Mindless Self Indulgence
By TheRoboticMushroom on Apr 29, 2008 in MySpace Music
I’ve been looking for a band to challenge Hollywood Undead for the title of “Worst Music Ever” and just about 15 seconds into the first song on Mindless Self Indulgence’s MySpace page “Never Wanted To Dance” I think I may have a true challenger. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not ready to hand the crown of “worst ever” over to them just as Hollywood Undead is monumentally horrible but this is some pretty horrendous music.
“Never Wanted To Dance” - Sounds like about 10 (awful) songs all playing at once. Don’t get me wrong, that can be a good thing (if the songs aren’t awful) but this is just absolutely stupid. Much like Hollywood Undead, it sounds like some combination of every bad trend in music over the past 30 years or so. I hear some Marilyn Manson in here along with some pop-punk, and some rap-rock-metal. It’s all here.
“Lights Out” - Oh and cheesy strings. They’ve got amazingly cheesy strings and cheezy techno music and cheezy sound effects. They’ve truly got it all. Again like with Hollywood Undead I’m reminded of boy bands. It sounds like if the Backstreet Boys were a rap-metal band.
Alright, I think you get the idea.
So how did I come across this awful band? I found them while looking at the top artist charts at MySpace.com looking for a band to review of course. They are ranked #1 on MySpace.com’s top artist charts for unsigned bands. At this point I pretty much assume any of the high rated “artists” are going to suck ass. Which makes sense when you think about MySpace being so teenager heavy (and teenagers having generally awful taste in music of course.) Not that it still isn’t sad. 26 million plays (lifetime thus far) for these clowns while so many good artists and bands on MySpace go largely unnoticed.
Here’s a picture of the guys (and gals, apparently) by the way:
So is this all some sort of tongue in cheek joke like I assume Hollywood Undead must be? Possibly. But even if it is, I don’t find it all that funny.
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HOLY FUCK this is AWFUL!
WeedFace | May 1, 2008 | Reply
Holy hell, I coudn’t agree more with you on this my friend. Whatta joke.
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TL Kess | Jul 28, 2008 | Reply
I’ve heard of these guys for quite a while now. Back in high school I had several “friends” who liked to listen to them (I believe they debuted my senior year). I’d always tolerate it and even try to get into it sometimes, but never really could. This kind of music is, for me, like a patron of fine art going to a gallery to see paintings and stumbling upon, say, a scribbled sketch of bugs bunny. Then, some kid comes in to the gallery and sees it and thinks it’s the most amazing thing in the world because it is the only thing he could understand and shows it to all his friends, so that “artist” makes more “sketches” and sells them to more and more kids. this is what MSI and others, like HU, are in the music world (the true talent being represented by the real paintings). I’ve had a multitude of their fans try to convince me that they’ve got some level of talent, but I never come out swayed. They suck, plain and simple, and get away with it by selling out to kids who want something “fun” to listen to. I suppose I am ranting, but there is just more and more of this crap becoming popular while truely gifted artists are going totally unnoticed. What a sad, sad world we live in.
Jeff D | Aug 19, 2008 | Reply