Use Your Fingers

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.

Use Your Fingers
Studio album by
The Bloodhound Gang
ReleasedJuly 18, 1995
Recorded1992–1995
GenreComedy rock, hip hop,[1] punk[2]
Length40:55
LabelCheese Factory, Columbia
ProducerJimmy 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

Reception
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[2]
Muzik[3]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide[4]

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

  • Rip Taylor - spoken word on "Rip Taylor Is God"
  • Kyle Seifert - drums on "Kids in America"
  • Rob Vitale - vocals on "Kids in America"
  • Keith O'Quinn - trombone on "She Ain't Got No Legs"
  • Joe Shepley - trumpet on "She Ain't Got No Legs"
  • Kenny Venezia - tenor sax on "She Ain't Got No Legs"
  • Michael 'Spanky G' Guthier - drums on "K.I.D.S. Incorporated"
  • Daddy Long Legs - lead vocals and bass on "K.I.D.S. Incorporated"
  • J.J. Bottari - engineering on "Mama Say"
  • Richie Gagliadotto - engineering on "Go Down" and "Shitty Record Offer"
  • Rick Denzien - mix engineer on "Rang Dang", "We Are the Knuckleheads" and "No Rest for the Wicked"
  • Chris Interrante, - assistant engineer to Rick Denzien
  • Jim Janik - engineering on "She Ain't Got No Legs"
  • Robert Friedrich, Troy Halderson - assistant engineers to Jim Janik

Personnel

  • Tom Ruff - mastering on "Use Your Fingers"
  • Aimée Macauley - art direction and design
  • Ari Marcopoulos - photography
  • Christopher Bisagni - photograph of Nicole Brier
  • Jed Corenthal, Gerard Babbits - product managers

References
  1. Staff, OC Weekly- (August 6, 2015). "Bloodhound Gang's Debut: The 20th Anniversary You Shouldn't Have Skipped". OC Weekly. Retrieved November 4, 2019.
  2. Ball, Jonathan. "Use Your Fingers - Bloodhound Gang". Allmusic. Retrieved November 1, 2021.
  3. Ashon, Will (October 1995). "The Bloodhound Gang: Use Your Fingers" (PDF). Muzik. No. 5. p. 90. Archived from the original (PDF) on April 2, 2022.
  4. Brackett, Nathan; Christian Hoard (2004). The Rolling Stone Album Guide. New York City, New York: Simon and Schuster. p. 86. ISBN 0-7432-0169-8. rolling stone bloodhound gang album guide.
  5. "Use Your Fingers". Amazon. 1995.
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