, I have to put in some kudos to this one.. with TONS of horribly inappropriate genius lyrics.. this is a great album..
and the only bad part is that Daddy Long Legs seems to rap a little too much about how he's "cold kicking lyrics". Trust me.. listen to this album too much like me and that starts to get really annoying...
but Jimmy Pop's obscure pop culture references MORE then make up for such a minor thought.
un-able to listen to this February 5, 2006
0 out of 8 found this review helpful
this is without a doubt the worst album i have ever brought... EVER! i'd say its worth buying just for a joke, light up a couple of spiffs and laugh at the poor quality of this awful disgracement to the name 'music'. The only track worth listening to its the one about the transvesite, made me crack up.
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