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Everybody say WE WANT OUR MONEY BACK!

Barbara Streisands Love Slave | MI | 02/09/2004

(5 out of 5 stars)

"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."

This Is The Future Of Punk Rock!

down | USA | 01/28/2003

(5 out of 5 stars)

"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."

MSI Live: Gotta Hear It to Believe It

J. Eric Smith | Upstate New York, USA | 03/30/2003

(5 out of 5 stars)

"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."