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Mindless Self Indulgence - Frankenstein Girls Will Seem Strangely Sexy

1. What were your VERY FIRST impressions on listening to the album, say from the first five minutes in?

I thought it was gonna be a live album at first, which would have been a let down judging by the sound of it. But then it kicks in and I like what I hear.

2. What did you think of the opening track?

Good stuff. Electrophonic Tonic compared them to Death Grips and Franz Ferdinand, but I'd say it's closer to Limp Bizkit crossed with a bit of Idiot Flesh, with somebody like Satanicpornocultshop mashing them together.

3. What did you think of the next track?

I don't remember the second track specifically but I liked the majority of the opening tracks.

4. Did you like the vocalist? Hate him/her? Any impressions? (see note 1)

Yeah he was fine.

5. Did the music (only) generally appeal to you, or not? (see note 2)

For sure. I like the manic vibe. It mixes a lot of styles I enjoy.

6. Did the album get better or worse as you listened to it (first time)?

Golden I is the start of a dim in quality. The album starts to slow down a little bit after that.

7. What did you think of the lyrical content?

No thoughts. Not listened enough to really comment.

8. Did you like the instrumental parts?

I don't remember too many instrumental parts but I did enjoy the music.

9. What did you think of the production?

Fine.

10. Did you know of this artiste prior to listening to the album, and if so, did that foreknowledge colour your perception of this album?

I have heard of them but do not recall ever listening to a full album. I thought they were more in the emo genre than this for some reason.

11. Is this, generally, the kind of music you listen to or not?

Not recently, but I used to listen to a lot more stuff like this. And I'd have loved it in my early teens.

13. What would you class as your favourite track, if you have one?

I'd lump the first 6/7 into one. Great stuff.

14. And the one you liked least?

Golden I or

16. Are you now looking forward to hearing more from this artiste, if you have not heard any of their other material?

Definitely.

17. Were you surprised by your reaction - positive or negative - to the album?

Not after reading some of the reviews.

18. Did the album end well?

It actually kicks back into gear towards the end. Some good tracks for sure.

19. Do you see any way the album could have been improved?

Cut the waste.

20. Do you think the album hung together well, ie was a fully cohesive unit, or was it a bit hit-and-miss?

I think it did. Similar sounds running throughout, and even the dips were united together.

Rating: 7.5/10

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this album kinda feels like linkin park and serj tankian made a baby. should be a bad thing but idk, kinda feeling it.

edit -

alright so this had a lot of positive moments where i found myself enjoying the silliness of the music, but i also found it to be too heavy on the gimmick and it lost it's flair about 1/3rd of the way through the track list. all in all it wasn't a bad album and it's something i didn't mind listening to, even it was kind of a novelty thing.

5/10

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I'm going to try and do this quickly.

Mindless Self Indulgence - Frankenstein Girls Will Seem Strangely Sexy

The Review

After reading trollheart's review I was worried. Then after reading the more positive reviews, I was less worried. But now that it's all over I can tell you that this album is not something I will be going back to. The manic nature of the instrumentation and electronics mixed with the chaotic vocal delivery is strangely alluring. I enjoyed a few tracks because of this. However, the shock value wears off quite quickly as we approach tracks 13 and 14. I just lost interest right there. The energy seemed to go away and it never came back. The lyrics on this thing are god awful, childish and lackluster. I felt that the ideas and concepts are there for something cool, however they did not come together in a nice way. I felt that the overall production was fine, so at least that wasn't a negative per se. The album is too long as well. I mean not in time passed, but in overall track numbers. You can't keep doing the same thing for 30 tracks and expect it to stick. When a new song comes on you want it to be different enough so you recognize it later down the road as its own entity. None of these songs do that for me though.

Frankenstein Girls Will Seem Strangely Sexy gets a 3.9/10

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The Batlord

Listening to the Mindless Self Indulgence album now, and it feels completely and utterly pointless. Whatever interesting influences might be going on are completely lost in a blur of random **** that leaves absolutely no impression. No tunes, no fun, no nothing, just boring ****. I guess I'll give it more of a chance, but this is wildly disappointing squared.

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OccultHawk

What was the name of that suburban hip hop screamo band that was so funny. Their name has some kind of "cide" pun in it. You linked to the video and it's like skaters yelling at girls who think they're so cool. They're almost like a PCP boy band?

Frownland

Brokencyde

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OccultHawk

Yes! This band seems like they kind of wish they were Brokencyde.

The Batlord

At least "Freaxxx" is a fun, ****ty tune, even if there's no reason to listen to Brokencyde past the one song, if that. And no, I don't like Brokencyde, but that one song still has a certain charm I won't pretend I can't kinda dig.

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OccultHawk

That's all I've listened to but it's a hell of a winner.

innerspaceboy

A quick apology for missing the deadline on the last one. This week is the culmination of the divorce tasks and lots of overtime training my replacement before I start my new job next week, so please forgive me - I've been really tied up.

But I'm going to seize the spare hour I have and jump on the next album straight away. Oh Christ... this looks like it's going to hurt...

Mindless Self Indulgence - Frankenstein Girls Will Seem Strangely Sexy

The formal, structured review format will not do for this record. This album makes it abundantly clear what the ride is going to be like within moments of its intro. I vaguely recall hearing the artist name uttered by a child some years back so I definitely had to perform some preliminary research on the genre and cultural sphere of this stuff so I'd have some context.

A few hints of the opening electronics harkened back to the early days of TVT/WaxTrax! but it was a wholly empty nod. All the substance, socio-political ambition, and edginess of those proto-industrial staples are stripped clean from this wretched stink pile. And is that vocal style intentional? I fail to see how it warrants any merit or carries any desirability from its audience.

And my heart sank when I opened the RYM entry for this LP - FILE UNDER: rap rock. The bane of my existence. Mindless self-indulgence couldn't be more apt in describing the vapidity and uselessness of this music. It's soaked through to its 90-pound skin with polished neo-punk aggression of suburbanite white kids rebelling against their comfortable privilege out of boredom and apathy and little else.

Jesus Christ, why is he still doing that falsetto thing?

Okay, I'm 16 minutes in, nothing has happened. It's a one hour waste of homogenized mall punk and I'm turning this crap off.

0/10

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