Use Your Fingers

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Use Your Fingers
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Studio album by
ReleasedJuly 18, 1995
Recorded1992–1995
Genre Comedy rock, hip hop, [1] punk [2]
Length40:55
Label Cheese Factory, Columbia
Producer Jimmy Pop and Daddy Long Legs
The Bloodhound Gang chronology
Dingleberry Haze
(1994)
Use Your Fingers
(1995)
One Fierce Beer Coaster
(1996)
Singles from Use Your Fingers
  1. "Mama Say"
    Released: May 16, 1995

Use Your Fingers is the debut studio album by Bloodhound Gang. It was released on July 18, 1995, by Cheese Factory Records. Some of the songs on the album were reworked version of demos from Bloodhound Gang's earlier demo tapes. The album has sold 250,000 copies to date.

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Reception

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In a review for Amazon, music journalist Roni Sarig said "BG back up their obnoxious idiocy with some fairly wise musical maneuvering. While their age and background lead them to repeatedly mine the '80s for material--Duran Duran and Cure samples, Michael Jackson and Blondie interpolations, a "Kids in America" cover—their sly comments and ingenious a cappella snippets prove they're surprisingly sharp and able lads." [5]

On August 7, 2015, OC Weekly published a 20-year anniversary write-up of the album, stating "what makes Use Your Fingers worthy of re-examining two decades later is how much this album not only shouldn't exist from a legal perspective, but how it managed to predict so much of the 20 years of musical trends that followed it," and praising it as a "unique entry in the hip-hop canon from a sampling production standpoint, an impressive assortment of acknowledgments from a pop culture junkie standpoint, and overall one of the rare albums whose sheer existence is just as bizarre as the music it contains." [1]

Track listing

All songs written and composed by Jimmy Pop and Daddy Long Legs unless noted.

  1. "Rip Taylor Is God" – 1:23 (featuring Rip Taylor)
  2. "We Are the Knuckleheads" – 2:39
  3. "Legend in My Spare Time" – 3:05
  4. "B.H.G.P.S.A." – 0:22
  5. "Mama Say" (Pop, Legs, Duran Duran) – 2:59
  6. "Kids in America" (Wilde, Wilde) – 4:23 (cover of Kim Wilde's 1981 hit)
  7. "You're Pretty When I'm Drunk" – 3:56
  8. "The Evils of Placenta Hustling" – 0:19
  9. "One Way" (Bloodhound Gang) – 3:05
  10. "Shitty Record Offer" – 0:58
  11. "Go Down" – 2:26
  12. "Earlameyer the Butt Pirate" – 0:11
  13. "No Rest for the Wicked" – 2:50
  14. "She Ain't Got No Legs" – 2:28
  15. "We Like Meat" – 0:04
  16. "Coo Coo Ca Choo" – 2:36
  17. "Rang Dang" (Pop, Legs, Glover, Robinson) – 3:02
  18. "Nightmare at the Apollo" – 0:56
  19. "K.I.D.S. Incorporated" – 2:20 (TV series theme song cover)
  20. "Bloodhound Sex Scene" – 0:47

Credits

Bloodhound Gang

Additional musicians

Personnel

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