Bloodhound Gang - Use Your Fingers (1995)

Bloodhound Gang was an American rock band which began as a hip hop group before branching out into other genres, including punk rock, alternative hip hop, rapcore, funk metal, and electronic rock, as their career progressed. Their songs typically have humorous and off-beat, satirical lyrics that often deal with sexual subjects and contain many puns and innuendos. They are best known for their singles "Fire Water Burn", "The Bad Touch", "Foxtrot Uniform Charlie Kilo", "Uhn Tiss Uhn Tiss Uhn Tiss", "The Ballad of Chasey Lain" and a hard rock version of the 1960s pop hit "Along Comes Mary". Formed in 1988, the Bloodhound Gang has sold more than 6 million albums. 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.

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."

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."

Track List

01. Rip Taylor Is God [1:24]
02. We Are The Knuckleheads [2:40]
03. Legend In My Spare Time [3:06]
04. B.H.G.P.S.A. [0:22]
05. Mama Say [2:59]
06. Kids In America [4:24]
07. You're Pretty When I'm Drunk [3:57]
08. The Evils Of Placenta Hustling [0:20]
09. One Way [3:06]
10. Shitty Record Offer [0:59]
11. Go Down [2:27]
12. Earlameyer The Butt Pirate [0:10]
13. No Rest For The Wicked [2:50]
14. She Ain't Got No Legs [2:29]
15. We Like Meat [0:05]
16. Coo Coo Ca Choo [2:37]
17. Rang Dang [3:03]
18. Nightmare At The Apollo [0:57]
19. K.I.D.S. Incorporated (Previously Unreleased Bonus B-Side Independent European Import Bootleg Outtake) [2:20]
20. Untitled (Hidden Track) [0:48]