If
 | Average Customer Rating: Recommend New York's Mindless Self Indulgence (MSI) returns with If, an addictive and chaotic mixture of punk rock attitude, heavy riffs and driving electronic music. Product details and pricing info |
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17 Customer Reviews Posted
- MSI Rocks!
- Usually a touret appeasing rock fest this album Im afraid even the worst case of ritalin addeled tourett suffering brain cant and doesnt want to keep up with. Sorry guys and girls not your best work
- 2008-11-07, 0 of 0 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- Pay For It
- Wow. This album is f'ing brilliant. Don't go and torrent it, go and PAY FOR IT. It is completley worth it. And Mark David Chapman? Excellent song. A real kick in the face to all of the unoriginal bands out there.
- 2008-10-29, 0 of 0 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- More Commercialized But Still Great
- MSI's new album "IF" was still good but it did had a few songs that was playable for the radio. I just hope on MSI's next album, that they will make it more underground material. Although this album had a lot of good songs, but songs like "Money," "Evening Wear," "Prescription," "Due," and "Bomb This track" were all radio playable songs. But every song on here was either just good or decent and a few classics. I'm just afraid this may be the last good MSI album before they go mainstream. I hope they don't flop on the next album. Heres my review, i'm just giving all the songs a quick rating, not really going to explain in detail on every song...
Never Wanted To Dance 5/5 Stars
Evening Wear 3/5 Stars (good but radio playable)
Lights Out 4/5 Stars
Prescription 3/5 Stars (good but radio playable)
Issues 5/5 Stars
Get It Up 4/5 Stars
Revenge 4/5 Stars
Animal 5/5 Stars
Mastermind 5/5 Stars
On It 5/5 Stars
Pay For It 4/5 Stars (This song is actually good, Jimmy explains how he is never going to be perfect, and i like his honesty and humor on this song)
Due 4/5 Stars (A lot better then I thought but still radio playable)
Money 3/5 Stars (good but definitly a radio playable song just for reading the title of the track)
Bomb This Track 3/5 Stars (good but radio playable)
MDC 4/5 Stars (it is a good way to end the album)
Overall this album is a great MSI LP, it just became more industryish. So I'm giving this album an honest 4 out of 5 Stars rating. If this was more underground material then this album would of been a full 5 Stars, but since I'm a hater of the music industry, and MSI made a few radio playable songs then its a 4 out of 5 Stars rating. - 2008-10-27, 0 of 0 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- "If" is an almost perfect album...
- ....if it weren't for Mark David Chapman.
"If" is the newest and arguably the best MSI album. All the songs are very catchy... I mean, seriously, you will have them stuck in your head for DAYS.
Like I said, the only track I frequently skip is the last one, Mark David Chapman. I like the song, chorus is great, I just find the Spanish speaking parts annoying and boring. It is really the only track that is not absolutely perfect on the CD.
A lot of people are saying that this CD is bland, they get bored of it quick. Not for me. I have been listening to it constantly since I bought it about 3 or 4 weeks ago. It inspired me to go ahead and pick up "Frakenstein Girls" and "You'll Rebel to Anything".
This has become one of my favorite albums and it introduced me to MSI. If you are new to MSI, I suggest you buy this album first. It really is spectacular. It is just the right weird and quirky to not weird and quirky ratio. I believe everyone could find something to like in this album. I just hope you have a sense of humor :) - 2008-09-10, 0 of 0 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- bummer
- It's more like 2.5. It's not really bad by any means, just completely mediocre and forgettable (and MSI's the sort of band I would rather see release a horrible album than a bland one). All of their previous output has been sneeringly sarcastic, antagonistic, hedonistic, manic, ballistic- whereas everything about this album, from the title and packaging to the lyrics, structute and music itself, is completely ignorable. Songs are repetitive and overlong, Jimmy's vocals are lazy and supressed, and the lyrics are uninspired filler. I'm honestly usually the last person to make the assumption that I'm about to, but no album by any other band has seemed so obviously guilty. This is a cash-in.
- 2008-08-22, 0 of 0 people found this review helpful, Rated:
