Mindless Self Indulgence's music is without question an acquired taste and when both band frontman Little Jimmy Urine and guitarist Steve Righ? decided that the material cultivated from a 7 day studio binge was too weird and controversial to release under the MSI banner, you know you're in for something truly bizarre. Enter The Left Rights, the brainchild of Urine and Righ? and whatever intoxicants influenced them to create such a musical monstrosity.
With old time styled sing alongs about shaving ones pubic hair complete with what sounds to be an aging midi keyboard's pre-programmed instrumental track and peppy numbers about farting and pooing out ones ass sung with cheeky British accents, The Left Rights' music is no easy pill to swallow. In essence though inaccessibility and catching the listener off guard seems to be the purpose as few of the 39 schizophrenic tracks present here rarely clock in at over a minute in length. Varied and always tongue in cheek, the "songs" ranges from the amusing "Darth Vader (Who Gives A Sith)", in which they encourage Darth Vader to "fuck shit up with his lightsaber", all the way to the just plain odd "Homineau" which brings to mind the triumphant musical number from "Gremlins 2: The New Batch".
But while some tracks sound like Ween and Mr. Bungle stuck in a kindergarten class on powerful acid, a lot are merely short sound clips and unfortunately no real continual thread is spun throughout the release, quickly causing it to become a test of the listeners patience and attention span. There's no question that it will get a few laughs the first few times through, but it's highly unlikely that one will keep coming back for continued listens as its throw away nature is entirely apparent. Respect is due to the incomparable dynamic duo as it takes balls to release an album like this, especially on your own independent label where the money comes right out of your pocket; But in the end all you're really left with is a handful of obscure songs that you will never forget, even though you don't necessarily ever want to hear them again.
(1.5 / 5)
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