Mindless Self Indulgence

[RahXephon]

Hey guys! Has anyone heard of these guys. I know that some people on AA like MSI but not too sure about the rest.

What do you think of them? They're alright. Their best song I think is "Bed of Roses". I want to play that song on guitar so bad. It is not that hard but it sounds so cool.

[6th Name Agent]

I worked with a fellow who was pretty into MSI. Looking into them myself I didn't really find too much that appealed to me in their messages, but their style is interesting to say the least.

One word to sum it up would be 'crazy.' The songs I listened to were pretty hard, the lyrics about some senseless and crude behavior in a sort of 'for the hell of it' tone. I don't dislike the group or their music, but it's not really my style... I'm just indifferent towards em. :o

[munky]

i've heard of them, but i've never really gotten in to listening to any of their music.
when i heard of them, about 2 or 3 years ago, they were mentioned as being Jon Davis'(vocals of KoRN)fave band.. but i never ventured out to listen to them much on my own

[Mamimi]

i LOVE this group. I like Bed of Roses, Tight, and Bring the Pain. u have to develop a taste for this though, you have to listen to it a few times to like it.

[iggypop]

My cousin gave me a bunch of their mp3's last summer, and I must say that I don't like the band very much. I find that their sound is very grating and irritating because they use searing, screeching guitars coupled with a loud, rash voice. Some of their songs are ok, but often I found myself disliking the message and the song itself.

[RahXephon]

Originally posted by 6th Name Agent
I worked with a fellow who was pretty into MSI. Looking into them myself I didn't really find too much that appealed to me in their messages, but their style is interesting to say the least.

One word to sum it up would be 'crazy.' The songs I listened to were pretty hard, the lyrics about some senseless and crude behavior in a sort of 'for the hell of it' tone. I don't dislike the group or their music, but it's not really my style... I'm just indifferent towards em. :o

yea, I find their lyric titles a little risque (if you see what some of the titles of the songs are, you know what I mean). As mamimi has also said, you have to have an ear for that type of music. Most of MSI songs are tough to listen to. You wouldn't want to chill out to these guy's music but it is a good alternative to other stuff.

[neongenesis10]

Well I heard of MSI from a friend of mine. There music is a little odd to me and I agree that it is an acquired sound. I don’t understand why they name their songs the way they do, Is there some sort of message in it that I don’t get? The only song that I really enjoy is “Revenge”.

[Heero-sama]

I own their first CD. I'll admit that they took some time to get used to, but now I love them. I wont lie, their lyrics are crude, but they're beat and style is pretty awsome. You should deffinately try "Faggot" and "Kill the Rock". Those were the two songs that caught my attention the first time I heard them. They've got a different style and if your not offended easily, you'll like 'um.

[Airman]

They were the dudes who did "I Hate Jimmy Page" right? If so, yes, I've heard of them, but I'm not too in to them. My sister has a couple of their CD's I think.

[HumanoidTyphoon]

I've never really understood them. Hard to tell whether everything they are doing is tongue in cheek or what. Regardless, I have some guilty pleasure spots for both electronica and hard thrasherish stuff time to time, so they're on my playlist occasionally (usually the song 'faggot'). Nothing super great to write home about though in my humble opinion.

[BlackJack]

MSI rules, I think there pretty good. I like the sngs "Faggot" "Bed of Roses" "Kill the Rock" "Bring the Pain" and pretty much all the rest.

[Sae]

I really like MSI even though i was just introduced to it. lol I love the songs Royally ****ed and Bring the Pain so far! ^-^

[jetfire]

I really like MSI even though i was just introduced to it. lol I love the songs Royally ****ed and Bring the Pain so far! ^-^

You might want to lay off reviving all of these old topics. In the rules here, it says you can get banned for constantly doing it. Just thought you might want to know. I mean, I'm not a mod, and I won't tell you what to do. But it's just a suggestion since people tend to get annoyed very quickly when that kind of thing happens.

And I never really cared for MSI. I guess they never really had anything that stood out to me.

[I_am_I]

I have all their CDs (burned), and a few of my friends have done their best to never miss them when they have a show in town. I quite like them, though I haven't given them a real listen in a while and their newest CD I really can't bring myself to like as much as Tight and Frankenstein Girls Will Seem Strangely Sexy.

What I had trouble understanding when I was first introduced to them a few years back is that their music has no underlying message, has no validation for its existence, and is almost completely without the common definition of meaning. It's not even tongue-in-cheek. Songs like Tight or Keepin' Up With the Kids can be considered parody, and songs like Faggot, I'm Your Problem Now, or the songs from their first, self-titled album (this includes Unsociable and Bed of Roses) can be considered a reservoir for their emotion, but so many of their other songs are made for the sole purpose of expressing excessive malicious anger that the band can't be considered meaningful or tongue-in-cheek overall. If anything, their approach to their music is more in the vein of power electronics groups like Whitehouse - spiteful and angry just because. Or, that's how Frankenstein Girls and Tight were. Their first and most recent releases are a lot more listenable and either emotional or actually tongue-in-cheek.

Now, the reason one listens to them despite the fact that the music is generally quite superficial in regards to meaning in the traditional sense amounts to liking the feel of the music. It's roughly akin to listening to music in Japanese: if it sounds pretty, could you care less whether high-pitched idol #5 is singing about rainbows or about spending her boyfriend's cash on Prada? If you're hyper and/or feeling angry, you listen to MSI and it's fun, regardless of what they're saying. Looking for depth in their music is, overall, a pretty fruitless search, and usually just a self-absorbed attempt to justify to everybody else why you'd listen to such godawful music. I'd know.