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Alienating Our Audience: Live

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Only 10 tracks. Only 22 minutes long. I don't mind at all, this is a great cd. It includes live versions of 3 songs off Tight (Tornado, Diabolicle, Molly) plus some great new songs like Thank God and 2 Hookers & An 8-Ball. Not only that but it also includes Panty Shot. As an extra bonus you can put this cd into your computer and watch some Left Rights videos. Great little appetizer while we wait for a follow-up to FGWSSS.

Brilliant songs that go from thought provoking to hillarious. Great Performances! Awesome new songs and amazing interpritatons of old and hard to find gems. This Is The Future Of Punk Rock! If you don't get the joke than you probably are the joke. To the one person that gave them a bad review I say this: Of course Kitty isn't playing all the drum parts. She is playing her parts while keeping up with complicated jungle beats that only a machine can create. Steve is playing all of his parts. The other guy you saw "playing" guitar is infact a guitar tech tuning Steves next guitar because he knows Steve might destroy his at any moment. You need to get out more and see more shows so as to be even slightly educated before reviewing a concert or live performance again. Mindless Self Indulgence aren't brilliant musicians and thats not the point of what they do. Put down your dumb metal records and pick up the Sex Pistols "Never Mind The Bollocks" c.d. Maybe then you'll get it. A clue that is.

With but one full length album ("Frankenstein Girls Will Seem Strangely Sexy") under their collective belts, fishnets and garters, one might think that it's a bit premature for New York electropunk audioterrorists Mindless Self Indulgence to be issuing their first live collection. But one would be wrong (as one so often is), seeing as there's nary a single song from "Frankenstein Girls" on the new "Alienating Our Audience," and seeing as how MSI have probably played live before more and larger crowds than any other unsigned band in America, having been handpicked to open for the likes of Korn, System of a Down, Cypress Hill, Staind and Rammstein. They've earned a live record, dammit, and they deliver a good one with "Alienating Our Audience," which offers six previously unreleased songs, plus such crowd-pleasing essentials as "Tornado," "Molly" and "Diabolical" (from the hard-to-find "Tight" EP), and "Panty Shot" (from the impossible-to-find "Bring the Pain" cassette single). Sound is good throughout, with MSI's hyperspeed riffs and histrionic rants making the transition from studio to stage very, very well--largely due to the nail-biting intensity of singer Little Jimmy Urine's pre-programmed beats and bombs. Urine's vocals, too, are strong (which may surprise those of you who think that, no way, he can't really sing like that without studio effects, can he?)(yes, he can), as are the live musical meltdowns bashed out by drummer Kitty, bassist LynZ and guitarist Steve, Righ? Try as they might, Mindless Self Indulgence appear to be too good to alienate their own audience--and here's betting, based on the evidence presented on this disc, that they might have even stolen some other acts' audiences from them as well.

This is a great album and personally feel is their best ablum to date. All the new songs are great, and the old ones too for those who haven't heard them yet. And for those complaining about the lenght, you have to understand that msi has no record contract right now. So all expenses come for either merchandise or their own pockets, it would have been longer but they just don't have the money to do so. But anyways, msi has the best live stage presents of any band i've seen on a long time

Alienating our Audience is a great cd. People may not like how short it is, but enjoy what you get, and what you get is very good music. Their live music is EXCELLENT, and the ignorant guy with the first review has no idea what he's talking about. I saw them in concert and they were great.

Anyone who likes MSI will want to get this cd. It is a departure from their earlier music. This recording features more guitar and is alot harder. It features 10 tracks of new and classic MSI. Including the rare "Panty Shot." This is also one of the best live albums I have ever heard. It was mixed very well. It sounds like a studio album but with an audience to be mocked.
Get FGWSSS and get this.

Buy this album. Don't listen to the other reviews. They don't know what they are talking about. Yes the album is short but it doesn't matter when you get these great songs. They aren't loseing their touch. The album is good so buy it. Also buy Frankenstein Girls Will Seem Strangely Sexy. And if you can get The Left Rights album , get it. This album sounds so good that you can't even tell its live , thats how great it is.

This album is short. I mean really short. You can listen to the entire thing in like 20-25 min. The sound quality [stinks]. And you can barely understand what they are saying. So why should you buy this? Because it is so messed up and wrong that it's awsome. This album is screwed up. You've got "Thank God", a song that pokes fun at the rappers at award shows who always thank God for their lyrics, even though they sing about drugs and sex and killing. Then there's Panty Shot. The most unbelievably wrong song ever. I'll tell you this much, the song is about a guy and a 5-year old girl. Sick sick stuff. But, it's like, forget what everyone else things, they do their own thing and that's cool. This album is great. Buy it if you like MSI. If you've never listened to them before, get Frankenstein Girls Seem Strangely Sexy first.

Wow! Mindless Self Indulgence rock my socks off! They are so awesome, and they are incredible live! I can't wait to see them live, but until then I will be listening to this CD on reapeat, it's awesome. Pantyshot rocks my socks off.

If you don't listen to MSI, you should, they are a great band, original, and are excellent live. "Thank God" and "Rip Off" are my two favorite songs on this album, they have great beats, as do the other songs. Pretty much everything they put out is well worth the money in my opinion, so if you like crazy techno/rock, this is the stuff for you.