Mindless Self Indulgence - Straight to Video

Label: Metropolis
Catologue Number: 80409
Format: CD
Date: 2006
Style: Industrial, Punk, Electro
Rating: 2/10
Reviewer: Wilhelm Stroker

In their own words “MSI's music is a hybrid of Atari driven electronics with a venomous splash of A.D.D Punk Rock. They are the breath of fresh air that is sure to offend your p.c. restrained, category demanding, humorless peers.” For those of you who are not a spotty 16 year old with issues and who can see through record company marketing speak: A third rate Marilyn Manson clone who are severly lacking in talent.

Their latest release Straight to Video (they should have called it straight to the trash bin) is a remix album of the song Straight to Video. And you’ll get 15 of them. That’s right, 15 remixes plus an acapella song and an instrumental version. Which clever person decided it was a good idea to put 15 remixes of the same song on one album? That’s self indulgent indeed and Mindless. Why shove on an accapella version? Some words of wisdom: if you depend heavily on distortion and shouting for your vocals, do not attempt an acapella version. It doesn’t work.

But that’s not all that’s wrong with this album. Whoever decided on Funker Vogt, Combichrist, Ass23 and VAC as remixers? My worst nightmare has just come true. Luckily, the Noise Unit (Bill Leeb and Jeremy Inkel, and it wasn’t supposed to be called Noise Unit apparently) and Front Line Assembly (Rhys Fulber on his own, we’re still trying to find out if his beard helped him) remixes stick out like a sore thumb between the boring 4/4 trance or evilllll techno remixes done by most of the others.

The only other listenable remix is the KMFDM one, purely because of the heavy guitars. Not even Front 242 or Haujobb were able to turn this shitty song into something listenable. Oh and the song contains possibly the dumbest lyrics I’ve heard in ages: hideho here we go.