Mindless Self Indulgence | |
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 Mindless Self Indulgence performing in 2012 | |
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| Origin | New York City, U.S. |
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| Years active | 1997–2015 (hiatus) |
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| Website | mindlessselfindulgence |
Mindless Self Indulgence (often referred to as MSI) is an American electropunk band formed in New York City in 1997. Their music has a mixed style which includes punk rock, alternative rock, electronica, techno, industrial, hip hop, and breakbeat hardcore.
Between 1987 and 1996, Jimmy Urine recorded about 35 songs which varied in musical style, usually settling in an industrial/electronic punk style. These songs were recorded with himself and his brother, Markus Euringer in New York City using rudimentary equipment. Urine and his brother released an album titled Mindless Self-Indulgence, featuring Steve, Righ? on 'Bed of Roses', which featured songs performed in an industrial style akin to Nine Inch Nails. [1]
In 1997, Urine recorded a cover of Method Man's "Bring the Pain" that was made by merging six different styles of the same cover into one song. This became the basis for the Mindless Self Indulgence sound. The band formed soon after when Urine was joined by Steve, Righ? on guitar, Urine's brother Markus Euringer on second guitar (replaced by bassist Vanessa Y.T., who was subsequently replaced by bassist Lyn-Z), and Kitty on drums. They have released six albums, four EPs, eight remix albums, one live album, one compilation album, and one live DVD. [2] Rather than signing traditional record contracts, the band has licensed most of their albums to record labels, retaining ownership of the music.
In summer of 2007, the band toured as part of the Revolution Stage of Projekt Revolution, a music festival hosted by Linkin Park. [3] In January 2009, the band headlined the Kerrang! Relentless Energy Drink tour. [4]
In December 2010, they released a comic titled Adventures Into Mindless Self Indulgence about various tour stories and significant moments of the band's career. [5] The band released a remastered CD/DVD version of their first full-length album, Tight , in 2011, titled Tighter. It included bonus tracks and recordings from their early days. On October 25, 2012, the band announced their fifth album via a Kickstarter campaign. [6] How I Learned to Stop Giving a Shit and Love Mindless Self Indulgence was released in May 2013, following with the release of singles "It Gets Worse" in December and "Fuck Machine" in January 2014. Later in January 2014, the band announced that they would be taking a hiatus. [7] [8] [9]
On September 18, 2015, Mindless Self Indulgence released Pink, a collection of 19 songs recorded between 1990 and 1997 by Urine. The album includes cut-down and remastered versions of songs from the self-titled album, an audio diary recorded by Urine from July 1992, and covers of Depeche Mode's "Personal Jesus" and Duran Duran's "Girls on Film". [10]
On August 9, 2021, a lawsuit was filed against James Euringer (Jimmy Urine) in New York Supreme Court with the charge of sexual battery of a minor, who claims that she had a sexual relationship with Euringer for over two years — from January 1997 to June 1999 — starting when she was 15 years old and Euringer was 27. [11] [12] [13] [14]
| Title | Album details | Chart peaks | ||||||||
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| US [15] | US Indie [15] | UK [16] | ||||||||
| Mindless Self-Indulgence |
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| Tight |
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| Frankenstein Girls Will Seem Strangely Sexy |
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| You'll Rebel to Anything |
| 107 | 4 | — | ||||||
| If |
| 27 | 2 | 132 | ||||||
| How I Learned to Stop Giving a Shit and Love Mindless Self Indulgence |
| 103 | 22 | — | ||||||
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not certified. | ||||||||||
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| Alienating Our Audience |
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| Pink |
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| Despierta Los Niños |
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| Another Mindless Rip Off |
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| Year | Song | Chart peak | Album | |||||||
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| US Dance [17] | UK [18] | |||||||||
| 1995 | "Do Unto Others (Part II) / Bed of Roses" | — | — | Mindless Self-Indulgence | ||||||
| 1999 | "Bring the Pain" | — | — | Tight | ||||||
| 2000 | "Bitches" | — | — | Frankenstein Girls Will Seem Strangely Sexy | ||||||
| "Planet of the Apes" | — | — | ||||||||
| 2001 | "Thank God" | — | — | Alienating Our Audience | ||||||
| 2006 | "Shut Me Up" | 1 | — | You'll Rebel to Anything | ||||||
| "Straight to Video" | 1 | — | ||||||||
| 2008 | "Mastermind" | — | — | If | ||||||
| "Never Wanted to Dance" | 1 | 180 | ||||||||
| "(It's 3AM) Issues" | 4 | — | ||||||||
| "On It" | 2 | — | ||||||||
| "Pay for It" | 1 | — | ||||||||
| 2009 | "Evening Wear/Mark David Chapman" | 1 | — | |||||||
| 2013 | "It Gets Worse" | — | — | How I Learned to Stop Giving a Shit and Love Mindless Self Indulgence | ||||||
| 2014 | "Fuck Machine" | — | — | |||||||
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart. | ||||||||||
Side project by Jimmy Urine and Steve, Righ?
Bad Choices Made Easy
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| 2007 | Our Pain, Your Gain
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Frankenstein Girls Will Seem Strangely Sexy is the second studio album by New York City band Mindless Self Indulgence released in 2000. The album is the follow-up to the album Tight. This is the last studio album to feature Vanessa YT on bass guitar.
Tight is the debut studio album by the American electropunk band Mindless Self Indulgence. The album was originally released on April 20, 1999 through Uppity Cracker Recording Group. After having been out of print for many years, the album was reissued as Tighter on April 26, 2011 through The End Records. The reissue features updated artwork and packaging, 12 previously unreleased tracks, and a bonus DVD.
You'll Rebel to Anything is the third studio album by New York City band Mindless Self Indulgence released on April 12, 2005. The album was released outside of the US on November 5, 2007, in an "Expanded and Remastered" edition. On January 22, 2008, the "Expanded and Remastered" version, which features a reordered track list, was released in the US. Another variation of the Expanded and Remastered version was released which included four bonus tracks. The Expanded and Remastered version, both with and without bonus tracks, as well as the clean version of the album, can be streamed digitally. A special Japanese version, titled お前は何にでも反発する (難問じゃない限り [You'll Rebel to Anything ] of the remastered edition was released on March 5, 2008, which includes a slightly reordered track list and 10 bonus tracks, including a demo version of "Bomb This Track", the completed version of which can be found on If. An alternate version of the album was released on vinyl in 2017, then again in 2022, featuring the original track list along with four different bonus tracks.
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