| Use Your Fingers | |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | The Bloodhound Gang |
| Cover: | Use Your Fingers.jpg |
| Released: | July 18, 1995 |
| Recorded: | 1992–1995 |
| Genre: | Comedy rock, hip hop, punk |
| Length: | 40:55 |
| Label: | Cheese Factory, Columbia |
| Producer: | Jimmy Pop and Daddy Long Legs |
| Prev Title: | Dingleberry Haze |
| Prev Year: | 1994 |
| Next Title: | One Fierce Beer Coaster |
| Next Year: | 1996 |
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.
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."[1]
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."[2]
All songs written and composed by Jimmy Pop and Daddy Long Legs unless noted.
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