Use Your Fingers

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Use Your Fingers

Studio album by The Bloodhound Gang
Released	July 18, 1995
Genre	Fun-Rap Punkrock Hip-Hop
Length	37:45
Label	Columbia Records
Producer(s)	Jimmy Pop and Daddy Long Legs
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The Bloodhound Gang chronology
Dingleberry Haze (1994)	Use Your Fingers (1995)	One Fierce Beer Coaster (1996)

Use Your Fingers is The Bloodhound Gang's first album. It was released on July 18, 1995 by Cheese Factory Records.

1 Track listing
2 Samples
3 Trivia
4 Personnel

[edit] Track listing

"Rip Taylor Is God" – 1:23 (featuring Rip Taylor)
"We Are The Knuckleheads" – 2:39
"Legend In My Spare Time" – 3:05
"B.H.G.P.S.A." – 0:22
"Mama Say" – 2:59
"Kids In America" – 4:23 (cover of Kim Wilde's 1981 hit)
"You're Pretty When I'm Drunk" – 3:56
"The Evils Of Placenta Hustling" – 0:19
"One Way" – 3:05
"Shitty Record Offer" – 0:58
"Go Down" – 2:26
"Earlameyer The Butt Pirate" – 0:09
"No Rest For The Wicked" – 2:50
"She Ain't Got No Legs" – 2:28
"We Like Meat" – 0:04
"Coo Coo Ca Choo" – 2:36
"Rang Dang" – 3:02
"Nightmare At The Apollo" – 0:56
"K.I.D.S. Incorporated" – 2:20
Untitled Hidden Track – 0:47

[edit] Samples

"Legend In My Spare Time" - "Do What You Want To Do" by T-Connection
"Mama Say" - "Goodhumor Man" by Blue Mitchell and "Save A Prayer" by Duran Duran
"One Way" - "Boogie Shoes" by KC & The Sunshine Band and "Theme From Sanford & Son" by Quincy Jones
"Rang Dang" - "White Lines" by Grandmaster Flash

"She Ain't Got No Legs" originally contained a sample from The Cure, but frontman Robert Smith refused to grant permission, so the sample was replaced with live horn instrumentation.

"Coo Coo Ca Choo" originally contained a sample from "Sunshine of Your Love" by Cream, but guitarist Eric Clapton refused permission, so had to be replaced with a live guitar part (played by Lüpüs Thünder).

The band has described the album as "the one that resulted in the most cease and desist orders in the band's history."

[edit] Trivia

There are no instrumentals in the song "You're Pretty When I'm Drunk", it is completely beatboxed.
The first track is spoken by comedian Rip Taylor.
Kids In America, on the album, is sung by someone completely unrelated to the band.

[edit] Personnel

Jimmy Pop - Vocals
Daddy Long Legs - Vocals
Skip O' Pot2Mus - Backing Vocals
M.S.G. - Backing Vocals
Lüpüs Thünder - Backing Vocals
Rip Taylor - Spoken word on "Rip Taylor Is God"
Rob Vitale - Vocals on "Kids In America"
Mike Guthier - Drums on "K.I.D.S. Incorporated"
Jared Hennegan - Bass on "K.I.D.S. Incorporated"
Kyle Seifert - Drums on "Kids In America"
Joe Shepley - Trumpet on "She Ain't Got No Legs"
Keith O'Quinn - Trombone on "She Ain't Got No Legs"
Kenny Venezia - Tenor Sax on "She Ain't Got No Legs"
J.J. Bottari - Engineer on "Mama Say"
Richie Gagliadotto - Engineer on "Go Down" and "Shitty Record Offer"
Rick Denzien - Engineer on "Rang Dang", "We Are The Knuckleheads" and "No Rest For The Wicked"
Chris Interrante, - Assistant Engineers to Rick Denzien www.slot-1.com
Jim Janik - Engineer on "She Ain't Got No Legs"
Robert Friedrich, Troy Halderson - Assistant Enginners to Jim Janik
Tom Ruff - Mastered "Use Your Fingers"
Aimée Macauley - Art Direction and Design
Ari Marcopoulos - Photography
Christopher Bisagni - Photograph of Nicole Brier
Jed Corenthal, Gerard Babbits - Product Managers